Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1925, Page 52

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, iRP('Meas Driving. Held Responsible In Mo.st Acmdenls 'WOMEN ARE URGING - HIGHWAY SAFETY Taking Active Part in Nation- Wide Campaign Secretary Hoover Sponsors. ates, as Shown by Survey. kless or careless driving of traflic res compiled Public A hway accidents, cles in the States nd Washington estion of traffic was contributing se. study, which wi per Teports covering onths, revealed with the low- he smallest is the ause of a majority dents according to the F of of h au Roads. survey motor vel showed that | the principal fatalit have decl: and highway nt to min lifornia r on stry and are m long and per of education in safety with the most a 1.000 ¢ the largest and a | while Washingtc istration, hac er 1000 cars. This result d to be contrary which ho r. to national es- ndicate that ti reases with incr This campaign the i 1 number of accidents in the f eight-month which number D ticipated cration by | hers v equipment o faulty iway conditions, detailed analysis of the causes of idents showed that 711 40 per cent, wer reckless or careless d accidents caused by faulty high conditions, 19 were caused roadways and 150 by urfaces than and or mrore caused by ving. Of the CLOSED CAR OU;'PUT FOR 1925 ESTIMATED AT BIG ADVANCE dopted at this an organization weeks, during which chairmen ¢ Coun ‘Prmmpal Cause in Three| acci- | cidents | skiddy | [ John Smith and His Car BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. John Smith is a character whom every motorist should welcome. is not selfich; rather he is a motoring martyr, a chap wil have exploited, in an interesting way, his experiences for the benefit of the other 10,000,000 or more members of the motor clan. instinct tells them where such haz- ards located. An experienced driver is very rarely startled by the | sudden appearance of a car approach- was not” the | He is expect- nding danger, but the sensible g 1 did to avert the smash-up. 1| sort to hap- why 1 should have done thing the right time, | No. 93—Automobile Sense. ' Smith was relating che details a collision which he had averted when he ad “What surprised me of are narrowly ing from a crossing. ng something of this pen all the time. Power of Auto Sense. his car starts but I did “You.mean that when you saw the| When situation you were getling into you|doesn't get panicky and complicate turned over to the other side of the|the trouble by immediately trying to street automatically?” | right the ca He steers in the di- “Exactly!” he replied. “As a mat- | of the skid until the side- ter of fact that wasn't the first time ¢ is dissipated. I had noticed how I instinctively do| Automobile sense | the right thing without half think-|makes the experienced about it. Perhaps Just certain concessions when it would reak of good luck.” seem unnec to do so. One obile sense, thing that to develop thi heard of knowledge that the se ever be depended to do the right thing. it develops frem the cdge that the other fellow may i s of his own” 1 was returning to | long one of the main high- | 1 got intg a string | |of “cars that suddenly came to an | prupt stop. Brakes were working | overtime and every was having a job to stop. I discovered that 1 would be able to stop in time to | avoid hitting the car ahead, but in spite of thix I turned out to the | right before halting. When I looked around a large truck had occupied the space which was rightly mine and had just managed to stop in time to avoid hitting the car beside me. A flash of automobile sense caused me to skid he is the power that driver make it's a serves is the fellow can ' 1 corrected and common Well, the driver of a | quires something on this same order. Rather 1 should say that some driv- |ers acquire it just about as rare as the other kind of sense.” p I | the city me Hluntrated. ways last Sunday Auto Se Smith said incident that 1 was com- nd was just another ca reason 1 was no right wer o little other day. Per appencd the ing along ti on the point of passing when for s str started to slow down reason why 1 should mot have at-| tempted to pass the other ex-| cent for the sound of a car approach-/| behind. 1 was then out| r of the strect, but | that 1 suspected | the man behind wanted to pass 1 didn’t turn over to the curb. Some- | thing told mes to stay right where was_ and keep going slower. | next instant the car’ behind pa ne on the at high speed then boulevare 1 of the ! points out, D, 0., PRI ART USED-CAR PROBLEM VIRTUE IS FOUND Gives Man in Moderate Circum stances Chance to Own Better Makes, Dealer Says. There's some good in every problem, according to many automobile dealers who have seen in the used-car prob- lem the opportunity for many peo- ple of moderate circumstances to ac- quire cars of the better class and to know of their advantages first hand. Commenting upon this view of the used-car problem, Oscar Coolican president of Packard Washington Motor Car Company, says that with- out the low dip of prices at which good used cars could be bought dur- ing the past few years thousands of people would never have had an op- portunity to make first-hand com- parisons between the upkeep, riding qualities, power and efficiency of the various grades of cars. “The manufacturer of any high grade article,” Mr. Coolican further “is always at a disadvan- tage for the reason that the public must pay a substantial amount in order to prove to its own satisfaction that the additional investment in the better article is justified. It has been the same with automobles; that is, until the used-car problem came along to simplify the matter. In Personal Matter. “I féel that it is entirely a personal matter with a motorist whether he to get ou to favor the other man “But it saved Smith reminded. “That's just another re; calling it ‘automobile sense f the way you a collision,” on for Next Week: Markeshift Adjustments. (Copyright, 1 shall invest in a higher priced car or purchase lower pri machines more frequently and it unfair to attempt to influence him one way or the other. But it is evi- dent that if the motorist has no handy means of making a first-hand com- parison betwcen different grades of cars he is at a disadvantage In tr; ing to arrive at an eflicient stage continue to “He is where the used-car prob. lem has worked to the advantage of the man in moderate circumstances. | He has been : hase makes | of cars which rhaps had felt were beyond his reach He has been able to make comparisons, to figure sts and weigh results, It ha erved to show him the whole picture and he now makes his selection of new cars with full knowledge of what he | is about.” | e On e T | HAND THROTTLE USE. Motorist Can Check Engine Skip- | ping by Employing It. Motorists who have been told to drive with the aceelerator frequently make the mistake of paying too little attention to the hand throttle. Fail-y ure to consider the latter accounts for much of the inability to get smooth | performance from the car without | slipping the clutch or coasting over the low speeds With the hand throttle set for mere idling of the engine there is natural- Iy a break between this specd the engine and the minimum speed at | which it pulls the car in high gear. Since the aceelerator is usuall ated a little more roughly ti hand fhrottle, this break accentuated until the engine seems | to be sRipping dur he the car running an hour in high. The way to vercome this is to find out at what | d the car will just barely run in t the hand throttle | | that the roads did not dry out readilv BEAUTIFYING ROADS J‘;.-m- rains, but (h..n mudholes linger PLAN IN TWO STATES |rore modern mechos more modern methods | adopted generally this od according t bes longe has is no a valid argument Novel Feature of Motor Highway | Program in Pennsylvania and Minnesota. Beautifying motor roads is a nove pro- ates of Pennsy'vania feature of this year's highway gram in ti and Minnesota, These to encourage the pla ir paved I ed fash trees will be us Minnesota alone. One objection shade tree | | tes propose ting of trees | ways in un- | Chirty thousand | for this purpose in | on heretofore at the roadside to p has b Thousand and first was m plar such roads on the ground t » roots would uplift or this rarely happe it is pointed out road wi lined with 1 requi said The prog will keep paee its and American cou auty city stree beca of p Over Hill and Dale— you will see Six Nash per which tells of t ‘NASH bea formi energy nced oothne gged stre On one of these fine Spring davs we enjoy taking thing you will It dr forget you BVer o Let us give you the benefit of 60 ycars of satis factory service R. McReynolds & Son 1 in Washington. 4th & Park Road e my car, If 1 had driven in ac rules you can see what a fine predica- ment I would have been in “The other fellow apparently had of law or decency; ould have sounded his | waited for me to turn over to| ight and then pass by. But he dn't_do anything of the kind, yet 1 wnaged to prevent trouble by fol- lowing'a hunch to stay where I was county ct and the men will « mittees, zation irmen change in produ the total was ion over 50,000 cz Increases Noted. The number of closed year will undoubtedly last season, when the per ¢ models “communities ched atistias velut from the General Motors Corporation > Al cd [show that the closed car sales of its | ubsidiary companies cent, an increase of 6 per ¢ the prev Anott cars this exceed that of total output of presented 39 nt of total prod from the F 40 per cent, and statistic Drive to Regi on June “losed Acquired Through Practice. December duction in and a prize “That was simpl of automobile sense all reflexes it is practice. You have met so man these incompetent drivers in motoring that you know them by sound of their engines. “Their engines?” Smith asked deringly “You doubtless sound of the cxhaust of the car hind that the driver was feeding gas in harum-scarum manner. From one fact you deduced uncon- sciously that he wouldn't be likely to another instance I replied. “Like | acquired through | accidents warded we the | » women's division of | Development the lead i in its advi mavors of Los and San Fran T demand Within the past few weeks many car n tur have increased the nt tire The re- aused the large d up production factories arg pace Goodyear _production | won- is takin includ the the be- ment mittee noted from r equipm and has ants to spy and stinctively gave him the r 1 went on to explain to Smith that it is just this sort of rare acqu which keeps experienc trouble. do ches at new equip- rger produc- is about The tire National and Highway was pointed out munity that la that make that ely cont a redu o5 | ot not D been of | this ine 1 has caused by more general WHOLESALE balloon ti RIMS FOR ALL WHEELS Rundlett Rim Co. 1336 14th St. N.W. num- | Grease Stops Wms}neld Noise. - State due | 1 program Greasing 1 on the w | creaking noise. dry it rubs whole shield 1 point rubber dividing strip hield will stop that When the rubber is against the glass, the amplifying the noise to 000,000 receiv- England lcenses have ing sets been issued f Rickenbacker Six Captures Most Coveted Record San Francisco to Los Angeles—439 Miles in 8 Hours 57 Minutes The “ridge” route which ‘“‘Carmen Ball” , crosses two spurs of the coast range! Road zig-zags back@hd forth— This amazing car, the new Rickenbacker Six, with ‘‘Cannon Ball Baker’’ at the wheel, has now added to its many con- quests, the most hotly contested and most coveted road record on the entire continent. A roster of those who, from time to time, have clipped a few minutes—or even seconds — time between these points, reads like a volume of ‘“Who's Who'’ among .Speed Merchants, and includes almost every make of car which has any pretentions to power, speed or road-ability. steep inclines alternating with acute angle turns—hundreds of them. This section is known as the “grapevine.”’ Here are grades so steep and turns so sharp that most cars must negotiate them in second and stop often to cool steaming radiators. ‘‘Cannon Ball Baker’’ in his Rickenbacker Six slashed 18 minutes off the record. To do this called for a car that was an all- round performer. Power isn’t all. Speed is essential, but not sufficient. Hill climbing ability must be equalled by hill-descending-ability—which is to say perfect brakes. We believe this record will stand for a long time to come. Any car that essays to lower it by a frac- tion must possess several features, must be a perfectly balanced combina- tion of all those qualities that go to make up a perfect motor car. Power-plus; — Speed; — Flexibility;— Matchless acceleration; — Precision steering — absolutely responsive and true to the wheel;—Axles that will stand any strain or shock; and finally, 4-wheel brakes. To be absolutely dependable. in places where an instant’s failure o function would mean not only a recofd but a life lost, brakes must be mechanically operated and of the internal expanding type. Those specifications for a world beater spell—“‘Rickenbacker.”’ You are invited to take a ride in a2 Ricken- backer Six exactly like the one in which “Cannon Ball Baker”” made that great drive— This week is Special Demonstration Week—come in, see, ride in, and then drive this wonder car. The most impressive group of performance records ever held by any stock car conclusively proves the spectacular power, speed and stamiha of Cleveland Six. Space forbids printing any but a few of the more recent records:— In 1916, Buick lowered the former and set a new mark of 10 hours, 47 minutes. Cadillac went after that and did it in 9 hours, 30 minutes. In 1920 Peerless shaved off 10 minutes— set the mark at 9 hours, 20 minutes. 1921—Studebaker lowered that by 4 min- utes, 10 seconds—9 hours, 15 minutes, 50 seconds. That record—like others that have re- cently fallen before the on-rush of this invincible Rickenbacker Six—stood for several years. And now, Rickenbacker clips off 18 full minutes. 439 miles—8 hours, 57 minutes—total elapsed time. And this by a carthat is a standard stock model in every regard save for a higher gear ratio—4Y; to 1. At times, on .tralghhwnyl, Baker drove 80 miles an hour. He made the amazing average of nearly fifty miles per hour for the entire dis- tance (49.05 to be exact). In this 439 miles is every variety of road to test the stamina, steering, power and brakes of the car—the skill and daring of the driver. Entirely new in a car of moderateprice, these qualities have turned the eyes of all America on Cleveland Six design and engineering. Here is flashing acceleration, masterly high gear powar, uncanny roadability! Here is beauty of a new order; and comfort too! Here is the famous “step-on-the-plunger” method of chassis lubrication; and long life that results from superior materials and workmanship. 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