The Washington times., 1921-02-12
'AUTO|ST SHOULD
STUDY MARKETS
Much Valuable Time Wasted on
Devices Not Worthy OF
Effort.

OF everything tnclines each pruden
motorist TO economize along some line
writes Frank harrington In Motol
Life. The only trouble with this econ
omizins ambition is that IL IL OTTER
without the backing OF common sense
The other day 1 saw a motorist gel
out an old shoe that had been dis
| csrded long ago but. unfortunately
not picked up by the junk man. ane
put into this old shoe a brand new
inner tube with blowout patch, and
put the tire on and start out ! dom
like to butt in with advice To ms
friends about how to run their auto
mobile affairs. so / said nothing. but
1 saw that the tire had been discard
ed because IL had sure death written
on II, all the way around. No patch
could conceal the fatal fact.
TINE WAS WASTED.
There was a chance that the shoe
might go a hundred miles or so. but
there wasn't a chance In the world
that II wouldn't blow inside of two
hundred. And that motorist. who
values his time In his office at about
20 an hour. spent two hours making
that tire mt to put on. getting II ready
TO blow six or seven dollars worth
or inner tube all to pieces.
As q matter Of fact that blowout
happened In less than fifty miles and
made q couple more hours Of time nee
essary to get another tire on the rim
with another tube.
Well. there was 312 worth of time
all shot to pieces and So worth of tube
ruined-all to get 80 cents worth Of
wear out Of an old shoe.
How many times have you known
acquaintances, and even yourself, to
put your time up against the possi-
bilities OF an old shoe giving a little
more service? Before you fuss and
fool away time and good tubes to get
the last cents worth OF wear out Of
an old casing. stop and figure out
what 1t Is going to cost you and line
that up against the possible saving
III you are business man you will do
some quick figuring and let the junk
man take the chances
WASTE THEIR TIME.
The same principle of futile effort
to save by false economy leads mo-
torists to go without many time and
labor-saving devices. Every day you
may see beside the road men whose
time is worth at least a laborer's
wage, pumping up tires by the old
slow-going process which might
operated by the engine or by lever
pumps that cut the pumping time
right IN two.
/ suppose 1t Is conservative to saw
that thousands Of laboring men, driv-
ing Ford cars and trying to drive
them very economically, are every
day spending valuable time using old
fashioned. slow pumps at a cost in ex-
cess Of the saving. And when the mo-
torist has to wait for his chauffeur to
do such jobs, he is wasting the time
OF the chauffeur and his own and thai
OF anyone who is with him, to say
nothing Of the Irritation and incon-
venience that goes with the delay.
Then take just the matter of jacks.
BY failing to see that your car is
properly provided with such a jack
or, better yet, pair of jacks, as will
enable you to get IT where you want
1t in any kind of a road. you may
cause a delay and loss equivalent to
a gross OF the best Jacks made.
You know the old Jingle:
For want of a nail the shoe was
lost:
For want Of a shoe the horse wa.
lost;
For want Of horse the rider wa.
lost:
And all for the want of a horsesho,
nail!
1t IL the old story OF penny-wise-
pound-foolish. A dollar close to ou,
eyes looks so big that we cant see
the hundred dollars a week ahead.
BUY ON APPEARANCE.
The trouble with most of us, wher
1t comes to picking out extras, is thai
we like to buy the ones that we think
will give the car class as to ap
pearance, and we forget the ones that
give class to its action and to it.
durability and service. The adver.
tisements that picture a Sd, 900 cal
made over from a 81 500 one, by tn,
addition of certain fossy attachments
appeal to us more than the technica
announcements Of proved mechanical
devices that will make the car go bet
ter and farther. without adding any.
thing to its looks.
II we see a good thing advertised
we sometimes think we oughtn't I,
pay too much attention to what 1,
promised for 1T, because we saw il In
an advertisement, and II we see tn,
same thing recommended in the read.
Ing pages of a periodical, we think II
is a case of the advertiser getting .
special privilege in the way of a write
up. We are pretty hard to suit. And
in the meanwhile we just go on ant
on, without a lot of things we reaII,
ought to use.
SO 1t is just case OF study tn,
market for the kind of time saver,
and money-savers you need for you,
car. and when you find the right ones