Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1925, Page 55

THE SUNDAY. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, 1925—PART 3. OTORS and .BOGUS SAFETY DANGEROUS| SNARE FOR MANY DRIVERS SEPTEMBER 27, DEPLETED TOOL KIT COSTS MOTORIST MONEY AND TIME Newer Features of Modern Cars Require Special Equipment, Seldom Found in Machines After Little Use. DOWN THE ROAD—Exasperating Moments of a Motori: THE TIME YOU RAN OUT OF GAS DURING A HEAVY RAINSTORM AND TRIED .TO FLAG Substitution of Good Intentions for Def-| |PASSING MOTORISTS FOR A LIFT. TO THE // inite Knowledge of Safety Rules Is Found Costly Practice. NEAREST GAS' STATION—— 1Y WILLIAM ULLMA Motordom < a mnew evil inf erfeit” safety, accord 1o experts who have been trying 1o find an explanation for the mount number of aceidents and colli- )od intentions are the Loreleis that Iure motorists to the hospital and pentance. Too many drivers s ticlng a false brand of safety and flirt ing with chance. The results justify a close scrutiny of the wentle art of Zetting about in an automobile and probably a revision of some of the methods emploved. Igation rev that a large| ge of so safety habits of a counte variety. The driver puts into p ertain of his own rules which aff ¥ only be- cause no hazard actua exists at the time. The success of these hom made rules bolsters the driver in h belief that he is careful and cautious almost to a 1t. One of the most vulnerable spots for | the exercise of this spurious kind of | mafety is the rallroad crossing average motorist will slow down look in both directions as he nears the tracks. Some declutch so as toj allence the engine and afford a better | opportunity to catch the sounds of an approaching train. On the whole most drivers slow down listen, but few observe the ti to “stop, look and listen Genuine Safety Missed. Therein many « motorist fails to dis- criminate hetween counterfeit and genuine sa The former has a few of the mark s of the real thin but too often falls 10 g much to the s w of the | telter. ‘The driver mafety rules a quently obtains b driver who puts counter: who totally t railroad crossing tter results than the e counterfeit variet nto practic instance, 1f a car traveling 45 n hour comes o ignores tre. | the 1 | geney | until he tries it and finds it wanting. | versal | ed with {left-hand side of | ariver | another car unless he starts t | proaching vehicle. The closer 1 few would be safe in the event of a real hazard. Most of them, albeit they slow down, are go- ing too fast to stop in time to avoid running into a passing train. Brakes Often Unequal. finds expression or 1y Counterfeit safety al in the misapplication of attention to parts. Many a driver insists that his brakes be adjusted for the quick- | ext possible stop. His thought is that tter the brakes hold the easier it will be for him to avoid an accident. The matter of skidding because of un- equal adjustment of the brakes does not occur to him. One of the commonest varietles of fety in driving is the habit the value of the emer- brake, but of abstalning from i Under such circumstances s not likely to know how emergency brake works using it. the driver poorly the In the case of propeller shaft brakes, now widely used on a number of cars, it Trequently happens that the brake. drum becomes covered with grease from the transmission or front uni. joint. This condition s not likely to be observed unless the driver uses the emergency brake frequently. Acting on a rule of false safety, many drivers get close behind another car_before swinging out to overtake it. Ther believe that the place for a driver is on the right side of the | road, and that the job of overtaking | another vehicle should be accomplish minimum of travel on th the road. | they overlook the danger of | possibllity of the driver behind Ing to pass at the same time, since | w0t likely to assume that the | ahead is going to pass around edge | some sign quently, the over to the left and give to indicate his intentions In making a quick pass there is also the danger of not seeing an ap driver =/, W/ 7/ #s L 7 il g A\ (ke g A o e A A s BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. Empty tool kits and failure to carry repair eqnipment for some of the | newer features of the modern auto- | mobile are beginning to cause trouble | for the unprepared motorist, accord ing to stories of recent breakdowns along the highways. The well stocked | emergency kit has become a thing of the past for the average motorist and many car owners are now paying the | penalty. i Many roadside repairers have been | surprised to discover that many driv- | ers of balloon-tired cars do not carry Jacks sultable for getting under a low axle. Some motorists have the body of a sultable jack, but have lost or | mislald the handle or lifting shaft On one car that s equipped with | a double tire carrler and a large | bumper in the rear the jack that was | carried under the seat cushion could | not be operated so as to reach under the rear axle and lift it. Yet the | owner had driven 1 thousands | of miles in sparsely populated sec- tions of the country apparently ob- livious to the risk he was taking. Speclal Tools Last. | greater difficulty | plugs Repairers report in replacing spark owing to | | the fact that many owners of cars { with plugs located so as to require a | special plug wrench have lost this| necessary tool. Another article that | is freque: Jost is the wheel puller, a tool that is essential for removing a rear wheel from the tapered end of | its axle. | This let-down in the upkeep of the | tool kit comes at a time when a num- | ber of spectal features on the newer cars demand additions to the tool kit | | or the emergency supply to be car- | | ried in the car. There was a time | | when a motorist might forego carry- ing an extra fan belt with him for | | the simple reason that, with a 1 { intelligent encouragement. it is possi- | concerns are specia is to the cu the | | ble to run a car a short distance with- | two. garages in the country, the March, 19 - shop: stations operated b well as dealers { nitely limited fce oasls for the United pendencies. , exclusi Many of th s in tric batteries a es arn ters, spring c tires. Comparati e prepared to ur car a troubled motorist equipped to undertake the may be willing to delegate to t drive Grease Equipment Ignored. many motorists @ gun w of grease ecause carry a gr emergency supy being tied up all for universal troubles bearings, loose spring ous othe [8; onnection the | of 1,000 repair shop: tives of Na Chamber of Cor interest to the cent of 6% pendent e ther average car day In the ehop a - he intends to p | less likely he is to note whether the | road ds clear ahead. Needs out the fan operating and without overheating the power plant. I some of the newer cars employ the fan belt to run the generator or the accessory shaft. These are stronger belts, to be sure, but no belt is un breakable. If the motorist h gpare beit with him it may he will run into a varfety of compli- cations. “ Today's automobiles are more trus | worthy, but the repair equipment car ried in them has slumped 'way below | | | er Gaither belfeves. Congestion now | extsting could be reduced materially PARKING ENTIRELY YET | mgtorists who use their cars only | for the purpose of entering or leaving LIS | the city would leave them at home, 1‘,[1," Means of Preventing Con-|the commissioner pointed out, Park | | ing throughout the day. he belleves gestion Will Be Tried | evengually will have to be abandoned. | Out First. : — . BALTIMORE, September 26.—Other | __ Aty . ! "alks for pedestrians along future | | means for relieving street congestion |, VaIKS Hre"ud\_ St The State |Par. A motorist nowadays hesitates| A spare sp here will be tried before prohibiting|motor vehicle commissioner of Con- | to tuck away a clean rag into the side | means of saving th parking of automobiles altogether, ac- | necticut in his biennial report. *The |Pocket, for fear milady will be shocked | bearing. 1If the engir cording to Charles D. Gaither, Baltl- | pedestrian,” says the commissioner, | when she goes hunting for the spare | climb steep hills on five cy more police commissioner. “fs entitled to as much protection | powder puff. Flower vases have taken |On three, there is no telling Allday parking is the Rreatest|from the Statg as ls the driver of an | the place of the fire extinguisher, t wer plant will get, how | source of traffic troubles, Commission- | automobfle.” | while writing pads are viewed as of | 3 the tracks ath of @ train speed, a few | him, partict to cre hi i t locomotives are 1 as many reckle TU othe Count from 1 One or ROAD IMPROVEMENTS IN MARYLAND MADE aratcan 0 e 3= | BAL TIMORE NOT TO STOP stone Landing road. The second ap- plication of ofl has been completed on the Solomon’s Island road in Cal vert County from St. Leonard to Prince Frederick. The roadway be- | Waldorf-Hughesville Stretch Given i tween Prin: Frederick and Sand Bottom Is being ofled. The work wiil Second Application of Oil. Bo Others {Under Way, | be continued to Owing - Treatment of the Waldorf-Hughes Cleaning Petcocks. jrens I 2 ville road In Charles County, ~Md. ey ““1‘"""}»‘“; or use the starter-|with a second application of o1, has | The petcocks need cleaning now and et engioe Sallod to Tum. ace |Peen compisisd, aceondiug to an- [BEiS, paxticaionly & the Pt & often consclentious to the extreme i | nouncement by the Maryland State made of pouring a little kerosene D Tt e I“‘""’_ " | Roads Commission. | through them into the cylinders as a o O b o IThe groads from! Maltawoman Lang [ SSEDONremoser. S Etopuing aftionstel at steering, brakes and other €S walgorf 1s now being olled and on|petcock is merely a matter of open- sentis s of s re in suitabl - sentlal units of safety are In sutable |y, completion the second application |Ing it while the engine is runhing. the oldest forms of counter- | Will be given the road in Charles| ctice of avitahbie from Hughesville to the be- | e of the concrete stretch be | low Hughesville on the Leonardtown | his in the 5 should Lave rough |road: also to the road fn St. Mary's | ctually copes 10 alwreads on the rear tires in order. to | = e ——— tens when he cannot | minimize skidding, never realizing|of safety rules that have been tried w wear, | that there is little accomplished by | ind” found not wanting. The home- tracks, v of accident prevention if weak | mude, individually-evolved varlety is : put on the front wheels.| generally spurious and fails to ring Watcl safety into se Battery ext ¢ volved in goi with a run-down Artye, wrece .ttery In the car. Motorists who have n stranded in hazardous locations | se they could not crank their | slens drivir & . b slow, s have observed. | pe This gives him a false sensation of precaution. He drives on to the cross ing, looks to the right and left, even | though he would have to be right on the tracks to see a train 50 feet aw , and then steps on the gas. I happens to e approachir an hour he is confronted by & atlemm: neither 1in enjoy Sidewalks on Highways. (Continued on Ten P speed and belief are, Irivers who slow | where a blowout m \ppro rallroad | Safet advocates urge the exercise y mean an upset. | trye. COMMEMORATE 50 The New YEARS oF Gardner Anniversary Sedans The Eight-in-line 1995 (F. O. B. 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