Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1930, Page 60

'u:' PR *bridges. whose products are not carried * HEADLIGHT GLARE BELIEVED BEATEN @afety in Night Driving Isi Predicted as Result of | New Method. AMERICAN Back Toward Colonial Days After years of unsuccessful study in an effort to overcome the dangers of glaring headlights on automobiles, Fed- eral authorities now are turning their attention to a new fleld, which, it is claimed, will revolutionize the methods of present highway illumination and as- sure safety in night driving, according to B. B. Fortney, illumination engineer of Louisville, Ky. Mr. Fortney. who is in Washington conferring with Government research and safety agencies regarding this new method of illumination, declares that safe lights on cars is one of the greatest safety problems confronting the Nation Importance Is Cited. Citing its importance, he said “1. There will be a toll of 11.500 deaths, 400,000 injuries and a property Joss of $340.000,000 in 1930 due to glar- ing and blinding lights. 2. Fully 70 per cent of the Nation's Bladensburg /ASHINGTON, DC UNDAY STAR WASHINGTON, HISTORY BY MOTOR— D. MARCH 30, (Title registered U. 8 Patent Office.) Annapolis MADE Capital of Maryland when tobacco to market in casks, hence, name which the modern travel” et em‘mmtcr in motoring back into WaSlO Road” a fading erma %l shing! lutionary A1 low to the Continental and set out for Mount Vernon , having * Rolli .In the (apitol to the left, command. of the on December 31,1183, bowed. Congress then in session finish ed,as he believed, his public fife. To the right in the Naval Acada of that valiant Scot-. Chapel lie the remains hn Paul Jones-who fought on the high seas for American liberty. 1930—PART FOUR. —BY JAMES W. BROOKS. (Sketches by Calvin A. Fader.) % W 27 car owners now avoid night driving due $o the present dangers involved 3. The speeding-up of traffic makes ection imperative. During 1929 10| States increased the maximum speed limits, while two abolished them aito- ether “The inefficiency of the present mr'h- ©d of illumination.” said Mr. Fortney, due to two reasons. First, ml')llfl"v turers have been unable to p)odu(e 2 0 per cent effective reflec n the short axis between the 1 gh' m\ncn‘ @nd the distribution lens results in an| uncontrollable beam and consequently a blinding and dazzling light. As a resul! gadical changes in the make-up of YhP lights now used, including the elimina- tion of the present large open-face lens, 4s essential Method Eliminates Glare. | “Actual experiments with this new method. which obscures the sources of light and all reflecting surfaces from view, have proved that it entirely elimi- nates glare. The reason is that the light is kept down on the highway where it belongs, instead of being sca tered, partly on the road and partly Of this sum the 48 State governments the air” He continued will expend an average of $36.05 for “The question of safety will be to the | each registered motor vehicle, for high- forefront at the forthcoming session of | way construction and maintenance of the National Conference on Street and | State highways. An average of $25.50 Highway Safety. The intervening years | per registered motor vehicle will be spent since the last meeting have failed to| by the county highway departments of bring any solution of the headlight| the 48 Statcs. The Federal Government problem. ~ All admit that regulation has | through Federal aid, will expend an ot curbed the evil and it is one for the | average of $4.80 per motor vehicle. engineers. “This national conference will do well Figures Regarded as Accurate. to consider the scientific angle from a| The figures are regarded by the A. safety standpoint, rather than from|A.as the most accurate estimates avail- that of legislation to require periodic |able to date on highway construction for adjustment of lights, built on an erro- | the coming year, being compiled from neous principle in the first instance. | State highways department Projection of light below the car own- ‘ made to President Hoover following his | er’s line of vision is the solution. plea for an enlarged highway construc- “The method of keeping the entire | tion program, as one means of aiding beam focused on the roadway also the unemployment situation. eliminates the necessity of constant| The compiled reports show a_con- switching from bright to dim lights, and | templated expenditure of $1.726.167,000 | in itself an argument for safety to b> expended in highway construction | “The headlight is the only feature of | this year. Included in this sum is the the automobile that has not kept pace | Federal- afd increased appropriation of with the general progress in the wuto- | $125,000,000, which passed the House on | motive industry. The glare from the | January 21, and the Senate on January lights on 1930 ‘models is almost as bad | 29. but which has been tied up in con- | s it was on those of 10 years ago.” | ference since that time as the result of | el | a disagreement as to the maximum ARCHITECT LAUDS lEhiwe v conatEubHot o hedera) ain AUTOMOBILE BEAUTY | funds. Society of Engineers Hears Work Reports From 48 States Quoted. “Reports from the 48 States show that in Design Given High Praise. 5635 PER MACHIE HIGHWAY AVERAGE | Spent on Maintaining Roads This Year. An average of $66.35 for highway con- struction and maintenance will be ex- pended in 1930 for each automobile reg- istered in the United States, according | to a survey just completed by the Ameri- can Motorists’ Association. m1 approximately 33,000 miles of highways mates made by the Federal Government, | based on increased Federal-aid, are that 12,000 miles annually can be completed | toward the Government's 187,753-mile | program of Federal-aid highways, de- | clares Thomas J. Keefe, general man- agsr of the A. M. A. CONDITION OFVHIGHWAYS AFFECTS LIFE OF TIRES De- Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. DETROIT, Mich., March 29.—Archi- tecture paid high tribute to automobile design here this week [ Raymond M. Hood, president of the {ucmuct}mrll League of New York and| rustee of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, as guest of Detroit Section, Sor | L Pt S4YS ciety of Automotive Engineers, said there is no art in this country, nor in any country, that has attained so high a standard as automobile design. ’ “This,” he said, “is because you have tackled the problem simply and sin-| DJBhWay is of much less concern t cerely, with minds free of the clutter | Motorist, usually, than a “busted" tir of tradition, and. above all, there has| nd vet the prolonged life of the tire been no conscious effort to search for | depends largely upon the wearing | beauty. Your one thought has been to| course. This, in plain every day lan- make an automobile that is practical | BUaBe. is the view of C. A. Hogentogler T 45 the Tast ‘door Dinge. engaged in research work with the “The_form, even to the mudguards,| United States Bureau of Public Roads 45 the form that does its work most| IN somewhat technical terms, Mr perfectly. The metal and the paint fin- | Hogentogler describes the iches are the most durable and the| & Wearing course on a highway as a Cleanest vou can devise. On the same | Means of protecting ‘“concrete bascs order, chromium is replacing nickel | A8ainst progressive breakage follow brass, because it is better metal in the Inilial load cracking,” and also the pre- weather, easier to cars for and free| tection of macadam against surface d from rust.” integration productive of total failure. (Copyrisht. 1930.) | “The protection afforded by brick wear- i ing courses to concrete bases,” says Mr BALT|MORE 'WAY AHEAD | Hogentogler, “has been very clearly shown by the report on an experimental One-Third road at Chevy chase Z Registered in Maryland. 0. K.’S A. A. A PROPOSAL. Special Dispatch to The Star BALTIMORE, March 29.—One-third Outdoor Advnmns to Co-operate of the automobiles registered in the State are now owned in Baltimore, and the number of city cars jumped from 17,790 in 1920 to more than 113,000 this year. Figures obtained from the office of E. Austin Baughman, commissioner of motor vehicles, show that in 1920 there were 101.125 cars licensed in the State. The 1930 figures show a total of 806,054 automobiles registered. of which 113,240 are owned by Baltimoreans. Don’t Forget Differential. Don't overlook the differnetial when sou oil and grease your car. It doesn't Tequire attention as often as other | running parts, but when it does need lubrication it needs, it badly | There is no industry, from pins to Prolonged Use pends in Large Measure on Road-Wearing Cause. ‘The proper wearing course for a| a e Owns of Automobiles in Preserving Scenic Views. The recent statement American Automobile A respect to highway advertising met with an immediate response from the Out- door Advertising Association of Amer- fea ssociation has informed the it fully indorses the stand the elimination of advertising structures which interfere with scentc views and that the A. A. A. program | harmonizes fully with its own clean-up campaigns that have been in force for | three years throughout the United States. [Excellent results of periodic clean-up campaigns have Connecticut and Pennsylvanta. issued by the octation with Busses Used by Railways. A total of steam railroads now use 2,115 busses. according to the Dis- trict ot Columbia Division of the _ American Automobile_Assoclation. on motor cars 7,000 Dally Go to U S. Hospitals As Result of Traffic Accidents lacerations, and went back to golf with gusty sighs of relief One out of every 10 persons can look forward, with anticipation or apprehen- In the United States last year $925.- 000,000 was collected in motor vehlele taxes, according to authoritative figures. ‘While this sum was clinking into the coffers of State and municipal govern- ments, by way of registration fees, gaso- line, municipal and personal property taxes, an almost identical amount is estimated to have been paid out in one form or another for automcbile acci- dents, Some 7.000 persons were on their way to hospitals every day, regardless of what their plans to the contrary might be, a most upsetting state of affairs About 12 per cent of them were in such a dilapidated condition that surgeons could make no repairs whatever, and they went on the human scrap heap never to run again. To most of us, inured to market losses and long strings of figures quoting the enlarged capital- ization of the last merger, the loss of a mere 31,000 lives or so makes little impression. injuries must be placed at the door of But the fact is, if everybody in | the careless motorist, fallure to observe Chicago, man, woman and child, had | regulations; to grant the same courtesy been involved in a motor accident in|on the road that would be observed in 1926, it would just about approximate \ the home, and a tendency to regard the the number (hmu hout the _country | power who Lndul;ed in th excil rm al ece of yecreation year, coun their | kiddie car, ment year. to being injured by accident this This is not a threat but a promise—from the insurance com- panies. More of these people will be injured in motor accidents than by any other one cause. Rabbit feet worn around the neck have very little effect in_reducing this average, but shatter- proof glass has. In fact. the Massa- chusetts Mutual Liability Insurance As- socintion estimated that if all the cars in_the country were equipped with safety glass, the number of injuries could be reduced by 250,000 The blame does not lie with the motor car manufacturer. He has been adopting various safety devices right along, and, alive to the glass hazard, is now beginning its_elimination. Most of the blame for accidents and Survey Shows Sum to Be' A, | Statistics which are comparable in b reports, | are to be improved in 1930, while esti- | functions of | been had in | sion, depending on one’s idea of amuse- | rhnt under him as a simple m as innocent as a 'EDUCATION URGED TO CHECK | t GROWING TRAFFIC MISHAPS Five Cents an Hour| Effective Handling of Congestion Problem Parmelec Effective handling of the highway | trafic and congestion problem depends | in large measure on the collection, com- pilation and practical analysis of uni- form and standardized accident and | traffic statistics by the different States. | This is the belief expressed by Dr. | Julius H. Paremlee, director of the Bu- reau of Railway Economics, chairman lof the statistics committee of the Na- tional Conference on Street and High- | way Safety and prominent as an econo- mist and statistician in the transporta- tion field While not specifically urging a stand- |ard statistical form for collecting and | | reporting accident and other traffic | | data, Dr. Parmelee pointed out that ef- fective steps toward meeting the prob- lem as a whole must be based upon ure and generally similar in classifica tion and grouping. Must Show Need for Remedy. “In proposing traffic remedies or in | devising regulations and restrictions, we stallize in the minds of | the public the magnitude and complex- ity of the problem,” he said. “It avails little to propose a remedy |or a regulation if at the same time we do not make clear and unmistakable | the necessity for such a measure. This can be accomplished in the most ef fective way through the channel of uni- | form statistics. To my mind, they offer the means for comparable study and | for scientific approach to the whole congestion and accident prob- lem. Dr. Parmelee pointed out that the country as a whole is not sufficiently fortified as to data on traffic acci- dents—their types, causes and frequepcy. He asserted that these factors shouid | be measured in specific and comparable statistical terms. “Some agency in every State should be clothed with authority to receive ac cident and traffic reports and to com- pile and co-ordinate them.” he added. “Reasonabie uniformity in tabulating and reporting the figures from these reports is essential. “Many things are to be learned of the congestion and accident problem through such statistics. _First, there is the factor of road and lighting condi- | tlons; second, there is the type and condition of the car; third, the ele- ment of age, experience and physical condition of the driver, and, last, the primary cause of the accident. Data Will Prove Aid. “Information of this nature will as- | sist the highway authorities in every State and municipality in definitely putting their finger on the most fre- quent causes of accidents and will aid more quickly and effectively to devise remedies.” Dr. Parmelee expressed the belief that the people of the country will realize the serious aspect of the congestion and | accident blem only when it is put before them clearly in statistical terms. Among the factors susceptible to con- crete analysis in the traffic and acci- dent problem, Dr. Parmelee pointed to recklessness of motorists and careless- ness of pedestrians. More than 700,000 persons are being injured in traffic ac- cidents each year, he continued, but the country has no comprehensive grasp as to the magnitude or frequency of each direct or contributing cause. “Traffic and accident statistics of this nature can be made the basis of education in the schools and fonal work among drivers and rians. If safety education ‘is to accomplish’ its best results, we must know the scope and magnitude of each primary cause of congestion and acci- dents It is entirely likely that a study of traffic rule violations from the notations on the records of drivers' licenses will veal that a small part of the licensed possibly from 2 to 5 per cent— are_habitual_and_reckless violators of WHERE TO MOTOR AND DINE PETER PAN INN AU Urbana. Md. 3 mi. south of Frederick 43 mi. from Washington. Country Ham, Steak and Chicken Dinners, $1.50 Week-day Lun Week-day Dinne: % The Tarry Tavern Two Miles From Mt Vernon On the Richmond to ngton Hig Famous for its Fried Chicken & fle Dinners, Hot Biscuits & Honey Mrs. M. E. Brown. Hostess. Phone Lorton i-H ty CRAY'S_ HILL INN Grerlooking the Polomac of Formerly a va Vernon Luncheon Dinner Richmond Road—16 Mi.—Ph. Lorton 3-F “The Place to Eat” | MILLER BROS | 119 West F. Baitimore. M e Sann. & By Between Alerandria % Mount Vernon On Richmond Road Home CooKi ‘Luncheon or " Supper 85¢- 8100 ™ Dinner $113 /8100 — Would Be Aided by Study, Dr. BCHCVCS. ‘Tral'fic Jam Costs traffic and safety rules, and that pos- | sibly three-fourths of the drivers of the country have no violations noted on their records. “The accident problem then would be clearly one of dealing effectively with a small part of the total number of persons who are driving automobiles and responsible for the reckless drmng | factor. “It is difficult, indeed, to say vlhht proportion of the drivers of automobiles | are responsible for reckless driving ac- | cidents until we are in possession of de- | pendable and comparable statistics on this point.” In Gasoline Alone Traffic delays in congested busi- ness districts cost passenger car dris ers an average of 5 cents an hour gasoline alone, according to detatled studies of congestion costs made by the Albert Russell Erskine Bureau for Street Traffic Research. The same studies place the cost to motor truck operators as high as 50 cents an hour for all items, including wages The estimates are based on extreme conditions are found in Boston, where surveys revealed that delays of various types consumed an average of nearly 40 per cent of the running time of motor vehicles operating in the con- gested districts. Speaking of Popularity! Prom lowa Frivol *f5 Your daughter popular?” “Popular! Why, I can't park within three blocks of my house.” !MARYI.AND BRIDGE CONTRACTS GIVEN C. Conway Is Awarded Four| Jobs Preparatory to Widening of Highway. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE. March 29—In prepa- ration for starting work of widening the Baltimore-Washington Boulevard south from Laurel to Hyattsville from | 20 to 40 feet, the State roads com- mission awarded contracts for exten- sions to the five bridges on that section | of the pike. Contracts for four were awarded to A. C. Conaway on his bid of $12,086, while the contract | for the bridge over Paint Branch at College Park was given to W. C. Brid- | dell, who was the low bidder at $12,696. ‘The commission awarded contracts | for the surfacing of 414.17 miles of lateral roads in every county in the State with a ccating of either tar or of the bridges | !a.qphalt covered with a scattering of gra\'el or stone chips, as follows: Districts 1 and 2, which includes Caroline, Cecil, Queen Annes, Talbot, | Wicomico and Worcester counties, 33.44 }mnn of road, to the Atlantic Refining Co of Philadelphia, at $6,929.16. District 3, parts of Montgomery and Prince Georges counties, 29.33 miies, to the Southern Asphalt Co. of Richmond, at_$4,859.76. District 4, Baltimore and Harford counties, 41.49 miles, to the same com= | pany, at $7.289.41. District 5, parts of Carroll, Frederick, Howard, Montgomery and Washington | counties, 62.57 miles, to the same com- pany, at $11,007.79. District 6, parts of Allegany, Fred- erick, Garrett and Washington coun- ties, 101.59 miles, to the Atlantic Re- | fining Co., at $21,311.36. Districts 3-A and 8. parts of Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Howard, Prince Georges and St. Marys coun- ties, 148.75 miles, to the Barrett Co. of Philadelphia, at $97,515.23. A total of 1,279,821 gallons of oil will be spread over the entire mileage by the successful bidders, nnd work must be completed by July Last vear 490 mlles ‘of State roads were oiled ere is no finer englneer 1ng G0OD HIGHWAYS PROMOTE BUSINESS [Truck Tonnage and Motor Passenger Traffic Depend Upon Serviceable Roads. | That heavy truck tonnage and high- way passenger traffic has a long lead | over the mileage of dependable high- | ways. and that lessons so far learned as to the economy of building roads well | at the outset has cost the public mil- | lions of dollars, is the view of George | F. Schlesinger, chief engineer and man- | aging director of the National Paving | Brick Manufacturers' Association. Discussing the experience which mo- | torists and taxpayers generally have had | since the rapid rise of automotive tran: | portation, Mr. Schiesinger cites Clev |land as an example of how the public may reduce overhead costs in road ; building. Always Room for New Methods. | “There will always be room for new methods and principles in highway construction,” says Mr. Schlesinger, “but considering the vast sums of money which have been spent for engineering experience during the past few years— and this expenditure has amounted to millions—it appears reasonable to as- sume that it is about time for the pul lic to begin receiving the full beneflc ol that experience. “In Cleveland, for example, where we find one of the larger urban centers of the United States, city authorities ha had long and varied experience with pavements of all types. As a part of the legislation incident to street paving projects, the director of public service was called upon to estimate the life of the improvements. In his estimate he allowed 15 years for brick on a concrete base and 10 years where an asphaitic wearing surface on concrete or rein- | forced concrete is used. Life of Brick Roads Shown. In other words, the public service di- rector of Cleveland, as a result of past experiments, was able to fix the life of a vitrified brick road, for example, as 50 per cent longer than other types. “The experience thus gained,” said Mr. Schlesinger, “is now being put to practical and profitable use in behaif of taxpayers on the heavy traffic thor- oughfares that recent years have de- veloped around the fifth city of the United States. 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