Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1928, Page 41

SOUTHERN MOTOR | ROUTES ARE 00D | Travelers Assured of Com i fortable Riding on Trips | l | | Through Dixie. BY G. ADAMS HOWARD. With the new year comes thoughts of Southern climes. To the minds of many this means Florida. It is the fore of importance that one learns of | the condition of the roads and the; best route to take on the way through | Dixie, From all reports the highways with | re in good condition. | Kept on during the | Fall and the weather so far has been decidedly helpful. There has heen no protracted cold snaps of ice and snow. Heavy rain, too, which at times prove troublesome on some of the dirt roads 1hat the motoriste still have to en- ' counter, have been lacking Direct Route on Good Road: From Washington to the North Carolina line the motorist may expect | no difficulties whatever. The ribbon- K runs without a rough Ale: Richmond Petessburg. e of N¢ Caralin extensive building const tion of the last few years the traveler may continue his way without fear through Raleigh into So Before leaving the Old opportunity given to full of scenic m at times for The route marked No. 1 brings the | motorist_into Columbia. the capital of | South Carolina. Now the concrete | roadway has been left and in its place one finds hard clay nd sand. The road 1s in good condition and at pres- ent has few detour: From Columbi the best route is to Aiken and across the State line into Aususta. If the notorist should prefer. however, he n avoid these two cities by swinging eastward and take the route that leads into S: nnah by way of Barnwell. £ C.. where a short detour is to be found. From then on a road only fa in places will be found. runnix the sea coast into Ja-k | first large city across the Florida bor- der. The way ind a mece from Augusta is shorter and better. however. and less construction will be found road zoes through Wayeross. ville is the metropolis and gateway of : Florida, being a portal to the resorts of the State and to Cuba and Nassau Aside from this it is a popular resort | and thousands of tourists pass their Winters there. as it affords much in the way of intere: Not far from | there. further down the coast is St. Augustine the oldest city in the United States, founded in 15 Routes From Jacksonville. From Jacksonville there are worth-while routes. One that follow the East Coast down to Miami affords comfortable traveling over improved roads. The other way. equally good branches off to the w nd contin- THE ues through the Ridge section. the heart of eitrus growing. to Tampa and | S eterspurs. Thefomer oute = (CHICAGO’S PARKING BAN CALLED DRASTIC! and Fort Lauderdale From Palm Beach the Conners | Exclusion of Autos From Curb| Stands Will Be Highwav, a toll road in good condition. Enforced. i | 1 takes the motorist around Lake Okee. chobee, and swings west to Arcadi: From Arcadia it is a_short journe tc Sarasota and Bradenton on the est Coast. Thence, covering a short distance, one is soon in 'Tampa with St. Petersburg just across the bay. Jong bridge traverses this ba &1. Petersburg up the coast are o be found many resorts, Including Clear- | Cnicago will begin the new vear B T S | with one of the Nation’s most drastic | Eastward from the West Coast are | o,omohile trafic laws. After Janu- zood roads leading to Plant City. the [ary 2 a1l parking of automobiles on | heart of the strawberry industr: i downtown streets for more than un- Mulberry. noted for its phosphate pits: /loading time will be prohibited during | Lakeland, Winter Haven, Kissimmee. | husiness hours. | Onlardo and Winter Park. noted resort. i Prohibition of downtown parking is ' ’.go'fla"fl mammoth orange groves not new, for other cities have similar und. ordinances of varying degrees of se- Distances From Washington. { verity. Philadelphia at cne time A o {banned parking on streets in the cen. Distances in miles from Waghington | tra) section. only to modify the regu- o many of the important cities are as [jations after a short trial. “Albany. N follows: Richmond. 120: South Hill. |y “ofcially bans downtown parking, | 20 igh. 230 Southern Pines, 362. | byt frankly admits that enforcement | Columbia. 505, Augusta, 582: Savan Palm Is spasmodic. Other cities are usin nab, 703 Jackmnville, ! $70: Pal " . & On time limits with success. i Beach. 1182, and Miami. 1.256. | 3 | another route from South Hill the mile- | Accommodations Necessary. | age is: South Hill, 201: Greensboro, But so far the rules laid down for | 344; Salisbury. 395: Charlotte, 441; motorists by city councils have the Spartanburg. 523 Athens, 660: Macon. | mutual characteristic of being either | 759 Lake City, 979: Tampa. 1,208, and | short-lived or continually undergoing St. Petersburg, 1.228. a process of revision. Florida, the second largest State | Traffic authorities point out that east of the Mississippl, can be proud anti-parking and timedimit parking of its good ronds that stretch in nearly |laws cannot be completely successful | every direction across the peninsula. |unless steps are taken to provide in Hundreds of miles of concrete haye | expensive accommodations for the heen constructed along the flat coun ars banned from the streets, try in recent years Many of these Granted that cities are coping roads still have small tol] charges. b |With trafic congestion ns best they the average motorist ix willing 1o pay ©An With current resources, the situi. 2 small fee for the comfort of the 1on ix reminiscent of the quaint old driving afforded ! police custom of shooing non-des GBSO o bles from the confines of the ci gardless of the feelings of nearb) | communities, Unfortunately, shoe horns and auto. | AUTO MAKERS TO GATHER AT LEIPZIG TRADE FAIR movie horms are not designed wlon | | the wize of Bennington, Vt, or Cleve. | land, has contipued to wuffer the [ pangs of acute motoritis. Whenever | | measures are wuggested { . the refief lof these puins well founded ohjections {pro and con are ralsed | Say Measures Divert Trade. Business men declare that anti- | xhibits 1o the Leipzi€ | parking measures divert trade from Rpring Fair forming doubtless the | downtown shops to outlying dealers, | argest internist exhibition of U8 Truction interests naturally favor the | ¥ind ever gesembled. The multitude |banishment of curb parking. for less | of cars and accessories will be housed | crowded streets facilitate the move in & new building espectally bul ment of wireet cars. Business men purpose fth & floor counter with the churge that n goodly | 006 sy e feet. or move thit {whare of the buying public now rides the size of the Madison ¥quare € in the automol nd that these | den in New York Epecial sttention | shoppers would be loath to use oth will be paid 1o 511 forms of commercisl | means of teansportation re are | care, including trucks, delivery |others who clain that the abolition of | wagouns, busses fire engines, street | parking tends toward clasy distinetion, | IDE trucks and service wagons | wince the wealthy may instruct thels | many haw been making rap'd fenrs 1o rosm at large while strides of late in developing her auto Ao their shopping. Then ther mobiie industry. and wiil endeavor hy those who protest that any mesns of the leipzig Fair to intio wure, NG i how stringent, s Guce her cars into fore'gn markets | Justified that looser up traf All the newest products of her in- | movement. DUE TO OWNERS' NEGLECT the laxt automobile show at Leipzig forming shout 99 per cent of the ex | Lack of Precaution 8hown in Fail- ing to Lock Parked Cars, Bal- hib 1, and the saoles ere lurge The apetition prowises to be much more timore Officer Bays. BALTIMOIE Jively this vear 11 ix generslly recok rised thst Germany ia toduy probsbly 1--Ninety per moblle thefts in The imrgest potential nitomol ket dn the world. since her large nng the snpply has could be prey 1 if owners took th precaution o lock thelr cars before bedng deft patked on the streets, ac been it Muny of the bes @bty settirern have ul cording 1o Chasles D Guither, police comniesluner sed extended spage for their Leading Manufacturers of America and Europe Planning to Send Elaborate Exhibits. The lexding automobile manufac: turers of America and Europe will| ®end elzborste Le will eric Janwary 1w cent of the wuto | Baltmors each day bibite The sitended by will b 2 American representing n wide variety este The falr sttpncis exhibitors fiom & w oA countiivs, and by ere from ouer § e tn all purts of the world Aperican fac Turers Bpprecinte unigue portence of the Leipzig Kaie which o e pumaibile for them (o dispiay Their products L B0 srmy of buyers 600 s cnter world ysrkets quickly aud chesply The fair will be held | bavuss March 4 1 5 Muorch 14 —— 118 Autos Per Mile ot il wutanoliie nited States on June 30 was LA BaG puseciger Cuke wnd trucke hich i evenly distiibuted uver the b 772 miles of Federal wld nighway Sould mean 115 sutomobiles per mite, | of eoomaing o fHgures compiled by the’ Aanesboon Motoriets” Associatiun, Laipzig Fair " wald that if motor Wele was equipped with u venl thetiproot device und the ner saw o 0 that the desice Wik Incked when he left 1he ¢ unattend ed automobile thievery would be re Suced 1o i i Aw an ustration, police ssy that | approximately 15 per cent of the ma [ehines reported stolen 1o BalUmors Ui yenr bad only gniton lock | I motorist ownilng o closed puts up the windows wnd locks the doors hetore leaving he huw little worry thut his property will be stolen | Auriig hie sbence,” police said " Au Toueke sre not golug (o run a chines Aetection by lwesking the gliws dows A0 iefr witempt (o enter | the machine " o ery The thy yegistration | I | wlow Ditumed for | unlocked Brainy Pedestrian Puts Auto Horn on His Walking Stick Motoriste often have declared, in rerio-comic vein, that pedestrians should not walk abroad at night without a light of some kind hung about them. Now there comes for- ward, in Southampton, England, a practical gentleman pedestrian who actually has adapted to his own use a unit heretofore rolely utilized on the other side of the fence. An automobile horn, in miniature as to size but not as to noise-mak- ing qualities, is attached to his walking stick. Its effectiveness, thi= genius is reported as saying, commends its widespread use. T 'SLOW DRIVER IS HELD MENACE TO TRAFFIC Classed with the Willful Speeders on Busy Thoroughfares, Is View of A. T. A. Director. That the slow driver i a menace to trafic quite ax much as the fast driver s particularly evidenced on Washington's high-wpeed arteries. es peclally on Massachusetts avenue which carties a large vehleular bur- den, ways Oacar Coolican, one of th Airectors of the local automotive trade soclation. The narrowness of thix thoroughfare, combined with its grade. makes it particn'arly fertile in proof of the xlow trame, Mr. C n believes. There Ix no questioning the wis- dom of trafie authorities in making this street cne of the arteries of high #y trnel, hut, by the same token » questioning the fact that st who wants to dally along nty counterncts the served by the 30.mile Hmit,” he ways “As he dawd e 1o the vear v forced to slow down and proceed in Ntful jerks, an first one car and then unother finds un opening through D 10 pisws The effeet s a cutting In and out that ix decidedly detrimental to the faxt and free flow of trafe. In wet and slippery weather 1t mny he well to forego the legul limit of the 30-miles an hour when congestion Is great but on almext any dey, clear day the driver can be found somew h in the Lmile stroteh dofng hix utmost to digtort the trafic picture, “It may be well to let any driver procecd ax he wishes, an some (raffic ol A fneist. but he whould be forced at least to welect a thorongh re where hiw vagary will not ham. | per, restrlet and endanger hundreds of other car owners The mujority wants to utilize the highest speed pox ¥ble on such a vtreet and traMe o {als have found by analysis th a wpeed In wife, The driver who inter feres with this process shonld volin turily go elsewh or he should he rorced 1o do so POLICE IN BALTIMORE RECOVER MANY AUTOS Return 2,614 Btolen Cars From Total, Reported This Year, of 2,682, In vecovering sl but 65 of the 2,682 nobiles stolen during the fint 11 Baltinmiere police he ileve they have extublished o vecord o pevcentoge of recoveriow of v nachines wo far s veur shows crenre over the percontige for OF 2447 caly veported 1976, 2,800 were récovered Joy viders” who steal a cnr and clde wround I LN they get tred, until the gamoline runs out, 00 per cent of the theft FPugitives from Justice and men who want 10 10 o other v by ity In & hurey, often will stewl an machine and run it until ihey can g0 o further und then aban don it Only & small percentage of the ol en curse It dn sald, wre altered anid thelr englie and veglstiation numbers changed and then sold us second hand automubiles . a months of 1927 un i 1926, ‘s bad effect upon | ndx to e ! t wuch | Bl - SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. TRUCK ACCIDENTS REDUCTION SOUGHT Survey Shows More Than ' Half Are Caused by Careless Drivers. | As the first step In & Natlon-wide | campalgn to reduce the number of motor truck accidents, the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce has just issued its final report on a fact-finding survey of all truck acei- dents in Hartford, Conn., during the first half of 1927, The survey in that city of 178,000 population reveals that motor trucks caused 56 per cent of the street acel- dents in which they figured, and were not to hlame in 44 per cent of them. | "1t was found that of 409 accidents tinvolving trucks during the first half of 1927 no fewer than 181 were the [fault of pedestrians or of the drivers of other types of vehicles. The fig- ures obtained in the survey were com- piled from the officfal records in the office of Commissioner Robbins B. Stoeckel of the Connecticut depart- ment of motor vehicles. Accidents for which trucks were to hlame were analyzed and remedies for them suggested by that study are heing _distributed to operators of truck fleets in all parts of the {country. Coples of this _report, “What Happened in Hartford,” con. taining suggestions for the prevention of similar accidents in the future, may be obtained without charge hy : ing to the Motor Truck Division, Na- | tional Automobile Chamber of Com- merce, 366 Madison avenue, New York City. | The survey also shows that in a | cit® which has many manufacturing plants using trucks there were com- paratively few accidents involving pe- | destrtans, and the official records re- vealed that trucks were not at fault in a large majority of them. Accidents which were the fault of truck drivers were found to be due to four major causes—inattention, failure to grant right of way, skidding and | eareless backinz. Right-of-way acci- dents were most prominent in the | congested districts, while skidding ae- | eidents ‘predominated in less congested | sections. AUTO INDUSTRY FACES NEW GROWTH IN 1928 Expert Sees Ford as Factor in Stimulating Business of Future. i | The automotive industry stands on !the threshold of a new year, facing | greater possibilities than it has ever before known, according to B. H. Cram, president of Cram’'s Automotive | Reports, Inc., industry authority. He v Nineteen twenty-seven has been nrlI unusual period. It has been char- acterized by uncertainty. by holding back, by waiting for competitive con- | ditions to crystallize and for trends to form a definite development. Caution has been the byword with all com- | panies, for no one could tell what the {next day, the next week or the next month would bring. “Such a condition was not conducive to immediate prosperity. RBut in the long run f{ts results will prove hene. ficlal. And the bLenefits should be in evidence in 1928, = “The period of watchful walting is jat an end. The industry has its feet under it once more and aggressive |action fs already noticeable. Produc I'tion schedules at the present time are | being maintained at levels higher than | usual for this time of the Year. Retall | | sales have not stepped up in the same i proportion, but that will be taken care | |of when the confidence now gripping the producers is transmitted to the | public. “'As It was predicted, the return of | Ford as an active producer has defl- nitely atimulated the industry. And while the industry was waiting for | | Ford it was laying the foundation fnri more Intensive merchandising, it was expanding its lines and developing and perfecting new and accepted mode “In spite of this holding buck, in spite of large expendiures for de- | velopment and expansion, 1927 was a good year for most of the industry. ‘ln\ sted capital recelved a good re. | turn. Earning ability under the exist- ing conditions was satisfactor’ “Nineteen twenty-seven given over to what may be termed prelimi- | ¢ accomplishments. Rough spots | froned out. The decks wers | cleared for a full forward movement as sonn as conditions were ripe. “With Ford taking the lead once more, 1928 will he the perfod of Ana furlty, The Industry s In a posftion to make and well more cars at a lower cost than o' any time in its history. The money spent for expansion and | development need not be spent again {Income in 1 will be avallable for | net earnings in a kreater amount than it was in 1927, “OF course, orme: companles may not realize their expectations. Competitiva ditions will assuré that, as they al- ways do, even in the periods of great- st prosperit “The industry as A whole will profit | beciuxe It will not rely too much on | prowperity. Ita program will be i aggressive one. Value, operating economy and merchandising perfec. tion wiil have to be vbserved. Those who observe these principles will prosper—those who do not will suffer “But the o unities in 1028 will | be present and the industry Is great | enough to make the most of them.” UNFOCUSED HEADLIGHTS CONTINUE MOTOR BANE Report of A. A. A, Rosearch Divi- slon Bays 75 Per Cent Are Badly Misused. One of the most ensentinl featuies of & continued natlonal wafety cal pulgn relates 1o the solution of the headlight problem, according to th renearch depaytment of the American Automobile Ansoctation The experience of 850 A, A A mo: tor elubx thioughout the country, cording to the national Motoring body [tend to confirm the finds of the cean of Rtundurds, which have dis Aowed that testa on hendlighta of 400 automobiles vevealed that nearly 78 per vent of the number were Improp orly focused. The A A A, statement continues: Propesly fu of the nureat wiys to reduc bile accldents und motor check thelr lights with approved specifications ut any A A A motor club. Increasen h Blate speed laws huve werved (o make this of more than parsing Interent UNIRE duiving has be wom that vequives universal attentl and in mnde wife only (hiough the O focusing of headlights, The Burenn of Htandards haw been wiv eration In making its tests to obtain scientific datn on the alt ol Thene teats have proven con clusively that the mat n that wed hendlightn Is one auton should e n proh with A A A motor clubs in presd t hend!lght troubles | explosons in terms of the compost | come v vequived t wafety JANUARY 1. 19%8—PART 3. WHAT PRICE GASOLINE! GASOLINE WAS RETAILED AT 47 DIFFERENT PRICES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES ON THE SAME DAY. THESE PRICES RANGED FROM 10 CENTS TO 27 CENTS PER GALLON FOR STRAIGHT RUN, AND FROM 13 TO 29 CENTS FOR HIGH TEST. - i 3 / LEGEND i i on 8 nation-wide " o checkoup of gasoline prices made by (| Yoper Figures are for straight run gos. $50 A & A. mocor clubs on Novi 12 \ Lower figures are for high test gas. (4) No high test sold (8) No report. (C) No report. (D) No report. (£) No report MOTOR WORLD OWES IMMENSE DEBT TO FEDERAL EXPERTS (Continued from VAST INDUSTRY MAKES POSSIBLE | GASOLINE FOR USE OF AUTOISTS| New Sources Being Sought—Scientists| Work Unceasingly to Improve Product 1,500,000 Work to Supply Demand. A history of the development of the | troleum refining hegan after the Drake | | weil was brought in. As a matter of | fact, petroleum had for many decades heen skimmed from springs and crude- |1y refined. One James Young pro- | duced petroleum from Scotch shales. walls {8 probably the largest fac.cr in the “drag” internal friction places on an automobile engine. The bureau has not gone Into this matter exten- sively in automobile engines, but it has with regard to aviation engines, where much the same factors are in- volved. A report published recently summarizes the results of the friction | < measurements made as part of the | use of gasoline is outlined as follows e alrcraft engines | ip g sketch prepared by the American in the altitude laboratory of the bu-| 3 . 40 rean. On the basis of these results | Lt Institute of New York the probable influence upon friction | 4 : " i of various factors is discussed. includ- | When vou Gl G dpAL L il Ing temperature of air entering the flling <t e ta iae Tis ceank engine. atmospheric pressure, throttle | it takes but a few L Ank opening, engine speed, jacket water |0 Kive you power and freedom. u temperature and compression ratio, | back of those "; "l‘” 15 “""“'1';’["' ”‘:"' : is a vast industry which makes Part of the report deals with measure. | line 3 ossible to serve you. Out in the ments of the friction of a group of [ it poxs { | desolate parts of the earth geologists pistons used in a truck engine and ! b o i hch re. | are seeking favorable structure f'p'fiifl"'f.."1'2':»‘,?{.“"‘:{;‘..'1;'"«’1‘ faren of | new ofl dm«vsln‘x: gangs ';f rl-'m'{! bor- thiust face, | iNg for ofl in the fetid. humid tropics e auita indicate’ thie. copsd| OF I biting sevo weather of the piains % M| and mountains: engineers an - plexity of the subject of piston frie- | And X i L s tion and the difficulfy of predicting | entists working u‘mmlsmxl)A uf im: adequately the magnitude of the Prove the product L U A change in friction which would result | iners. pipe line and tank car men s Through snow or sleet or design. | marketers. i . i 4 heir part that a rice to sclenc a uite | In_ America must do t f,;l.‘:’":‘;:,‘,",},,,;; oo m‘,'l‘m:'l nt | vour demand for gaséline be promptly use of the child's plasthing has just Metwhen and where sou BoKiC, been made at the burean. where, in turies, its use in a commercial the form of a common seap bubble | for cen s ece filled with a charge of explosive gases, | S€Nse & back to but just previous stleaten e Y & s to the Civil War. One mile southeast to be investigated and fired by & sPATK | o " jjitie Jumber village in western from the center, it permits, because la terr e Cxtreme delicaty and tenspar. | Pennsylvania there g g a continuous photographic rec.|dent on August 27, 1 e explonive reaction {rom the tostant | 100 S arew ‘out an iron bit |wowld rin an encine most, cheaply he BnIton Eark D tored. The | (rom a well hole and statted to meas. | Presently somebody hitched one o hotof phic plates show that instead | ure the depth, \lhh‘!\ previously had | these engines 10 a \!h.h IQ—‘(?\Q begin D o I teal | shown 6915 feet. Within a few feet |ninc of the cutomobiie. Since the of being a haphazatd. erratlc process |of the top gurgled a black, olly fluid, |pretty pearly everybody has been Tt b e, e tian ot pon. | UAINK a tin_pitcher pump. the father | hitching gasoline enines to vehicles iADt Dressure provided by the Bubble, | S04 youns Sam rained several barrels | Uses Vastly Extended. T DR Do e i procoss. | Of oll. and at sunset the old man, with | 1 ey SR o symmetrical as any known explo. | & sample of the “rock oll. clambered | The Wright brothers couple it i symmetrical as any known ePlo: | gn'a mule and set out post haste over | a pair of wings and made an airplane. xion. P g o L bubble are | the intervening mile toward asville | Then it was found that the combina- the use of the lowly woap bubble ar® | (o spread the news that Drake's folly | tion of storage batteries and internal ndispensable to a better understand-© o, Togar all a dream come true. combustion engines produced exactly the right power for submarines. Some- ing of the gas engine Itn use has Sise ol revealed for the first time data con- t ‘ell Rored. r - e cerning the kinetics (rates) of gaseous 3 g body else noted that petroleum was vears previous Edwin L. more effective fuel. under the boilers Drake had visited this section to de- of locomotives and steamships. than termine the prospect of producing |cosl Less spectacular discoveries cre- petroleum from the ground owned by |ated a thousand other demands upon the “Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co.” | petroleum products. And so the Age of O] seepages along Oil Creek had led | Petrcleum was inaugurated. and all him to believe large quantities of pe-|the world went hunting for this most troleum lay in subterranean cavities | prized and mysterious of its resources and could be reached by digzing wells | through the overlaving rock. In the pring of 1839 he started digging. It wus slow work and, because of rock encountered, the pick-and-shovel meth od was soon abandoned. Drake then | concelved the idea of using an iron drill and driving down an fron pipe | { with the depth of the hole Makeshift machinery—a steam engine for mo- tive power, a hemp rope attached to eum {into a very good illuminating ofl there were 53 eompani ltry in active operation producing | “rock oil” from shale and coal. Drake's discovery that crude petro- leum could be produced in large quan | tities hy driiling wells rather than in insignificant quantities from rings | was nevertheless the beginning of the modern industry. | The Drake discovery well marked | the end of the whale oil.and tallow candle period. and for 35 succeeding years the chief object cf the petroleum industry was to extend the use of and to meet the Gasoline was a dangerous by-product | which presented to oil refiners a grave ! problem of disposal. First it poured into creeks. Later it dumped on protected areas of waste evaporatp. Finally came the internal { combustion engine. in which a little | gasoline vapor. mixed with 14 or 13 | times as much air. would produce ar explosion, at the he that Two tion of those gases It has shown that the linear rate at which the zone of reaction, the flame, liberates the energy of the explosive gases in which it s propagated is proportional to the product of the con wentrations of the active gases the flame {8 entering ny Tire Facts Fo jon of the industry in very recent yvears. One of the leaders in the oil industry placed the investment in the ! entire dustry in 1306 at § L] probably rather a \ time the Standard O o what less than helf | the Standard holding company dissolved by judicial decree, the hined Standand companies were val ued at about $530,000,000, other refin | ing interests at abo 000,000 and producing properties were cal lated to be worth around $1.230.8%0 a0 morve. That made a valuatio for the entire industry of $2.5¢ a00. Estimates have ranged figure up to $2 OO0, 000, Huge Present Investment. Present investment, caley published reports and geperal tical information, is estimated by ec | peten: auth around $11.000.000 In making this fgure which comprised system before down at §3 tucing proper the rema assigned to panies and small, w up independently of the Sandard group and never were asso d. Ingenuity is a great thing when applied n’ the right direction. That these painataking men at the Bureau of Standards are not lacking in this trait is shown by the fact that when the other day they were not satisied with the Instrument tests showing tire | wear under varying loads they ran the e toat uh mgainat @ strong | the drill and a crude wooden windiass blece of sheet glass and sctually | —constituted the drilling equipment. watched its performance through the | Drakes '-!!un became the !!\»\llnhmu Kinus. Thelr Inguiries into tires have stock of .all western DPenneylvania wone very far, and out of them have | But when Uncle Rilly Smith arriy R the standard recom- | In Titusville on that momentous Sat jons for the rubber treads that Urday night. “those who came to carey 20,000,000 cars over American | Soff remaned to pray rondways, Here nre the bureau's rec . OH Industry Modern. ommendations for tire care: . g - Keep vour “shoes” properly inflated. { 'T.h!‘ petr ;nmn\(:’:l::l_":: \:( xw‘: Do not run a “flat” farther than|'vhen measured tery Hechdtare {modern usage of its products—within See that all wheels are in correct| VA0 who are allve to- alignment. " ieial Boanitn Remember that oil. grease, sunlight | B & ) o and heat are enemies of rubbe on the Drake well B ‘Spare. tubes whould be carried in|uted In terms of years. modern dis cupped packages. |covery shews that petroleum was ATBid the ume of bent or rusty vima. | known and prixed among the prehis T ke are necoasary. apply them | toric peoples of Central aAmerica and Toonaly Mexico and the mound builders of “itive " conntry he O1d World it goes A tires | this countiy. In t K..,".'.'A“fin Fevalred much further back. for there are vec ATt Brakes s0 they operute even: | Ords of it uves for heat and IERt BY | cinted with it. 1y ‘on all wheels the anclent peoples of Persiu. AS " During the 20 vears Prive earetully and avold bumps, | Minor, China and the Caspian reglors | which have marked particularly at high speed [The employment of bitumen or A% |uiariy rapld development & now tht hot and cold | PRAIL dites hack to the Aret perma: | dustry. th o6 B A GoRthy DIg you Know (b teney of your | ReAt habitation on the banks of the ) decentra RGO TS & ey Mherhaps you noticed after] EVDRIS T'l.n.‘ . \¥here this material | Bureau of istics show p— e & e vas used to repaic leaks hoats or |y vour brakes At :‘::‘"'l'l'l'.l'l -‘l:.:|‘| | dugont cances Abraham mentions mf P el qutokly Al sweiling ' | use by the ancient Sumerians and the |G St er e heat of friction. | Knowledge of ita properties ynssed on | ing only A found that there ta & | 0 the Tatwionkne, so tnat the stones | et Ralowis Friction when the lininks are operated | OunG toRethar Wit 8 ATk | CINKLY. AU the be & of 1918 the unier tout conditions which cauwe & | the Diteh used tn caldnk SCoth's SeR | comuanies of the o W eroup apiS Increans of temporntupe of weve] HER DES ALY (NG SRINE:MALer U were credited with oalv 42 per cent of | vrul hundred dexvees. [ta tests n | I SORE B - the refining capactty, the independents have developed a sim: | MEHCERY B o0 o With 58 Ry 1320 the division was type of Indieating {40 e el | Soealled Standand group. 3% per woelerometer for testing the braking | GIeH RAC CEEEN L oon ndepandents, 82 per cent At the “Melency of motor vehicles i LTS R e LT 60 \4E6 INE Socaliva Sy than « thousand of these dey early occurvence. was credited with 33 per now In ume throughout the countey, [S4E% eturrence | e | denendents with 87 per cont while In cooperation with the Soctety [ CRaUEL 8RR 1 NS O | ©hE the sucalled ~ Standand geoup of Automotive Fomineers 1 WEO | 1550, ‘given o moneral summary of the |Aboit 31 and the independents 8 per hrake mafety code has heen drawn b vy cent. e e han heen ndopted by many | Anclent method of the manutactuee of | "0, on Atates, and probably will become unt petrolenm and shows how it was pre. " Wavs pokiey paved in his day. His mention, of | At BEES et b g R cart grense, which w ¢ antmal or | o O s know it move | A Many € veotuble ovigin in thuse daye, heing | e i be ey {oan that gus makes 2 the il bus Bo Th meet an ever grow. | Tuncture sealing compounds to s ' “in 111, w of mend; who worked with his fathe But when meas. the ion petrol 80000, T30.000. wr pneumatel passed distance, matertal The bure the country, leav o the mdepend andant's dis nEs expan e cont the depe modern pe of actual Towns, viv vamed ity In ple o ] gasoline has altered, in | he course of Awerican | oty Tested. mived h petre N er s With petralenm o temper 18 g gemand fur imtormation abous gas | Hre tube leaks after one of those ves Viscoslty, fa without doubt the frat oline the institute has prepared these ailn ham dviven ite naaty lenth | Feterence to the mineinl olla beldk | yatoments. Hre and tuhe Are ot new nsed for compounding ot warld, | Muve than 65 pat | A Popular misconception is that pe “nte hiave been taken out on auch com | pounds over the past 30 years = The AUTOMOTIVE BRIEFS hurenu has tested many methods wnd ind arguments for and against | The Fows Hughes o handied the Plerce Aviow obtle stavting and MEWUNE BAt | vaars, have discontinued tovien, with the veault that the hattery [agency. The agency has Adustey now looks upon the BIreau | wer by David 8. Heondvick M most velinble tont station These cold days, when (0 moves out to a cold garags to find his adintor froxen, powsibly water jackets racked and much neediess expense neurved, may all be avolded by the ntelligent use nf vavious antlfrevee mixtur the t‘ul'mlll declares Al ng w hours have been wolentists tenting au wWhich for m their local hoen (aken mton st | comfort and convenionce of the | srn wutomobile, Could thelr e | wults e measured In money. ll\!lr‘ o the Difforentials Universals Other Chassis Parts SRR ™ 1 vour e AL A value would be enormous Hut the Covernment alves treely and witingly | of Ita vemeavoh facilitien. Porliips < e known compounds uu-«: vy l :h‘nn rlu:p. u|||l theve in Ihol huau AR 4 sudalitute: e v vention of fressing have been put| labovatories play a great part in ‘he w Nrouh the acld test in the bureau's | economio evcie which keews iy 1 Daleo Lubricants, Inc. et teating labovatories moving, tor there =n't any doubt the h . Al in all, there tan't any doubt that | sutomobile industey (s one of the hig Pactary and Service (hewe men of exactness. disinterested | factore wWhich deterining national | 2411 4t St N.B. Novth 10088 and preciae, have vontributed greatly proaperity, which are still worked, and refined it | Before the Drake well was brought in | in this coun- | was | was | ¢ land and either burned or allowed to| It is not easy to picture the expan- | New Year Campaign to Push Specter of Death From Roads Is Asked. Consecration of the vital resources of the Nation to a determined effort to push the specter of death and in- jury from the streets and highways of America was the tenor of a New Year appeal broadcast to the country from the national headquarters of the &\m-rican Automobile Association to- ay. The A. A. A. appeal was fssued under the signature of Thomas P. Henry, president of the national mo- toring body, who urged a Nation widle mobilization to make a new record in the development of safety measures lin 1928, “In spite of the mounting ca= ties,” maid Mr. Henry, “I am co: that 1927 marked a real advanc the sa mindedness of the t as a whol to it should take th tional resolution as the New Tear rings out the old.” Campaign Is Urged. This is no time, the A. A. A. tive asserted, to indulge in po tems, but rather a time to ol carry on in a more intensive way than ever the scores of activ: possible in the interest of m safety. He continued: “We can build a grea safety into our high ing ‘dangerous cu wherever poss adoptivn of u rection sizn raflroad crossings and of concrete programs for the eve elimination of these, at least; v narrow traveled roads znd superhighways 10 do awa: neck-b ex man; large towns and “We can butld motor vehic codes a { nances by developing u entific standards control to replace of diverzent ruies chological hazar v of our accid ;m ciples to bear on the a {the law, to th penaities ma 1o bear o ! cated drive: =mail minor a blight on dom. More Safety Seen. “We can cars not uni; manufacture demand for kerosene.!S spection of other equip: chinery and at ap We can develop safetyr record: adopts plete 10 be used as the | gent diagnosis of vhich they are suffering. piy | = th tion than e adults an | ~Such edu aim the a i measure of personal res every one for hi while exerc sing the co buld tnsist on not only of | courteous and sportsm at all times. | s long as | continues 1o | we shall need | mode! pes | | OTA SETS PACE. MINNES frem with SALESMEN Permanen whe quaiih Appty JOSEPH M. O'BRIEN Used G Mge, WASHINGTON CADILLAC COMPANY 113011381140 Conae Ave