Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1930, Page 53

¢ . RIVERS' SIGHT TEST PLAN PUSHED Conservation Council Expan-' sion Program Includes Con- | fidence Building, Plans for s Nation-wide effort to se- | eure a standard test for motor vehicle | drivers as a means of reducing the heavy toll of accidents in which defec- tive vision is a factor are being made | by the Evesight Conservation Council as Part of its national expansion program It 18 announced by Proctor L. Dougherty, director of the council Creation of a wider confidence in motor vehicle transportation, improve- ment in service to the public, and a llm economic saving are among vm‘ m purposes of this program, accord ing to Mr. Dougherty. Co-operation of | business, industrial, civic and socal | organizations will be sought and efforts made to secure effective State .nd{ municipal legislation on & nationally uniform scale. A survey conducted in 68 cities with | & population of more than 100,000 has disclosed the need of immediate steps, Mr. Dougherty says, to set up some form of reasonable test which will safe- | (NE Hundred and twelve yars in daily service and so far as known without a break. . D o Crin idge on Chestnut-Ridge, known to early day travelers .on the Old National Road as Turkeys Nest-" THE S8SU T NDAY STAR. AMERICAN HISTORY BY MOTOR— HE old cut stone bridges that made safe crossings for travel on the Old'Nafifil Road are fitting menwr\‘gl; fo that hardy race of men who built not for their day- alone but for other days fo come.This bridge spans Char— tiers Creek two miles west of Washington, Pennsylvania . WASHINGTON, D. O, JUNE 22 1930—PART FOUR. (Title resistered U. & Patent Ofes.) Tmcmmfli”ne mo'h\ummt o ,the untiring advo- alt o e s Bt et toad, slands in Eim s trav- el enfers from the east. [twas built more a century agp and parts of the original are entirely gone. : —BY JAMES W. BROOKS. (Sketches by Calvin A. Fader.) S5k Rt vy a7 b i ONG before motor travel began, bridges designed like fhe letter °S "were popular on the Old National Road and there is a legend_current on the old road today that one Trishman who built a beautifully crooked” bridge was voted "100 extra as a reward for his skill. This 'S crosses Buffalo Creek, east of "Little Washington"in Pennsylvania . Next: Up Shenandoah Valley. © Ancaican Hionwav Eovcariona Buseay guard drivers and the public. Increased | speed on highways, growing density of | traffic in cities and the necessity for | closer observance of traffic signals have | resulted in demands upon the vision of | drivers which were unforeseen a few | years 0. | The ineffectiveness of such eyesight tests as are now compulsory in many States is indicated, Mr. Dougherty points MOST AUTOS TO out, by the lack of uniformity in the regulations. A 50 per cent impairment in the vision of a motor vehicle driver is rrnumlbly as dangerous to the public in one State, the couneil holds, @2 it is in another, facts fl. essential basis of any new uni- w. Co-operation with State, munieipal and town groups in efforts to secure uniform eyesight tests will be made possible, Mr. Dougherty asserts, by the new expansion plan of the council ‘This includes establishment of local councils. which will be made up of rep- resentatives of the medical profession, | the schools, business clubs, industries, the newspapers and the various social and humanitarian agencies. These councils will study motor con- ditions at first hand and work for town, municipal and State regulation under a uniform plan. The councl], whose off- cers and directors inciude engineers, educators and State and Federal offi- cials, is represented on the committee on uniformity of laws and regulations of the National Conference on Strcet and Highway Safety. The chairman of the board of the t Conservation Council is La rence W. Wallace of Washington, e ecutive secretary of the American E: gineering Council, which has devised making scientific | biles are concentrated in his locality— and all out when he is driving—should think twice before changing his resi- dence, Following are some high points taken from a complete table of motor | vehicle registrations in 1920 by States, | contained in the statistical publication | of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, “Facts and Pigures of the | Automobile Industry,” the 1930 edition | of which has just been issued: | New York State had the most pas- | senger cars, 1,922,068, also the most | motor trucks, 341,191, so naturally it had the greatest total motor vehicle registration, 2,263,259. California, second in number of pas- nger cars, 1,763,308, took first place | | in recasting the list according to popu- | | lation, for it had one passenger car for | every two and one-half persons, wh\lr‘ New York dropped to thirty-fourth place, having six persons per passsnger car. The average for the country was five persons per passenger car. | Pennsylvania was second in truck registration with 217,408, but Nevada in | proportion to population had 1134 per- | sons per truck, whereas Pennsylvania | had 47%5. The average for the country was 3614 persons per truck. | In numerical increase over 1928 of total motor vehicle registration, New York was first, 179317, but in per cent of increase the District of Columbia uniform system of traffic signs, signals | was first with 193, per cent and New and markings for the Nation. POPULATION IN CALIFORNIA; 1.763,308 TOTAL | Any one who imagines the automo-|81; per cent. The average for the country was 84 per cent California, with the second largest numerical increase, was fifteenth in the column for per cent increase for 1929, having 93, per cent. Besides the Dis- trict of Columbia, the States that gained more than 10 per cent during the year were New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Massachusetts, Georgia, Ten- nessce, Maryland, Michigan, Montana and Texas. 385 U of (lroséing Eliminations Put Total at 4,676 There were a total of 385 grade crossings eliminated on the Federal-Aid | highway system in 1929, bringing the total number abolished since 1917 to 4,676, according to the Safety Depart- ment of the American Automobile Association. The national motoring body says that 48 of the crossings were eliminated last year by grade separation bridges and 337 by relocation of the highways to avoid the rallroad. Since 1917, accord- ing to the Bureau of Public Roads, 995 crossings have been abolished by grade 'WARNS MOTORISTS OF HIGHWAY PERILS | Veteran Automobile Dealer Advises Against Sudden Stops Where Many Cars Are in Operation, Sudden stops on the highway over | |of speed should be shunned by mo- torists, says Rudolph Jose, veteran local automobile dealer. According to Mr. Jose, such sudden stops are a fertile source of mishaps. “Frequently a driver will rush by a set of direction signs and, desiring to read them, will slam on his brakes hurriedly, not only failing to give & signal, but frequently performing the stopping process too swiftly for the mo- torist behind to avold collision,” Mr. Jose ints out. “Of course, motorists should drive on the highways with sufficient space | between to take ecare of such con- | tingencies, but it is a practical fact that often this wise policy is not car- ried out, thus mlklnr the individual | motorist’s responsibility that much | greater. | “No stop should be made without a 1. And, further, the careful driver will avold sudden stops, even if he has given an adequate warning, remember- ing that the driver following him may | | Public Demand for More Rapid Autos Likely to Be Met in Early Future| By the Associated Press. ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 21.—The demand for faster automobiles may be answered through stream-lining lessons learned in aviation. Tests conducted by University of Michigan students in charge of Felix W. Pawlowskl showed the wind resistance which cars are traveling at good rates | ©f a0 ordinary motor car is between 110 and 170 pounds, absorbing between 15 and 23 horsepower of the engine, at 50 miles an hour, ‘Toy models were subjected to the air stream of & wind tunnel for tests. At 100 miles an hour, the resistance and absorbed horsepower were four times as Sty and flanks of car bodies. Eddies set up be reduced by spare tires and luggage carriers. Aeeidenil n;ducud by Boy Patrols. Accidents to school children have | been reduced from 30 to 100 per cent | through schoolboy patrols, according to “Faster cars are resulting from more powerful engines,” Pawlowski said in reporting the studies to the Society of Automotive Engineers, “and although | gnsoline is cheap, the question of re- ducing motor power through reduction of wind resistance is attracting more at- tention. “A perfect stream-lined motor car would have lessened resistance and would not stir up duat clouds on gravel roads but the ;’xnr?dlngly long sterns would be very objectionable, at least for the already acufe parking conditions.” | 1938. Rising popularity of cars quoted In the place of perfect stream-lining, | Under $700 was noted in the fact that | he recommended the rounding of sharp | 76 per cent of the imports were in the | corners and edg nd beveling of tops | low-price elass. | American Automobile Argentina Buying U. S. Autos. BUENOS AIRES (#)-—Argentin imports of American passenger automo- biles increased 21 per oent in 1929 over Association, by the blunt rear ends were found to| the District of Columbla division of the | OUTPUT EXGEEDED BY AUTO SALES 1 , {Unique Situation in Industry Due to Limiting Produc- tion in Depression. DETROIT, Mich., June 21.—I¢ is une | doubtedly true that the depression i¥ | the automotive industry, as well as the | Inckgof buying power, both resulted di« rectly and indirectly from the ever- | production which began in 1 | continued throughout 1929, accot | B. H. Cram, industry authority. During this period a surplus of fin- lshed products completely demoralized | the retail market during the latter pary of 1029 and during the first part of 1930, Manufacturers realized the dan- ! ger into which they had placed them- selves, and early this year took rather drastic steps to remedy the situation. Practically all factories announced that production policies would be materially revised and that output would be lim= | ited to the actual demand of the dealers and the public. The manufacturers have adhered to this policy with the result that production so far thfs has been at levels substantially below of 1920 and slightly below that of 1 "l;ms has brought about a unique situa on. It would appear that this conserva- | tism has not only resulted practically in the elimination of the surplus, but hes allowed the pendulum ta swing te the other end of the arc, with the result that sales, which have been increasing month by month, are now running in excess of output. It has been a long time since such a condition has existed in the automotive industry, During the first five months of 1930 | passenger car production amounted to | 1,588,269 car: Imating May domestic retail sales a 1000 units, a fairly eon- | servative figure, ‘total a rom Jan- |uary 1 to May 31, will approximate | 1,422,644 units. Leaving a surplus of 165,625 units. Exports during these five months are estimated at close to 105,000 cars, thus reducing the surplus | stocks to about 60,000 automobiles. At | the present ral of production th! amount is less than one week" debaker alone ' Yok down in nineteenth place with |separations and 3,681 by relocation: not be on the alert. 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