Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1929, Page 77

In the Motor World BY G. ADAMS HOWARD. 6 ORE Power to You” is the slogan that has been adopted for the coming national automobile shows.” Once a slang phrase, the form of salutation now becomes good English, that is if accuracy and appropriateness can be re- garded as a guide for proper lexi- con. Besides adapting the phrase to the motor car itself, those arrang- ing the “bigger and better” shows might adopt it in connection with the exhibitions, for descriptions of the coming events are not lacking in anything. Let’s see what it is all be about—or at least what is claimed in the glowing reports. Details Being Arranged. That detail of automobile show management, the matter of sup- plying 15 acres of decoration for floors, ceilings and walls of Granc Central Palace in an appropriate motif, as well as good taste, is one that at present engages the thought and energy of severa! hundred skilled artisans. When the thirtieth national automobile show opens under the auspices of | the National Automobile Chamber | of Commerce, January 4, for a six- day run in the Palace, visitors wili see an entirely new decorative scheme, which is requiring more than four months of planning and expert execution under the direc- tion of Samuel Asch, who has worked out the plan with Manager S. A. Miles. And while all of this is In progress in the East, Deco- rator Asch has a similar task on his hands for the Chicago show in the matter of converting the Coliseum into a satisfactory set- ting for the Middle Western sec- tion of the national show, which opens January 25. An innovation for the Palace for 1930 is a different color motif for each of the four floors, so that each will provide its own point of interest. The first floor is to be in cardinal red and other harmon- izing tints, while the second will be in golden brown, the third in mignonette and the fourth in in power, which most of the models offer for 1930, there will be a number of innovations in design noted by show visitors, some to be announced by makers a few days before the show. “Couldn’t Make 90.” From New York City comes in- formation that a motorist has ob- tained a temporary injunction against an automobile dealer from | selling his car because of refusal to pay additional notes on the grounds that the machine will not make between 90 and 100 miles an hour, as advertised. The motorist claims that with a saleman all he could get out of the car was 87 miles. The proceeding is of interest. According to a director of the Bet- ter Business Bureau here, the auto- mobile dealer is safe from a charge of fraudulent advertising, as the law is said to allow certain “puffing” in advertising without it being considered a violation. If the car would not make over 40 miles an hour, the case would be very different. Inasmuch as any concern is permitted to advertise their product as “the best in the world,” the buyer in these cases must beware. An Important Ruling. An important decision from the United States Supreme Court up- holds a Connecticut State law that does not permit a person riding free in a car to collect damages from the driver or owner in case of accident. The law is far reach- ing and protects the motorist from being sued when out of kind- ness he gives some one a lift along the road. ._The ruling of the high court was in regard to a case in Connecticut Wwhere a wife sued her husband for injuries she received while driving THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 1, THE FIRST RACE WITH A TRAIN AS YOU REM EMBER T.....z 1929—PART FOUR. | CONSTANT CARE 5 IS REQUIRED BY LOW-PRESSURE AUTO TIRES Underinflation Declared Cause éf 99 Per Cent Of All Trouble—Reminders Listed. BY H. CLIFFORD BROKAW, Automobile Technical Adviser. Proper care of tires has always been an important matter to the car owner, even when the high pressure cord tires were used extensively. We find it even more necessary now since the balloon or low-pressure tire has come into exist- ence. Although there are millions of car owners still running on high-pressure tires, and will for some time to come, practically all new cars are equipped with low-pressure tires. However, we find more {ll treatment and neglect than can great deal for its popularity. But the balloon tire is increasing in popularity. ~ And there are several reasons. It gives greater riding com- fort. One rides on a volume of air instead of the stiff carcass of the tire as is the case when using high-pressure . ‘The balloon tire, because of its flexibility and lower pressure, gives in to the shock of road obstacles, and absorbs the shock which would other- wise transmit to passengers. The el gine suffers less from damaging jars. All in all, the balloon tire is account- able for much of the increased pleasure of motoring these days. More Care Required. Although the low-pressure tire gives more comfort in riding it requires more care and attention up upkeep. An inflation pressure is usually recom- mended when purchasing a car, and we want to be sure that we maintain this pressure at all times. Sometimes this pressure may be increased according to the load the car customarily carries, but a dealer will give you advice about this. The reason why it is so im- portant to keep the correct inflation prea;l:;w is e'vldAenlt in 'ihestallo'h:’: com n, l0ss o poun from a pressure of 30 in a balloon tire, is & loss of 10 per cent. It would take a loss of 7 pounds from a 70-pound pressure to equal the same loss in & with him. Both the Superior Court of New Haven County and the Supreme Court of the State held that the Connecticut statute was valid and barred the appellant, a guest, SIATES SEE ERA “IN MY OPINION” NEW ROADS URGED high-pressure tire. This is one of the reasons why . high-pressure tires are still so popular. The manufacturers used to recommend a higher pressure than was always necessary for high- pressure tires, because motorists were often neglectful, and a drop in the pressure of 30 pounds would still allow for enough air in the tires to prevent serious damage to the casing. Quickly Cut by Rims. If balloon tires are run to any con- siderable extent underinflated they are cut rims and ruined. that the high-pressure tire can stand the low-pressure tire, which accounts a regular routine visit to the filling sta- Q.lo‘!‘\l for gasoline and oil. It has been estimated that nearly 99 per cent of tire trouble is caused by underinflation. There are a few other points to look out for in keeping the recommended inflation pressures. Tire valve insides in all casings should be tight and in good condition. This will help. Also, the rim nut on the base of the valve stem should be tight to prevent the tube from “creeping.” The rusting of the tube to the rim in cases where tires are not removed for long periods of time can be prevented by using flaps. Flaps Recommended. Flaps have also been recomended to avold the pinching of tubes between the toe of the tire and the rim. Flaps vary in width, and the correct size is necessary in order to get the best re- sults. Small cuts in the tires are also to be looked out for. They can cause no end of unexpected trouble and blow- outs when least expected because water and mud and sand work their way into these little cuts, rot the fabric, and brihg about deterioration of the tire. Let the repairman give any such small cuts immediate attention, or do it your- self. ‘To the motorist who asks how he can add to the life of his tires, might be given the following admonitions: See that the proper infllation pressure is in the tires at all times. en applying chains be sure that they are fastened loosely enough to work their way around the tire. Spares should be pro- tected by cover casings. Avoid the severe strains which result from skid- ding, letting the clutch in too suddenly, or jammiing the brakes too hard. Keep the rims touched up with special rim paint or shellac. Carry a portable vulcanizer, blowout patch, chain tool, tire sleeve, jack, valve cap, tire gai etc, to take care of emergent from recovery for injuries caused by “ordinary negligence.” The Supreme Court of Connecticut held that the statute did not deny tropical blue. The execution of ail this means that among the re- quirements are one solid mile of wall construction, requiring 200,000 Proper wheel alignment is also impor- tant and is worth consideration. Mis- aligned wheels will wabble and run un- evenly and cause rapid and uneven quickly by the A balloon ti gauge calibrated in single goundl will help in maintaining the right amount of air in the tire. A automobile concern advises A Column in Which Readers May Express Their Views on Motoring and Traffic Problems. OF ROAD BUILDING 10 AID PROSPERITY feet of lumber, 200,000 feet of car- peting, 10,000 yards of plush, silk and damask, together with five carloads of exquisite furniture especially designed for this show. Chicago Show Setting. At Chicago the Coliseum is to be. converted into an English garden setting, with a panorama of old England. This panorama will be fully one mile in length, and will include many of the world-famed garden spots and other places of interest. Eight months have been spent on this already, and more than 100,000 square feet of fiber board will be required for the panorama. Seventy thousand feet of carpeting will be used to cover the spaces occupied by the cars alone. For both the New York and the Chicago shows, the ventilating fa- cilities have been improved and other innovations will be made to give greater comfort to visitors. ‘Wide aisle space will permit more convenient inspection of the dis- plays. As for the cars themselves, many new features in external and internal design will be offered. Reports from Detroit and other manufacturing cities indicate, among other trends, a pronounced | tendency toward the adoption of a four-speed gearset or transmis- sion, with a noiseless or silent third speed. There also is a ten- dency toward the use of a three- speed gearset with a silent second speed. Seven makers of six-cylin- der cars have a four-speed gearset. while a like number of manufac- turers of eights include the four- speed design in their line of models. Four-Speed Gearsets. With the four-speed gearset the low, or first, speed gear is not in- sended for use except where un- usual power is required as, for ex- mle. in starting from a stand- on a very steep hill. With the four-speed gearset its second Is employed for starting; the third, which takes the place of the high in the conventional three forward speed gearset, being employed for ordinary city driving. The second speed provides, claim, a fast, snappy getaway or The third gives quiet and rapid acceleration and eliminates gear changing in traffic. The fourth speed is, of course, direct drive. The gear ratio in fourth speed is lower than in the con- ventional three-speed, permitting of slower engine and propeller shaft speeds without sacrificing car speed. One manufacturer holds that at 65 miles per hour on the fourth, or high, of the four- speed gearset the engine speed is reduced at least 25 per cent, and | that reduction of engine speed | ¥Hngs about economy of opera-| ion, lowering the cost of fuel and oil and maintenance. Among the advantages of the four-speed gearset, in addition to its quiet third speed, acceleration. et cetera, is the ease with which the driver can shift from third to fourth or from high to third at car speeds of 40 miles per hour or even higher. The ability to shift #asily and quickly is held to be a great advantage when on stecp les and for providing safe con- rol on wet or icy roads as well as when descending grades. ‘The original four-speed trans- mission made use of internal gears for its next-to-high for obtaining quiet operation, and this type is popular, but others have come into use. One is the employment of herringbone gears for the silent geared speed. Herringhone gears are silent in action, but as they do not lend themselves to being | meshed or engaged by lateral shifting, they are continuously kept in mesh—that is, the pinion and gear. Engagement or use of the set of meshed gears is by means of a positive clutch of the same type as is employed for the direct or high drive. Although herringbone gears are inherently silent, any possible tendency to- ward noise is eliminated by cut- ting the two halves of the gears with teeth of different pitches. Adjustment in thousandths of an inch is provided for any possible wear. . In connection with the increase [ |ing systems, and a few of the to the appellant the equal protec- tion of the laws guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment. The United States Supreme Court held that in this day of “al- most universal highway transpor- tation by motor car” it could not be said that legislation of this na- ture was unjustified. g The decision is looked upon as important in connection with ac- cident insurance. A number of cases have arisen in which persons riding in machines as guests of the owner or driver have suffered in- juries and have sought to collect from such owner or driver an the theory he would recover from the insurance company. This element, was involved in the pending case. FOREIGN-MADE AUTOS IMPROVED Refinement of Mechanical Units| o e evommi of MEimemng forces and Increased Passenger Com- forts Are Features. American engineering genius may again be credited with creating the pat- tern for motor car improvement this year in Continental Europe. Better motor performance through the refinement of various mechanical units and increased passenger comfort through lowzflng] of body suspension and increasing interior roominess are outstanding features of the latest and best foreign cars, These significant facts are headlights of the interesting report on the trend of overseas automobile manufacturing made today by C. H. Bliss, sales man- signed to study foreign developments at the recent Paris international salon and London motor show. They indicate to both sales and production officials that there can be no possibility of any for- eign invasion of the automobile field in the United States and that American industry generally still retains its com- fortable lead in values offered to the public both at home and abroad. “Item for item, the new features r~- vealed by European manufacturers in their show exhibits compare with tne advancements which have marked the Nash line for a year or more,” Mr. Bliss declared after reviewing the engineers’ eport. “Changes in the models exhib- ited at the Paris salon are not consid- ered revolutionary in any respect, but it is plainly apparent that foreign man- ufacturers have made a special effort to match the refined power, motor re- sponsiveness and silence which char- acterize the American product and to supply the type of increased owner comfort and convenience offered by our own salon bodies. “It is interesting to note a few of the overseas improvements which our engi- neers have traced to American engi- neering successes. For example, they | found a majority of the new Paris show ; cars equipped with internal expanding brakes, more powerful valve-in-head motors equipped with rubber mountings and vibration dampers and with re- fined heat control and carburetion. A few foreign makers have adopted gaso- line pump, fuel feed and centnumgnet; e European cars have adopted cable brak- ing control like that which adds so much to the safety and driving pleasure. “About half of the European manu- facturers now produce cars powered by straight-eight motors; but, although the increase in eights was notable in the salon, it seems probable that in Euro) at least the six ‘will continue to be most popular type of car. As yet, the European eight is considered a luxury car on account of its high initial price and the higher fuel and tax costs which accompany it. Foreign engineering, it seems, has not been able to develop the maximum power and fuel economy in every speed range which Nash has achieved through masterly engineering adaptation of twin-ignition in the high compression, valve-in-head motor. “Another type of cars predominated at the London show, where the small automobile and fuel and tax economy featured the exhibits. In Paris the ager in the automobile industry, as- |9 1 {more_constructive plece of leglslation he | the truth of that, statement. More Federal Aid Expected After President’s Appeal. BY JAMES W. BROOKS, Director, American Highway Educational Bureau. President Hoover’s call for full speed ahead in public construction has met with an almost instant response from practically every State highway de- partment in the country. During the past week or 10 days a recheck of plans and projects in the various States has been undertaken to determine where and how much new mileage may be taken over for early improvement. This was done at the request of Presi- dent Hoover. g So far as it affects highway con- struction, the President’s call for more “en ergetic yet prudent” action came at an opportune moment. For some time xception of a few States, have not been functioning to full capacity. ‘This has been due to a lack of Federa: ‘S“t:g to match like appropriations by Ahead of Federal Aid. As a matter of fact, the States have gone so far ahead on the Federal aid system that the present improvea e shows that more miles have been built without any Federal funds whatsoever than with the use of Fea- eral funds, despite the fact that the Federal Government entered into an agreement with the States to assist them to the extent of $15,000 per mile. 1t may come, therefore, as somewhat of a surprise to the general public to learn that the States which do the actual construction have been pressea so hard for a greater mileage of im- proved roads that they have gone aheaa f the Federal Government to the ex- tent of millions of dollars. This situa- tion has been authoritatively explained (naume President by State highway of- States Anxious to Start. Under these conditions, to borrow a half-forgotten phrase from the horse age, the States are “rarin’ and ready to 80.” They have been tled, in a sense, to the hitch rack of “economy,” but the ?ulez counsel of the Engineer-President for more action has given them hope of more generous co-operation on the part of the Federdl Government. They do not ask the Government to bring its rt of the 50-50 agreement up to date, ut they do expect, particularly in view of the present situation, that the regu: lar Federal aid appropriation will be in- creased to at least $125,000,000 per year. Furthermore, the States are expecting President Hoover ot lend his support to their plans for the completion of the vast network of main highways em- braced in the original State and inter- s p m_before venturing the Federal aid principle into the zone of purely local roads. It is upon the main system, where motor vehicle operating waste is heavi- est and where the greatest savings to the public are to be gained. 26 Per cent Is Paved. On this system but little more than 26 per cent of the mileage has been paved, as has been stated before, and from the standpoint of low-type con- struction, little more than one-half of the country’'s route mileage is even graveled. The statement has been made that a has never been passed by Congress than the Federal highway act. Every new turn in the Nation's progress, so far as relates to domestic improvement, attests And now comes this latest turn, wherein the road bullding machinery of the country, as set up under the Pederal aid prlm:}gle. stands ready to render increased public service, not only through a more rapid extension of present highway transpor- tation facilities, but in affording a widened field for public employment. Road building in the United States is a going concern into which more cap- ital may be placed with assured safety and profit to the public. In the view of the President’s counsel it is not to be anticipated that there is going to be a spending orgy. Those who are well aware of his insistence upon combination of steel and wood predomi- nated in fine car bodies, and no imita- | tion leather bodies were shown.” SPACE TO BE DRAWN. Annual Auto Show Floor to Be Di- vided. The annual drawing for space at the Washington Automotive Trade Associa- tion Automobile Show will be held to- morrow night 8 o'clock at the City Club. The event will be held in the Audi- torium, January 25 to February 1. The election of officers of the trade body will be held also tomorrow night. uality for quality, dollar for dollar, nrqs are cheaper now than ever before. following the “blue-print” to the suc- | cessful completion of any project under- taken see scant hope for the many plans and expenditures of doubtful value that are invariably offered in times like the present. The expansion the colintry’s highway transportation facilities is to be conducted upon a sane Pass Trucks Uphill. While it is always dangerous to another vehicle at the crest of a hill, the best time to go by heas trucks and busses is on a long up-grade, where you can see far enough ahead to make sure that the passage is safe. Busses and trucks can go as fast as a private car down hill, and sometimes on the Urges Enforcement of Muffier Regulation, Peace and quiet, or what is left of these desired states in this day of grow- ing pains and the clamor of a growing metropolis, are being shattered to an unnecessary degree, seems to this wit- ness, by the ripping, snorting sound of the exhaust of intercity busses that daily roar their way out upper Six- teenth street. A person of the reformer type might cry that “There ought to be a law against it,” but my understanding is that already there are ample legal means of putting a stop to this rumpus, The trouble is the regulations are not being properly enforced. Apparently these busses employ the cut-out on exhaust pipes after leaving the downtown section, judging from the racket they create on the 30-mile per hour stretches on upper Sixteenth speed that causes the greater noise there? At any rate, if these busses have no cut-out equipment, then better mufflers are needed, for the ripping explosions of the bus motors can be heard for a distance of a half mile or more as the machines climb the hill above the Piney Branch Bridge over Sixteenth street. It is bad enough to hear the whin- ing screech of the machinery of a heavy bus as it climbs in low gear the Meridian Hill section of Sixteenth street. How residents there and in similar situations stand the rumpus is beyond this writer. Probably there s no relief in such cases, but why should the public have to stand for the noise from bus exhausts that might be better muffled? ~ These intercity than the . R. T. equipment, low- speed climbing of gllh—ld.h;fllg Abandonment of Rotary Turn Urged Here, Obviously the protection of children at busy intersections should not be overlooked. But equally obviously the motorist who finds it almost impossible to cut into a stream of traffic running tion. Every once in a while the police department sends an officer down to the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and ‘Twenty-eighth street to aid drivers go- Special Dispatch to The Star. DETR/ —Traffic stoppa; in the Detroit and Canada tunnel will be handled with a dispatch rarely achieved on the world surface hlihwlyl. accora- ing to plans being worked out by the engineers. The $25,000,000 subway being con- structed between this city and Windsor, Ontario, now is about three-fourtns complete. Elaborate plans are being worked out for expeditious handling of the heavy traffic expected to follow the formal opening of the great interna- tional tube next year. Traffic in the Detroit tube will be handled according to the methods which have been found so_successful in the Holland tunnel at New York. Disabled cars will be removed witn split-second dispatch, safeguarding every minute for the swiftly moving under- ground traffic expected. Most of the stoppages, it has been learned from the experience of Hollana tube officials, may be expected as a result of drivers running out of gaso- line. A total of 678 motorists were sup- plied with une-flgon cans of gas during the first year Holland tunnel was in operation. Proportionate numbers of absent-minded drivers are being pro- vided for here. There were 192 automoblile fires dur- ing the first year of the New Yorx tunnel. All of these fires were ex- tinguished by tunnel attendants, with- out recourse to the fire-fighting appa- ratus mounted on the emergency truck. All of the fires but one were put out merely through the use or hand extinguishers. Overheated brakes caused most of the blazes. There was no public uneasiness in any fire except one. On this occasion & truck driver became alarmed when the gas tank, located under the seav, caught fire. He became panicky ana, abandoning his truck, fled toward the nearest portal. The tunnel police the fire out and the truck moving out of the tube within six minutes after reporting of the fire. Practically .all disabled vehicles are on their way out of the Holland tul within five minutes after being report- ed. Even quicker action can be ex- pected in the Detroit subway becaus: of its shorter length. The total number of vehicles towed out of the Holland tube during the first year was 2,190, of which 481 were taken out on towing chains loaned to drivers of other vehicles. An emergency truck and a small tractor are used. There is an emergency eqllx(llpment station at each tunnel exit, ready to respond the instant any traf- level, but they have to slow up for the grades v street. Or, is it merely the increased | Si8n! both ways should have some considera- | this Detroit-Windsor Auto Tunnel Traffic Will Be Kept Moving at High Speed haa | istic of the American cars. be | with most European cars in traffic and fic_sto) e is reported. The plg:t.rolt m‘lg‘1 Canada tunnel will be approximately a mile long between ing south on Twenty-eighth street to turn east into traffic on the Avenue. But these efforts are spasmodic and most of the time those unfortunates who use Twenty-eighth street have to take a chance on getting across the in- tersection unharmed and unscraped. A stop sign at the intersection aids the situation, but the traffic stream from Georgetown east in the morning comes 50 heavy that it is almost impossible to cut into it. And some of the play- ful lads in their big motors cut down the car track at the left of the street car safety zone, making a nice little game of tag for the man who would coast out of Twenty-eighth street into Pennsylvania avenue. Some bright morning Mr. Harland might saunter down to the intersection of Twenty-second and Q streets and watch east-bound traffic pile up to the Q Street Bridge while it waits for the al to turn. And he would get a big laugh out of the attempts made to turn north on that light at one of the narrowest intersections the city. Neither Twenty-second street nor Q street is wide enough to make the fashionable rotary turn. If there is one spot in the city such a turn might be abandoned, it is here, where one car pulled across the street waiting the green to make the left turn piles up traffic for a block and more.—W. R. M. Urges the Placement of More White Lines. An me‘?emlve yet effective traffic safety device, which, “in my opinion,” could well be used more extensively in this vicinity, is the white lines often {hud in the center of highways on urns. Especially on narrow roads is this effective, for most persons observe the line with the result that fewer accidents occur where one exists. In the District lines might well be placed at intersec- tions controlled by traffic lights to indicate the various lanes of traffic and prevent the congestion which always Tesults when cars fail to keep in line. Such use of white lines has proven successful in other cities. In nearby Maryland it seems ironical that there should be a dividing line, in instance a yellow one, on the Baltimore Boulevard north of Laurel, where the highway is 40 feet wide, and no such safety precaution on the na: Tow Defense Highway. Y. portals. It consists of a single passage- way, 35 feet in over-all diameter. The roadway is 22 feet wide, accommodat- ing one lane of traffic in each direction and a lane to spare for emergency uses. Traffic capacity is estimated av 1,000 vehicles per hour in each ai- rection. The land sections of the tunnel are being constructed through open cuts and with a gigantic steel shield—the largest in North America—which eats its way through the earth at the raw of 10 feet a day. The under-water portion of the job consists of nine steel tubes, constructed on land, floated into position, sunk by the application of concrete and joined under water. This procedure, like several others on. the Detroit project, presents radical en- gineering innovations. Seven of the tubes mow have been sunk and engineers hope to have alt nine on the bottom before Winter,| freezes in the Detroit River. EUROPE IN DRIVE ON U. S. AUTO QUALITY | By the Assoclated Press. European manufacturers are hard at work to -match the performance of American automobiles. sphe Such was indicated by the twenty- third annual international salon .ti Paris, Europe’s most important automo- bile show, according to a review. re- ceived by the Department of Com- | mgpc:;:m attention has been given by foreign manufacturers to obtain sup- pleness, power and silence character- Suppleness is the ability of a car to run l;owly or nfi!dly unt'l'gl & con- siderable pull without shifting gears, Much gear shifting has been necessary on hills. There was little in the salon to_be considered revolutionary, effort appar- ently having been concentrated on im- proved formance and more comfort. A definite trend toward the four- speed car with & silent third gear was one of the most marked features of the show. Several mgme-n manufatturers have had four speeds forward for some time, but it was only this year that they have worked out the silent third gear. One hundred and sixteen makes of | cars, 56 of them French and 30 Amer- | fean, were shown at the salon. ~Eight | nations were represented by exhibitors. A. A. A. President Cites Eco- nomic Advantages to Nation Under Highway Program. Maintenance of national prosperity now and in the immediate years ahead , in large measure, on development of an eflicient system of highway transportation, according to Thomas P. Henry, president of the American Automobile Association. Asserting that one of the big things President Hoover and Congress can ao to assure economic stabflity is to sponsor an immediate expansion of the Nation's road-building program, Mr. Henry said: “For seyeral years the American Automobile Association has contended that the highway needs of the Natlon bave developed far beyond the com- mittments under the Federal aid act, whereby the Government has appro- priated $75,000,000 annually for high- ‘ways on the so-called 7 per cent system. Increased Appropriation Urged. its p asers to check their tire in- flation once or twice a week, and also to set aside one day every week for tire inspection. It will not take to do and is worth the trouble of being that the air in one’s wear on the tires. A 30-inch tire will drag 174 feet every mile if the wheel is but 1 ti:(:l‘l ('mt‘l of llm“nnl“mtlrefie greater the ground contact, of & e more intense will be uu"‘dnl." And 80, it is wise to have the service man U!flflltthzg:flpurmm. ‘Tire inspection could be made a part of the check up on the wheel alignment, per- haps once or twice a year, Special Dispatch to The Star. DETROIT, Mich, November 30.— Speed and still more speed, as gasoline vehicles continue to be improved, seems to be the objnme of land, air and water trai n. In the d division, ~automobile builders next year will replace the me- dium-priced six-cylinder cars with eight-cylinder power plants, and they Bidien: dhe muttipie *cytinder - trend. e cylinde: f The average rate of 70 miles an hour that the good six-cylinder cars are ca- pable of maintaining will become 80, 85, “Wé ve recommended that Con- gress raise the Federal appropriation to $125,000,000. This would mean that the States would match the $50,000,000 Federal increase dollar for dollar. It would stimulate and intensify road- building in the various States, provide employment on a large scale, hasten completion of the Federal aid system and pave the way for an extensive program of express highways on the free principle. We do not have to wait for expensive commissions to do | sands these things, nor do we have to ask the Government to make committments that would be a drain on the public “The economic importance of ade- quate highways cannot be overesti- mated. On them is dependent the movement of more than 25,000,000 motor vehicles for which $7,230,000,000 was spent for operating costs in 1928 in service stations and repair shops. On them is dependent the continued growth of the Nation's large motor tourist business, which accounted for the expenditure of $3,500,000,000 this year. - “I am convinced that whatever slackening up there has been in the automobile industry is directly relat:d wmamdequnqotnumm'g:o- gram. Let us bear in mind that there were 170 new motor vehicles registered in 1928 for every mile of highway constructed on the Federal aid 'K‘m and that the ratio of automobiles to highway mileage is increasing from year to year. Our road program is a major factor in the prosperity of a basic industry employing 3,956,138 Ppeople directly and 385,000 indirectly. Other Weaknesses Claimed. “I need not point out that the rail- roads receive 9.1 per cent of their freight from the automotive industry and from materials moved for road- building purposes. The railroads will spend approximately $800,000,000 this year for improvements and better- ments. The Government can justify this expenditure by spansoring an ade- quate program of highway construction. “There are other weaknesses in our transportation system that deserve consideration in any review of indus- trial stability and progress. President Hoover led the way in giving the country the model motor vehicle code and the uniform municipal traffic ordinance. Progress in their adopticn has been glow ‘and yet the cost of congestion ““and chaotic regulations constitutes & tremendous economic burden and mars the efficiency of our system of highway transportation. ere again is an opportunity for na- tional stock-taking, which Mr, Hoover is amply ship and inspiral CAUTIONS MOTORISTS AS'BAD WEATHER NEARS Maryland Commissioner Stresses Necessity for Careful Driving and Use of Chains. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, November 30.—A call to motorists for special . precautions against .accident in bad weather and throughout the Winter was issued this week by E. Austin Baughman, commis- sloner of motor vehicles, s “With Winter weather approachin, drivers must be impressed with the ne- cessity for special attention fo the use of skid chains,” he said. “They, should not. the, and upon the, roads with- enly one chain, “That is a dangerous practice and only lnereug ‘the skidding perils. Every experienced 'driver ought to know that when he attempts to stop. quickly with one on a slippery way his car is often turned half way around. “There¢ ghould be at least two skid chains. ‘These-should be on the rear wheels. Better stiil would be the use of four chains. Three may be effective, although steering s made somewhat dif- ficult with the use of an odd number.” able to provide leader- | o ition.” ‘ i and 90 miles as soon as the multiple engines begin to be used on highways. Speed has found opposition from those intrusted with the regulation of traffic, but speed tempered with safety is finding new proponents as the world is being made to realize both its limi- tations and its advantages. One of those who has argued the an w the world's automobile speed record by making 231, miles an hour on the of Florida the “Golden Arrow” car. Publish Book on Subject. Sir Henry recently published a book in England on this subject.. Indident- ally he has since piloted boats which have beaten Gar Wood's Miss America VII both in Flordia and Italy, and he is coming to Detroit again this Fall to try to take back to m%hnd trophies em- blematic of the boal ship of the world. Si Sir Henry be successful, Great Britain will then be the world's speed leader on the water as well as on the ‘mammoth on recognized as not abnormal. little doubt,” he says, “that when anyone wants to go faster he will employ an airplane. It is not too much the modern challenger of “There is plane than a motor car. efficient utilization of power is con- cerned, the mator car has no hope of approaching the airplane. ““Take the railways for instance. There has been no really marked improvement perfection which the automobile has reached at present, the need for carry- ing out experiments has diminished, therefore the need for constructing specialized racing cars will automatically diminish also. Change in Racing Type. “Although there always will be mo- tor racing, I think the of car that will be raced will lually evolve itself into a ‘boosted’ or ‘hotted up’ edition of its touring brother. Hence, the land speed record will not be taken to a much higher figure than it is today. “It is the narrow city street that gov- erns transport development. On the road, with not more than 20 ve- one time, there should be no great difi- culty in getting things speeded up, pro- MOTOR DONTS DONT GAMBLE WITH A RELIABLE les per mile going in one direction at [ Th SPEED TREND PROMISES AUTOS OF 12 TO 16 CYLINDERS vided that the heavy vehicles are re- duced in number. But it is quite an- Sefmite Tinsta 1o Wich the speeding-up defin; wi e spe -up process can be taken and one is inclined to think that we are closely approaching those limits already. Undoubtedly, this is so in London, Paris and New York. “The automobile attribute that we shall seek in the future is the ability of terrific top gear acceleration, so that the same car that will give 80 or 80 on the open road will still trickle modestly along a city street in top gear. For all I know, it may have its engine in front with a front wheel drive or its engine behind with a rear wheel drive, but the sort of car that is going to be acquired is nevertheless a product of post-war racing experience. Stability, controlla- bility, terrific getaway and super-effi- clent braking are the qualities that the future car must have, if it is to be of any real use to its owner.” (Copyright, 1029, by the North American Newspaper-. e.) CANADA SHOWS GAIN IN'AUTO PRODUCTION Output in October 5 Per Cent Greater Than Was Reported for September. Special Dispatch to The Star. TORONTO, Canada.—Production of automobiles in Canada during Oectober amounted to 14,523 cars, a gain of 5 per cent over the total of 13,817 cars made in September, according to figures of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. This as the first advance in monthl, figures since production started to fail off last May after the attainment of a new monthly record of 41,901 units in April. OQutput for the 10 months end- ing October of this year at 248,376 cars exceeded by almost 3 per cent the total of 242,054 cars made during the entire 12c|:nnnu of 1&?‘8.'.‘“ o mpared wi figures for the previous 12 months, data for October showed a falling off in the number of each class of car made for sale in Can- ada, while gains were registered in only two of the types which were made for xport, viz., chassis jumped to 6,122 {from 3,413 and closed model passenger mnt rose to 1,626 from l'”ot:lm:hp:d u':‘-) Or open passenger cars 1,693 from 2,227, closed passenger cars to 5,569 from 6,774, trucks to 447 from 540, taxicabs or busses to 5 from 25 and chassis rose to 6,809 from 4,251. For the 10-month period ending October 31, 1929, the number of auto- mobiles made in Canada totaled 248,376 cars, an increase of 12 per cent over the 221,188 cars made during the corre- sponding months of last year. Output for the year to date included 33,207 open passenger cars, 146,614 closed model passenger cars, 8,353 trucks, 59,- 967 chassis and 145 taxicabs or buses. Of the October total, 5,066 cars were made for sale in Canada and the bal- ance, or 9,457, were intended for export. e apparent consumption of automo- biles in Canada during the determined by adding the 5066 cars made for sale in Canada to the 2,026 cars imported, amounted to 7,092 cars. For the year to date the apparent con- sumption, thus computed, led 206, 245 cars. Customs’ records show that 2,026 cars were imported into Canada and 9,767 exported during October to make a total of 42,618 cars imported and 91,419 cars ex uring the first 10 months of this yeas, RACE SPEEDERS PROBLEM Maryland Highway Patrolmen Face Task Third of Year. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, November 30.—Speed- ing motorists going to and returning from race meets are causing a problem g vel an regulal according to E. Austin Baughman, ] Maryland. lice receive hun- dreds and hundrecz° o of . requests details of officers to h:m’i?r the most serlous problem of this typs ANTI-FREEZE SOLUTION which they must face is that cru)tl: by the mass of persons who ‘follow the races,’ " the ‘commissioner said. X ] «