Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1921, Page 66

The motorist who has driven INGENIOUS DEVICES ' FOR MOTOR SAFETY Contributions ~of School Teachers and Pupils Aid “ in Movement. Many. ingenious safety ideas are being advanced as a result of the national safety campaign being con- ducted under the auspices of the highway and highway, transport edu- cation committee. These suggestions come in lessons and essays being prepared by teachers and pupils as their contributions to, the two con- tests which form a part of the move- ment. Organizations sponsoring the cam- paign anticipate an appreciable de- crease in the number of motor acci- dents and fatalities which annually take a toll of 10,000 lives, due to the educational work being conducted in virtually every classrooqn in the United States. = It is estimated that more than half of the 1,000,000 teach- ers in the country and a large per- centage of the 18,000,000 pupils are interested in the committee’s pro- gram. Many of these, it is believed, will have submitted their essays and lessons by the time the contest closes. Suggests Giant Pantomime. One lesson submitted by a teacher provides for a giant pantomime, in which all the pupils of her classropm participate. This pantomime will be executed in her school as part of the observance of “national safety week,"” December 4 to 10. Another lesson devotes part of each day to a particular phase of safety work. On Monday the children are taught how to cross the street car tracks, on Tuesday how to avoid automobiles while crossing _streets, on Wednesday the fact is emphasized that they should refrain from cross- ing in the middle of the block. Moun- tain roads form the subject for Thursday, while danger signals are discussed at the Friday lesson. Toy models, said to be especially appropriate for teaching children in the junior grades, are used in this lesson. New slogans are coming into exis- tence. “It pays to play safe,” “Cross at the crossing,” “Dare to be careful,” and similar phrases are among those suggested. 1 Boy Scouts Ald. Officials of the committee report that the Boy Scouts are taking an exceptionally active part in the safety campaign. Mayors of cities are issu- ing proclamations setting aside the week of December 4 to 10 for special observance, while Kiwanis Clubs, Ro- tary Clubs, women's clubs, and others are planning to devote their weekly luncheons and meeting to a discussion of the problems of safety as they apply to their respective com- munities. Dr. John T. Tigert, United States Commissioner of Education, indorses the program of the committee in an open letter to the schools of the country. In the November fissue of School Life, the official publication of the bureau of education, Doctor Tigert says: “The loss of life of school child-en on our highways has reached such proportions that it now competes with fire as our great national dan- ger. This tragic development which {has followed the almost universal j use of the motor vehicle for busines: and for pleasure lays a responsibility on teachers, as well as puplils, for the protection of life. - Accidents Can Be Cut. “The work of educators in cities {like Detroit, Cleveland and St. Louis {shows that accidents and death may be reduced fully one-half by téaching the children how to protect them- selves. - “It therefore behooves our teachers and parents to give more attention to the training.of .boys and girls on €7 Pt = a Buick longest is the one who appreciates Buick most Winter and summer Buicks travel over every kind . and condition of road. They go through miles of mud at a stretch—travel for hours over sands and plow their way through heavy srowdrifts. You can al\\'a_\'é depend on Buick. IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Four Cylinder Twe-pasn. Roadster Five-pass. Touring The above are prices deliv- ered in Washington. Three-pass. Roadster Five-pass. Touring. . STANLEY H. HORNER Retail Dealer 1015 14th Street N.W. Telephone Main, 5296 WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK WILL BUILD THEM - We Lost Your Good Will i If our service station burned " “down we’d get the insurance. 1 7 If burglars stole our cash, we Lcpuld borrow some. = jhow to conduct themselves on th e 3 ost that part of our hifl::x:y& td'fh mamounces e contests under direction of the business called GOOD WILL, high®ay and highway transport education committee will serve as an incentive to great effort on the part of the teachers and pupils 4n com- bating this new danger, and$t is to we could get it back again only through months, or passibly years, of the hardest kind of jbe hoped that by these means {he B : {lives of many of our childrefi will be work. saved who otherwise might be Py S maimed and killed. That’s why we say GOOD nearh shureau of e:ucauan also b 2 e eartily approves of the observance . WILL is the most valuable thing of “safety week” with speclal ref- erence to safety on the highwiys, as . ’z we own. 5 : has ‘been . planned by ‘the gayeral : . states.” Ak oo Our promptness and thorough- \ ness will show you, if you come AUTO ITEMS. | ! Exports of motor cars and trucks to in, how much we value your Mexico for the first eight nths of GOOD WILL. 5 1921 are 237 per cent of the same period last year, says United States Authorized Department of Commerce, General business is langulshing in Johannesburg, but there is an up- ward trend in the demand for motor cars, with.country districts display- ing. more interest, according to the { Natlonal Bank of South Africa, Ltd. - [ acNo one will steal & horce today. |according to the New York Sun. The Horse Thief Detecting Society of Mamakating, Wallkill and Crawford, N. Y. has been abandoned. The twenty-one members of the society will split $1.400 in the treasury, which has . remained unexpended because there’ are no horse thieves: left to catch. Two hundred and sixty-thrée thou- sand nine hundred new automobiles ‘Willard Service Stations Bradburn Battery & Elec. Service 616 Pa. Ave, S.E. Lincoln 1430-J Modern Auto Supply H St. N.E. 97 Lincoln 3896 The John A. Wineberger Co., Inc. ’i © 3700 Ga. Ave. N.W. Columbla 565 will be bought by readers of tne Lit- ¥ p t, according to a survey Smith's Battery & Elec. Service Sttt . gazine subscription list. e MmN Bortiv:0azs Thirty-seven per cent of these will be E. J. Penning persons. who ‘did not own a car in . N.W. . Boston gives promise of lead- 140 1en: 8t N-W Nerth 7838 ing the list of buyers, with Chicago Standard Service Station in line for second honors. 5th & R Sts. N.W. h 9681 Charles Seeger, Harvard, '08, com- poser and brother of Alan Seeger, Brookland Garage late war poet, has become a motor- 1000 Mich. Ave. N.E. North 1021 ized ministrel, according to the New York Times. He and his wife, who is a violinist, have been touring the country with their three boys in an automobile with caravan trailer. They have been giving concerts along the broad highway from North Carou’u to_Maine. 3 ® Motor vehicles are buildingmap the schools in North Carolina, in the opin- ion of the Fayetteville Observer. “Who evér thought,” this paper ob- serves, “that education and' gasoline would hitch up together tn the cause of the country school? Ang yet such has come to pass in the consolidated school plan. The children of the dis- trict are conveyed to and. -from theé school in motor trucks, called ‘kid wagons,” which hold comfortably from twenty to twenty-five children.” Motor -buses are being operated by highly organized methods, reports a London dispatch to the Boston News Bureau. There are 5,000 omni- buses in regular operation in Eng- land, carrying twenty-five to thirty persons, with an average speed of twlenty miles'per hour. “They make fourteen-days trips through Wales at a charge of $112. They are bpow tak- ing passengers from-London to the Scottish Highlands, a seventeen-day trip, with the best hotel se?vice, for a fare of $150. YA There are 600 motor trucking com- panies in Great Britain, according to the Boston News Bureau. Some carry freight for distances of over 100 miles at a lower rate than the railroads. ——e 263,900 Car Buyers. Two hundred and sixty-three thou- sand nine hundred new.automobiles will be bought by readers: of the Literary Digest, according to a sur- vey of the magazine ‘subs Hon 1ist. Thirty-seven per cent of these will be persons who did not own a car ‘in 1920. Boston gives promise of leading the list of buyers, with Chicago in line for second honors. < MAIN STATION Washington Battery Co. Qs 1621-23 L STREET N.W. .Near Grand Rapids'a memorial has been erected to Michigan’s first busi- ness woman, Mme. La. Eramboise, who successfully managed a trading post in the Grand river valley more 100 years ago. . v THE SUNDAY -STAR QUESTIONS - AND ANSWERS [** & —_— . - H r FOR THE AUTOMOBILISTS Answers to Last Week’s Questions. 1. Although specific zravity read- ings of a storage battery should be made when testing the battery, the readings should not be relied upon gn- tirely as indicating the battery's con- dition. For instance, a battery may show a hydrometer reading of 1275 to 1,300, the proper indication for a fully charged battery, but the same battery may drop rapidly in voltage while ‘used in the car. This would be caused by the condition of the plates within the battery, either in one or more cells, or of the individual sets of plates, either positive or negative. If only a few plates are defective, the battery may prove satisfactory for or- dinary use, but will become weakera If a latger number of plates or an en- tire set are weak, the battery will not possess energy enough to deliver stead- fly the full amount of current de- manded of it. 2. If the spark is not advanced when engine speed is accelerated, the result would be loss of power. As the fuel charges in cylinders require time to fully ignite, the spark occurring late would not explode the charges soon enough to expand and exert their greatest power before the . piston be- gan its downward stroke. Therefore part of each power stroke in the en- gine would be lost, when that part should be the most powerful. 3. The rear cantilever spring is mounted to the car with its center at- tached to a bearing on the car frame, the forward end of. the spring is shackled and the rear end attached to the rear axle. The _semi-elliptic spring, used mainly for front springs of a car, is shackled at hoth ends and fastened to the axle at'the cen- ter. The elliptic consists of two ! | | | being | pipe are objectionable, as it woyld likely oreate back-pressure or pre- vent the free escape of burned gases passed out from the cylinders. Back- pressure cugs down the power of an engine by mixing with the fresh charge of fuel and therefore should be avoided. . Change of speeds of a car is made possible through tke transmission by meshing in turn various sized gears. For low speed a gear on the main shaft is shifted into mesh with a smaller gear on the countershaft. For second speed a smaller main shaft, gear is meshed with a larger countershaft gear. For high speed in most cases the same sliding gear: used for providing second speed is again used, this time the gear belng brought into mesh with the main driving gear. Whep the two are locked together the drive is direct, or through the main shaft only, when the shaft leading to the rear axle revolves at the same speed as the en- gine ctankshaft. . 6. A dual ignition system consists of two systems of ignition, a mag- neto and a battery and coil, inde- pendent of each other, but both fir- ing the same set of spark plugs. Double ignition - {s two independent ignition systems, each having its own set of spark plugs. Two-spark igni- tion is a system having one source of current, such as a magneto with two distributers and two sets of spark plugs which are both fired at the same time. The double system can be operated to fire either one or both spark plugs in a cylinder at a time. 7. Wash away the mud which fills the spaces between cells of a radiator as soon as possible. These spaces the means of cooling the water as. it passes through the radiator, they should be kept free from clogging or overheating of the engine may Tresult. When cleaning springs bowed in away from each other. The top part or spring is fastened to the car frame at the epring’s center, the bottom spring secured at the center to the rear axle and ends of both springs are fastened together. The latter type was formerly used to a great extent as a rear spring, and occasionally as a front spring. 4. Exhaust pipes of an engine are extended as straight as possible from the radiator direct a_stream of water from a hose through the cells from the rear toward the front—never the opposite way. Water directed from the front of the car toward the in- side of the hood may temporarily prevent the ignition system from functioning, by soaking the .wires and short-circuiting the system. 8. Alth may be cl time when the car is driven. it may engine to muffler. Sharp bends in the SYSTEM OF COOLING Car Owners’ Attention Di- rected to Safety Measures Needed in Winter. “With the approach of winter, at- tention to the cooling system of cars is required by automobile owners,” says the Studebaker company. “This, of course, is especially true in north- ern climates where the rigors of cold weather are experlenced, and owners should take precautions, because carc- lessness or forgetfulness may mean trouble. The question of anti-freeze solutions, therefore, becomes impor- tant. . Three Substances in Use. “There are three substances in gen- eral use for making anti-freeze so- lutions, each of which can be pre- pared by the owner himself and used without having to consult the pro- fessional mechanic. Alcohol is prob- ably the most popular of all anti- freeze agents, Glycerin has proven very effective, but its cost during the war made Its use almost prohibitiv to the ordinary owner. Calcium- chloride is perhaps the most easily prepared solution of all and, for that reason, is widely used. But to my mind it is absolutely wrong. Cal- cium-chloride is a mighty dangerous solution to use. The commercial prod- AUTOS ESSENTIAL I moved easily? still become discharged if much night driving is done, or if the start- er is used too frequently. The rate of discharge and the length of time that the battery was being discharged would exceed the amount of charg- ing, resulting in weakening the bat- tery. 9. The three-quarter floating axle used in many cars of today was de- vised as a compromise between the half and full floating types, and pos- sesses some advantages of both the latter. The two former types were in use first, the former coming into exist- ence only in late years. 10. The burned or blackened ap- pearance of a commutator in an elec- tric generator may be caused by high mica between the copper segments of the commutator, by wrong size of brushes, brushes too loose or short- circuited winding of the generator. 1An overload on the generator or an open circuit may also cause the trouble. This Week's Questions. 1. Should an engine start harder or require more time in cranking in cold weather than when it is warm? 2. When the starter continues to revolve after the starter button is re- {leased. what is the trouble? 3. How often should brushes of a generator be exaflined or cleaned? 4. Should a_ new car's engine be drained of oil and cleaned oftener than an engine which has had a great deal of use? 5. What is brake horsepower of an engine? ’ 6. Can a straight side tire be mount- ed_on a clincher rim? 7. What can be used to clean brake bands and remedy their squeaking? 8. How can sparkplug threads be treated so that the plug can be re- How tightly should the plug fit the cylinder? 9. What is meant by “loading up” of a carburetor? 10. How can better cushioning be obtained from tires, without deflating them below the specified number of pounds pressure required? (Copyright. 1921. Thomnson Feature Service.) uct, sold in solid form or in aqueous solutions as. an anti-freeze mixture. | is highly injurious because of the action on the components of the cool- ing system. Such alkaline solutions are productive of an electrical action wherever two dissimilar metals are utilized. such as the brass tubing of a radiator and the solder used at the Joints, the iron water jackets and the brass or copper plates. It is! strongly advised against the use of | all soluble salts because of their harmful action on. the metal. “A summary of the opinions of mo- tor car manufacturers as to the value of varjous anti-freeze solutions shows a_decided preference for alcohol and glycerin. Neutral alcohol does not act on metal or on the rubber con- nections. But the alcohol in the so- lution will evaporate more rapidly | than the water.+ The solution should be watched carefully and the alco- hol replenished from time to time. One Solution Found Adequate. “If 96 per cent alcohol is used, the following solution will be found ade- quate for all ordinary temperatures: Aleo'l Water by by vol. vol.approx. Spec. grav. Wil freese at 1 part s 0.97 10° above zero ipart 2 parts 0.96 Zero i lpart 1part 0935 20° below zero | “Neutral glycerin does not act on metal, but does act on rubber connec- tions. If used the hose connections should be examined frequently to pre- vent _disintegration and consequent leaks. It can be prepared as follow: Glsc'e Water by by vol. vol. approx. Spec. grav. Will freeze at Tpart 3 parts 108" 10° above zero Ipart 2 parts 110 Zero 2parts 3 parts 113 20° below sero “It has been found that the un- bleached variety of glycerin, which may be procured at practically any grng store, is not only cheapest, but est.” —_— , Indian Curios. From the Brooklyn Standard Union. The Hudson Bay Company has pur- chased the collection of Eskimo relics and Indian curios owned by Dr. W. E. Anderson of Portage la Prarie. The collection consists of more than 500 pieces of the handiwork of many tribes, including Crees, Blood, Piegan, | Sarces, Sioux, Chippewyan, Locheux | and the Eskimos of the western Arctic coast. H The acquisition of these relics by the | company with the Dagg collection of Calgary, which was purchased last, fall, and the specimens gathered by ¥. D. Wilson at old fur posts of the interior in 1920, will become the nuc- leus of a museum to be established by the Hudson Bay Company in Win- nipeg. For 200 years the history of the Hudson Bay Company was the history of western Canada. Under its charter granted in 1670 by King Clarles IL .the company until 1870, when it sur- rendered its rjghts to the government, owned in fee simple practically ali western Canada. When it closes out to farm_settlers all the rich lands_re- | majning to it south of the North Sas- katchewan river in the prarie prov-, inces— some 3,000,000 acres—the last i vestiges of its old empire wjll have passed out of its possession. Dreary Outlook. From the Philadelphia Inquiref. An unhappily. married Scot was- met by a friend, who said: “Mon, Sandy, this is an awfu’ thing that has’ befallen you. It's’a great pity. that your wife has gone and left you." “Deed, mon,” said Sandy, waur than that yet.” Y dae than that replied Sandy, “What waur can sl “She’ll come back,” ruefully. Right on ‘the Job. From the Minneapolis Tribune. / “Just because she was married a woman the other day undertook to lec- ture me on the way I ought to behave.” “Why didn’t you tell her to mind her own business?” *“She’ll say that was what she was doing—you see, she was my wife.’ AUTO GLASS ‘WINDSHIELDS OR_BOD] Installed While You W‘lt.m Taranto & Wasman I.l"’m Y_glx AVE. N.W. WORN TIRES RETREADING They give_service_equc® to new SPECIAL PRICES Including Goodyear, All- ‘Weather, Non-Skid Tread S0 32x3Yz $9.00 34xdl; 23x4 $§10.00 35x4%> $15.00 33x4 $1050 36x4%; $16.00 34x4 $1100 33x5 $16.00 32x4Y; $12.00 35x5 $17.00 33x4Yz $13.00 37x5 $18.00 Three Day Service if Deslred The REEBILT TIRE Co., Inc. 1623 14th Street N.W. Specially Designed for FORD CARS Exide Service Station Factory Branch 1823-33 L St. N.W. SPECIAL FOR NOVEMBER California Tops and Craftsmen Finish Convert your touring car or roadster into a closed.car. See us and have us explain the craftsmen finish for cars before painting your car. _ Our. painting and” trimming department is now prepared to give ydu an estimate. The Acme Auto Top Company 1421 Irving St. N.W. Phone Col. 5216 WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 27, 1921-PART 3. LESMEN NO LONGER DEPENDENT ON TRAINS Traveling Men Take to Light Autos—Not Afraid of Strikes. If there is any one branch of en- deavor apparently at the mercy of efficient train service it would appear to be the traveling salesmen. Yet, in the opinion of Harry Olmstead, local Dort dealer, the. average traveling representative has made himself strikingly independent of railroad service. Here are his reasons for this belief: “The threatened strike was naturally the subject of much discussion and when the matter was touched upon the other day I was surprised to find one of the party I knew to be a travel- ing salesman did not seeme-to be in the least perturbed a8 far as his business wus concerned. Naturally I asked him what he expected to do in the event of a rail tieup and his re- ply was that he expected to keep right on going. “According to this man’s story the traveling fraternity, and particularly that portion of it whose territory is in any degree compact, has long ago solved the transportation problem with the ald of the motor car. Con- OR yourself COUPE. Wint driverso f these ! very reasonable. 1 i i 1840 14th St. 1529-31 M St. 215 Pennaylvania. line.” Read the UNIVERSAL AUTO COMPANY, Inc. DONOHOE MOTOR COMPANY TRIANGLE MOTOR COMPANY N. Y. Ave. at N. Capitol St STEUART’S GARAGE, 141-151 12th St. N.E. These Dealers Can Sell Ford Cars, Tractors, Parts, Etc, Anywhere in the United States. tinually increasing railroad rate) with continually greater automobile|[f economy and enforced wailg on train schedules have automatically forced the issue. Literally thousands of traveling salesmen today have found a light, low cost car the best invest- ment they could make and not only is this true of individuals, but of large companies which have purchased whole fleets of cars for the use of salesmen. “Consequently, not nearly so many salesmen are found swapping stories in the smoker or waiting on the plat- form of the railroad station. You now ' encounter them seated comfortably | behind the wheel of an uutomobile, running their own roads, setting thein own schodules, covering more terri- There are five Stutz tory in fewer hours and at a great | 8aving in time and expense. | SR Ry e e models—a car for every The myrtle and the leck are re-| i garded as luck bringers, and in ||| Tequirement. Wales they say a leek growing on a wall will keep off witches. |CORD TIRES | CHAS. E. MILLER, Inc. 812 14th St. 4 Doors North of H St.| Immediate delivery. Motor Company of Washingt 24th and M Sts. N.W. Wext 710 An ldeal Xmas Gift! , for your family, for vour business. Noth- ing could be more sensible nor afford more pleasure Christmas morning than a EORD SEDAN or FORD er’s snows or icy blasts hold no terrors for snug closed-in cars. The credit terms are See one of these dealers at once. Authorized Washington Ford Dealers R. L. TAYLOR COMPANY HILL & TIBBITTS 14th St. & Ohlo Ave. N.W. PARKWAY MOTOR ‘COMPANY 1065-1067 Wisconxin Ave. ROBEY MOTOR COMPANY 1429 L. St. N.W. STROBEL MOTOR COMPANY, Inc. 1425 Irving St. N.W. N.W. Ave. S.E. Immediate Delivery nn-Sedms. Coupes and Chassis, Touring ‘and Runabouts. 25°For a Slogan WIN THIS MONEY FOR CHRISTMAS Here’s an easy way to add twenty-five dollars to your Christmas Gift money. We are going to pay twenty-five dollars for the best slogan for LIGHTNING MOTOR FUEL, known everywhere as the “Successor to Gaso- g directiohs carefully, stu‘dy the trade-mark design and send in your slogan. GET BUSY. Contest Closes December 15th— This design shows Will- iam Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, taking “LIGHTNING” from the clouds and putting it in motors. That’s the idea: “PENN PUTS LIGHT- NING .IN YOUR MO- TOR.” Can you say it better? Try. Send in all the Slogans You Wish There’s no limit. What we want is the best slo- gan. And we pay you to tell us what it is. \ AND LISTEN—THE NEXT TIME YOU FILL THE TANK, SAY “LIGHTNING.” More Pep, Power and Mileage >3 Distributors and Filling Stations for “Lightning, Penn Gasoline and Lubricating Oils -Everywhere. DON'T PHONE—SEND YOUR SLOGANS BY MAIL OIL COMPANY ROSSLYN, VA.