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of per J March 20, 1926 WINNETKA TALK URGES SPORTSMANSHIP IN DRIVING MOTOR CAR Motor Club Executive Says Handling of Car is much the Same as Playing Golf "Have you ever realized how much work you do when you participate in your favorite sport," says Charles M. Hayes, president of the Chicago Motor club. "For example, just look at the work you do when you play golf. You rush to get through at the office, you dash madly to your car, spend a tedious time negotiating a corrugated road, and when you do reach the course you wait in a broiling sun for your turn at the first tee. You trudge miles over a hilly course, stopping to fish in muddy water for the ball, and you think nothing of whacking around in the rough for half an hour in search of your piece of wound-up rubber. All this, and yet you call it sport! "Why not the same thing with your driving in traffic? Why not take the wheel and call your driving sport in- stead of work? Why not regard every annoyance and problem as something against which to match your wits? "Play that difficult parking space as you would play a difficult poker hand. Study your gear shift as you would your stance at golf. Give your steer- ing the same attention you would give to your wrist motion at tennis. "When driving a car becomes sheer work it becomes burdensome, which is the same as saying that it becomes un- safe. The man who is annoyed by every little thing is bound to give too much attention to details and thus overlook safety, which is always the main feature. He may become so an- noyed over the fact that the car ahead of him is parked too far from the curb that in proceeding to park his own car he forgets to make sure that there are no children playing in the street behind him. "On the other hand, the man who tackles his driving as he would a game simply regards the car in front of him as a hazzard or an obstacle to be played. It is so much less important than the many other hazards en route that he gives it but passing notice. Thus his attention is not diverted from the more important task of looking out for human safety. As a matter of fact if a driver does not consciously rec- ognize the fact that driving a car is a game he is not a geod sportsman and should be barred from the road. The world has no place for the grouch driver. He is dangerous. "Half of traffic troubles and accidents are the result of incompetence, which is a sort of mental paralysis brought on by fear. This incompetence could be overcome by sportsmanship. Sports- manship is, in fact, the best cure for it. The true motorist, like the true sportsman, never takes an unfair ad- vantage. He waits for pedestrians to cross the street, he does not try to crowd in ahead of his turn in a traffic jam, he does not dodge in and out of traffic, he drives surely, safely, and like a sportsman. In other words, he is a gentleman driver and has fun be- ing one. "Nowhere is the need for sportsman- ship in driving greater than in traffic." PAY ELECTRIC DIVIDENDS Regular and special dividends to be paid by the electric department of the village into the general fund were approved by the Village council at its meeting this week. The regular dividend is 8 per cent, amounting, in this case, to $34,780.35. The special dividend of $80,000 is paid in accord- ance with the five-year financial pro- gram and general fund budget adopted at the beginning of the fiscal year, © February Surpasses the Greatest Janua What the public thinks of Dodge Brothers Motor Car is impressively reflected in current sales. January, 1926 was the greatest January in Dodge Brothers history. Yet February, with actual retail deliver- ies of 18,516 cars surpassed it by 24 per cent! Midsummer business in a month of Winter Storms! A $10,000,000 investment in new buildings and equipment has brought new high production records but still there are indications of a serious shortage. The time to buy is NOW. For the car is better than ever before-- and the price astonishingly low. $854.92 $853.92 $906.16 $959.90 Touring Car - Roadster - - Coupe -- Sedan -- - Delivered Excise Tax reduction effective NOW. No reason to delay your purchase Wersted Motor Co. Phone Winn. 165 562 Lincoln Ave. / Dopnee BROTHERS MOTOR CARS