Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1921, Page 57

THE AS:['.\'I)AY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH 6:-1921—PART 3 al type of construction should b sl ideal type of construction should Il ot N regate the traMic according to ai- commercia OIAIE strips_of concrete paving on either favor of the appropriation central- .U, side of a central parkway. While the ized on the plea that forty-three leg- committee as a whole agrecd that islatures were in session, and that this form of construction made for! —_— un! T xreater xpeed felt this desig J did not w GROVING SHFER Ratio of Fatalities to Number of Cars Cut to Half } Since 1914. 4 Automobile use is grow 1y safer. Official figurcs show & decline in the ratio of the number of cars in operat the federal government sup- | plicd additional money st once the {Apparently Assured Next| {24 nrgkgem i many states would 5 A ! Informatjor esented t Sen- Congress Will Consider In- | it e Mot terstate P'an. indicated tha on ber 4 e nEans SOTIl e ni dwelt upon the fact tha Plans Now Being Perfected | for Moce! Section of Lin- | coin Highway. There is T — @ poseibility that the idesl section 57 the Lincoln highway ‘will | ibe built in Indiana. : Both Pennsylvania and -Ohio have| greuter volum nate's re- | $47.000.000 had been paid out, al- made strong bids for his wouderful | the other, it was the SR crtder on the | (NOUEN other coutructs had been et Ve i s Plan.; post office appropriations bi 4 y senators took the stand tha practic & r construction, { This scetion, the funds for which!gion 000000 vated by the House long as the bulk of the money still it is understood :hat special consid-|have been furnished to the Lincoin| SHWILON voted By (RS HOWSe eration has been given (o the possi-|Highway Assoclation by the United| Without any restrictions other thamroad bullding program of the country iliti = tates Rubber Company, it is hoped ! now embraced in the federal aid road | wauld not e seriously interfered bilities in western Indiana. In decid be built this year. Detailed plans, | 4ct. Which has failed in variods di- { with by delaying consideration of {ing on the lecation ithe board of di-|fitting the weneral specifications Lo y ;“'fl”-" 'x‘: kood roads until the next Congress I rectors of the Lincoln Highway As-|ihe locatic ermined upon, will ataea e 1 $117.000.000 of foderal ained unaliotted, but th 400,000 total. nearly 000,060 s1ill remained in the t Xt nigh- | States Treasury November 30, 183 ction | The facts also disclosed thut oniy oposed plan of WAVE 15 now was predicted by the 1914, and have been reduce in 1919. Figures for the Detroit and > the former city regist to automobiles than in w York's toll was twenty- 919 mark cent in five to the | public i prob- fthined | in show that remained in the Treasury. that the 1 one less upon the situation. e A" of th hus sum Hoo the mud Lroing | The has boen " discussed & zh the organized motorists co- 007 T T ‘ |AUTO MAKES LIVING JOINS SALES FORCE. |, luc, ausuion ues veen tuincucen aiona) und { unriied wioh T AL MRS | 1 malL a0 it (he ppbipebeay i Srdiem o ! diana state b commission, and r ’-wr-'\l'fr\«el\ in urging the f‘ r:a:”“‘"‘m""-""}gun:, which are dependin, “T strenuous i 4 member of the association’s techpi-:ing a tangible ration of what | act, ere MOL i 0~ | ynon their counties to I ins of hazard. | IN SUBURBS PLEASANT A-(C. Rayner Goes WithiWelken | 1iCh T D o ond 11s brobanic thatlihe Tortmost Dishosey axthpriics o] /tire he recent legistative | nl s (5 inable them to cosoperate More playgrounds. more safety edu- 1 e Motor Company. further investigations will be made | the United States have agreed upon ;:g"r 5 “":lh were :5’:‘:‘4 ;h:‘lfléf‘ be | With * the federal government {n cation in the schoois, uniform traflic . immediately now that final plans fbr|as being adequate on main routes of | Al and ) A tate | building roads. Tt is high time that rules and regulations against over- |{Motor Car Makes Home at Out- A. C. Rayner, for the last vear with | JURTC A YAoK Lhat Coa on travel expended upon roads of interstale | p.us states which have failed to loading are among s . B . Ges York h of the White A 3 z . . importance, but the highway officials | fynction as states should wipe out which the National Auto skirts Just as Near in Point the New York branc ©| The technical committee, composed refused to insist upon such a pro- | Sehuey @ ol T O e T e ahy h Company. has joined the sales force |of the leading highway authoriti TRADE NOTES. vision or fo support the Townsend [ LNe\r, PADEr highway departments and . cased vigor ring the coming, of Time. of the Walker Motor Company, local | the United States, he third ;nrel»l i | idea of creating a commission to lay to build real roads, utilizing advan- . The N. A. C. C.. in urging these { /= 5 . o et tor e atacatie Ing at the University Club, Chicago.; The Hurley Motor Company, distribu- | out a national scheme of main roads | (2 2005 "Whatever Bid mey oome LA D e (e bt e o Walker Motor Company has | 4UFinE the good roads week there. Alty,r 'tor the Nash cars and trucks, have| connecting the several states. from the federal government, either active in 4 ve heen ens to Tive h , The Walker Motor P Y tera> | previous meetings in New York all s h $225,000 building | Reason for Opposition. in the form of entire cost und sub- than to stimulate any independent | suburt h just becn uanl:rlw::m':;ulv_n:d ‘"122 general specificatio with the ex-|moved to e:r new $225, uilding | What caused some opnosition. in|sequent maintenance Of interstate campaigns Jcondinia IS Jrederick, Md., and | ception of cross section des £n 'hadiat 140 and Churchstreet, which was| 1WAt caued some) onposttion. i | o R it in or pae Children Have Right fo Play. | °F Charlottesville, | been agreed upon and at the Chicago | recently completed millions appropriation * was the fear | present half-and-half arrangement Playerounds are a leading teature | n announcement { meeting attention centered OR gpe building is 45 feet on 14th street | that its unrestricted adoption would —— in this safety program, b 1 r © ! Wialker. viee pr x-“lhik feature. nd 160 on Church street 3 n the federal aid method upon r cent of all automobile Tiotor the su H of the compuny.| The comimittee agreed Upon a €oN-.in height, and fireproof. T an_indefinite period. Did your daughter marry i her rbm | {crete roadway forty feet in width as!is 45x60 feet. Curh re House didn't hes been?” i at bifie § A T representing a practical ideal design|on the first floor, heavy ing. parts | tate £ay he accord of s—Worse than that. He's ; formerly SeAR oS Ations are ' 10 handle economically. safely and ex- | and executive offices on the second, with | Senate wouid L1y this thing st-to-goodness “doesn't-want-! 1 narked dreds. of situations are - fously o traflic of 20,000 vehicles | storage on the third. Debated upon its merits, some- be.”—Life provide 3 S = ———— for them to j I 4 resuns i — e with edu | Detroit Al i 5 This bui | Woe be to the moforist who eare- | i o N, | i & social H given by the N. ~ into one of thexe signalx. | Ton work | Stimulus to ¥ trans 5 and to other national bodies endeavoring to reduce hazard i1 be Uniform Laws Needed. Tue is real 4 Many accidents are ciused by the rty has been made rules of t differcnt | nfusion 1 nction of the motor car The individual tea and in our daily iy your ‘The wiznal i lighted at | sphere of Fected bu legislatures this win contains provisions whi LE NOTES. w Company has been | safety of the interstate d This law also would requir + every vehicle must earry obligatory equip conducive to the safs this territor: zau of flu rk float to w ¥ of the tray 3 i ing public. This equipment con i of brakes in good working order horns or othe vices, reg. ulations conc and othe: safety specifi Attempts w ¥ will ex- in its Sl made to educate | aeti r working mode * the truck owner on the dangers of | he o] , ' overloading. Legal restrictions on this [at the bottom o : Eie el are helpful, but evasion is s ¢ | indicating pointer the 14 pot only the fac- | that the final appeal must be position on the outside of t ling and uniouding plat- user. Overloading injures ] and the float rikes the pro . e Gistributor in the Oakl 1o his new north Lo ' | [ i and shortens its life.” Ove Strip is rotated, causing the pointe highly dan to move around to the . to pedestrians, The friction should be . vehicle cannot minimum and a glass s a bottom bearing t coming th It is particularly .gratifying to us to announce thai, from a number of applicants in this city, we have been appointed Distributors of the new LELAND-BUILT LINCOLN Motor Cars cent when the truck is carrying more than Its r: at 100 pvr‘ i d burde: During the two decades of this history-making indus- As a crowning achievement, one has but to { try, it is doubtful whether any motor car has ever made observe their record both as to quantity and | such a profound impression and has been so enthusi- quality of Liberty aircraft motors. - | astically received. And to the Lelands is due a multitude of other things But when we analyze the reasons, and the facts behind —in manufacturing practices and in motor car refine- the LincoLw car, it is not at all difficult to understand. ment—some seeming small in themselves perhaps, but Entering the industry practically at its inception, almost limitless in their influence and incalculable in Henry M. Leland and Wilfred C. Leland soon became their value in making motor cars the wonderful mechan- important factors in developing and refining the motor ~ isms they are today. car, and in the development of the industry as a whole. In July, 1917, the Lelands severed their associdtions They strove unceasingly to make motor cars better, with the motor car industry in order to build Liperty to make them more trustworthy, to make them more Aircraft Motors for the Allied Fighting Forces. enduring, to make them more practical, to make them a Without plant or equipment, but solely upon their source of greater comfort, to provide greater conven- 04" Cen manufacturers, they were first to receive iences, to make them more roadable; in short, to make the Government’s award for the building of these their possession more desirable from every viewpoint. otors. As you recall the important developments which have They organized the Lincoln Motor Company, and marked the real epoch-making penods in motordom, within a few months they had erected a mammoth you will find it difficult indeed to recall examples more J), 0%\ 4 cquipped it with millions of dollars worth of impressive or more far-reaching in their influence upon the finest machinery and tools that could be devised. th ire industry than these, i ted by th 2 Leelarelgg':adl nthz‘i"r grg;n?:atiosze—— NS 2] Before the w;r Cllosed they had Csmfbil;::;dt;hzm 9 : . f producing the largest quantity o t the first practical, enduring car, made in large : g/lo‘:)rs tur:g et b;gany gf e oaliakars i nur;:lber.;‘; h dardit di h in that work. ANNOUNCEM EN I ab?]ic t‘ot?ro:rgts.stan Iationans It ange: The war at an end, it was perfectly logical that the 44yl Lelands should re-enter the field in which they had close and fine’ workmanship, expressed by accuracy measured in thousandths of an inch and even in fractions of a thousandth; the initial adoption in motor car workmanship of the Johanssen gauges, accurate to the one- earned such enviable distinction. ) .In the light of past achievements it was only logical to expect that they would produce a car embodying rare refinements a.ndhma{lked devclfopmen Tl‘l car lthat 7 g would truly reflect the character of men who have long m,’,tffi,tfi"fii‘:‘fldfi'; ‘t;n:;:c ;‘:;lbl? s;;l}; - been recognized as foremost exponcnts'ol advanced ld?as. wonderful precision;. In the light of past achievements, it was otnhly lloglcal scientific practices and methods in manufac- to expect that the men who had.pro‘;iu%e.d e ;f'!::et ture, which made possible a car of highest qual- number of truly high grade cars in the history i i ilh industry should now envolve just such a car as the new ;'z’:zo:n;:::blt: epnwf:‘l;::low BISYASNE tares LEeLanD-BUILT LiNcoLN has proven itself to be. We Are New Washington Distributors for the Nationally Known Davis Six THE Davis Six, nationzlly known for twelve years as one of the really great motor cars of America, is now sold in Washington. Models and Prices We nrc' prn'ud to have brought this splendid car to Washington and we are proud of our i ey oion '::‘:m‘_"z::ct:i"m ‘;:‘h ;"'If ‘:"f:r'fh“f 2L the electrical system of starting—lighting— Our demonstrator is here and it remains merely . 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