Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1925, Page 66

THE. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, NOVEMBER 8, 1925—PART 3. OTORS and EXPERTS WEARY OF FEUD WHEELS ARE BIG F;CTOR OVER DRIVER LICENSES| e ————— S IN SAFETY OF MOTORING o P HE'D GET HER HOME BY TWELVE--IT IS_T > = . STt R Opinion Advanced by Liberal Author-| [NOW ONE-THIRTY AND STILL TWENTY e 2 = - Natural Procedure Often Causes Trouble | e ILES TO GO~ AND MIGHTY SLOW ities That Anybody May Operate Car glowG ON A RIM ~— on Rough Roads—Four-Wheel Brakes and Balloon Tires Help. Iy Hfl Until Proved Incompetent. ¥ ll] BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. . many students of the trat = o Py 7 BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. | be free to bounce it o other hand, con- - 3 e e Every one is entitled to drive an fear ¥ ineffective method of weed. 3 ¢ '/,fi, 25 A Of all the units of the automel t " - ! as been pro- | 5”00 the unfit. The Bureau of I~ 7% / Y " Tione e wigraliann it ot T cqus iced guffict ence to the Con-f pupgic Personnel Administration of M ; R glected than the wheels. Brakes are | 5! SLALy. - % 2 | the Institute for Government Re- % X 3 vital, acceleration necessary na | Yhes This is the conclusion of Wany | earch has developed, under the di- 2 &3 A A steering essential. But the wheels are | b, 57e! safety and legal experts who are|acgjon of F. A. Moss, one of the most g 2 the driver's contact with the safe em- | Pe s n weary of the feud between comprehensive standardized tests for 2 " brace of terra fi <y motor vehicle authorities who pur-|,,omobile drivers, vet the test gives - Much can and does happen tof g0 % 00 0 port to be strict in the matter of |, sscurance that the applicant with wheels. And in this process it fsn't | 210ne: hO%e licensing operators and those Who ave | (he' pighest rating will never drive necessary for anything to break. The | fn rerer criticized as being lenient. Driving |y, r while intoxicated or lapse into most serious trouble frequent rs [ ooy Sy, bela fit of recklessness . when the wheels are do placed in the same category as hon | ™ ppg driver test i3 used to ald the 2 i - ] what one wou esty. Like honesty " | motor vehicle inspectors in determin: g ; t 18t Ohclae ing jest how imuch an applicant - p Xnows about the job of oper- ¢ - riving oter u rough “but | ating art automobile, and in declding Q : ” : road and wanted to make : how much more he or she will know [or, turn out to pass a Y when given the advantage of a year's W leu-n _you applied the brakes experience. {'he present systems are ”:mr;; QJJ“":" n’\v; a v‘?,“' snerally comgdemned on the theory | rigit-hand side of the ron that too muck is taken for granted jicus e eI sl by the inspectors and no effort is fmaidicanasiine whe mads to check up licensed drivers to [Fei resoniee thia s e merte vaath ‘nfare and | ind out whether they are progress- Lot Cissomtos it d you sus. i e i eaeis ing as anticipated. et Sat e iiwns o (ae s ; NNEeolineniics Driver Should Show ity. | When Operator Is on Probation. g - . ! =| | Principle of Skidding compression st ha wsed ¢ than In their effor mprove th drivers m ments are cause of the ligence tests the opinion of some of the country’s outstanding No one ‘can tell anyth ot When a violator of evervday laws 3 \2 | & I beer ) t put on probation the authorities z . == <= | but Jittie of *| reserve the right to watel him closely — = > | subject ever | {and determine whether such proba- T S | has heen said ahout t ould or should nofi be termi- Y justment, smooth treads urged in < causes : and somet! ousand who Junders when being examined & | many States where some sort af test knows the laws, he will reveal his | js required placed on probation. amilia n t he un-| Byt this probation is seldom genuine. dapstanisitha me . h The State rarely makes an effort to omoblle, he av Iie 2nifts o 4 t e, | ziv lvantage of six months’ steers or applies the brake |ty it v The theory is that the person who : TN ot libensing drizers applies for a license to drive an auto- | 4. ol o srolnas | that ithey BRI po to be hon- | 4, dicated on the assumption A Pt est in his or clief that a license they tell what a driver is going Faauon J snould be Jsr more | (“o. wherens they merely tell what eyt . € | e fs capable of doing at the moment e on o e verbal| i i< the contention of those who zo Tt Sl '€ | favor what i Known as the con- 5 A S ekl pis el o i ank e s Seiom | WINTER CARE OF CAR. DETOUR TO DAMASCUS. e Wheon Sy rof = the r t er || ould et to- Re il —— A8 ou ting ar demonstrated th ct of this method probably Fouldibe R 4 & &' Traffic Over Laytonsville Road | ally vic 5 ‘tui | prohibitive. The tendency in many wnd proves hi C | vehic \_F icensing l!!l’Mnmen-N : BE GOODSAHEN Troi chitomens whol not even a driver < ~lappears to favor the more liberal| Soon it will be too cold to get under | 8 > S sor R o e il wctice of the motorist to | the car for one of those periodic in-|come in here for a ce is to ask | wéatitation as prescribe: he has proven |spections of the works. Better take|‘em to tell me when | oiifios s ontet o ! Imeelt to be unfit as a motorist. |advantage of one of the ideal davs of Gl canio | When he Is found to be unfit the de- | the Fall to see whether everything is a s S o the righi tight. Clean off any grease that seems | Petter guide to me than to to be working its way to the propeller | tell me just what they think is the shaft brake drum. Drain off tne|CQUPle : & in OMassa |grease in the transmission, flush it L chap tell me the car steered | 145 £ue I8 (00 &3 itk " o e i < Tuserts and Connecticut that is be- |out with gasoline and refill with heavy (hard. Well. ‘that sounded like the | (3,0 ol met ct roed itoh(ie ctuks rouds. Ftirning which a police > | Nieved to he keeping the accident rate | engine ofl it Winters arc severe. See [ Steering gear was shy of grease L o, oraine Sok aed O | o L oo o that the crankcase bolts are tight all iicon y [io fitie tappet creme e | ik, tion to fine and huprisenment e ot lcense | ZRaniiie " Flenion the oy nolt: | co uersio tll ma when helt Irounies | Ofly Sh es run.-c o x:ngel o ; Driving Ts Test in New York oA with it stricter watch on all | There will be neither opportunity nor | T | uble them. I think its goim' tof It pays to scrape Your fest when sideways the sudden refn Smith, it : : + and more frequent inspection | invlination to do this sort of thing in | 071V When, as in get one side | save us all a lot of time and trouble. | stepping into the car from the garage “to the wheels smit od. adve s Wintter a rough r : In ses it's goin' (0 mean dol- | floor. An ofly shos is a source of dan. | the effect of a thrust. sers : ! e o o | SE e e pull hard el te iten | 12 istomers’ pockets. |ger when it presses on the brake|the car swirling into ihe s et g e e T thaunnt the car’s course aga 1ad to 1e some one will come in|pedal. Tt may sip off Fomh tils prftite fhsj=raumps pad o Y of reason for gen Keep Selt Bag Handy. me =0 T would have put my finger | with the news that there is a queer | Always race your engine once or the Massach . right on the trouble. I wou noise in a rear wheel. When he tells | twice when backing up in a parking 1922, as compared with previous ye: 1 tion with the methods | 1n aniicy perfod carry a small bag | known that the whole ste xear [ me that he hears it fust as the clutch | space. Serves as was due to the adop a drivi C 1 drivers of automobiles. | of salt in the car. Rub the bag on the [ was Inose on the frame. When he |is engaged D'l just send him away test. There was n nwever, | T | test can tell but a small | windshield occaslonally. It will break | tugged hard on the wheel tha gear |with the glad news that his troubls fs 1o prove that the drivir . story. Experience | up the ice and prevent it from form-|and bearin’s were thrown out of line. | just a slightly loose key in the wheel anything to do with the red reveal the rest ing. One day T did a lot of extra work on | and nothin’ to worry about. i zccidents. Indeed, at that tion of licenses is the Im- | observers were offering as the ex-|p t half of driver control, but its | planation for the nt the |iron bars are rusty and the reckless | greater inherent safety c het-| or incompetent operator finds little | r C c afer VS, i difficulty in escaping. 8 t is h (Copy 2. rstood unless hecle e regained | First Favorable Day. Sometimes I think that the way to|the tappets of a chap’s car just be cause he didn't tell that the tappers seen; ois Traffic over the Laytons Temporarily Diverted. | shar, o the left aga e crown of the 6A% 15 vl to that the wheels wr L e ym pa S will be diverted this week L v any traction and t noisy T jumped o the conclusion they | t0 announcement by the Maryland | would be the immediate had too much 3 . and, of|State Roads Commission. The detour | Weight From Tires oyrse, after I went through the pre- | begins 51; miles north of Galthers- the trouble. 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