Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1927, Page 55

P— MARYLAND PROBES TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Inquiry Undertaken to Deter- mine Causcs of Mis- haps. Just how many of wWhe me wa vl arvested for #pceding ave indifferent to the tratlic ¢ Jaws and how v are careless in nomentum of their the spee r. o important trafl 18 Maryland authoritie en to find the answer ding to 1. Austin Baughman, commissioner of motor vehicles, about the motorists which deavorit half the persons arrested in Maryland | Yehemently deny that they were vio. lating the speed limit. 1y few days pass.” s Bauz “that m: plaints to >ct that the writer is a much ged person through having been rrested and fined for speeding when he was proceeding in leisurely man ner well within the speed limits of th. avea where operating. A check-up of these complaints often shows the of- fender to have been away above the U limit Know Speed Limit. “Motorists know the speed limit and, in addition. the State has posted signs g the hi vays reminding them what the limit at any given point is. ‘And vet, after violating this limit, lit- of them: seem to 2 [efrective nd State police force one cent more because makes an arrest. ‘The S s do not even participate in the ally set ‘costs’ of $1.45 sed by he officer who makes one or two arrests and administers a dozen warninzs in an aves /&ets just the same salary check as his brother of corresponding rank who aakes a dozen arrests in a day and lets no one off with a warning. Another complaint often received is that other ¢ passed the complain- ant just prior to his being stopped for speeding and that the operators of these cars were not stopped. the magistrate. re- | partment may e police offi-| age day | | Tourists Appear Always in Hurry | To Most “Natives” | ative the tourist always to be exceeding the speed | , even if he may be running | at the commonly accepted pace. It | is a psychological condition | we supposed to be in a hur ! here oex a man from So and says the native, noting the e license “He's got a way to go e assumption follows that the tourist is in a big hurry When touring it is well to bear | this in mind as a protection against | Dbiased testimony in event of a collision accident. It pays | | i tely and, if pos- | on that one | 'STATE MOTOR CODE | TO OUTLAW SIGNALS { | Automatic Signs Will Be Discard- ed in New Pennsylvania Program. signals at Pennsyl useful Automatic stop-and-go street intersactions in many ania borou will find the I ness at an end next January whens under the terms of the new motor State’s highway department e through-traffic highways, v enter or cross Through-t |1y the arte 1 thoroughfares ca ing | heavy trafi law which become: £ y De. > such thorough- | faves. Signs cections will for- bid the entrance from secondary roads of vehicles which do not come first to a full stop. Although January 1 s almost one- half a year distanf. the highway de- partment has hegun an intensive study of the situation as it affects State highways. “It is the department Chiet Engineer Samuel E a thréugh-traffic highway should be 8o designated in municipalities and in boroughs, as well as in the open country. To create a through-traffic highway in the open country, and neg- | authoritic ‘that DEVICE FOR COOLING: AUTOS 1S FORECAST THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D._C. AUGUST 7. gy 1927—-PART 8. Write Tops With Wet Sheet | May Sclve Heat Problem for Tourists. have white roofs and he equipped with a wet sheet, a strip of damp burlap, or some other cooling device for com- bating the extreme heat of torrid zones or is forecast in venti- s being conducted by the of Mines at of the automotive i try and officials of several of the I railways, it is pointed out, are giving active operation in experiments which seek to make transportation more comfortable and healthful by mechanically controliing the air and | climatic conditions of nature. ‘That colors have definite reactions not only on the psychology of people but do deflect or absorb the heat of the sun's ra has been established by these tests, according to F. C. Houghten, director of the air research lahoratory of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers in the Pittsburgh Bureau of Mines. Mr. Houghten and his staff tested the effect of colors on roofs of build- ings and automobiles, and found that while black absorbs the heat and draws it within, white, more than any other color, deflects the heat. In these tests they were aided by a newly devised heat meter. It was found that red deflects these effective ¢ The bureau hs ected within laboratory a burlaped drum to test the relative cooling effect of evapora- tion. The burlap 1s saturated with water and automatic thermometers make a record of the temperatures in- side and outside the drum. At times a battery of ventilating 3 loose to determine the motion through water. “The point is that we have d-1- nitely established the fact that if mo- torists occasionally sprinkled the tops| d of their cars it would cause a notice able cooling effect on the hottest days of Summer,” Mr, Houghten says. its | { air a turned | ¥ DOWN THE ROAD—Rides You’ll Never Forget. THE HOT DAY YOUR KIND LFRIENDS 7 TOOK YOU FOR A "C'OOLING RIDE / 5 | WITH THE EXHAUST HEATER OPEN. 7 rat, Dut- i not nearty w0 (R Lher Produced in 1926 Would Form Ifall t ear uced i tons. A solid rubber sphere of this sizé, placed on display, would tower above many of the tallest buildings of large and would require space larg were rolled into a rubber this ball would be more than 352 feet in diameter, or nearly a quarter of a mile in circumference. The total amount REAR WHEEL TIRES PUNCTURED MOST Front Wheel Frequently Leavi Damaging Object Balanced. | Autoist’s Failure | In Making Repairs | Often Costs Money —BY BECK The difference bhetween action and inaction in the care of a motor car frequently runs inte mon A ‘#motorist noticed that the t carrier rattled. Every day he told | * himself that he would take the | Tyat the rear tires of automoblles 2 minutes necessary to tighten it. 1r6 | panclured foftinier thie (e Tae Several e passed. When he |\carq well known. but the finally got around to the job, he act often i3 hazy to found the bolts rusted. They had rist E 1o be sheared and the entire car- An cxplanation f © removed and reattached. In however, when a tire ad of costing ? minutes of the Mill Rubher Co. rece had a pecu- terist’s time, the expense was | liar accident. 'his car was driven a dollar and a half. . ‘ over a piece of an automobile spring, ! the Jatter forcing itself through both alls of the rear tire, as well as through the steel 1im of a wire wheel ich the car w equipped. ;‘ G 1 T explained that the this was found. t car of the front wheel hzd run over the spring and had left it balanced at the exac 1510 to recelve the full driving force yming rear wheel. Thie what often happens ilar destructive ob and thus the rear wheels are es that <uffer It does not pay to pass by o filling station that handles brand of gasoline wh in need of replenishing. Many tourists | |do this on the assumption that they can get a few miles farther v | existing supply. When the next station, where absolutely essential, they often find it Do not leave | does not have the fuel they desirs, uables ‘in the car B R A K E S with the idea that they will be safe ! 2 R (oS A g{ merely because the machine Is left in Ong/BUY a garage. For obvious reasons, mast For Every Car We “ave You '\ruml £3.00 (o $3.00 e ) / 7 ! y ; 1 7K (1 / , zarages refuse to accept responsibil- / /’// /i by } ALy / ity for articles M{ in the car. They e / Wyl éz, are really safe when checked at the o I W ‘ b Brake Specialists Before leaving the car for the night, it will save early morning time to Rrake Service Only A ¢ Experi Leok have the zasoline tank filled, the podze Eaex =y diator checked and the oil supply re plenished. — at These Pric: | e i 222 American care recently won two de- | bk or pendability tests held Sydney and | Melbourne, Australia. wheels 1 wheels wheels wheels “Oficial A. C. | i PR SPEEDOMETER SERVICE Chevrolet Brakes We Repair All Makes chances are that its jar is leaking. | 20-Minute Service It such a condition is suspected, keep | CREEL BROS. Complete, $1.80 Ford Bands (Genuine) 15-Minute Ser regular check on the battery for sev- | 181117 11h St. N.W. Pot. 13| 7 eral days. In some cases, it is possible ltn repair jars that have developed SEE IF JAR IS LEAKING. Pessible Reason for Frequent Re-| filling of Battery Cell. If one cell of the battery requires | filling more often than the others, the Ball More Than 352 Feet in Diameter Rubber production in 1925 totaled 515,000 long tons, and from this amount a ball 325 feet in diameter could have been made. It such a mass of rubber were in- fated it would contain such great elastic energy that it is doubtful if engineers could compute it, and {* means were provided by which such 1 great ball could be dropped from a s height of several thousand feet, it cities | would be almost impossible to figure 83133533 he crude rubber produced last bail Complete, $1.60 Other Cars at Correspondingly Prices o Relined While You Wait 1-Vear Guitantee'on Ali'Wheel Brake il Free Adjustment "~ Free Insnection Pure Ashestos Lining (Ambler Ashestos) Servie am. to 8 n.m. AUTO BRAKE ‘SERVICE of rubber - pro- n 1926 amounted to 620,000 Generators and _Starters Exchanzed FORD, §5.00 Fasex & ° Chevrole' number of American DOUBLE FOCUSING “On its face this would seem a logi- DEMOUNTABLE RIMS RUNDLETT RIM & WHEEL CO. the crdinary city square, according to | damage it would do. computations of mathematicians of 3 e the Miller Tire & Rubber C: ‘These computations were arrived at on a v than I when it would stop rebounding or the cal armament. . However it 18 met,|lect the desicnation in a borough, for - & ;| example, would be to defeat the pur- “The officer is compelled to ‘get a pace . on the car where a speed violation is|Pose of the act of assembly. That AND FORD BAND CO. 425 K St. N.W. one Franklin §208 New Guarnntee 00 Days I classes of eclectrical repais o1 auto and commercial cquipment. Arma Two out of every five cars produced || #uto and con " involved. To do so he drops in behind the suspected car at some distance away from it. He stays there at the same relative distance from the ve- hicle being paced through accommo- dating his own speed to that of the car being paced. Traffic Conditions. “It often happens that at this point and before officer can close up and &top the driver the car being paced may overtak slower moving vehicle and have to w down. “Another car may come in from a side road or the speeder for the first time through his mirror may discover officer and slow down. Then other cars proceeding at the legal rate may pass him. All this before the officer, handicapped often by traffic from the opposite direction, can overhaul the fter. way it often happens that for which the driver may stopped was committed several miles away from the point where the #top is made.” PUZZLE IS EXPLAINED. Vacuum Tank Responds Only at Proper Periods. After attaching a gasoline filter the motorist naturally is interested in see ing whether the device works. To th end he starts up the engine and wai for the glass bowl of the filter to fill with gasoline, but in this process he iy likely to be greatly mystified by not + keeping in mind the theory of the vacuum tank. Possibly the idea s better explained by relating the experience of one driver who attached such a device. After starting the engine he was great- Iy mystified to find no gasoline com- ing through the filter. The engine con- tinued to run and he was dreading the possibility of having the vacuum tank go dry. Suddenly a& he stood watching there was a click in the vacuum tank followed instantly by a rush of gasoline into the filter. It Wwas then that he remembered that the Vacuum tank does not draw gasoline from the rear tank all the time, but oaly periodically when it is needed. UTILITY OF SPRING COVER More Effective When There Is No Obstruction Underneath. It has been found that spring covers more effective when there is no g directly underneath the Curiously enough, the spring clean under these conditions 2nd old oil fed to the covers by means of wicks has an opportunity to drip the road after it has done les in the doors can be re- moved by placing a screwdriver behind the rubber bumpers in the door sills and them. Jf the bumpers y in this position, slip a r of wood or piece of card- board behind them. The extra power which some new rands of gas seem to give your car be that with them your carburetor mixture is a bit too rich. BRAKES MAIN FACTOR. Better Equipment Needed as Fast- er Cars Grow in Favor. faster roads and traffic have been the factors creating a great need for better brak automobiles. The manufacturer and still is trying to fill the 1 is growing daily. 1In this . the motorist has a vital v. He must co-operat® by oved braking device efficiency. In the is me responsibility. T the slovenly mot on the task to have zood brak gency arises is to b s when the emer- ve them adjusted bon as looseness or Broken Spring Good Tool. f the most useful tools when from the rim, Most of the ¢ supplies of these | probably will ot pick up onc tire shops around you if you AUTO SPRINGS Repaired and Manufactured— Broken Leaves Replaced, Etc. WE DELIVER K St. Spring Works 120 K S.ONW. rr. 10036 purpose is simply to give the right of way to through traffic. “Take the town of Bedford, for ex- ample, where a stop-and-go signal has been placed at the intersection of the Lincoln Highway and the State high- way route connecting Cumberland and Altoona. “The Lincoln Highway terial thoroughfare- portance. Signs placed facing traffic on the cross street would cause all vehicles to come to a full stop before entering or crossing the Lincoln High- vay. Thus all danger of collision would be avoided. “Early in the Fall the State High- way Department expects to have com- pleted its investigations. Literally hundreds of signs will be needed properly to advise secondary high travel of its approach to an arterial road.” is_the ar- the road of im- HEAVY SUDS HELD BEST. Most Effective in Cleansing Under Parts of Car Fenders. Heavy suds still are the most effec- tive means of cleansing the under parts “of ‘the car's fenders. Suds can be made by dissolving two pounds of soap in a gallon of water. It is well throughly to rinse the parts afterward to prevent any damuge to the surfac by the soap solution. A liberal flush- ing with a hose will accomplish this end. Do not have too much pressure on the hoge. . Maryland Camps Approved. Engineers of the sanitation depart- ment of the Maryland State Board of Health have completed an inspection of tourists’ camps, private and State controlled, and have made a favorable report on general conditions in prac- tically all of them, according to Abel Wolman, chief engineer of the de- partment. The er conditions at | ull the camps were found to be of a| high standard, tests disclosing the water to be free from any contami- nation. One of the most useless jobs in the world is tryin’ to adjust car parts that are worn out. It's thankless work and I'm forever surprised at the way car owners seem to think it's legitimate for me to take their money for work that can't produce any results. For the fifth time I've gone over that fellow’s front wheels in an effort to fix the alignment. It's all te effort because the wheels themselves wobble and no alignment adjustment 2an be constant under those conditions. T've tried to tell him so but, like plenty of other car owners, he thinks 1’ tryin’ to sell him some more repa work. He'll spend more money tryin' to put those wheels in alignment than 111 charge to put in new king pins and bushin's when he is forced to order this work eventually, and this isn't countin’ the wear on the tires. Already he's lost about 2,000 miles of service from them. You can’t keep wheels in line if they wobble or don’t run true. There's just he right pitch and toe-in on his wheels now when th indin’ still. But out on the road, alisnment ries con- stantly. Another one of my customers keeps | me busy tryin’ different adjustments of the carburetor, but it’s no use. The workin’ parts of the carburetor are worn out and no adjustment will last han a few hours. in’ to silence tappets that Transmission and rear axle tubrication is mighty mportant—mighty serious, if you use the wrong lubricant. Ebonite was purposely made for these important gears. Just say “EBONITE” e Sure You Get It. 2C Cents a Shot ONE_¥ WIL From The Old Mechanic Say OF LAMPS OPPOSED Demands of Most State Laws Un- necessary, Automotive Engi- neers Are Told. Advocacy of dispensing with the re. irement for double focusinz; of head- as demanded hy most State motor _vehicle regulations, wa. ex- pressed at the recent Summer meeting of the Soci'ty of Automotive Engi- neers by A. W. Devine »f the Massa- chusetts registry of motor vehicles. In the opinion of the speaker vertical forusing adjustment for headlights using two-filament lamps not only i uanecessary, but so greatly compli- cates the correct focusing and aiming of the headlight beam that few per- sons can make the proper adjustment. The horizontal adjustment, it is ®nid, alone suffices to give .. —aceept: able light distribution with electric lights in which the placement of the filament falls within the range of in- accuracy now found in the lamps on the market, as it fs possible to design headlamps so that they will be insensi- tive to these fnaccuricies, and head- lamgs of this type have been approve? or use in various States. The ideal headlamp would requice | no adjustment by the car owner. As a means to this end, C. C. Bohner of . {Tung-Sol Lamp Works proposed the simple and inexpensive expediert of ingerting in the socket of the re- flector a “xed ring like the jig ring used by electric lamp manufacturers in the nlacing of the filament in the glass bulb and attaching the base, Such a ring, he sald, will hold the lamp in-the socket in precisely the same position as when the filament was put in and will locate the filament at the correct focal point. % | Newspapers for Warmth. 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