Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1924, Page 61

CRANK CASE 0ILS KILL MOSQUITOES Local Dealer Suggests Good Use for Drainings Heretofere 1 o. Hoffman of Hoffman Motor @ompany, Rickenbacker distributors S this tefritory, makes & valuable waggestion to motorists, and espe- tany to those 1iving in the country. This is 2one less than a recipe for sagamg th® Vicinity of your home of #2s prosens® Of mosquitoes. whese af® Not only pests, but thex Breed pesifilence, as all scientists tall u’m th® possible exception of the d the rat, these ara the — sl of Glieass armt e Save ,-\n old oil you drain out of fhe crank) Case of vour automobile, trock or hractor from time to time,” sevs Vir. Hoffman. *This i heavy cylinder oil, ac-Jine mixed in with it “This ol oll, which is now wasted, &5 an 1d-4)| MOSquito exterminator. “MosquiJ08s breed in water—stag- rant pondS Paols and holes left by the hoot: Of animals in the mud. alse in marchy Places along shores of nd]streams. &8s are laid and hatch in »}tAhnul 3May 10 in the tem- t with wome & the larvac come ta the has bean found that a will smother the young { come up. .Y that period in the spring ~afl this waste oil on ignant water you can o same time carefully empty pm over any cans. botiles ecaptacles Yo ruin water into them and stay). vou vbur premises of mosquitoss or other cannot ¢ will fr. i hould be poured on the water again ar! ten-day intervals—each e vou drain vour crank cese Bre T Tt costs nothing but on vour part, a and results e Tnkmg‘ Chance Just the Same. There 1<t Mmuch difference between entting coduers on the cost of neces- ®ary ropaic® and taking chances when T the car on the street. —_— every |adds, should be offered The Sunday Motorist An Abridged Magazine for Car Owners. EBITED BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. Gze way to make a mountain out of a molchill is to start on a touy without looking to mep whether you need & new fan belt. Chance to Catch Up. Frequent reports to the effect that sales of cars have been slowing down may or may not he significant, but it is generally conceded by progressive automobile trade pepole that an an- nual rate of increase in registrations #s shown in 1823 is not to the best interests of the industry nor to motor transportation A little slowing down in sales to peopcople who have never before owned cars and who aceordingly carn- not materially aid traffic conditions, it is said, would give traffic authorities an excellent opportunity to catch up With the many probiems which they have been grappling with, and grap- pling successtully Ore automobile man has said that it is to the best interests of motor- dom that the automobile trade should comeentrate this year on trying to sell new models to pecple who already have car: rather than to look for new prospects. This, he savs, would serve to place a few million more cars in service that would be far safer because of numerous new im- provements. They wonld be easier to handle. thus simplifying the matter of traflic congestion. The old cars, he for sale to those who are not accustomed to using the commercial center: With the old cars in the rural dis- tricts and tho new cars in the metro- politan centers, where they are oger- ated and owned by experienced per- sons, thers would be much eppartunity to untangle many of the knots result ing from the sudden popularity of the motor car. Too many restrictions upon the use of the automobile have come into effect because the autharities have known of no better way out. If the country could cancentrate aon puttin, newer and better cars in the hands of those persons who use such cars in congested districts, instead of aim- ing at an enormous registration, it is thought that the automobie in- BUICK dustry would be better off in the long run. The Old Mechanic Says: Tm not much of & hand at high- falutin’ science, but #t didn't require apy schoolin’ to put me wise to the meanin’ of gravitation, or whatever you call it. The whole basiness was demonstrated to me right in the oil- in' of some of the Important parts of the car. The idea came home a little stronger each time I watched the average motorist around fhese parts in process of tryin’ to oil up. 1 cogd ses right then and there that in ofl- in' the car's various parts there's one thing that can make or break it._That's gravity Watch that chap over there, for instance. At the base of his emergen- ey brake rod lever there's a Jittle hole through which he Is suppoded tg in- ject a few drops of oil now and again. I'm willin’ to bet dollars to punctures that most of the oil he tries to squirt in there goes on the outside. He looks at the puddle of oil gnd says to himself, “It'll work its way in” What reaily happenus is that gravity leads it away from the hole and sends 1t drippin’ to the floor. 1f this chap knew what he was about he might better aim the oil ean at the top of the handle. By gravity more oil would get where he wants it to go than by the method Be's now usin’ I've seen seme folks shoot a lot of oil around the oil plug for a gen- ¢rator bearing, imaginin' that it would work its way in. What it did, in mest cases, was to work its way down and out, perhaps never touch- ing the part it wgs intended to lub- ricate When vou're oilin’ the car dom't waste the oil by puttin’ it where it's oin’ to run off and encourage & re- ir bill. Let gravity do your work. It's what they call science, but it's gense, anyway This and That. Since an instrument fnown as the vialog has been in use by enginsers of the higshway department of New York State there has been reported considerable improvement in the con- Ry csntraet- ae- ice, the surface i m. State's bl ay, la viewed by the department ak ono of its bast inspectors. Ascording to a detafled surwey of Zitamobile fatallties in tho State of io, inverighly more toales are killed than females. The difference once striking, th amm birth to t ek"l'_l five y.’lr!: 0 porcentage of girls killed is at Bighiest, tholgh IB somo vears less than balf the aute wortality rate for boys. The percentage of female fa- talities decresgas {or the school yemrs, from §ve yoarm to nineteen, inclusive. In the period of active life from twep- Ly yeass to forty-nine, inclusive, it is at it3 lowest. 1i increases from fifty years and up. The old conventions which dictate that girls and women should keep off the streets and spend more time at home has apparegtly bad Its advantages. A New Jersey motorist writes to 2 New York paper to state that while he has never given his motor vehicle department any camse for arvest er reprimand, he has motored in Roly horror of Commissioner Dill's en- forcement squad. Thiy raises the old question as o whether accidents can be curbed beiter by gentle requests for saner driving or hy instilling fear inte the minds of those who drive. Connecticut represants the opposite estreme from New Jersey, but guto accidents reached a total of 9 for January, exceeding January, 1923, by 369. Perhaps the motor vebicle ge- partments will have to,come back to be old theory of modeération jn en- forcement. Three Traffic Tricks. When drivieg in confusing trafic when the use of the car’s entire brak- Ing power may be needed in an emer- ency pull up the emergency brake ever & noteh or two. In this nosi- tion it will be mere within yeur reach. The firk notch or two of the average emergecy brake merely takes up slack. 'he practice of keeping the car in &ear 3nd using the engine to keep the car from coasthg backward when Balted in traffic on an up-grade is pnnlwluxy .r.\ing on the clatch which, in slipping, has to act as brake for the time being. Wise drivers avoid the annoyance of a long wait on a hill with brake and clutch de- pressed by climbing it a little slower than when all indications point to the fact that Gaffic is scheduled for a halt Just 2 matter of looking ahead, literally. After shifting to high many driv- ers have & habit of racing the engine Buick has held first choice of gt the Na for six tive space years---an honor awarded to the manufa c turer member of the NACCWith Qhe LARGEST VOLUME OF MOTOR COMPANY WASHINGTON BRANCH Divisien of Gaseral Matars Corporstion Fourteenth and L Streets NW. EMERSON & ORME, Phene Frank. S360 1620 M 5. N.W. & C.C. Waters & Son, Geithanburg, Md. 1015 14¢h St. N.W. Rosslys, Va. FLETCHER MOTOR CO., Alexendris, Va. Telephone Frankiin 4066 STANLEY H. HORNER, Phons Main 5296 ROSSLYN MOTOR CO., Phage Clareadon 460 before letting in the cluteh I This sarves to give the car & m::uw lurch and is oftep misconstryed as ek-ap.” It makes ;xulllnl mate- for ':”H‘u If you want (o % JUcKly atter resehing high ol in the cluteh, retard the spark, eed & Iot of gas and advance the spark lgul-'ly a8 the ear's speed in- Creazed AL e stare it {5n't a8 quick %4 the other Mmethod, but it will get Jou there auicker in he end. and with % chance of stopping at a re- Pair shop en rogte. By Two Teuring Tips. When the gas tank is starting to fib dry and the tourist knows that he a5 to go fiva miles or so before find- ing a gas station he invariably at- tempts to solve his problem by driv- ing fast. “The tank is dangerously lew. We must hurry,” he says. And then he steps on the gus. What he does is to use more gas and run a rl‘ultl risk of being stranded than f he would run the distance to the rll( PUMD at a slower speed. There p an economical speed for all cars, and it's usually around fifteen to twenty miles an hour. In covering the luggage on the running bpoard during wet weather many teurists forget to protect the luggage from splashes of water from the road. Grips usually overhang to a certain extent, and unless they are protected on their under side as well &8 their upper there is no reason to belleve that the covering is satis factory. Often more water is aplash- ed Up from the road than drops from the sky. Views onhie News. Motorists of India are thrifty, jude tag from a plan described by’ Comsul Jobn Randolph at Bagdad. Car own- ers buy their new machines in Syria #nd, In driving across the desert.to Mosul. take aboard passengers from $80 to $100 each This 15 more than suflicient to compensate for a double duty charge which the owners must pay. In America, however, some mew moltorists would probably have to pay folks to ride with them. It makes a difference whether ons is driving through Detroit or u desert Taxicab chauffevring as a fine art received a setback in March, when at i b BAY STATE AUTO DEATHS SHOW DROP March Figures Put Fatalities Among Children at 9. Total Is 33. Massachgeetts bolds out the ehief hope of a lower motor fatalily ree- ords in 1924, on the basis of March figures. There gre many other communities that were foread to register a blacker record than a year ggo. The Bay State reports nine child fatalities in the third month of the yesr, as eom- pared with twelve in 1823 and thir- teen in 1922 The total trafic mortalities in_this 1,447 chanffeurs were arraigned In New York's traffic court on eharges of operating cars while intoxicated. Their condition, however, may easily have been due te “exposure.” Don’t Forget That— The right time to apply the brakes i8 just before you have to Everybody has the right but you. The route of the skidding car is al- ways a fresh trail into the unknewn A wise driver considers his brakes of ehief importance before he starts off for the dav, and then forgets them. Vice versa for the sverage. Contrary to the old maxim. what a motorist doesn't see is invariably what does hurt him You can't afford to take changes. There are top man others doing it for vonr own safety as matters stand. Your car ean xeldom give vou the thrills that any speeding ambulance stands ready to give you any time. Motoring is as safe as you make it. (6opy 1924) of way state, however, were thirty-three, as compared with twenty a year ago (a time, however, in which there were bad ' weather ~conditions). In 1923 the total was thirty-four. §60 Moter Fatilities Heparted. A total of 860 motor vehicle fatali- ties was reported for the first three months by 162 newspapsre. Of these, 264 are registered for March. 11 view of tad weather, which cur- tailed metoring in many communi- ties during the early part of the month. the figure is about in_pre- ortion to previous reports. Rapid owering of the rate, however, will be Recessary if 1924 it Lo show fewer fatalities than in 1 Vermont _almast epotless. Hfowever, one fatility, the first this vear. Dela- ware likewise recorded omly one fa- tality. St Louis after sarting the year at an alarming rate. cuf its fa- talities from cleven in cbruary to seven since March 1, Six Citles Have Clean Rocards. These six cities have a <lean March record: Omaha, Nebr.; Holyoke, Mass.: Tvanston, TIL; Emtte, Mont; Balt Lake City, Utah, and Sioux Falls, & D, Analyeis shows that in the mam causes of fatilities in March were similar to factors carlier 'in the vear, with certain seasonabde changes which might be expected. Fog, snow and rain, likewise wkid- AUTO GLASS FOR WINDEHIELDS OR, BODIES. Tastallad Wiils Yon ‘Wait. Taranto & Wasman 1017 N¥W YORE AVE. 3.W. REFINISHING SYSTEM ACME AUTO TOP CO.,m. | 1421 IRVING ST.NW. CDL.527%6 ding, are relatively less prominent factors than earlier in the vear. Speeding continues to hold first place as the chief element of danger On the part of the motorist. with vie lation of the road rules and intoxica tion coming into third place Coasting in the streets by children fell off from twenty cascs (5 four re ported, while wa'king and p in the strests increased materiali More than half the states of Dnion now impose a gasoline These levies range from one ces four cente per gallon. tax ————————— As EBONITE “‘Strings" to a Stick, = S0 1t Winds Argond the Gears EBONITE is made only for gears. 1t is not a care-all, For transmissions and differentials it does the work per- fectlv. Adopt EBONITE as your standard and save re- pair bills, At dealers’ in five pound cans, and at service stations from the Checker-board pump, only. 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