The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1926, Page 25

RIBUNE “SPEED FAST BECOMING A POLICE POLICY “TIME BUYING" | SATURATION | ___seeeraives WAY 4 CONDITIONS. | | HAVE CHANGED IS HELD SOUND | POINT STILL | IN PRINCIPLE’ : | LONG WAY OFF IN FEW YEARS ‘Business Spurred by Practice,| Losses Are Small, Statis- sidered Model of Virtue tics Show —Different Now PLAN’ AN OLD CUSTOM IS DECLARED A MENAC 5 Miles an Hour Is,Consid ered Safe Speed’ ‘With Competent Driver "PAGES 2510 32 | “BISMARCK T 4\URtH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1926 Cresco) TALE ESTABLISHED 1873 : i MINIMUM Ten Million Families Do Not Own Cars—Many Others | Buying New Ones | 3 t OWNERS ALL BOOSTERS i 'Records Show That Only 12 Families in 1,0C0 Own More Than 1 Car While the seasonable talk about aturation, overproduction and milar motor topics is at its height, it is interesting to record and mull several. of the striking facts Families Thereby Enabled to § Enjoy, Pleasures of Motor | 1 Transportation FOUND IN THIS | i | | NG Fi = PASSENGER’S CAR, EN TO ICE WATER, MAYBE | | EVERYTHING FOR THE PASSENGER’S CAR, EVE ITs CON. | * 1CAR, BUILT BY EDWIN H. BISHOP, RETIRED AUTO RACER OF PORTLAND, ME. 4 ‘ " : SIDERED A RECORD-BREAKER FOR SPEED. The representative American citi- ¥ zen—the man who buys his car} Portland, Me., Feb. 27.—A freak) can propel the auto up to 138 miles; along the proper route. on time—has been the “stormy streak has just left Portland to| an hour. | grade meter, ‘an altin A petrel” of arguments pro and con surprise the countryside with its!” qe bodylis made of polished ma- | Meter for telling engine speed, an Pee oe o) is not a movie stunt, although it did happen in Los Angeles. “More speed and added safety.” “High speed and econo! he menace of the slow car.” More There’s a * i er, a taco- lover This A the truck {and more today these’ phrases are fos and figures of the times. stragt'i ‘i peda ath sei : : i ‘ f sii ity P ve dicator that locates any (“My Tigures A Non | street in that city gave way beneath a giant five-ton truck. i ‘ see pence, anor “ prominent eed to be an automobile and | pene bia des rire abel trouble in the wiring system. dco PS ceed isd ina aa was rolling along about 2v amles an hour atthe time of the accident, | being ean, net ony from fe automobile man. ‘i ral apearance is that of an | °¢ W!th padded Be! 2 The gasoline tank has a capacit: Byes et ace pet cee| e driver escapéd with slight injuries. manufacturers of fast cars bul i: On one hand he has been pistucea on ee: PBut it’s a freak even! There are 22 lights on the car, for 50 gallons of gasoline, so that Se A ECE GeRIca| PORE ION TI a WELT ee from police and state officials. a as ‘a poor, debt-ridden creature to its mudguards. | two batteries supplying the Power | few stops may be made over long 14) not-own automobiles eT . A few years ago all was differ- + HE \_lared into bondaging his futyre for| Yet, it’s the most completely; for them sand the ignition. cele | BS: And so that the passengers (107) 0 tn On han 2,000,000! ent. Drivers stepped on the gas 1 ‘tho pleasures of immediate personal equipped car in_cxistence. {headlights turn with the wheels! may take such few-stop trips in’, ormicks and busses, neqrseras! LITTLE FOOT ROOM LEFT —_,_ | [shen no bluecoats were in, sight, n° transportation. On the other att It’s the product of three years CT Spates ree | comfort, there’s even & {0rgallon | Tee of paknenger Gere has nist aa| but solemnly “agreed ity ; hie b~. . he has been glorified as resourceful patient building on the part of Ed-/ tal only, to lessen win ce | icewater tank! - | vet reached a whitl a: i : ongue-lashings administered from «ME }' and confident of his productive ca-jwin H. Bishop, retired auto racer| Everything imaginable in the| Bishop hasn’t pushed the ear to | {<t reached 20,000,000, which wwould Look at these figures and se@ how the automobile has |,the bench to speeders who got \ # 7 pacity of tomorrow to give hislof this city.” He built the car_on line of accessories for men and|the limit of 138 miles an hour, he |i toy every six people | rained in favor the last year in this country: caught. The slow driver was con- mF: family some of the worth-while a special’ Traveler chasis and fol-|womey passengers, as well as for says, but he’s built it so that it ean (1 °T "Oo Song, These thie vee Autos now in use i sidered a model of virtue. 2 things of today. ‘ lowed the old Benz type of con- | the driver’s assistance, has been make this record-breaking | 000,000 pkasenger cars five peo-| Gain during 1925 | ORG HOWecee tw NIE pane a fe tever else may be said of the struction. Its Norway marine rac-| stalled. There’s a highway speed- | It’s low-hung and is only 54 inches ULM euRry sala ew lluhawartel| Percentage of gain the defensive. One praised as a Total license fees and gas taxes wo pictures, the outstanding qual-| iy of seein oa Increase in value of 28 leading motor stocks ity of American character is essen- ing engine is of 150-horsepower and i ometer that directs the drivey’s | high to the very top. $335,345,972 man careful of human life, he who > ‘walk or ride the street railways if, jievements . ' q hers . : variably ximum, there oe et Sere eee ae || For Modern City jiromtanather angie t means mee] K RTT BRING Variable-to-load i ineeieely 6 ete tie memeceeceats | MADE EASIER |) ouere, conv, 270 PL |store fama Tires Introduced ‘min soe, imity’ of thrwitive est institutions in the country. Anj{ wrong, everyone admits. pes re te Ei aoe ink KEEPS AHE AD London, Feb. .27.—Variable-to- Rhode Island Blazes ‘Trail ‘. --understanding of this spirit of the | ‘| But’ modern city planners \the market for the second car now. | load yehicle tires are being sucee A minimum speed, it is argued, man who buys on time in this coun- may be right for years to. come Byarytinie*adealer-sactifices. «| fully introduced in England. | These would eliminate the dangers of try is, absolutely essential to 8 * ig asta . ‘if they ale the eS ot ear jused car to get rid of it some one| (OF EVERYONE: Cae double fitment: passing alow. save ands alan emake, i ‘ N »” presi o > 7 ria tae Welorean| The inner tire is ed h esiin n pe cimprchension ‘othe system ot] Change to Low Early, Retard | Novia Ceuchon, prewient f Ul iay Has Unique Aden For," onl yt buy a ar bere prea p ouaicection af tel foeuore sat oo of expan * in the automotive industty. Spark Without Awaiting Institution. ‘enee has shown that the tremend- | a Tillga IRDA PARUNRESEVENY | Tie “smobile paper is 99 82-100 tially self confidence.’ Every Am- erican possesses a’ confidence in his powers to accomplish in the fu- An Old Custom. Certainly the purchase of com-. modities on the-time*payment plan has been recognized since the early days of, commerce. How many homes, how much furniture, how ly a matter of changing gears and ‘ syblaed ink slowly into| always a user. rae that thirty-five miles an hour much dry goods would be, purchased-| ‘steppin’ it.” : \ Thus alternating uy and ||roll of newspaper sink slow!y | Millions of HBG a bie a ‘ ae F hold the surface of the road. Per pean on st ic will i a in the ; PCr aor em unas reel (ah | etroit, Feb, 27.- e's ama would be the minimum speed for today were it not for the fact that | “What they don’t know is that | downtown traffic will inter- ||a hole in the sidewalk. Detroit, Feb, 27.—There’s a man so sa speed they can be purchased on time? 'jme payments for motor cars enable families to enjoy the pleas- ures of transportation and outdoor life at the time when such things are most desirable and most en-_ joyable. It is a well, known fact; that capacity for enjoyment dwin-| dles with the passing of years. «| Time buying has caused more in- | tensive work than any scheme of | mere saving ever‘devised. It stim- | ulates our creative powers, and-that the average man believes in time | : ‘ | ight. other substances, a new “anti- thought to accepting them. tent in this by a state law which payments tay be judged from the} But when he does drop down to ptrectsimtTNmMts os e ” i ’ re inaeonlehte ; vant Pe * the simple ex-| knock” has been found that is act. Now, no matter how unusual his Dy 5) went into effect last s 2 = fact that mote than 70 per cent of | second or low gear—and he mus It’s nothing but the simple nailg painted oh PUNE RENE Is a6 low, no 01 is; Punishment For Drunken into effect last summer em all motor cars afe now purchased | under this plan. t But, aside from the obvious bene- fit to the purchaser of a motor. HILL CLIMBS | Engine Knock * ‘Many drivers believe that climb- ing hills in an automobile is mere- every engine has its best speed—a | certain peak in its range where it) develops maximum horsepower. The’ driver who studies his engine and, finds this “peak” is to be congratu-/ lated, for ‘he gets the most out of | his car—all the time. The average driver will stay in high gear on a bill until the engine nearly knocks its head off. Why, we don’t-know, though it is, prob- ably that he believes his ean! make that hill and he intends to do it or break up the bus. eventpaljy—the car has lost its mo- ; mentum and the’engine must recov-! er sufficiently to pick up properly j and earry the car over the top. Ail ! Odd Traffic Idea » > His_ plan is to cut out new ‘cities in the form of hexagonal instead of -the modern rec- tangular blocks, and thus cut down traffic congestion und ac- cidents greatly. weave readily with crosstown traffic and average collision points will be spaced more than three times farther apart than they are now, says Cauchon. HIGHWAY MAN SHOWS SAVING T0 MOTORISTS WHY NOT KEEP Solving the Problem of Housing Autos | London, Feb. 27,—it started with} a man who stopped to watch a large He must have been a city motor-| ist, for he never. would have thought of it. And he must have been terribly in need of garage! space for his machine, or he never} would have broached it. : As jit is, here’s his unique ide: free for the use of those who h similar trouble with their cars. | They're mostly, if not all, city | dwellers, living so close together| that they can’t have their private garages, and still being pestered by | the police to keep their cars off the } pedient of, sinking the auto into a hole in the sidewalk! . i Why not? Just open up the front sidewalk af the house, and drop in- ‘low prices, e: the comfort of the closed car. the owners of these cars have other! plans. j It has been estimated that only! twelve families out of every 1,000 ous strides. of motordom has been the result of the enthusiasm of car owners. Every car owner is a booster for the automobile. | v. time some one gets started us’ an automobile he z tracted to the automobile through eptional’ values and Most of these people are soon going to want better cars, and the American automobile factories will supply the demand. New “Anti-knock” Not Used in Fue New York, Feb. 27.—Instead of being mixed with the gasoline, like de of the cylinder head, and acts as to better fuel combustion. This is a form of catalytic agent, | | Total autos in world $810,246, Is One of Country’s Most Noted Inventors and Elec- trical Engineers - i here in Detroit who's a long jump; thead of most of us. He’s Charles Franklin Kettering, | one of the country’s most noted in- | ventors and elec 1 and mechani- | s has ele-! rom a $100- | a-month post hole digger to a $1,-| 000,000-a-year cutive. { Being that jump ahead has; caused him to invent improvements so ‘radical that it took him seness| sometimes, to convert public ideas, they’re respected by his fel- low enginee: Primarily Kettering is an inven-j tor. He has between two and three thigh pressure tires and the grad-) jand causes the tire to cling to and low air pressure, It is claimed that this gives double the cushioning possible with INTOXICATED — DRIVERS NOT - DIMINISHING A. A. A. Chief Urges Severe} Motorist under the influence of liquor. holds to the old speed limit of fif- teen miles an hour is assailed as the frequent cause of accidents, ile the old-fashioned speed ‘lim minimum speed limit for arteries in cities is no new thing, but it was an innovation in state highway rule last June when Col. E. St. J. Chaffee, Chief of the state police in Rhode Island, announced heavy traveled highw: toa conference of police officials of al- most every city in the state it had been decided that this rate was “safe and sane” with competent drivers under proper conditions. The roads had been built at great cost, Col. Chaffee said, and were too ex- pensive to be cluttered up with slow moving traffic. Robbins B. Stoecke], commission- er of motor vehicles of Connecticut, is another enemy of the slow car, and he is supported to some ex- powering him to refuse registration to cars unable to maintain a speed of twelve miles an hour. A slow car is the greatest men- i ; ; f to it the cars of the tenants in the| reports Professor Ralph H. McKee hundred patents on electrical and} Washington, Feb. 27.—A nation-|ace there is 01 ighway, - iy frasidieg BAe degesr Scones: of which is mighty tough on the | ‘ d 5 Save/apartment house nearby. In fact,/of Columbia University. Many of mechanical inventions to h its wide aurveyioy the American Aute:|Stocskal Maintainer nae ian tke ie reallly aomarente | e 4 Hard Surfaced Roads alarge part of the apartment base-|these have been devised, one of The Delco starting, lighting and-g-| mobile ussccistion discloses the fact| a reasonable matecaf. pi + Buables Lower Prices, There are only two things to re) Pennsylvania Drivers ment could be set aside for this | them being cerium dioxide. nition system is his. So is the/that the intoxicated driver is run-| necessary to. make speed. regula- ti should be potutad out that 4 (Continued on Page 26) onner purpose. One application of this “anti-!Delco- lighting system for farm-| ning wild in many of the large cit-|tions ona minimum basis: so that times. ea bigs yee ee Ia see | i $25,000,000 Yearly” “A car comes up, the trapdvors | knock,” it is said, is enough to keep | houses, while the cash registers and j jes of the country. only those cars that make a reason- day exceed $2,000,000,000 (te Mie) LESSON \ 3 flat on the sidewalk are opened up, | the engine running well for 15,000 banking machines of today are de-| "a ’cording to the statement there| able traffic speed will be allowed on lien dallas) in velve gor sent, nd HES ies the ‘car rolls, upon, the platform, | mies. vie agents or catalysts eee ety oF his inventive genius. 95 been no diminution in the num-| the highway, he told a recent meet- \ ( j ‘. ., Feb. 27.—De-|and down it sinks. en the door talytic ” ce yst, is e ng is one 01 le mos: er sts ivi vhile| ing of the Society of ive fousaed cinte co tritiatece tie apie eb es keh dene: close and the sidewalk’ is clear|a chemical substance which causes successful business men in America, | Det of jatrests for driving while) Ne ot the, Saciety af Automotive almost ten-fold since the | stimulus was first applied. i ing gasoline taxes, the automobile again. iy a chemical reaction to take place | He's director and vice president of | e pete) ae “It looks as if the law-enforcing} It is almost impossible for human x | i i is! And no more space occupied, | between other substances, while it|General Motprs. He’s an official} tities a aGhEte ute Mian i a withthe ee a pelioce: Mea ON evict, enloys a Saving SHROUEN NT cichert : "| itself isn’t absorbed or in’ any way in half a dozen other business firms | @uthorities and the courts are much |nasure to stand the strain of follow rmitted by time. buying automo- ile prices would be nearly double their present scale. auto- mobile industry has become first ia point of ‘i wale of cod ae jon among all manufactu in- ‘ites in America. being poms. created by its perity has n a stabilizing influence in many contributary lines. That the condition- of the large fifth of one percent. ~ Therefore the motor car should be considered a creator of wealth rather than a ay out of capital created by other industries. Else how could there be such an in- crease “in individual wealth in the country? ed solely by those who use them. | use of improved roads. This is the declaration of Wiliam Connell, engineering executive of the Pennsylvania highway commis- sion. And, producing facts to prove his point, he adds the conviction that highways should be maintain- | By his reckoning, motorists in| Pennsylvania save nearly $25,000, | 000 a year, after paying license | }operated under the power of the} The suggestion is made, in addi- | tion, that this sidewalk lift could be | auto engine! changed. A Thus it helps, and even speeds up, the mixture of the air and gasoline in motors, + + A One-Logged Cabin on Wheels [2 aw A Oneleaset C and trustee for two colleges. Recently he organized 2 company | for the sole purpose of insuring, (Continued on Page 26) | surfaced roads, and 10 mate of 25 per cent higher operat- ing tost on dirt roads ‘than on need. rr cent (higher than on gravel roads. Con- ‘struction of 133,000 miles of the| former type and 153,000 miles of the latter, since 1904, brings a sav- ing of about $1,630,000,000 a year _|time, which iss big factor, nor for | Several’ mont | maintenance | cl dozen | for the 4500 miles to the motorist. jen But only $420,000,000 were paid) out in 1926. in registration fees and gasoline taxei hich leaves a net saving of $1,210,000,000 for 1925 alone and perhaps 4 similar amount each year, As : “This is a very conservative basis: of estimating savings,” Connell comments, “inasmuch. as no allow- | ance is made for the saving in the inconvi ‘and loss to | nt_ on dirt 8, intly; impassable for “And h ne of Yon 1 ‘ an annual ar of $2,260, people de; which are dirt roads in A giant fir trunk nee S phe home i Hollowed out, is estimated at ‘Pennsylvania: which- were replaced “| by hard surfeced or gravel roads. west. the base. The Caves are touring | Bt room, the traveling home’ of C. E Cave and 2100 years in age;.cu} from a trée 275 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter at the-country inthis ing home, in which are a combination, bedroom and kitchenet, breakfast nook, library, shower bath and lavatory. eg abe (Continued on Page 26) = ‘ Mrs, Cave, from the Pacific north- more adept in convicting and fining motorists for technical violations of traffic rules than they are in rid- ding the streets and highways of ing a slow’ car indefinitely and sooner or later an attempt will be made to pass, with hazard that in- creases with congestion of traffic, \these potential murderers who oper- ate machines while under the influ- ence of liquor,” said Thomas P. Henry, president of the A. A. A. | “Heavy jail sentences and revo- cation of driving permits should be luniformly meted out to this class Mr. Henry declared. “ | and gasoline taxes, from the use of | H sisal) Tt will i ‘ financing companies is solid may 4500 ml 4 roads. | He continued: _ : will soon be necessary, he said, be from the fact that auto-: to te gest eg Connell, 967 in Detroit to route slow vehicles such as 4 J 1 H eh “There were 967 convictions onjheavy freight trucks, over the less cording to the National Automobile eae e BEB coking. 06 at this charge in Detroit during the| congested highways. Chamber: of Commerce. Average Se re he kerivoeat bis tig: | first ten months of 1925, as com-, “Today highways are built wide - of fifty leading companies in this Hereg tema Ate al pared with 292 convictions in New| enough to make safe speeds of field gives losses of fess than ones pi The savings até tased.on an esti-| York City in the first nine months| thirty-five miles an hour,” says a of the year. This contract is glar- ing. It does not necessarily mean !that there were more intoxicated drivers in Detroit than there were in New York. It may very well | mean that Detroft is more keenly alive to the seriousness of the offense. « “The same explanation may ac- |count for the fact that there were 526 convictions in Boston on this |charge in 1925 and 293 in Wash- | ington, D. C., in the same period, as compared with 56 in Philadel- phia for the first seven months of the year and 184 for the whole of |the previous year. Otherwise we | would have to assume that Detroit, | Boston and the national capital are fparticularly notorious in this re- Convictions Lew | |_ “There were 732 arrests in New | York for the first nine months of last year, as compared with 282 convictions; that the convictions in Philadelphia were even proportion; that in Baltimore there lower in he argued. On highways with heavy congested traffic Stoeckel advocates that the speed rule: be that the average speed of the lin: is the reasonable speed for tha highway, the slowest vehicle set- ting the pace and passing from be- hind allowed. well-known car manufacturer. The current type of automobile, with four-wheel brakes and easy steer- ing, is flexible and secure at such speeds. Traffic regulations, on the other hand, are much the same as they were years ago when cars were not built to meet present day demands. In most states they ‘could be modernized to the benefit of every one. . “By failing to keep up the speed limit on country highways the slow driver causes a general of traffic which works a hardship on other drivers, causes ition and makes all driving muéh more dan, ite eth This driver who loafs ery aid fifteen miles an hour slows up - have the choi spect. ~ | dred: