Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 66

More Cootti— Drivers Needed; THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MARC OTORS and THE MAN Declared Help to Industry - : X o ALWAYS Rent-a-Car Movement to Be Stimulated as People Learn to Handle Autos Skill- fully—Safety Angle Important. BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. With the registration of cars in America crossing the 17,000,000 mark, attention is commencing to center on the driver, for it is generally be- lisved that most persons who have a | craving to get at the wheel of an ! automobile have already done so This. however, is not saying that a majority of the good drivers are al- ready holders of operators' licenses. Aw & matter of fact, the manufa turers and safety advocates belleve that among the many milllons of people who have never so much as tried to handle a car there are bet- ter drivers than many who now oper- ate cars. The problem, it seems, is to unearth this undeveloped ablility. The demand today for good drivers may accomplish this task in a natural manner, according to those who be- isve that many of the present drivers have gone about as far as they are able in the line of self-improvement Many of the persons who make claim 1o driving ablility are having their licenses revok or suspended and many of them are being barred from the road altogether. Others are find- | ing that increasing age or ilinesses | are rapidly removing them from the ranks. while still others are passing | out of tho picture, according to the laws of nature New Field Developed. ! While the demand for more cor patent drivers is increasing, the fore, the present supply is being thin- ned out in a very natural way. A cordingly, & new field is being de- veloped among those people who do rot drive cars at present and who porhaps feel that they are incapable of doing so. To this end every effort is being made to simplify the controls of the automobile and to make the vehicle itself inherently safer and foolproof. Though it i seldom viewed from this | angle, much of the simplicity that is being urged upon trafiic officials is nothing more nor less than the | process of laying & smoother road | for the people who will be joining the motor ranks in the future. One of the interesting phases of the subject is the development of the | rent-a-car idea. The leading taxicab | interests in the country have gone | into this development quite seriously and have even developed a speci ear to be used for renting purposes The idea is that if you want 10 miles of transportation, and want it in a personal car, all you have to do is 10 50 to the rent-a-car establishment and buy such service just as you would 2o to a store to buy any other commodity—provided you can drive Rests With People. out good drivers it is obvioy such & development mak headway. 1f people cannot drive they cannot undertake tho responsibilities of driving one of these cars, no matter how troubleproof it might be. Bven if the are moderately competent the plan could {ure up to standards re being | |arises as to what happens to their | e Knowing from the experienc will be sufficient to cause a ter- | trouble. |of the rejected owner-driver xplosion in the exhaust line,| Well. sir, T crawled under and start- the standards of driving are | sulting in wrecking the muffler. If|ad lookin' for the cause of the nolse A BUSY | | not succeed, owing to the great cost of insuring agalnst the many contingen- cles. The success of the rental plan rests with the people who could benefit by It The tax| interests themselves admit that the taxi fleld is limited by reason of the cost of the paid driver. In the taxi it requires one person to drive an- other, whereas in the rent-a-car plan the paid driver is eliminated. Thus for the many thousands of peopls Who can- not afford to own cars, or whose life is such that possession of a personal car would be a burden, it will be necessary to know how to handle a car competent- Iy if personal transportation of the most economical varicty is desired The motor manufacturers have al- ways looked to the competent driver to help cut costs and develop sa’ets, there- by encouraging greater use of the auto- mobile. Many of the people who now possess licenses have been a sad disap- pointment to the industry, and this may explain why the non-motorist is now being looked to in the effort to develop a finer brand of driver Women Get Resalts. the motor vehicle departments r locking the wheel, to the ¢ e S 1ot meas- rapidly rais it is evident that in many American families the real driving talent will be brought to light. Already many a family has discovered that it gets far better results with the maternal head at the wheel of the family car than with the paternal variety Many people are speculating as to what will be the effect of the States’ determination to har the unfit driver. Connecticut, for instanc is at pres- ent ghutting out some 000 persons who would like to be permitted to operate cars. Assuming that such persons y the letter of the law | and do not bootleg rides the question s and how do they manage to han- | dle their problem of personal trans-| ortation |WHY MUFFLERS EXPLODE P Obviously, few owners who are| il in 0 THE OLD MECHANIC SAYS barred from the wheel are in a posi- tion to hire a chauffeur. To sell the | Unburned Exhaust Gas May Do | car represents an investment loss and Serious Damage. Sometimes it pays not to be able to, enin’ the spring bolts and shackles to Life of Auto. The sum of $235,500 has been allot- hiring taxis or other forms of trans t while I was unde: portation is no palatable substitute| To avoid putting the muffler on the loSiis| trouliie XIEHt Gff the Bt I R Iothed Gveritie for driving one's own car. The 10i- | gick list and running the risk of [8earchin’ for the cause of a saueak|,ung 4 few things that cal step, therefore, is to look to some a rattle or somethin’ more serious a |t ere s o eing fined ¥ s ore ntion there, but still th. ther weibhiar GE (He tRmEy being fined for driving through a town with what would amout to &|the bargain. tin’ anywh. but, belie Seck o Raise Standards ut-out open do this: Fellow ths other day brought in his | car was gl i’ t".‘xl{rr‘ »‘\'».‘— Here i where the person with un-| Close the throttle before switching | car with a strange moise o suspected talent for driving enters|on the ignition if you have been|chassis. He had had the car greased | hood. You the picture. Cases have come to|using the engine as a brake when|[all over fn order to try to stop the|doesn't fit sr ot light where the most uhexpected|going down nill. If the throttle is|noise, but even this didn't help get|noise that may rie parties have found themselves forced|open the exhaust manifold and muffler | rid of the main trouble. There's no to learn the ropes and where they | will be filled with unburned gas. A dis- | denyin’ the fact, however, that the have developed special talent for the e of burning gas from one cyl-| greasin’ helped w off a lot of other| the hoo than I found | the spark piugs. Then, suspected the hood, 1 got | can” and oiled a 1ot of poi the hood and dash. ine!” exclaimed the finish ouble’s than they used to be, e effort is| the throttie is closed and the engine| My first thought was to see if ar made to meet the State's require-|ailowed to turn over a few times be- | of the shackles were too tight, but all ments. From some une: d source. | fore the ignition is switched on the|I found in this line was that they mes & r to help| exhaust line will have an opportunity [ were too loose. 1 guess I saved th I s | to be cleared of unburned gas. owner & lot of bushing wear by tight- | ; “] judge motor cars by one standard only— Is the Public Buying Them?” GARDNER PERFORMANCE AND DURABILITY HAVE NEVER BEEN QUESTIONSD g il i Thornton J. Camfield “That's the best evidence of motor car value. “Of course, I knew Gardner always built well—built real stuff into automobiles—and I was more than pleased with the advanced style and performance of the new Gardner. “But the popularity of this new Eightin- line at the New York Aunto Show—again at Chicago and other show points “—and then right here at home—convinced me that with the new Gardner I would see my biggest year. ; “Pm convinced it'’s the outstanding motor car value of the year—everybody who sees it says so—look it over and see if P'm not B C R MOTORS CO. DEALER-DISTRIBUTOR 2201 M St. N.W. Phone West 2006 DEALERS PERRY BOSWELL J. D. THOMPSON Mt. Rainier, Md. Herndon, Va. EIGHT-IN-LINE T i T T T il ll}"\' "5. ALt o Y i [ Ay IRl s, il i 2 i lot of other things are remedicd in|sisted. Seemed as if I wasn't get. |much by doubling the amount of care | ity in *| Finally I happened to think of the [ should keep the car in the garage, ’l‘ r to places where the noise sounds |littie as possible. serious. But no sooner had 1 lifted | Some peopls in putting the car wire just about ready to fall off. trols quite as much as they would to A few minutes later I had cleaned | take a 25-mile ride, the recenstruction, construction JH 15, WITH THE ELECTRIC.WHO National I;arks ofile—;‘ar West VISITs Tk Gi8 Beae on Invite Auto Tourists This Year DAY, TO PUT AIR IN HiS TIRES— mountain Highway Gets $410.000 Motor tourists who contemplate ted for roadwork spending their vacations in tours of Canyon National Park, A one or more of Uncle Sam's national|is to be cxpended on the r parks should find much of good cheer [the Maine entrance and con in the recent announcement by the|branches, the reconstruction has been made available for the con- | provide bl struction and Improvement of roads|trail work and tralls in these great public play-| The $1405 allotted to grounds, Mountain N « That sum has just been appropri-|will be divided en six d ated by Congress, and is parl of a|Projects tar three-year construction program in-|famous Fa volving an expenditure of $7,5600,000. [ road Appropriations have been made for|Treachi the improvement of the roads in the top of adjacent to some of the most p High D turesque spots on the face of the earth The largest Some Open This Year. stone, in Wyo More and more the Federal Govern- [ Idaho, s ment is improving these matchless|to the fact t recreational regions so that they|were well may be accessible to the ever-in-|Bincers in creasing army of motorists who wish | De e to visit them. Work the new |Oof the pa projects will be started immediately, | to be exp | it 1s announced, so that many of them | Surfacing of ex will be completed before the end of this year's touring season S Of the $2,500,000 fund appropriated, | for roadm the sum of $453,000 has been allotted | park. 1 to Glacier Natlonal Park, Montana, of [ aig a which $410,000 is to be nt on the | waiji Transmountain road. This road Is|roadw being bullt across the Continer with Divide, and when completed will be|be the first means of access through the | R park from the east side to the west by motor or other vehicular convey- ance. road wos is In the Yosemite National Park, Cal-|the Alaska Road Co ifornia, $404.000, the next largest al-| Lassen N. lotment, will be expended. I\DDI‘D)‘!—}IMS be mately half of thess funds will be| ot § used in paving the El Portal road,|sas from the park boundary to Yosemite [ work. Village, connecting with the all-year| Lafavette Nationa highway which the State is building | been allotted 5 to El Portal, and which expected Mesa Verd OniE ar 'TO DOUBLE CAR MILEAGE. | doubls the automobile travel into|rado has been allotted $44,00 »| Yosemite. The remainder will be de- | work. voted to the reconstruction of the| Flatt National Park i Wawoma, Big Oak Flat and Maripoga | been allotted $42.000 for r Grove roads. n Ald for Hawaian Park. Proper Use of Controls Adds Years . ted to Mount Rainier National Park muffier and | You can get double the mileage out | tyashington, of which $75,000 has al- needed at- | Of Your car for the same amount of | rcady been allotted to replacing sev- noise per- | depréeciation and repair cost not 0| ery] old, dangerous wooden bridges : modern concrete structures on nd of $97,000 ha e me, that|You glve it but by cutting the wear the Nisqually road from Longmire ,U!{ur er road w 1 y minute, |to half. This doesn’t mean that you| paragise valley, one of the most fme| and for ortant park roads if & hood)but simply that you should try to n('ralrr l;:lk! tional Park, Oregon, ten cause afget along by using the gears, thel(. ;o have $183,000 of these appro- d over the|brakes and ‘the other controls as| tiivoneVq ¥y B0 o (R TF trance roads from the directions of | Medford Yort Klams 1\ ignition | away for the night will use the con- | M§arofd and Fort Hiamaty fornia, $179,000 will be expended because 1= surfacing of the General's Highway out the oil from the Middle Fork entrance nts around through to the magnificent grove of giant sequola trees, known as wner when | 1 vhy va Forest." [ use of your trouble too The sum of $166,000 has been allo: If you are interested in an easy way to own a Ford now—or at some future date—see the nearest Au- thorized Ford Dealer for facts regarding a conven- ient plan of payment, or Ford Motor Company, Dept. N. Detroit. Michigan Please mail me full particulars regarding your sasy plan for owning an automobile. I e Streat T State______ $2,500,000 Being Spent to Improve Roads and Trails, and to Extend Them—Tran This oad to necting of the Interlor Department that $2,500,000|Grand Vanyon-Desert View road to and on Ro lorady fgerer