Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1928, Page 81

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. OCTOBER 14, 1928—PART %~ 7 00D ROADS ISSLE * PUTUPTOVOTRS Total of $330,000,000 Bonds Submitted in Six States for I Completing Highways. “Out of the mud” is the slogan adopt- IBd by the highway advocates in six | States where the voters will determine Bt the coming Fall clection whether they will approve the issuance of some $330,~ 000,000 in highway bonds for the im- ‘clr‘dlaxs completion of their State high- ay systems, according to Roy D. Chapin, chairman of the highway com- imittee of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, in reporting to the members, meeting of that organiza- Rion recently. “In addilion to the projects definitely | set for a vote at the November clection | there are movements in foot in five or Foreigners Essay To Direct Traffic At Times Square Traffic_at the “cross-roads of the world”"—Times Square, New York— was directed by an international traffic squad for 30 minutes recently when members of the European au- tomotive commission representing 26 countries of Europe and the Near East took turns at the controls in the tower at Forty-sixth street and Broadway under direction of Capt. Cornelius O'Leary of the New York ‘Traffic Department. During the inspection of the tower traflic was under control at various times of an Englishman, a Swede, & German, a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a Dane, all of whom are mem- bers of a commission spending six weeks in America surveying various phases of the automotive industry as guests of a motors export com= pany. ‘The Times Square tower is one of the last traffic towers in Manhattan operated by man power, and it soon will become automatic with’the in- auguration of the central control system. six other States looking to the issuance ©f more than $500,000.000 in bonds with | which to expedite the completion of tate highway systems,” Mr. Chapin re- | orted further, Towa at Head of List. ' “Iowa heads the list for action this Fall with a contemplated $100,000,000 bond issue which will be used to retire and replace some $60.000,000 used for &he construction of State highways. The balance of the funds will be devoted to surfacing on the State system, with the ®xpectation of hard surfacing some 4.800 iles and graveling another 1,800 miles n this system. “Missouri will vote on an issue of #$75.000,000 with which to complete work @f surfacing the State system, widening oads in special metropolitan areas and jexpending some $40,000,000 on ‘farm- fo-market’ roads or laterals. “Colorado by special petition has | #laced on the Fall ballot a proposal to | dssue = total of $60,000,000 in bonds for | AAAHEADRAPS AGCIDENT CHASERS Thomas P. Henry Pleads for Maximum of Efficiency in Treatment of Injured. BOSTON, Mass, October 13.—A ringing demand for a maximum of effi- ciency in the treatment of motor acci- #he building of a State system of roads. “Pennsylvania will vote on the sddi-l %On of $50,000.000 to her highway bond | tal to construct a large mileage of | Froads recently added to the State sys- | fem; West Virginia will vote on a $35.- | 000,000 issue for the construction of State highways, and California has up or consideration a $10.000,000 issue for | he elimination of grade crossings. | California Receipts Cited. “With the exception of California’s de crossing bonds, all the bonds | swhich it is proposed to issue will be fnanced from motor vehicle registration fees and gasoline taxes. In West Vir- [inia authority will be granted to levy B general {ax if necessary, but first re- gort will be had to the motor vehicle ees and gasoline taxes. “The other States where there is ac- ve agitation at the present time for the issuance of highway bonds are all ocated in the South. Texas, largest of gll is also talking in terms of a $300,- 00,000 issue with which to redeem unty bonds used for State highways nd to further extend the State system; rgia would issue $150,000,000 over B period of years for the retirement f county bonds and completion of State d system. Mississippi is moving to- d a $50,000,000 issue and Louisiana $30,000,000, while Alabama proposes issue of $25,000,000. These bonds ould also be financed from motor rehicle taxation, the bonds being issued ver a period of vears as the income rom motor vehicle taxation rises and stabilizes. “A study of bond proposals actually n the ballot and those projected evi- ences a desire on the part of State bfficials to lighten the burden of coun- ties and local tax groups who have is ued bonds and otherwise taxed them- lves to build roads which are on the ain State system and indispensable the State as a whole. injured as follows: dent victims, an urgent plea for Na- tion-wide co-operation in the work of bringing hospital organization to a higher level and an excoriating attack on ambulance chasers were the high- lights of an address by Thomas P. Henry, president of the American Au- tomobile Association, before the Ameri- can College of Surgeons, in annual convention here yesterday. “If we cannot take the hazard out of motoring, let us at least take the hazard out of the treatment of the in- Jjured,” Mr. Henry declared. At the outset of his address the A. A. A. president pledged the resources of organized motordom in America to con- tinued activity in behalf of “safety afterward,” and paid a warm tribute to the American College of Surgeons for its efforts to promote maximum surgi- cal skill and maximum efficiency in hospital organization. Praises Standards Set. “In my opinion,” he said, “the work of the College of Surgeons in establish- ing its minimum standards for hos- pitals on the ‘accredited list’ of the col- lege is the most progressive step hith- erto taken to assure efficient treatment for injured motorists. “Of the 750,000 automobile injurles reported last year scores of thousands involved motorists who were far from home, often in remote rural districts, where emergency treatment was slow and where hospital conditions were far from perfect. The only way to cope with this situation is to raise the stand- ards of all hospitals as quickly as pos- sible.” Mr. Henry outlined the program of the A. A. A for better care of the 1, Distribugion of the *“aceredited DOWN THE ROAD—YVoters, Attention THERE OUGHT TO BE A PLANK IN EVERY PARTY'S PLATFORM PROVIDING SOMETHING RUMBLE-SEAT FOR™ RIDERS TO DO! ,'J/f” 7/ L s w1 (Copiright 1928 by Frank H. Beck, e Trade Mark, Reg U, tar, OF 3 COURTES O ROAD ASKED OF RIVERS Motor Official Points Out How Consideration of Others Aids Traffic. “It is estimated that $3,000,000,000 have been invested in the highways of America,” says Martin L. Pulcher, president of a motor truck company of Detroit, Mich. “Having been paid for by taxes from the people, these thor- oughfares’ belong to the masses, and each individual should realize that he h’as“no special privilege on any mile of. it.” Courtesy and consideration for one’s fellow man is more than a mark of civilization, It is a necessity in this busy and crowded world. Rounding curves more slowly, waiting until the hill is climbed before passing a slower moving vehicle, fellow” your intended maneuvers and being ever on the alert for highway signaling “the other lHis employer has impressed upon him that careful and considerate driving is good business. He has been made to realize his moral obligation to his fellow man and that the reputation of his firm depends upon his driving behavior as m;j‘ch as upon the goods the firm has to sell. Contrary to general belief, says Mr. Pulcher, accidents on the highway are caused not so much by trucks and truck drivers as by careless motorists, who, possessing a car with quick accelera- tion and more speed than they can safely use, dangerously “cut” in on the more slowly moving trucks. The high- way smash-up of today is involving more than one car, as most accidents tend to result from the poor judging of approaching cars, which catch the unwary motorist as he attempts to pass the car immediately ahead of him. Cites Death Toll. In the year of 1926 about 23,000 persons were killed by motor vehicles in this country, approximately 1,500,000 persons were injured, and a property loss of $7,000,000,000 was incurred. America is unquestionably on wheels, cays Mr. Pulcher. Twenty-five million automobiles, including motor busses and trucks as well as passenger cars, Jjam the highways from the East to the West. The increased responsibility to the individual driver is increased ac- cordingly. It must be realized, says Mr. Pulcher, that courtesy goes a long way toward preventing accidents and toward keep- MOTORISTS FIGHT TOLL BRIDGE PLAN Opposition to Policy of Con- gress Develops—Figures Are Cited. Aggressive opposition to the whole- sale toll bridge policy of Congress was voted here this week at the annual meeting of the legislative committee of the Ameriean Motorists’ Association. ‘The toll bridges of the country are annually collecting $118,000,000 from the motorist—a sum almost equivalent to twice the total amount of Federal aid—and of this sum $73,000,000 is paid to privately owned toll bridges, or a sum equivalent to 13.9 per cent an- nually on the cost of construction, ac- cording to figures furnished the com- mittee by the United States Bureau of Public Roads. Figures submitted showed that there are 233 toll bridges in operation at the present time, 82 per cent of them being privately owned, and that 191 additional bridges are either under construction or authorized under re- cent acts of Congress. The mushroom growth of the toll bridge business is evidenced by the fact that during the last session of Congress 201 toll bridge bills were introduced, of which 90 were approved by Congress, and of those ap- proved 62 were privately owned. “Toll bridges may be necessary in a few isolated instances, but in the main they are foisted upon the public to eat upon the pocketbooks of the motorist,” ‘Thomas J. Keefe, general manager of the association, declared. “Our organiza- tion will aggressively oppose the con- tinued policy of Congress to permit this legitimized graft against the motorist of the country. “The motorist does not object to pay- ment of a toll, if in the end the title to the bridge becomes vested in the State or Federal Government,” he de- clared. “No toll bridge should be built in the future or authorized by Con- gress which does not contemplate a plan whereby a part of the tolls can be set aside in a sinking fund to ultimately retire the cost of construction, so that eventually the bridge shall revert to the public.” ‘The committee voted unanimously to support the resolution of Representa- tive John J. Cochran of Missouri, which will be introduced in December, and which will provide for the ultimate elimination of the toll bridge evil. AMBER TRAFFIC LIGHTS DROPPED IN DETROIT Direct Change From Red to Green Expected to Reduce Accidents. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT.—THhe customary amber signal in traffic lights has been dropped from two sides of the control lights in 8 new system tried here, which, the police say, will reduce, accidents. The traffic bureau of the police department perfected the system. It is known as the “split amber sig- nal system.” The lights change from green to red through amber, but go directly to green in changing from red. Police say this prevents traffic wait- ing at an intersection from starting on the amber light and gives the moving traffic a four-second warning of the stop signal by the flash of the amber. TOURISTS HEADING TOWARD FLORIDA First Invasion of Winter Re- ported at Tampa and Other Cities. ‘TAMPA, Fla., October 13.—Now that cold breezes are beginning to blow from the North, hundreds of tourists are heading their autos toward the delightful sunshine of Florida. Auto- bile clubs in Jacksonville, Lake City and other “gateways” report that in- coming traffic has more than trebled itselt in the past few weeks, and several hundred visitors have already entered Tampa to enjoy the Winter sports here. Last year's figures show that more than 55% of the persons visiting in the State came by automobile, and the average Is expected to substantially increase this season. This increase in automobile travel is a direct result of the added mileage of good roads both throughout the North and Middle West and in the State itself. In Florida alone there are more than 9,000 miles of roads that can be traveled over comfortably, at a speed of 60 miles an hour, and more roads are being re- paired and improved daily. Of the 60,000 foreign automobiles entering the State last year at least 100,000 passed through Tampa. Only 219 miles across the State from Jack- sonville, Tampa is located in the heart of a network of paved roads leading to all points of interest. Over the Tamiami trail, 286 miles away, is Miami, and within a short drive of the city are Lakeland, Tarpon Springs, Petersburg, Clearwater, Espiritu Santo Springs, New Port Richey, Bradenton, Sarasota, Winter Haven and hundreds of other attractive cities. Sports of all kinds are being enjoyed by visitors, Bathing, boating, fishing, dancing, boat races, golf tournament, tennis meets and hundreds of other sports are lending a zest to early ‘Winter activities. More than ever before visitors to the State are making Tampa their Winter headquarters and interspersing the de- lights of this ultra-modern cosmopoli- tan city with short trips over the State. th:titute for Gasoline. PARIS (#).—Autocars in the depart- ment of Loir-et-Cher and many motor vehicles in Paris are being operated on charcoal gas, a substitute costing about half the price of gasoline. The govern- ment is encouraging its use. ADVERTISERS URGED: 10 STUDY PROBLEM St. Louls Auto Executive Gives Address on Experi- ence in Buying Space. ‘That the vendor of advertising must thoroughly understand all phases of the business of the concern that desires to do advertising before intelligent recom- mendations on the expenditure of money can be made was the keynote of a recent address by F. E. Moskovics, an executive in the automobile world, before the members of the Advertising | Club of St. Louis. Mr. Moskovics spoke on the subject “Advertising Co-oper- ation in Every-day Business.” Robert E. Lee, secretary-manager of St. Louis Automobile Dealers’ Associ~ ation, and former president of the advertising club, introduced Mr. Mosko- vics to a large audience of business men and told his hearers that the speaker drove the first automobile into St. Louis in 1903, just prior to the World’s Fair. Arthur E. Schanuel, president of the club, at the conclusion of the well- received talk, presented Mr. Moskovics with a plaque similar to that given to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh when the “Lone Eagle” made his historic trans- atlantic flight. Reviews Advertising Sales. Throughout his many years experi- ence in the automobile industry, Mr. Moskovics has purchased thousands of dollars’ worth of advertising space and he reviewed some of the solicitations that have been made by sellers of advertising space. “I bow to none,” he said, “in my re- spect and regard for the power and im- portance of advertising, but at the same time I do not want to blind myself to some of the all too evident evils I see in it. There is room for wonderful co- operation between the seller and user of advertising and the seller can render a service of inestimable value to the buyer. . “The first duty of the seller of ad- vertising is to establish the fact that the product to be advertised is worthy of an advertising expenditure. Only that which has a right to exist wili survive—and the advertising man’s first job is to carefully analyze the needs of the business marketing the product. Otherwise the money will be =~ wasted and advertising in general will be injured. Wise Expenditure Urged. “One danger that I want to point out is the utter folly of a small manu- facturer or merchant attempting to equal the advertising expenditure of the big companies. Just because a large concern, doing a tremendous volume of | business, spends enormous sums in ad- vertising is no reason why the concern doing a much smaller volume of busi- ness should endeavor to keep pace. Such a policy would be ruinous. And the seller of advertising should be the first to point this out to the buyer of advertising.” Mr. Moskovics made a plea for all men engaged in . advertising to devotc more time and attention to the study of the subject from every standpoint to be better enabled to properly assist the advertiser in analy: his needs. 1In conclusion, he said, “I don’t believe there is a business in the world that has greater opportunities, a greater future or more reason and right to exist than advertising. And by better fittng yourself to intelligently analyze the advertisers’ needs, its importance will be greater than ever and its good will be reflected in its general success.” : list” of hospitals approved by the Col- lege of Surgeons to the 1,065 motor clubs affiliated with the A. A. A. in the United States and Canada, the clubs to use this information for advising eccentricities will reduce the hazards of highway travel and the shameful loss of life and property. Truck Drivers Improve. ing highway traffic flowing along smoothly. There is no room on the road today for the stubborn driver or the reckless driver who always is willing to take a chance at the expense of other Bond Method Popular. “Strong sentiment seems to prevail, 00, as to the advisability of saving 5 10 years in the completion of the tate system by means of the bond ethod. The result is actually a ‘pay- s-you-go’ plan, but with the roads ac- ually in service. The experience of tates like North Carolina where bonds vere issued to pay for the State sys- 'm contracts most favorably with pther States where the fallacious Hoctrine of ‘pay-as-you-go’ in the ordi- hary sense still maintains. In those fnstances the motorist too often pays prithout going. “North Carolina, for instance, has not bnly been retiring her bonds from motor Fehicle taxation, but is rapidly building p a surplus which is to be devoted to he building of laterals and the further xtension of the State system. In the eantime the users of the road have ved in operation costs more than the t of the bonds, yet have done so vithout the burdensome incrense in uch taxation.” AUTOMOTIVE BRIEFS | Universal Credit Co. announces, co- Pncident with the opening of the Wash- | fngton branch of this authorized Ford | nancing organization, the selection of . C. Williams as branch manager. Mr. illiams_was formerly essociated with alers’ Motor Finance Co. here, where ‘was manager of the Washington of- e. Leeth Bros., for many years distrib- tors of Dunlop tires in Washington, ve moved to a new and larger home their members and the motoring public in general. 2. The placement of hospital loca- tions on A. A. A. maps of metropolitan areas and the insertion of information regarding up-to-date hospitals in A. A. A. tour books. Preference for Surgeons. 3. Special A. A. A. emergency road service for physicians and surgeons which gives them a preferential status over all other motorists in trouble. 4. Sponsoring of a movement to re- move speed limits in the case of bona fide physicians and surgeons on emer- gency calls, 5. Extermination of the ambulance chasing evil, whereby mercenary mem- bers of the medical and legal profes- sions turn human suffering into per- sonal gain. “There exists,” sald Mr. Henry in conclusion, “a deplorable degree -of commercialism and worse among some | members of the medical and legal pro-| fessions who prey upon the injured. “The extermination of this disrepu-| table tribe is a duty to which all hon-| orable agencies must direct their energy | and attention. I know that the prac- tice is one which the College of Sur-| geons deplores. “It is a fact, however, that many so- called doctors are in league with shys- ter lawyers, mercenary hospital at- tendants and police informers. It is bad enough that there should be in- efficiency in the treatment of the in- Jjured, but what shall we say of a situation which permits commereclalism t 1220 Thirteenth street northwest rom 1337 L street northwest. and corruption to invade this sacred fleld?” . Uay Walkers of Amer Of European, but Notes Auto Faults has the most agile j the world. Traflic move diously slow in American cities as ompared to Paris and London. The verage American’s automobile is un- empt. The number of women who rive automobiles in America is amaz- g. These are a few observations of embers of the European automotive mmission who are in America to ake a six weeks' study of the various hases of the automotive industry. The commission is composed of men f eight nationalities representing 26 untries of Europe and the Near East. America alkers in heir itinerary includes New. York, ashington, Detroit, Flint, Pontiac and | nsing, Mich, “I have never seen so many nimble- footed people as I observed here,” dt lared A. L. Westbrook of Alexandria, gypt. “We have jay w Egypt, too, but yous wvalker is astonis . rting Jng vehicles.” Mr. Westbrook tafl of an_automotive company plexandrlu. In his territory are 17 ountries where more than twenty lan- ages are used. These countries in- luded Egypt, Irag, Palestine, Syri {Albania, Bulgaria, Italy, pstan, Jugosiavia, Lybya, Arabla, Turkey, Roumania Greece. The use of American-made putomobiles is rapidly increasing in khose countries, according to Mr. West- prook, despite age-old traditions that sometimes take the form of trade bar- piers and sales resistance. Even in the desert the motor car is replacing the camel and modern highways are being projected everywhere. In many countries of Europe and the WNear East women have been slow to gake up automobile dflving. Conse- iuently, members of the overseas party fwere impressed by the large number of women they observed driving cars in »n is attached to the merica. “Your American women drive so ex- at| » | savings, buys a car, which he keeps ; | business for himself as a taxi man. ica Win Praise Emmanuel Ricardo of Paris was struck by the lack of traffic confuslon. | “Your traffic is so perfectly controlled | in New York compared to Paris,” he declared, “but I believe there are fewer traffic delays there. In Paris there is more confusion, but traffic moves more speedily.” Holger Dau, who represents an auto. mobile company at Copenhagen, e: presses great surprise that Americans do not take better care of their cars. In the short time he has been here, he says, he has never seen so many un- kempt automobiles in his life. To him, he says, it seems as though the owner- driver must lack a personal pride in his possession or he would take care to sce that his car was polished and in ship- shape order. Commenting upon_industrial condi- tions in his country, Mr. Dau said that, oddly enough, the recent unemploy- ment _situation had benefited rather than hurt the automobile business. In America, the purchase cof automobiles is the barometer of our prosperity. Nowadays in Denmark when times are bad and & man loses his job—such is the thrift of the Dane that he always has something “put by’—he taps his shining and_polished, and goes into ‘Throughout the European territory American cars are appearing on the highways in steadily increasing num- | bers, according to members of the party, | despite such forms of sale resistance as | prohibitive gasoline prices—ranging up to 68 cents a gallon—import duty bar- riers and taxation. One of the chief obstacles in the | path of the motor car salesman in Eu- | rope, in the opinion of Johannes Stahl- berg, who during the World War was attached to the Kaiser's staff and now is connected with a motor company at Berlin, 1s the fact that Europe has not vet adopted the motor car as an eco- y." remarked Harry Forman of ndon. “I really believe they are E’" earhy o 9 N0ee) SRR WeR ket nomic necessity. It is still considered an absolute luxury in many places, al- though this condition is bejng rapidly ‘The truck driver who of old was recognized as the stubborn dictator of the road, ruling supreme in his safely housed steel cab, with his massive ma- chine, which could not be seriously in- jured by a passenger car, respects the law and the courtesy of the road today. motorists. Swallowing one’s pride now and then is much better than spending several months in the hospital. 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