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MAY 17, 1931 Subject: "Mortals and lm mortals" READING ROOM-î x48 Central Avenume open Daily (exceptinhl Wednemdy) 9 A. M. to 9 P. M..- Wednesday .9 A. M. to 7:45 P.-M. Oe>Ssandau afternoona 3j P. -M. to 6.,'P. M. TIb. Bibli and Worka of Mary Baker Eddy and ail other authorimzed Christian Science Literature may b. read. borrowed or parcbased at the- Reading Rloom. THE5PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY, INVITED TO ATTEND THE CHURCH SERVICES AND.VISIT 'IME RENDING ROOM' wI,~ PA TRONIZE O UR ADVER TISRRS I I c3f. Cr yOU TUEJUDGE AU ve ask is duat you corne into our Service Mtore ana Seo fer yeumrself seeteums eut frain varie.. tire. -* Compaire Qwaity- 0Umtrtio - and Prie.. The April output falls only 4,000 units below the comparable figure for April, 1930. which was one -of the two biggest months of 1930, and coin- pares wfth 79,603 cars and trucks buit in March this. year, Mr. Knud- sen said. The output for the montb just end- ed was the first in eleven months that crossed tbe 100,000 mark.' Repeated. increases, in, scbedules had to be miade during April. to keep production ini step with the demands of, the sales department. While nPo schedule foi May waàs announced, it is understood that the company expects to main tain the present hii rate- of output for at least thé' current month, with pros- pects excellent for runnling ahead of last year's production .during the, lae-spring and sunimer montlhs. rid a even I4aSL.in -SZV ii incr.eased, it over that 'e were only E .1 i E i i i i I E i WAbHNG-MEHANIA REAR-jEVERYTHING 'FOR THE AUTOMOBILE [iEE J LOE Sales- S rVlC jNVE LOSE en71 AIN STREET, Wilmette, Ill'i72 Mic . ow Contracts are now in effect for al- most haîf of the $45,00,000 sta te. highway building program planned for 1931.' A resumé of awards placed during the last haif of April, cQfl- piled by Frank T. Sheets, chi ef high- way enginetr, shows that some $21,.000,000 worth of.lïa*ing, grading, and bridge construction is now under contract. a tew more cars. .In. 1930 the average consumption of gasoline per vehicle was 556 gaI- lotis as compared with, 538, gallons. in '1929., Estimating, that- the average car travels 15 miles per gallon, mo- torists in. 1930 averaged 8,340 miles of travel.. Tenl years ago motorists averaged littie more ýthan 5,000 miles yearly. * Alppumiite foe Tram This. sharpened appetite for travel, has come aboutý through improved roads, Wbich motorists themselves have paid for through vehicle license fees. and- gasoline taxes. Althougli road, incomes are augmented froni other sources, funds contributed di- rectly by motorists have beien Iargely responsible for the construction of continuous, interlocking highways iwhich allow the motorist. to,_cover Ilengthy mileages at will. L.ast year the net revenue f rom thie gasoline tax was $494,683,000. The average gasolin.e tax rate was 3.35 Cents per Kgaln. Road builders con- sider th ii a bargain price to pay for- inotoring facilities' becauseý of the lowered cost of operating automio- biles, increased speed, driving coin- fort and lowered road maintenanicv cost; a cost borne in one way or an- other by ta x payers. Automobile license fees the couni- try over averaged $13.41 annually anid this added to the average gaso- line tax payment of $1862. brings the' total to $32.03. The average. motor car owner can figure out for liiseli what lie gets for bis mnotor tax ex- penditures. According to the, widely accepted Iowa State Çollege figures, liard surfaced pavements save more thari two cents a mile in car operat- ing .costs over dirt, roads, and'at* least one cent a mile. in car operating costs o ver roads of intermediate types. The. motorists, therefore, who in 1930 drove 8,340 miles over concrete rather than over intermediate type ioads sved $83.40, or more than $50' over DE