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Of asterisks and Easterisks.
That pilots seldom err from air routes.
" Vi.rhat if the Conservatives were out?"
Not "what if the Liberals or Labour were in?"
That politicalized money can go anywhere, Of the " Road " Fund—or should it be the Raid Fund?
That the Road Fund cupboard will soon he bare and the road-dog will have no bone.
That when material balances are pooled they go like water and eventually dry up.
That the Road Fund should be .poured into our potholes until all are filled.
The more Churchill gets together the happier he beams.
. Of queer-looking economy proposals still in the cooking. .
Its no light matter—in fact, a very dark-one—this aVaunted £12,000,000.
That one can be too much worked up even over the Road Fund raid.
There should be some means of making the Road Fund a die-hard.
That Churchill has given a new fiscal meaning to the word "drawback."
That it's hard to believe. that what's been done to
the Road Fund is real. • • • Of more and more people going by car to or from the bus instead of the station.
That the local authorities of the cotintry feel they have been done over the Road Fund.
That many a provincial bus owner who has had a bad fall manages to get put together again.
• That there's not enotigh timely thought given to change of circumstances on many a bus route.
That "prevention is better than cure" must now be applied to further attacks on the Road Fund.
Of a few drivers who appear to think their radiators will -cool with the water that has leaked out of them.
That Churchill does not now believe in giving a petrol age his patronage so far as taxation is concerned.
That few rival side-by-side owners in the‘motorbus wand judge or treat their brethren of the same road kindly. .
That it's a good tenant who occupies the chair of the Petroleum Section of the London Chamber a Commerce and who has given the work a real fillip.
Eleven years old and running still, • A nib at a job and won't jib at a. hill "— is no bad testimonial.
Of very little sand 511 sandblasting.
Of petrolosophy and petrolsophistry. That .raising fares may lower takings.
The Chancellor's idea is a Rover Fund.
Of current (not electric) brake designs.
That if silenCe is golden, silencers never are.
That the overtaken cyclist need not Pause, but he Must reflect.
That road transport is being made to shoulder railroad burdens. • That, in holiday time,–faces And the barometer often fall together.
That it is better to reduce running and maintenance costs than fares.
That a well-run, well-equipped bus service has no better publicity agent than itself.
"You take the high load-line and take the low load-line and I'll get the job done before you."
That being too clever by even half-an-inch over a motorbus body may disqualify-it for its licence.
That just the art of pleasing the public is what the railways more than just miss on most of their branch lines.
, Of synthetic rubber soles which are putting the wind up leather merchants and giving, them furiously to
think. .
That the previous holding-up of all Road Fund votes by the Treasury was what put Churehill's tongue in his cheek.
That if the new position over the Road Fund does not rally all the motoring organizations into one united army nothing will.
Someone suggesting that pbolographs of beauty (or interest) spots on (or near) the route make good postcards for bus .interiors.
Surprise expressed in several quarters at the apparent mildness of the S.J.C. resolutions about the Road Fiind, but that there is probably more intention in them than first meets the eye.