Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1929, Page 63

* HOOVER T0 RECEIVE - CONTEST WINNERS Massachusetts Boy Won First Award for Essay on Highway Safety. THE SUNDAY: STAR, WASHINGTON, 7. €., JUNE 2, 1929-PART Z. BROOKHART ROAD PLANIS DESCRIBED ne Would Start From Capi- tal and Four Others Be Linked With Washington. i (Title registered U. 8. Patent Office.) _B.v James W. Brooks i : i ’ (Sketches by Calvin A. Fader.) Prestdent Hoover will receive winners of the national safety essay and lesson contests at the White House at 12:45 pm. tomorrow. Brendan A. Finn, 12, of Somerville, Mass., received the first award of a trip to Washington and a gold watch. Miss Amy M. Striley of Beverly Farms, Mass. who wrote the best lessom. for teaching safety, won the first award of $500 and a trip to Wash- ington Senator Gillett of Massachusetts will introduce the winners to the President and Alvan Macauley, president of the National Automobile Chamber of Com- merce, which provided the prizes, will head the delegation. The highway education board. which conducts tne contest every year. esti- mates that 600.000 pupils and 100.000 teachers competed In the pupils’ contest the second na- tional winner was Jack Glover of Port- land. Oreg., and the third winner, Rob- ert W. Tufts of Sherrill, N. Y. Both will receive gold watches. In the teachers’ event the second winner was Miss Cleata Thorpe of Hu- ron, S. Dak., who won $300, and the third winner was Miss Beula J. Andes son of Clear Lake, Minn,, who won $200. 100 MILES OF ROADS ARE TO BE IMPROVED Kent leniy. Md., Contracts Await $1,000.000 Bond Sales Author- ized by Last Legislature, Washington would be the starting int for one link in a new system of | tional highways just proposed in Con- | less by Senator Brookhart, Republican | Towa. Not only would one of the| ain arteries he proposes originate ar the District. but four of the others the contemplated system would be nnected with the National Capital by A CAPITOL RICHIN TRADITION figlagnahuc{x llfncLbuilec iffi ofllhr ‘a%];e trhw lrs who he i}efi ir roles.g'e -gone Years. Designed. bu Jefferson a nemaum Lin .and. by Lf (, e¢1wfoumhxnm‘fnwas o e T mmJu.luZO]BbltoApm dt was the Cam(olof the (onfederacy. © " oricay ghway Edmntons]Bareas Washinetonyd. € ] F ROM this old Tower, now entermg secondce turo,’alarms peal= flh 10 181 lmél' 1m mi%{ ld.‘l ine heen 5“5’&5& &t‘rcm]filer ESE ct upon .servnce ‘ rendered. to mankird. by this i 4 ¢ i .arephca the t dmr to daie by the Eru%d,xt, resses the e round WOt in"re-peopl ah{y,%}!fi (arree S ad-building ireau developed Hween the vernment atch the ann pvernment. Seven Main Lines Proposed. Pnder this new bill there would be en main arteries and a number of beiliar ructed. _ They | uld be national highways in the full se of the word—built entirely from eral funds rhe highway starting near the Diss t of Columbia would extend to Ok- oma bv wav of Richmond, Va., and ough ihe States of Tennessee and ansas. It would be No. 5 in the pgram as mapped out in the bill. The jBer main national highways would | e ast with the West and the L B e South, along the follows | Special Dispaich to The star. route: | BALTIMORE, June 1.—Work of . From a point on the Great Lakes widening three miles of the Washing- >ac cean in | ;mpmm on the Pacific Of | ton-Baltimore boulevard from the city “’Fiom Portland, Me., to Seattle, line to Elkridge to 40 feet will be ash., by way of Chicago. started about the middle of July, ac- 3. From Boston, Mass. {0 San Fran-| cording to Harry D. Williar, jr., chief fisco, Calif. by way of St Louls. = |engineer of ghe State Roads Commis- s O e e sion, The wx?emng will necessitate the , Calif. oving of nine residences which are 6. Prom New York City to Jackson- |icateq on the rights of way of the le, Fla., following near the Atlantic |jytor’C e o pst ms far as it is practicable; and | "FIGRCN Honts of way to make om Jacksonville, Fia., to Brownsville, | yne rond & 40-foot boulevard. the come ex., following the coast of the Gulf of | mission agreed to bear the expense of exico, with a branch running south |moving ali buildings necessary to. the rough Florida. 3 | widening. From the western terminal of | " Bids for the widening will be ad- oute No. 1 (which would be in Ore-|yertised by the State Roads Commi on) to Los Angeles, following the Pa-|sion on June 11. The actual work will fic coast as far as practicable. be started within a month after that 8. From a point not less than 10 nor (date. There will be no obstruction of ore than 20 miles from the capital of | traffic while the work is under w hch State to the most accessible main | === [ational highway. The bill further rovides that “highways numbered 2, 4 and 6 shall be connected with the fational Capital.” $2,000,000,000 in Notes Urged. In order to finance the project, Sen- tor Brookhart proposes to authorize jhe Secretary of the Treasury to issue pnited States notes from time to time required, up to a maximum of 2,000,000,000. The Brookhart proposal b not likely to be considered until the gular session beginning in December. The Bureau of Public Roads would America'; oot eliuable mthe roLmda &M L s and the Federal | Each State is required to al allotments from the on his W 1 ' ADVERTISING URGED FOR AUTO DEALERS The fourth folder is made up en- Every Phase of Industry Must Ap-| tirely of newspaper articles and com- y | ment. on gasoline taxes. The cover is 5 a cartoon by Warren of the Cleveland, pefll for dee' Sales Man Ohijo, News. Reproduction of news- A paper clippings shows that automobile SgeUSEyw: dealers, clubs, motori: taximen and —_— | others have opposed recent increase in gasoline tax rates in many States. In- HABIT NOW PROBLEM FOR TRAFFIC ENGINEERS Massachusetts Official Judgment Neglected and Routes Jammed as Result. WIDENING BOULEVARD (INCREASE IS SHOWN |Petroleum Institute Plans Propaganda SOON TO BE STARTED bt e IN RECKLESS DRIVING Campaign Against Gas Tax Increase Three Miles of Washington High-| _— way Between Baltimore and | First Four Months' Record ia Bal- i gasoline taxes at the moment the sub- timore This Year 207 Per Cent | ject is uppermost. in their minds—when " e | they are paying them—under plans of Over Period in 1927. the American Petroleum Institute. ' | A serles of folders on gasoline taxes Special Dispatch to The Btar. is ready to be distributed by the insti | tute to oil companies for further dis- | BALTIMORE, June 1.—Reckless driv- | tribution to motorists when they buy ing involving accidents in Baltimore in- :\tl‘filr‘;z za‘S&llmgg lm‘imm.v t;‘l;;rir x‘:&‘fll:fi 4 stations. s creased 58 per cent during the first four | ;) oor i o il receive booklets explaining months of this year, as compared With| their share in the aggregate $450,000,- the corresponding period of last year,| 000 gasoline tax the institute estimates and 207 per cent over the same period | will be paid in 1929, outlining the in- in 1927, according to a report made by | crease in taxes from $4,700,000 in 1921 the Baitimore Safety Council. to $305,000,000 in 1928, and asking if In the four months this vear 1551 cases are listed, last year 982 and 504 in 1927. a rise in the per gailon rate to 6 cents from the one-cent tax first im- 3 posed. hasn't about reached a limit. During the same period this year 45 persons ~ were killed by automobile: | showing a reduction of three over las ‘The first of the series contains an editorial from the New York World ex- year. Autoists who fled after accidents number 180 from January 1 to April 30 plaining the stand taken by institute directors when on March 27 they| adopted a resclution o) sl the fixin, this vear, against 266 the first four | pf & e = months of 1928. ; Of the 6726 motor vehicles fiuring of a rate per gallon tax beyond rea- sonable bounds, or where the rate co in accidents up to April 30, 4.692 were private passenger cars and 3711 were sumer must pay is out of equitable pro- driven by the owners. Approximately portion to the price: of gasoline The second folder, “Where Does My 1y | Mileage Go?” tells ‘the motorist just i e iy gfi“’g‘,fi geeurred I | how much he and others have spent in | hours and 56 per cent at street inter- 5“:"‘“‘2; ey ainge L aiows h“‘:_ sections during the 1929 period. The|20i1 the Sggregate cax and Lie pe greatest number of week-day accidents | gallon rates have increased, and sug- have been on Saturday, with the peak | 8°5tS that the levy, having become sl between 5 and 6 p.m. Accidents from 25 per cent sales tax, has grown out drunken driving, on the other hand. of equitable proportion to the price o(“ show a marked decrease in the first | gasoline. four months of 1929, it was revealed in| The way in which gasoline taxes| tHe report. This year drunken drivers| have become tolls is explained in the | have figured in an average of three ac- | third boklet, “The Open Road?” It cidents a week, as compared with five is estimated that if a car runs 12 miles a week in 1928 and four in 1927. on a gallon of gasoline, the driver pays | Discovers American motorists will learn about | Eldridge to Be Improved. BOSTON, June 1 (®).—Habit is a ¢ problem for traffic engineers to solve, e o | says Maxwell Halsey, traffic engineer in | That systematic advertising is one | the Massachusetts department of public cluded_is an_editorial from the Wheel- | Of the most powerful forces at the com- | works, Rudolph Jose Says Refinishing Jobs Are Done at Surpris- ingly Low Cost. ‘That this is an excellent time to have one’s car refinished and the upholstery Tepaired, is pointed out by Rudolph Jose, veteran automobile dealer, who says that in today's completely equip- | ped establishments an n\nomnblle can | be made to look like new at a sur- ngly low cost. "Most motorists still cling to the be- lief that refinishing jobs are neces | sarily very expensive,” Mr. Jose s: directly as possible between the points designated. One of the provisions of the bill is that no part of these highways shall be within any city of more than 2,000 population, or within 10 miles of any city of more than 200,000 population, | including cities named as terminals. “Such highways,” the bill continues, “shall be planned, so0 far as practicable, to_supplement rather than to coincide with existing highway systems, and es- pecially to carry truck trains ‘The Secretary of Agriculture, who | ing,. W. Va, Intelligencer entitled mand of automotive jobbers and dealers, e 1t 1 . Rfere Wil 1l Bl 1 mageealthns | 5 et ot e s And Qealer, | People drive by habit instead of by “legislatures Should follow the example | ./ "" ¥ e . judgment of distance, he asserts, and of the Federal Government and cease | °T#l Sales manager of a spark plug com- | in consequence the better known routes | special Dispatch to The Star. to regard the automobile and its owner | pany, who declared that “in today's | are choked with traffic that should be | BALTIMORE. June 1-—Approxi- :g“;;\:rséyren‘:n:: and inexhaustible | scheme of business, advertising is used {’nnvmg on shorter and partly deserted | mately 100 miles of dirt roads in Kent J by aggressive merchants to not only sell | PV} 2Y! County will be improved as soon as the 3 In Boston. he explains, more than 20 | §1 000,000 bond issue authorized by the merchandise, but to keep their concern | per cent of the people in Tremont street | Siata” Tegistature. 18 floated. by th, AUTO CAN BE MADE LIKE |and product abreast of competition.” | could take a shorter route, but. either | conto "RV LIAS 18 AREC PRt “Many industries are advertising to- | {fOm custom or because they follow the | 10"\ lina"orered to the public by local day o regain the broad market for thelr | TAMC, they pour down into the most | 7 TR ARErS il NEW, SAYS VETERAN |5ioaineis Sehich suffored ecause ot lack | densely congested part of the citv. ~ | PIOKETS 8nd as soon as the money from of advertising In the face of aggressive | Betler signs will tend to relieve such [7°, S50 O bonds has been received | ?flé’f‘iv"fli‘il‘;’t;é*" part of other indus- | conditions, in Mr. Halsey’s opinion. TS 15 one of the ln;flewkmad -build- s, : ng programs ever undertaken by an “Jobbers and dealers in the automo- TRADE BODY T[) MEET of thecounties 1n The State and the tive fleld need to advertise just as the total amount of the bond issue for road various_industries do. If they don't, ey improvement is said to be the largest | they will soon find their trade has| The regular monthly meeting of the | ever floted at one time by any of the m)g‘r;[nu-d ;ob({)'ehcr concerns. . C\V:fihmzufi? b:ulfnlram:‘i)\‘e Trade A!‘N’— counties. Many jol Ts today are using adver- | clation wi 3 morrow evening, - tising (o bring the smaller dealer trade |at 8 o'clock, at the City Club. mlasion Rave bee. 1 s ey i to their counter sales department. Such | _Chester Leasure, manager of resolu- | the week making surveys. of - fiee trade over the counter is very profithble, | tions and referenda department, for- | gtretches of road which will be the while to secure such business with sales- | merly associate editor of Nation's Busi- | frct to be improved under the = | men would be prohibitive. ness. will be the principal speaker. el e T S L “Dealers likewise are making more | Following his talk the meeting will s sived use of advertising through both news- | be thrown open for general discussion | papers and direct mail to bring custom- | O Ways and means of better promoting | | ers to their place of business. They |association activities. “This is decidely not the case, as even | ealize that they, too, are faced with the ( The meeting will be the last until a casual survey shows. | competition of ‘concerns selling other | Fall. “With modern equipment, the re- | COmmodities and appealing aggressively finishing_establishment or department | t0 the public to buy their merchandise; authorized to establish & system of censes or tolls to maintain these high- ys and to redeem the United States | otes at rates “that will accomplish juch redemption in not more than 30 fears, nor less than 20 years.” Sena- or Brookhart indicated he would be ed to favor an annual license of ome sort for those using these direct hways, in preference to a toll fystem. would carry out the program, would be | empowered to determine the width and | number of traffic lanes, the types of construction and kind of surfaces, con- | sidering the character and volume of future traffic. 1t would carry authority to construct tunnels and bridges where necessary, and also to make arrangements for the operation of ferries if they are found necessary on some of the routes. The bill would suthorize the President to transfer to the Secretary of Agricul- | 226,977, open car production: { were produced, 1,049,226 2-door sedans, 1.4 chassis of that type. Canada during 1928 totaled 4,024,590 Roadsters totaled 219,050, touring cars chassis 14,101, among 1928's 778.802 cou; 613474 other closed cars and 122,960 Production in the United States and toll of one cent every 6 miles with a two-cent tax, every 4 miles with a three-cent tax, every 3 miles with a| ent tax, every 2.4 mies with a | ent tax, and every 2 miles with cent tax. A cartoon shows how the supposedly “open road” is barred by a_ series of toll gates representing gasollne taxes, license fees, fines, etc., aggregating more than $800.000,000 yearly. The booklet suggests that an- other 50 per cent increase in the aggre- | allowing the car’ | can work wonders, quickly and inex- pensively. And n three or a dozen coats. There | give no cuse whatsoever for | upholstery to deteri- orate since this type of work also is done with neatness and dispatch and, | further, at costs which will not faze the most_economical owner. Nothing looks worse than a car whose upholstery is the character of the | work is excellent, whether the car 131 | that sales diverted from them to con- cerns dealing in other than automotive products means lost busines: farm products it s the farmer from 38 per cent to €2 per cent less to pay for his automobile | or truck today than it did in 1913. In other words the exchange value of | wheat, hogs. wool, cotton, corn and | cattle for motor vehicles is from one | and one-third to two times greater to- CRITICIZES TOLL ROADS. Proposals to build high speed toll roads from point to point in this coun- try have met no approval from Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the bureau of public roads of the United States, During a recent visit to Boston, Mr. MacDonald referred to a road now pro- posed through Cognecticut. Such | roads, he said. woul® be in practical competition with railroads and, he as- R. McREYNOLDS & SON 1423-25-27 L St. N.\W. Decatur 686 According to the Towa Senator, these ew :rt.erlu would not be out by highways together, but d be wholly new and laid out as | rflggrd and torn. know of no better Springtime move | day than in 1913, These figures are than to have the car's body refinished | based on product prices from United | and its upholstery refurbished.” States Department of Agriculture, serted, either would be unsuccessful or would bring financial disaster to the railroads. gate tax may be expected next year and | asks: “Isn't it time to stop, look and listen to reason?” As Predicted ture, by executive order, portions of | passenger cars, and 576,540 trucks. Of Publk lands or reservations npceuary[thm number only 11.5 per cent were n projecting these highways. open cars. NEW CARS USED CARS Hee ooseve MARMON-BUILT The World’s First Straight- Eight under $1000 tation; if you want to drive a straight-eight rather than the customary six; if you want a car that rides and drives with anything on the road—and still you want to hold your investment to around $1000— then you will just naturally be interested in the Roosevelt . . . It’s the only automobile that offers all of these things at this price. .. If you are one of the alert people who insist on most for their money, you will come to see the Roosevelt. .. /- TRST news of the Roosevelt was sounded early in February . . . Cars started coming from the factory in March . . . In April the public swamped Marmon salesrooms looking at it . . . In May they bought every one the Marmon factory could build and wanted more . . . And now in June, even bigger things are happening . . . There is no compctmon for Roosevelt value even in sight. The Roosevelt—roomy, sturdy, eco- nomical to operate. 70 horsepower, Marmon-built straight-eight motor . . . $995. Also New Marmon 68, $1465 and New Marmon 78, $1965. Prices at factory. Group equipment extra. Open Evenings A. GCG. MOSES MOTOR Co. 522 14th Street N.W. —Potomac 861 If you want a better and finer type of transpor- 33 Counties in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland