Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1930, Page 60

' THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, T pe———a— TIME IN MARYLAND National Highway Improve- ments Unhampered by Weather. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md, rch 8.—Im- provemens that will mean ‘the cutting down of running time to Baltimore, wn.hmfian and other points east from Cumberland at least 20 minutes are rapidly going ahead on the National Highway, Route 40, on mountains be- tween Cumberland and Hancock. Win- ter has not interfered with the grading ‘The work has been so arranged that trafic_has not been interfered with at all. There are no detours. By August 1, it is assured. all new sections wil in full use and the National Highway from Frostburg to Baltimore will have been completely shouldered and in modern alignment. During the past season about 33 miles of concrete shoulders have been completed from Conococheague, five miles west of Hagerstown, to the top of Martins Mountain, nine miles east of Cumber- land State Roads Commission, under direction of District Leo T. Downey, has back-filled and brought up Wwith macadam these shoulders to perfect the road! Three incomplete sections are now under construction by way of grading to make line changes and improve the general alignment and riding qualities of the re ‘The grading on Sideling Hill, the of the five big mountains in going from Cumberland to Hancock, 475 miles, will be completed by the Cumberland Contracting Co. about March 15. Another section, from the bottom of Town Hill to the top of Green Ridge, seven miles in length, far which the Thomas-Bennett-Hunter Co. has the contract, will be completed about the same time. Work Started on Slope. On the west slope of Polish Mountain, the second mountain encountered in go- ing east of Cumberland, which has the most tortuous curves of any of the five in the 39 miles between Cumberland and Hancock, the shovel was started nearly two weeks ago and this grading will have been completed by April 1. After these sections have been grad- ed it is the intention to lay concrete shoulders mg ux:ucldlm across the relocations an e regular back fill of macadam at all other points along the concrete shoulders. While the distance be materially shortened, bad the mountains will be by the improved alignment. ‘The motorist will be able to up more following the removal of scores of sharp turns which necessitated slow- ing down. The liability of accident will also be materially reduced. Among the most striking instances of change is about midway, the western slope of Sideling Hill, where for a quar- ter of a mile a complete new roadbed is being made, substituting a long curve for three reverse curves. Another is the making of the eastern side of Town Hill, which, next to the west side of ber of sharp curves, straight line except at the where there is a long, gradual curve. ‘The reverse curve at the foot of Polish Mountain, on the west side, will be re- placed by a long wide curve with no Teverse. It was at first contemplated to make a straight line approach, but it was found a of too great magnitude would be required. The road from Frost- burg to Baltimore will be at no point less than 20 feet wide, with the metal surface on curves more than 20 feet. Several important changes in ent were made last Fall. This_int new approach to the of om\' Ridge on the west side and reloca) of the roadbed at points in the vicinity of Piney Grove, where heretofore it would occasionally be flooded from the rapid rise of a small stream. Other Important Projects. There are a number of other im- Em.mt projects to be carried out dur- g the coming season. One calls for another connection between the Na- tional Highway and the Lincoln High- way. It is a two-mile project, starting at the western end of Grantsville, to- ward the Pensylvania line, to connect with the road to Salisbury and on to the Lincoln Highway. The ing has been completed. This will give two roads connecting with the Lincol h- way but five miles apart, the other starting near the Stone House, four miles east of Grantsville. the past season three miles have been under construction from the end of the Deer Park road over the mountain to Kitzmiller. It is expected this section will be completed by the middle of June. A new section of about five miles has been advertised and is to be built this year. This will give a modern concrete road to Kits- miller, on the Potomac River, where connection will be made with the West Virginia system, Blaine, W. Va., just opposite Kitzmilier, which in turn connects with the Northwesternport pike. In connection with the North- ‘western pike, a move is on foot to make it a part of a cross-continent system, to be known as National Highway, or route 50. This will give Cumberland zople a new scenic route, going to tzmiller by way of Mountain Lake Park and returning by way of Keyser. A grade crossing is being eliminated at Wilson, Md., by an overhead bridge over the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio. This is near Oakland. At Loch Lynn Heights it is contemplated to build two miles of road this season. ‘The contractors have completed the substructure at Gormania for the erec- tion of a new bridge which will span the Potomac River and the Western Maryland Railroad tracks at that place. This bridge is being built jointly by Maryland and West Virginia and is a part of the Northwestern turnpike sys- tem. !ex?lneer MILITARY ROAD OPENS MOROCCO TO TOURISTS Territory Beyond Atlas Mountains Is Made Accessible to Motor Car by French Program. Crossing the Atlas Mountains _in French Morocco by means of a fine military road is a new experience for tourists in that country, the foreign travel division of the American Auto- mobile Association says. “The new military road is being built by the soldiers of the French Legion,” the statement says, “and its construc- tion is well under way. This highway will eventually reach places never be- fore accessible except by caravan. It is modern in every respect. France hopes to achieve permanent pacification by the army of her possessions in Morocco through this road. “In the Spanish Morroccan gone south of Tangiers new military roads are glso being built. The Spanish government is constructing fine modern through the mountain passes in this district, with high banked curves and easy grades. The new roads replace mule tracks used by the §) h army since the time of Charles NEED SUMMER CARE. ‘The hundred or so horses Which are working for you under the hood of your car require some special attention dur- the Summer. ake sure that you have good, clean ofl ‘and plenty of good, clean water. Also keep the oll in your motor clean changing the cartridge in your ofl iter every 8,000 miles. To keep thé water cool see t the fan belt is adjusted. It should be reason- ably t, but care should be taken not to place excessive tension on it. being | . 1edo, A s 69, bore l;l'a"}nut _m\til,l& hundredth It 15 mjtm E storg of Ramona centers avound. is quiet place. Here Helen Hunt Jackson based her tomantic appeal for unt justice for the red man, as Harriet Beecher Stowe had done for the black. man. Ramona’s home is within easy sight seeing 1 around. &b Y sight seeing range COURT DECISIONS AIMED ATMOTORING One of Wide Application Re- lates to Insurance and Auto | Law Violations. Two decisions of major \m}wrunte to motorists in the District of Columbia and throughout the country has just been rendered by the United States Supreme Court and reported by the legal department of the American Mo- torists’ Association. Of the two, the one having the wider application to the motoring public es- tablishes the principle that if a motor car owner, having insurance, violates o city ordinance, in contravention to the provisions of the insurance policy, that the insurance company cannot be held liable in case of accident. Decision Briefly Outlined. The condensed facts are these: An Ohio motorist had insurance, the policy providing that the company would not be liable for damages done by the mo- torist's car if it was bel operated by any person “under the age limit fixed by law.” The State law permitted per- sons above 16 to operate motor ve- hicles. A municipal ordinance of Lake- wood, Ohio, however, prescribed the age minimum as 18 years. The driver at the time of the accident was 17 years of age. Judgment was obtained against the car owner and he paid damages. He in turn sued the insurance company, obtaining judgment in the lower court. judgment was affirmed by the Cir- cuit Court of Appeals, but was reversed by the United States Supreme Court, fildlnt the insurance company was not | e. “The liability of the insurer, by rea- son of the city ordinance, is precluded under the terms of the exclusion clause, the Supreme Court declared. “The fact that a State law makes the minimum age limit for automobile operators 16 years would not. affect the situation, since the city had the authority, in the exercise of its delegated power to regu- late the use of its streets, to pro- hibit the operation of automobiles by minors under 18 years of age.” Decision Covers Revoked Permits. ‘The second decision held that reci- grocll.y between the District of Colum- ia and Virginia, or other States, does not cover revoked permits. A motorist | in the District of Columbia had his permit revoked; he moved to Virginia, obtained a driver’s permit from that State and continued to operate his au- tomobile in the District of Columbia with Virginia tags. He was arrested and convicted. On appeal to a higher court his conviction was reversed. The District Court of Appeals took the view that under the iprocity agreement with Virginia he would be entitled to drive an automobile in the District while holding a Virginia germlt. ‘The United States Supreme urt again reversed the decision and that reciprocity was not involved 0! held and that a motorist whose driver’s per- mit had been revoked in the District would be subject to prosecution for op- | erating an automobile in the District | under a Virginia license. “Each of the decisions,” Thomas J. Keefe, general manager of the A. M. A, points out, “is of importance because it definitely fixes the liability of motorists under these circumstances and, having been decided by the Nation's highest law tribunal, becomes absolute and final law.” ARCHAIC STREETS BLOCK MOTOR INFLUX Communities Are Urged to Modern- ize Building Program and Replace Obsolete Highways. Street and road progress has been rapid within the last few years, so rapid that numberless communities are still pavements that are not at all r the heavy influx of automo- biles, according to E. E. Duffy, highway build! suited educational writer. Towns and cities the country over are largely equipped with pavements that were designed for the leisurely horse, which relgned when loads and vehicles | were light and when bumps and rough | spots didn't matter Highway authorities are in accord on the thought that every should modernize the bulk well paved, holey, jagged, bumpy surfaces. Spring is in the offing, and the havoc of Winter is becoming more and more | apparent. Chuck holes in community street designs and | have a rehabilitation program under way with the purposeful replacement of antique highway surfaces by pavements that are both smooth and long-wearing. Aside from the wear and tear that poor pavements inflict on the motor- ist’s car and pocketbook, they also ac- count in a large measure for traffic congestion. Even small towns find that of the traffic is confined to a few through streets which have been and that countless other streets carry little traffic because of Down on the shimmering sands of | Day a Beach, where at low tide a 150-yard-wide stretch of smooth packed highway stretches a 12-mile course be- | tween the lapping waves of the Atlantic | and the landward bulwarks of the sand | | dunes, speed kings of the world will bat- | | tle for the title of undisputed master of the roaring road. Over on the main- |land, across the Halifax River, where | the town of Daytona Beach plays host to thousands of Winter visitors, signs on | the street posts point the way to the | venturesome achievements of the men |who will try between March 15 and | March 30 to upset the mark of 231.26 | |miles an hour set last year by Sir | Henry O. D. Segrave in his Golden Ar- row. These signs spell out singulas blandishments, capped with the sig rificant statement and question, “Speed | races, March 15-30; 260 M. P. H?" Will Kaye Don, British speed driver, |be able to shatter Segrave's mark in | his 24-cylinder Sunbeam Silver Bullet? Will another at present unheard-of | driver break Segrave’s mark and leave a swirl of silver sand laughing at Don as he thunders down the beach? Will | Death play a hand in this reckless game of thundering motors and hard-packed sands on the world’s greatest natural speedway? 15-Day Period Set for Trials. These questions will only be answered in the 15-day period set aside for the | races, when Daytona Beach, ordinarily a beautiful, lazy Winter resort and one of the prettiest towns in Florida, be- comes the center of a seething crowd of race enthusiasts. Already the long, lean speedsters are making their appearance at the beach, mw'eg to tha"nc;;m of :-l'w't;“p;t:nl‘rhi 5 conques prosaic touring c: lr:d limousines, whose topmost speed is a sedate 75 or 80 miles an hour, for racing cars do not travel along the highways under their own power. ey do not get into high gear until they have attained the top speed of an ordi- nary car, and the sight of a racing car, even if the roads permitted such speed, traveling along a highway at speed in excess of 100 miles an hour, might upset ka Rivers, if it didn't set back the | growth of grapefruit and oranges by & | few days. Daytona Beach proper is on an is- land which stretches something like 20 miles in length between the outlets of the Halifax and the Tomoka, and for 12 miles of its length offers the world's finest automobile speedway. Washed and | of the Atlantic Ocean, the speedway proper stretches from the pier and casino | at Daytona Beach down to the con- fluence of the Halifax with the ocean. Tires Leave No Imprint. At low tide a shimmering stretch of sand, packed almost to the consistency | of concrete, makes its appearance be- | tween the palmetto-crowned landward dunes and the lapping waves of the | ocean. So hard is this sand packed that | | tires of even the heaviest cars leave no imprint, and the surface may only be | dented by a hard glancing blow. The thundering whine of a super- charger, a swirl of light surface sand and a racing car goes by at 150 miles an hour, yet no imprint of its passage is left on the surface of this ocean- built speedway. Man could not have fashioned a finer strip of surface on which to test the roaring wings of his mechanical eagles. Nature herself has done the job far better than man could have done. The slope from dunes to waves is 80 gradual that there is little likelihood of | gravity pulling the car from its course toward the ocean. Only a few houses dot the landward expanse of sea beach from the spot where ambitious plans for a massive hotel flivvered out a few years ago, at the mouth of the Halifax, 12 miles north, to the casino and pier. The racing cars start at the south end of the beach, working toward max- imum speed at the start of the meas- ured mile over which the speed tests are made. North of the pler, toward Or- mond, six miles from-Daytona Beach, the sand strip narrows in spots and is not fitted for the hazardous speed trials because of its lack of continuity. Death Stalks Course. In past years death has stalked along the stretch of sands, killing two drivers within two years and also killing a photographer who ventured too near the path of the roaring steeds of speed. On April 25, 1928, a rear tire blew out on the machine piloted by Frank Lock- hart and he skidded to his death only a short distance from the judges’ tower. That disaster nearly claimed a dozen other lives among the spectators along the sand dunes. Last March Lee Bible, a comparative novice in the piloting of speedy race cars, closed the throttle on his 36-cylin- der Triplex too soon and plunged to his death just past the finish of the meas- ured mile. Charles Traub, a news pho- tographer, who had walked upon the course from the dunes, went to death | with him in the mass of roaring, tum- bling steel. But this year officlals in charge of inferior | the speed contests plan to exercise every street surfaces are as much harbingers | possible precaution to avoid the disas- of Spring as a game of marbles on the corner Iot. Year in and year out the toming of Spring means the coming of the street repair gang and the going of taxpay- ers’ money. Most street repairs come out of a community’s general funds, rry much, because he isn't levied directly for this and the taxpayer doesn't wol ters of other years. Val Haresnape, for- mer secretary of the contest board of the American Automobile Association, who is directing the speed tournament at Daytona this year, is proceeding along lines designed to guard both drivers and spectators from death or injury. His precautions include rigid policing of the course and rigid entry repair. But he foots the bill just the | rules to avoid inexpert drivers and un- same. If street repairs were paid for by direct levies, taxpayers would insist on better pavements. Modern traffic demands smooth, hard surfaces, and where they are not sup- lied automobile operating costs are igh, pavement upkeep is out of line and satisfaction is conspicuous by its In_the words of one prominent city official, “Keep repair streets by building the the | turers have been indifferdpt to the speed trials Daytona, non-presence. fepairs "t Tens ‘pavement when pavement. is laid." safe cars. srccuwrl this year will be kept back 12 feet from the edge of the dunes and ocean arptuachefi from Atlantic Boule- vard will be closed by gates. A steel timing _tower in front of the grand- stand behind the dunes will be further fortified by a stotkade of the ever-pres- ent cabbage palmetto trunks deeply set in_the sand. Why it is that American manufac- i mot known &t Di the alligators in the Halifax and Tomo- | packed twice a day by the pounding seas | © Awesan Highvay Buction! Burea, Woshintn.D.C. WORLD AWAITS ATTEMPT TO SET 'NEW SPEED RECORD FOR AUTOS| Briton, With 24-Cylinder Sunbeam Silver‘- Bullet, Is Leading Claimant for Segrave‘s Honors. but it is & fact that most of the speed- sters in the trials come from England. This year the featured entry is an Eng- lishman, Kaye Don, who is already on his way to Daytona with a Sunbeam- Coatelen car, engineered by the famous signer. He was in Washington last week. The opinion among Americans seems to be that the American automo- bile business is too busy making cars for sale to devote its attention to super- speed. J. M. White of Philadelphia is not a maker of commercial automobiles in the 1 sense. He has gone into the high-speed field, however, to a consider- able extent, and it was his 36-cylinder Triplex which Bible drove to his death last year. Daytona Beach authorities understand that White is to enter a 48-cylinder machine in 19881, bly to set a new all-time record, even though some hold the view that the maximum of speed on land has nearly be'erx;wmchedi . main factor governing speed, ac- cording to the tests last year, is the durability of tires, which burn them- selves out quickly under the intense heat generated by the speed at which the monster machines are run. Se- grave's tires of last year were guaran- teed by the manufacturers to last only 15 seconds at 240 miles per hour. Don has with him the Don- Coatelen designed British-built car with which he hopes to beat Segrave's rec- ord. Interest of the engineer in Don's attempt to shatter ve's record will | be intensified by the t that Coatelen also designed the Mystery 8, in which | Segrave first set a world speed record | of more than 200 miles an hour back in 1927, Frenchman Designed Car. Coatelen is a Frenchman, 51 years of , who has lived in England half his life and has been identified with the Sunbeam Co. for many years. Before the war he was interested in aviation, and when the war broke out the Sunbeam-Coatelen engines were said to be the only ones of British manufacture which had sufficient power to fly British seaplanes. These engines were in-the aircraft which gave the Navy high command the news of the disposition of the German fleet at Jut- land and also played a part in Gen. ‘Townshend's campaign in Mesopotamia. The engines used in Don's challenger | are products of Coatelen, and were de- | signed, it is said, for work on the | largest airplanes, which accounts for | their great power. The Golden Arrow, present recordholder, was designed by Capt. Jack Irving, in conjunction with Maj. Segrave, who drove the car to its remarkable record of more than 231 miles an hour on March 11, 1029, breaking the record set the previous ear by Capt. Malcolm Campbell. ‘Will this marvel of all speedways see a new world record, or will the mark set by Segrave stand up this year? These are the questions race enthusi- asts are trying to thrash out as Day- tona Beach points a beckoning finger |to the hosts who would watch the | roaring monsters of steel. Speed Makes for Better Cars. What are the practical results of this contest for speed supremacy? This question frequently is asked by the Jayman, who does not know what speed has done to make his family car a better automobile. Advances in carbu- retion, in tire design, in body design and countless other improvements in automobile design have come from the tests at Daytona and other speed tests on the speedways of the Nation. For it is reasonable to assume that if a certain improvement stands up under the greatly enhanced strains of great 8] it will do well at ordinary road speeds. PLAN STATE-WIDE DRIVE ON “OBSCURE” AUTO TAGS Maryland State Police in Campaign to Weed Out Motorists Who Violate Law. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, March 8.—Maryland State police will start another State- wide drive against obscure automobile license tags on Monday, E. Austin Baughman, commissioner of motor ve- hicles, announces. The campalgn to have markers placed 50 as to be readily visible will follow the lines of the recent drive during which more than 500 motorists were swrped. ‘Those whose tags were comp fined $10 each. Others were week in which to have the position of their tags chlnxed. Baltimore and police of other cities in lh? State are to co-operate in the cam- paign. WHERE TO MOTOR AND DINE “The Place to Eat” MILLER BROS. 119 West Fayett Baltimore, Maryl Sea Food a Specialty On Richmond Road 2 heen; Sermar'® Hom£ CéoKin Luncheon or French automotive engineer and de-| D. C. MARCH 9, nomic Scheme. Special Dispatch to The Star. expected to retail, plan to be operative this now in progress, be_revised. Factory executives, dealers alike recognize the consistently lowered for the last years. cars has increased to drive this We have put this Golden Rocket demonstrator on the streets to in- troduce you to the superior perform- ance of the New Oakland Eight. We want you to know General Motors' lowest-priced eight by what it does, with your own hands at the controls. The Golden Rocket is symbolic of this car's tremendous speed and power. Its engine develops 85 horsepcier. That means one horsepower io every 37 pounds of car weight, a ratio that is not approached in any other car of Oakland's size and weight. That's why RETAIL AUTO SALES REFORM HELD NEED Overhead to Dealers Seen Out of Proportion in Eco- DETROIT, MICH, March 8.—One | effect of the readjustment which the automobile industry is undergoing 1s| be the reform of condi- tions under which cars are handled at| With the $15,000,000 junking ear and a wholesale push-out of second-hand cars there has developed a general sentiment that conditions gov- | erning retail selling of new cars must distributors and fact that the cost of cars to the public has been At the same time the materials that go into them, the performance | that they give and their lifetime of | service have been bettered. While this has been going on, it likewise is con- | ceded that the cost of marketing the To put it briefly, the overhead has 1930—PART FOUR. —BY (Sketches by Calvin A. Fader.) become too great. It has increased until it is altogether out of proportion in the economic scheme. ‘Therefore there is an orderly move- ment on foot to normalize things and to give the retail end the “break” it should have. Conferences have been held between accredited representatives of the makers and the dealers’ division. What the dealers are asking for has been summed up in a presentment sponsored by the National Automobile Dealers’ Association. This was first voiced in Chicago during the National Automobile Show week in January. Warren E. Griffith, past president, read it before the annual meeting of the dealers’ organization. At this session leaders of the National Automobile Deal- e;'s' Association were present by invita- tion. Two weeks ago Mr. Griffith, who is producing companies, was invited to Detroit and delivered the message be- rttz;e the Detroit Auto Dealers’ Associa- tion. Changes Suggested. His report listed steps that the fac- tories should take to improve dealer retail trade conditions. 1. Elimination of the fleet buyer's discount. This is the price concession which the factory consents to in cases 10 | ber of cars by companies that use them. 2. Factorles to keep production just under consumption, because production and its problems are considered the source of difficulties experienced by dealers. The complaint is made that few factories have any ‘“measuring stick” as to dealer profit, and that sales executives too often “load up” dealers Toledo distributor for one of the large | C, where large deals are made for a num- | gh JAMES W. BROOKS. TS LA e k] with more cars than they can handle profitably. 3. Abolition of open territory and 8 return to closed territory, which would give dealers the exclusive right to sell within certain areas. This is recom- mended as a means of stopping “car bootlegging,” a practice that unscrupu- lous dealers indulge in. They violate factory agreements and sell cars at sacrifice prices. 4. Factory policies whereby unsold 5?." at zmr Bl;d let the season should be posed of at clean-up’ prices. 5. Fewer model changes and in more orderly fashion. Must Reduce 1929 Stock Concurrent with Mr. Griffith's De- troit address has come a report from A. Vane, general manager of the ional Automobile Dealers’ Associa- tion, in which he finds that tendance at shows and the more fa' able attitude of factories on car ship- ments have combined to produce a bet- ter state of mind since first of the year. He says the dealers have learned the wisdom of 30 days’ supply of new and used cars at any time of any year. They are determined that a reduction of 1929 models still in stock must come acturers that production will be governed by demand, and have made up their minds that this demand be made known at the point of retail sale, and not at the point of production. (Copyright, 1830, North American Newspaper Alliance.) ThegoLD Demonstrator repre, easily you can handle convenient, arrange at for @ demonstration. consider the purchase learn at the wheel. so few cars can match it in speed, in & moimum pick-up or in elimbing the steepest hills. It is making new records over some of the steepest grades in the United States. “The NE OAKLAND J. L. JERMAN 3342 M St. N.W. BAILEY MOTOR CO. Mt. Rainier, Md. Beharen Stor co. b ¢ PRBIR Sltare. ALTOONA'S STIFFEST GRADE TIME E. L. Shellenberger of Al- toona, Pa., writes: “With in @ New L. P. STEUART, Inc. DISTRIBUTOR. ” THERE'S A RELIABLE OAKLAND-PONTIAC DEALER NEAR YOU PADGETT-JOYCE MOTOR CO. 712 E St. SE- BORDEN MOTOR CO. Bethesda, Md. ND' Co. "'c-'-'f’i.'( S 8} Serv. k8% co. AWARN e oo %fl‘!‘ U e H TEMPLE MOTOR CO. Alexandria, Va. Mt lls: oo, R SUGGESTS CHANGE - INTRAFFIC LAWS Bureau Director Would Cre- ate Speocial Court for Trial of Minor Violations. Speetal Distpatch to The Star. BOSTON, March 8.—Motorists gullty of minor traffic law violations are not offenders and their cases should be diverted from overcrowded courts, which are already the weakest link in the machinery of traffic law en- forcement, according to Miller McClin- tock, director of the Erskine Bureau for Street Traffic Research. In a report to the Massachusetts De- partment of Public Works McClintock advocates the establishment of ‘“‘cafe- teria traffic courts” or fines bureaus which automatically fix penalties and collect fines for minor offenses without the usual court formalities. These bu- reaus rapidly dispose of the bulk of cases which normally congest the courts, leaving the latter free to take more effective action on serious offenses. The “cafeteria court” plan originated in Detroit and has been successfully lfltfimd in several other large cities, in- clu Ln? Chicago and San Francisco. ‘The plan mes motorists the option of walving trial and paying the standard fine for the offense or demanding court trial. Unless the driver demands a court trial payment can be made to a court clerk without delay. If the offense is serjous or if records shew the driver to be a habitual ofle&der. formal court In some cities cases arising from this source are often more numerous than all other ordinance violations com- bined,” McClintock states. “When cities attempt to handle all traffic cases by the same complicated machinery designed for criminal cases Jt 18 almost impossible for the courts to perform their services with any degree of eficiency. The result is a notable lack of certainty and firmness in en- forcing all traffic regulations. “It is a well known principle in the administration of justice that the cer- . | tainty of punishment for an offense is more of a restraining influence than the penalty itself. 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