Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 67

AUTOISTS BRANDED | AS “BUM SPORTS" Traffic Police Declare Most Speeders Attempt to Pass Buck When Caught. GRANDMA GAVE BEDROOM FACING Are motoristz “hum The answe: that comes from traffic officials. motor evcle policemen and | others who deal extensively with cs owners {s r e most favorable one | that could he made Several of ‘he reasons for this atti- | tude of the traffic anthorities are the | following plaints that are reputed to be the i torists vight after they have complied | with the, officer’s command to pull | h. I wasn't speeding. 1 d Iy every car on the | | car won't run 30" | hetore you stopped me 1 look- | ed a1 my speedometer and 1 was doing | only 20 miles an hour.” If 1 was speeding. this speedom eter 1< about 10 miles an hour slow.” | eeping up with the | zle me out to b2 ar-| doing just what every one | Alibis Are Futile. Albi, alibi. Al old. Al futile, the | trafic officials kay. | Never an admission that one is| Lt and that one was violating the Trying to ‘“pass the hue to another driver or to a me- chanical deficiency of the ca. That’s why traffic author < incline to an afMrmat:ve answer to the ques- tion, ““Are motorists bum sports?” ca Here's what Commlsgioner tin Baughman. head of the motor wehicle department, ha on the subject: eredit the num- | s I get whevein the person arrested asserts that ‘just a moment befoie the officer stopped me and told me 1 was drivin, miles | 4 THE SUNDAY DOWN THE ROAD—Big Events in Little Men's Li WILLIE THE: A BEND IN THE ROAD, AND THE LIGHTS OF EACH PASSING CAR FLASH NEW HORRORS : THROU}GH THE WINDOW —. % e STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPTEMBER 19, 1926—PART 3. i 2 f/. &) v 7 . o 0 e Wi, o 40 : iR % ves. * —ByBECK l | | 1 | an hour: 1 looked at and it rézistered v 32 | ship: his cowardice and guilty con- and. hesides, two cars had just passed | seience. me goinz famier than I was, i “When this happens other cars pro- | rrested they should have been. | ceeding at the full legal rate. or even | | a mile or so under i, naturally do not | helr face | adjust their speed to his. They may | of how | pags him before the officer in the face | s have to be handled. would | of o, ring traffic from the opposite | zical proof that the officer was | diy can overhaul and stop him." at fault, | of this, it is not unusual for | ation of driving at 40 or 45 or| an hour to have actually | mile_or more down the road from the point where the arrest warning actually takes Officers Pace Cars. this view can be taken the method of handling | is not known. officers are compelled to ‘et on the car thought to he This is accomplished hy inz in behind the suspected car accommodating his speed to its move. ment and staying the same distancy away for a given mileage. While dé- ing this he reads his speedometer. Having established the speed of the car he proceeds to overhaul it. It not infrequently that before he draws alongside his quarry. the driv- er. has, through overtaking a more slowly moving vehicle, Been compelled 1o slow down. Then, too, and this not “However, only whe: | or stop for | place. Driver Can “Feel” Speed. “It is where this occurs that the of- fender almost invariably protests that if he was speeding the cars which just passed him were speeding, too. “Another angle {8 found where, when the officer has just stopped one violator and is engaged in getting the necessary data as to his name, opera- tor's number, etc., a second clear and open violator will dash by. 1In these circumstances, two arrests at one time would he necessary. He cannot leave the man he has just arrested and go Passengers‘ Thoughts Are Constructive Force in Improving Auto Conditions What does the man who rides with the man who owns a car think about? Or doesn’t he count? The American Automobile Associa- tion has taken the trouble to find out, and the answers are believed to be the first evidence of consideration for the man who merely rides. “The man who rides thinks of all the things the driver hasn’t time to consider. He is a more powerful fac- tor in motordom than the car owner and driver.” Explaining these findings, Errest N. Smith, general manager of the A. A. A, points out that with automo- biles carrying virtually the entire population of the country and with only a fifth of the population car owners, the man who rides Is a pow- erful factor. 5 “When he is riding he is thinking thinking along constructive lines. Thousands of people who do not own cars and who do not even drive them are joining motor clubs, supporting good motor legislation and are exert ing their influence in favor of general betterment. “Persons who do not do the driving are found to be quite observing of the broader features of motoring dppear to.be a more or less overlooked factor in the organization of motor interests necessary to national im provements in motor conditions." FEW TE)URISTS INVOLVED IN CONNECTICUT CRASHES More Than Half of Other Accidents or the worrying about the car proper ! and | in the towns in which the automobiles involved were owned. Further data developed by the sur- vey reveals that 18 per cent of the | collisions happened to cars that had | heen loaned to friends by the owners. | These figures, which with others | have been submitted to the National | Antomobile Chamber of Commerce, | show that 24 cities having a popula- tion_of more than 100,000 had .fewer | traffic_ mishaps during the first seven | months of this vear than the same perjod last vear. The total of both | urban and rural accidents, however, iis a fraction of a per cent greater than HAWKINS officials. Work on the last few miles of the highway now is belpg rushed in order that it may be opened before cold weather halts construetio: RUSH DEFENSE ROAD FOR:FINISH THIS YEAR ) | distance between the Capital and An State Officials Expect Short High- | napolts by about 13 iiles. & the best road hetween th way to Annapolis to Be | is that by way of Upper Marlbore. Although appropriations by the Completed Soen. tate Legislature were exhausted be completion of the road, greups of sidents of Anne Arundel and Crince Georges counties recently subscribed | s Completion of the Defense Highway, | funds to permit completion of the road a direct route from Washington to,this year. Annapolis, before the end of the year This money later will be refunded s expected by Maryland Siate road :tothe donors The new highwav will shorten the | At present | | vo pointe | {rac 7 | MEANS POWER LOSS. | Elastic Springs Likely to Causs Car to Bump. .rln‘ iz supposed to reduce and the oad, the of the machine is less likely ta thiown into the aiv than if the 2 were not so elastie. ¢ the whole car is lifted on every ap it 1s evident that the engine have some extra work to do < means power loss Cadillac ‘Business ‘Prz'ncz;bles' Protect the Used Car Buyer With the Cadillac d neither a “problem” ealer, the used car is nor an “evil”. Itisa busiress, conducted according to sound busi. ness principles having to do with the reliability and the val ue of the merchandise. Many dealers regard the used car as an “evil”, because they lose sight of used car valucs in desperate efforts to make new car sales. The tendency in every such case, is, of coursc, to ask the used car prospect to pay back to the dealer the unjustified high price for the used car, which the dealer has allowed the man who traded it in. The universal reeognifinn of Cadillac as fi not only the finest o ne cars, but also the greatest value in the fine car field, enables the Cadillac dealer to allow for'a used car a price that is fair—and to sell it at a price that is equally fair. When you buy from a Cadillac dealer, you know that these sound business principles are operating in your favor. Cadillacnowofferedin soBedy Styles and Txpes, 500 Color and Upholstery Combinations CADILLAC infrequently is the case. the speeder has glanced il his mirror and discov- ered the pursuing officer. A glance at his speedometer, ofttimes coupled with a guilty conscience, many times induces the speeder to at once drop well under the legal limit. “When this happens thers would appear an odd mental reaction which produces a superabundance of caution rushing off to another who passes.” The question of how much of the tale to helieve and how much to “let ‘em tell to the judge” is another prob lem. In the opinion of Commissioner Baughman, “the average driver who has done even a small amount of driv- ing cannot help realize from the ‘feel’ of the car's motion when the speed is of motoring conditions,” says Mr. | Smith. ““The owner-driver is thinking about his engine, worrying over strange noises in the car and wonder- ing whether he is ecing to ket mixed on his traffic signals at the n=xt inter- séction. “The man who merely rides is vitally interested in everything that is going on in motordem. He is work- Occured in Home Towns of Owners, Survey Finds. 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