Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1925, Page 35

THE SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1925—PART 3. OTORS and WOULD LINK AMERICAS BY 'HES OF FRIENDSHIP Republics of the South Propose Gigantic Road-Building Program—U. S. to Join Conference. STAR, 'WASHINGTON, D. O, THE TIME YOU WERE SMOKING IN A GARAGE AND MET THE FIRE— INSPECTOR FACE TO FACE— WNOT AEIP¢ ARTICLES U WKLY T GESS CHPe S BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. Linking the Americas by highways ot friendship is the latest role the American automobile has been called | upon to play. | After viewing the development of vehicle transportation and the roads movement in this coun iry in the last quarter century and their effect on industrial progress and national solidarity, the Latin American republics laying the | groundwork for a far-reaching pro- gram of national and international road construction, designed to cement the ties within their own national groups and foster greater interna- tional comity on the two continents. Sponsored by the Argentine gov ernment, the better roads movement in Latin America will receive its initial impetus when delegates from all the countries in the Pan-Amerlcan Union gather at Buenos Aires early in - October for the first pan-Ameri- caf conference on highways. The United States will be represented by an- official delegation of seven ex- pefts on highway construction maintenance, ppointed by Presid Coblidge, while each Latin Ameri republic wiil have from two to five delegates present. Move Is Far-Reaching. The program calls for the discus sion of such topics as highway pro- metion, highway education, the so- cfal influence of highway develop- ment, highway finance, the influence of ‘motor transportation and the con struction, maintenance and adminis- tration of highwa: While this movement had its inception among the Latin American countries, it is probable that the delegates will look chiefly to the United States sentation for advice and direction in ng out their program. This con nce is the beginning of what is expected to be a genuine better roads mgvement in all the Latin American countries. Road construction as conducted by the United States Government and the individual States is unprecedented in the history of the world. Nowhere else is there such a system of co ordinated improved highways, the total mileage of which would span the earth times. This system, for the most part, is of comparatively reeent development, having had its greatest growth since the populariza tion of the automobile and motor vehicle nsportation. From the point of view of motor vehicle registrations, the automobile is peculiarly an American institution, there being almost five times as m in -operation in the United States in’the rest of the world combined There are sufficient cars in this cou try to take the entire population— 113,000,000 — simultaneously on a gi gantic automobile ride. This tremen- dous consumption of motor vehicles has made necessary the development of_good roads With the gradual growth of the! number of motor vehicles in use in Central and South Amer} the Latin Americ confronted with the problem of improving and building highw In the larger cen ters, particularly around Buenos Alres, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, roads comparable to those in this country already have been built, but intercity | or international motor travel, such as is known in North America, Is yet in its initial stages. The program of the first pan-Ameri- can conference on highways antici- pates jhe_establishment of through | highw connecting the principal cities of South America. It aims fur map out a system of improved virtually connecting the | tates by motor travel, through | Mexico, Central America and across the Panama Canal, with South Amer. fca. ‘The first link in this bi-conti- | nental highway already has been pro- jected in a road from Laredo to Mex- ico City, Mexico. Thus, the pan American_ highway conference aims truly to draw all the nations in the Pan-American Union closer together by motor_travel. Heretofore business men and tour- ists from the United States visiting | South America have had little occa- | sion_either to take automobiles with | them or to tour extensively in the | Latin ‘American countrie: cept in the immediate vicinities of the larger cities, roads have not been developed to a point to encourage touring, such as is practiced in this country. As result of the road-building program expected to be projected at the con- ference, however, motor touring in South America will be placed on a basis comparable to that in the United States. S R T s 7 | United — B 1B Copyrah. 1975, by Metropot tan Nevapaper Survies 9-3-6 United States Autos Favored. As a natural consequence of the widespread construction of reads the automobile as a modern me transportation will gain in popula in these countries. est gathered by the United States Depart- ment of Commerce show that in point of motor vehicle registrations Argen- tina, with 130,000, leads the other Latin American countries, having one car to approximately every 73 in! nts. Brazil has 41,750 cars, Mexico | 35,000, Uraguay 16,689, Chile 10,000, | Coloml 3,000, and the Centrai| American coun average less than 1,000 cars each. Most of these coun- tries, however, are inc their | motor vehi stratior rat per cent each year United States producing | about 80 per cent of the world's sup- | ply of automobiles and controlling a | corresponding quantity of the avail-| This broader market for the' Ameri- ble motor vehicle export market, |can automobile is of vital significance South American countries in the near | to the domestic car owner. It means future may be expected to assume | greater ma: production of automo- leading positions among the United | biles and automobile parts and a con- States motor car foreign markets. | sequent lowering of pric It points ! American motor car manufacturers present are virtually without competi tiop in the South American field, and the popular cars in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo bear names familiar to v American. side from breaking down the bar- of national provinciali n and fostering a more genuine spirit of in- ternational comity, this gigantic road- building program undoubtedly will pave the way for a broader marked | for the Ameri 1 automobile. Already American motor vehicle manufactur- rs have established plants in Latin America, thus opening new opportuni t for industrial enterprise in those countries, giv employment to thou sands of natives and enriching the wealth of the nations as a whole. Making Mixture Leaner Often Solves Problem of Carburetor Adjustment Cars Parked on Either Side Yours Important. Few car owners think to take t is s enough. He turns the high speed ad- justment a notch or two so as to give & richer mixture, but often finds there is no improvement. Then he is puz- zled. 1t he would swing back to a leaner mixture than he had in the first place, however, he probably would find that the jerky action of the engine was due to too rich a mixture. Too rich a mixture will cause the engine to slow down, whereas it should be run- ning at the maximum speed for the throttle opening equivalent to a speed of 20 to 25 miles an hour. Much trouble is experienced by some car owners in keeping the car- buretor properly adjusted for all weather conditions. The chief problem seemus to be to find the adjustment that will permit of smooth pick-up miles an hour. The driver fres to feed gas while the car is ing freely, but finds that the car rks as though the mixture furnished carburetor _were _not _rich parked on either side of them at t s It is one thing to arrive the garage in the morning and that some other motorist has damag, ine’s car and another thing to ha e owner’s license number. quently the guilty driver can be cated and impressed by the wisdom With th, toward greater value in motor vehicle transportation, with the consuming public destined to benefit from the prosperity of the manufacturers of automobiles. (Copyright. 1925.) settlement. 1815 — TO COMMEMORATE 50 YEARS OF BUILDING WELL — 1925 The Gardner Six Anniversary Sedan (F. O. B. St. Louis) Consider the Chrysler Four from any standpoint—of design, of craftsmanship and of p. rformance—and you rugily find the reason for ‘the sweeping publicdemand for it. Put the Chrysler Four through its paces. 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You will find that the Chry- sler Four givesand doeswhat can equal in power, speed, fuel mileage, acceleration, SPECULATION PREPARES MOTORIST FOR TROUBLE Thinking of “What Might Happen” Often Serves to Make Repairs Easy When Something Does Go Wrong. BY FREDERICK O. RUSSELL. It wasn't the season of the year when batteries go dead, yet his cur- rent supply apparently had vanished overnight. Thanks to his ability to employ a little loglc in the solving of car troubles he knew the trouble was not with the selfstarter, otherwise it would not make even a few feeblo at- tempts to crank over the engine. And, too, there were the dim lights and the subdued horn to prove some- thing had happened to the battery between 9 p.m. and 9 am. But he was just inexperienced enough to con- fine ‘his investigation to the battery itself. To make a long story short and profitable, be it said that not until mechanical assistance arrived did this car owner happen to notice the pointer of the ammeter registered discharge even when the ignition and lighting ewitches were *off.” Like thousands of car ov s, he did not Know quite enough wbout the mechan- ism of his machine to be able to know what happens when it happens. Discharged Back. In this particular instance he did not know that if the contact points of the generator cut-out, or re happen to stick the battery will dis charge back into the generator when the car is at rest, nor that,this con- dition can always be detected by the discharged position of the amme pointer when the switches are “off. Such things happen to the best of motorists, but on the unprepared are obliged to flounder about for an explanation or suffer through the misunderstandings of amateur re- pairers. 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