Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1928, Page 62

GO0 NEW LS 0F ROAD EEN Year's Estimate Based on Experts’ Survey—Wider Highways Predicted. Approximately 8.000 miles of con- erete and other paved rural roads will b» constructed in 1928 That is the estimate reached by a survey of rural traffic situation of the count:v ¢ transportation experts. They est.- mate that there are less than 80.009 mles of first-class pavement in tie United States at present. exclusive of city streets. The experts say that fct more than 100 cars can travel safely rnd pass each other an one mi 10t pavement. It will therefore take £30.000 miles of pavement to accom: date the 23.000.000 cars now use. vstem of State h. as now laid out provides the N with what is conside plete network of roads. 1 miles included n this s ¢ 186.000. Speed and popula ses are creating a necd for a nt rate of increase. which mated at 18000000 for the p the population of the Un ceed 150.000.000 1 e now averages aba five persol ca. the the number of mean only that ng by vstem x lanes of traffic. The road experts. accordng to G- S wn. president of a large ceme! believe that w Likel s that the pres thousands of miles of connecting lered of ma’or ir portance. T one main highway will be provided tween given centers. The b |Record Discloses | {Woman Auto Driver Excels Mere Man| | Dame Motorist is again vindicated as | a careful driver. A recent study of 1.000 fatal motor vehicle accidents in San Francisco showed that fewer women than men were involved in such accidents, W proportion to the number of men and women drivers, | It was brought out that in 910 of | the cases invbstigated the drivers were ! men. as compared with 46 in which ' women drivers were involved. Forty- tour were unknown due to hit-and-run cases California traffic _authorities. who made the analysis roferred to. estimate that 20 per cent of those holding driv- ers licenses are women. On this basis women. constituting only one-fifth _of the number of drivers. were responsible e lss than 5 per cent of the the more congested regions will be paved to four and six car widths. To make present lighway plans solely on the basis of existing conditions. provisions for " continued Mr. commend the pur- of 120-toot rights of way for all and the acquisition of a. ¢ as possible along high- The amount r rights of wny 1s realized way contains of ac can be est a 66-foot it acres to the mile” movement to build private toll al 2 itself apparent roads m Florids 0 of the South trend. There ic to construct nter- by n some citic tunnels. are being m of speeding up Cross Bumps at Angle. unssen depression or bump ahead of the rapidly moving car | is impossible to slow sufficient to protect the car and its occupants om the shock. it will help matters the car in order to cross the an angle. This practice. of e, is for emergency use. but it is er far to take the bump at a lower and it ourse | cious. | taken ! machines should THE SUNDAY TAR. WASHINGTON D. C. FEBRUARY 19. BAN ON CAMPUS ATOS ASSALE Cars Called Adjunct to An: Inctitution of “Higher Learning.” The barring of automobiles at a col- lege is a tacit admission that that particular college is not an_institution of higher learning. but merely a super- “prep school * Such is the conviction of Dean Max McConn of Lehigh Uni- versity, writing in the March issue of Plain’ Talk Magazine on this dis- ciplinary step which over 40 colleg including some of the best known in stitutions of “higher education,” have taken. coliege considers itself a chool.” thinks the dean. is it perfectly logical to ban the auto- mobile. “It is then the duty of the college.” he writes in Plain Talk, “to accept’ all the children of the com- munity. or at any rate all the children of the well-to-do.” at the age of 18 or thereabouts. regardless of their men- tality or their interest or lack of inter- est in the things of the mind. and to house them. feed them. guard them. guide them. and cidentally force upon them some attention {o. booklearning for four years, just as the lower ‘prep’ schools have done for the preceding four vears “The faculties and deans should not stop with barring cars. There are also the movies, the radio, the local cabarets. cards. and an abundance of cheap fiction, both thrilling and sala- on every newsstand. If the ‘prep school’ conception of the college is_to prevail, further steps should be at once. Students should be strictly forbidden to visit either the movies or cabarets where dancing may be indulged in except at rare intervals and by special permission of the dean All radio equipment and musical be ordered out of dormitories and fraternity houses. and playing cards should be frowned upon as severely as they were by the early Puritans, though for a different reason And an index expurgatorius of maga- zines should be published and enforced “Any college which is serfouslv seek- ew |60 Per Cent of Motor Expenditures Go Toward Maintenance and Service ’ The American motorist now leads { the world in spending money for serv- [fce on his car. Out of each dollar on automobiles in the United ear at least 60 cents will supplies, | spent States this go for maintenance, and service parts. | cents will represent car sales. These figures have just been an- | nounced by Commissioner William M. Webster of the Automotive Equipment Association, following a conference | with leaders in the automobile industry held in conncction with the automobile | show now in session here. The figures | are based on an analysis of automobile | trade conditions in every section of the | country and reports of advance orders | for 1928, just completed by members | The remaining 40 | of the Automobile Equipment Associa- tion, comprising more than 600 leading menufacturers and jobbers of auto- | motive equipment in the United States | and Canada. | | “The demand of the American motor | car_owner for service and_maintenance | ing to maintain the status of an institu- ! tion of higher learning.” .the Lehigh | dean _continues, “may properly wel- come ‘the automobile as a useful ad-| junct, an instrument for speeding Up | ajready stupendous $3.000.000,000 total | its processes of elimination. Motor-cars will frequently bring to the attention of ! the faculty cases of ‘students’ who are not real students at all. and who. for their sake and that of the college, should cease as soon as possible to! clutter up the campus. In such a case | it is not the automobile alone which should be sent home, but the voung man with it. If a young man has so little real interest ‘in learning that. given a free choice between working at his books and driving around in an automobile, he chooses the latter with any dangerous frequency. then that | young man has no business at college anyway.” | To the argument be barred on the ground of publiv | safety, Dean McConn declares, “The notion that college men and women are any more reckless than others of their | generation is obviously absurd. The barring of college students from the use of a recognized and nearly universal | instrumentality of business and pleasure |is a gross instance of class legislation: iand the public sentiment in favor of so { doing is a. modern expression of the | very ancient ‘town and zown' antipat | to ‘which college faculties should pay no attention.” that cars should Line on his vehicle has grown during each of the last 10 years in almost geometric ratio to the increase in automobile registrations,” Commissioner Webster sald. “Where the American motorist of 1915 spent 20 cents of his car dollar for sorvice, he spent 57 cents in 1927. “The fact that motor car manufac- | turers today are building more mileage | anJ transportation into their automo- biles and making them speedier- and sturdier than ever before ples the real secret of the increasing demand for service, because the public is buying m.re cars thon ever before and are rapidly learning that an automobile i a plece of transportation machinery which must be taken good care of if it | is to be opcrated safely, comfortably and_economically. i “On the basis of the number of cars that will be manufactured, sold and tegistered in the United States this year, it i3 ultra-conservative to say that at least 60 cents of every automo- bile dollar spent by the American motorist in 1928 will be for mainte- nance and service. American registra- tion of motor vehicles will easily pass 25.000,000 by next December. This means that America’s automobile bill for 1928 will top by many millions the of 1927. and that $5.000,000,000 of this will cheerfully be paid by the American motorist to keep his car running and in good conditicn on the road.” RUBBER MONOPOLY HIT. Two bills. designed to prevent repe- tition of gouging of the American motorists by foreign rubber monopolies have been introduced in the Senate and House. The bills authorize “pool” buying ot crude rubber by American manufac- turers under the Webb-Pomerene act. Figures presented to the House and Senate committees showed that in 1926 the motorists of the country paid $750. 000,000 above what was regarded as a fair price for its tires used that year Crude rubber rose from 36 cents a pound. regarded as a fair price. to $1.20 a pound. | In 1927 motorists of the country used 400.000.000 pounds of crude rubher This means that for every cent per 1928—PART 4. HGHWAY QUTLES BUSIESS FACTOR !Important Link in Joining Cities and Rural Communi- ties Planned in Jersey. Big cities are gradually getting nearer the country. Talk and plans for ade- quate highway outlets from the reglons of massed skyscrapers and towering, cliff-like apartments, wherein dwell thousands who have never seen a herd of cattle, are giving way to action. The latest and most startling high- way project ls that of New Jersey. | which is building a great super-highway leading away from New York City's Holland vehicular tunnel. It is esti- mated that this roadway. when com- | pleted, will carry 20,000.000 automobiles in a single year, or nearly as many as the entire registration in the United States, according to E. E. Duffy, eco- | nomic highway expert. Accelerates Travel. Travel to and fro from the sun- | bathed playgrounds scattered along the | New Jersey coast will be accelerated by | this super-highway with its five traffic lanes. Long-distance travel will also be accelerated inasmuch as the Lincoln | Highway will soon incorporate this high speed road and the Holland Tunnel. Thousands of New York City's people who have given up all hope of comfort- able week-end holiday travel will soon have an express route for.15 miles through Jersey City, Newark and Eliza- beth without hindrance from a single street or railroad crossing. ramps pro- | vide local connections. Double-decked through most of Jersey City and portions of Newark and Zlizabeth, the new highway will elim- ‘nate the congestion now expected when he motor-owning herd is free to break away from the cares of business. The uper-highway starts with a gizantic concreted viaduot suspended over the pound increase in the price of crude : rubber the motorists’ rubber bill is in- | creased £9.000.000. of motor cars To you, the owners of the millions of motor cars in use today, and to you who are about to purchase your first car, we present a new line of motor cars for which we ask your consideration. A wide variety of models and body types prices beginning at $860. Car illustrated is Model 619, 5-passenger Sedan, $1595. All prices f.0.b. Detroit. | GRAHAM-PAIGE COMPANY OF WASHINGTON E. B. Frazier Motor 518 10th St. N.E, Paige Jewert Motors Winchester, Virginia Fn(‘mry Branch 1522 14th Street N.W. Co. 33 Alexandria Motor Co. Alexandris, Virginia Motor Sales @ Service, lne. New York Ave. N.E. Paige Motor Sales Cumberland, Md. GRARAM-PAIGE DID YOU KNOW: That the plug in the bottom of the dry-plate clutch housing should be re- [mnvrd? Cars are supplied with a plug at this point to please the fastidious owner who-does not want to get the floor of his garage dirty. Since water accumulates in the bottom of a dry- plate clutch through condensation. it |is advicable to allow proper drainage. | That a car with well adjusted four- | wheel brakes and smooth tires will | skid more from carelessly applied pow- er and bad steering than from stop- | ping? The braking force i distrib- uted over four wheels, while the power is distributed only over two and some-’ times is confined to just one of the rear wheels, as in turning a corner e maze of raflroad tracks at the New Jer- sey entrance of the Holland tunnel. ‘After spinning along for a few mo- ments the motorist will find himself at the beginning of the double-decked por- tion. The through motorist will shoot down the ramp onto the lower level while local traffic continues on the sur- face, for here the lower deck is sub- merged and the upper deck is flush with the streets of Jersey City. The two-level thoroughfare merges into a single roadway just prior to crossing the Hackensack River at the western outskirts of Jersey City. The modern thought behind the project is | again illustrated by the construction of a huge tunnel, through which the road- way passes, midway between the Pas- saic and Hackensack rivers. The road- way now proceeds practically at street level until Newark and Elizabeth are reached. Street and railroad crossings in and near these towns are avoided by means of elevated structures Extraordinary as this super-highway is, it gives a definite indication of the steps that must be taken by both large and small cities in solving the problem of traffic congestion. The builders of today must have vision. 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