Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1928, Page 56

In‘the Motor World BY G. ADAMS HOWARD. HE Traffic Bureau is making every effort to gain the ap- | proval of the District Com- missioners in the matter ot handling pedestrians at intersec- tions controlled by policemen or traffic signals. Such a recommendation has been in the hands of the Commis- sioners, along with several others, | for many months. Both Traftic Director Harland and Assistant Director Eldridge are of the opin- ion that establishment of such a system will do more than any- thing else in cutting down the number of fatalities in the Na- tional Capital. In reviewing the number of fatalities for the past 13 montis, the bureau points out that the majority of fatal accidents were caused by the carelessness of the edestrians. Out of the 11 deaths ast month the report of the bu- reau shows that only 2 were at- tributed to the negligence of the motorist. This. it is said, is a fair average for the preceding 12 months. None of the other nine deaths would have occurred if the pedestrian had used the intersec- | tions at the right time. Asks Fair Trial. Accepting the report of the Traffic Bureau, it seems wise that Washington be given a fair trial in the control of pedestrian trai- fic. Cities throughout the United States have tried the plan, and its success has been noted. The plan vas tried out here some years ago, but was not given a fair chance. as the courts threw out cases of violation because at that time Congress had not included pedestrians in the term meaning traffic. This has been changed so that motor vehicles horse-drawn vehicles, all transportation on wheels and pedestrians are im- plied in the word traffic. Intersections should not be a gridiron for motor and pedestrian teams. The words “go” and “stop” should apply to every one. The majority of pedestrians now cross the streets with the lights, as they have found it to be much safer. There is no reason that every onc should not be required to do sc. Laws for the protection of life and property are the oldest laws made. Further regulations to this end &s conditions change should be adopted. They are necessary, and. as Carlye once wrote, personal liberty does not allow one to in- fringe on the rights of others. Public safety is the right of others and should not be infringed upon. Attention has been called time end time again to the taxicabs rorking abreast on their stand weost of Dupont Circle. The vio- I~tions by these drivers are not violations of the hacking law, but viclations of the police regula- tions and. therefore, it is the duty of the police to break up this nnisance. Hack Inspector Joseph Harrington has but three men to " 700 taxis. His dutiee are multiferious, and neither he nar his men should be called upen 1o enforce a regulation that nn? roliceman sheuld have charge of. The-h=ck inspector’s office is an important cne, and the work of its offie s to be commended. duties li> not only in ex- emining applicants for vehicles for hire. confirm their indorse- b2 all over the city at one time t9 see that they do not violate the hacking regulations in regard to goliciting, “cruising” and manv other requirements. Four men to handle this task alone appears to b2 a very small number. vaflic Paint Sought. For many years a suitable traf- ¢ paint has been searched for. ;J" e paint now used for marking made by them. His opinion after driving over this bridge cannot be a complimentary one to the city. Resurfacing of this bridge should be started as soon as possible. In speaking of approaches, it would be well for the Maryland authori- ties to_drive over the Baltimore pike. Its present condition couid stand much improvement. A new light system is being tried out on Cathedral street in Baltimore. A timing device has been installed upon the traffic | lights on that street, which haz about 13 intersections, that auto- | matically allows on the same cir- | cuit various lengths of time at the | different intersections. This de- | vice takes into consideration the | length of the block, the amount of cross traffic and the grade it- self. It is similar to the staggered | light svstem here, the difference being that the patented appliance | allows different time between the changing of the lights on each block. This system is said to allow the steady flow of traffic wlchoutl | interruption. 1 Various Light Systems. | The use of lights in various | cities is interesting. New York and I | other large cities have done away | ,with the amber caution light.| | There, however, the pedestrian is | controlled by the lights, and many | difficulties are avoided. In many of the cities in the South, espe- cially the State of Florida, a bell rings when the lights change. The bell is an aid when the visibility | of the lights is poor, but how many objections would be raised | here by the residents of Sixteenth street should a bell ring at each | intersection with the change of | the signal? It is safe to say there | would be many. Richmond, Va.,! has a poor regulation. On certain | boulevards a motorist is allowe? | to make a left turn on the red | light. But should he be driving on |a street crossing this boulevard, | he must wait for the green light { Not very conflicting is it. And | how about the pedestrians? Their { lot there is not a very happy one. | Inthe final analysis there should | be a unified regulation that would |be the same in each - city and | hamlet throughout the United | States. The best traffic light sys- |tem should be adopted every- | where. It would not be very sur- | prising if the system in Washing- ton was found to be the best. Pub- lic safety demands the same traf- fic regulations everywhere. Tt seems that this is being brought about gradually, although a glar- ing contradiction is to be found | on Capitol Hill. Trials of the Police. Amusing traffic stories crop out | | every now and then. Some time | |ago a crossing policeman had to | caution a woman driver about go- ing against the semaphore when | { it was turned to “stop.” The driver | took the warning very demurely | and then drove on. The following day the same driver appeared at the intersection, this time accom- panied by a male escort. Very sweetly she smiled at the fraffic officer as she stopped her closed | car by him, and not to be outdone, | the policeman smiled b: | doffed his hat. Later in t | he met the man who was with th? |woman. “Do you know what she | | said as she smiled at you,” the asked the policeman? “No, I on’t,” the policeman said. window was closed and I could not hear her.” Laughingly, the man, who knew the policeman, said, “Why she said, ‘Oh go to the One never knows. A policeman one day on Penn- sylvania avenue was marking parked overtime cars. Not an (agreeable job, but necessary under | his orders. He had just placed a | chalk mark on the tire of a ma- 4 HAS and served notice THE. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 26, 1928—PART 4. THE SERVICE CAR THAT ARRIVES JUST AS YOU GET YOUR MOTOR STARTED. \ \ \it ROAD EXPANSION URGED IN HOUSE $75,000,000 U. S. Funds Yearly “Imperative,” A.A.A. Official Says. Demands and Most people in this country travel who, mythology says, sped as fast as the wind. Wind ordinarily travels no faster than 20 or 30 miles an hour, ac- cording to E. E. Duffy, highway educa- tional writer. The American, equipped | with an automobile rather than a pair of wings, can hardly confine himself to | such low speed, and occasionally he may pass an §0-mile gale. Of late this question has arisen: Are automobile manufacturers justified- in advertising the speed qualities of their aring before the roads commit- | cars? The answer is yes. The public Avpetting | is demanding speed. Science and engi- tee of the House of Representatives.|..ng have provided cars that travel spokesmen for the American Automo- |fast with safety. Better roads are be- bile Association and its 958 nmnated‘mm‘;‘l‘l- St et e 4 b i are the most important exter- motor clubs presented have an €X- g racior affccting automobile speeds. tensive program . for the acccleration ' gpofore rural highway improvement be- and expansion of highway construction | came widespread, States were entirely projects throughout the United States. | sensible in establishing speed limits on The A. A. A. presentation in behalf | main thoroughfares. But now that rural of more motoring mileage was opened | roads are, on the whols, much better by Ernest N. Smith, general manager | than they were a fow years ago, it is the House roads committec that our|pylt considerable mileages of hard car builders and car owners are crowd- | pavement to raise the speed limit. ing our highway builders and that the Abolishes Limit. need for more and better highways is ikt more urgent today than ever before. Several States, among them Indiana, As a preliminary to his statement, | North Carolina, Maryland, New Hamp- Mr. Smith called the attontion of the shire, Oregon and Washington. now per- committee to the current agitation in ! mit motorists to travel 10 to 20 miles favor of the construction of toll high- |an hour more than formerly. Michigan, that “the | With a vast mileage of concrete roads. ‘Amerfcan Automobile Assoclation, | has gone a step farther by making no while favoring express highways, is|limitation beyond that of stipulating absolutely opposed to the granting of | Penalties for reckless driving, a reser- congressional sanction for the construc- vatlon which still gives that State a tion of toll highways under any and all | definite check on those who endanger circumstances, and to the granting of | the lives and property of others. Micni- toll bridge franchiges, unless express gan’s new law states that a car shall provision 1s made “for their ultimate | DOt be driven at & speed more nor less recapture to free public use.” . | than is reasonable and proper. Thus e I the slowpoke is remembered. 75,000,000 a Year. With all the potential speed autom r. Smith submitted to the commit- | bile manufacturers are making avail- tee an extensive brief under the signa- | able to the individual, it is folly not to ture of Thomas P. Henry. president of | take advantage of it. As raliroad en- the A. A. A, in which were outlined | gines were bettered, tracks were bullt the principal recommendations on | more substantially. Light ralls replaced which action at this session of Con-|the strap iron, heavier steel replaced the was declared to be “sbsolutely | light rails, and now on railroad trunk rative”” These recommendations | lincs ralls are used weighing 130 pounds were grouped under the following three | per yard, which safcly carry 60-mile- main heads: | an-hour trains. Experiments with con- faster than the ancient winged gods, | of the national motoring body. who told | only proper to expect States that have | on thesgtreets has proved|cpine and as he walked away he insatisfactory. The white noticed a man rubbing it out. Not gray quickly, and ia | 1o be outwitted, the policeman re- fails to turned later and placed eight pea- 1ths 2go the | nuts around each wheel of the its probieni auytomobile. Several hours later, 5 the Bureau of Standards.| he came back to the car and e thzt time the Governmer! handed the driver a ticket. “Why bureau has been experimenting |1 have not heen here overtime, with various formulae to find a the driver expostulated. “There is paint sufficiently durable. Many ' no mark on my car.” The police- motorists have wondered at the man then said that if any of the various lines of paint on Connect- | peanuts were crushed he would frut avenue by the Bureau of | admit the man to be right. Care- Etancards. These lines are a part | ful inspection proved that all pea- of the experiments, and finally a | nuts were untouched. cepary t of the bureau, under | The two walked over to the first Per: D. Walker, has an- |precinct, where the necessary col- inding of a formuii | |ateral was put up. Coming out ed to contain th?|the man stated that he always ired. a friend of the police force s formula was given to the ed to remain s0. He sald Trafic Burcau znd bids are now contributed to their 2 d for 1,600 gallons of | charity, ays had bought tickets up according 1o th s their base ball games, etc. He s specific then wresented the policeman | 000 15 ai- th 5 cents to be used for| car out +f (he Policeman’s Peanut Fund. | ions. Be- jwhether the policeman accepted | 18 POOT! of the paint 'yhe proffered donation was not | obtained, the Trafli!iearned from the news source of awaiting the oul- | thig story. 5, has this year |~ However, it could not be classed T as a bribe. a good as speci- | |GNITION CARE URGED. prove | A 1¢5 {74 of Carhon-Proot Plugs Best for ! “0i1” Pumpers. Proper inspecton of the ignition ap- rec 1Couble Pirst, continuation of Federal ald for the fiscal years 1930 and 1931 on an undiminished scale—that is, at the rate of $75,000,000 a ycar as the very mini- mum necessary to mect national needs. Becond, an increase from $7,500,000 to $12,500,000 in the annual appropria- tion for the construction of forest roads and trails, in orcer that this construc- tion may keep pace with construction on the Federal ald system and in the interest of better unification and con- nection of interstate and transconti- nental highways. ‘Third, congressional approval of the use of 100 per cent of Federal aid funds on specially important projects in the interstate systems of 11 public land States in the West and Far West, provided under the terms of the so- called Colton bill. For Forest Roads. Representatives of A, A. A. Western motor clubs, headed by C. C. Cottrell, manager of the Highways Bureau of the California State Automoblile Asso- ctation, participated in the presenta- crete roadbeds give promise of still faster trains at no sacrifice of safety. 45 Miles Is Best. The same principle must be appiled to roads so that the automobile's great- {est efliclency can be attained. Automo- | bles are now designed in such a man- iner that the gasoline consumption ap- | proaches a minimum at about 45 miles an_hour. At _this speed. also. even ERAILROADS WELCOME NEWTRANSPORTATION | Autos Have Made Great Change in Short-Haul Outlook, Says Speaker. Specisl Dispatch to The Star. Speed Limits Climb As Public Cars ! though the motorist is driving one of the cheaper cars, will be found motor | smoothness. The vibrations of old that | caused back-seat occupants to grip top supports with terror have vanished. | anger in some degree is always pres- ! ent in automobils driving. On smooth. | hard-surfaced roads, with well banked ! curves, consplcuously marked railroad crossings and highway Intersections, the | accident likelihood 1s reduced to a mini- mum. With confidence mn the road { surface and with complete visibility, th~ motorist can select his own speed. But | in traveling at a high rate. the motor- | ist is charged with being doubly alert, for 336 feet are tequired in which to | stop a car traveling 50 miles an hour |~ After all. it makes little difference to Receives Faster | accident records whether automobiles | | are designed to travel 50 or 90 | hour, for there are those incapal | ers who will have accidents at {an hour. A number of States have at least weed>d out most of the unfitted | drivers by requiring examinations and | tests | “The age of personal speed is here | The day is not far distant when one will travel from coast to coast in six or seven days. This can be done now, but not altogether comfortably or en- tirely safely. | AUTOMOBILE CREDITS | INCREASE IN STABILITY/| ‘mpm of Large Firm Shows De- crease in Repossessions and Overdue Paper. BALTIMORE, February 25 (Special). —As indicating a more staple line of credit in the automobile business, the Commercial Credit Co. of Baltimore, whiah is one of the largest auto finan- | cial concerns in the country. in its an- nual report, points out that it had only 518 repossessed cars on its hands at the end of 1927, valued at $194.474. Th !compared with 1506 cars. | 564,350, on December 31, 1926. { In volume and character of paper out- alued at | standing the finance company also re-| vealed quite a different position. The amount of open accounts and similar paper outstanding increased from $17.- 283.085 to $22.777,029 in a year. At the same time the amount of these “out- standings.” which were more than two months past due, shrank from $412,756 to $210.948. Volume of automobile paper outstand- (Ing declined from $69.389.787 to $43.- |722.243. The amount of motor liens over | two months past due was $99.110 at the tend of 1927. compared with $309.401 a BILL BEFORE CONGRESS HELD VITAL TO NATION'S PROGRESS Representative Browne's Measure Appro- priating $407,000.000 for Road Construc- tion Urged—Highway Status Reviewed. ciation and was the moving factor in extending the Lee Highway route from Washington through Dizie to Los An- | geles. The Brown bill provides more than $407.000,000 for road construction and was {ntroduced a few wekes ago by Representative Edward E. Broune of . Wisconsin. BY DR. S. M. JOHNSON, | Chairman, National Good Roads Board of | the American Motorists’ Association For the orizin of the proposed lezis- lation we must go back to April, 1865— to the Federai camps in Virginia and the Caroiinas. Following Lee's sur- render, in many of those camps the offl- cers turned the Army mules loose. The negroes caught them and hitched them to their plows and broke the ground for the first crop of the new South. In other instances the muies were shipped North and were often sold at Army auc- tion sales for less than the cost of get- ting them back home. ° Remembering what a help this was to after-the-war recovery, a few days following the cessation df hostilities in the World War we proposed that in- stead of selling surplus war property at | Army auction sales everything suitabie | for highway improvement be passed on | by the Federal Government to the States | gratis. Congress approved and passed | the neccssary legislation, and thus the | most impressive instance of turning swords into plowshares in all history | was inaugurated. Machinery and equip- ment valued at $250,000,000, which would have been junk on the flelds of | France had the war lasted six months longer, were placed in commission im- | proving highway conditions in every | State of the Union. Highway Maintenance Promoted. Heads of the Government have stated that this distribution of equipment had | done more to beiter road conditions | | than all the money Congress had ap- | iprnprm«d for the purpose; that it had | led to systematic highway maintenance on all the State highwavs, and that, considering the far-reaching benefit, th 1 saving thus effected and the increased ' facility of intercourse, it would more than offset the entire financial cost to us of the World War. We got 35.000 motor trucks. Placed as close together as they could be driven in safety, they would reach from New | York to San Francisco. There were enough to have given 11 trucks to every county in the United States. | All of this equipment, however, was shipped out from warehouses in this country, except a little returned from Germany. The heaviest, the costliest | and the most valuable was in the ware- | | houses of France. We prepared an in- | voice of the things we needed for road i building and the Secretary of Agri- culture requisitioned this inveice from the Secretary of War. | On June 26, 1919, the following i cablegram was sent to the chairman of he Liquidation Commission in Paris: “Under existing legislation, which authorizes the War Department to de- liver to the Agricuitural Department any surplus equipment or materials on hend. the Secretary of War directs that th2 following equipment. now in France, be returned to the Unitsd States for delivery to the Agricultural Depart- mant.” Then follows the invoice. Following is a partial list of the ' machinery, which. but for the mis-| Note: Dr. Johnson was formerly man- | carriage of Federal plans, would have aging director of the Lee Highway Asso- | been in commission since the Summer of 1919, building reads in ths United States: dump wagons. caterpiliar tractors, 5-ton, 5 caterpillar tractors. 10-ton. traflers for tractors. miles industrial railwav track industrial raflway locomotites. industrial railway s donkey engines, engines. hoisting engines horsepower. road rollers. rock crushers. complete 0t fits, 123 to 200 tons capacity. steam =hovels, buckets, clam-shell, peel, bottom-dum; excavators, cat drag-lin pile~dri: . complete outfits. elevating graders. concrete mixers, motor-driven road-oilers. diaphragm pumps. 160 centrif- ugal pumps. 250 steam pumps, 3 and 4 inches. The cablegram. however, reached Paris when negotiations for the sale of the contents of warehouses in France were well advanced. To disturb th: 75 orange- rs and 400 700 200 73 contents, including this road machins were sold; $2,000,000,000 worth of m chandise at 20 cents on the doliar. Later additional purchases of surplus Wwar property in this country were made, amounting to $7.000,000. making a to- tal of $407.000,000. France executed | 407 “oblizations” of a million dollars each. bearing 5 per cent interest and maturing a couple of years hence. Each semi-annual interest payment has been Tmade promptly on time. Illustrates His Idea. If I give you something, the gift representing deliberate forethought and fixed purpose and not merely a whim, nd if before I can place the gift in | your hands an agent of mine sells it, would try to carry out my in< tention by giving you the proceeds of the sale in order that you might, 1f possible, do with the proceeds what ¥ "; would have done with the gift it- self. Objection may be made that the road machinery was but a small part of the contents of the warehouses, whereas the $407.000.000 represents the entire indebtedness from the sale. The answer is that the road machinery cost us hun- dreds of millions and that the failure to receive it the Summer of 1819 has seriously delayed the road-| pro- gflm of the United States. resulting a loss far in excess of the amount now asked for. Think of the many h for nine years have remained unim- proved and yet have had to scrve the needs of motor tral rtation. The United States hoids 407 “obli- gations.” or bonds of the French Gov- ernment covering the sale. This was purely a commercial transaction, en- tered into after the war. We soid and France bought an inveice of over two n doliars for $407.000.000. and was absolutely new merchandise. France sold some of this property. which was resold in Chicago. Ne Orleans and clsewhere at pyramicad (Continued on Seventh Page.) with rumble seat, custom-equipped $2105 S oo b factory tion. And, while whole-heartedly sup- BALTIMORE, February 25.--Rail- porting the plea for continuation of |roads welcome all means of transpo: Federal aid, they were particularly in- |tation. They know that new trans- sistent on more Federal co-operation |portation methods are necessary to and a larger concentration of Federal | help care for the tremendously growing funds on forest roads and tralls and on . population and the marvelous business the important links in the public land |development of this country, Francis States. IX. Milholland, asststant to George M. “The benetfis of a national system Shriver, senlor vice president of the of improved highways” said Mr.{Bulimore & Ohlo Railroad, declared Henry's statement, “In promoting in-in a speech here this week. terstate commerce, factiitating the | The railionds, by the very nature of mails and alding national deferise and {things, will have to handle the great the general welfare, are so apparent o bulk of freight and the large number every thinking citizen that I hesitate |of travelers o urge upon either your committee or | ““That there has been n great change Congress spectal reasons why Federul |in the business of transportation Is atd on ronds should be continued on an | quite evident.” said the speaker. “The undiminished scale. In fact, we be-uutomobiles have made great inronds Jeve the major question now is whether ‘on the short-haul traffic and will, no paratus of old motor cars will make wm tun better and prevent trouble far out on the road, in the opinion of a leading authority on runl combustion engines. “Home engines ater they become old | have w tendency to pump oll.” Mr. Ra- | for the amine | political or not in the interest of economy and doubt, so continue, For a while they unity the appropriations affected the long-haul of the carrters, ould be inereased While we do not | but again, by the very nature of things ting aside of more money 't was found that that means of tran al wid system. our in- | portation was not competent to meet vestigations ad us to belleve that the demands and by degrees the busi- $75,000,000 & year 15 the least wmonnt fness ts returning to the ratlroads which of the city cing. The frost the ground be and then the highw: weeks 0 pet gper repair 10 date has not been a evere one there are many of the aveled thoroughtares tha need of avention. b avenue s one maln quite rough, and re hould be contemplated on seems W hiave trou- ts hridges. ‘To dwell ain Bridge would be repe- tion Mighway Bridge, however, one of the most lmportant ag s 10 the city, shows mt Iux safety is its sole al But the roughness of both lanes of traffic on the bridge is 4 Gisgrace 1o the city, Not only I8 the ssphalt cracked badly on both sides, but in many places deep ruts snd holes have heen worn in\o the surface, ‘The visitor 7 st notes the approaches 0 a Oty snd his fist viewpolnts aie o tribute. i5 Although the | Wezzanm bsys. “The reason is that the | rings no longer fit tightly. In many cases even new rings are of value when the cylinder jself 1 ever 2 slightly ‘out of round’ Bometimes the smmount of ol that gets into the | chamber 15 80 elight that it cannot be | detected s o1, but appears as & thick | or gummy eoot upon the head of the | piston or on the spark plugs How W keep such motors running {well hus long been s problem with repuir men new plugs are fouled up within s short | tme sfter installation “As u remedy, carbon-proof spark | plugs of the correct type are the most | iogicel plugs for engines that have w| “with Bmited populution and s | tenaency v foul the spark | plugs sl afe desirable gines “Yhey have what 38 known as & carbon-proot insulator, with u series of high-vemperature fins girdiing the lower end. ‘These fins quickly attain sufficlent heat o burn off any de- posits of sont or of), thus offering ef- fective resistance W carbon troubles” — Engine bearings should he taken care of 3U at ) loose, In order Lo prevent | expensive geplncement laver, plugs. ‘Chene | for“Cooi en- | ite | In nearly every instance | that might be spent wisely on Federal ald roads States Cannot Pay. In support of the demand for more | funds for forest roads and trafls, und more lberal use of Federal funds on important road projects in public land States, Mr. Henry sald “Phe epeeding up of such work is sorely needed, since the Federal Gov- Lernment has failed to see that road | improvements on s land keep pace with improvements by adjoining Slates | The ronas on much of the Fedcral land are deplorable, wnd both the motoring public and the Bietes look to Congress to_remedy the conditl o Fed: the public taxable land due ownership of land, Htates have followed the course lewst yesistance wnd Improved the castest and least costly rouds firet. Un- less the Federnl Government shares a Jarger part of the expense of improv- g the more costly projects, the com- lnlzmm of many important national highways will be unduly prolonged.” . America's vatlioad cars can seat 2,- 400,000 people. Automoblles can sent 60,000,000 ~gver 20 times A8 many, Bren of ul | lund lure equipped for such purposes. | Ot course, nobody can definitely tell {vhnt the future will bring forth. While I wm personally quite interested in wviation and sn advocate of ita de- { velopment, 1 think that, too, while very !destrable and helpful In meeting the {demands of the country for transpor- [tution, 1t has & specific fleld to cover | While it may, to degree, Interfere | with railroad raMe, 1L can only of it- {eelf be an wuxiliary | “In other words, the rallroads have {been an important factor in the ex- | panston and development of this coun- try and will continue to ba just as im- portant and necessary in the future, but 1inw different way." Inspect Tires After Parking. 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