Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 69

THE WA John Smith and His Car BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. SUNDAY STAR, IINGTON, D. C., MARCH 15, —PART 3. 9 RELATION OF MOVIE PICTURE |Easy to Get Rid . ;| TO AUTOMOBILE IS SKETCHED! SEES PRESENT LAWS WL PUT ENPHS 5 s s [LOSSES ON USED CARS PRICE OF PROGRESS | Of Car if Owner:' - | “Knows the Ropes John Smith is a character whom every motorist should welcome. He | [Auto Users Demand Best and Will Complicated Apparatus, Known as Oscillograph, i not self ther he is a motoring martyr, a chap willing and glad to Pay for It, Reo Dealer Employed in Motor Factories to Obtain Pho- =T have exploited, in an interesting way, his experiences for the benefit of i Says. | tographs of Current Used in Ignition. the other 10,000,000 or more members of the motor clan. The hest nighteap for car and driver| .y, i o Aomens depreciation charges merely 13 to compiete the motor daily dozen.” |, - K0 Hepreciation cherkes TRerty “All that work can hang over until owner is re and glad to pay for the morning.” Smith said improvement, in the opinion of Jos- eph B. Trew, local Reo dealer. Used car losses can be minimized by better merchandising methods and an effort on the part of the public Needed in Handling Motor Traffic, A. A. A. Declares. Motor Dealers’ Association Starts Campaign to Cause | Profits by Mistakes. ” No. S—The Daily Dozen, Enforcement of regulations vehicle and man existing laws and relating to the motor| By a stroke of good fortune Smith provision ~ of adequ Wl 1 happened to meet in the same power to handle traffic conges-|(oWn on our recent trips and put tion. rather than antity of new [up at the sume hotel. That was |laws, is urged Ly American Au-{how I huppened to discover he did tomobile Association as the first and | hix daily ~ozen eve most important step in a practical| 1t was good exercise | safety program. oined in o few minutes s aposal. it 1a stopped and started rade Assoctat ers t on an investigation Iy by the organ board revealing the follow | That there is hardly a large cen i population in the United public safety is not i jeopardized by the faily sufficient man power to 4| tor vehicle problem {number of motor vehi citles in the last ased 1,000 to = cas the tr {has been at a standstill during that that 80 per cent of the police ials of the country are of the 1ion that the traffic force gt their < | disposal is wholly inadequate to cope with the situation 1 th he was e auickly All moving plcture machines are not to be found in Hollywood or on cinema locations. Not a few may be found in any modern automobile manufacturing plant The relation of the moving picture machine to the automobile, perhaps, | ning with emery wheels a; I8 not clear, but it plays a definite | up with jewelers' rouge annealing steels. Metals are amined under microscopes that will magnify from 10 to 2,030 dlameters Before belng placed under th scope the metal is ferent polishing Daily Dozen on Car. Instead of arguing the point I went through the motions of what I b3 e the par e | A y s o avoid preventable depreciation or WOUM do later i the day. A Emith) [, Re Dl it tie real lement Of | DACE An the manttaoture ot thie ot | Dol e ons e watched the pantomime he observed | gepreciation is likely to remain so|car. paliling. cpertions Smith askeq, |T Would over theflong as the public wants constant {m-| H. H. Bassett, of the metal examined under the winded already? Why, I'm|springs. This was to allow the ofl| Provements and is willing to pay for| Buick Motor Co., describing familiar | croscope i plenty of time to work in between|them. scenes in an automobile factory T etallutEy hils o Butad I retorted. “Only|the loaves and to prevent rust from| Mr. Trew contends that the pub-|“There are gr deal toward making the aute cided that perhaps 1 can Kkill |early morning dampness. Next I[lc's willingness to take losses onthe | that twist the e e two birds with one stone by doing a|would sco that the tires had enough|Cars it turns in has revealed its|8hapeless A e daily dozen on the car.'” alr in them. for the reason that leav-{&reat faith in the further develop Bipedt “That will be work, mot exercise.” | Ing w tire half flat all night is throw- | Ment of the automobile and, in many | ment of special and allc grumbled. “The contortidn ing m away. My third motion|instances, its willingness 'to have| cate they g to go through in order|was to rub off the lamp rims, bumper |lMprovement at any cost thre e moving pic- | univer joint are aland door handles. Rain drops, or public has ~never bofore|ture machines that photograph the :h before breakfast.|even splashes of water from mud 8 =0l gueat & Qatemmination (of#czength end s regulasicy. of (ha| thank you! Ill consider the caf[holes, would be thus prevented from ) Nave progress as it hus done In the|current used by the lgmition ap- ifter Ive had my fill of bacon and|rusting the trimmings. buying of Its automobiles,” he says.|paratus in action. There are micro- fler Pve had 1 | e, iad gone through the act!| This explains why the automobile scopes, Sulls and mysterious trap- [ of Mool e o make| Progresses more than any other mod- | PINgs of the chemist's lore, and th 194 dookiug oxar:fhe B o Tekelern invention, with the possible ex- | &ir Ix filled with pungent fumes and | o Short. examining the battery to see|CePtion of radio odors. e "_“”“‘:!m.””", R haE e ha nag FoETess In modernising the home| Divided Into Four Laboratories. |current used In ignitio determined not to|boiling off the water in the cells,| (0 #avs bech retarded by the d6°| The modern automobile factory od piotures ahow two \as Still ‘out of | watehing the fuel line and carburetor| #re Gf each home owner' to hold| ivided into four separ 2| one with a x and intelligent ment of i when we stepped |for o few minutes to see that there|pacic fr @ bIEW ppite on his old| (oriey—namely, the rent (fron vs we have. says the A, A, A et to the & and [ were no leaks which might waste gas| yP43e before considering a new one | cq) tallurgleal This cannot be done un- our but his eyes were|or cause trouble during the night, T| . (5 Etie wititde whve Hken | Testing and rese traflic force at the dispos: told Smith the second installment of [ [ed, €StAte a8 18 taken by the PUbii¢|on in these laborat officials lequate 1o Hist thing he saw me do was|the daily dozen would be complete. |\ It5 Motering, modern homes 10- the material befor otor vel problem and a and lubricate the| He summed up the idea when he|y Y “WOUIS v cabiphed Wit €ett | munufacturing departm and to ty of crimek gr out fan bearing d the|admitted that the man who confines ing equipment and all the other lux.|3ssi8t the engineers in determining 1 noticed 1 used |the dally dozen to his person usuallyi, i.s unda conveniences which are|the best materials to use in parts for nd when he|has to rep the exercises for thelp fies And conveniences Which 2%l future models give those|benefit of the car before the day is i “In the chemical laboratory,” ex- plains M S8ett, “is a staff of grad- n | 3 willing to pay for the oiling while 1 was at|over “If every man who ever bought an|BIStns Mr. assets, s a staft of grad- | is assigned to|it. | explained that by ofling them 3 ery m I that will re- automobila never sold it until he uis th ela little ¢ ¢ I never ne d Next Week P 3 ceurately alysi ceived a price that represented U772 MORE GOOD DRIVERS ew minutes, ed unnecessary duty. ‘The au jut, as I told S the car would r it along about covered 50 miles stated, is b suddenly neluded rec sed | nt- | rush into my clothes “What's the matte sauirt Jofl first president of the iwner some new bulletin just i uarters tates There has been too mu mpha whe some masses are fur. turn in steel The S0 deli- cate can carbon in | slaced upon the Oscillograph Most Prominent. 1,500 per virtually 1 ool rencins electrical testing ription. P csting of these which is & com f ture machine for akir » of the strength and regul foree flapjucks Smith's Opened. s far more £uc ation leaves no 1o doubt that our principal trouble ay is the lack of vigorous n g He keep in mind t enforos the 1 Avoid Duplic Driving Practice © chemical (Copyright, 1925.) actual worth as transportation & would still be cranking our cars hand and freezing to. death in | Winter motoring HELP TO INDUSTRY | The risk of standing in the | — wheel tir of the road I was pending | 1ued fr | can be minim ing the spare on the road to the left| but Smith | i "prove conditions to a point where bt Smith limprove conditio P | of your car. Motorists who would ordinarily “wing" you will be careful | . e lothers are encouraged to buy carsinot to upset on dozen wouldn’t be s without draining off a little | |and join the motor clan H = | It ‘wag formerly believed that the| ‘1€ | maturity of the Nation's youth would | Watch Spark Plug Holes. ent were balloon ored water and pouring| g nich” 4 natural compensation for| . 3 4 ompi s @ quart o of th L mtntr. Xy C o hreseant: ety Care should be taken when clea: the difference when |ihe 10S¢ 5 ing spark pit that nothin ins to- do better than !drops into the cylinders through the long steep hill openings. In one instance a broken washer fell into o cylinders did no dama 10t valy at a driver was trving to A back-fire into fire Grdi Wn out through only cter of the work differs, but the | Its obtained are just as vital nished parts of every description re and tested until g kage occurs ob on Sealte e tests is not to k them. The tests exactly dupli sfresses to wh he parts > subjected in actual service Contains Heat-Treating Ovens, Hurgical laboratory con- tires were pro = duced last year ich number ap-| ¢ proximately tires, according = el the temperatures in as happened. The parents have ed their children the wheel and s and Pleasu ve U the position that age and| wisdom are one and the same thing,a0od with the it that housands of voung people do not knew how to| drive cars at all. b t 5 T Those who do not know how to e 11d Recall Old Mistakes. 2 S . : ing the rim e wh handle cars come into aetive sery e b 5 : this Ve m:;m‘m. o &g nat ke us drivers \xml):rnllu bad mfluk\n‘v;a ‘nt‘ Ebe st Dut 51‘;‘ e Bl CATE RELAS ~ t me en = their very unskilled parents. All tha| up the e idve e L IS opnaInaE i aTi the wrench old foibles of driving are simpiy|engine eflicienc to recall his fo . lusta ke sure EaiE W given a new impetus, and the roads| . b iy CoRUEATE e enough. Since a few of the lugs were | roveal two careless drivers where be- 1 the caritha loose T felt the ear was going 10|fors there was but one. All this can s o has been delegated to attend the Pan- | benefit as much from the exercise|pn gvoided through an effort to rea- American Road Conference and Inter- | &s my liver. force of parental influence. national Chamber of Commerce Eco.| My next stunt was to see that all| Tie dvin Dopenaiy fordeysiun nomic Conference at Buenos Alres, |the spring clips were tight. This re where the younger people can Argentina, in- May. quired bending tho knees and stoop- how to drive better than the ut bile: ing over. am quite sure this took 2| people who preceded them. - Srosunas well as the car. Th en 1 had Sediby 4 d recovered, S 0] termined effor: the part of present ccounted for were rs to grow with the aul(\mt» le What i 1ito b the Naie and to improve wigh it. This will g =t 15 D e la a long way toward meeting the seri-| s G demand for better drivers. e s Fa S L (Copyright ny. The tire is 64x14 and wa de nded - 7y to sustain a load of 20,000 “Economy"” Often Costly. at an inflation pressure of 75 1an who takes a chance on an accldent for lack of investment in a cotter pin that may cost a half penny forget ft.|is a close relation to the man who t get the most out of alaims to save seven seconds by oross- Westinghouse Air Springs Sales and Service Sheehan’s Garage L St. Near 19th N.W. More Safety More Comfort Diamond Balloons, by their sure-gripping tread de- sign and large area of contact with the road, provide greater traction—a safety factor you should bear in mind when you want the greater comfort-giving qualities of Balloon equipment for your car. the plea I took a ps to own t much of the g Pyke Johnson, highways commit Automobile Chay of Commerce, istakes An accident fresh In mind An unwise o to better FRONT WHEEL TRACTION. ‘ Sheehan’s Quick Have the roads in your section been converted into ruts® If so, you are already puzzled over the problem of climbing out of them, and you know that the maln thing is to get traction for th nt tires. Here is front wheel chains are valuable the front wheels are wiil follow. Diamond Tire Sales Company 1621-14th Street, N. W. ‘Washington, D. C. 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