The Huron Expositor, 1968-08-01, Page 9Freedom of Movement is Gift of Modern Automobile
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When this nations founders spoke of freedom lust ov-
er one hundred years ago, there was one freedom whose
existance was beyond their most vivid visions. That free-
dom was the freedom of movement which was not really
possible until this century. Thanks to the development
of the automobile, this freedom of movement had been
a true liberation for the great majority of Canadians,
With it, the confines of neighborhoods and commun-
ities gave way to unlimited access toall parts of our
nation. Business trips, vacation journeys.to anywhere a
road will take you have widened our activities, increased
our pleasure.
Equally liberating has
been the development of
the automobile itself. From
capricious, "Get - out - and -
get - under" transportation
of 50 Tears ago, the car has
become so dependable that
even the most delicate wo-
man can drive anywhere
with ce'rtainty.
, How important a factor
the autombile has become
in Canada can be shown by
a few startling statistics.
Highway Safety is
Everybodys Business
The Dominion Bureau of How lucky can you get?
. Statistics publishes annual- Or as was reported in an
ly a document with the gob- issue of the Canadian No-
ering title "MOtor Vehicle torist :
Traffic Accidents". Its ov- "On a recent morning, a
er seventy pages of statis- seven-year-old girl trotted
tics present, in neatly tabu- up to the safety crossing
lated form, the arithmetic at her school. The crossing
of . the chaos on our high- guard waited for an open -
way. It doesn't take a stat- ing in the traffic, stepped
istician to get the message. out with his stop sign, and
she started across.
. Reducing the finding to
their simplest form, there "A ten -year-old car was
are more accidents, more approaching. It was speed -
people being injured, more ing, but the driver knew
dieing, and total property he had space to stop if he
damage is ' increasing, ev- braked hard. There was
ery yea?. - a brief screech of tires and
then the car ran right
To become a statistic, through the crossing. The
-
you hardly have to try. In- little girl was killed.
deed, a special effort is ne-
cessary to stay off the "The cause: brake fail-
ure. An investigation show -
scoreboard. ' ed that part of the car's
The place to start is in steel brake line had be -
making sure that your car come a shriveled twig of
is in first class mechanical rust. One hard tramp on
condition. This is good ad- the brake pedal had burst
vice from the Vehicle Safe- it, causing complete brake
ty Committee of the Cana- failure."
dian Highway Safety Coun-
cil which also tells us that Making sure that one's
nine per cent of all motor car is mechanically safe is
• vehicle accidents in Cana- a moral responsibility. Hav-
da are caused by mechan- ing one's car checked per-
ical failure. iodically may cost a few
dollars but, as the Canad-
For instance: ian ,Safety Council says
An untuned ear can be a "what's a buck if you're
gun pointed at your head— not around to spend it?"
Passing and other maneu- now
At the present time four
particularly if its your car.
vering situations often call Canadian provinces '
for absolute performance. have legislation providing
for compulsory inspection
To be caught "dead" under
of motor vehicles' but with
such circumstances • is just some variations.
as criminal as a ease of
reckless driving. Inspections in Nova Sco-
Perhapsyou always obey tia, Manitoba i and British
'
the rules, such as always Columbia, are designed to
Signalling your intention to have every registered veh-
turn before changindir- ic• le checked iWhile the sys-
g
tem s hampered by a shor-
tage of facilities and funds,
one time. You dutifully , enforcement is increasing.
flick the turn -signal lever,
and make Y o u r t u r n In Ontario, compulsory
Wfiam I You have just been inspection is on a selective
slammed broadgide by an- basis performed by port -
other not -so -careful driver able stations at which veh-
who immediately complains ides are directed off the
you never signalled the road by police and into in -
turn, It's then you discover spection lanes. The stations
that a burned out bulb operate throughout the pro -
made the signal inopera- vince between May and Oc-
tive. Kregular check of all tober.
lights would have revealed
a faulty signal light. The Vehicle Safety Com-
mittee 'of the CHSC is also
Then there's the case of participating. With the co -
the Ontario motorist mov- operation of many agencies
ing along a secondary high- across the country, motor-
way last year. He felt a ists are urged to have their
sudden looseness in his cars checked by 'competent
steerkg -- thendiscovered mechanics before the heavy
he was not steering at all. summer season of driving
He took his foot off the begins. They are right,"
gas, allowed the car to slow laws alone will not do the
, gradually through engine, job. The individual motor -
drag, and at a very slow ist must accept the respon-
speed gently pumped his sibility for the condition of
brakes , until he stopped. his ear.
Acording to the Motor
Vehicle Manufacturers' As-
sociation, nearly two mil-
lion Canadians are employ-
ed in the motor vehicle and
allied manufacturing indus-
tries. Their salaries and
wages in 1966 totalled, over
seven hundred million dol-
lars. The gross selling value
of the products they turn-
ed out was a staggering
thirty-five billion dollars.
Yet these statistics don't
begin to show the immense
impact the car has on our
lives.
Passenger car registra-
tions in Canada in 1966
numbered over five mil.
lions. That's ten • cars for
every 36 Canadians—men,
women and children. We
travelled over 62 million
miles the same year—after
buying over four million
gallons of gasoline.
'Sikh statistics are irre-
Huron MPP
Holds New
Offices
Hon. C. M. MacNaughton
'The Hon. Charles McNaugh-
ton was sworn in Tuesday as
Minister of the two Ontario.
Government departments which.
have been, created out of the
former Department of Treasury.
The Huron M. P. P.'s new
title ,is Treasurer of Ontario and
Minister of Economics as head
of the Department of Treasury
and Economics. He also is Min-
ister of Revenue., in charge of
the new Department of Revenue.
The two departinents were
proclaimed Tuesday by erder-ira
Council. approved by the new
Lieutenant Governor, The tion -
mixable W. Ross Blisedonald, on
the proaegation of the first Ses-
sion oil the twenty.eright Par,
Dement of Ontario.
The Department of Treasury
and Economics will be respons.
ible for government policy op
revenue and expenditure pro-
grams, related to broad econom-
ic planning for ontariola growth.
Its responsibilities win) include
provincial and municipal taxab;.
ion Niorms new under :Abe
eonsideratimx
The Department of Rementue
will coneantrate on equitable
and efficient administration of
taxation statutes and Other r.ev-
ems& legislation.
The division of responsibilit,
tee Nits recommended by the
Ontario Committee osi, Taxation
and follows shnilar bevelopmen-
ts in the federal and other pro-
vincial governments. ,
Mr. McNaughton will continue
to serve as chairman of Treasury
Board and as head of the Dep-
artment 9f Civil Service. He also
reports to the Legislature for ten
bomb and comlnisions asso,ciat-
.ed with, Treasury and Civil Ser-
vice functions.
•
futable proof that not only
do cars provide us with our
living but make.that Uvn
more rneaniugful and e*
.j oya.ble.
Yet with the freeclointhe
car has given us, we have
not always accepted the re-
sponsiblity this free4P,IP
provides. Too ;rainy OOP
are heedless of thefa0Mat
a carelessly. driven car .eall
kill or maim. ' .. •
Too many of us, Wlib.are
Careful drivere,do not pay
enough
enough attention- to the. con-dition of our ears. This
Carelessness is a definite,if
not .precisely measurabic,
factor in the highway tieci-
dent picture. •
As simple as the car is to
•operate, it. is a complex ma-
chine with thousands of
working parts. As such,. it
requires... attention of quali-
fied maintenance people.
And all systems of your
car need attention to assure
safe and dependable opera-
tion. It is ()Mous that a
'set of tires that are allow-
ed to deteriorate Ls an ob-
vious threat to safety. It
is not as obvious that an
untuned engine is a safety
menace. It becomes more
obvious when one considers
that an untuned engine ad-
versely affects safe passing
on the road. Also, a car'
Jones: "What do you do for a
living?"
Bones: "I'm a go-getter." ,
• Jones: "A go-getter?" -
Bones: "Yeah, my wife works.
All I do is go get her."
time, didn't notice,"
stalled on an expressway,
due to ignition failure, is
a potential hazard,
While critics of the auto
industry have blamed car
makers for not paying en-
ough attention to safety, A
logical analysis of the pro-
blem shows a deeper .cause.
The auto Triajtes have
not been able to repeal laws
of friction, oxidation and
other physical and chemical
factors that lead to inevit-
able deterioration of car
components. It is still up to
the motorist to match his
freedom of movement with
responsibilities.
There is the responsibl-
ity to others of maintain-
ing a safe car. There is the
responsibility to self to pro-
tect a large investment by
thorough, conscientious car
care. "
This section iS dedicated
to greater freedom of move-
ment by helping the reader
live up to the important
responsibilities of car care.
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The average motorist spends about $11,000
over a 10 -year period to drive and operate a
car, says the industry trade paper Motor Age,
from which the above pie charts are borrowed
to graphically portray what parts of these
expenditures are made for what during each
of the 10 years of ownership and...on. a "mile-
age driven" basis.
The analysis is based on a study made by
the Department of Transportation. It starts
off with a -new car coating $2,800. The
reveals that far less is spent on the ,serykee;
and parts that are needed to,4exa mar In '
best operation than most experts recOniniend.
• Maintaining ah automobile in beat •possible
operating condition requires periodic inspec-
tions and, most important.,, .periodic muter
tune-ups. This is the -best way of insuring
economy of operation, operational safety and
preservation of a high trade-in value..
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1968— Second Section, Pages 9 to 16
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upcoming motor trips
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as a car u prim tiition