Evening Star Newspaper, August 26, 1923, Page 61

Autoists Tooting Horns Less, But With More Real Meaning Old Habit of Blowing Indiscriminately at Crossings as Measure of Safety ow Out of Date BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. What does the horn on your car 2 Or haven't you noticed that| ¥ toot hias a meaning of its ow 4nd that motordom is changing ove to.a new viewpoint in its horning Many drivers have observed that e¥ are not blowing their horns the same wav they message for all motorists is heard in hat it says. A driver can no lon proach a crossing with the idea that his ~ horn will " cause everybody else to grant him the right of way. He knows that the sounding of h horn will simply warn the other fo low that they will t at the in- teysection. *but the matter of right of | way will not be determined until they zer afford to ap- ®a ove: used to, but few stop ! actually sce each other and note toidiacover the Teason | their respective positions and speeds. e It i< because road-hogging has no e > B DULE chance ‘in “trafic that the trend iy « cfiiclert use of the horn when it! toward not blowing the horn at all. ix sounded. This in itself rep nts, €ach driver operating his car w enough cautio as to be ready gardless of the unexpected Blatant Horning Growing Lexs. An interesiing change in rior of a time-hon but it does more; it the red safoty device, forecasts an en- app! PRETENDING ,TO YOUR BEST GIRL, THAT YOU'RE GOING TO RUN OVER THE DOG THAT CHASES ALONG BARKING | AT vou — / { e : : In other words, the horn is being tirelv new viewpoint in driving used less and less. thus training driv. he matter was brought fo i €rs to be more alert and to denend Wrer's atiention throush a recent | UPON Senses other than hearing. This, ST on} < { however, does not mean that the horn i ersatlon wtih a motorist, who|is outliving its usefulness; auite sho "ad occasion to occupy a front room i Contrary. The horn is coming to be in @ hotel located near a busy street | Uscd more as o safoty device and lese intersection. He was asked whether | 4% A trumpeter 1o did not find his accommodations| The abu f the horn are vanish- rather noisy Common Senxe Replacing Horns. ing in favor of its many advantages 1 S An instrument of safety, Excessive horning. like ‘It You meun annovance from th excessive hlowi b e the [ use of the brakes, is now rej a5 ¥ woul e ‘n he said. “Drivers g & s e e e MOt tooting their horns us they | ot L oliticixm of excess horning is not ©0_much the nuisance as the dang. The less the horn is used the mor effective it is when there is real need for it Some people were enough that chances on give the used to. They h t's more sensible to keep out of the discovered that other fellow to give way statement bears a lot of re- for it develops a new angle business of driving a £ Wy than to expect him h time it fection io the ago it was feared that not using the horn they were having ‘the other fellow warning and that accidents sounded their horns atieach and wouid increase radically Por Pl i “very street crossing. with any be tolararan T & S0 WORIAINOt {iatore” Mne. pesult in that they hav I'been forced to place greater depend- car safel It not lonz ago that motor- The horn, therefore. no longer speaks In' mandatory ferme. Guite| “NCC UDON thelr ability, they are more the reverse. it «imply advises the oth- | (3utious at points ere the “r drivers that your car is approach- relled upon the horn and thev leav i 3 the horn for just the very thing, In popular terms one might say that | WAas intended for. i the horn no longer commands. ‘et | Real Intent of Horn. out of my way." " A toot of the horn! The horn was nev S out of n 2 | The horn was never meant to be row means: “This i to let you know | yeed ‘when it would be safer to drive hat my car is scon to be in a position be a source of danger to | v slower, steer to another position ¢ Where it may app'y the brakes. It was intended 3 j either to supplement these courses of simne horn. if you like, is singing al action, or to superscede them in case gifferent song, and it is evident that| they failed Within the next few years this change| It the driver of the car sees that by i e even more pronounced. blowing his horn the other driver. or Startling Pedestrians Dangerous. | the pedestrian, can be helped in the Students of accident causes have | PTocess of avoiding an accident he more than once observed that pedes- | Should do so_ But he must not rely | trians are. frequently so startled by | UPOD this. He must use the other the sound of a horn that they become | safety devices on the car in an hon- a greater menace than had they not! ¢St effort to prevent an accident been warned at all. Drivers have!| If the other driver, or the pedes- been given advice as to how best to trian. cannot be helped by the horn use their horns when trying to warn the driver should try to stop. or steer pedestrians. And much has been said | cut of the way. before he does any on the subject of the importance of | tl'ing else. In a pinch he should us: dgisplaying good manners when using | the horn.” It is’ frequently his last tie horn. But the underlying change | chance. More accidents have been saved by which is causiftg all this discussion is; only now coming to light. | rroper horning than any other safety Tirivers are using the horn more | device. It is highly important. therc- efficiently because they are taking a; fore. to save vour best trick until different attitude toward their rela-| last. When your horn is used let it tion to the other cars on the streets| *ay something important. Its effec- * and highways. It is an attitude which | tiveness is in its conservation 5 displayed in all their driving, from|{ The less dependency you place on the more ¥ n emerg the horn stopping to starting: but it happens n b A upon it in that the horn is the only accessory to the car with a voice, and this new u can depepnd o AND YOU TAKE taking | INSURANCE INQUIRIES. Q. What is the difference between ollisicn loss of use” and “Property | NARROW STREET RULE. | In Turning, Better Bick at Be- bf his car during the time it is laid backing part of the procedure at the | un ‘for | i accident | beginning rather | | repair following an than after having| covered by the collision policy: the swung around o |latter indemnifies the insured foy any The usual method is to turn over|claim for loss of use made by a party to the opposite curh and then back | whose car he has collided with. out into the middle of the streét again | Q. Is it necessary to advise the in- }in order to cut the wheels enough to | gurer of any change in the place of {clear the curb on the second trial.|gtorage? !This invariably interferes with traf-|° A" No. The usual policy covers fic, is embarrassing and frequently/the car while it is being used or {dangerous. The better way is 1o gtored anywhere in the United States start turning. then reverse to the|and Canada. curb again and cut the wheels Th!—! in such a car is then position | into e pposite curb. The b - I e e T hne D18 429-| A popular misconception of touring ling the procedure the driver faces|is to drive all day until the odometer jthe traffic and the center of the street;|reads about 200 miles and then spend the other way he is reversing against |all night trying to recover from a e o “scenery jag." Sometimes the idea i to shorten the trip and save on hotel bills: more frequently it is simply Approximately .000 hales of a mania for making the earth's to- { Egyptian type long staple cotton |pography look as condensed as it does were grown in the United States last |on a map. Touring with a lot of year Nearly 40 per cent of this was people is getting to be like an all-day used in the mannfacture of tires | sucke TOURING CAR THE CAR HOME IMMEDIATELY "BALANCE IN CONVENIENT MONTHLY PAYMENTS R. McREYNOLDS & SO DISTRIBUTORS : 1423, 1425, OPEN EVENINGS 1427 L Street N W. Phone Mc. A 2 damage loss of use? ginning Than Afterward. A. The former coverage indem- | When trying to turn avound in a nifies the insured for the loss of use | narrow street it is better to do the| | it will turn around without rumlnngllflSCONCEPTION OF TOURING. ! THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, \MISTAKE YOU MAY MAKE.|®ere s room oo AUGU ST 26, = e 1923—PART 3. | | | | Tests Show Big Mileage Loss To Every Gallon of Gas Used: Bureau of Standards and Other Federal Bodies Make Experiments Which Pro- vide Information. to Motorists A series of experiments conducicd by ideal mixture! These tests were carried #: i d 1 that|on under the direction of A. C. Fieldner. experts has d sed that | ° er e dire “ A government P! ‘.\\Ipn rintendent of the Pittsburgh sta- the average autoist is not only losing 20 per cent or more of the mileage that he should get from each gallon of gas he uses but that he is also barking up the wrong tree in enriching his mixture to obtain greater power. These tests, carried on at the govern- ment fuel yards here, at the vehicular tunnel in New York city, the Bureau of Mines experimental station in Pitts- burgh and the Bureau of Standards here, have brought to light great quanity of valuable imformation for the motorist. The great waste of gas tion-of the Bureau of Mines, S. W v, in _charge of tests a the Bur: tandards, has given a number of hints to drivers as the result of his experiments. For one thing, when a carburetor is <o adjusted tpat a little difficulty is expe- | rienced in ‘starting, requiring the use o | the choke for a few seconds while the engine is warming, followed by a steady | powerful explosion after the equivalent of a block or two of running, the motor- ist may feel confldent that he is gettimg nearly complete combustion. Another fallacy that is brought to light was forcibly brought to the attention of Burcau of |is the idea t « carburetor_once ad Mines chemists who were analyzing the (justed should be left a.one. The test gas in the tunnel in New York to find [have disclosed that a carburetor wil out how much suffocating carbon dioxide | gradually enriclf the mixture unless it is gas was present in the air and how | thinned down every two months or s dangerous _the condition would be to| Mr. Sparrow warned against the ex drivers. Their analy disclosed a | cessive use of the choke. This will pre great percentage of ~deadly ~carbon |vent cgmplete vaporization of the ga: monode present, which represented in- | with the result that some will seen complete combustion of the gas in the |down into the crank case, thinning the | nearly every one burned ga above the 20 pe as found rich in un- ranging up to figures well cent average obtained. { exlinders, oil. A cold engine will bring the same They asked a hundred motorists, | result, with accompanying damage to ! chosen at random, to submit to the tesi | bearin vlinders and piston rings jof their autos, and the exhaust gas of | That is one reason why he advise against the practice of allowing the en gine to turn over a few times with the £as on before switching on the ignitior times it is merely a case wherc the| brakes have just been teeble enough | to stop vou a little beyond the white | line. When this passes unnoticed or | 885 f. 0. b. Detroit Disc Steel Wheels Included he Good MAXWEL k up, there is no membering even if traffic in vour own city only turns to the right when the sign reads “go.” It may come in handy on a trip. 1 i I i | i | | that they repres The gas is drawn into the piston chan bers “and then works down into 14 crank case. Advises Against Kerosene. He advises against the practice « putting kerosene into the engine to cu carbon unless it be done while the ¢ gine is quite warm, for the same r: son. He declares that autoists whe think they are enriching their mixtur. in winter when they allow more gas enter by adjusting the needle val Many Carburetors Rich. The tests were then carried out to de- termine the proper method to overcome the waste and secure maximum effi- To bring about complete com- n of the standard gases now sola which contain about per cent of carbon, it was found that approximately 15 pounds of air were re- quired for each pound of gas. Many arouretors were found adjusted so ricn nted a ratio of only ten This bust on the market pounds of air to the pound of gas. ‘ rich mixture was found to give but valve Yeey tich wioure wan found fo sive bUt | " eurhoretor ate M reslity moro) s . g retaining the summer ratio, for cold aii . Dexcent. is much heavier than warm, and s The fallacy that adding gas would in- osed_at the | Eiven adjustment will admit more ai crease the power was discl same time. Mixtures richer than 10|DbY weight in winter lh'flp‘ in summer. pounds of air to one of gas were shown | and dlvfih" same time the gas, being Copyright. 1923, by Memopolnan Newspaper Serviee | to actually bring a loss of power. From | cold. will flow less freely. Therefore this maximum richness of ten to one, at | c0ld weather and altitude adjustments which full power may be obtained, to the | aré ne a Yean mixture of Afteen to one, all ad- | The subjct of changing oil has als fos s were found to give approxi- | been studied, and tests at the bureau o* usGremts et E L | standarde indicate that mately the same power. Perhaps some in winter tl | need to worry—but this seldom ha;vr:‘.nm{,s ave r!mmi that mf.\r cars | 0il _\hmyz,l‘:rb» Tr':m'\g('d mr'arr hn;y;." thar > S pens. When caught in such a predi- | would balk at hills and that this condf- | in summ e motorist who uses | i of | asiel ed by e | car largely for trips to and from wor fieal Suouing. Stneet WCR BUOP | ceicot 1 1s Sequently Dessitde 1o S0 N8a et & GEmie the | 0 CeE o tHDS 1 snd Soi v Rign Forbids. avold an argument with the officer in}griter had this experience traveling to | at a time, with fruquent starting a | charge of the crossing by immediate- | Newark., The car would not climb on | stoppings, should change his oil ever Ever make the annoying mistake |1y making a right turn. This fs per- |y @00 |00 SR, WG R ST B T er at about every 500 miles. | If 1 of starting to cross a street with the | mitted in many cities when the sig- | wao “Jeaned" consiflerably. From the |is taking long trips of, say a hundr stop sign turned against you? Some- | reads-stop and is well worth re-|point where the adjustment was made | miles or more 1,000 miles is sutt: cient. This is , as stated above ily climbed. when an engine is started cold, some o Below the 15 to 1 mixture, power was [ the gas fails to vaporaie and gets into lost, so that 15 to 1 was found to be the | the crank case. _—nm—mm to Newark and back every hill was e Records show that less money was spent by Maxwell owners for replacements and repair parts in 1922 than during the preceding year; and 1923 to date shows a further decrease. This low cost of maintenance is a tribute to the fine way in which the good Maxwell is built, H. B. LEARY, Jr. Distributor MAXWELL—CHALMERS Salesrooms 1321 14th St. 1612-22 You St. N.W. Service Stations and General Offices 1612-22 You St. 4206 Phone North T 4208 . e (bbbl S STl S, ot