Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1925, Page 68

THE - SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, FORM SIGNS ON ROADS SOUGHT Secretary Gore Names Board to Develop New Safety Methods. in the ign fc safety on and hig as taken by Agriculture Howard M appointment eek posed of officials of Public Roads and the way Departments to estab- numbering king s of interstate character is headed by Thomas H chief of the Bureau o Roads. confusion Public Much a to the tourist is oc belleved, by the larg ty of conflicting signs and ers along the road ding signs are said to be not o expensive to the motorist who may be traveling for iles the wrong road, but they are also, in many contri- | butory factors Cor n important duties | of this board and the helpful results | expected from its action, S “The clation of State offic s been giving consideration to this matte vears and each State, as sen frantically passing signs, eliminat- | nd using the | ing railroad c us space in the public safety methods of | gency br on {Lu the Co-operation Sought. number of nge and gather- | various groups way safety, but In| which have | published their | has been en so many div nflicting ideas tha aveling over |after such an gover, proof deral in its n with the doing a v k which would not | otherwise be accomplished If entire dependence were placed upon the| States themselves Seeks Uniform Signs. Government | ates is | purpose of this ing directions person trav through may be a certa also every danger Sign w same in every State. It that these measures will add m the safety f the trave g public well as to their convenience and per- sonal comfort You wouid be sur prised if you knew the additional expense met by the public in th unnecessary mileage traveled cause of misdirection or no direction at all “Thirty-eight State Legislatures are now in session and while a few States have no legislation on their statute books to provide for this co-ordinat- ing work, a vas majority already have that authority and it is expected that the remaining States will gladly fall in line. “This board is being formed at the unanimous request of State highway departments that have been studyin;g the question for several years and 1 am only too glad to co-operate with . them in bringing about this m needs= Zuational consideration of t sreut traffic demands traffic regulations throug country.” AIDS INSURANCE WORK. Presenting Card Immediately After Accident Is Advised. Not all motorists who carry i ance in the largest companies kno that by carrying the insurer's serv card with them and present the nearest local agent or represent- ative event of accident, fire or theft lifted off their shoulders The insu his interests at stake, rel 1y small they may be, and for reason his repre- sentatives instructed to rer every p e and reasonable service to the Think of your insur- ance servi when you hav had so t don’t make the mistake ways drive yo didn't carry a cent o CLUTCH SAFETY SHOWN Hold It Out and Keep Gears in Reverse, Is Advice. insurance When a clutch drags a bit the main ariving & nough for " in starting. Or to over this an is to hold the clutch out the car in low gear, 3 a very dangerous proces Should clutch the hine ward and run into trian. T olutch out and keep the gears in re verse. Almost as quick a sta had, with none of the risks of the other method. driver's foot slip off the would dart for- a pedes- As EBOMITE “Strings" 1o a Stick, So It Wind: Around the Gears MR. MOTORIST What are you buying! Price or Quality? If you are simply - interested in buying gear lubrication be- cause of its low price, we have nothing of special in- terest to present. But if your idea is to pro- long the life of your Motor Car or Truck, with less re- pair bills, and secure for yourself lasting gear lubri- cation satisfaction, we ad- vise the use of EBONITE. Automotive Engineers everywhere indorse it. Buy with your mind made SR up. Demand EBONITE. PR Take no substitute. At dealers in five-pound cans, and at servics stations from the EBONITE checker-board pump ouly. | car coast | pulled the | was free daily press to|lating about the found | to live up to its va1| geney. If you f | when you think you have got to make be- | never of car. imiich ofithe jaetatliis| does not stop spinning | ck shift to | ¢ is to hold the | John Smith and His Car BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. Tobn Smith is a character whom every motorist should welcome. He is 1ot selfish; rather he is a motoring martyr, a chap willing and glad to have exploited, in an interesting way, his experiences for the benefit of the other 10,000,000 or more members of the motor clan. the driver attempts to shift into sec- comes to dis- |ond. If drivers would use the emer- e e "his | geney brake to keep the car from the | coasting backwards when letting in the clutch they would use the right foot for the accelerator and avoid racing the engine and consequent dif- ficulty in gear shifting. And here’s another use for the emergency brake; you can keep the car under better control-and save | wear on the service brake—by using it as a supplementary brake when slowing down on a steep hill. Don't make the mistake of pulling on the mergency suddenly. Apply the serv- ice brake first and then follow up with the emergency. With the two brakes used alternately there is lit- | tie likelthood of burning out the brake linings “When you are descending a_ hill it is advisable to leave the clutch | engaged, so that the motor acts as | a brake, but your foot must be ready to disengage the clutch in an emer- for a shift to second, for in- Your other foot is busy with the foot brake, vet it must be ready to touch the acceleraton if the ma- extra precaution against having the |Chine is to be ‘double clutched’ and away. < He readily realized |® noiseless, quick shift made to a while the | the folly of this when he shifted into |loWer speed. Al the neutral and found that he had not |emersency is very handy as a means brake lever back more of the car in | than two notches and that the car to run wild Would Abolish Emergency. By the time he had finished specu- value of the emer- ke he was. r to climb ext housetops and m the No. 87—The Neglected Emergeney. | Sometimes a motoris | cover a lot of new poin jcar when he is simply sitting at | wheel thinking about things in ge eral. Smith was recently waiting for | a member of his household to make purchase in a neighborhood sto when he happened to notice the emer- | geney brake lever and wondered wh; they ever called it an emergency brake. He had never once used it in an emer- gency, and the chances are it would | be the last thing to enter his head | | were e suddenly ced to make abrupt halt. He might happen to r vt fo it should the foot brake fail| him, but even this might be too late to be effective i Coming to think about what | good was the emergency ake any- | | way? He recalled that he never even when he parked the car, be- ausc time and time again he be advised never to rely upon the brakes but to leave the car in gear. On this | 8eN¢ | particutar sion s on many oth- | stance. ers, he had pulled on the emergency brake in a half-hearted way as an of keeping the speed check.” I left Smith making a few notes regarding the various uses of the emergenc He was not so sure that they had made a mistake in naming it. week — Psychology of Hill Climbing. of this useless control -'xh—§ place an adgition abolitio: | stituting in its | oot pedal. Then he chanced PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE to meet me at th The emergency brake took ‘on new signifi DRIVING AS REMEDY Fpl b i FOR NERVOUSNESS interested | filling station. | | i ! do is to learn to of dividin ued from Sixth Page.) atter is that many local mo- owpn their own cars for just ber to do this try the Sorints J sure they can derive from drops solin: Bt v - brake v touring. &. a few miles| “Numerous cases have come to our : application the service | yttention where people have bought ke will not hold properly, o YoU | ars on the advice of physicians, who be .‘.‘ :’v’. "‘ r“‘[“"“"""" ‘\"\ ‘! {pre it driving as a cure for nerv- gency. Youll be killing two birds [ pus disorders. with one stone e “When one adds up the various rea- *0 you have acq for owning cars it becomes ap of reachingefor tha la parent that no one improvement or i A i difficulty in a one phase of own a sudde n \'(w\“\nu are no v.lu,.\ ership is suff t to affect produc forget about the « ency when ; s e b e aihe: is vour only salvatior t %6 s AFect the. whole “Yes, but if that's the only rea sons for ownersbip be-| for having ‘x” “T)L"“"\ brake tion and consumption are Smith hink it would a better id with it stall anothe 7 so that al.¢ ‘forgetting that other people do ;' do the " ‘I y*l"“ “‘\’ Y-lnot own hines for exactly , the much more natural to push on | ¢ame n ey a5 Wl ekent 1" (!(‘mr boards when -.w’_n.ml Py judges of the many sub- stop than to pull a lever. E St o < > lever je Y be viewed from the folks ‘m the .::\nn;ax '.Z;\vwl. Standpoint of fact rather than faney. HARy Y e It often makes them dissatisfied with T A e | their own motoring to realize that S e they are not using their cars in the . whereas the truth of cach owner should his ow needs if he profitable invest- miles brake owners make the mistake Value of Emerzency. | way others “Your suggesti might be worth [ the ma : considering if the quick stop feature | use his car for were the only use for the emergency | Would have a tru brake,” I replied. ““Perhaps you have | ment.” tried it, but the emergency brake can be very useful when start- ing up a steep hill from a dead stop. Most drivers keep one foot on the service brake while they let in the | utes for the engine to warm up some clutch, so that the machine does not[cold night after the car has been coast backward, but in that case it is|standing out, press out the clutch necessary to control the throttle with | pedal and shift the gears around. the steering post lever. This is a|This will serve to limber up the con- clumsy method and usually leads to | gealed gear lubricant ‘When you accidental racing of the engine when ' start off the gears will shift easier. MECHANIC SAYS e Makes Starting Easier. While you are waiting a few min- THE OLD an the car in the . or leaner when the engine is cold. spend )t of time dustin’ a Before you know it you have lost olishin ¢ to discover when you|all track of the adjustments. and ve out into the daylight that you |You'll be chokin’ the carburetor in made a pretty poor job of it? order to keep the engine from stallin’ Well, the same thing happens when | —or callin’ for me to come over and you try to monkey with the works |saivage the wreck under unfavorable conditions. I try| Don't work in the dark. Get out to impress this upon a lot of ama- |into the light where you are goin® teur mechanics, but 1 guess they like | to use the car. Then work on it. to see me prosper as the man who = == does their aices. WHOLESALE It would be right to clean a nsur- | car in the dark if you always used fes know |it in the dark. The same with re- s service [ pairs. You could afford to adjust | ing it to|tappets when the engine's cold if | FOR ALL WHEELS Rundlett Rim Co. 1336 14th St. N.W. Pay What You Will vou always used it when it cold But t was | e car goes out into the day- light and the engine gets hot. The | | places you forget to polish show up Ke the lack of clearance in the tappets. | tappets should only be ad- | justed only for the conditions under Wwhich they are to operate. If y a have the engine warmed ])‘ 1 you tackle the job, at le leave enough -learance for normal | unning conditions. The same with simply workin' in the npt to make the mixtur carburetors. 1t's dark to at- ric n.rl You Can Buy no Finer Car | | And after you have become a Buick owner your experience will convince vou that your judgment was sound when you chose a Buick, because every day you drive your Buick the more apparent its value will become. Its ready response to all the de- mands you make on it in the city and on the highway and in all kinds of weather will give you the feeling of satisfaction that comes when you realize you are getting full return for vour expenditure. | STANLEY H. HORNER RETAIL DEALER "EBONITE (ITS SHREDDED OIL FOR TRANSMISSIONS AND REAR AXLES N OILWORKS -(OLUMEIAS 1015 14th St. Main 5296 3 D. C, MARCH 1, 1925—PART. Opening Display The new Chevrolet closed models are truly beautiful cars. New Fisher Bodies of handsome design, fimshed in richly harmoni- ous colors of Duco—built on the new Chevrolet chassis with the new, improved dry-plate disc clutch, semi-elliptic springs and extra strong rear axle with banjo-type pressed-steel housing con- struction such as you would expectto find only on high priced cars. They have the new non-rusting airplane metal radiator, cowl lights and VV type, one-piece windshield with automatic windshield cleaner. The Coupe is finished with lower panels and hood in sage Eteen Duco, upper panels and fenders in lack. It has balloon tires and disc wheels. Price $715 f. o. b. Flint, Michigan. has extra wide doors and windows. Itis finished in a handsome shade of rich dark blue Duco. It has, as standard eguipment, special artillery wheels and balloon tires. Pnce $735 f. o. b. Flint, Michigan. has a beautiful agua—marine blue finish on the ‘lower panels and hood and a deep black on the fenders and upper panels. It is equipped The Coach The Sedan mt.l;, bfiflfig‘ifi tl:is; ;al:;l disc wheels. Pnce 825 See these beautiful new cars at your nearest Chevrolet dealex’s Quality at Low Cost