Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1925, Page 59

AUTO TRADE GROUP FAVORS NEW CODE < 3 | Will Aid in Enforcing Traffic Regulations—Sees Ben- efit to City. Wholehearted trafic 1 support of the new code fc the District of Co- lumbia, just enacted by Congre! was pledged by the Washington Auto- motive Trade Association in a state- nen urging all motorists also to co- operate with the authorities in thelr to make Washington an ideal ty. Marked decrease in the of traflic accidents is ex- pected this year as a direct result of more stringent rezulations and be increase in enforcement power. While the law embodies one or two inor features which are somewhat distasteful to the motoring public, lcularly the provision requiring «n annual permit, the code as a whole, the statement says, is quite comprehensive and should prove a odel for other cities. It represents e best opinions of some of the moat inent trafic authorities ‘in the country Sten, Fosward Scem. section providing for the lishment of arterial highways is ed by the trade association as a disunct step forward in expediting rafic. Lxperience in other cities, it has shown that the boule- top system s an absolute ty in any lar ¥ | hington motorists have reason! to expect that the next twelve months | will show a decided decrease in the| imber of trafic accidents in the Capital,” Paul B. Lum, president of he Washington Automotive Trade Assoclation, said, in commenting on new law. “The new regulatlons | not only more stringent than ose previously on the statute books but there Is a greater likelihood of \eir enforcement. In other words, law has ‘teeth,’ being backed by the assignment of 100 more officers to traflic duty and the addition of two | e judges. Washinzton the he automobile deal- considered traffic bill as one| of the most important pieces of legis- lation for the District in the closing of the last Congress. The was followed closely by the trafic commitfee from me of its introduction to the| me it was finally passed, by boih Louses and sent to the President. | Objections Bring Results. res of the bill as it| introduced were op- assoclation, and subse- | of these objectionable ended either on the floor or in conference, particulafly | the. speed limit, impounding of vehicles for violation of parking reg- ions and certain other sections carrying what was belleved to be too ure tion’s Several was original posed by Guently most sections were o association members, as mo-| s, opposed the section providing | the renewal of drivers’ permits| Ily at a fee of $2 on the ground | was an unnecessary burden on | the motorist as well as a nuisance | and an annoyance. This fee was re- | duced to §1 by the Senate and the | whole sec liminated entirely in | conference, for to be restored to the | 51 basis by the House, in® which form the section was passed. “Aside from that phase of the law,! the new code, together with sueh additional provisions as the director of traffic shall prescribe from time to ! time, is one that doubtlessly will prove a model for other cities. In the i rest of safer streets in Washing- ton, it deserves the wholehearted | support of every conscigntious Giti-{ zen, whether motorist or pedestrian.” BILLION MORE GALLONS OF GAS USED IN YEAR Astounding Increase in Demand for Motor Fuel Shown for 1924. Consumption of gasoline in 1924 by automobiles, motor boats, tractors alrplanes and other types of internal- mbustion engines amounted to 80,625,085 gallons, an increase over he previous year of 1,095,389,805 gal- Jons, according to figures compiled by | the Bureau of Mines. i average demand for gaso- ar amounted to 21,258,538 which was 2,943,873 gallons than the daily average con- ption in 1923 Consumption of gasoline last year was the highest on record, as well as production, which amounted to 8,959,680, zallons, exceeding the previous high mark, set in 1923, by 1,403,735,077 gallons. AUTO PARTS CHEAP Owner Slmuld Investigate Before | { | i | Allowing Depreciation. Have you discovered how little it to replace many of the parts the ca If you haven't, the chances are that you are sti!l mak- ing apologies for the worn and broken things about the car and are still ignorant of the pleasure of hav- ing your car shipshape. For $25 it is possible on mijority of cars to buy enough new parts to brighten them up considerably, which is a very small sum compared with what | the majority of owners lose when | they trade in because they have let the car g0 to seed. Nothing is more | un tory in a car than dobr| catches that do not work properly, People will go for months with some- | thing on this order and never know | that for 86 cents or thereabouts and + half hour's time they could put the door in order. Keepmg }{orn Sennuvc | Always keep the horn motor, but- | ton and connections in such condition | that th horn is sensitive to the slightest touch of the button. In an emergency one has little time to sound a warning, and whatever brief touch of the button is given must produce immediate results. Clean the commutator of the horn motor, oil its bearing and sce that the brushes are clean. Newspaper Gives Protection. Newspaper malkes the best protec- tion for the celluloid lights of rain curtains when they are rolled up. WHOLESALE RIMS FOR ALL WHEELS Rundlett Rim Co. 1336 14th St. N.W. Pa What You Will STUDEBAKER | out of the shoulder and up on the departments and service stations at You Can Buy no Finer Car Penabalsm in that form of restricted | | meutal vislon that cauxes men to | | anticipate all the acvidents of, by and | (v a car that do not happen. Why Ovcrlook Virtues Motorists who give more than pass- ing notice to the way other people drive are finding that observation is a valuable addition to experience Most people are quick to note the foolish things other persons do when at the wheel!, but somshow overlook the acts of wisdom, few &as they may be. One man who has averaged 50 miles a day for the past three years as a passenger declares that in all his | riding he never heard any one he ever dro with complimenting any other driver for a neat piece of park- ing, a clever or skillful avoidance of | & possible accident His host never failed to condemn the “other fellow,” he said, if the !atter happened to do anyvthing foo! {sh when at the wheel. In fact, bawl- ing_out the “other fesllow” seemed to be a regular pastime. And the n n registering the complaint nev got anything out of it because he | always acsumed that he was miles jRhead of the “other fellow” in point | of experience. This vaises the giiestion as to just | how many opportunitles are lost by | the averaze driver Ly reason of fail- fng to observe the good points dis- played by the er fellow. { The most hasty observer cannot| help but note that a large num\)er' of people handle their carst tlonally well. The point then, is:| How do they do it? What Is the secret of their skill? ot cvery parked car is left with | one end sticking out into the line of moving trafic. Not every driver who le causht in a predicament has grab the emergency brake and trust | to luck. Not every driver who finds himself in mud or deep snow has to call for assistance. Not every driver who has engine trouble stalls in_the midst of traffc. How do these people That is the point Anybody can make the “other fel- low's" mistake, thus rendering any abservation of this phase of his driv- | ing quite useless. The wise urh.ri finds out what the ‘'other low™ does well, and how he does it Did You Know. That the ability of many cars to| start in second gear as easily as cars used to start in “low"” is due largely to improvements in clutches, and that | in too many instances the convenience of starting in “second” is at the ex- | pense of the clutch plates? That when carrying one passenger | on the rear seat he or she should sit on the left side directly behind| the driver in order to minimize side | sway when trying to keep the car get results crown of the road? That you should always dust off the windshield at the first sign of rain so that the windshield wiper will not have an abrasive with which to scratch the glass? Banishing Guesswork. Little by little the varfous units of the automobile are being made to register their efciency on dash- board instruments. Here the motor- ist can tell whether his generator is on the job, whether his gas tank is full, how the cooling system is going and whether the battery nceds attention. The latest is an Instument that tells the driver how eficiently his car is stopping. The device isn on the dashboard as yet, but that's a minor step. The instrument being used by police | the present moment is known as the decelerometer, but the idea Is likely to spread rapidly inasmuch as manu- facturers with cars that have excel- lent brakes will be glad to keep the fact before the owners' eyes. At any rate the method of stopping between given lines as a means of testing brakes is now definitely taboo. This | the shift. THE SUNDAY STAR, An Abridged Magazine for Car Owners EDITED BY WILLIAM ULLMAN fled that*it shows the number of feet the car can stop in &t 20 miles an hour, regardless of what speed the car happens to be going at the time | the test is made, thus compensating for inaccurate speedometers. Now You Have It! (Answers to last week's questions.) 1. Double clutching is the process of speeding up the driving member of the clutch when making gear changes where the car is not lkely to keep up a constant speed during 1t {s usually done in shift- ing from high to second gelug up- hill. Let In the clutch and speed up the engine for an instant before de- clutching and completing the shift 2. The actual cost of @ license plate in the District of Columbla is 15.14 cents. This Is typie The | State of Ohio manufuctures and dis- | tributes each set of plates for so thing like 50 cents. 3, Gasoline tank wagons alwaye trail & short chain from frame to the ground as a means of carrying off any static electricity that fs gen- erated by the disturbance of the fuel. An explosion preventive. d to drive through used by a freshet watch the oxhaust. If this Is below the water line you probably e 5. The ammeter will tell whether the stop light signal is working. s needle will filcker whenever the brake pedal is depre: d. | may have rear fenders dipping down emoking while the tank is being fll ed a gasoline station is often a terminal. Worth Remembenng -Your dull-finish car needs different treatment than vou formerly accord- ed your plano-finish car. About all you need is something to protect the paint. About the best concoction to use in this conmection is a mixture | of 15 parts of olive oil to one of gacoline. Soak & plece of cheesecloth | in water, wring dry and dip in the polishing solution before applying it to the body. You disconnect ene of the battery terminals before cleaning the engine with kerosene as a precaution against fire, With the terminal disconnected there is no possibility of & short circuit while you are at work and thus no possibiity of a spark—and fire. When greasing the car with a high- pressure system be careful in re- moving and attaching the dust caps that cover the grease plug nipples. There are fine springs in these in tended to prevent them from shakl offf When you remove a cap see that the spring does not fall out Two hrku:; Pointers. f If there is no sign warning vou! not to park or not to park Tonwer | than a stipulated length of time there Is every reason to believe that you can park your car as long as neces- eary. Only in very large cities where | sign posting might be too great and too unnecessary an expense should | this rule be ignored. Nine out of ten towns and cities believe in over- regulating “traffic, and they scarcely ever miss the omportunity to post notices regarding parking limits. Your new car with balloon tires WASHINGTON, D. C., ; |on | ninis new device is'so effective and simpli- §125 Milesis8 Seconds At one step, th.e new nwd Maxwell creates ap immeasurab! ception of the dollar’s in its relation to motor power. The owner of this new good Maxwell finds in it an ability for sustained winl his respect no mat- the cars which he speed which ter how powerful has driven before. He becomes used to 1 eading the city because of a flashing acceler- ation which is not nn-pu-ed by any car built today. He finds himlelf eujovin; these ad- vantages at an operating tenance cost which owners declare Touring Car « Club Coupe = ClubSedan - Weare ice everywhere. 's attractive closer to the ground. High curbs| | should accordingly be watched when swinging into a parking space of when, @s is the rule in many cities, the car is backed into a space. What's the Answer | Can a vacuum tank be refilled | without manually pouring in gaso- line? Considering the convenience in i event of engine regair work, why do not all munufactuvers build engines with detachable cylinder heads? 3. What i& meant by “outdr the headlights? 3 (Thinlk these over during the week and look for the answers in this column next Sunday. You may be wrong.) More Truth Than Gas, Many a driver who keeps going while he tries to light his cigarette ould enjoy here on earth if he | only took the precaution step the brake instead of ac- celerator. jome people’s motoring reminds one the case of the man who climbed for no other reason than to coast down them. The man whoe went world in rd is now with many & salmon. Bring on vour fancy bumpers. The m erage dr! r is contributing to the cauyse by trying not get them hed. motorists to the of around the in a class ng" who Insist upon (Copyright, 19: More comfort, better trac- tion, reduced vibration, longer life for the car, higher average s on trips— these are a few of the many advantages of Diamond Bal- loon equipment. And there are thirty years of quality manufacturing experience back of Diamond Balloons which is assurance of their high value and final econ- omy. See us about Balloon tires. Diamond Tire Sales Company 1621-14th Sereet, N. W. Washiagton, D. C. is lower than any previous motor car experience has ever taught them to expect. For the cause of this revolutionary achievement, credit the genius which produced the Six, the wo plants in Al car speed and MARCH 8, 1925~ PART 3 KNOCK IN AUTO ENGINES FOILED Knock in high compression gasoline engines can be foiled by greedy lead atoms, which grab electrons before they can start an explosion, accord- ing to = new theory advanced in a report to the American Chemical So- clety by Prof. G. L. Wendt, head of the Department of Chemistry in Pennsylvania State College, and F. V. Grimm of the Standard Oll Com- pany of Indiana. The explosive flame, carried by slectrons, travels so swiftly through the gas mixture as to arouse & knock, and the functions of anti-knock com- pounds such as tetraethyl lead, it is to absorb these electrons and ' says the report, suggesting an entirely novel mechan ism for anti-knock action, “that all flames are highly fonized; that f they are excellent carriers of an elec- tric current. “Tits means that the energy re- leased in the burning of the gas mix- ture serves in part to liberate elec- T mobile is by ing it carefully of other motorists. B UICK is one vou RETAIL 1015 14th St. S-passenger the new Maxwell is manufac. tured from wheelnobody,fmmfldv ator to rear axle. In this new gcod Maxwell, Chrysl engineers and Maxwell’'s fine work. k- manship have advanced the ability ot‘ four cylinl;d:: beyond an the industry previously We eur.hudnflnlly invite you to let :d prvo.Ie Maxwel!’l superior quality traffic in and main- Standard Door Sedan 995 Special ,::“_3_,,.._ . 'i% « 1045 Al prices f.0.b. Detrois, tax extra. to extend the ience of time- conven of p-mu.h- dealers and superior Maxwell serve H. B. LEARY, JR., AND BROS. Chrysler Showroom General Offices and Servios 1612-22 You St, N, ors Distribut MAXWELL—CHRYSLER North 4296 Maxwell Showroom 1321-23 14th Street N.W. Department W. Eight-in-line Models 5.passenger Special Touring 31995 5.passenger Brougham F. O. B. St. Louis BY GREEDY ATOMS, SAYS EXPERT Great Economic Promise for Industry Seen in Re- search Work—Tetrethyl Lead Exerts Marked Effect in Reducing Trouble. trons from the reacting molecules The advance of electrons propelled at high velocity from the flame front undoubtedly ionizes the molecules in the gaseous region just ahead of the flame. “This fonization is tentatively re- garded as the factor directly respon- sible for the increased acceleration of the flame. At high temperatures and high pressures, such as always obtain when detonation is excessive, the velocity of the liberated electrons is high and their energy is readily ab- sorbed by the combustible gas. “The rate of flame propagation, therefore, becomes extremely high. It is, then, the function of the anti- knock molecules or, more particu- larly, the lead atoms present in the commonest example of anti-knock tetraethyl lead, to attract these elec- trons, thus forming highly charges lead ions and preventing the forme: ready fonization of the unburuec gan” The great economic promise in- AUTOMOBILE VALUE HE only way to judge value in an auto- the You can get a pretty good idea of the service that a car will render by inspect- and vour opinion by weighing the experience service rendered. you can confirm @ automobile builder that welcomes the buying of cars on this basis, because Buick feels that the more learn about Buick, searching the inquiries you make, the more you will be convinced of Buick value. STANLEY H. HORNER, Inc. and the more DEALER Main 5296 volved in the possibility of general use of high compression automobile engines, it was pointed out, makes the recent development of anti-knock compounds by the General Motors Research Corporation one of primary interest to the automotive and pe- troleum industries. It has been shown that the pres- ence of as little as one part of tetra- ethyl lead in 1,300 of gasoline exerts a marked effect in the suppression of knocking. Increased compression in automo- bilo englnes made possible by the use of tetrzethyl lead in the fuel will result in more than doubling the number of miles per gallon, which any given car now makes, according to experiments by the research cor- poration. The economic importan¢e of this potential increase in mileage is indi- cated by the use last year in the United States of 8,000,000,000 gallons of gasoline, which cost approximate- ly $1,600,000,000. The additidn to this gasoline of three cubic centimeters, or one part in 1,300, per gallon of tetraethyl lead would, it is declared, have doubled the utility value of the gasoline. In other words, the wealth of the United States would have been in- creased by $1,600,000,000. The cost of the lead to have created this increase, o DEPRECIATION CUT BY CONTINUED EFFORT TO MAKE MACHINE BETTER (Continued from Sixth Page.) prove gear shifting, with the result that, in making the car operate more easily normal deoreciation will be just 5o much less effective. A part, replaced before it. has a chance to inflict punishment upon some other part of the car, will often make a car run belter at the presen: than it really needs to, thus keeping i good for the future. An owner should feel that it is within his power to improve his car beyond what the manufacturer has been able to achieve. With this attitude, whether he succeeds or not, he will be giving depreéciation a run for its money And that is the main thing in eteering the car away from the junk heap. Nothing stays good unless you try to make it better. Hang that motto on your windshield and try it on your car. (Copyright, 1825.) it was said, would have been o $6,000,000, or less than 1 per cent the added wealth The human desire to own the best suggests—the Cadillac Not onlv is it Juunan to want the best— it is also wise. The object of every investment you make is to gain- satisfaction. And noth- ing satisfies so well as ownership of that which is acknowledged to be the finest of its kind. Moreover, as in the case of Cadillac. the best is also reliable and lasting, and hence more economical in the end. Sound business judgment as ell as the human desire for that which is best prompts the selection of the Cadillac. New Cadillacs may be purchased on the time peyment plan. The Washington Cadillac Company RUDOLPH JOSE, President 1138-1140 Conn. Ave. Frank. 3900, 3901, 3902 CADILLAC Standard A “I knew it was a winner the minute I laid eyes on it!” Thornton J. Campeld of the World “Its enthusiastic reception at New York, where it was acclaimed the outstandmg motor car value of the Show—then its en- thusiastic reception at the Chicago Show— more than bears out my first impression of the new Gardner Eight-in-line. “Again at Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Pitts- b and Cleveland this new Gardner lished a new popularity record, both in sales and interest. “The Gardner Eightin-line has more ad- vanced style lines, more performance and durability qualities, more beauty, and more car for the money than any you’ve ever seen. “l know Gardner always builds well —I know they’ve built a winner!” Come in and make us prove it— B C R MOTORS CO. DEALER - DISTRIBUTOR 2201 M St. N.W. Phone West 2006 DEALERS PERRY BOSWELL Mt. Rainier, Md. : J. D. THOMPSON Herndon, Va. 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