LICENSED HITCH-HIKING
URGED TO CONSERVE RUBBER
Load Every Car To Capacity
U.S. Editor's Idea
(By a Staff Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor)
Chicago—A plan to advance the Nation's conservation programme by putting hitch-hiking on a sound and legal basis for the war period is offered here by a magazine editor who has been giving a lot of thought to the empty back-seat problem. Herb Packer, author of the plain, has been worrying about the tyres and gasoline being inefficiently used by people who ride in solitary grandeur in their big cars. He would like to see every car loaded to capacity at a time like this, when transportation needs have been expanded and facilities reduced. But how is it to be done?
Mr Packer found a possible answer one day when he was unable to get bus or train service from one town to another not far away. Automobiles were rolling past him, evidently bound for his destination, but
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13668, 16 June 1942, Page 3
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