Fits and Starts

Duck-billed Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, has emitted some strange noises, but his latest squawk made U.S. motorists really jump. Secretary Ickes, now U.S. Oil Tsar, threatened the arrest of "jackrabbit" starters who needlessly burn up gas for the sake of fast getaways, car owners who fail to keep their old "oil-burner" crates tuned up to efficient combustion.

His power to enforce his threat is limited by the jurisdiction of Interior to District of Columbia parkways, National Parks, Alaskan roads, Indian reservations, etc., but District of Columbia authorities, who know that the rancorous, cankerous Secretary is quite capable of stirring up trouble around the Capital, asked their 167,000 motorists to mend their driving ways.

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