Evening star., 1932-08-07

When you drive up to filling station
these days it's a question whether
you're buying gasoline, or taxollne.
If women are a primitive lot when it
comes to grasping the fundamentals OF
the automobile, at least one gentleman
doesn't pin his faith on the idea. He
is the expert on automobile cooling SyS-
TENS who recently addressed group OF
400 members of an Eastern motor club.
He had prepared special talk that
would not go over their heads There
were simple little analogies concerning
the steaming kettle and the like. But
when he looked into the faces before him
he realized he was talking to women
whose kitchen cooking equipment runs
by time-cIocks and thermostats. He
tells me he Scrapped his prepared ad-
dress and talked to his audience as he
would be to group Of automobile service
men. There's compliment for you'
milady
There was just one fly in the olnt-
nnent however. He had been intro
duced as a representative Of one OF the
leading companies, making anti-treeze
for the radiator. At the conclusion OF
his address, when he invited inquiries
from the floor, an elderly woman stood
I'D and asked what kind of anti-freeze
he would advise her to use next Winter
for her car. There was a wave of litter
ing Throughout the hall as the ques-
ton dropped; a good natured uproar
when he recommended one Of the COM
petitive brands.
How women acquire their experience
as motorists would fill book, but the
10 ~ ~
Germs the bride who is thankful her
husband picked a lemon for the first
car While he was of to business she
visited all the repair shops and got
liberal education in what's under the
hood.
Navbe you've noticed 1t, but I think
It's well worth pointing out that often
when a car pulls away from the curp
you are court!ng trouble when ycu tIy
to swing around IT, Ii there Is another
ca~ parked ahead Of it the driver VIII
have TO swing way out
She drove into the garage OF her
home. switched off the motor ana
Jumped out Despite her hurry sne hao
inst time enough to worry when She
noticed water spilling out OF the raola-
tor to the garage floor. Glanclng at the
heat indicator on the dash she Iouno
the gauge showing close to the danger
mark More worry. Ct,
Here Is the simple diagnosis: one
had driven into the garage hurr1eoly
and stopped abruptly. That forced the the
water forward, causing surge ana tne
spilling out the overflow pipe. the nlgn
reading of the temperature gauge was
entirely normal for a standing car Win
hot motor. Had she cranked the motor
and gone her way again everything
would have been as smooth as ne"
facial.
I'm afraid the woman who keeps the
sruply of gas in the tank low so the
debiltante daughter won't be using the
car too freely is borrowing trouble. III
always dangerous to figure that because
one is going for only short rur
through traffic not much gas will bt
used. Traffic delays often increase ga
consumption at an astonishing rate
Should the brakes get to acting -
strangely that you feel YOU have struci
something when you apply them hghtl.
the indications are that they are grao
b!ng viciously. A trip to the 3ervlc
station will reveal that oil has got oil
the Innings Of the front ones.
Even if you don't drive the car yo1
often can be helpful to the gentlemal
at the wheel, especially when he.
irving to check up on the cars De
hsyior. good or bad. One hubh
thought he was hearing a certain en-
zine noise at speed of so miles a
hour but his assistant informed hui
that the trouble developed at e1actl