Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1923, Page 60

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO! and OTORS CARELESS WASTE OF MOMENTUM BOOSTS DRIVERS' BILL FOR GAS Excessive Stopping, Speeding Up to Point of Halt and Other Such Practices Lower Mileage Average. U, AUTOINDUSTRY - TOKEEPUPPACE 1923 GOVERNMENT AIDS HIGHWAYS. ‘BUT TAXPAYERS OWN THEM Federal Aid for Interstate Road Construc- tion and Maintenance Merely Contribu- tory—Live States Are Not Neglectful. within our power to make the healthfest and most norma year in the automotive industry since the great war,” according to H. H Rice, president of the Cadillac Moto Car Company. “Everywhere th [ evidence of ‘an intelligent effort t do this, not by wishing for a new boom and price fnflation, but by giv ing & better day's work and produc ing better goods. We aure acting the reallzation that rcal wealth not measured in do but in BY WILLIAM T Most motorists surprised Tearn that every time the hrakes are applied gasoline is wasted It is a new way timely subject of v and, 1f the truth the answer to the who! We must stop We fail to appreciate th of momentum posal, and We pav filling station. the low gas 1 mist that the oil ing ns. We of going when cost of stopping! hecause—as lcover—the which « by app Isafety’s sake. | | | AN, | wiil dis- | momentum in cousting be “killed" of the brakes for And if the driver is he will drop into “sec- his engine as a brake. engine is being turned with the ignition switched being wasted | the sort must motorist of “free acquires invariably Boiled down, the federal highway |federal highway act, is very simple act, passed in 1921, aud under which | It differs only slightly fron: the pro- our main interstate roads are now |Ccdure which the state would follow Reliie Taradly. conuteudted) oo |12 it were going to build a road with- ut the ald of the government. If simple proposition, according to .| the road to be fmproved is on an fin- 8. Hoag, fleld secretary of the Lin-|POrtant tivough route, construction = : 5 can be undertaken whether the state coln Highway Association | system has been approved or not i “The main fact The state makes a_survey and pro- A | mind.” says Hoas. vides its plan to the government's process of overcoming the R | e excess momentum. This hus gineers, who are governed by spe- rules regulating th ; for federal aid and that the " a oth do with conserving mo grade and adequacy of mothing to, do wwithi_eonuervink Mo; plan i simply one whereby the fed- - > | the expense of engine power B g . y - eral government alds the states under different traffic conditions. : government will not assis con- financially in the construction of | e Waste Stopping at Curbs. thelr roads.” To a certain extent struction of a type or design of road- therefore, the name “federal high bed which will not stand up. under e the traflic to be carried way” iy 4 misnomer. The “federal| "j,'" Aoation ghways" are not federal highways |, |f the specifications for in the true sense of the word at all o bt hey are merely state highws L joining at the state lines to form [Pr¥yd b | routes of int CRta aae jare those st Rovernment build ave to on the a of viewing the really careful ond.”” using When the over. even o, . s iT 1o the great activity half 1922 the country b through « needed period « A closer approach to nor is now commodit prices, production and commercial ac tivi erving on fuel of = i it were know is 1o be borne in simply this— that the federal highway act provides business A Lo closir needless stopping power rre: le to whole width which is at our dis- Better Average Than in 1922, or both general business and o ow ndustry all indications at the beginning of were for an aver age througho r better than in 1822 Now o passed the first two rew year reports coufirn er conc sions. es iuction ha fully met ex “We belfeve progress has what is the consequence ot for our fgnc We tleage comt going downhil thrust upon it rous quantities that of a_hin when he repre unit b has and i s the d drance the road government standard, as it is called ap the government throush of public roads and the ssured of receiving a certain percentags of the cost of construc- government. high 1 it it is the high of this non he ext e potential ir our norma heen overestimatec tudy of con ear 1 gained ntum wh expense nd Waste Readily will afd the rens states )i, “trom the federal This percentage varies in the western | From my own personal states, depending upon the ratio be-|ditions there lat tween' the area of the state and the |a much mo > view of the area of the unappropriated public [Situation than seems prevalent here lands of the state. In states where|When I was the > was work the public lands amount to less than |ing, producing repair! > per cent of the area of the state, the | the da 2 of war. government pays 50 per cent of the|then construction. In @ stats Lk the government pays over § nse sine power ca stoppin represent dead momentum-— and. therefore of fuel. Wear on the br the 11 and the car i negligible c sipation of entumn fuel which this extravuga entails hrake Government Chips In. The sum and substance of it is that the federal government says: “We will assist each state in building 7| per cent of its highways." Naturally, the federal government reserves the right to pass upon the selection of that 7 per cent. It wishes to aid|{VS" © from the federal Treasury only the |S@vada rawing up to ne drivers out ngine pulling the stopping w slam on _the At the moment applica- the Lrakes, when the machine fieen miles au hour, the car is the prod- of LT waste nings of acer, in his new 122-inch, single-seated car, which will be raced as No. | adinnapolis 500-mile race May 30. Beside Tommy is Barney Oldfield, “mnater driver.” Milton's mentor in racing aport, in his new Marmon closed speedster. Milton also has a Marmon closed car for hix personal use. a Here is the to normal n power, force verse th hy eternally it las powe momentum and tl hetween stopping & line is readily appre Proves rder of th mentum speed. momentu kil the niomentun stopping t while stor o nzs essent (its weight) times rate of speed) ¢ mass A car A 1a Spare Brakes. ed in popular wnd speed the momentum car ConiBide our terms weight for 4.000-pound car traveling at fif- ted les per hour (twenty- W nstetul. i or second) is 66,000 units kes are required to overcome this sntum which has been developed the expensa of 66,000 foot pounds force, or 120 horsepower. In other actual brake horsepower car itself would register a dynamometer at the moment previous to application of the brakes Thally exceed the brake horsepower Cf tlie average engine. This gives the reader some idea of what he is wa ing when he dissipates the car's mc rtur Occasionally when t brakes fatl and the driver goes cr ng into another machine he gets a &Nt idea of this force of momentum n normal driving. excluding ances where the “unusual” ealls quick stopping for safety’s sake. v nomentum can be used as the basis al gasoline economy. When the eaches a speed consistent with : conditions. and where the car will roll of its nwn acc he should turn this force to profit by dispensing with the engine as much as possible The idew % not so much to coast but to spare the brakes. Many Drivers Careleas. Most of the needless stopping is the sult of misjudgment. Drivers speed up through trafic knowing well with | enough that they will be obliged to stop at each street intersection and lat the spurts of speed do not help them save time. This unsystematic driving represents a triple waste, be- cause Stopping not only means waste of the engine’s excess power, but waste of the power it expands in im- \® momentum to the car—and ake Hning The habit of deliberately using the Stoppin When the average Aown behind a street come 10 a st ere serve momen drive it an entire city ndependd ent of the e and at 1 rate of speed. W repeats this per- formance te ty Ing the cours home the office the asoline used hopelessls nortion the amount i car over drive and driver slows car which 1s enough re has the Ao times du fre number of doing the san gate W of £ staggerin s frequen he engin but 1t's true er all drivers get acquainted w idea the bette X carithat gaso lhw AERTE ste to coast d wi simply could tackle. This tum ne Rraking With An e Tt eme it illustrate: force which wasting srate sreat drivers are.r relatively mo compared cited sting down hill mentum withou e effort required to 1 where it can tak vantage of the incline: but i driving mom is only at the expens engine fuel This docs not de- dis- take ad normal acqui pow business of saving = call for exc the car is particularly wasteful, be cause the driver knows he canno possibly use it to advantage. brake and drive the car with it drag ging Bas Should Use Judgment. you to consider question seriously it means that fail ure to utilize the momentum de veloped by the engine is the equiva lent of wasting power; and as powes depends upon fuel it’ simply mean that sensible as dri leak in the gas tank plan their driving in such a way tha they take advantage of the momen tum of the car engine to develop any tum than can be used They anticipate apply the the car's momentum the peak of its mor good judgment they their gasoline bills, If this idea about the high cost o stopping would gather a littla mo mentum of {ts own many a motorisi could do the same Coprright Whe come more momen brake at end o than a the fag rather ntum. B materially lowe Windshield Improvement. Complaints against the character o monsoon shields come from Bombay The Indian monsoon is a wet and disappear; but motorist, who, according to the Time; of India, has to take refuge “cumbersome.” b: designed affair of canvas and mica, which mak driving & hazardous affair for darkness black as night monsoon season. He | might just as well set his emergency | He would waste just as much unnecessary Stopping is just as ing around with a Wise drivers and never permit the to advantage. necessary stops and using 1923, by the Ullman Feature Service. wind, which brings joy to the agriculturist for without it Indian crops dry up it depresses the behind the driver and envelops the rear seats in One-man tops ought to Liave a good sale in the sive coasting. ! engine to impart excess momentum to -_— ., e . ;‘}SPEED TEST DISCOUNTED | IN RATING AUTOMOBILES Durability Is Now Considered Best | Proof of Machine's ! Usefulness. i -1 In the early days of the automobile - | industry fortunes were expendea in T ' trying to prove on the race track that s this or that car could develop speed that an ordinary driver would not dare to employ—even If it were avail. able. Time records that would su t|ject the citizen to & term in jail he attempted them, were heralded an unanswerable argument why a ca -|should be purchased. says E. T. Strong, general sales manager of the Buick Motor Compa 4 Of cours: the track performances of t|the cars indicated strength and en- durance as well as speed, but these r| points were submerged in the fren- zied effort to answer the question: £ | “How fast will it go - he automobile racing craze created ! t[a wrong impression that it has taken ! years to efface. Even today there are many well able to think deeper who profess to believe that the motor car i3 a luxury—a nonessential. Fortu- nately the great mass of people know better. They know, on the contrary, that it is one of the most essential conveniences in modern life. But the motor car, for many vears unjustly regarded as a thing merely to race and play with, is at last firmly intrenched in the good graces of mankind as an indispensable utility. it has earned {ts present status through sheer force of merit, through day in and day out accomplishment: serving the demands of present high standards of progress by making more people efficient, creating better health, increased prosperity and s 13 s e greater contentment. i meeting LOCATES IN DETROIT. shment Tt | Corporation first | tion of Clar and general n of the tion most tional The comp Mot big Detroit constitute poration Motors tior to be direc three This makes automobile producers with headquar- ters in Detroit is for each of of Detro rs at acts e A anager legal Jeted, ors plants. ninth will it a and one mor The ted by it staff under the gene. of the exec Mr. Earl, with John the Willy ager of N New York nouncemen tr of the b cutive heade , for five v N. Willys s Overland lent ational 1t was the ser is 1o take the Natic it followi The unit |Clarence A. Earl, Head of Motors | Corporation. Establishes to be one the elec- iarl as president f the cor formalitiea are al- for Na- 1 one of the plant will of the cor- g said give factories Dl Michigan. the of opera- )f the merged piants production co-ordination arters at of nt iat rs_ associated | the head of ompany and Earl r ent and general man- Motors at rard of 1 Pr Offices. executive the directors in Report of the official an- out I building of those roads which are of interstate or intercount The procedure under law is simple. authorities are not obliged {by the state important The if they 1) sel state wis! ect highway (the system h of v importance. roads in the state comprising cent which of has authority, i ture. The of lowa. ‘When a state with 100,000 miles of the appr. this s Depa: total oval. T question the bureau roads of the Department of Agricul- of Agricul- ture is headed by Henry C. Wallace rtment roads. like Towa for exan to the bureau of | Washington its 7 7.000 miles bureau being su inte roun: sta states delay in providi gestions roads, i ing the road studies articularly the roads connect iplans submitted by the other states provide ding te to t hol of s uggested the plan interes order connectior the bureau up the dec systems su! the surrounding states. followed by The state the fed, procy desiring 1 edure to A take advantage of offered to public per cent system, or roads the approval of the government, the suggested, | with those mileage of atate’s roads and submit it to Wash- jington for {ment of government in Washington under of public he le, sy roay ted in 0 i g their sug- of public on bmit it depart- in per cent of the cost of con due to the fact that over 40 per Nevada's area still federal zovernment anc can is not gant State Bullds the Roads. 7 per the government, the state proceeds manner ernm its it would proce=d nt aid were involv. wn procedure which, in most is fte f no x contract te supervises the work, bmits ds in | N&TY state job. The only ¢or | ernment has an lowed. The federal a silent partner in action. It does not select to be improved: it does not the project; and it does not government N how the pay some the ctate ald approved by partment, the tion of federal States Treasury state hizhway gets e from by the ed any the contractor may & o rructio cent belongs to the taxed to advertise for bids an to the lowest bidder. pays the contractor, and in every way pro- ceeds exactly as it would on an ord difference lies in the fact that the federal gov- inspector on the job to see that the specifications are fol- Assuming & project approved by the | ! to construct the road in exactly the same d. Tt follows the entire trans- the road When the work is completed and is its propor- United In order that neither the state nor have to carry the full expense of the work to its com- effort o emselyes. to pro odities 5o ss that ased on the ed, a liberal d to provide made fron amount of wor percentage bLe Basically hat plan_of federal bullding. Of course get federal aid amount netruct 1 al a government resents that sti s all there is to the d 1o state road the stats c; on an _unlimited It receives the federal road construction up which in total rep &'s share of the tot n for hig 11 provide ided among 1 the bas the anc istance from The Sturdy Six of Long Life SINGLE-SIX SEVEN.PASSENGER BEDAN $3,825 FULLY EQUIPPED AND DELIVERED The Single-Six very happily meets therequirements of men and women who have no mechanical bent and no-desire to cultivate one. If you belong to this group you need not hesitate to satisfy your desire to own, and personally to operate, a Packard. It was designed and built with you in mind. The carin all its mechanical aspects has been laid out to make it as simple as possible. Adjustments are reduced to the minimum, and those few are of the simplest nature and readily accessible. To understand just what this simplicity can mean to you, permit us to make a personal explanation with the car at hand. P-W MOTORS Incorporated Connecticut Avenue At S Street Telephone North 620 Some folks think only of looks when they buya car. Thousands have bought this Jewett an looks alone. But there are things to know about the Jewett which will make you prefer it to all others. Ever notice how comfortably the Jewett rides? You are surprised at such easy action in this size car.It comes from extra long springs and the extra weight of rugged construction. If you are wise you can't be fooled on rugged con- struction. You can feelit—orthelack of it—bythe The steady, comfortable car is substantial. Dowe need to tell you which car is a good investment? You can feel the Jewett'slonglife in the wayitrides, ‘Will its power endure—remain smooth and such a motor to wear out for years. Yes, you can quiet? A veryimportant question. A short-lived prove the Jewett is.a good investment. JEWETT =% Roadster $995 of Thrifty SixBuilt by Paige Metropolitan Motors Co. Tax Extra 1028 Connecticut Ave. Main 5724 motor makesany car a poor investment. How can you tell whether a motor will keep its power and smoothness? You don't need to be an engineer. ‘With your eir and just one simple fact you can tell the answer. Speed up the motor. Listen! Is it quiet? A noisy motor is poorly designed for long wear. And the one fact you need tomake sure of is a high-pressare oiling system. ewett’s high-pressure ciling system sends three Lllan:o& ail per minute through all main and connecting rod at 20to 40 pounds pres- sure, It constantly the entire mechanigm in ofl. Friction is reduced to nil. 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