Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1926, Page 60

ESSAY CONTEST SEEKS TO CURB CARELESSNESS National Campaign Expected to Get at for School Children Problem at Source and Emphasize Importance. WILLIAM ULLMAN. attuched to the Board of W tons of school State in the Union w Safety cxperts see in the develop- ment of the essay contest idea the opportunity to prevent carelessne: rather than remedy it h o n impression on minds by ft_down in blick and white. s contest 1s divided There will be one wentary school puplls eientary school logy of the plan as being the nite step in the saner motoring of all test for el another f teachers. The ps generally regard t the motorist to both con- Amer through @] Automobile Chamber . While the prizes are suf: nd erous t en- my the school 11 upon see that wrds in the fucturers compet ren, the manu - Lefore idea this > little ony v very their live: judged {f the fonal com and the powerful influence nd their well-belng the subjects of the . Children w write orn Share in H v ntary school te r theme 'L Wway Safety. the cuse of the p varent that, in addition to im pressing children the need for aution when using the public hfuares, the essays will serve to Press upo ducators the utter ne- ity of making safety education a t of the modern school curriculum CLOSED CAR TREND OF ANCIENT ORIGIN Begun Centuries Ago When Egyp- tian Women Refused to Ride in Open Chariots. i St amons whe I's theme it e closed car trend, noticeable to- It had its birth in the 3 raised by Grectan women > open charfots. This curfous fact is pointed ot 5. Hunt, vice president of the H; poration. Greek maiden 'when they e forth in ca iees, drew silk curtains about ther und sat inclosed, resting on cushions ot goat leather. How very famillar this sounds when we hear our modern sisters and wives requesting the great- er convenjence of closed models, to be yrotected from the wind and the weather, so that they may wear deli- cate garments and not have their com- plexions mussed. “One has only hody-butlding says to wnlk through any would have reflned uppointments be- ~ond the mere masculine taste for rac- ing chariots.” e KNOW TAG NUMBERS. Prevents Trouble When Calling for Repair Work. Some motorists experience consider- able delay in receiving emergency Jervice and cause a great deal of an- noyance to repair men by failing to member their tag numbers. Service 1tions report that they are prevented requently from responding {mmedi 1tely 10 distress calls Lecause Car ow s are unable to give the numbers when they summon the repair man. Repair men say they often go to the scene of the trouble, but are unable to_identify car they have been called to rescue because they have heen given the wrong number or the owner does not know the number at 1. Knowing the tax numbers also a2 protection against theft. NORMAL STOP BEST. Racing Motor Does Not Help Start- ing Next Time. easier to ching it off. ver, 1s that quantity of v of this, mor up a not he sas vapor, which remains fn the cylinders to assist starting later. What happe 5 the quantity of gas vapor su into the cylinders is expelled, unburned, through the exhaust. As the engine mes 1o a stop the tion decreases d only the normal amount of gas drawn » the cylinders under wpression. The sitiation is iden- y the same if the engine is wwitched off while running normally, in RUNNING BOARD CLEANSER Kerosene Best if Followed by Wash With Water. Kerosene makes the best cleanser iur muddy and greasy running boards, Lut the cleaning process should bo ollowed immediately with a _clean water wash. Kerosene, if allowed to remain on the boards, is likely to af- fect their rubber or composition co: ing and render them unfit for the work of standing up under scraping Blow the Water Off. Al this time of year, when filling e radiator is more likely to be done 1 the garage and with the hood up ban at the flling station, water is ikely to be spilled on the wiring or distriiut, Should this happen, - the ¥ the elentric parts A 2 o | Will confer with their parents in the | being iznited, | and of teaching safety before care- lessness {s acquired. Tt {s expected, too, that children preparation of their essays, a situa- { tlon which should lead to fumily di | cusston of this fmportant topic. One of the conditions of the contest for children may have a far-reaching effect. It requires that with every essay shall go an {llustration to de- velop some point of the context. This may be on orlginal drawing, appro- priate photograph or merely a clip- ! ping from a magazine or newspaper. The paychology of this 18 viewsd as being unusually sound. Not only will it require family research and scan- ning of the magazines and newspa- pers, but will encourage those organ- faations and public-spirited individuals who arc at present {uvesting their money in sofety literature of all kinds. The prizes sufficlently numer- ons and generous to attract all children and to insure success of the plan which is to impress safety upon chil- dren’s minds by making them put their safety points down {n black and white. State awards provide for 433 are three tempting national awards, including a gold watch and trip to Washington, all expenses pald, for the best essay, and gold watches for | the second und third best essays. | There is one first prize, consisting of & gold medsl and $15, for each State and the District of Columbla, | Alaska, Canal Zone, Hawaii, the Phil- { ippines and Porto Rico. There 1s. in addition, one second prize for cach State. This takes the form of a silver medal and an award of $10. Third prizes, consisting of bronze medals and §5. are arranged according to popula- tion, there being as many as 25 awards for New York State puplls, for in- stance, and 23 for Penusylvania. Seek Parents’ Co-operation. believed that the awards are ently numerous and attractive for Children | | safety’ campalgn, & factor considered | to Le of especial importance in such | a national movement. | While there are no local awards for | the elementary school teachers par- | ticipating in their end of the contest. the Highway Education Board has prepared the campaign in such a way as to insure interest and co-operation |on the part of school faculties. Na- { tional awards for teachers, however, are attractive. Teachers who present the best three essays of from 1,000 to 3.000 words on the subject of “Les. ! sons for Children on Highway Safety | will receive ewards of $500 and a trip {to Washington, all expenses paid; | $300 and $200, respectively. Tha gcrrangement which insures teacher co-operation is the board's plan of issuing certificates of merit to those schools attaining 300 out of & possible 450 points earned on a basis of the degree of interest displayed in the essay contest. For example, if 20 per cent of the pupils in a school write essays the particular school refeives 20 points toward winning a certific: of merit. There is a complete | to cover all possibilities. In addition, points may be earned by the school | g !Inr the percentage of teachers writing | essays. This has the effect of making it « duty toward his or her school for the teacher to get behind the safety movement. Merit Certificates. Computed in the same manner as outlined in connection with the writ- ing of the essays, points toward win- ning a certficate of merit also can be earned through the percentage of pupils signing the “pledge of careful- 100 polnts it nt urs among { December 1, . to February 23, 1626, tnclusive. Particular classes may scek the award of a special certificate of merit if the &atire school does not try for it. Here again psychology plays an important role, for in this event an individual class virtually shows up its school and stimulates competition among classes. ‘The plan geems to tie up the Nation in what should be the most effective safety campaign ever attempted. Safety advocates praise it and back it, because it starts at the root of the trouble and attempts to prevent care- lessness rather than remedy it. Chil- dren are being taught to be careful before they can learn to be careless. In this latest campaign they are doing the prevention work themselves. rers to be mightier than the spoken word ot caution. (Copsright. 1026.) i Women, credited with many of the | improvements that have made the modern automobile the comfortable vehicle it is, were responsible for the {first crude equivalent of modern prings. Roads of the pre-fifteenth { cent period were infinitely worse than what the 1926 motorist calls a nightmare.” Research reveals that women of that period ralsed vigorous objection to traveling over these roads in springless vehicles. These objections resulted in intro- duction of “springs,” which were leather straps strung between metal braces. While this arrangement gave more comfort than the direct mount- ing, it was far short of smooth. Hungarian artificers produced a four-wheel coach which had grace of AS EBONITE Strings foa Stck [ Soitw Don’t blame the car if you struggle to shift gears. Blame the stuff you let somebody put in your gear boxes. At_dealers, In five-pound cans, and_service stations from the Checkerboard pump only. ~ medals and 438 cash prizes, while there | Many belleve it will prove the pen | DOWN THE ROAD—Such Is Gratitude. AFTER GIVING A FELLOW A LIFT, HE WKEEPS RIGHT ON GOING WHEN YOU HAVE A BREAK-DOWN~— It “Rains” Autos On Pacific Coast Rainy weather is not generally an incentive to the man who {s thinking of buying an automobile. On the Pacific Coast, however it is. Ranch nd fruit grower: skeptical of the jyecar's earning: during the recent” drought, were wondering whether the old ca couldn’t be made to last through another season. Then came the San Francisco automobile show, and with it two days of heavy rain. The drought over, crop prospect brightened, ranchers and fruit pro- Qucers flocked to the show in enor- mous numbers, and sales indicated that it makes no difference to them if the old car doesn’t last through the Winter. SPRING TIRE OUTPUT 70 BREAK RECORDS Despite High Rubber Prices, Indus- try Expects Banner Production. Despite high ernde 1v paring for new high production marks irst months { present. An exceptionally high output of automoblles last vear and prospective new sales and productior records this Spring and Summer art the factors that are regarded as cer tain to bring @ new volume of busi- ness. Orders from automobile makers al- ready received by Akron tire com- panies are indicative of the rush that will come soon. In spite of the Spring dating agreement, which was in ef- fect until January 1, rubber plants in the Ohlo city have been running at virtually full capacity for several weeks. Stocks on hand are regarded as large enough to meet only immediate delivery orders. g, Nearly 2,000,000 American wutomo- biles went to Canada last Summer and Fzll for a period of 24 hours or longer. Comfort Derived From Auto Springs Due to Demand of Women of Early Days line, a roofed body, broad seats and a side entrance. It was swung on straps. This vehicle is described by one historian th “The cushions of gold-embroidered stuff were perfumed with amber and musk that {nfused the soul of all who entered the coach with life, joy and supreme pleasure.” EBRUARY 17, 1926—PART 3. of the| | Destruction of the principle und: lying the building of o highway sys- tem sufficiently broad only transportation needs, but to as- suse socfal and economic cohesion by scrapping the Federal aid policy, would be nothing short of a national disaster, in the opinion of Senator Simeon D. Feas of Ohto. Undertaking to show the hollow- ness of the logic and arguments used by crities of Federal aid, Senator Fess points out thit the people as u whole are getting more in return from Go ernment co-operation in_road build ing than from any other Federal anction. | The manifesto of the Ohto Senator | is issued in the form of an article in | the February issue of American Mo- torist, the official publication of the American Automoblle Assoctation, and is regarded as the opening shot in the 1926 campaign to continue Federal aid on an undiminished scale. Points Stressed by Senator. Among the points stressed by Sena- are the following: ym the constitutic it in al defense, tr {mission of the malls, the furtherance of commerco between the States and the promotion of the national wel- fare, 2. It is in no wise a discrimination against wealthy States, but a fitting | real earning valuo of a highway is|to their responsibility in the matter of | In a word, it means | road building and aro not leaving the | that we are bullding better roads in|job to the Federal Government or to | to overlook som the Eastern States {8 proven by the | when servicin’ it. appropriation to a public necessity, indisputably national in character. 3. The benefits from Government co-operation are national and not sec- tional, and every State takes advan.|more fallaclous argument than that|they annually apply to highways, tage Oof every cent avallable under|Put forward by those who contend |such expenditures are not equal the law, the Lastern States benefit-|that the neceesity for Federal particl- | any other section of the countr: ing even to a greater degree because of their dense population. 4. Federal aid has not led to ex- travagance nor has it tended to under- mine State and local initiative, the latter fact proved by flgures showing hat of the Federal ald system hither- to completed the States have built independently more miles of highway than they built with the help ot 1unds from the Treasury. 6. The policy assures that the build- ing of interstate roads will continue on a high plan of standardization which would be impossiBle if every State and local road-building unit built merely for their own needs and without a view to the national stream of highwuay travel. Quotes the Opponents. ‘Opponents of Federal aid,” said Senator Fess, “‘often put forward the argument that it is unfair that East- ern States should be paying taxes that are used to ald other sections of the country. 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P. 8.—Wo recharke all makes of baiteries, repair any make of elec- trical systems. to meet not | When Drought Ends FESS MAKr> ANSWER TO CRITICS Senator Says Destruction of Principle Underlying | System of Building Roads to Meet Transporta- tion Needs Would Be National Disaster. umnfe, units, and that. frox - nomle standpoint. all the States are interdependent.” Iio continued “It is belioved that our Interstate roads are at the moment lagging be hind the gigantic requirements of highway transportation. “The Government is not spending too much for highways. No Federal expenditure is paying a higher divi dend to our people than tho | appropriation for roads. To | poTley” would be nothing sh Public sentiment stand for it and national self-interest cummits the Government to th | fillment of the present proxram until it is completed can we surance that we have a truly national highway system. “The bullding of good roads has, next to the establishment of schools, been the greatest factor in bringing better understanding and in develop- ing solidarity and cohesion between our far-flung communities and States. There is no one effort for unifying the whole country into ono people like road-bulding. “Without the presont system 1 co-operation we wou 1ve expens| onstru rouds seldom used and which would | not be justified from the umount of traffic they bear, which would be the worst form of economlic extravagance. As it is, we have assurance that the the end sought. accord with a national plan. |Auto Speed Kings i OF FEDERAL AID TO HlGHWAYSi Earn Big Rewards In Racing Careers rewards are to be & win- | Automobile racin i great if one happen | ner. Peter de Paola, pion race T lust ve: { $90.000 of the $43 | distributed by | mobile A track contestants. i Runners-up to De Paola, Tomr { AMilton, Harry Hartz, Bob McDon- | arl Cooper, also earned for their efforts. r West or 1 athy Th nationai. the It s tions | adequato | the heav, state road system. “Federal participation in the sparsely settled States of the West Is not differ- ent in principle, although the need s more acute by reason of the long stretches of sparsely settled areas in which the Federal Government still holds a large percentage of public | lind, exempt from he j told pay th of highwa t demands « have make inter- they our | settle | velopment is { mininz | quarte | Denver or in “That the Western Statcs are alive |for both industry and { Dr. Howe says | chemistry need | hulous | SEES HOPE OF ARRESTING CARBON MONOXIDE PERIL Elimination of Poison From Automo- biles Possible by Achieving Perfect Combustion, Editor Says. Eventual elimination of carbon ‘monoxide, the greatest poison involved in automobiles, by achievement of perfect combustion is seen by Dr. Harrison E. Howe, editor of the offl- -ial journal of the American Chemical Soclety. Research, which has brought ethyl gasoline again into use, will con- quer the fumes now regarded as so hazardous, Dr. Howe asserts. Dr. Howe, whose findings as to ethyl fluid of more than a year ago have lLiecen borne out by the report of the conference of the United States Public Health Service, sees a triumph public safety in the work of the investigating com- tee named -by Surg. G Hugh S. Cumming. “The report of this committee, con- firming conclusions reached by Dr. R. R. Sayre of the United States Bureau of Mines, and Dr. R. A. Kehoe of the University of Cincinnati, e dences valuable service to the publi Further Research Urged “It is hoped thut means will provided whereby other groups of sclentists 1 undertake other in vestigations of possible hazards we 1 dvance of any emergency. It was fortunate that distinguished a group of men as those composing the | committee, under the chalrnanship of Willlam H. Howell, professor of physi- ology at the Johns Hopkins School of Hyglene and Public Health, supervise the investigation a serve without remuneration The net resuit of the efforts of these scientlsts, Dr. Howe predicts. will be not only the ultimate conquest of car- bon monoxide, but also an advance in automobile design, a closer union of and industry, better con- ditlons in garages and shops. and a field of greater usefulness for the Federal Government in safeguarding | | public health. { Chemistry can save industry called upon in time, suys Dr. Ho {warning that States and cities act to eliminat ards know exist whol the N if | | ew Developments Expected. 1 “With the resumption of the di ""1 butfon of ethyl gasoline many n velopments 7 he desires to see "’;h president of th {line Corporation, ir o |to resume operutions, expressed h intention of continuing in co-operation with the surgeon general and of giv- |ing full effect to the committee's rec- | commendations “The evidence shows that those re. sponsible for the manufacture and dis- jtribution of tetraethyl lead to 1 | orate precautions to protes e thing Low cons: car owners will insist upon havin’ me write down on paper all the things they want me to do when work- in’ on the car, while the truth of the matter is they bring the car to me because they forgot to write down the jobs they did themselves. Every day brings a car with trouble caused by its | owner's forgetfulness. ! One of my ¢ round for help. | an old sa; 1 my line. and | true, that if they don't write it down | in black and white, the repair man | will have to do it for them | It's the easiest thing in the world vital part of the car Also, when there's “It would be difficult to conceive a | heavy per capita expenditures which | no full record there's too much risk of for | givin’ somo parts too much attention, 8l 1 have in mind a chap who put o | much ofl on the generator bearin's the | 7 Y0122 IS PREFERRED Quick Getaway More Power Greater Mileage and A Cleaner Motor—With— HTNING MOTOR FUEL The real reason why the LIGHTNING out- put is increasing Day by Day. 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