Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1925, Page 63

New Slogan Auto Trip Deferred Too Often Proves‘ THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO B €. MAY 31 OTORS and Male That Summer Tour Early for Vacationists Trip Never Taken, While Road Con- ditions Usually Favor the Early Bird. . BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. When are you going to take your Vacation? ‘Well,” says the typical car owner, “T think T'll wait until October. The weather's good then. Besides, I like to feel that my vacation is always ahead, not behind.” Now if you could follow the typical car owner with October vacation in mind you would trip over a very sur- prising fact. Whereas you would naturally expect him to spend many pleasant hours pouring over the tour books in anticipation of that great two weeks' tour under the azure sky of a new-horn Autumn he is, in re ality, busy grumbling over business and swatting flies “We're not going away until Fal explains Mrs. Typical Car Owner to neighbors who appear to be forever setting forth upon ideal tours to everywhere. ‘The situation with regard to the postponed vacation is not what you would picture it to be. It is no mer of anticipation, but rather Summer of fleeing opportunities. Nowadays when you speak of a late vacation the word “late” is used in very much the way the newspapers refer to those whose passport into eternity was but recently issued. A ®oodly ™ proportion of October vaca tions never come to pass at all. The struggle to pull through a devitaliz ing Summer. unaided by frequent recreations with the car, often ends in an Autumn trip to a sanitarium Sometimes business gets tied up in a knot and the postponed vacation goes over into the next year automatically Bird in Hand Best. How many of vou are so lucky asto be totally unfamiliar with the remorse of shoving the annual two weeks revel into the Fall only to discover that the tires have gone enemic and that the engine is choked up with carbon? How many of you have never discovered that, in waiting until Fall, many wonderful opportunities ;nr trips in Spring and Summer slip e It has become customary the man who arranges for an early Yacation. “Poor F nk says the office force. Ie’ll be back to work June 4 and his vacation will be all over. Ours will be just commencing.” Blank may not fully appreciate it, but he has the best arrangement of the lot. He'll go a-touring when the birds twitter and the world looks fresh and thriving. He'll slip away to the land of vitamines and ozone before some little bug tries to hatch sickness in his system. He'll dash away to the boarding houses that are putting on their best front to bait the coming throngs of vacationists, and he'll take o the open road be. fore it is cluttered up with the scram- bling humanity from the sweating cities The man who puts off his annual tour until the Autumn must assur- edly avoid congestion, but he gets the ieavings. He stops for lunch amid the tin cans and litter strewn about by an unthinking horde of Summer vacationists. He chokes on the dust of a fullgrown drought. He passes all the smart mountain resorts that are closed for the season. Every where they tell him of the good times had by those who came earler. “Do your annual touring early,” one might say, borrowing a line from the Christmas shopping stimulators. One Trip Begets Another. The outstanding advantages of touring now is that instead of finding it all over with, vou simply catch the touring germ and squeeze out any number of subsequent trips through out the Summer and Fall. Instead of finding vour vacation a closed book you get the fever and keep on va cationing. When the around you d to pity Fourth of July rolls » not remind the family that the vacation is coming and sug- gest the advisability of stinting now in favor of loosening up later. Rather vou look b over the profitable fea tures of the Springtime or early mer vacation and forthwith pack up vour troubles and tour, tour, tour Once vou have the desire to tour the details. such as time and the wherewithal, are easily arranged for. We get what we want—provided we first get the fever of wanting what we want The early that tourist him on motoring activity catches the germ to full season of The first trip of the vear bri such wealth of health to himself and his family that he will do without a lot of things rath er than forego the opportunity of taking another trip over the Fourth or for the Labor day holidays. He is a new man hecause of his early va cation, and the extra profits from his increased vigor and enthusiasm for work put him in a position where he can easily afford to make still further investments in vacationing. Meanwhile the typical car owner is trying to appease a disgruntled fam- {ly. The boss notices the work is alipping badly and that business is not coming in as it should. Many beautiful days pass with the machine standing idle in the garage. The family pines for fresh air and, above all, a change from the monotony of a warm Spring and a roasting hot Summer The car owner comes home dead tired he hates t. spurs 1108 Vermont Ave. Most Carinthe World Sorthe Money Out FOURS and SIXES think of the possibility of having to change a tire. Every one is nursing a grouch. But all the while he keeps telling himself Fall is coming—and then! Fall is coming for the early vaca tionist too, but it will be an opportu nity for an encore trip, not merely a last resort for a worn-out family Perhaps he can squeeze in only a day or so at a time, but he'll probably get more out of it than the man who has saved up all his time, his money and his enthusiasm for it, because the latter hasn't saved up any health to g0 with it. Many a long-postponed trip is ut terly ruined because people who take part in it are dead tired when they start. The first day’s grind over the road just about finishes them. If they finally do wind up in some wonderful garden spot they are certain to miss half the fun just because they are worn out. You would imagine the late vaca tionist might peruse the tour books constantly in anticipation of the pro- spective vacation, but such is not the case. He keeps telling himself he must work like a Trojan all Summer in order to earn his vacation. yet all the while he is coming to the office with sleepy eves and going home with a grouch. Naturally he hasn't much inclination for the tour books and the maps. Hunger for Side Trips, Catch the touring germ early. how ever, and it is a different picture Once you have hit the open road on a Springtime trip it gets into your sys tem. You want another trip; to see the other side of Paradise and take in all the side trips. You are glad vou got the fever early and you over- look no opportunity to find new ave- nues of expression elsewhere for this assion. side from all the psychological angles of early touring there are a number of definite advantages which are worthy of consideration at this time when every man is trying to de cide just about when he will take the annual earned lay-off. There are many good reasons why there is no time like the present for getting into the vacation stride, and to overlook them is very much’ like coming back to work Saturday morning rather than Monday. Consider the road building. For the next few months the State high way departments will be busy patch ing up Winter's ravages, but there will be little_detouring and virtually no delays. Meanwhile contracts are being let and highway problems studied. Later on—in the Fall, to be exact—all this highway activity will come to a head. Many a Fall tourist will have to look for other wa of reaching desired points, if past ex perience is any guide. - All this can be avoided by touring now. If vou have some special trip in mind or desire to make high mile- age records In a limited period of time, now is the time to do it. Later, in the Fall, there will be many pleas ant trips to take, but you will want to jog along and take your time over roads that are not under construction. Early Bird Best Served. Just because everybody isn't doing it in Spring or early Summer you have many a road to yourself and are much more likely to obtain better service in all lines wherever you go. You are the early bird. Quite natu- rally vou get the cream of service. You get in on all the improvements before the rank and file have had a chance to destroy. You see the foliage and the flowers before others have helped themselves. You find a Then there’s the car to be .consid- ered. Fresh from the repair shop, your faithful bus is now ready to take you out of the iworld of every humdrum to the land of winding roads and varied vistas. New tires, tight bearings, clean cylinders, well oiled parts all help to make the early tour everything that the late tour ought to be but isn't Part of the fun of any vacation via automobile is in climbing the high hills without shifting gears. Just one opportunity to leave the other fellow in a cloud of dust toward the top of a voung Pikes Peak is often worth the price of a vacation to the motor enthusiast. Part of the lure of else where is complete freedom from motor worries. And if you are going to wear the life out of vour car just ambling around the cify streets on hot Summer evenings how can vou expect to float over the hills on that postponed Fall trip? You are willing to put up with a little tire trouble along toward the end of the season, provided you have been kept cheerful throughout the Spring and Summer months. But if the long anticipated tour is mnot all roses, especially after you have stinted and sacrificed all season long, naturally you lose 50 per cent of the advan- tages. The time to take your vaca- tion and your big motor trip of the 3 years old still looks new/ ‘‘One afternoon, some years ago, I was. admiring my neighbor’s car.. I thought it was new until he told me it was more than two years old; and that he kept looking new clunjnfi it occ onally wit Common Sense.- So when 1 bought my car, a little 1ater, I also got a bottle of Common Sense, and used it on the car about once every five or six weeks. My car is now three years old, and the finish is perfect; witha lustre that is richer, and if anything, more beautiful than the day I first saw it in the salesroom.” DMMONSENSE AuTo PoLisH THE GREASELESS CLEANSER MILEAGES Washington Annapoq|s Annapolis Baltimore Baltimore ;Washlngfon} 418 Olney 9 7o Rockville Sm. Wheaton Q 263 5 Norbeck o é Columbia & CIarksviHe Sandy Springs T O Silver Springs * Starting point, Star Office Auto Taxes Cover More Than Cost of All Roads in U. S. Total $550,0600,000 Against $512,000,000 Spent for Highways. Answering the question. “Who pays for the highway Alfred Reeves, general manager of the National Au tomobile Chamber of Commerce, says taxes paid by the automobile are greater than the entire cost of con- struction and maintenance of all the Federal and State highways. * “Government figures now available for 1924, says Mr. Reeves, * $550,000,000 as the total for motor transportation taxes paid during the year. The cost of the Federal and State highway programs during the same time was $512,000,000. “These roads constitute the main highways of the Nation and serve about 80 per cent of the total vehicu lar mileage. The total highway bill, including county roads, amounted to about $1,000,000,000. The special mo- tor taxes now equal more than one. half this amount. |The remainder is paid for out of general taxes, Federal aid and bond issues, the interest and amortization charges of which are borne eventually, in part at least, hy the motor vehicle users. “This highway development is a financial boon to the railrgads. They pay less than 4 per cent of the cost of the highway bill, amounting to about $35.000,000, and have to meet motor competition, but they are profiting from revenue from freight shipments of cars, parts and other motor trans. portation, which is 12 tim great as the amount of railway taxes which are allocated to highway funds, a rev- enue of more than $400,000,000. vear is when you first want to; for, having taken it and conquered, vou'll be a different man. A different man, of course, wants another vacation, and he usually manages to work it in to the business routine somshow. How many times have car owners postponed their vacation until Fall only to have the big boss suggest it might be a good idea to work in a little business en route? If the vaca- tion had been taken early the chances are 10 to 1 that the business trip would have been ordered anyway. (Copyright, 1925.) If your car looks dull, and perhaps a bit commonpla go over it with Common Sense. It is so easy to use. You will be amazed with the quick, brilliant, lasting results. An remember, it is not a ‘‘finish” nor the false lustre of a layer of wax, but your car’s own original, permarent finiah, sparkling again. Repainting saved and a better job done, at a cost of only $1.00. Your favorite Accessory dealer or Druggist ean getit for you readily if you insist. Or direct from the Labora. tory, postpaid, $1.00. CORNOR SENBX BYS. CO. § Keeps DbCQ*y-d other lacquer. finishes in high luster, plugs entirely. and. of course | A man has to know one car intimately edge of all cars, in order to get around a car with a grease gun without over- | e N Sherwood Forest ».Forestville THE OLD Sometimes I don't know whether cation business. Every trouble I've remedied today has been yMarlboro 4 MECHANIC SAYS I'm in the repair business or the lubrl just a matter of greasin’ somethin’ the owner forgot about When a car owner starts off by tellin’ me that the trouble can't be lack of lubrication because he's attended to all that T know where to look for the trouble. You never can be too sure of lubrication, and when an average car owner passes off the job as a 10-minute proposition I'm suspicious. Take universal joints, for Instance each joint. each with three grease plugs for There were two cars in here today, Each universal joint was equipped with two high pressure grease gun nipples, while the third lubrica tion point was simply marked by they lookin’ somethin’ important. I handle it long enough to realize that when I may be wrong. That's why I always take a man's money. a plug. were havin’ trouble. The owners had overlooked the or have a wretty general know! all kinds of cars here, but I've been at think I've thoroughly greased a car I look around the chassis again before T Over in the shop I'm workin’ on a brake shaft that became so rusty the owner couldn't release the brakes after he had set them. between the pedal and the rear wheels and up close to the floor- | midwa boards and so let it go at that. The owner never found any Tt is going This shaft is about way to grease or lubricate this shaft to cost him about $10 to have me lift up the floor mat and show him the holes in the boards where he is supposed to insert the oil can now and again. Every car has its surprises in the way of lubrication points, and half the trouble in motorin’ is due to overlookin’ them. PRESSURE ON TIRES. Spring Devices Suffer When Air Is Not Normal. Does the alr pressure in a tire have | any effect upon the efficiency of the spring control devi such as snub- bers, stabilators, stabilizers, etc.? And if hard or soft tires make a difference what is the effect” These questions are worth consider- ing because the answers are surpris- ing. It is first important to remember that, whether a tire stands up or sags, the distance hetween frame and axle is the same. snubber and stabi- lator straps thus remaining at their normal adjudted length. But the vari ation in eficiency of the spring oen- trol devices are apparent when the wheels start striking road inequalities. nubbers and stabilators work on ex actly opposite principles. Suffice it to ay that soft tires tend to rob the spring_control devices of the function and thus lower their efficiency, al- though for fairly smooth pavements snubbers will be easier with less air pressure, while stabilators will be bet- ter with a little higher pressure. Stabilizers, like cantilever ~springs, should have normal tire pressure for best results. LET UP GAS ON HILLS. | Enock in Engine Is Often Stopped | by This Method. 1t engine starts to knock “ping,” when climbing a hill you will get better results by letting off on the | zas than by retarding the spark. The car always loses speed when the spark is retarded. but it may be a positive aid to the engine to let off on the gas, | for 9 drivers out of 10 feed too much | gas in their eagerness to climb a hill. showed that, on a certain difficult hill {eventual shift to second. while by let ting off gas the car would in some in stances actually gain speed 1t is well, however, to feed more gas the moment after vou have left off enough to stop the “pinging.” As the engine gains speed it will natu rally take more gas with less com plaint. If retarding the spark must be resorted to, however, retard singerly. Too sudden. or too extreme. retarding will “kill” the engine quick- er than anything else. Make It a habit to use the emer gency brake occasionally inztead of the foot brake. Your Confidence in Cadillac ‘What every one is seeking, in men and in manufactured products, is the genuine worth which inspires and merits confidence. This is the fixed demand; and it is, we believe, the basic reason why so many people have given preference to the Cadillac for so many years. It is clear to every one that people do repose special confidence in the Cadillac and that this confidence extends to every feature and func- tion of the car. CADI LLAC New Cadillacs may be purchased on the time payment plan. The Washington Cadillac Company RUDOLPH JOSE, President 1138-1140 Conn. Av Frank. 3900, 3901, 3902 N | | N W o 1925—PART 3. \ Speeding Heads List Of Causes of Fatal Traffic Accidents Male Offenders Outnum- ber Female by Twenty to One. of traffic Speeding more fatal automobiles caused accidents during April than any other single cause, cording to reports Safety Council from total population of 2 cities to the National 6 cities having a 50,000, In these persons were Delightful _motor Shenandoah Valley, southern Mary land, Frederick, Harpers Ferr: Hagerstown and the Antietam Battl fleld, the Eastern Shore and Gettys burg thus far have been described in these columns in The Star’'s 1925 series of special motor tours from the National Capital. Because of the demand on the part of many motorist-readers of The Star for shorter trips—equally delightful and fully as rich in historic and scenic interest—the motor tours department now turns to a series of comparatively brief auto journeys within a radius of 50 miles of Washington, which may be made leisurely and comfortably in a day's outing. Many District motorists have vet to explore the entrancing beauty Spots, the famous sites and the excellent roads that lie close at hand. Perhaps one of the most enjoyable of these shorter trips and one that bears repe. tition is the Washington-Baltimore- Annapolis-Ellicott City route. Totaling approximately 115 miles, this trip, for diversity of interest, hardly can be matched in this part of the count Leaving Washington via Pennsyl- vania avenue southeast, the route leads through Forestville, Meadows and Marlboro to Mt. Zion. Just be fore reaching the latter point the turn is_made for Chesapeake Beach and other bay shore resorts. A little be- | vond, marked by a direction sign, 1s a | road which may be followed comfort- |ably to Shady’ Side, a favorite spot | bathing and fishing. 1 for picnicking, Annapolis is Tnteresting. trips to_ the Annapolis holds forth much interest |for the motorist who learnseas he travels. In addiiion to being one of the oldest towns in this section, Mary land's capital city is noted as a place of beauty. While a ride through the | grounds of the United States Naval Academy should be a part of every through the older and more quaint sections of the town. Near Annapolis, up the river, is Sherwood Forest, and also in this vicinity are a number of |attractive inns and eating blaces where the motorist may stop for Iuncheen more offers much in scenic attrac tions. This road is a favorite among experienced motorists in this part of the country. In Baltimore the discerning motorist may have a profitable visit. Here is a port of international importance, a killed | dents. Contending for the right of way was the cause of most of the non-fa tal accidents, while speeding was sec ond. Failing to signal, driving on the wrong side of the read. cutting left corner sharply and driving while in- | toxicated were other circumstances attendinz the country's®motor acci dents for April. Male motorists were involved in 20 times more accidents than were fe male motor Male pedestrians Killed numbered three times the fe male pedestrians, and the number of male pedestrians injured was twice the number of female pedestrians. in April in automobile acci visit to Annapolis, so also'should a ride | The drive from Annapolis to Balti- | Delightful Trips Are Offered For OI\w-Day Outing by Motor W ashington-Baltimore-Annapolis-Ellicott City Route Takes in Scenes of Beauty and Historic Interest—Totals 115 Miles. | city noted for its monuments and parks. a famous seat of scientific re search and iearning and an industrial center, which ranks seventh amonz the cities of the United States. A few of tite places of mpecial interest may serve as reminders to the motorists who would explore Baltf more. Among them are the famous Walters Art Gallery, at Charles and Center streets: the Peabody Institute at Charles and Monument streets; the Baltimore Courthouse, at St. Paul and yette streets; Druid Hill Park and “arroll Park. In the latter park Clare Mansion stands Mount the oldest house in Baltimore, built Charles Carroll in 1754. Very old houses are rare in Baltimore, owing to the disastrous fire which destroyed 150 acres within the city in 1904 Poe’s Tomb There. Other points of interest inc Battle Monument Calv Fayette streets: the tomb of Edg Allen Poe, in the graveyard of Wesi minster Presbyterian Church; the new! Memorial Building, in honor of the Maryland soldiers and satlors who died in the World War: Shot Tower. built in 1828; the Francis Scott Ke Monument, the Cathedral, Johns Hopkins University and the George Washington Monument Leaving Baltimore by way of the Frederick road, the route passes through_Catonsville, a beautiful urb of Baltimore, and on to Ellic Cif The latter town. described p. viously in these columns. is probably the most interesting in this vicin from the point of view of quaintness Here on the Patapsco River is a flour mill which has been in operation man years, and here are buildings which bear the earmarks of time. The road out of Ellicott City is: a winding. steep up-grade, but at once | the motorist is plunged into some «f | the most entrancing countryside in al of Maryland. Prosperous, well kept farms lie on either side of the road and here and there is an_imposing country mansion. From Olney the road leads directly south to Washing ton. If desired, howe Rockvilie to the southwest of also may be made a part of the return tri For a comfortable one-day trip | the Washington - Annapolis-Baltimo Ellicott City route is recommended t Washington motorists by The Stat motor tours department SOFT TIRES RIDE HARD. Reason for Seeming Paradox Ts “ Easily Explained. Why tires should =ometimes ride | harder when they are softer has beén |a mystery to many motorists, but the | explanaticn is simple. When the tire |is up to its accustomed pressure, the part of the tread and the ends of the tire walls nearest the tread flex in the normal way Riding is easy. But when the re the flexing is transferred to th nter of the walls which are not designed to provide for constant vielding to the normal road inequalities. 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