Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1925, Page 56

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. OTORS and Big Growth in Auto Industry Shown at Opening of New Year More Americans Directly and Indirectly Interested in Motor Transportation ‘Than Ever Before, Is Record. BY WILLIAW ULLMAN. For the fi time sin ®ne-lunger startled the doubti habitants of Detroit al American peopl indi ractly interested automobile than ever before e T v of motor transportatio problems was enormo: 1, 1925, but never w mmbitious plans f ®ver of the surpl The opinion pr motordom tak will have a to give it a pract plans for the new and to termine where it 4 here ie not on the right t mobile shows are said to be fu ing the logical opportur for this. | But attention is dire to the fact that all the stock-taking v 38 not visible at has to look deepe of motordom era ®liows one sees the ward four-wheel bra universal adoption alloon and a pronounced nination the part of many m ar give the straight-eizh Zine 2 run for it is but a portion of the stock of | Januar more | nd te almo. tire mone “stock Business Situation Discussed. Automobils dealers that the trade iz coming su through a period representing toward better re manufacturers and chants. Follow the of the morc powerful production sroups progressive car m are now building ca ording to de mand, and are adjusting prices ac- cordingly. There is to be no more crowding of dealers, an evil which during the early summer of 1924 did much to retard the progress of both the trade and motor transportation 1tsel?. In other words, beca not be forced to carry excessively largs stocks of cars in anticipation of doubtful demand there will always be fewer cars between the assembly line and the car owner, and there- fore a better opportunity to get new models and new features to the pub- lic quicker. The year just -closed has taught the whole of motordom that overproduction is mot desirable in the modern scheme of things. Hopeful Sign Cited. One of the most hopeful signs for the new year, as seen from the known facts investigated, is the steady prog- ress in the handling of the trade-in. Twe vears ago at this time the aver- age automobile dealer was taking stock, only to find that he had suf- fered a loss of $70.23 on every used will tell yo fall a trend fons between automobile me; plan of or dealers will 5,000,000 AUTOISTS SOUGHTBYA. A.A. Great Benefits to Motordom Seen When Membership Reaches High Total. Visualizing the status of American motoring when there are five million organized car owners instead of a million, the American Automobile As- sociation s formulating plans far in advance of tho times, along with plans already under way for present and near-futore use, according to a bulletin issued this week at the or Zanization's headquarters in this cit In the ‘bulletin Thomas P. Henry vresident of the A. A. A, declares that while the men in the fleld of car-owner orzanization must keep both feet on the ground in order to grapple with the many perplexing vroblems in motordom today, it is vitally necessary to plan for the mo- mentous future which he says merely awalits the owner's acceptance of co-operation as the best method of smoothing out motordom’s path. Good Results Anticipated. “Judging from our present activ- ities, & future membership of five million or so car owners thould give to motordom the hundreds of im provements it needs,” Mr. Henry pre- dicts, “and I feel that one of the main points to keep in mind in thia connection is that a membership five times greater than that of today will not be limited to five times greater resul Every new member makes co-eperation easier and minimizes an individual problem, so that the great- ©r membership of the future means a net gain almost impossible for us to valculate The A. A s Into the past s u at Is po It reveals that since the doubling of Three-A membership, through amalgamation ~ith the N. M. A., touring scrvice has fmproved to & point where the motor alyb member no longer experiences dificulty in touring to the most dis- tant points. Attention is called to the Dublica~ tlon of the A. A. A. Florida route book, which is gaid to be the most complete Southland tour book ever offered the tourist who wants his information with the least possible annoyance. One of the features of the beok {s the arrangement whereby touring members can obtatn from Three-A clubs en route any special sections of the route hook it they do not desire to carry the entire vol- ume, the sections being uniform in #ize and methods of routing. According to President Henry, the touring services now being developed throughout the country are simplified with the addition of each new mem- ber to the ranks of organized motors ists, and it is on this premise that he mounds the optimistio note with re. apect to the great membership of the guture. “The Indifference of some fourteen milllon car ownerg in the United States fs our greatest stumbling block to progress in the work of clearing motordom of its unnecessery complications,” the bulletin reads, quoting the Three-A head. “When this indifference is reduced by some four million it is evident that we will be on the way to a higher type of motoring in every way, but we must not loso sight of the fact that the proportion of club members tomorrow may be no greater than today if the registration of cars continues at the Ppresent rate of inorease. “What every motor club is endeav- ® to do is to seek c car he handled. Now he looks back over 1924 to find that he has handled trade-ins at a profit of $27.88 Thie year 1925 should show the av- erage automobile dealer doing busi- s ut a reasonable profit—a situa- \ that means much to the motoring public, which depends upon the pros- perity of its dealers for good service and representation 4 building looms high on the obile horizon as one of the chief ts at this time. Uncle Sam has more than 3,000,000 miles of high- ways ot than 310,000 usive of sand The number of miles of roads now under con- struction very nearly equals the 23, 297 miles that were constructed by the States during the fiscal vears 1917-1 nd is more than double 9155 miles which were completed iring the fiscal year 1923. On June . 1924, there was available for new road projects a ce of Federal aid roud funds a g to $94,- Federal aid aps one of the steps during the year the decis on the part of the Na- tional Automobile Chamber of Com merce to avail itself of the opportu- nity to work with the newspapers and other safety neies in an ef- fort to get «t the root of the automo- bile ident proble The chamber was criticized for its tardiness in this matter, but the thought prevails that E a move is better late than never. most importa closed was Accident Statistics. Through publicity of accident sta- tistics there is growing in the minds of the average motorist the thought that accidents are avoidable through definite forms.of prevention. It ap- pears that the term “Be careful” has been entirely too general an admoni- tion for the average driver and that real progress in safety work lies in showing him how he can get definite results from definite ways of han- dling the car. Despite all the discussion over safety, however, 1924 pulled through with a record of fatalities very nearly equal to those of 1923. In a sense this can be considered in the light of progress, for registrations have in- creased to nearly 16,000,000 motor vehicles and the annual mileage of each vehicle has been somewhat in- creased. That this past year's fatality record was not half again as great as it was is entirely due to greater vigilance on the part of every one and a de- termination to make material gains through more simplified and more logical methods of traffic regulation. Motordom looks to a more simpli- fied method of traflic regulation for increased traffic safet The year (Continued on th Page each community. This policy, viewed from the standpoint of the future, is then entirely sound, for when there are five million club members there may be twenty-five million car own- ers and twenty-one million who are still indifferent. “If they are not rcpresentative own- ers—conscientious motorists and truth seekers—these twenty-one mil- lion will be powerless through their own want of co-operation, and the five million representative motorists will be carrving through those plans and those reformes which could be achieved neither with a larger mem- bership of half-hearted car owners nor with a smaller membership of representative motorists. “It is apparent from the class of men and women who are joining motor clubs all over the country that the minerity of motorists are going to rule by virtue of their quality. This is the big thought for the fu- ture. PRESSURE ON OLD TIRES. Will Run Underinflated for Sev- eral Thousand Miles. Old tires, provided they have no breaks in the walls, will stand low pressure better than new. As a mat- ter of fact, if a tire has become suf- ficiently flexible it will run under- inflated without harm for several thousand miles. A new cord tire can be “educated” to running under normal pressure after it has run about 8,000 miles. Results are more satisfactory on front wheels, where there is less Gexing. SAFE TO PUSH CAR. Owner May Add to Reduction of Casualties From Gas Poisoning. Every car owner can do his share toward a reduction in the toll of lives from exhaust gas poisoning by mak- ing it a habit to push his car around the public garage when desiring to change its position. Checkering cars around & public garage on their own power not only encourages carcless- ness in this matter but results in im- paired health for every one who is obliged to be in the building during the process. — . It's a poor policy to judge a man's worth by the amount of insurance he carries. As EBONITE "Strings" to a Stick, So It Winds Around the Gears Shift Your GearsEasily How much more sensible it is to use a lubricant designed especially for the transmission end differ- ential gears (rear axles) instead of “taking” eny- thing that’s offered! You'll find EBONITE efficient st all temperatures and st all speeds. It makes (SN gcar shifting easy. Sold by dealers every- where, in five-pound NITE (1IT'S SHREDDED OIL) FOR TRANSMISSIONS AND DIFFFRENT DOWN THE ROAD—The Most Uncomfortable Feeling in the World. WHEN' THE DEALER, ‘WHOM YOU'VE ALWAYS BOUGHT YOUR CAR, DISCOVERS YoU INVESTIGATING A .COMPETITORS MACHINE — RURAL PEDESTRIANS |Slow Speed Hurts ASKED T0 CO-OPERATE Advised to Carry Lights on High- ways ta Minimize Peril From Auto Traffic. BALTIMORE, January 10.— That much danger could be avoided if pe- destrians in rural districts would rry lights while walking on the highways is the belief of H. M. Lu- cius, secretary of the Automobile Club of Maryland. “Some wag recently advanced this idea and the crowd about him laughed at the thought of ‘tail lights for pe- destrians,’ but the scheme has more merit than he considered,” Mr. Lu- cius declared. The club secretary pointed out that walkers would be safer themselves, and this system in general practice would relieve the minds of many mo- torists who peer anxiously through the glare of approaching ligh dreading the thought of striking some one walking at the side of the roadway. “Many persons who hike along the sides of the roads séem to belisve that they can be seen easily by drivers in the light of their own head lamps,” Mr. Lucius said. “This is governed by conditions. A driver with no traf- fio ahead of him can pick out these pedestrians, but if he has the lights of an oncoming car in his eyes the matter is not so simple. “Any motorist knows that just be- fore passing a car coming frem the opposite direction he can see very little of the road ahead of him, and this forms a hazard in that some one may be walking in the blind spot. “It lights were carried on. these dark roads by thoss who walk, the motorist would be able to pick them out, even in the glare of approaching headlights. A flashlight would do, and the walker could use it only when he sees a car approaching him, or an oll lantern would serve well. “If the road walkers would walk on the.left side of the road and carry 1ights, too, how much safer the roads would be for all concerned!" TEST FOR AWHEEL BRAKES. A quiet street, level, well paved and wide, makes an ideal place to test the accuracy of vour four-wheel brake adjustments, if there is fco on the street. The slightest misadjust- ment will be noted in the tendency of the car to deviate from s straight ccurse when stopping. Engines in Winter When Starting Off One of the biggest mistakes in Winter driving is the idea that one should not drive fast when the car is cold, because this leads one to forget that the engine is the thing that should be pampered and not the car. At a car speed of 12 miles an hour in low gear many an engine is receiving worse punishment that it would were the driver hitting a speed of 30 miles an hour in high gear. The speed of the engine is the thing to watch This being true, it is evident that the noise of the gears when racing the engino at low car speed makes it all the more difficult to detect the rap of a bearing that is suddenly being denied a sufficient amount of lubric Hard Riding of Car May Be Traced to Uneven Eyes of Ends. Perhaps the hard riding of your car has something to do with the epring shackles. Just because you are able to force grease through the spring bolts is no reason to assume that there are no points that are binding. Sometimes the eves of the spring ends are not even at all points, with the result that the spring bolt or its nuts will be bound at certain positions Clark’s Auto Laundry— 24-Hour Service CLARK’S GARAGE 1625 You Street N.W. Storage—Phone Potomao 214—Repairing Better WHOLESALE AND RETAIL RIMS FOR ALL WHEELS The Rebable Tire Hooma SERVICE TTRE Q. 1336 14th St. N.W. For Cold Weather Starting —they have the “punch” We can eell you a Willard Battery that will spin your engine to a flying start every morn- ing. ‘You won't have toget ft recharged all winter, cither, if your electrical system is on the job. Quick starts take less-out of a battery. *“There would be 2 ot less pro- fanity on cold nights if yoa motorists all had Willards,” says Littio Ampere. W, ashington-Battery Company 1621.23 L Street N.W. Main 180 Willard RADIO Batteries Willgrd AUTOMOBILE Batterbes Willerd FARM LIGHTING Batterics =iy JANUARY 11, 1925—PART 3. Squeak, Rumble or Rattle Gives Warning of Trouble Any Noise in Auto Should Be Investi- gated Promptly, That Attention May Be Given to Complaining Part. BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. Squeaks may come and may go, but the car doesn't go on forever without developing trouble and introducing the owner to another repair bill There's a reason for every squeak and rattle in the car, and unless its meaning is clear to the man at wheel, it isn't long before he's hear- ing the rattle of mechanic's tools and wondering why he was so shortsight- ed as to forget that in the modern | automobile noise is coming to mean trouble Consider the zelf that it is squeaks | vealing his fgn a car never calls for help unless has good reason to. icaks, rumbles the beginning of tro suspect, for instanc bling of 4 fan wo sult in tving up road with a badl gine? In a repair shop was discovered of a certain car erly lubricated. A: high fore, the f ould re ning motion imparted belt and t The owr trouble ir driver on ated recent at the fan be ad never been prog there universal joints which, when out of commission, toil not, neither do they spin. A metal uni- |What the fa versal is silent when it is well greased | began m and not worn, but w n neglected| Tt it has its way of telling the world An experienced driver catches its warning as quicl as he would note any unusual variation in the ammeter reading. He gets bus lookingz into the matter and the result is that he is not 80 likely to be obliged to make | things hum around the nearest pair shop. ical trouble, keep your car € nk tion it 1o loc of one squeak or until vo of cond for the cause %o wa 1 a doze is easier have accu re-|the or tempt g ar Never Too Early to Stop. o JF = #nqd nrevont The first step is to know that any| The important point strange noise from under the hood|tiate between me or from the chassis is a cue to stop, | mechan look and get busy. Most drivers do|eral ru ember not stop until the car has cried out|tion, but of course bevond the limit of its endurance,|tani exceptions and there's only_one answer to that | however sort of thing. You might say that|part of the it’s never 100 late to ask the car what | constant iU's saying, but it is also important to| For remember that it's never too carly to|ing goes dr stop the car and investigate. squeak The average driver would stop if|later shril his ofl pressure gauge suddenly fell [noise of back to zero, vot a strange noise from [ might be the car seldom stimulates him to ac- it would be tion. To him they are just “squeaks. T He may be annoyed, but he tells him- al no a noise from car is more instar consta used The Facts About LOW-COST TRANSPORTATION Chapter V WHAT ACCURACY MEANS TO MOTORISTS ‘What has been the measure of accuracy used in automobile motor manufacture? : Until recently the basic fraction used for measuring the size and determining the fit of parts of automobile mechanism was one- thousandth of an inch. ‘What basis is used in measuring Star Motor Parts? Important parts of the new motor of the Star Car are fitted within “limits of tolerance” or, in other words, permissible variations of only two ten-thousandths of an inch in the case of parts subject to considerable expansion through heat, and in the case of other parts the ““limit of tolerance” is reduced to one ten-thousandth of an inch. Q. How small is one ten-thousandth of an inch? A. A fine human hair measures about twenty ben-thoumhdfixs of an inch in thickness. Can you imagine a space one-twentieth as wide as the thickness of a hair? Q. What do such fine measurements mean to Star owners? A. Such refined engineering in the new Star motor means money saved 1o Star owners because it means perfect fit and complete inter- changeability of similar parts, quiet, smooth operation, long life, high efficiency, minimized repair bills. Low-cost Transportafion Star §y Cars HARPER MOTOR COMPANY, Inc. 1128-1130 Connecticut Ave. Franklin 4307 Branches—Richmond, Va., Roanoke, Va. . Open Sundays _ Open Evenings Associate Dealers in Virginia and Nearby Territory Slocombe Brothers, Alexandrie, Va. R. H. Ohilton Go,. Kilmarnock, Va. Lonsseme Pine Motor Company, Appalechis, Va. Loudoun Gerage Leesburs. Va. Quld"Motor Compeny, Appomaitox, Ve, The Peoples Moter O . Lexington, Va. Aute Bervice and Elestric Gorp.,_Bedford, Va. Midiand Wotors. Tag, Lynobburg, Va. Lonesome Pine Motor Compspy, Bl Stons Gap, Coekrell's Garage, Manassss, V. ia ‘Motor Conipany, Marion, Va. 7. E. Robertson, Blackstone, Vi. 8. J. ‘Bonewell, Morrisen, Va. o Mater Compay, Bluithld, W Ve. Mebiick Motor Gom: kins Motor Oempany, kins, y Motor Company, .8, Ve Wm. L. Callewy, P Dazte gy Midway Service ME 9 2 Ve Vona! Company, Farmville, Va. Universal Sorvice Slativs, Front Roral, Va. Galsx Moter Company, Calsx, Va. ' Lenesome Pine Motor MP‘!L Gate Cif Va. Shenilend Moter Compeny’ Gechiand F Sompasy. Geosand, Solknd'"S. Carpenter, “Indian Head. Md Yo ) Fred L. Joslyn, Cobbs Creek. Riverdals Garage, Riverdal Paxson & Pancosst, Purcel Beatty Brothers, Marshall, Va. Winchester Hudson Company, Winchester, Va.