Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1929, Page 53

In the Motor World BY G. ADAMS HOWARD. | RITICISM has arisen con- cerning the irregularities in the tumln? on and off of the traffic light signals. These signals are supposed to be turned on each morning at 7 . o'clock and turned off each night at midnight. It has been the duty of the Police Department to have members of the force attend to this duty at the various controls. Because of the human equasion the lights are sometimes forgot- ten. Not because of any neglect of the policeman, but due to sick- ness and other duties being as- signed to him. It is the belief of the Traffic Bureau that the set- ting of the lights should be punc- tual at all times. To Enhance Accuracy. To enhance this necessary ac- curacy, William H. Harland, di- rector of trafic, will recommend to the Commissioners the pur- chase of 35 electric timeclock sig- nals. If approved by the Commis- sioners these automatic switches will be placed at all control in- tersections. A few of these have already been installed and work like a veritable alarm clock. ‘The lights, according to Mr. Harland, at Dupont Circle con- tinue to receive more commenda- tion than condemnation. For a while it was suggested from many sources that the Washington Rail- way & Electric Co. be compelled to re-route its tracks, thus elim- inating the cars from going to the left around the circle. After much consideration Mr. Harland is of the opinion that nothing would be gained by such a plan. Although some of the confusion would be | ended on the west side at P street, | Mr, Harland believes that as much confusion would be added at the | north side of the circle. It does seem that it is about six of one and half a dozen of the other. A Possible Relief. What would possibly relieve the | existing situation would be to| compel the street cars from herd- | ing just before they came to the| tch at P street. There is no| reason for three or more cars to| bunch together at this place, causing southbound autcmobile trafic to be tied up. The same schedules of the street car com- pany could be maintained just as well if the cars slowed down be- fore reaching the southern ex- tremity, and waiting, when neces- sary, until the way was clear. A suggestion has been made that the street cars should make | their turns on the red lights. To this Proposal Mr. Harland is! strongly op?osed. Admiting that it might help vehicular traffic, he | states that it would give the| pedestrians no chance at all in| crossing the street. | Residents of Northeast Wash- ington have asked why they have been neglected in the matter of | trafi¢c licht installation. Lights| have been planncd for Maryland avenue northeast for some tlme,f but it is learned today that fur-/ ther light installation is being held up on' account of the Traffic Department being unable to se- cure lamp posts at the present ‘There are exceptions to all trafic lights being turncd off at midnight. There are a few at| isolated intersections which are| in continuous operation 24 hours | daily. These lights are in the cen- ter of the intersection, and the reason for their constant flashing | is that if turned off at midnight | a machine might crash into the ted obstacle. Suit against | the District ngvemment might | then follow. e erection of sig- nals in the middle of the crossings | is now_recognized as a bad fea- ture. No further installations of this kind is planned. Button Markers. For some time the Traffic De- | partment was of the opinion that | white paint, if the proper kind could be obtained, was the best material for the marking*of cross- walks and safety zones. It was believed that the metal buttons would wear out quickly and prove | unsatisfactory. The price of these | buttons was considered high.| However, this opinion has been | changed. While the buttons are | still high in {mce, averaging from 30 to 40 cents a piece, according to the quantity purchased, it has been found out that their wear and tear is negligible. At least it is 50 in comparison with paint. Three thousand five hundred | buttons have begn obtained and will soon be placed along the| streets. Upper Fourteenth street will get its share, and the rest will | | prices in the country were ascer- | American Automobile Association | throughout the country; the local | sary. The argument for and against continuance of the present left- | hand turns continues. The Cham- | ber of Commerce now opposes the | action of the Board of Trade traf- | fic committee, which urged the re- turn to the center-of-the-street |turns. The chamber’s action was |not as positive as its brother or- |ganization. The chamber recom- mended the gresent system now in vogue to be retained for the present, until further study could be made. It would be a pity if the work |of those outlining the Hoover municipal code should go for naught. tion of the meeting of the Wash- ington section of the Society of Automotive Engineers last week.| | Charles P. Clark of the American Automobile Association and Mr.| | Harland were the principal speak- I ers. Both advocated pedestrian | control. Mr. Clark urged that the | money collected from the renewal of operators’ permits be used for| a traffic survey. | Varied Gasoline Prices. { Criticlsm over the different | prices demanded for gasoline in the various States has been aptly ! registered by the American Auto- | mobile Association. According to their reports there were 77 differ- | ent prices for gasoline prevailing in the United States on February 19, 1929. The price range was all the way from 12 cents a gallon to 245 cents a gallon for straight run, and from 15 cents to 27.5 cents a gallon for high-test gasoline, ex- clusive of the gas tax, which| varies in almost every State. These and other startling fig- ures on the divergence of gasoline tained through a simultaneous Nation-wide check-up by 1,065 motor clubs affiliated with the| and reported to national head- quarters here. In order to secure an accurate picture cf the gasoline price range on a given day, identical forms were sent to every A. A. A. club clubs in turn checked the prices in their respective areas and re- turned the forms to Washington. The lowest price on the date of the check-up was 12 cents for| straight run and 15 cents for high-test gasoline at Muskogee, Okla., and the highest was 245 for straight run and 27.5 for high- test at Wallace, Idaho. As in previous check-ups, prox- imity to sources of supply IY- peared to be a negligible factor in | determining current prices, says the A. A. A, since prices were in many instances as high close to the oil fields as they were at points to which a long haul was neces- Prices at tidewater were on the whole as high as those charged at inland points. The average price at . points along the Atlantic Seaboard on February 19 was 17.9 cents a gal- lon for straight run and 21 cents for high test. The average in the Mississipi Valley region was 16.5 centg for straight run and 195 cents for high test. On the Pacific Coast the average was 18.1 cents for straight run and 21.8 cents a gallon for high-test gasoline. One of the most striking fea- tures of the A. A. A. survey is its disclosure of the rapidity with which prices change within small areas where basic conditions such as rentals, supply and demand are the same. Widest Divergence. The widest divergence in price was 9 cents in Colorado, where the price cf gasoline ranged from 15 cents a gallon to 24 cents for straight run gasoline and from 18 cents to 27 cents a gallon for high test. West Virginia ranked next with a variation of 8 cents, rang- ing from 14 cents a gallon to 21 cents for straight run gasoline and from 17 cents to 24 cents a gallon for high-test gasoline. The motoring body has brought some very salient facts to the at-: tention of the public. Transpor- tation facilities in certain loca- tions cannot be held entirely re- sponsible. Nor is it fair for gaso- line price raises in Summer when consumption is so much greater. Notice that oiling is being done on the following roads is given for this week by the Maryland State Roads Commission: Frederick road from Catonsville to Ellicott City, the Rolling road | from the Frederick road to the Washington Boulevard, Wilkens avenue from Rolling road to the city line and the roads around be divided throughout the con-| gested area of the city. Spring Grove State Insane Asylum. Safe and Adequate National Park Roads Find Champion in New Service Director BY WILLIAM E. BERCHTOLD, ! Associated Press Automobile Editor The motorist has a strong champion of safe and adequate national park director of national park service. He considers the motorist’s safety his chief aim in building up the Na- tion’s outdoor playlands for the enjoy- ment of the greatest number. Albright became identified with the national park service in the same year that the first automobile was permitted | 10 enter the confines of a national park. | This was in 1913, when he went to work | for the Interoir Department as an as- sistant attorney, devoting his attention | mainly to national park matters Prior to that year Federal authorities required early-day motorists to park their cars at the gates. They refused to have “gasoline buggies running ram- pant, scaring horses and other animals Cars finally were permitted to enter as an_experiment. “Since the first car entered Yosemite, more than 1,000,000 automobiles have been driven through the reserve with- out ] Albright says. ?(. any, cities burdened with such & traffic which can boast such a record, | ing with gasoline in any proportion. especially if the nature of the country | 1o be traversed is considered.” Yosemite has more precipitous grades. mountainside roads, and dangerous hairpin turns than perhaps any other national park in the country. Yet care- ful attention to detalls of road con- struction, Albright says, has been re- sponsible for elimination of hazards which might have caused accidents, Three million persons are expected to visit the national parks this year Four out of five of them will drive their own automobiles. Twenty years ago, a good season would attract 40,000 per- sone. most of whom came by train Albright, tanned ky the suus of the | national parks, which will keep him in | the field until September, roads in Horace M. Albright, the new | ingle fatal accident within he | experiments with sugar cane waste re- “There are few, | sulted in the production of a 99 per cent West and hardened by a life outdoors, | is ready to make a swing around the MOTOR FUEL PRODUCED FROM SUGAR CANE WASTE Alcoholic Product Is Hailed as Com- ponent of New Anti- Knock “Gas.” By the Associated Press, Manufacture of motor fuel from sugar cane waste by an ofl company in Queensland, Australia, has been re- ported to the Department of Commerce { through its trade commissioner in | Sydney. { ;n ‘The alcholic product, which is a com- ponent of a new “anti-knock” motor | fuel, will be manufactured in a new plant being erected at Queensiand. The pure alcohol said to be capable of mix- The plant, able of producing be- tween 500,000 and 600,000 galions of | the new fuel annually, is owned by the National Power Alcohol Co. of Australia. | | | AUTOMOTIVE BRIEFS l | | Floyd A. Allen, assistant to the presi- dent of General Motors Corporation, Traffic consumed the major por- } THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, GAS N. OYLE. WELL GO ON A LACE TO WELL FIND ARP A NE THEATER- APRIL 28, D O, 1929—PART 4. LITTLE. FURTHER-MANBE SVEN Blocies P T WE (AN WALIc BACK v THORNTON FISHER. | LET'S STOP AND HAVE SOMETHING TO_EAT AT THE PENNA = THEU UNREASONABLE TAX Motorists’ Association Sees Growing Tendency by States to Raise Levies. Vigorous opposition to the growing tendency on the part of State Legis- latures to increase gasoline taxes be- by the American Motorists’ Association in a warning issued here. “Motorists do not object to paying a reasonable gasoline tax when the funds are used for the construction and main- tenance of roads,” the association de- clared, “but they do object to the pay- ment of unreasonable, unjust and in- equitable gasoline taxes, and particu- larly where a portion of the tax is di- verted to general public uses.” The privilege of taxing gasoline is being abused in some States simply be- cause it is & convenient method of raising revenue and because the money is avallable for use immediately upon collection, the assoclation’s statement points out. All States Tax Gasoline. Motorists now pay gasoline taxes in each of the 48 States of the Union. Fifteen States and the District of Co- lumbia charge a rate of 2 cents per gallon, 14 States charge 3 cents, 12 States 4 cents, 6 States 5 cents and 1 State 6 cents. “Since the first gasoline tax was im- posed in Oregon 10 years ago, motorists have pald more than $1,000,000,000 in gasoline taxes. Ninety per cent of this sum was paid during the last four years. gasoline tax bill last year was $300.000,- 000, and it is conservatively predicted that about $450,000,000 will be collected this year. “The average gasoline tax rate paid last ‘year was about 25 per’cent of the filling station price. This is in reality a sales tax and is an unreasonable rate. Unless motorists take prompt steps to curb the prevailing tendency of State Legislatures gasoline taxes are bound to be increased. Moreover, not all of the money derived from gasoline taxes is being used for road work in orinciple under which gasoline taxes statement declares, Two Evils Are Cited. “The motorist is willing to pay a reasonable tax on gasoline, because he feels that construction and mainte- nance of good roads can be expedited from this revenue,’ said Thomas J. Keefe, general manager of the associa- tion, <in commenting on the present trend of gasoline taxes. “Two evils, however, have now sprung up. Pirst, the ease with which the tax is collected, wheh has led some Legslatures to im- pose rates out of all fl:opormm to the sales price of gasoline, being diverted for uses other than highway purposes. “It must be remembered that the gasoline tax is a consumer's tax. It is a tax per mile upon the operation of motor vehicles, In many States the gasoline tax is now unreasonable and motorists themselves. must take prompt steps to prevent Legislatures from fur- ther abusing the gasoline taxing privi- lege,” Keefe declares. “The present trend to tax the motor- ists is typified at the present time by a proposal in the Nation's CIF\tll to in- crease the gasoline tax in the District of Columbia by 50 per cent and use the proceeds to beautify public parks.” CONVENTION TO DRAW CARAVANS OF AUTOS Large Number of Motoring Dele- gates Expected for Shrine and Elks' Meetings. Indications are that the Shriners’ nd Elks’ conventions to be held in June and July in Southern California will be attended by the largest number of motoring delegates of any similar gath- erings so far assemblea. For some years the automobile has been growing more and more popular as a means of convention transporta- tion until it has surpassed the railroad as a passenger carrier, This year a definite check is probable, since there will be data available through the co- operation of the Automobile Club of slo:uhcrn California in the convention plans. This motoring organization has broadsided an invitation to the Shriners and Elks in the East who are contem- plating & motor tour to take advantage of the courtesies extended to out-of- State motorists. All that the pros- | was the principal speaker at a meeting of all thie units of General Motors Wed- | nesday night at the Mayflower. More | than 400 representativeg of the com- pany attended, pective motoring delegates have to do is to write to the club, stating when and where their tour will begin and suggesting which routes and points of interest will be preferred. ON GAS ASSALED yond reasonable limits was expressed | The United States Bureau of Public| Roads has estimated that the Nation's| some States. This is a violation of the were originally levied,” the association’s | and second, | money derived from gasoline taxation is | gujde the horses than a coachman. The Conflict On Right and Left Driving In Various Countries Traced Down Automobile dfiven. in the United tectorate. Nearly all British colonies follow the mother country's lead. Ex-| States keep to the right. Automobile drivers in England, Aus- tria, Sweden, Argentina and Angola keep to the left. How did these opposite customs arise? | “For the world divides roughly half and half on the rule of the motoring road,” says a bulletin from the Na- tional Geographic Society. “The present score is: Sixty of the| nations and colonies favor the right- side drive; 43 cling to the left. Iraq added one to the right-side score when she decided to reverse the English rule | of left-side driving, which has been in | use there since the World War, and re- | turn to her former rule of keeping to the right. Need of Uniform Rule. “The need of a uniform rule is not so apparent in North America as in Eu- rope. Consider the problem of a motor- ist who tries to drive from Norway to Italy through the Dolomites. He starts bravely out from Oslo, keeping to the right until he reaches the Swedish bor- der. Thereupon he keeps to the left. Let him have his wits about him, be- cause when he ferries over to Denmark he must again move over to the right of the road. Germany the same, he thanks Heaven. Back again to the left in Czechoslovakia. And just as the bewlldered autoist gets used to left driving in Austria he must steel his nerves to switch back to the right rule of the road in Yugoslavia and Italy. “Probably our custom had its origin because it was natural to grasp weapons with the right hand while the left hand carried the shield over the heart on the left side of the body, Prom this it follows that armed men d each other shield to shield, left hand to left Rule for Pedestrians. “That fact accounts for the pedes- trian custom of keeping to the right. “Even in England the rule of the sidewalk or pathway is ‘keep to the right” How, then, did England acquire the custom of keeping to the left on highways? “One student of the problem finds the origin of the practice in the habit of the English coachman of sitting on the right side of the coach driver's seat. He grasped the whip in his right hand. In passing another coach hejwanted to be in a position where he could best prevent a collision. So he passed an oncoming coach on that coach’s right. From his seat on the right of his coach he could see how near his wheels came to those of the other vehicle, “The English rule of the road was made a law in 1835, but before that date this poem appeared in an English Journal: ““The hw‘ of the road is a paradox quite As you're driving your carriage along; If you go to the left, you're sure to go ight; It you go to the right, you go wrong." Custom on Continent. “On the Continent it was more fre- quently the custom for a postilion to postilion took his place at the left of the lead team in order to have his right hand free to grasp the nearest bridle. He also wanted to avold collisions, but being on the left it was better for him '1% turn his horses to the right. Thus ance and other European countries have the same rule of the road as the United States. “It has been suggested that automo- biles in America keep to the right be- cause oxen did in the old days. Oxen were the draft animals most used in the colonies. The ox driver directed them by voice and whip. He held his whip in his right hand and trudged along on the left of the oxen, and therefore turned to the right. “All the countries of the New World keep to_the right except British Hon- duras, Panama, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Prince Edward Island, in Canada. The Far East follows the British, or left-turning, custom almost unanimously; China, Japan, Siam ‘and even the Philippines, That the Philip- pines should reverse the American cus- tom is surprising. Generally as a coun- try drives so drives the colony or pro- Important Message * You Should Know Concerning Your Car. The lubricant in the ‘transmission and rear axles should be kept up to the proper level. This insures ecasy gear shifting and prevents wear to parts. Al Ebonite Dealers drain out the old lubricant and make no charge for this service. Then refill with fresh EBONITE (Combination of Pure Oil) 20 Cents a Shot At Filling Stations and Garzger. BAYERSON QIL WORKS Columbia 5228 ceptions are Irag, Palestine, Canada and British Guiana. onies keep to the right with Prance, but Angola has the left driving rule, although Portugal stands by th ‘right.” " S LEGISLATION TO OUTLAW THUMB-TWIGGERS URGED Ban on Seeking Auto Rides on bit of usefulness, 2,000,000 strong and | Massachusetts Highways Is Being Sought. BOSTON (#).—Enactment of legis- lation to outlaw thumb-twiggers seeking automobile rides on Massachusetts highways is being urged upon the Leg- islature by automobile clubs, motor truck owners’ organizations and private individuals. At one hearing granted on the ques. tion the chief opposition that devel- oped came from a Boston college stu- dent, who said that “thumbing” made it possible for college men to get home for their vacations and also contended that a driver whose gas tank runs dry should be permitted to beg a ride to the nearest filling station. A Boy Scout leader voiced opposition to the proposed legisiation on the ground that home teaching rather than lflz should be made the remedy for the evil. Ascot Speedway Name Changed. The American Legion, through its Glendale Post, has taken over the old Ascot Speedway at Los Angeles and re- named the track the “American Legion Speedway.” Headquarters for the new management have been opened in the offices of the Pacific Coast branch of the A. A. A. contest board. A schedule of monthly races is planned. - AIRPL Most French col- | ‘SCRAPPING AUTOS CAUSES HUGE LOSS This Year’s Obsolescent Cars Had Initial Value of $2,000,000,000. Cars that have gasped out thelr last | of a one.time value of $2,000,000,000, | will, during 1929, pass into oblivion through smash-ups, cremation and junking, according to E. E. Duffy, high- way educational writer. Bonfires, whose chief fodder are auto- mobiles used to the point of exhaustion, are now.the latest thing in making | certain the complete removal of old wrecks from_highways. Los Angeles nd Chicago have both recently burned everal hundred cars in public demon- strations. With the automobile registration fig- | ure for the Nation nearing 25,000,000 | vehicles, a fairly large replacement sales volume is to be expected. The spread of good roads, however, is lengthening car_service. One of the greatest costs the motor owner faces is that of depreciation. Aside from bad driving, which includes undue ripping of gears and bumping into telephone poles and other ples’ cars, the road surface over which the car is driven has most to do with its premature death. Replacement and repairing of broken springs and other disrupted parts of the car’s anatomy cost sizeable sums, and strangely, rare indeed is the motor own- er who reckons these charges as tolls collected by bad roads. Modern auto- mobiles are well built, and certainly most breakage cannot be rightfully charged to ordinary wear and tear. It was once sald of Missouri that cars S more- eAviators . call it an accurate description of the ~v FRANKLIN SENSATIONAL NEW LOW PRICES 2180 ‘2485 Sixteens Special Dispatch to The Star. | DETROIT, April 27—Indications point to a return to multiple-cylinder | engines by the buflders of high-priced | cars. Not since the days of the twin | sixes and other power plants of similar | | designation has the industry produced | any models in which the cylinders ex- ceeded eight. | The immediate future, however, would appear to hold the gurct that the | 12-cylinder engine is o return and that | a 16-cylinder motor will be produced in 1930, | Such designs are known to be under | construction, having passed the re- | | search and 'testing stages. While no | |one is willing to go into detail on | specifications yet, a leading engineer | has this to say: “Within the next two months a num- ber of new motor cars will come on | the market. For the most part the | changes will not be radical, being con- | fined to refinements in mechanical and body details. One manufacturer., how- | ever, is known to be planning a car which will go so far beyond anything produced today in both size and speed | as to be startling. Distinetly New Offering. “The new car will be the product of | one of the most stable of the manufac- turing units, but the new product will | not supersede anything now embraced | { in its present line. It will be a distinct- | 1y new offering, so constructed and so | priced as to be of limited appeal. How- | ever, it will be a production job, and | must therefore be considered as an ad- dition to the standard line of cars as distinguished from the special con- struction.” Hudson, in its current Essex speedster, has deviated from the usual transmis- sion design. As this model is of lower weight and less head resistance than | standard closed models, for which the | regular transmission is designed, a new | method is being employed to give higher | top speed with relatively lower engine revolutions per minute, | Usually such a result is achieved by | lowering gear axle ration, and while in the Essex sport car the final reduction has been dropped from 5.6 to 5.09, it was believed that top gear reduction could be decreased even further. With |this intention a three-speed transmis- | slon was developed in which an over- drive is substituted for the usual inter- mediate set of gears. The parts of the standard transmis- sion are used, with the exception of the constant mesh gears and the gear unit on the main shaft composed of direct drive and the second-speed driven gear. For these others of an inverse | | | ratio have been substituted. With this i G [RETURN TO MULTIPLE-CYLINDER i AUTO ENGINES IS INDICATED |Twelves Appear to Be in Immediate Prospect, With | | ! ‘ | | Production of in 1930. design, engineers say, the countershaft gears have a higher relative speed than the main shaft. The gear normally used for second speed drive on the countershaft is also larger than its mating gear on the.main shaft, so that a still higher main shaft speed is obtained. the ratio in this speed beind 0.7796 to 1. Secondary Clutch Provided. With the use of an over gear, & sec- ondary clutch operated lock has been provided. Depression of the clutch releases a pin permitting the locking ball to release the shifter rod. while engagement of the pedal puts the ball back into place. Production of the Viking V-type eight, new General Motors car, has been begun by the Oldsmobile organization at the rate of 125 cars a day. This number is to be increased. The sched- ule for May calls for 5,000 of the new models. Old.lm%bfle will add a new ad- ministration buflding to its plant. Taking in the property this structure will occupy. the Oldsmobile factories will cover 87 acres. ‘The three Graham Brothers, oper- ating as the Graham-Paige Corporation, have produced car No. 100,000. It came off the production line a week ago, and 15 months after the present line of sixes and eights was introduced. Graham-Paige output is running 500 daily. The Grahams are now said to control manufacturi plants and equipment worth $10,000,000. General Motors has issued & com- munication to inventors. In it Alfred P. Sloan, jr., the president, concedes that no matter how extensive research and engineering activities may be, it is realized useful developments may emanate from the outside. G. M. C. wants to give proper consideration to everything submitted, Mr. Sloan ex- plains. For this reasop the new de- vices' committee exists to determine the interest of the corporation in any de- vice or suggestion offered it or any of its divisions or executives. Activities of the committee are con- fined to things for which patent pro- tection is or would be offered for sale. The committee is compcsed of & vice president of the corporation and other engineering and business executives, who co-operate and consult with the manu- facturing divisions. The committee's decision is final either for acceptance or rejection. z Submitting devices by letter has proved satisfactory, Mr. Sloan adds. The procedure has been so arranged that sending ideas by mail often saves the time and expense of a trip to Detroit. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alliance.) {Bad Streets Held Curb to Ownership Two million people living in New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston do not own automobiles because there are not enough good roads and streets, according to E. E. Duffy, high- | way educational writer. | Based on the car ownership ratio that prevails in Detroit, New York City | should own more than one and one-half million passenger cars instead of 560,- 000. By the some reckoning, Chicago should have an additional 535,000 cars; OP;‘O“‘uelphh. 360,000, and Boston, 115,- In Detrolt there is one car for every 3.5 persons. The reason for this high rate of car ownership is found in the peedinlone Mo M it ol there lasted but half the normal auto- mobile lifetime because of the sunbaked rutty roads. Missouri at present has 1,660 miles of concrete, so cars operat- ing for the most part over the State highway system now approach a full span of service. ‘The normal life of a car depends upon the treatment given it by the owner, which indirectly has to do with the highways over which he drives. An ex- of a rattle-trap just as it can be done with an old pair of shoes. However, there is one difference, and that is in tra year of service may be squeezed out | gesti ‘; Of Automobiles by City Dwellers first-class pavement mileage that makes it possible for Detroit motorists to get out into the country comfortably and quickly. Wayne County, in which De- | troit is located, has the equivalent of about 400 miles of smooth pavements of | a 40-foot width. Los Angeles, possessed of a network of smooth pavements both within and near the city, has the astounding ratio of one car for each 2.25 persons. Bad pavements, great mileages of which are found in most cities, consti- tute the test obstacle to car buying. Along with narrow streets, “bottle- necks” and the absence of high-speed arterles, bad pavements account for the low car ratio of one vehicle to every and 3 New York has cm“‘"\n'.!mmed for ex- tensive pavement . The p:vement surfaces s use of the car is country that city, countless people do they do notdm en More outlets to the ope! must be built in all population d these outlets must be at regard to public safety. ‘The One-Thirty-Five Long, low, large, power- ful h ne tranemission. $348S L o b, *2775 ane feet wide. ANE FEE - The One-ThirtySeven 7 types—unus- fi*-fl- —$3 o b factory. FRANKLIN MOTOR CAR CO. HARRY W. BURR SALESROOM—1517 CONN. AVE. N.W. SERVICE—1909 M ST. N.W.