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10 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 17, 1925—PART 3. I_EAGUE m.' NA“UNS Autos Kill Million | . z frton e _Ditees, o 20 | QWITCHING MAKES | szt cions, it o o | o o e vty o . . T | through this oll In the troughs. Some | performance, but Iv mention this |L\- chance dissatisfactio | Birds and Animals | J Olln SIIllth alld IIIS Cal’ of the oll i thus foreed up into the | CALLED PROGRESS |citcnt o show how much motorist | ftornra sl gz g T mainder splashes over tie inside of | }sl.mdx to lose by being ignorant ily. sseris k : K J the motor up into the pistons and on | castly it is in the long run for anv| Price fixing on the part of go TU Aln MUIURISTS D(lll\, He Asserts BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. the cylinder walls. 102/ K Wasminglon® Adviscs Car | panutacturer o have B e R s o St ot so | what other cars are doing and how | Henry IIT Price Fixer. John Smith is a character whom every motorist should welcome. He “In draining back Into the bottom n(\ isfied with what they will eventually | it was used in the World War o the crankcase again this ofl is caught Owners to Try Others Once | discover to be grounds for definite|of economic stress and since during is not selfish; rather he is a motoring martyr, a chap willing and glad to 3 : . 5 i z - b in ducts and is led to all the main | s s | dissatisfaction. the reconstruction period Kin have exploited, in an interesting way, his experiences for the benefit of | | 0 VEUE 5% 50000 This 1 where | in a While. “iEvery icar. owner gwes it to him-| Henry III of England was one of 15 | ‘ _— Motors Proving Seriousl bave ¢ his ; ; S > the other 10,000,000 or more members of the motor clan. Lo A o e L Ey camoNpet igwes it to o HENY T or Bhglind ORs o Seeks to Remove Certain Re-| Check on Natural Life, | Yniashing, but you can easily nee now | e e e e e e ‘ e roed | Trvi lifferent makes of cars | Lol . No. 98—Force Fi SCOV! witho ol ot of | necessary it fs to have the.oll forced ey leks = . models as well as old. He cannot ai- | hibiting bow makers from selling thei strictions Tourists Dr. Sn"jmr H,OI(IS' Planty Eoroes Mend ?_"d s?'_""'_ r?xlw::;r‘lsru::(l e'xl:e:t:c.g Pt :nrl;::nun |to the distributor pipe. In your en ’““}"” ates progress In automobile de- | ford to be too well satisfied with what | best bows at more than three smnm:; ; : lenty of oll in the crankease, yet | ®ORD'® TN fo0 gine a separate lend takes oll to the |SIKLS L i i is drivi And it is often equally | four pence each. Now Encounter | More than & miillion animals ‘el mussien: for 1t ot iy i puss: 1od0ed | ¥ grmiii had toatmit it And so; when| Hmin geca und the St | Fington, loc lis® Saipte Claire 2 | kiited by “motorists: daily. duriie’ thel colT TorhIng ot wes m:mx"_‘.”,‘.“‘v"{"\" | the case had been dropped he was con-| “What do they mean by direct pres- g5 0% = touring seasom, according to a com- | at the time. o driving: 1ast! vineea nuxn any l‘mm l(hu mechanic uure lu;nrh‘:lullun“" Smith p:mkt‘;l Fhe policy of staying with the one pilation by Dr. Dayton Stoner of the | “I can't explain anything |spent in looking for the cause was| Most of the new cars seem: l0}ngke of car year in and year out e Because growing tendency | University of lowa. |nsn e nae (,,-3,,,::,'(,)l,h,,‘:"(.,“'::",‘“h‘(‘.]nnresxm-,\'. When the mechanic an-fhave it = .. |makes for stagnation, he contends, “Worry is Man’s among_ tourists take their motor| Going from lowa City, lowa. to|and looked over the situation,” Smith | tounced that an oil lead to the fourth In direct premsure olling,’ the me.iboth for the car user and for the c cars abroad, a s committee on | Lakeside Laboratory, a distance of 200 | was told at the service-station. It SPlash trough was clogged. Smith|chanle explained, “the lubricant I8|make Greatest Enemy”’ road traffic of the League of Nations [miles, T toner counted 105 dead | lool me as though you gof some | KNEW that he was not being bluffed. | pumped and led by DIpes to every| —This is not news to those motorists is drafting a plan, to be submitted |animals of 29 differ secies on the | poor oil 3 g Swbats B A HowaTetiivers)| et ne or iesnts Bare of 21 ";;Ibfla“ who own several makes of cars simul soon to all nations, whereby many of | roadside. Averaging the total 1 of * e 0] o the details abou he oiling sy e ol even forced ro; h e | taneous: Mr. Warrington says, “but the restrictions and . complications |anima) life.for the 5,000,000 miles of | neopts st :‘n):r:'\‘fl;.‘:e,l? what You | [jke most motorists, he held to the |crankshafc and camwhaft, both of [only o those who drive the same now facing the motor tourist will be | motor roads in the United States. Dr. |took up on that main bearing onl idea that the connecting rods flopped [ which are hollow. Little holes at the | jnake of continuously. Th 54 eliminated. | Stoner estimates the daily total will {week ago,” Smith reminded l‘“he sery. | around in the ofl and thus splashed | important points allow the ol to work | who own several diffe v from McReynolds he has the word of thousands of sati The proposal of the Le: Na- [ run well over a miilion for all species | joe man. " it all over the engine's “Inside: out. Every part of the engine is de- | the advantage of each. prec fied customers that he does not have to worry. It's a com tions committee deals ma with | of small birds and animals. J 3 He had been informed by the man |signed to receive so much ofl and no{what rivalry means to the advance f s . a the reform of the international road | Red-headed woodpeckers headed the | The mechanic admitted there could | who sold him the car that the lubri- | less. Nothing is left to chunce. But,|jent of the automobile. fortable feeling to have a dealer with a record of sixty certificate, which is at present valid [list of casualties with a total of 39.|D¢ nothing wrong with the oil. He | cation consisted of the splash system, |of course, the oll must be clean and| I was astounded recently to fi s i e for both the driver and his vehicle. | Chickens, supposed to be the most | hen sugsgested that perhaps there was | but he had not waited to hear the rext | there [y bound to be trouble If an oll |a motorist praising a car that 3 3 1t is proposed to divide this certificate | common victin ran a poor second, |NC% enough oll in the crankcase. of the story—merely, that the system | lead or hole gets clogged obvious shortcomings, just because he 5 e A Ly heneite, D AR Lor | I thE to e oty v | “If you're in doubt about that just |was force feed and splash. Engineers spend a long time trying | did not know what other cars can do Try out the Advanced Six Roadster the vehicle and one for the driver. | m—————e o |look at the indicator,” Smith replied. :: : to agree as to which type of lubrica- |in the way of performance. He $1,498 at your front door This plan_ will eliminate all the for- | | It showed about 7 quarts. And to Getting the Facts. tion Is better and they seem to be de. | tried a particularly steep hill that was malities which the driver encounters | mittee’s recommendations. Several of [ Prove tha was not sticking he| Smith decided to get It ®tralght | cding in favor of direct high pressure. | New to him and had found it a little when he changes cars. The new cer- [the European countries have abolished | Pressed it down,” allowed to seek | while there was an opportunity. I think one's us good as another if you | {00 much for his car. To him, how-| tificate also will be valid for more |the gates at most level crossings as |{he level of the oil again and then| “How can any one bearing fall to|goljow directions suggested by the|€ver. it was the hill and not the car R MCReynOldS & Son than one journey into a- foreign|a matter of economy, and the commit- | reread He even careful to | receive oil If the whole motor is bathed | nionytacturer. The best system in the | He told me that the hill was so ste . country. | tee urges that signs, warning motor- |See that the car was on level ground | in it?” he asked. world, you know, can be ruined by |he had to go into first gear. He would L Main The comumittee is working toward |ists of such crossings, be erected so0 that the true level of the ofl could | ‘“The motor isn’t buthed In it re-|jariedt and misunderstanding. ¥ | not believe me when 1 informed him 1423-27 L St. . the standar@ization of all motor | The committee will consider » | be ascertained plied the mechanie. “Your oil is kept | that there were at least ten makes of | vehicle laws, making them uniform |suggestion whether ea-ii country | hen you must have been forcing |in the bottom of the crankease,| Next week—More Engine Mysteries. |cars that could climb the particular for ail countries, and thus obviating |should undertake to furnish on de- [her up @ long steep hill in ‘high,’ " |known as the sump, and is not (Copyright, 1025.) 'hill in high gear. the necessity on the part of the motor- [ mand full particu of the owner or | the mechanic concluded touched by the connecting rods while ist of learning new laws and unle | driver of a motor vehicle which has Smith N S: it is there. The bottom of the crank- ing other laws as he passes from one | been the cause of ‘a serious accident mith Not Satisfled case slopes so that the ofl runs «to country 1o another. The committee |in the territory of another country.| ‘The bearing burned out while the |ward the front or the tear, from where will recommend that all cars carry a | A driver guilty of an offense against |Motor was running at a normal |it is picked up by the ofl pump, or red tail light and that a system of |the regulations of one country would [speed,” Smith contended. “I'm not|led to it. The oil 1is then pumped " compulsory insurance aga all »d by the country which |satisfied with vour explanations.” into a distributor pipe which runs the damage caused by motor t be | or nted him his interna- | “Neither am I, the other admitted. |length of the engine inside the crank- given consideration by the various |tional certificate of the decision for-|“I Kknow now that the trouble is |case and at about the lowest level the countries. bidding him to drive a motor in | something more serious, but if there |connecting rods reach. There s a (] 0 Standardization of railroad grade-|the country where his offense had|was some simple reason for the|splash trough for each rod, #nd Into crossing signs is included in the com- | occurred !trouble it would be worth while to'these oil flows constantly from the of all the cars at the 1925 WILLYS OVERLAND FINE MOTOR CARS New York and Chzfago Auto Shows were equipped When a man buys one of those wonderfu! Nash cars one tire ata time torists who are meantime, it becomes nec- keeping abreast of essary for you to run with thetimesarechang- a Michelin Comfort Bal- ing to balloon tires now. loon and a high-pressure And they are doing it one tif® Opposite one another, tire at a time as their press YOU €30 do so tempf)rarfly i g without harm or incon- venience. This is the way to do it: Next time you need a tire, %‘:{l a Miccllxelin Co.mfort practically the same as high- oon and mountitasa ., eceyre tires,and they have spare. Then whenyouput .00 they last 1 SR e pr ey last longer. 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