Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1921, Page 68

OTORS and ing the war years of 1917 and 1918, should be so valueless that it can be used for making roads is due to the collapse of the co h and early 192 ecently, howover. there a sharp revival and the cotton-grow- ing industry in the Imperial vllhy, as elsewhere, is on the IlDlWlnl. TRACTION COMPANY USES BUS LINES AS AUXILIARY AKRON, Ohlo, October 15.—An In- teresting experiment in urban trans- portation is about to be started by Dhe street car company at Akron, “the capital of the rubber world.” The Northern ‘Ohio Traction and - As Expected— Pennsy Great Carelessness on Part of Motorists. In its efforts to prévent grade-cros ing accidents, the Pennsylvania ra road recently made a test at a ci ing over the Lincoin highway inj southern Pennsylvania. This test, which was made by a member of the Investigators Find | - | MR. HENRY LUKINS, THE KNOWN 'FLIVVER SAL TELLS HOW HE DOE! \VI‘LL‘ fAN, o o re asking Mr. | As so many people Lukins evers day how he ever man- to sell so many flivvers, he h ided to give this exclusive inter- | : Puncture. | Y Mr. Lukins, from approaching people at the right time. Anybody ean take 2 order for a car, but the problem is finding the person to take the order | railroad’s safety first organization.|from. Most of my cars are sold on showed that on the average one in,rainy da My method is to visit f eveles the street corners where people wait three automobiles and motor cycles ot ' to take the street ¢ approached the crossing at reckless speed. s . 3 cep. | Waliting sometimes have to stand in The crossing selected for the obser-{ yp.ryin for half an hour. It is e i always a ¥ mornins: owd on the the people | vations is feet west of Fort Lou- ! {o understand then that when 1 come don station on the South Penn branch | of the Cumberland valley' division. { The view for drivers of automobiles going west is obstructed until they | are almost right on the tracks. eastbound drivers the view i what better. but it hy no me fords a clear lookout for appro trains. Makes List of Speeders. A stop watch was used by the safe- ty firs€ observer. He took the num bers of only those motor vehicle which approached the crossing at cessive spee Between 12:30 and 3:10 p.m. thirty- four license numbers were noted from the ninety-nine cars which pa over the crossing. Of the fort | east, fourteen, and of the fifty-nine going west. twenty were observed to st The nd | il- along with a pocketful of sedans coupes 1 don’t have much trouble . {ing them.” #peed of the thirty-four cars reported | r. Lukins is sald to have sold as| was twenty-five miles an hour. Faree! many as seventy-five cars in one of the machines were traveling at!morning in this way. HE was ulso thirty miles an hour or better. The! zoing to sell them on the street c lowest speed recorded was nineteen ; but the companies would not allow it miles an hour. | The driver of a motor eyele, when! ¢piqi RECENTLY ERECTED within twenty-five feet of the cro ing, was observed to turn his head converse with the passenger riding in | the side car. | In accordance with the general pol- = icy of the Pennsylvania railroad to; TIRES. Drevent gradelcrossing accidents.post- cards have been mailed througi: the state highway commissioner's olflr»\ to those owne of the thi vehicles who in Penns { TO THE MEMORY OF HAM SINGER, THE MULTI-MILLIONAIRE ~WHO | GOT RICH SELLING S ND-HAND | “Are you hurt?" asked the kind| live After giving the place. date and hour of the observation, the postcard reads: i Warning Rends. | “Not in a spirit of criticism, but| rather with the view of conservingi life, it is earnestly requ vou | approach grade crossing under _control and look in both direc tions hefore crossing the tracks. 'l)llA simple precaution. if practiced by | all, would sav < of lives in| the United State, r i The Teverse side of the card shows| a locomotive running down an uulu-l How Safety mobile on a grade crossing. Under- neath the picture is the inscription, | “Seven thousand deaths and injuries | yearly at railroad grade ihe United States.” A supply of these “safety first cards has been distributed to each | divisional superintendent on the| Pennsylvania system for use by per- | sons designated to observe careless| automobile driver: i e Transformation of the old Cadillac ' plant, which is now the home of the i Collina Motor Car Company, is being | rapidly accomplished, the car itself is. been hit by her limousine. nearing the final stages in the en-| “Well" raid the young man a gineers' hands and production is ex- ! felt himself over for broken bon can't s: don't think it done me no good.” crossings in lady of the young man who had just! neclnl to start shortly after January and Charles Counties of Maryland. FABRIC CASING RED TUBES REGULAR REGULAR SIZE PRICE SALE PRICE PRICE SALE PRICE # 30x3 15.20 9.24 2.64 1.65 30x3Vz o 19.20 11.67 3.08 " 31x4 24.00 14,59 3.76 Fabncs CORD CASING g i 6,000 at the above prices. filled same day received. chase and return lires unused. :“DRIVE A JORDAN” WEEK. Campaign to Begin Tomorrow and i Price of Car Has Been Reduced. With the receipt of the new Jordan by the Walker Motor Company, } Connect di fay, starting tomorrow. Following the announcement of nwl | new statement vice \\«lkt or Company. of a $155 tralls and country roads. drop ir pr his price is to take| So. in order to make satisfactory effect immediately. Coupled with the | $600 reduction | reasonable he the “Lcountry ¢ that I'm really hurt, but I having a maximum cylinder capacity of SPECIAL SALE Sterling - & Tires - FOR A LIMITED TIME THE MANUFACTURERS of Sterling Tires have appointed us distributors for their tires in the District ?f Columbia, and Loudoun, Prince William, Fairfax and Alexandria Counties of Virginia, and Montgomery, Prince Georges They are co-operating with us on our initial order of $25,000 worth of tires, so that we can make an introduc- tory offer on these standard, nationally-known, hand built tires at prices never before equaled for quality merchandise. During this sale you can purchase cords for less than you have been paying for good fabric tires. Full factory guarantee backed up by our personal guarantee. All New Goods—Latest Construction—Reinforced Side Wall—Locked-in Bead 2000 = 24.00 24.50 25.00 ltwillpayyunlobuylym’lmpplynfthuhru Mail orders accompanied by cash, check or money order Money refunded if you are dissatisfied with your pur- 125-St at Penna. Ave.NW Washingim REDNICK WILLIAMS TIRE THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. URGE FEWER SIZES INTIRES AND RINS |Automobile Engineers Devise Plan to Reduce Costs for Makers and Dealers. - Automobile englneers have declded to use fewer sizes of tires and rims as original equipment on passenger cars in the future. The reduction in the num- ber of sizes will result in_decreased costs to the tire and automobile manu- fucturers, to the dealer and to the suto- mobile user, as less money will be tied up in machinery and finished products. The sizes which will not be used in future production are the 32x3%. 33x4 and 33x4%-in. rim sizes and 32x3 33x4 and 33x41-in. regular, and 33x4, X435 and 34Xi-in. oversize tires. The 30x3%-in. straight-side rim and the 31x . oversize straight-side tire, which have not been considered standard sizes in the past, will be used in the future. Automobile engineers have by this ac- tion limited themselves to the usc of five rim sizes and nine tire sizes for passcnger cars and the same number for motor trucks. . The action has been taken by the S. A. E. tire and rim committee, members of which represent the Rubber Associa- tion of America, the National Autom bile Chamber of Commerce and the So- ciety of Automotive Engineers. The recommendation is still to be ap- | proved by the National Automobile | Chamber of Commerce and the Society | of Automotive Enginerrs, but as it has | met with the approval of the Rubber Association of America and of the auto- mobile enginecrs interested, its final ap- proval is assured. IMPERIAL VALLEY ROADS ARE PAVED WITH COTTON | | Constantly Shifting Sandy Soil Has Presented Problem Now Solved by Unusual Method. Roads paved with cotton—veritable | fleece-lined highways—are the latest {thing in the west The fact that Old King Cotton had been relegated to this lowly though extremely useful duty was not gen- jerally known, even in California, {where the “cotton boulevard" idea scems to have originated, until the | discovery was made a short time ago by a road-scouting party down in l? Imperial valley. 300,000, the Dodge Brothers car used by the Albertson Motor Com- pany. dealer in Los Angeles, was go- ing through the valley on her regu- larly -appointed task of finding new points of interest for tourists, when | a_snow-white road suddenly loomed ahead of the tedious sandy path over which the car had been pulling for | 1517 | hours. The driver was perplexed, | 517land {t was not until he got out and | local | made an examination that he found | | the explanation. It was a carpet of | cotton, stretching as far beyond him as he could see. Off the highways the roads of Tm- vicinity of Indio, 1919 are time Who asked him how was it, “I want to make money; I know a fellow who does it.” "Tis with hard work alone That successes are made, And Oscar was a boy I Who meant what he said. It took him some wears And the plugging was hard, But the job that he got Was a handsome reward. Oscar now has a job, We are pleased to relate, As an automobile horn On a Cadillac eight. ut avenue northwest, stributers for the Jordan and La-| “drive a Jordan” week | 1 be inaugurated by that company, 1 and lhrn\lK!mul alley in gene poor, the constantly ummnz sandy soil preventing the wearing of line of Jordan cars comes the| from J. rtiss Walker, and manager of the; president it nication, the farmers have found that Taw cotton makes an excellent sur- face for automobile and teams alike, | It was found that many other roads | which braneh ‘off the main highways | lcading to the farms and ranches were similariv “paved.” The cotton, pods seem to bed down in the sand of | the road and give a good traction sur- face, especially for light automobile traffic. That cotton, maker of fortunes dur- ast May, a total of is taken off the purchase price iis car in one v { roads for the purpose of intercommu- ( ! | A report that seems to have some ! basis of authority tells| world that in 1923 racing in this will be done with engines cubic inches. i B C., OCTOBER 16, 1921—PART 3. Light Company is constructing three twenty-five-passenger buses, finished in similar style to the standard make of street car and shod on pneumatic ket In late has been | operation at once on Akron streets not now traveled by street cars, Akron Is a city which has made tre- mendous growth In the last decade. It grew from 69,000 to 208,000. The de- mand for war production and the sub- sequent stimulus in the post-war years, together with rising costs of bullding car lines and operating them, brought a severe strain on the street car company. In this emergency, hundreds of jit- ney lines sprang up, running in some cases on streets in competition with the traction company, and on other streets where the car line did not tires, and is planning to put them in | ate, supplementing the car| The new Michigan law covering au- n tomobile tities is in effect. Under its > Northern Ohlo Traction Com- |provision no license for car or truck ¥ 10w proposes o try out the use | will be issued unless the application © on a large scale in certaln 18 acccmpanied by a certificate of ‘l 1Y s of the city where the car |title, properly filled out. lines do not run, and the experiment of carrying passengers by rubber tires rather than stecl-shod wheels The Potomac Battery Corporation, 11 be watched with Interest by trac- local distributors for Prest-O-Lite ion munagers and city officials all | batteries, have moved to their new |and spacious quarters at 1236 14th |over the country. The traction officfals feel that with|street northwest. They were formerly located at 1720 14th street northwest. {a centralized control, regular sched ules and well bulit closed cars they | Leverett D. Dorsey, formerly con- can furnish more satisfactory service nected with the Tulas Motor® Com- to the people than has been done by |pany, the Lambert-Hudson Company the various independent jitney lines. |and the Hurley Motor Company, is The regular five-cent fare, with uni- | now with the Barry-Pate Motor Com- versal transfer to street car lines, will |pany, Inc, local Chevrolet dis- be charged on these buses. | tributors. Nash Leads the World in Motor Car Value Nash Four Reduced to $1045 f- 0. b. Milwaukee Effective Immediately This Car at This Price Is by Far the Most Remarkable Motor Car The Nash Four was designed, built and pérfected as a light-weight, high-quality car and created a new standard of value at its original price of $1395. From the first public recognition of the wonderful worth embodied in the Nash Four kept the demand always far ahead of our steadily increasing production. Production Maké New Prices Possible Now this production has reached a vol- ume where by handing this car to buyers practically at cost we are able to make this new price effective immediately. Like money has never before purchased such great value in a high grade light motor car. In every quality of appearance, comfort and performance this car displays its commanding supremacy and expresses that superior excellence which so con- spicuously and invariably distinguishes a Nash-built product. The beautiful body, finished in dark, Value in America Today lustrous blue, is unusually roomy. The thick upholstery of its wide, restful seats is of finest materials. Superior in Every Outstanding Quality The famous Nash Perfected Valve-in- Head Four-Cylinder Motor, the acknowl- h edged performer among light-four engines, is now refined to the last degree. Its wonderful acceleration, fine speed, power onthe hills and unusual flexibility in throttling down, leave it without a rival in its field. Remarkable Riding Comfort The unusual spring suspension of this great Nash Four gives a riding ease which equals that of far more expensive cars of greater wheel base. See This Car Today— Drive It Then you will recognize by how wide a margin it surpasses all the other light cars. It is the outstanding automobile value today—a real leader in the auto. mobile industry. NEW NASH FOUR PRICES Nash Four Touring $1045 Nash Four Roadster $1025 Nash Four Coupe $1645 Nash Four Sedan $1835 £. 0. b. Milwaukes HURLEY MOTOR CO., INC. 15221524 14th Street N.W. 09- lu Clthtdr.l Street, Bnlumora. 7 Ma. 11 :l ny Blnllun. Vl. Birvon-Nash Motor Co. DEALERS R. L. Waters Germantown, Md. -Nash Clarendon, Va. ‘Wilson: Motors Co. 134 Mt. Royal Ave., Baltimore, Md. Guy R. McGliney Herdon, Va.