Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1925, Page 58

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 11, 1925—PART GASU”NE SUPPI.Y John Smlth and HlS Car - ASSERIS [}UURIESY atives of the average olass of driv- THEC D Smeaa oo FOR SCHOOL PUPILS ers—most of whom “hate like sin” to BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. give up even a small one of their so- ‘We mechanics get blamed for a lot of things we have nothin’ to do with. called “God-given” rights—will yield]I could do a job on the steerin’ gear for one owner around here and get Foml the right of way and then later in[blamed if he got a puncture the next week. | Tohn Smith is a character whom every motorist should welcome. He Trafic Court claim it was “taken Tt often happens that after I've worked on a car somethin’ will go|Baughman Declares Practice of not selfish; rather he is a motoring martyr, a chap willing and glad to away from them” when an accident|Wrong with it when the owner takes it out, and this may not have any ps 4 Picking Up Children Should have exploited, in an interesting way, his experiences for the benefit of has resulted. connection with the job itself. If he had never brought the car in it would . 4 sk Ly Second, he professes keen interest|have done the same thing. Report on Oil Resources the other 10,000,000 or more members of the motor clan. Maryland Official Declares|in the whys and wherefores of a Owners seldom consider this. Just figure that we've put somethin’ out | Be Dropped. mental reaction which at one instant 2! k“lh'r' Some of 'em even go so far as to suspect that we manufacture b 3 speed), others at 30, 25 or 40. It de- H : will very cautiously slow up, even to |trouble for ‘em. | Notes Recent Large Growth | Yo So—Critieat Specdn. e oers At 30, S eos won ea| Right-of-Way Giver Gen- | funl stop, so as to give another the Tirh things can happen o any car within'a few houral time, and some- | , BALTIMORE, January 3—-Discip- : ;\m:(h' »-;:;mi:“w hexgp“\‘x_;nruf n:flr\* 'r"‘; construction of the motor, its size right of way, and then, within a few Hmesh\Inen vnu'rlrx busy lookin' for one cause you just don’t happen to see |linary action against all school chil- X X | erestat “his_ car v day S L e moments, undo all of the initial|Somethin’ else goin’ wrong. Almost every time I do any extensive work on - s g in Production. e e instan o waan Rmer|anO e SRS b o erous to Fault. o by viiation ot | Gnybody'a cngine they come back to me in & few days with the complaint | Lror, CXUEHt beszing sutomoblie sides him the other day he Wwas rufinif€|may change, though the variation one of the simplest, yet fundamen- |that they're gettin’ a skip. Blame me for gettin’ the engine out of wha 13 advocated by E. Austin Baughman, the motor at various spee *|“"“|‘: - | will be very slight. Just at present tally important provisions of the law. | #nd lands knows what all. It's pretty hard for me to convince 'em that they | Marvland's commissiner of motor ve- |2aTing 18 effect upon the MMMt is evidently found at a car speed BALTIMORE, January 10.—Polite-| “Whatever the cause for this In- just need a few new spark plugs and that they'd have had trouble anyway. | hicles | whish 1s bottenr oy r e of 31 miles an hour. When you drive|Ness and courtesy are all right in |dianlike attitude of giving and then When an engine gets so frisky that the owner's got to lay it up for a| Henry F. automobiles w yo hit first, it | c¥linder head : i 1| betow or above this specd the engine their place, but they have no place | immediately snatching back the right | few d: it's usually run far enough to be ready to need new plugs. If the | man of the Balt p asserted by Dr chaphorst Do you hear that i l.'."h operates apparently wifhout vibra- |in automobile driving, as far as giv- | of way, it is certainly a good way to | rings are bad the chances are that the carburetor needs overhaulin’, too.|has appealed to parents Newark, N. J r upon ofl |open the throttle just so far €| tion ing right of way at street intersec. | get drivers into trouble,” Mr. Baugh- | If the clutch needs overhaulin’ the chances are 10 to 1 that the transmission cher: motorists to discourage ning prepared fe P "*"I"‘] it vibrate, if thats|. Then that's why this car seems to| tions is concerned, the opinion of | man said. “The funny part about it|iS Bettin’ ready to give trouble. Just repairers’ luck that these troubles | “picking up” of children on the ournal of the A can N g hear the horn ate, S| gettle down’ and run like a clock at Austin Baughman, Maryland com- | Is that the driver who, under the pir- follow each other so's to look like we're to bla B | streets and taking them to school | 1f the Nation's dwindling oil re- Rources forco restr » use of gaso- what you mean.” i D 0 3 ; 40, Smith inferred. missioner of motor vehicles. The | cumstances cited, takes the right of Wouldn't advise tryin’ to tackle too much repair work at one time, but | “Something must be done to break Bl ;',‘('.‘.5.\”‘Jl\';".-‘d\‘:”-.,'f"‘;fil‘;“",:;‘:“:: “Exactly.” hubit of some motorists of starting|way after having stopped and |Just don’t blame us if the car ain't perfect after we get through fixin' the |UP this practice” said Commissioner on GHelNcrI Yotiok el Seelit| L they get rid it this critical| OBt 1o do_an overcourteons “Al- | yielded it Is in exactly the same po- | MOSt important things. Baughman. “If the children who speed.” ¥ speed?” Rhianse and Gaston” act, followed by | sition as if he had dashed madly persist in running out in the streets - vas oth getting sgusted at the dela Aacro: the intersecti vithout a to ask motorists for a ride home or e it ol averino e it natbet T was coming to that. Some makes | . 4 ¥ r on withou : nt 3 el OF |, Havemt vou ever noticed that be-| /L NAS SR e O e “en: | and starting ahead at the same time, | regard tothe rights of others, if Bumping Frozen Snow. snow is scarcely softer than a rock,|lo ‘school were reporled io their Al plants | fOr: e e re v | e e throuah ‘the use ot a second, | 1% he said, & very active and reai |accident results; B = ™ which means that it has all the ele- | teachers and punished by being kept her th an’'t say 1 have” he re- | el Hhr o U O attashed | contributing cause to many of the “When a man coming from your|, The habit of “rushing” piles of|ments cessary for breaking spring|in a half hour or an hour after school - snow is likely to lead to trouble if ves, upsetting the car, cracking the | for a day or so, it would work won- “You see, when I travel about = 5 P it pay us to S g : Sy so-called “right-of-way” collisions | right e . oTs burnings il [town I hardly ever get over r}m mll;:« :‘)_ ‘hh: rf‘ff':“:\':;‘ ;’&“‘.‘r“‘f;;‘g)""‘or”"p“;{_- which end in the Trafic Court or & :xfi: th’::p:ert:;u‘\f"‘;\":.ne';l;)(:‘: l‘o P’r‘.’,‘f continued when that snow has be-|éarcass of the tires or knocking the|ders in breaking up this dangerous n hour, and when I strike the high- 3 s s damage suit—if not, indeed = trip| ceed firat, dont 9o 1t: mot unless nis | COMe frozen. 1In the latter state the |steering wheel out of the driver's hands. | practice exhausted before 5 . d vibration dampeners. Great | ways I hit 'er up to 40. If the roads|ented vibra! peners. ire ~ i 5 t back S5 e A orend ba ta| care in the construction of some high-{ o the }‘\'osxlml for the occupants of | motor has stalled and to insist on sually one or both of the vehicle his exercising his right of way would made a stud f ’ s iced hel imi; hi 5. But yvesterday I had some friends|Priced cars helps to minimize this ) that the supply of |20, But yesterday I had some trienda| PECRT CIL N800 oL, B0 oy cen | e, mental tude of this type|mean traffic_ congestion and del hundr ¢ | them up with speed, but we had|er some of the new engineering prin- 000,000 2 S | fuite a distance to go, so I kept the|ciples will serve to eliminate this speed just a trifle over I mean I|characteristic of the engine alto- tried to keep the speed of the car at|Bether remains to be seen; but in ¢ point. "But you ought to have|the meantime anyscar owner can pro- “ | heard the queer noise from under the|tect himself against excessive en- ~ Ihood. Sounded as though the motor |&ine wear by discovering the approx- T e ot ‘out.ana | imate critical speed of his engine and nterest 1o OLOriIsts investigated, but found it was noth-|then driving at speeds above or be- {ing but the horn. I figured that it[low it.” was loose, but I've been working on Period of Vibration. the thing for an hour and it rattles| “Don’t they sometimes refer to this and r O o i raine | o S SO o Truck Owners would be if 1 attached the horn to|asked, recalling some automobile cat- plie ferring to the critical speed,” I ex- : ; “\Fhat kind of answer is that?” he|plained. “It has ‘the advantago of The American Bosch Company has queried, warning the driver that the maxi- H Y00 had better leave the horn|mum point of vibration may not stay appointed the Potomac Battery Com- ight where it is. It's the best sort|at one exact speed of the engine, i 1 3 ,¢ warning you could have. When |but may vary over a brief period. ERRy a5 A dlr,'x't Sales D“tnl.’“u?r and S : i : Service Station for the District of | l\‘nn\\m‘: e ual critical speed. Complete service on all Bosch Ation reaches 4 maximum. The odd|of the engine which vibrate have Spark Plugs, will be maintained. v i suppphy hat much | Dot trav so fast in traffic, but aling rather than to pure vibration p suppply that much | 20t travel 30 bl R s Jaricas 5¢ wibiation LIGHTNING will malie the:car run-smooth over the the horn beginning to vi-|It helps the driver who hasn't got a u're r:v‘nng deep into “The term ‘period of vibration, Lot it is that this critical speed |their periods, and frequently a com- ome when the engine is run-|bination of these periods will pro- P WER- & for fuel by the | brakes is a warning of possible un- |reach a maximum point the engineers rough places—it throtties lower—with less shifting the dash or the frame.” alogues. would be unfortunate,” I re- “That's just a popular way of re- ange your speed. A lot of |very good ear for vibration to know 4 B . o B e ihavel ok [ Rer sk oxtay imor hejsavine ibis o Columbia and surrounding territory. horns bolted to the engine are ac-|gine excessive wear if it is just run- i ruining their power plants|ning ghtly below or above the us- mith suspected. | however, is loosely used. In scienc products, including Starters, Gener- 25 035 Y0 MORE PEP-MORE POWER-MORE MILES ? it means the time between a ph * o T e : ot Sour mnieincalof mibrtioniandiits racusaute; Slichl ators, Shock Absorbers, Ford Igni- \ many others——has a eritical speed, so| would be like the complete or double : s Wi . Wi — — - : alled Lecause it is found where vi-|SWing of a pendulum. All the parts tion Umb, lnd‘l“eld IPETS ‘nd v a engine reach |duce a rhythmi beat particularly a py o |1 B o s A et : Wedthlt lyolu' patronage on serv- Twenty | = There is & beat in a four or an eight- ice and on sales. . . . i 3 Tty | el brakeh and when cars 4idl| oyliafer. motor, but ifiis due to time L Snow and ice, with chains, means heavy pulling. ) ears .. but until | €qual adjustment and of loss of four- | prefer to refer to it as the period of ently roe smade | wheel brake advantages. when stop- |vibration. But, call it what vou will, otoma y. N wever, | Ping short on wet streets. the fact remains that it's hostile to | c a e om an o0 e | B R ewing DoBUlarity of closed [the engine and must therefore be f | gears. Fill the tank today and be convinced. daily JeE or IS onbia (| cars and the consequent increase in |avolded.” s Sl et possibility of body squeaks and| “I'll prefer to call it ‘critical ec . attles renders it doubly important|speed’” Smith wisely decided, “be- 1236 l2th St. N.W. PENN OIL 1and it i ng done with greater | ¥ th coal interpret strange noises properly. | cause I can associate it with the crit- A demand is of [ Not only does the closed body admit |ical results which will follow from Mai Washi D. C. There’s a filling station near you. West 166 ut demand 1s of |00 08 O Hitien for such nolses, | daiving & ear habitusily &t & speed ain 8134 ashington, D. C. Look for the Lightning Sign. Frank. 391 But it accentuates any chassis noises. | when its engine is vibrating most” 5 Many things which you could over- look in the open car must be attend- | Next week—Foiling the Hold-up Man. ed to in the closed job. Copyrignt M1925.) ONLY PACKARD CAN BUILD A PACKARD “in B it might aid, of few combustibles that e more Ve tile than gasoline; »t every chemist knows that n gasoline can be ed furnace, nd it can be burned at as eafely as it is used in automobile : 4 make it decidedly safe fact, some | L will b mplified in the future, b g y/ oil burning wit 1 the economic = h ¢ 1 i che and e ; ' Without a Parallel SQUEAK, RUMBLE OR B i T RATTLE GIVES WARN- ING OF TROUBLE As a manufacturingand business obsolescence of the cumbersome, achievement, the success of the the heavy and the wasteful in Six in its first year before motoring. the public is remarkable enough. Never before have such results as e | 5 But it is even more remarkable Chrysler Six provides been ST - since, both in mumber of cars achicved with sach compactness . ; produced and in money-volume, of construction and yet with it reaches figures never before comfort of such superlative onel For a quarter of a century, models of highest quality at m’d‘d in the fi'z;“fi“l:“tm degree. ur rule, Packard has been building actual open car prices. e celmd,cfi:;,;“ Six ha,{:l'; In a word, the Chrysler Six—in sytionteot Pl 2 cars of the highest quality : % < and shipped more than 32,000 the 25th year of the motor car, Packard Eight both for thatportionof the public ~Revised prices just an- cars. The public has eagerly paid ¥hen it might have seemed that facnished in ton d off over #50,000,000 for the privilege the full gamut of engineering and s o At that demands the best at nounced oiier an average of enjoying the motoring superi. ~ Manufacturing ingenuity had e enclosed. Packard's any price. red‘;“w‘;‘ of *750 on the orities which wereunknownuntil been AR tcll‘e public » £ you are | t liberal el revealed them car which in eight, i S ,,,“ fi’;':‘:;nfm', ;f:n Today, from the position of ;,ngk::; Si;n o?els of the Chrysler comfort and gu:,n inwperf;'r::- o e | makes possible the leadership that has been s —for example, One year ago the Chrysler Six ance and economy, in alertness ind stemmamin) immediate enjoy- the price of the Seven Passen- was little more than a name to and stamina, was precisely what St i | m,n,;‘,f,puh,d_ ;’o generolusly accogfied, ges Secdns i vedduosd the l;lic :lt la;ge. Beyfndt;‘he public had long wanted, but trouble down ito| purchasing out of ackard celebrates its Silver ; 840. of Walter P. Chrysler that never before received. at it will not income instead of . . : i strikin; entirely “,‘z e Ann_wersary by making it Each carisidentical in every ‘:ot:“ in motoii:; pfl'form::; What has come to Chrysler Six : E possible for more men and way with those Packard has and efficiency and comfort, it was in its first year is nothing more women to have the car of pbeen building during the an unknown quantity. e and i hefrccos . nition which the world is sure to their dreams. past year. The prices of all Today it is the one car talked bestow upon ity el Now, for the first time, one models of the Packard Eight £ R el O - g“ln Y3 it.. to that which has rods tatled : Never before has a motor car so R may buy standard enclosed are not affected. r‘u and completely captured Thus o - T tisiedton fonibing the Braveinai e whole public. Never hasany firt of what enthusiastic suspected tha o wheel Y r causing the Jress (00 tighily at one Siint e ] so irresistibly to owners predict will be e . b“ yersof allclasses,and toowners gy ccessful years—years in m reveal any 1 nment. The P s fhes ALy piste s Connecticut at S, North 600 of 311 chaseen of cars. e e o ated the unit where the troule appearcd (o be. vet e | 252 Never has any car so com- the Chrysler as far ahead of the ust 5 minutes pletely swept aside traditions or wasteful and the commonplace s : s0 surely pointed the way to the as it stands at this minute. in turn, was c i ; b ake shaft half » "'fl:z;l'mu c":fi;:',m Phaeton, [$1495; The Roadster, e 3065, The Gremm-frmperiel, 43195 The Reyed Conpe, S1095. oo BB e . Al £ o b subject to current govermment tax. bands failed to as it sho 3 ol e ot o s Weare pleased to extend the convenience of time-payments. of the trouble was removed from (he - Ask about Chrysler’s attractive plan. Dealers everywhere. effect. In trying to understand the c Stago T2 18, wll. 1o, 100k ToF H. B. LEARY, Jr. AR causes first It isn’'t nece Eins iike the man who s Maxwell Showroom Distiusor 1612-22 You St. N.W. eylinder motor reb - - MAXWELL-CHRYSLER ne later discovere S - Next 1321-23 14th St. N.W. North 429 General Offices and Service D et wilois e s 5 Salesroom Open Evenings & Sundays Department noise that sounds like pistons scrap- ing. New mechanical changes in cars are bringing about a change in car noises. A screeching brake band could be passed up as a mere detail u -Q Q w—_x j in the glays When evergbody used