Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1922, Page 63

-SUNDAY: - §TA ER R; -WASHINGTON, -D.- C, NO OTORS and SAFETY WEEK OPENS, START OF CAMPAIGN | | TO LAST FOR YEARS| Down the Road. 96, 1992_PART. 3. —By BECK. THE PEOPLE WHO LEAVE THER 3 CAR PARMED RIGHT ON THE ~ AUTOSINU. 5. KILL | Al S DRNC 1] | o e e ,QRTAREmNG TN LEAVES. o ?&.‘ y * BALTINORE, November 35— 4. 2 2 ?, ,."B/ o .,@g . Gods ] . o Reckless Driving Blamed for Under plans ammounced by E. Austin Baughman, automeobile commissioner, applications for license tags for 1933 will be J s«?fl:{@ | Tollof One Lifein Each | | =2t = e iy o & Plans Made for Continuing Ty | a2Mintes. | bty s e e ' Educational Work in the . National Capital. BY THEODORE P. NOYES. Today marks the beginning of Safety week. It means that today, Sunday, November 26, is destined to be an epoch in the history of the District of Columbia, because Wash- ington begins an intensive safety campaign, which will be waged uot only one weck or one year, but many weecks and many years. Safety week will end on December 3, but with the ending of | the week it will mean only the beginning of the campaign for ~afety in the District. With the formation of a permanent safety committee, com- vosed of the highest type of citizen in the National Capital, plans ire being formulated to drive home the idea of “safety” to every man, woman and child in the District. Education means much in every line of endeavor. This cam- aign is designed along educational lines. The majority of clear- *hinking citizens of this community, both pedestrians and motor- ists. should profit by the work of the committce. POLICE AND COURTS AID CAMPAIGN. However, in cvery community there is to be found the type f citizen who not only refuses to be educated, and refuses to be -ounselzd, but is adamant to every effort designed to show him he error of his wa Washingte no exception, and there are . grear many drivers aud walkers in this city who will benefit ittle from safety npaizns or any other kind of campaigns. These citizens are “sufiicient unto themsclves,” and drastic action is necessary to get “under their skins” and stir them up. Just what this action should be is problematical. The police ind the courts can do much to put “terror” into the hearts of some of them, especially the automobile driver, but there is a class of pedestrian who is just as much a menace to traffic as the auto driver, and the law cannot touch him. In this class are the walkers who read newspapers or letters while walking across the street; those who give withering slances, and indulge in profanity, to drivers who do not give them 3 | i - 2 ¢ ~ .{figpg’/ Yy, //”////// ////// om G P 5 fl\ 2 2, ‘GO0-MILES TRUCK TRIP 1*° FORPRESIDENT'S TURKEY Huge Thanksgiving Bird Will Be| Hauled From Chicago With- out a Stop. ro smeaks secoro . MOTORISTS OBJECT Milwaukee to St. Paul in Nine Hours and Five Minutes—Faster Than Train. : All records for time between 1Mil- waukee and St. Paul were shattered last week by automobile, a five- passenger Oakland car making the run of 383 miles in nine hours and five minutes aciual running eime— Maryland Official TOHIGHWAY ORDER Repeats Warning to Shut Off Ignition letter to the roads chlef the other day, | asserting that the damage to his muf- |fler had cost him $9.54 as a result of ;following the advice posted by the commission. This motorist suggested that the part of the sign requesting that=automobilists “shut off ignition" be eliminated. There have been a ecore of similar complaints. | “We have given pretty careful study to the problem,” said Mr. Mack- all, “and we think that it is far bet- ter that a few owners of automobiles suffer a little damagé to their muf- Automobiie accldents in the United {States in 1921 caused the death of {12,500 persons—one person killed every forty-two 'minutes, day and night. More than 300,000 persons were injured. The fatalities on our high- ways last vear were more than the American dead in the Spanish-Amer- ican war, while the Injured far out- numbered our 221,000 wounded in the world war., ‘That the automobile hazard is grow- ing steadily is shown by the fact that although accidents on the raflroads {are decrcasing, zutomobile crasnes in 11921 increased 4 per cent over 1320, For more than two vears the Balti- imore and Ohlo reflroad has placed men at cro: s where large num- bers of automobiles pass. These ob- servers note the machines crossing and take down the license numbers of | | those whose drivers fail to take any | | precaution. i Carelessness at Crossings. ! 1n1920 these observers noted 298,000 vehicles and, according to their | records, 25,000 drivers failed to take! any precautions at highway crossings. In one month of this vear 16,177 automobiles were checked by the | railrond’s observers and 2,972 drivers i were reported as having falled to | stop, look or listen before crossing | the tracks. During the first four! months of this year 58506 machin | were observed and the “failure: | reached 17 per cent. | "“The impression prevails in some quarters that asphalt pavements are | slippers, especially when wet, and consequently are dangerous to drive | over. If this were true, accident! records would show a large per- centage of cases where skidding was the cause of the accident. A three months' investigation re- cently made In Maryland discloses the fact that 90 per cent of automobile accidents are due to speeding. Of fourteen fatal accidents, two were caused by failure to heed the warning at railroad crossings; four by speed- ing: four by driving on the wrong side of the road, and four by reckless | driving. None of the fatal accidents | was caused by skidding. Wet Streets Periicua. Statisties from city records in San Francisco on automobile and motor- cycle accidents show 3,609 accidents i 1 | state pected many owmers will have thelr tags before Jamuary 1, Ax soon as the applications have been filled ont they must be mailed back to the office, ae- companied by & check or cash for the amount based om the rescribed Baughman intends to begin @is- tribution December 1. accidents were due to unaveldable sEidding. A rigid Investigation by the Iowa al highway commission during 1921 showed that of 4,683 accldents which occurred in that state, in which 259 persons were killed and 4,195 in- Jured, 114 accidents or 2.4 per cent of the total, were due to skidding, and Iowa has practically no asphalt roads. The great percentage of accldents in Iowa were collisions. Of these thers were 1,210, with 1,010 persons killed and injured. - Asphaltic pavements have not caused any appreciable number of automobile accidents. While the tractive re- sistance of asphaltic concrete is rela- tively low, it is not so low as to cause excessive siipperiness. As a matter of fact, statistics prove that asphaltic | pavements are less slippery than are the other so-called permanent types. UNIFORM AUTO TARIFFS ARE FAVORED ABROAD Sentiment In favor of uniform !ne ternational tariffs on motor cars I8 gaining ground aboard, in the opine fon of H. H. Rice, treasurer of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, who has just returned from the other side. Mr. Rice talked with many leading motor vehicle manufacturers and dealers in Europe and Great Britain. He found that the new American mo- he whole street for their erratic wanderings, and those who de- - ency situation | JUSt thirty minutes faster than the i flers than to have many more run|in 1921, Of this number only 135, or ::;!:ug“&l‘f_f:'lnr';?;:r ’d:m. o iantly stand in the middle of the street and dare the driver to!,,o et g%, STENT Ty SUHRGT | fastent nighe train betncen trese ore | Descending Grades. e gk of losine b or e s por cent, were due o siiadine; or | {0080, SRR Ty Stprive ome near them, often with the promise of physical encounter }lsnz‘s Thanksgiving dinner more than meqls only. Four persons were car- At Makall poistea) sntRat *hm' o S per cent were the re- |attitude abroad. A rood‘denl of pro- hould he do so. 00 miles to the White House, a GMC ried on the trip. the machines coast down under con- lexsness. Four-fifths of tectionist sentiment remains, to be itruck will leave Chicago after mid- Special Dispateh to The St: an ts Dan sure, but lower duties for United e The car was often driven at a spced | Special Dispat: e Star, » trol of the brakes that the first dan-|San Francisco's paved streets are of | Sure, DEFIANT PEDESTRIANS. vRIELE tomiEht sndvwlilvarive In the| ixty miles an hour, and run a ma-| BALTIMORE, November 25.—Auto- gar is in having the brake bands the asphaltic types. Owing to rains |States automotive products are being These pedestrians make just as much trouble as the reckless | Annually the Harding Girls’ Club jority of the time at fifty miles an it passed imobilists using the state roads hour, slowing down as in | western Maryland, where the grades burned out. Next, he pointeé out, comes the danger of the foot brake: in winter and fogs in summer, they are in a wet condition most of the ser.ously considered in many quar- ters. . s > ¢ A S o of Morris & Co. Chicago DPackers.| nroigh the many towns en route. going wrong. Under the advice given | time.-so the slight percentage of ac- | Spain, Italy, Belgium and Holland Iriver, and, in the opinion of many, there should be legislation de- [sends the presidential family ‘;h The tverage was 42.3 miles for the |are so steep that the state road com- Ly the commission, the machine|cidents, due to skidding, is at once |have fi‘"fld‘;‘ b;_':,'fl"dl ‘"":" the — igned to deal with this type of walker { Thanksgiving duner and, due fo Mo ouiire wun, mission has put up signs warning should glide down a steep grade, he|apparent. motor tarift. Formerly the United Sl = P Y 3 itime taken iIn securing an Ilinois STp8 TR0 o0f continued from St.|arivers to shut off ignition and de. Pointed out, In second gear. the| The tabulation of an average|States duty was 45 per cent on uu. However, there will always be recklessness on both sides, cems—the driver, who, by his tactics endangers human life, and ke walker, whe, by his defience and thoughtlessness, endangers 1is own life, Ii the safety campaign can convert only one of this type of iriver or pedestrian it will have done a wonderful work. If it can onvert a good many to the idea of safety who previously would | it |bronze turkey, pounds, could not be ‘delivered by express in time The packing company General Motors Truck Company if it {could deliver the turkey with a truck | which_was to be driven overland to the pack it was found that the for the dinner Thursday. asked ‘Washington branch of ors. The company placed expert drivers weighing forty-one Paul to Duluth, a distance of 163 miles, which was made In three hours and fifty minutes over a muddy. choppy road. The entire trip back was made through a heavy downpour of rain and mud at a pace almost as swift as the record run, although more frequent stops were made. Twice the car sloughed into ditches, dua to the deep mud, but each time got under gift the bad. the age done to their machines. i John Mackall, chairman scend in second gear, are complaining to the commission that the advice is They contend that when they follow this advice their muffiers are sometimes blown out and other dam- It is a complaint which is giving of the weight of the machine keeping the motor going, so that the driver at all times has perfect control of the ma- chine. He admitted that occasionally a muffler Js likely to be blown out, but that this would not cause an accident. The “Shut Off Ignition: Descend in Second” signs are posted along all the state roads where very steep grades exist. thousand reports on causes of futo- mobile collisions, filed with the claim department of the Inter-Insurance Exchange, Los Angeles, shows only 6 per cent of the accidents were due to skidding. Forty per cent of these skidding accidents resuited from fm- prudent attempts to turn too quickly; 40 per cent from overspeeding and only 20 per’éent. or 1.2 per cent of all tomobiles costing over $2,000, but 4t is now as low as 25 per cent for the products of all countries which ac- cord the United States equivalent treatment. Moreover, this tariff re- duction clause in the final writing of the bill was made autematic, so that any reduction abroad wins immediate favorable treatment hers without awaiting executive sttion. ot listen, its wo ill be of ines + benefi s ervice and by Monday Su-|way again on Its own power. 1, chal ot listen, its work will be of inestimable benefit to the com- |at thelr reryice 2nd By Hondes B 1 ™Al ‘driving on the record run be- commission, little concern. for he has | munity. ¥ name—will be on his way to the|tween Milwaukee and St. Paul was ' jup of steep grade accidents and has! { found that the “cheap-siate glide,” as some motoriste call coasting. are re- | sponstble for most of the mishaps. ‘Writes Spirited Letter. One automobilist wrote a spirited -_—mm - -r0e - e done by Brownie,. the automobile editor of the lwaukee Journal. Emil Hokanson of the Wisconsin Oakland Company loaned the car and made the trip with the driver ana! two other men. The clicses et if dr - 5 5i - | Whits House. The classes mentioned of driver and walker should be con s track will ‘make a mon-stop centrated upe I'he others, the decent, courteous and consid- {run to the Capital, using the'inas erate type, will obey the rules and help the cause without urging. | jonal Old Trall road throush o ; {dlanapolis, Columbus, Wheeling and More power to the 'ty campaign! Frank V. Smith of San Franclsco, j{over the Allegheny mountains in:o Pennsylvania and Maryland, covering HIGHWAYS OF NEVADA who has just completed a tour of BE|NG MUCH |MPROVED | Nevada In a Buick car, reports that slightly more than 800 miles in what will undoubtedly be record time over some of the worst mountains in the | the construction of the new Victory highway, which passes through most of the important towns of Nevada, is eastern part of the country. | well under way. It is thought that, Due to the varying altitudes to which Mr. Turk will be subjected, great care s to be talken to see that he s warm and comfortable. A | with this highway completed, much | of the recreation traffic from the east ~ will enter northern California, where- as the great bulk of it now enters motor coat has been made especially southern California. Dobee BROTHERS SEDAN U. 8. Co-Operates With State in Re- construction Work on Ex- tensive Scale. for him to wear on the trip and he will travel in an extra large cag: suspended by and set on springs, to prevent too much shake-up on the trip. Motorists contemplating a western | ur this wi i i sted ! 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