Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1926, Page 82

MOTORING BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. Our idea of & reckless driver is oné who blows his horn for the motor cyclé cop to get out of the way. N the battle of cylinders, the eights aré mustéring their forees for a vicious attack upon thé established typé of American automobile power plant—the me- dium-size six. This néw manéuver will be brought emphatically to the attention of the motoring public at the New York Automobile Show January 8. According to a leading automotive trade publication. the industry has been advised of the debut of threé new lighter e¢ights. This is just a bit conservative. The fact is that there will be no less than five néw small straight éights. These predictions aré apt to be made obsoletée any moment, for changés aré man¢ at thie season and secrets aré closely guarded. It is known, for instance, that General Motors is préparing for a new car, rumored as being naméd the La Salle. Whether this i¢ the new and smaller eight to he sponsored by Cadillac rémains to be seen. Auburn's new lightér straight eight, the 8-77, already i¢ in produc- tion and is no sécret. The roadster will list for $1.495 the sedan at 1695 and the Wandérér sedan at 1,745, The last named is the model with a front seat that folds back to form a bed. Gardner is wéll undér way with # new light éight on a 122-inch wheel base. Thit will he known as thé seriés 80 line, if you can keep thi¢ in mind without confusing it with the Piercé-Arrow and Chrysler products known undér the same magic number. This Gardner will rang in price from $1,395 to $1695 for the various models, and will, theérefore, be one of thé hot con- tenders against the established sixes. Of course, Gardrer, liké some of theé other manufacturers of eights, will boost a largér car of the same type at higher pricés just to add swagger to the name platé and as a furthér inducément to switch to an eight. * % & » The truth of the whole busihess i¢ that Buick, Nash, Studébaker, Reo, Willys, Flint, Chandler, Hupp and Hudson have thé medium-size six field so_tightly séwed up that the most efféctive weapon of com- petition which the smaller manufac- turérs can utilize at thé présént mo- meént is to cater to thé public's in- créasing preférence for éights. This does not mean that all these light eights are going to bé happy suc- céssors to the éstablished sizes, but it does mean that the public will bé tréatéd to a moré générous taste of eight-cylinder performance. The theory béhind it can bé stated by paraphnsing a wéll knéwn rémark, “Once an’ ¢ight 6wnér always an eight owneé: ‘What has happéned in the six field, many bélieye, can happén in g6 on to the finer, hétter dights? Preédictions are hazardous, as oné prominent manufacturer knows. Hé prophesied, and spent good monéy on advertising space to do so. that sixes selling at moré than 4 were dead letters. Immediately Packard, Marmon, Franklin, Pierceé- Arrow and others jumpéd into high- er production schedulés. Just to turther upset this forecast of thé demise of the high-priced sixes, Chryslér tosseéd its big car into the ring. This was followed later by Studebaker's Président modél. But the prophécy may be right, after all. Oné névér can tell in motordom, for someétimes prophets look untsually far ahead and forget to mention temporary trénds in t‘m interval bétween prédiction md' ite realization. 1f the flood of light ights thi¢ coming vear sweéps all America with it, just as the flood of light sixes did before, it i¢ reason- able to supposé that Américans will have the “eight crazé” and will continue to- have it regardless of whether these light eights are re- fiable. The public will bé témpted sorely to swing to the better éights. And then, what about the higher- priced sixés? P Jordan was oné of the first in the fiéld with an éight undér $2,000. At the New York show he will présent a néw light eight, which is rumoréd to be something that will lure the public_to thi¢ type. At the same time, Jordan offérs custom work on the larger eight, and it has béen announced that thé straight eight Marmon, which will list for as low as $1.750, will be offéréd in de luxe form for as high as $3.100. 5 It beging to look a¢ if the idea it to gét the public “eight-cylinder conscious” at any cost, and then féad it by géntle stagés to the bet- tér eights. Apparéntly, this is what Stutz hae in the back of its héad in introducing at thé show a new and lighter straight eéight. Rickenbackér will introduce two new lines of straight éights. The «maller one.starte at $1,795, whilé thé latger bows its way in at . This is anothér contributiog to the Meéanwhile Hupmobile and Dia: aré pushing the medium straight ¢ight idea to the limit. IEER 1t is interesting to note that sincé a great many persons do not know the differencé btwéen straight eighte and V-type eights, nor which cars are which, the so-called battlé of the cylinders is résolving itself into an actual alliance of all types of eights. All of them appéar to be etting together to fight the sixes. héy believe that the man whoe drivés an éight undeér $2,000 will kéep in mind that some of the bét- ter eights, like Hupp, Kissél, Largér the eight.” The flood of light sixés has made Americans convérts to multi-cylinder cars. Many have found light sixés far more trouble- somé than fours, but the énor- mous succéss of the médium:size. sixes démonstrates that when He is dissatisfied with a light six the aver- agé motorist goes on to a bétter six rather than back to 4 four. * % %4 K“M try the light ndi thém wanting, HOLDS AUTOS RAISE STANDARD OF LIVING Dr. Lee Claims Motor Cars Also Have Cut Costs of Transportation. will _the eights, and, Motér vehicles have réduced thé cost of transportation and have served 16 raise thé standard of living of the American people. This point is made by Dr. Judson F. Lee of Léwis Inétitute, who de- clares it will become évident to all when it is realized that “competition, the economic law, has drawn theé line clearly bstween the motor truck and the railroad® and between the motor section of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Dr. Lea declared that “the future merket for automobiles is assured and may he dominated by the Ameri- can car manufacturér. Thé relation of this new means of transportation 10 the oldér systéma seéms cléar to- day: each has ite own sphére, the one being esmpléemeéntary to the other. ‘The problem is ene of co-ordination, not_of competition. ““The railroad is thé wholesale long- distanca carrier of the Nation; the iclé cAn best serve in short en door-to-A6or delivary. Whether the motor coach iz now re. garded as a competitor of électric and steam rnlwuz'a is Answered by the fact that 134 electric rallwaye are operating motor coach lines and 187 steam rallroads aré using motor vehicles as feeders and As exténsions from existing rail lines.” i S R TRAFFIC CHIEF OPPOSES REGULATIONS OF TRUCKS Haynes Holds Government Super- visor Would Tend to Restrict New Transportation Development. Govarnment regulation of the husi- nese of trucking it objected to on three grounds by J. P. Haynes of ths National Industrial Trafic League and traffiic director of the Chicago As- snciation of Commerce. The thres reasons for his helief that regulation would be harmful are elted by Mr. Haynes arx follows: Regulation would tend to restrict or destroy the elasticity which makes the truck so valuable. 1t would tend to retard the develop. ment of A new and rapidly growing Jordan, Rickénbacker, Gardner and Stutz dlso are eighte, whilé thé man with dny of the bettér éights keeps reminding himself that some of the country's bést cars, like Packard Eight, Peéerléss, Duésenberg, Cadil- 1ac and Lincoln also aré eights. * % x 0 Theré is 4 lot of paychology in thi¢ fight and thé manufacturers aré making éxcellént capital of it. It rémainis to be seen, of course, what the exponénté of sixes will have to say. It is worth noting, howéver, that oneé of the manufacturérs who formerly quoted the finest of the world's engineers in support of his contentiont that a six was naturally bétter than an éight now is one of the biggest boostérs of the éight— but keeping the six in production just the same. 1t is not expectéd that thére will bé any startling ideas in the duifn of the straight eights. Thé singlé- sleeve valve eéngine does not appéar to be quite ready for production, and most manufacturers dppear to considér thé light straight eight a novelty and in itsélf sufficiént eéx- perimént without flirting with un- usyal design. ko America is facing an oil shortage. Theré is no shortage of automo- bile fuel in sight and thére never will be any. Now what is thé motorist to be- lieve? ~ Authorities spéak passion- ately on both sidés of the question. Oné strikes a new note in saying that no oné will heliéve that the end of America’s fuel oil supply it in sight if the end really comés, he- cause there have been 6 many falee alarms, The quéstion, howevér, it not so much whether the Nation will be- lieve a¢ whether thére are any grounds for assuming that the mo- torist some day will wike up to find himsélf with nothing to run his automobile except fuels priced at prohibitive figures. It is true that Americans are wast- ing fuel at a staggéring rate, but oil makes the car go and the mod- érn car is a mental stimulant. The power plants for transportation pur- poses tomorrow will no more oper- ate on fuel oil than our modérn motors operate on oats. * X k% Experts aré worried bécause there are only 18,000,000,000 barrels of oil in the ground and because we'll get only about 25 pef cent of it. The cry is that the reserves in our coun- try will take care of thé consumption for only six more vears. It is stated that the development of fuel frorg shale, from coal or by synthetic meéthods definitely is limited. Claims aplenty. Expert testimony. A million and one arguments. But what does it amount to? Why as- sumé that the engines that will take us anywhere weé want to go, alon, the city stréets, thraugh the air an across the water, will have to be p;;\rvered by oil or substitutes for o facility of transportation. The truck is just entering the de- velopment stage and should be left free to find its place in the transpor- tation system of the Nation The presént system of operation pro- teots the shippers, whe are résorting inereasingly to the use of the motor truck, Mr. Haynes maintains. " EXPERT SERVICE on Carburetor and Ignition CREEL BROS. 1811-17 14th St. N.W. Potomac 473 A Prior to 1859, when oil production went off with a bang at Oil Creek, P la“e’ no important role in . Who can tell but what just ahead lies the discovery of tomorrow's fuel? 1T RIM & WHEEL CO. 1336 14th St. N.W. THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, 1/ WASHINGTON o mobile trip to one of thé most of the necessary funds by Princé D. €. DECEMBER BALTIMORE The bunht 's MOTOR TOURS Elkridge Meadows 1o Southern M. v 0*’ & % . 12, 1926— PART S, ANNA Distrdet route to the Naval Academy and séat of the Maryland State government, camplétéd iast week, will cut approximatély 10 miles from the auto- ular objectives of Washington motarists. The road, bullt at & cont of $840,000, was madé possible this year by the advance eorges and Anne Arundel Countles aftér thé Staté appropration ! becainé exhausted. BIG DECREASE SHOWN IN MOTOR PRODUCTION est of Any Month -. During 1998. Motér véhicls préduction for No- vember is estimated at aApproximatély 245,000 units, according to Agurés of Autémotive Industries, a trade pub- lication. This compares unfaverably with Octobér production, which was 849,408 1inits and with figures f Novémber 1ast véar, which wers 371, " uction for 1926 up to the énd of Novérber is placed at 4,272,000 units, ’mm& 4,836,271 for the éntire year Novembér output this yeAr was the lowest of any month in 1926 and De- cembér production ia expscted to be still lower. It is conflaéntly expected, however, that the opening of the na- tional automoblle ‘shows néxt month will be & powerful trade Stimulus. The production decreass for Iast month, whilé showing A général cur- tallment, largely is attributable to re- Aucs opérations by the largest ménufacturer, who, at this time last year, was in active production on new mo«l:. Othér companiss wers less ! pér cént under théir totals for PEFRIEET Wea B FAST DRIVERS KEEP SPEED LIMITS DOWN Dealer Explains Why City Is Slow in Establisheng Arterial Highways. Thoughtleas driving practices of the véry car owners who are anxious to aeé higher spesd l‘mm éstablished on outlying thoroughfares are vital fac- | tora in keeping traffic Authorities from | taking this atép. | . Création of arterial highways upon which greater speed way he made probably will fellow proot that an in- télligent majfority of drivérs are capa- blé of handiing their cars with safety. These thoughts are volced By Oscar Coolican, 1ocal automobile dealér, who Theré are séveral cases in point right here in Washingten. October #8Aw the 16ng.desired higher speed 8608 established on Massachusetts avenus. Ralsing the limit t6 30 milés An hour on this avénue long had beén the plan of the traffic director, but he was forced to reiterats for months that it would not beé in the in- térest of safety to allow speéds beyond 22 miles an hour until motorists have roven thamseélves capable of safe iving above that limit. “The trafic director had only one sound criterlon of this ability of drivers. That was how well they obéyed the old speed limit and how obedient théy were to the “stop” signs that called upon all drivers to hait before entering from side streets. | "It ébviously i§ dangerous to enter | & street upon which traffic is moving | at 22 miles an hour:if oné cuts in when | one pleases. At 30 milés an hour, it is | doubly dangerous. | “Inability of some motorlats to | realize this retarded the achiavement | of the desire of aymajority, who felta | higher apeed would help traffic con- | ditions, | ““Thera is apparent in many cities a trand towrd parmitting fiigher speeds in order to 18ssen congestion, which is & big factor in accldénts, but no city’s tra authorities are going to make the changs unless motorists prove betoreh: hat it will bs sound.” AUTO REPAIRING ALL MAKES Gardiner, Flint and Hudson SERVICE A SPECIALTY T. J. CAMFIELD 1615 O St. N.W. North #7671 Tire and Accsspaiin November Output This Year Low- | Washington and Maryland motor- ists are going to gét An $840,000 Christmas present. The Staté of Maryland is the Santa Claus. The gift itdelf is the Defense Higl way, the new link besween Washini ton and Annapolls. After yeats of waiting, the road. which will shorten the distance between the Federal and Maryland capitals by seven milés, will Be thrown opén to traffic on Décerh- ber 23, according to announcement by John N. Mackall, chairman of thé Maryland State Roads Commission. That the road was completed thin year is due to the co-operation of thé residents of Prince Georges and Anné Arundel Counties And it is to them that motorists owe a debt of grati- tude. When the Staté funds for thé con- struction pt the highway bécamé éx- hausted the residents of thésé two Maryland counties, through their offi- ¢ials, Advancsd the necéssary moné The Statée treasury will répay ‘thé eounties later. . Thé Defénss Highway, alightly over 24 miles in léngth, éxtends from the Bladénsbur; 4 to Parole, M4, It was atarted in 1918. The late C. C. Magruder, clerk of the Court of Ap- peals at Annapolis for many years, was the first to advocaté the building of a direct road connécting the Na. tlonal Capital with the seat of the United States Naval Academy. Mr. Magruder first sought to havé the State Legislature pass & bill ap- propriating the money to build the road, and, failing, he later tried to geét the Congress of the United States to grant the necessary funds. DEFENSE HIGHWAY COMPLETED WILL BE OPENED DECEMBER 23 Road Link Costing $840.000 Will Shorten Distance From Capital to Annapolis By Seven Miles. When thit geaturé also proved un- successful, he took thé mattér before the Staté Roads Commission and finally succéeded in having that body t’rk to appértion A cértdin amount of the annual allotmént of State roads funds to Prince (iéorgés and Anne Arundél Countles for the construction of the road. The first Aection of thé highway in Princé Georges, 1.57 miles, was completed on January 27, 1921, and the last section, 3.59 milés in Prince Georgés and 547 miles in Anne Arundel County, was finished last week. Had not the countiés advanced the money nécessary for the work this Fall, the opéning of tha road woul have been dslayed for more than edr. No appropriation from the tate Treadury could have been made until néxt Juné. 'Thé total cot of thé road i& slightly moré than $840,000, which makés the pér milé cost somewhat highér thAn the average for the State of Mary- 1and. At présent, thé Avérage throughout the State is $30,000 per milé. | Thé fifuré for thé Defensé Highway construction is approxi- matély $35,000. State road offcials explain the higher cost ag due to the fact that a number of bridgés and ap- proaches had to be built. Of thé 24.08 miles of the Defense Highway, 14.09 aré in Prince Georges County and 9.94 miles In Anné Arun- del Ccunti. ‘While the néw highway was under construction, it was the practice of motorists bound to and ;rom Annapo- ik fo use the routé which padsed through Uppér Maribors. The news seems slow in traveling becausé it has to travel so f But the truth is that the automobils ean- not be locked against thé detérmined thief. Every néw schemé seéme to make it more difficult for the thief to make away with the car, but he, 160, improves. Hé ia cléverer than he usfed to be. One of the latest wrinkles is to com- bine the ignitlon coil with the lock in & sealed compartment. The objéct 18 to prevent the thief from running a wire from the underground ter- minal of the horn to the ignition coil, theréby circumventing the ignition lock, But what is to prevent the thief from carrying a spare coil with him? One weakness of concealing the ig- i1 difficulty nition coll lies in the [ As EBONITE Strings toaStick f SoitWi // ars run bright, which means excedsive wear. Just say “EBONITE”{f Be Sure You Get It. Auto Thieves Become More Cunning Whet{_ Safgivry Locks Are Improved in éervicing it. Much can gét out af order around éwitch, clrcul'! bréakér and coll. If there is & trick wAy 6 opén the c6il containér, thé sécrét soon {8 likely to leak out through sérvice mén. If thé container can be opénedl by & méchanic or a car ownér, it also cAn be apened by a thiéf. !'lo:t Gives Mfiu. The season is approaching that makes for ekdy detection of leaking carburetors. During the Summer a; of the fuel that leaks out on the ga- rage floor quickly evaporates. With cooler weather the motorist will find it #impler to determine wheétheér his lower gas mileagé i due to & léak in the carbureto R. McReynolds & Son Nash Dealers “60 Years of Satisfaction” 1423.27 L St. N.W. Main 7228 PAINTING All Make Cars Dull or High Luster Finish NASH. EXPERTS!! MARYLAND ROAD CHIEF FIGHTS DIM HEADLIGHTS Commission Chairman Will Ask Legulnurh to Compel Bright Il- lumination to Prevent Accidéfts. Dimmiad headlights are going to pass out of Maryland's automotive picture if the Staté Législature acts favorably upon the request of John N. Mackall, chairman of the State Roads Commission. Mr. Mackall will submit & measure to thé Legisiature next month which calls for prohibi- tion of dimmed headlights except In parking. Many accidents, particularly those affecting pedestrians, are tradeable to the practice of dimming headlights, Mr. M4ckall declares. Bright lights aré imperatively needed if motorists are to have a commanding view of the highway, he believes. Another proposal to bs laid before the Legisiature by the State roads chairman is oné that will designate all Staté highways as boulevards, giving trafic on them right of way over vehicles on lateral roadways Aand lanes. il WIDER HIGHWAYS ARE SEEN AS NEED Michigan Road Builder Presents Views on Advancing Ideas on Distances Across Road. Stata road officlals and the general motoring public have been “selling the highwaya short” and now are paying the penalty in congested traffic, seri- ous accidents and endless inconveni- ences, in the opinion of Edward N. Hines, noted Michigan road builder. Mr. Hines is a pioneer advocate of better highways and is widely known a8 the father of Wayne County (Mich.) tamous concrate road systém. “We thought when we built a 12- foot road nearly 20 years ago that we wére building for tha future Mr. Hines said recently in a public ‘ad- dresa. “A few months later we built them 18 faét wide, and we havée kept on increasing the width until we have in Wayne County many miles of ‘40 and 80-foot roads, and the siper-high- way total right of way will he 204 feet wide.” Mr. Hinés thinks the super-highway will serve the future needs for a while, but he adds that it will take several such roads to serve the city of the future. “Practically all cities in the United States need wider thoroughfares,” he sald. “I have taken several drives in the past few months and the conges- tion is so bad that one does not feel secure when he starts on a pleasure jaunt unleas he is equipped with the services of a first.class legal firm, a casualty Insurance company and a Jocabuiary of high-powered exple- 277222 227 7R “It Looks Like New” Because It Is When car owners have their automobiles refinished by th N Duco process in our splendidly N y éauipped paint shop, staffed by N The Best Costs No More Maintenance Department \ The Washington.Cadillae Co. N Rudolph Jose, President 182228 224 St. N.W. AT THE RATE OF 1,500 YEARLY License Card.s T;ken for F;sur Offenses, Chief of Which Is Operating Car Under Influence of Drink. Thérs are several hundred motor- ists in Washington who need not ap-| ply to the director of traffic for new | permits. | This may sound strange, in view of Director Eldridge's insistent invitation to the holders of 100,000 outstanding old permits to obtain the new cards| that will authorize them to guide their | cars over the Distritt streets for the next three years. Many of these motorists are very good drivers—most of the time—but they might as well reserve storage space for their cars for periods vary- ing from three months to a yvear. This “‘select” group comprises the drivers whose permits have been re- vokéd. Nor are they so few in number. In the present state of revision permits are being suspended at the rate of from 1,000 to 1,500 a vear. On an average of from three to five a day are canceled, and on soms days the number exceeds 20. During one two- week period there were 73 revocations. The majority of permit holders who lose their right to drive cars get it hack within a year, but only after they have indicated that there is no s dicating a rather habitual tend, to get into trouble and violate the Jaw, and the canceliation i8 ords on that ground. The traffic act makés pro application to the cmmum A review of the director's withdrmwal of tha permit and furthér for appeal to a justice of the Court of Appehls for a writ or error which o for a still further review of the case. The text of the trafid act fixing*the director’s prerogatives follows: “Section 13. (a) Except whers for any violation of this act revoeation of the operator's parmit {8 mandatory, the director, or any asaistant whom he may designate for the pt . may with or without a prior Ing revoke or suspend an o per- mit for any cause which he, or such assistant, may deem sufficient: Pro- vided, that in each case whers & per- mit is revoked or suspended, the réa- sons therefor shall be set'out in the order of revocation or Suspénsion: Provided turther, That such ordér shall take effect 10 days$ aftér it8 is- suance unless the holder of thé pér- further ground for withholding their cards, 1f they have got into further trouble meanwhile, it is quite likely that their “furlough” from motoring ranks will be lengthened. Director Controls Time. Under terms of the traffic law per- mits are revoked for a period of six months. They may be returned be- fore the end of that time at the dis- cretion of the director or, if sufficient ground exists for attaching greater gravity to the situation, the cancella: tion may be continued for a year or more. The revocation is effective 10 daya from the date ordered, so that within that time an appeal may bée made to the Commissioners. Cancellation of the driving permit | ~ is campelled by the law for four ef- fenses—first offense of driving while drunk or leaving after colliding, sec- ond offense of reckless driving and third offense of speeding. In the case of the first two offenses, driving while drunk and leaving the scene of a col- lision, revocation is lengthéned usu- ally to a year or more. TWhere “the traffic act deals with thede four offenses it specifically stip- ulates that as an additional penalty the driving permit shall be révoked. In treating these offenses the act provides that “the clerk of the court shall certify forthwith such conviction to the director who shall thereupon revoke the operator's permit of such individual.” While the use of a smoke screen is not a violation for which revoca- tion is mandatory, it is of sufficient gravity that a conviction is followed by cancellation of the permit as a matter of course, coming under the saction of the law giving the director discretionary powers. In the case of a conviction, the recalling of the per- mit {8, in a sense, rather superfluous, since the holdér is retired from his place in society for from one to five vears and would find no use for his permit in the penitentiary. Seventy-five per cent of the revoca- tions are for driving while drunk, which would indicate that radiator al- cohol 18 not the only variety of spirits which is beéing automotively trans- norted these days. The remainder oc- cur mostly in connéction with fast and reckless driving and leaving after colliding. Not all cancellations are for par- ticular traffic offenses. A holder of a permit may establish such a record for himself that the diractor of traffic will considér the accumulated offénses sufficient grounds for calling in his driving ecard. There aré many records on file in the traffic office which enumerate quite a lengthy list of misdemeanors and crimes for individual permit hold- ers. When this list of offensas reachés the number of 68, as it did in one in- stance, the dirfctor takes up that per- son’s permit. Paid $1,057 for Sims. In this particular case, which fis pointad to by the director of traffic as being in his opinion quite flagrant, the man had béen arrésted 41 times for 58 offénses. His finés and for- feitures amounted to $1.057, and the variety of his sins against society in- cluded about everything of a serious nature but homicide. Transcripts of court records are re- 1ied upon in revoking the permits of the more gross offénders, the director reaching his décision after the whole picturs is presented. Many of the of- fenses in thess court records would not be considered sufficient ground by themselves for revoking & permit, but taken together they are viewed as in- mit shall have filed, within such period, written application with the Commisstoners of thé Distriet of Co- lumbia for a révisw of the order of the @irector or his assistant; if, upon such review, the Commissionérs Ahall sustain the order of the dirsctor or his assistant, such order shall be come effective immediately; but if. upon such review, the Commisaionérs shall reverse the ordér of thé diréctor or his assistant, suth erder shall thereupon be vacated: Providad, that any individual whose pérmit shall he denied, suspended or revokéd by the director or such assistant may, within 30 days after such denial, revo- cation or suspénsion is orderéd, if application for a reévisw : by the mmissioners of an order for reve: cation or suspension ha# not heén filled, or, in case such application Ras béen filed, within 30 days Aftér deci- slon of the Commiasioners, apply to any justice of the Court of Appéals of the District of Columbla for & writ of error to review the ordér of tha director of traffic (or his assistant) complained of or theé dscisién of the Commissioners. And sald court is authorizéd to promulgats rul erning thé application for ti and the record and pi n 0 on, and to affirm, modify or fivw the order of the director of ti (or his assistant) or the deciklon of the Commisisoners, where thé writ is 4l- lowed pursuant héréto; and the deci- sion of said court shall be final: Pro- vided further, That the application to sald court for a writ of érror shall not operate as a &tay of such order of the director or his assistant or the decision of the Commissionérs.” District residents are not thé only onea whore permits may be révoked. Holders of permits from other sec- tions of the country or foreign ocountries also may be deprived of thelr right to drive within the District, This authority is grantéd In paragraph “c" of the same séction of the act, which follows: “(c) Any individual not having an opérator's permit issued the director but having in_ his immedigté possession an operator's pérmit issued by any State, Territory or posséssion of the United country or political thereof, shall, upon conviction violation of any provision of this act t, have his right to opérats in the District undér the permit of such State, Territory or on of thé United States, or forsign country or political subdivision thersof, suspend- ed for such lod as the director may préscribe, and thé propéer authority at the place of I-u;{w. of the permit shall be notified such suspénsion and theé reason theréfor.” Permits once recalled aré returned ac- cording to a policy of investigation and determination of the holder's later rec- ord, 1f it appears that thé pérson so deprived has, for instance, béen driv- ing witheut & permit or has beén con- victed of further bréaches of the traf- fic code or of various crimés, the trafic office has laid down thé policy of lengthening the révocition peri: on the assumption that & perfon has not indicated & sufficiént ehu;r of conduct to bé & worthy hélder of the authorization to drive & motor car. Many cancéliations have resulted from investigation which has attended the renewal of &rmlu. B«gra 1sguli the new card récord of the indi- vidual applicant was consulted, and in some cases a long list 6f offénses WaS uncovered. Shock Absorbers and Wet weather still is bad for auto- mobiles. Imper¥vious as they seem to be to weather conditions, cars still are apt to be crippled by & bad rain, es- péclally a driving one. Two things are affacted most, thée strap-type shock abgorbérs and thé brakes. When thé straps of the absorbers or spring controls become water. soaked they carry some of thig watér into their colls upon striking bumps. Thid causés &lippage and results in noise and jerky spring control action. The dther main troublé has to do with water-logging the brakes. This may be more noticeable on four-wheel brakes, oddly enough. The explanation is simple when it is recalled that owing to the increased friction surface presented by four- wheel brakes they do not have to be adjusted so closely. This, however, becomes an objection when driving through an excess of water, because, with the friction surface so greatly affected by water, hraking efficiency is minimized greatly. The water-log- ging of four-wheel brakes, however, is Car Brakes Affectec% Most by Rj.iny Wevather closed type, and the trouble is much less where they are shielded. 1t the spring controls get soaked, drive carefully, for the springs aré being robbed of théir proteétion. If the brakes get saturatéd hold thé brake pedal on for séveral minutés at A time and stArt braking earliér than usual wheén désiring to stop. This serves to drivé out the watér and re- store the brake lining efficiency to something moré néarly ApproximAting normal. QUICKENS BRAKE ACTION. Most brake pedals h: t6 be pushed through too gréat an arc béfore they take hold. Brake pedal slack cannot always be taken up. To eéliminate it on cars not provided with an adjust- ment for this purpose it is simply a matter of making a pedal stop so It cannot come back to the limit with the driver's foot removed. It is worth considering this alteration, for a. frac- tion of a second gained in getting the brakes to work is many fest gained not possible where they are of the in- The at our main Avenue. Mr. Bates brings to Cadillac. Washington-Cadillac pleasure in announcing the appointment of Mr. C. R. Bates to its local sales staff with headquarters salesroom, in stopping. Announcement Company takes 1138-40 Connecticut his new position excep- tional qualifications for representing a motor car of the high class and stérling character of the His association with The Washington-Cadillac Company now is effective and a; him may be made by calling Franklin 3900. intments with RUDOLPH JOSE, President * The 'Washington<«Cadillac Co.