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.♦AGE SIX THE CLINTON CMONICLE, CLINTON, SOUTH CAEOUNA THURSDAY, APRIL 3. 18M ; LONG ISLAND CITY GIRL RUNS GARAGE Yesterday’s mail brought a gift of one thousand dollars to the Thorn- well Orphanage of this city from an Atlanta friend. The giver specified ■that, .the amount be applied to the endowment fund of the institution. . Miss Caroline Whitney, twenty-one-years old, who owns and operates the Whitney service station in Long Island City. She inherited the business some time ago and does most of tlie work herselt She Is shown attaching a car* buretor to a motor after an overhauling Jod. ■ H-M-H-H 1 1 MVM-l 1 1 HH-IM 1 ! Good Driver Known by: ; His skillful steering. ^ His ease of handling. His thoughtfulness of pedes trians. His properly adjusted steer- ing apparatus. His strict obedience to every traffic regulation. His extensive and Intelligent use of arm signals. His use of the brakes before he gets to the curve. His protection of his motor; his * use of second and first speeds. His alternate use of too* and hand brakes on long grades and In emergencies. His avoidance of all obstacles, without endangering the occu pants of his car, or any other car. His respect for railway cross ings; he stops, looks and shifts gears before he Is actually on the tracks. 1 1 I IIH-I t Repairing Dented Gat Tank by Simple Plan If ever the gasoline tank of your car becomes dented, the tank may be repaired slmply ln tbfr manter: ^ j'' The first step is to fill the tank With water and drain it, to avoid any feasibility of s gasoline explosion When solder Is applied. A round-end carriage bolt Is then soldered firmly to the center of the dinged portion of the A crossbar with two blocks is t-h-H l- H 1 l-H-hH- H-; Pedestrian* Urged to Face Traffic on Road The Pennsylvania Motor fed eration sent to Its 62 affiliated clubs a circular urging pedes trians walking on the highways, especially st night, to face the traffic by walking on the left side of the road. After a careful study of the situation. It has been found that In most of the cases where cars strike persons on the highways st night tbs driver Is partially blinded by the headlights of approaching cars and, swinging to the right, fails to see pedestrians. It la con tended that if persons walking on the roads would face the traf fic they would be better able to avoid being struck, and also would be seen sooner by the drivers of cars aproachlng in the opposite direction. <■1 HHII H4H Mil ifrH-hH-hb Unloading Heavy Machine From Platform to Truck ▲ man who had the Job of unloading heavy machines from a track was con fronted by the shortage of labor, and employed a method which made against the loading platform, the ma- RDUMD CARRIAGE 90V SOLDCRtO TO cew TtR OF DENT Belt nljirtJ te teak ramavM laSaataUea fitted ovar the dent so that the thread ed end of the bolt passes through It. By means of a nut and washer on the bolt sufficient pressure can be exerted on the depression to draw It out flush. If the hole was made hy a collisbm. By Moving a Truck Forward and Back Under Its Own Power, Heavy Ma chines Are Unloaded From It on Rollers, and Pushed Onto Flat Cars. chine was moved by means of levers, so that the base of It projected about 10 Inches from the rear end of the truck. It was raised slightly, so that roller could be placed under, It -—Maury Robinson, Paris, Tex., In fop- the same method may be used and the opening filled with the solder left after the bolt Is removed.—M. T^ in Popular Science Monthly. ir Window in Car Ahead It Help to Avoid Crashes / The glass window light in the back furtaln of the car ahead can be very useful. Through It a lot of dangers can be seen in advance, much to the advantage of the man who Is In the wake. Where cars are running abreast of •ach other so that the road cannot be seen by looking around the car ahead. It is best to drive Just far enough In back of the other car to look through Its window light and windshield at the Street ahead. When a quick stop Is aecessary the stopping of the car ahead will not be unexpected—nor so danger ous. In close congestion where cars are moving very slowly, and only a few feet at a time, the stop signal can be saved a lot of unnecessary flashing, and the battery current saved, If the driver would use his emergency brake. Backlash, when In the steeling col- Itself, Is usually due to d^precla tkm of the gearing and wear In the various members which support the column. A dynamo Is a machine for convert ing mechanical energy Into an elec trical current; a starting motor trans- fiorms the electrical current Into me chanical energy. • • s spark plugs habitually be fouled with oil and soot It la a to. Investigate and see may apt be projecting combustion chamber.' ..--...A . APPLICATIONS FOR TRAINING CAMP Mr. Samuel McGowan of Laurens, chairman of the County’s C. M. T. C. activities, states that a large num ber of young nwn art applying to take tiie summer pouting at Camp Bragg at offered by the United States government. Major T. J. Peake of this £lty, an oflear of the Medical Reserve* Cofps of the army, will make free examinations of all applicants who apply to him. Carlton F. Winn of this city has been appointed by Mr. McGowan to assist in the work and any interested parties may call upon him for desired information. ORPHANAGE RECEIVES ENDOWMENT GIFT Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Norris and children spent several days of the past week in Atlanta. Mrs. B. C. Blalock is visiting rela tives in Wadesboro, N. C. “After The Balr , at Casino Theatre on Mon day and Tuesday, April 7th and gth. THR1LLQ DOTTED WITH LAUGHS The “Broken Wing, M to ba shown at the Castna Theatre Thursday and Friday, April 10th and 11th, is mas terfully constructed for entertain ment. It opens with a dosen fine coiftedy situations, with Walter Long, the Mexican bandit, and Edwin J. Brady, his corporal, supplying the laughs.*". Then you get the thrill of the breaking of the aeroplane wing, the faj.1 of the mechanician and the wild sweeps of the crippled plane which Kenneth Harlan, the aviator, tries vainly to control. There is a mighty crash into the Mexican house and then the suspense is relieved as Miriam Cooper, the Mexican girl, cries in delight as she lifts Harlan’s head—“My prayer is answered! God has sent me a hus band from heaven!” Following is the shock of the arri val of the American girl who says Harlan is her husband—only a few minutes after Harlan has married the Senorita. . . ^ - And the final thrill as Harlan, in his plane, with a rope ladder hang ing from it, sweeps over the house where Miriam Cooper is standing in peril of her life from attacking Mexi cans. She grasps the ladder, holds tight,.climbs up into the sunset. LADIES TO HOLD RUMMAGE SALE U. D. C. MEETING FOR FRIDAY A business meeting of the U. D. C. chapter will be held Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock in the college dining hall. All members are asked to be present. A Rummage Sals, the, proceeds from which will be used tor famish ing the kitchen in the Masonic Temple building, will be held Satur day afternoon from 3 to .6 p* m. in the Jacobs 4 Company building. Packages are to be supplied for the Sale by the U; D. C., D. A. R., East ern Star, and Methodist ladies. Mrs. F. M. Boland, director ef the affair, asks that all packages he left at the GREENWOOD GIRL TO WED GREAT BASEBALL PLATER Greenwood,: April 1.—Mr. and Mrs. George T. Banes today announced tile engagement of their daughter, Sara, to Clarence “Chick” Galloway, shortstop of the Philadelphia Ath letics. The wedding date will be an nounced later. Western Union office either Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. Friendship is Fine BUT — Let’s not expect our friends to buy pur goods unless we give value and service. It is well to “trade at home” BUT — Not when - the home merchant is that weakling whose only claim to your patronage is to keep money at home. We defy competition and ask no quarter. 5 ■ Investigate ( O’DANIEL & REID BMKnnnnuaununuH that’s in -r- t The early yean of the oil in dustry wen chaotic Every body drilled ior oil Anybody, refined it. There wen lew. etandafde of production. Then, in 1870, a company wm formed which gradually ht order into the buri* Appropriately enough' m named die Standard) ular Mechanics Magazine. Plan to Test Defective ' Valve for a Slow Leak To test a defective valve for a sldtr leak, turn the wheel ufitll the valve stem Is at Its highest point—as H far from the road aa possible. Remove the dost cap and hold a glass of water so that the mouth of the stem la sub merged beneath tbs liquid. Small bub bles of air wll form sad rise to tbs surface of the water if the valve la leaking. When such trouble Is experi enced, the cause Is usually eliminated by screwing down the- seating of the valve or replacing with a plunger. AVTOMOBHX (WfUNnsm Feed a teaspoonful of graphite Into the engine through the Inlet while the engine la running, but ba Sura te use only the best graphite. Thirteen million automobiles regis tered at an average of 4j000 miles of travel per vehicle per year will roll up a total of something like 02,000,000,000 car miles per year. • • • Both caterpillar tread and wheel traction are provided with a new con crete mixer for street paving contrac tors, the two types of motive po being readily Interchangeable. * • •• • Barriers extending -along the ground from one or both rides of a recently patented roadway gate enable the an- tomobilist to open or close the gate merely by running his car over them. e « • Never pour water rapidly Into the cooling system when a motor is hot Gold watar, whan striking the over heated cylinders. Is likely to ca them te crack beca^sa ef the rapid contraction which taHaif a name F ' Fifty-four years ago, in sighted men organized a company to bring order Out of chaos. They called their enterprise Standard Oil Company because they meant to make it standard. I-/ -■ ' . Today the final argument for less well- known petroleum products is the promise that “You mil.find this as good as‘Standard’.” ^Standard” gasoline is standard, was the standard yesterday and will be the standard tomorrow^ ^Standard” Polarine sets the standard by which) other good lubricating oils are made. • ■ " i- » ‘ . : . ’ •. » v-, ju ‘ .Ay • t ' The “Standard” practice of charging a narrow mar* gin of profit and getting a return through volume of sales has never changed. - . A I Buy “Standard” gasoline, “Standard” Polarine oils, “Standard" kerosene or any other “Standard” prod-, ticts if you want certainty of performance. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New, Jersey) L- x #M Oils you canThdSt A definition?— "Stadaid—that which k , - t ■ ' & <1 t -: