Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1923, Page 63

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 25, 1923-PART 3. ) USED AR PROBLEM SOLUTION IS SEEN Sale at Low Price to Save Heavy Storage Cost Is PROGRESSIVE YEAR | REPORTED BY NMA First National Convention . ‘Here Considered Unquali- i fied Success. With an annual ~eport showing more than 350,000 members in good standing, | many notable achievements in behalf of that membership, a broad constructive program for the coming year, and the addition of the President of the United States as a member, the first annual| eonvention of the National Motorists' | Association, held in this city last week, | opencd and closed most auspiciouly. in | the opinion of the delegates in attend- | ance. As a happy #djournment feature “of | the convention the delegates were re- | evived by President Coolidge at the | Executive Mansion and assured of his | hearty co-operation in the organiza- | tion's efforts to obtain the benefits of | better roads and equitable taxation for | its members. | In accepting membership in the Ni tional Motorists’ dent sald, in part ““The motor car has been a t pro- moter of human welfare. It has ralsed the people and has given them a new outlook on life. There Is no reason now for many people living a shut-in life. *To experience Ifs greatest fulfill- ment the motor industry must be pro vided with good roads and equitabl taxation, and In obtaining these bene fits I want to assure you of my most hearty co-operation and support.” ,The President then posed with the delegates for a picture. Judge Walter . Meals, president of the National Motorists’ Association, was spokesman for the motorists and presented the Chief Executive with the emblem for his car. The annual election of officers of the N. M. A. resulted in the re-election of Judge Meals as president of the organi- zation. E. C. Blesi of Dallas, Tex., Richard H. Lee of New York city, B. H. Hagerman of K City, Eugene Stuart of Lou Borton Weeks of Philadelphin were olected vice presidents and” H. M. Lucius of Balti- more was re-elected treasurer. ssociation the Presi- Oppose Grade Crossings. Elimination, of grade _crossings throughout the country as mflldly as | ossible will constitute one of the main uture activitles of the N. M. A. Judge Richard H. Lee of New York city was appointed chairman of a_special com- mittee to proceed with this campaign. Some of the other resolutions ap- proved call for adoption by the states of uniform motor vehicle title legisla- tion as a method of combating the theft of automobiles: opposition to attempts o burden motor car owners with fur- ther and heavier taxation: appointment of & speclal committee to investigats the commercial vehicle problem, with -| tenance, regard to roads and weights and general | highway:; d national eon- and commercial use of the struction of the pro | ice, stato highways and the classification or th tourists’ camps. Tells of Road Pregram. Thomas H. McDonald, director of the United States office of public roads, outlined his department's national high- way development plans and pointed out wherein the N, M. A. could ald in this work. ‘Willlam J. Burns, noted detective and now chlg of the bureau of Im tion of the Department of Justice, told how the government is working to sup- press automobile stealing. A vast network of radio broadcasting systems installed in the central police headquarters of the country and cen- tering in the federal crime department at Washington represents the Burns plan for making automobile stealing more difficult. During the two days the convention discussed road buliding and main- city traffic problems, auto stealing and scores of other questions near the hearts of motorists. Official figures show that there were present 176 delegates and that the total membership is in excess of 350,000. The complete success of the conven- tion and the many conveniences ar- ranged for the delegates were officially noted by the conventon and special credit given to Raymond Beck, mana- ger at the national headquarters in ‘Washington. —_— The Swedlsh government keeps its 600 workers on a waterpower project in touch with the outer world by establishing the firat arctlc air serv- using two planes for the pur- pose. . Road Hog Extends His Methods To Parking and Use of Garages The road hog has changed a lot tn the past ten years. Occasionally he will burn the road and give every- body his dust, but his methods sre more skiliful nowadays, and far more annoying and dangerous. When you are trying to pass him— and when you have every reason to be in a hurry—he will speed up a little, Just enough to keep you guessing as to whether you are going to get by or &et hit by the car approaching. When you are in a hurry to buy €as you will find him parking his car directly in front of the pump while he tinkers with his engine. Whe: you have pulled up ahead of & park- ing space which you intended backing into he will come up behind you and sound his horn because he wants the space. His methods are so de luxe nowa- days that he doesn’t bother to con. fine his hoggishness to the highways. As a matter of fact he plays road hog Just as expertly when he is in the garage. For doesn't he Invariably race his engine or lot it idle when- ever the man next to him 1s trxfng to work on his car? A favorite stunt Is to park his car 80 close to yours that you couldn't get away with a shoehorn. If he has ! bumpers on his car he doesn’t care |if he does hit you; it's nothing to EVERYBODY wants a per- sonal car —but every- body wants to carry more people on occasions. No one wants to crawl over anybody else—no one wants to be trapped in a back seat. So we built the Jordan Victoria—~big—roomy~— comfortable—~delightful— at a price. Sterrett & Fleming, Inc. Champlain St. at Kalorama Rd. Washington. D.C. space for eave his in 14 make use your him. It there ts Jm two cars he will always such & way that you cot of the other space by cutting car into two sections. may have all the lgtest equip- ment, but l!‘zon will loSk him over lly you'll see thi s _no other than the time-honored road hoj ‘brought down to date. FUNCTION OF FLY WHEEL. uo!:ld ou know that the real func. o o crankshaft over so that the pistons can complete thelr three non-power strokes? In the four-cycle engine (which 13 the universal type at pres- ent) only one piston stroke out of four contributes to the propelling of the ocrankshaft. The fiywheel {s thought of ‘merely as a means of balancing the motor and reducing vibration, but its more Important function is to carry each piston, by momentum, through the exhaus take and compression stroke: another power stroke is due. SUMPS ON GAS TANKS. The more up-to-date gas-filling sta- tions are equipped with tanks having a sump, or lower tank, for the collection of any water which may happen to get into the 8. As the water fails to the bottom of the tank it naturally collects in the sump, from which it is easily Te- moved by a special pump. JORDAN Dealers’ Plan. In the Washington Au: tomotive Trade Association’s proposed plan of selling stocks of used cars now at a reduction to those who would ordi- narily wait until spring bef ing many local dealers ses the evidence of progress in sol ore buy- first real ving the used car problem and its many evils. The plan centemplates a co-opera< tive advertising campaign, showing the storage, depreclation and service costs of carryin winter, and offering buyers reduced in price acc cars through the cars to present ordingly. The plan was worked out by a finan- clal expert of the dealers’ used car committee. Since the committee prese: nted t! is practical means of transforming dead he re show best in the springtime, the local market for used in & healthy condition to absorb large number of cars which are ex- pected to be traded In for new ones The u car committes contends that this plan will prove a blessiug for dealers and buyers afiice. “If Washington dealers would start oft with a clean slate, unincumberod with large stocks of used cars, on which they are required to assume heavy losses, motorists would find a greatly improved service at thelr dis- , stro organizations to stand ack of thelr new cars and better facilitles for disposing of the cars to be turned in,” Chairman Rudolph Jose of the used car committce said, explaining the real significance of the present plan. “With the motorist miven the op- portunity to buy a used car now at a saving équal to the dealer's winter carrying charge, many cars which would otherwiss rema.n useless for the next five or.six months would be out on the streets giving service to their owners. “This would be a direct benefit to local motoring, but the real results would not_be evident until the mo: torists of Washington start shopping for_new cars in the spring. “Throughout the country there is the large number of replacement sales expected in 1924 will upset the used a growing fear among motorists that | car market by swamping it with cars that _eanno to prevent dition In nof ton, in view plan should enubio al of the used car st ordinartly hold over peal to the motoriat now used car he has b ning fo purchase in based upon mound logle who intends buying a §1.000 used in April, for example, can buy sume car now for $518. “It's just & question of maeing the lor's winter carrying charke for h car and giving the motorist the enefit. Though the dealer also bens- fits through rldding himsely of an an- roying problem and a drain on hiw business, the facts shaw that the motorist always benefits by whatever benefits the dealer. “The used car committes has pro- ceeded upon the assurnption that @ stroug dealer organization i niway( an advantage to the motorist, sine {t' apares him the annovance and cost of being Ieft without service and representation shoudd the dealer fail. “The thought, therefore, in offer- ing motorists thc opportunity tq make thelr springtime used car pur- chases now was not merely to en- courage the use of cars at the time of year when they can frequently be most seryiceable, but to prepare the market for the new stock of used gars which the spring will bring forth,” the Just conmsider! A big distinctive, three-pas- senger Coupe—a six—modern to the minute —at a price which with a road performance which even veteran ivers. 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