Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1928, Page 64

0uS LINES EXPAND I 0L0 DOVNIDN | 250 Ceaches Operating Over: £ 000 Miles of Public Road ~Form New State Link. ginia is stepping to the fiv portation fa letin issued by aticnal urprising even of th fiiti the ont in THE SUNDAY STAR, WASTT GTON, D. €. MARCH 18, 1923 -PART 4 [Nation to Honor Inventor'of First Gasoline Vchicle to honor Siegfried nese meshante, who is v eredited with havinz tavent- the first vehicle driven by gaso- v the crection of a monument d an 1 it was severas \ i | \ | | youth cleave ra, s sole The IBRER MONOPOLY 1l M il - PROTECTION URGED open: . over lake Ponchartrain has releassd the v es of scheduled conch traffic e Gulf of Mexico, and s expected to have an in coach traffic from the Upper Atlantic Seaboard States, in which Virginia are an import link nquiries. 100, form a most intere feature of this new of the inquiries come from rections, and a curious fact is oung the seekers after this class nation women predominate, and y wander far and wide. Recently 2 called at a highway travel bureau for information on how to cross continent via motor coach, and upon departing with the desired information left a card giving her home address sburg, South Africa. Opens New Area: is alsc Virginia by approximately That is to say, the motor coach is getting out into areas beyond omic reach of the locomotive, the result that new and potential trade areas are being tapped to the ad- vantage of commercial and merchan- ! dising points. “Incidentally, in this phase of trans- portation expansion a new type of junc- | tion is showing up wherein the farm | is made to connect with the route coach line. This d is exceptionally well il e hiconnects the National Cap- hmond, Va. Along this en- tire route community junctions are de- veloping and passenger traffic from out- lying farms is turning cash into Pred- ericksburg. Richmond and intermediate Not only are the th 5 ays, but banks are learning sed travel facilities thus af- v the motor coach opens the ased depos development of marked significance is exempl n a recent taken by members of the Motor rder of her youth- st hi prars work of highwsy pas ready serving the people MARYLAND ROAD OILING WORK TO START SOON Tre of or 1,235,000 Gallons Expected 4950 Miles of H Begin Job in April. yhways Mareh am, vii acihg with cn 490 miles of MORE g Howsrd Wiry's A. A. A. Wants Congress to Take Steps Toward Guard- ing U. S. Interests. lation by for tire d of directors of bile Association at oling in New \ of the board of directors ring body tosk the rasolution urging to give imvol r commaditie: power of combined [ the Webb-Pomerene purch exporter: act Bil's to effect this are now pending in ; Congress and Thomas P. v. presi- dent of ths American Automobile Asso- | ciation, who presided over the mestings of ths board, gave essurance that repre- sontatives ot the A. A. A. and its 958 affiliated clubs would appear betore committees of Congress to urge the im- | mediate passage of this protective legis- lation. The National Automobile Cham- ber of Commerce and the rubber inter- ests of the country are strongly in favor | of the legisiation | Cities Pool Benefits. Prior to the board's action. John H. | Raskob. vice president of General Mo- Du Pont Co s in_which he | pointed out the beneficial effects of the pool of 50,000 tons of rubber purchased |in the open markst by Americen inter- | ests last year. 1 “This pool,” he said, “while it only constituted 10 per cent of the total con. | sumed in the United States, unques- | | tionably helped to maintain stable | prices, with the result that the highest | | price ‘differential throughout the year { was only 9 cents. The 1927 market was | far the steadiest in many years and | there is every reason to believe that the way to offset the danger of monopolis- tic’ control is to apply the combined | purchasing power of the United States | to buy rubber wherever it is to be had in the open market. “The legislation before Congress con- | | forms in ew respect with the terms! of the Sherman act and other anti- trust laws and provides ample protec- | tion against any attempt to use an American rubber pool to the detriment | of the American consumer.” | The discussion brought out the fact| | that the difference between a fair price of 36 cents a pound for raw rubber and | the price of $1.20 to which rubber soared in 1926 meant a foreign levy of $750,000.000 on the consumers of the United States. | Other Matters Considered. | In addition to the resolution calling for a national rubber policy, the board of directors of the A. A. A. took action on several other matters of vital inter-| est 1o the car owners. Among them are the following: “First, a resolution urging 211 State highway departments to compicte at the earliest possile moment the work of placing the Pederal numbering, di- rection and cautionary signs on the in terstate highways and the constant ex- ercise of vigilance to prevent the imita- | ton of these signs by “snipe” adver- tisers along the highways “Second, a resolution urging A. A. A. clubs everywhere to advocate the con- struction and the marking of cut-off routes and belt lines as optional routes around large cities and other thickly populated areas | | “Third, a resolution recommending { the establishment of an official appoint- ment service for tourist homes through- out the United States, with def) 3 | sanftary standards and rates. as a co venienced and a safeguard for the motor tourist caravan.” Alleged plans for the construct toll highw: | throughout 5 | the attention of t The unant- | mous sentiment was ny whole- | | sale scheme for woll roads in America, | under whatever guise such a scheme 18 brought forward. and ative cor,- mittee of the A. A A was authorized Lo investigate any proposals looking n this cldon BUMPING THE CURB. i under | | | | parkin ¥ the i 15 1 where the curb often i snow. It the bumped the driver tn notice p pext o 1 pery from ive or fror wheel has | heavily enough for t it, it will psy 0 have the slignment hecked us s00m as ble. ‘Tircs wear api ugh from other causes withe is burden upon them. 0ld Grease Injurious. Pront-wheel bearings get their lubri- {cant from the hub caps While Lhe supply of grease in these units may be dered adequate, 115 condition s & point that meriis attention. 1f the lu- | bricant s eolor, the fact iy 180 Indicetio is flied vith dust wnd flings. In h & case it should o changed without delny, for these sib- stances play havoe with the lubricating qualities, of the grease Compressed Air Proves Major Factor 500 00MOTORS N 1985 FORESEEN tiction Brings Warning of Dangers to Be Incurred on Crowded Highways. By 1935 the United States will have on its streets and highways from 30. 000,000 to 35.000.000 registered motor vehizles, according to Walter P. Chrys- ler, How can we accommodate that gréat army of passenger cars, trucks and bu In the centors of our larger cities more of the rail trafic will be under- ground. In some cities the surface car will_give way to the bus. In others the street car will be taken off the streets and put in underground tunpels. Ele- ods for overhead trains will be torn down. Subways will bs substituted. Stréots will be widened where it can b~ done without inconvenience by mak- ing sidewalks narrower. More boule- vard systems will be laid out. Arterial highways will be constructed Separation of grades is another step. Note how motor cars from Park avenue rot_around the Grand Central Station in New York City. An overhead motor- way cxtends from Park avenue and Fortieth street to Park avenue and Fostv-fifth. Imagine the congestion at Pershing Square without such grade saparz.tion Provision in Other Cities. Detroit has a similar grade separa- tion at East Grand boulevard and East | San Franeisco ha cet Jeflerson avenue an overy at the foot of Market s and the cro. Cincinnati overpassas whers ons street is carried by a bridge or viaduct over another. For years we rightfully stressod more careful driving. Today many agencies arc busily engaged in teaching the motor- t to drive carefully. But today there also Is A movement which encourages the pedestrian to walk carefully. Con- siderable impetus can be given this wark 1f it 15 consistently pointed out that ncarly all podestrians are fre- quently motorists, and that nearly all motorists are frequently pedestrians. To walk carefully means to cross streets at crossings. It means to ob- erve traffic signals and traffic rules. A few cities have succeeded in keeping pedestrians on the curb until they are given the right of way. Chicago. with its Leop district, find pedestrian traffic foo great to pect all padestrians to keep on the side~ walk until given the signal to go. But most cities ‘are finding that they can reduce the number of accidents by en- couraging pedestrians to observe signals and to be guided by them A Chicago transportation executive recently made the impressive statement that any one alert enough to be on the streets of Chicago was alert enough to get through lines of moving vehicles. That may apply to the Loop district. which has problems peculiar to itself. but it hardly applies to most cities. Pedestrians File Complaint. Many pedestrians complain that they are obliged to cut through lires of ve- hicles because, when they wait for the signal to cross, they find their line of walk cut off by cles coming around the corner. The podestrian should be p>rmitted to cross before vehicles are allowed to turn corners. Police officers are going into the schools in many cities to instruct chil- dren how to cross streets, and when. In those same cities Jolicemen are assigned to street corner. children use frequently in going to and from school. Usually those police, in escorting children across streets, wait for signals before crossing. At least they should. This type of education means that the years to come will bring us a gen- eration of men and women sehooled in the ways of careful walking. Traflic problems are usually consid- cred as police problems. As they in- creased the number of police was in- creased. Then came the introduction of the synchronized electric signal system control. This was acgepted in many communities as a substitute for the traffic policeman. The truth is that there is no substitute for the traffic ofM- cer. At some intersection the signal light is all right. At others it isn't. Sig- nals will work under cqrtain traffic con- ditions, but not all Express Highways Protect. Our larger cities will be connected by express highways. These will be in- losed like railroad rights-of-way. There will be separate lanes for slow-moving vehicles and separate lanes for the fast- er-moving ones. When grade crossings are encountered the highway will go overhead or underneath. America today has a most ambitious road-building program. There is every reason 1o believe that this program will be expanded until this country will have a great system of transcontinental high- ways and roads, extending from Canada t Mexico. Of course, as 500n as we finish a two-way highway, traflic on it frequently increases to a point where a four-way highway is needed. This Is bound 1o be true for eight or ten years may United States will never com- road-bullding program. New ays will be needed constantly. Old highways must be kept in repair and many must be widened The elimination of grade crossings is a tremendous job. This work should continue until every dangerous crossing is eliminated, with an overpass or un- derpass bullt in its stead. There is also the Job of eliminating curves from 5. Engineers today agree that highways must possess what might be led built-in safety. Bigns can’'t be relied on to make highways safe. Parking Problem Remains. ‘The parking problem will probably be with us always. But it will be met In part by erecting tall ramp garages in areas where rents aren't so high In our most congested centers streets will be cleared of trucks loading and un- loading during the day. loading will be donie At remote delivery systems. ‘There vill be underground loading plat- forms, and it is not at all fmpossible that main levels will be used by depart- ment stores to park cars, Roofs may be used alan More and more attention s being glven the skyscraper and s relation 1o the traflie congestion problem Throughout the country there 15 & growing appreciation that New York bullt a5 1t 18 on A narrow island, was ompelled 1o go into the alr to expand beeause 1L couldn’t grow in any other direction Other cities are realizing that there must be some relationship between the height of « building snd the capacity of the sbutting streets 1o care for the | ndditional traffic 5o created In Manufacture of America's Tires Hot wir” s not included i the more an 200 uses b Which compressed aly appiled in tire factories. ‘lire en- und sssure you that it s 2 BBU 000 cuble wr 1 us y 24 h Jtactue of rubber prodicts The s nothing v “blow about furnishes air ol the rate fret & minute end Jor wt the rate of 300 cubiz foel & man e you that @ A e gentle d ut tiis plant re buniclie togelher th one hed eompre 4 tor meny of Baor ) pumps for itk ol 29 urie vary po that Only sir 80 higi ' casppy wevion i e ure will Ao the work demanded Uiese presses. Gireat steel molds that e been filled with Ures for vulcan- are snapped together with com- thousands of times each rs i the | v Al supplied by the pipe lines st 100 pounds pressure W the squite e 1s ny purposes other than m fattng tubes and Lires for inspection end tests The molds 10 the great val- 12ing depnrtient, that 15 known s pICT W factory parlance, are sned and dried with wlr after the cured” tres hinve bren taken from them isteel due! that has accumulated the moldn while they are heing cleaned and palished with reyolviy wire Diehen s biown from (he mojis wilh compressed alr 10 serves the most va ied numiber of uses of any agency of . wh that 15 applied 1@ ] thie e ey #e | Lhe manufecture of Ures, A city like | ex- | STANDARDIZED SYSTEM 'OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS SEEN Baltimore Police Head Says New Plan Is Needed to Regulate Auto Movement. Adoption of a standardized system of automobile traffic control was sug- gested by Charles D. Gaither, Balti- more police commissioner, in _discus:- ing the wariation of timing and man- ner of operation of signals. in ofher cities of the country to regulate the movement of traffic. “If this plan were adopted, motor- {sts would soon catch on tu the scheme and would get the fullest advantage of driving by the signal.” he sald. “They would become so well acquainted with it that when they drove into another city they would not hold up trafic, as they tend to do now when torced to stop to puzzle over the mepuing of the lights.” To bring about the standard {plan Mr. Galther suggesied that tomobile or traffic associations be form- ed in all cities and that the groups be represented at a national meeting. New ideas about traffic lights could be ex- changed at such a meeting and reme- dies for defects in signal systems in different cities could be suggested, he pointed out. Mr. Gaither cxpressed the hope that a yellow light, meaning “go” for pe- destrians, would be established Ral- timore. He sald that, us far as he could see, that would be the only pos- sible way to make crossing at inter- sections safe for pedestrians fon TAXI RIGHTS UPHELD. Supreme Court Upholds Railroad's Terminal Privilege. Th® right of a raflway company arant an exclusive franchise to a company to use its terminal facilities to solicit business, excluding all other taxi companies from so doing, has been upheld by the United States Su- preme Court, according to a report of the decision by the American Motor- ists' Assoclation. Justice Brandies filed a dissenting opinion from the majority decision. The case arose at Morristown, N. J. when the municipality passed an ordi- nance requiring the D.. L. & W. Rail- way to permit_the use of its terminal facilities to all taxi cab companies. The court held that this was a viola- tion of the company’s constitutional rights, and amounted to a taking of the company’s facilities without just compensatior | | | to ting sensatio performance, —Pontiac alc sixes has the —winter and offer the cr thermostatic car selling at such excepti J. 1. JERMAN 2921 M Street N.W, W. D. WOODFI Gaithersburg, Md. T M AEE] Leesbur omy because— head. None other so completely re- lieves its owner from radiator cares Series Pontiac Six w. pump with gasoline filter, carburet. or with accelerating pump, down- L. P. STEUART, Service—1444 P Street Downtown Sal 14th and Rhode Island Ave. N.W, ‘LD FNDSCAMDIAN CASHPLAN PAY Auto Head Finds More Pleas- ure and Fewer Reposses- sions in Survey. One reason the Canadians scem to derlve s0 much satisfaction from life despite their relatively smaller incomes is that they pay cash for what their American cousins are accustomed to purchase on the deferred-payment plan. The Canadian will save for months to buy a radio sct, a piano or an auto- mobile, and, once the merchandise Is | his, he feels a sense of ownership and a | pride of possession which more than repays him for his sacrifice. There is {a certain feeling of security in owner- ship and in cash payment that can be enjoyed under no other purchase plan. These observations were suggested to | G. M. Williams, automobile head, by a | perusal of a recent bulletin issued by the Ohjo Councll of the National Auto- | mobile Dealers’ Association bearing on | | the repossession problem as the finance | | compan s find it in that territory. Down Payment Guide. | This bulletin, Mr. Willlams found, | furnishes an intaresting commentary on human nature. It showed that in case where the initial payment on a motor | car represented one-third of its price | the percentage of repossessions was | only 2.7 | | i his percentage increased, however, | | In almost geometrical proportion as the | | first payment grew smaller. Thus, if it | represented only a quarter of the car's | | value. repossessions rose to 59 per cent, | and if less than a quarter of the selling | | price, repossessions reached 11 per cent. | | “Of course,” said Mr. Williams, “the | Canadians buy fewer cars than the | Americans, and if the automobile man- | {ufacturers had to wait until everybody | had saved enough money to buy a car | | outright, production would fall off and | many of the factories would have to| | shut down. The American, essured of a comfortable Income, likes to enjoy life as he goes. and s willing to mort- | |gage his futu ning capacity for | Elimination of "Wildcat” Bus Operators Urged on L. C. C. by Examiner Flynn Elimination of the “wildcat” operator from the ranks of the bus industry has been recommended to the Interstate Commerce Commission by FExaminer Leo J. Flynn as one of the most im portant needs of this fast-growing transportation agency and steps to effect this will receive the full support of the 2,100 operators affiliated with the A. A. A, according to the bus division of the national motoring body. In his report to the I C. C., the ex- aminer made the following statement on the demoralizing effect of this specles of operator: “The equipment of ‘wildcat’ operators is sometimes represented by a single sec- ond-hand touring car purchascd with a small down payment. Some sell round- trip tickets and fail to make the return trip. Misleading advertisements are placed in newspapers. Somd&times the cars break down en route and pas s other tran: poration without reimbursement. cidents have occurred, with the opera- tor having no libility Insurance and be- ing financially irresponsible. Passen- gers' property.has been lost with no method of recovery for the loss. On some occasions where a breakdown has occurred, passengers have been required to furnish the operator with sufficient funds for the repair of the car in order that the journey might be continued. In other instances cars have broken down and the operator, { with little equity in the car, has | abandoned it and left the passengers | stranded. | “In the present state of the law there | i no regulatory tribunal to which inter- | state passengers traveling in a motor vehicle can appeal for protection or ! reimbursement in case of accident or damase. Recourse to the courts. on | acconnt of the small amount usually | involved and the time and expense nocessary to prosecute an acilon, s | ordinarily out of the questicn, even | |4t such operators were firancially responsible.” present luxuries—if you can call a mo- tor car a luxury. “Even the 11 per cent of repo consequent to the small down pay indicates only a trace of dishonesty and might casily be accounted for by un- employment. illness or other cmerge: cles. Nor would such a percentage of bad sales necessarily demoralize the dealer, especially if he knew the equa- tion in advance. At the same time the situation tends to produce a sense of false security ainong dealers and manu- rs, and if we can calculate with degree of accuracy just what the jon will be under certain circum- stances, we can act accordingly. “The conservative dealer will insist on an initlal payment substantial enough to establish a feeling of owner- | ship on the part of the buyer and_to eliminate any suggestion of rental. For if the purchaser making only a nominal | payment is inclined to to be dishonest or a bit smart, he can use the car for a certain length of time and then, de- faulting on_his contract, turn it back to the dealer greatly deteriorated in value. as rental, and in the majority of casel he would get the better of the bargain. But credit, of course, in its last analy- sis, is a matter of character. Only a small percentage of our customers are intentlonally dishonest Forty-one per cent of all checking accounts in the United States are in the names of women says the Woman's Hol -a Successfu His own loss he can strike off | VIRGINIA BEING URGED TO LICENSE AUTOISTS BALTIMORE, Maroh 17 (Special) = | As a step toward uniformity in auto- | mobile laws, Mr. Baughman, who Is | president of the Eastern Conference of Motor Vehicle Administrators, has sug- | gested that the Virginia Legislature | pass an act requiring all automobile | operetors In that State to be licensed. | Mr. Baughman warned James M.| Hayes, jr., Virginia director of motor vehicles and member- of the Eastern Conference, that reciprocity between | Maryland and Virginia could not be | extended to permit Virginians under 16 | | years of age to operate automobiles in | Maryland. Mr. Baughman stated he hoped ac- | tion toward uniform laws would be taken &y Virginia. Persons of any age | are allowed to drive automobiles in | | that State, frrespective of their capabili- | ties, Mir. Baughman added. | | “Maryland’s reciprocal courtesies will | | not permit a driver from another State | to drive under any circumstances in| Maryland when said driver is under the | minimum age limit of 16 years required | | in this State” Mr. Baughman said in| | his letter to Mr. Hayes. “Also Mary. | land reserves the right to refuse operat ing privileges in this State to any per- son who shows that lack of judgment, discretion, age or other causes preclude their driving with safety.” | 1 Six now bids for Even Greater Success \ N N\ Mt nal new standards of endurance and econ- one, among low-priced famous GMR cylinder summer—for the New s the first to oss-flow radiator with control. And no other or near $745 combines onal features as fuel abl csroom Padgett-Joyce M 712 I Street P. G, RICH! 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Mackall, chairman of the State Roads Commission. ‘The ofling work will require more than 1,200,000 galions of oil, engineers em- ployed by the commission estimated. Of the mileage to he covered, 130 miles is in gravel roads in Southern Maryvland. The remainder is macad- amized roadway In other sections of the State. Lest yeaY 475 miles were given the same surface treatment and more than 1,000,000 gallons of oil used. Th~ year before the number of miles was 343 and the oll consumed was 725,000, Also in preparation for the Spring and Summer road-building s*ason the | Roads Commission has drawn up two questionnaires for contractors who sub- mit low bids for State work this year. Th» first is a plan and equipment questionnaire for enzinesring construe- tion. Moted on the document is a state. ment that it was “approved and recom- mended by the joint conforence on construction practices for use in inve tizating the qualifications of bidds with respect to a specific preject.”” Ac- cording to Mr. Mackall, the blank i= sent to the low bidder on each construc- uonk project before he is awarded the work. The other deals with the financial responsibility of the successful bidder. Das Phone Night Phone Franklin 9197 Decatur 624 AUTHORIZED Hudson Essex Service Tony’s Auto Service A. 4. “Tons” Seidl, Prop. All Repair Work Guaranteed Let Us Estimate Rear 1117 19th Street N.W. Great New Features ound on no other Low-Priced Six The New Series Pontiac Six is set- Revealing such modern design, new bodies by Fighcr. and selling at no increase in prices—the New Series Pontiac Six represents a new standard against which all low-priced sixes must be Sport Cabriolet $795 4- Oakland All- prices ai factory. Deliveved pr merican Siv, $1045 to $1265, judged! 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