Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1925, Page 71

"~ ASSERTS TOURIST UNFAIRLY FINED A. A. A. Head Asks Consider- ation for Those Unfamiliar With Local Laws. Pleading for motorists who go into sections of the country where the traffic regulations are unfamiliar, the Amer] n Automobile Assoclation urges civil authorities to show con- sideration In an age when experiment in traffic laws multiplies their number constantly. Hundreds of communications have reached A. A. A. headquarters bring. ing information that in addition to being victimized by roadside courts and speed traps the motorist is un- duly penalized for violation of regula- tio with which he {s unfamiliar. There is all the difference in the world between recklessness on the highways and technical violations by motorists of traffic rules with w they are unfamillar, fnasmuch as in $0 per cent of cases of the latter type of offense the motor tourist is not to blame,” declares Thomas P. Henry, president of the A. A. A., In a stute: ment issued yesterday. Vary Throughout Country. Following his transcontinental mo- tor run, during which he made an ex- haustive survey of conditions, Mr. v made the statement that the )ns in traffic regulation through country are such as to make a violator of every motor tourist some- where along the line. “The motor tourist,” he sald, “is expected to understand and comply with regulations that prove a veritable puzzle even to the native driver.” He continued: “Until America reaches an accord on traffic regulation and decides on some- thing that can be applied universally throughout the country, the visiting motorist should not be held strictly accountable for technical violations. He is not to blame. If he is to-be punished for minor offenses in strange cities where experiments are under way, it merely means another ad dition to the ranks of those who hold laws in contempt because of the im- possibility of compliance. Purpose Defeated. o hold the motor tourist to blame for his misunderstanding of a traffi regulation is to defeat the purpose of progress in regulation,” Mr. Henry ex- plains. “If a tourist cannot grasp the idea it is too complicated. Traffic regulations, to be successful, must be such that the average driver can grasp them without difficulty. “Too many cities have come to re- gard their regulations as simple just because their own drivers no longer make technical mistakes. This is a dangerous inference. The chances are the local drivers have come to adapt themselves because they have repeated | thelr acts hundreds of times. e cannot be relied upon traffic re fon. These drivers who never make an error in their own home town are now touring, and some of them are not finding the going smooth. They find they have been From Car to Plane And Back Again; Carry Parts Along uy an alrplane and carry it to the flying fleld in a filvver. There assemble the plane, place the car on board and go skimming over the clouds. This possibility is held out to automobile owners by the recent fying of the J. W.-1, made b Stout Alrplane Compan; subsidiary, eastward to New York from Detroit and, on its arrival, dis- mantling the plane, assembling a Ford car that was included in the cargo and transporting the plane to the John Wanamaker store, where it will be used as a model in selling the flying machines. The price of the planes is a ‘mere $25,000. forced to form certain localized habits and that they have lost the knack of adapting themselves to new environ ments. Change Over Night. “The situation is complicated further when the motor tourist finds lations literally changing over The A. A. A. concedes that experiment has its advantages but to hold the motor tourist responsible for every lit- tle infringement of every new experi mental regulation is manifestly unfair and out of line with American ideas as to how matters should be conducted. Yet this fs the situation throughout the country today. “The entire Nation is awakening to a new traffic consciousne: Anti- quated ideas in regulation are giving way to more systematic and logical methods. The ultimate and obviou aim is simplicity, but of neces there is a certain amount of ove regulation and complication. This is to be expected, but there is no reason why the party who should benefit by any fmprovement in regulations should also be the vietim of misunderstand- ings.” DECORATING RADIATOR. Honeycomb Type Will Take Few- er Emblems Than Tubular. Some car owners are more justified than others in attaching emblems to their radiators. The type of radator is the determining factor. Generally speaking, a honeycomb radiator will stand for fewer decorations than the tubular type. In the latter the bend of the fins does not do much harm. Nor will a leak result if the shafts of the emblem devices cut the fins a little. — AUTO DOORS HAZARDS. Experts in_automobile safety are agreed that the door of the car is a common form of hazard. There are two principal things which happen in connection with the misuse of doors. |The door is left open when it ought to be shut, projects over the running board, gets in the way of an oncom Ing car or knocks somebody down { Again, it is a habit to slam automobile doors; nobody knows why. But the habit leads to many people being hurt. | one make to another s An Abridged Magazine for Car Owners EDITED BY WILLIAM ULLMAN When baby falls out of its coach nuwnfuyu, the whole family goes out with it. Make Experience Pay. Out of the frying pan into the fire. That is the jump too many motorists app to be taking in selling and buy- ing c . The turnover in cars in the hands of owners has reached a point where the man who sticks to one make of machine year in and year out is re- garded as narrow. Millions of motor- ists who have just learned what to do —and particularly what not to do—to their o]d cars are now looking around for new makes and for new ways of making mistakes. Some one has said that it takes a lifetime to understand one make of car, yet many people think they are due for a spell of carefree motoring just because they handle an unfa- millar make of car, like it and buy it, Service managers who are supposed to know their particular brand of car inside and out frequently make seri- ous blunders because they do mnot know the car as intimately as they should. One such exj got about a certain gr new type of universal joint used in the latest model of the car he repre- sented. Another is working on a prob- lem which even the factory can't dope out. It may be a narrow policy to adhere to one make of car as to fail what other cars are doing in the way of per mance and service, but there is nothing in jumping from a means of escaping trouble. Ignorance is the biggest trouble:maker of all, and it has a free hand whenever the motor- ist starts off with another unfamiliar make of car, thinking he is gaining by starting with a clean slate. Any motorist would be better off staying with one make long enough to turn his experience into working capi- tal. What Gear for Parking. Does it make any difference whether the gears are left in reverse or second when parking the car facing downhill? Many drivers have wondered, know- ing that when a car is in the forward motion in reverse the engine tends to rotate backward. The answer {s simple. In second the car is held back by the compression of the pistons on their compression stroke. In reverse the power stroke becomes the compression stroke. The situation Is six to one. half a dozen to the other, so far as the braking effect is concerned. Hazards in Car Care. With the average car receiving about one-tenth the care it deserves, it may be discouraging to the conscien- 1s owner to be told there hazards to watch for in caring for a . Lvery year well meaning p injured in attending to thet vants, and such injury as they rec 1s, in most instances, avoidable. Perhaps the most serious of the c: care hazards is the jack. It is eas to work under a car when it is jacked off the ground a bit, and accordingly many owners block up the car and climb under in tull {gnorance of what might happen should the supports give way. There are 80 many grease racks in service today that the car owner is hardly justified in risking his life when he could just as well drive down to his filling ‘station, pay a small fee for the use of the rack and do the job properly and without danger. Many motorists have suffered through forgetting that the fan is whirling around while the engine is running. The best safeguard against this {s to disconnect the fan by salip- ping off the belt. The engine will not overheat in the time required to tune up the engine. Few owners realize what tremendous suction is created at the vacuum tank suctfon pipe connection just above the carburetor. If this pipe is disconnect- ed and the motor run, enough suction will be created to draw kerosene across a halfinch gap from an oll gun. Asa matter of fact this makes a convenient way to feed kerosene to the engine for the purpase of letting it act as a sol- vent to remove carbon. The motorist who might press his finger against this opening, however, would be dis agreeably surprised. Should anything happen while work- ing around the carburetor side of the engine, and it becomes impossible to reach the switch to stop the engine, it is well to remember that the engine can be stopped by screwing in the car- buretor adjustment screws until the engine stalls. Cleaning Out Carbon. When pouring a little kerosene into the cylinders in order to clean out the carbon it is important to do one cylinder at a time, preferably pouring the kerosene in through the spark- plug opening, cleaning the plug while on the job. After treating each cylinder the engine should be run for a few minutes, and accelerated a few times to help blow out the carbon that has loosened. The advantage of doing one cylinder at a time is that it saves the choking and flooding of the engine, which is likely to be the case if the cylinders are loaded up with kerogene and the engine put through a difficult course of starting. Also with the en- e running between each treatment of each cylinder the pistons and valves keep hot. It is essential that the motor be hot when doing this sort of work. Just Tight Will Do. The nut that holds the valve stem of a tire to the wheel should be tight, but no effort should be made to make it more than snug against the wheel fel- loe. The purpose of the nut is to keep water from leaking around the stem into the tire. Too much tightening, however, serves to pull the valve stem out and may damage the inner tube. Take Average Reading. Tire gauges are not so accurate that one can afford to take one reading as final. The wise car owner takes the average of several readings. The vari- ions are due to the fact that the strument does not always fit tightly Never Before Such Dramatic Success! Nevethaaan{carenjoyedamemdmsiasficreoepfion. Never have people more outspoken in their praise of any car. In many cities sales have multiplied beyond precedent. In some sections, those of the entire preceding year. the figures for the first ninety days surpass “Phaeton” Adopted As New Term for Small Open Cars The terra ‘“phaeton” is gaining favor as a proper designation of the type of car heretofore described as a touring car. The latter term, it is contended, has lost its significance, since all types of automobiles are used In touring. Beveral American manufacturers use “phaeton” to denote the five- passenger car and the term ‘“touring car” for the seven-passenger auto- mobjle. Of 61 times when either term 1is used it is found that “phae- ton" is used 20 times. over the valve stem when the alr is released. It is particularly important to take accurate readings in the. case of a balloon tire, where a few pounds one way or the other mean a lot. So the average must be taken. In the old type of gauge used for high-pressure tires the variations were just as great, only nobody worried whether the gauge was accurate within five pounds of the desired pressure. Now You Have It; (Answers to last week's questions.) 1. The amount of carbon which must be in an engine before it will knock annoyingly is secondary to the heat_conductivity of the pistons and the displacement of the engine. A lit- tle carbon in a small engine will cause a bad knock if the pistons do not con- duct heat away from their centers quickly enough to keep the carbon from causing pre-ignition. 2. Cars which are driven by torque tubes or arms need only a front uni- versal joint. With Hotchkiss drive two Joints are necessary. 3. The chief udvantage of the eve- valve, or Knight-type, engine, aside from qulet operation and free- dom from valve adjustment, is reduced inside cylinder area. The greater the proportion of piston top area to the total inside cylinder area the greater efficiency there will be in the use of the fuel vapor for power. 4. The engine should be idle when reading oil level indicator. If it {8 run- ning you are very apt to add too much oll, overlooking the oil that is in cir- cuiation. 5. The effectiveness of ah engine as a brake to hold a car left standing on a hill in gear depends upon its com- pression. Leaky valves and rings will cause the pistons to move and the car to creep away from its resting place. (Copyright. 1925 ) PAINTING THE SPARE. Put on Wheel and Spin It Is Method Advocated. The handlest way of painting a spare tire without trying to work out some scheme for doing the whole in one operation is to put the spare on a front wheel that has been jacked up. Both sides and the tread of the tire can then be painted quickly and thoroughly. The tire should dry in a very short while, particularly if the wheel is kept spinning a little o During the championship automo bile race on the Laurel speedway next Saturday the contestants will use up about 3,000 gallons of specially dis tilled gasoline. Youll be Proud of Your Oldsmobile Six The time has passed when low price in an automobile requires you to sacrifice your pride in appearance, or to accept a low standard of performance. Today's Oldsmobile Six has changed all that. Here's a car you will be proud to display to your most critical friends—proud to open its door and invite them to ride. But prouder still of the way its per- formance impresses them. It's reat to have the satisfaction of nowing that you have invested wisely — that the Greater Beauty and Finer Performance of this latest Oldsmobile make it a value without equal today. Touring $875, Coach $950, Sedan $1025 Prices £. o.b. Lansing. 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