It  is  just  as  well  to  cut  out  of  your  list  of
intimates  the  young  fellow  whose  main  pur-
pose seems  to  be  to  spend  as  much  time  as
possible  in  and  around  automobiles.  The
auto  is  a  good  servant  when  it  is  under  the
control  of  skill  and  conscience.  It  is  a  terri-
ble menace  to  life  and  property  when  the
steering  gear  is  wanting  or  out  of  order  and
it  runs  uncontrolled.  It  is  a  terrible  master
when  it  wields  such  a  fascination  over  the
heart  and  purse  of  a  young  man  who  thinks
of  it  by  day  when  he  ought  to  be  working
with  all  the  strength  of  mind  he  can  bring
to  bear  and  then  spends  the  hours  needed  for
sleep  in  devoting  himself  to  it  by  night.  The
average  garage  is  not  a  place  of  light  and
leading — it  has  been  the  pathway  downward
for  a  considerable  number  of  young  men  who
might  have  been."    That  is  all  they  will

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ever  be  now — "  might  have  beens."  Young
fellows  are  being  tricked  out  of  their  futures
by  this  new  device  with  speed  and  smell  which
we  call  an  automobile.  You  can  afford  to  cut
out  of  jour  list  of  intimates  the  young  men
afflicted  with  serious  cases  of  "  autophobia  "
— they  will  never  be  heard  from  in  any  favor-
able way  in  the  great  round  up.
