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"VIEW HIGH SPEED ROUTE TO GOTHAM Engineers Hope to Overcome Opposition in Phila- delphia. Ancnher link in a high-speed route to New York and the North from Wash- ington is in the making, and may be ut m use within a couple of years if e influential and moneyed individuals who reside along Philadelphia’s famed “main line” do not succeed in spiking the move to detour through trafic around the City of Brotherly Love. ‘With the Baltimore - Washington Boul nearing completion, provid- ing & four-lane, high-speed thorough- fare between the two cities, and with the Newark-Jersey City viaduct leading direct to the entrance to the Holland ‘Tunnel, the foundation has been well iaid for & high-speed road from the Nation’s Capital to the Nation's largest city, which will avoid the tedious, troublesome business of traveling throu‘:'h large centers t:: mgm. u}t now pmgmd to rou traffic around fladelphia and avoid that tiresome ride up Broad street and out the Roosevelt Boulevard. If that re- ro\mnz of tnlm is consummated, as ly remaining obstacle in a -lpeed boulevard from Washing- ton to New York will be a route around Baltimore, and that is already being talked of. Opposition Raised. But up in_Philadelphia s group g( ADOPTS STANDARDS OF THE BEAUX ARTS Auto Industry Gives In- £ i § ] : i %é?g g creasing Attention to Appearance. R. H. in the automobile lustry, says. “Since the automobile first became an important factor in public life around 1912 we have heard much about beauty of design, eve appeal and art standa says Flulkner “The truth of the m‘t- many automobile d been atrocities from & point of Engineers Sought Utllity. - | vocations, rehll ture. ‘wheel bnxu, hundreds of Briefly, came closed cars, four- t-eight engines and Impmvunenn body curves be s trical the lines of m tmdm’#mm‘“ the top must eon!vrm." FAIR SEX HELD EQUAL TO MALE MOTORISTS Director of Baltimore Safety Coun- cil Champions Woman 5 Drivers. Special Dispatch to The Star. Rodgers avenue in back of Maryland's historic race track to Belvedere avenue to Charles Street avenue, out the latter thoroughfare (a continuance of Balti- more's famous Charles street) to Tow- either the Conowingo Philadelphia road. It can be done, but 1t is not recommended for the motorist who does not know his way around the Monumental City. Too much chance to get lost. Too much indecision as to which road to take. By the time the unfamiliar motorist found his way through these thoroughfares, he might as well have gone down town to Faygie street or out North avenue through the traffic, as to lose time searching for roads of whose whereabouts he is ignorant. But sooner or later, Baltimore will come to the same situation Philadelphia 1s coming to, if we take literally the statement of highway el eers that the ultimate h“y of the future is a four-lane, --‘:ed -n(ryw -m: practically no maximum Iud ‘which, above all, of population and traffic. Ready for Connection. The Baltimore Pike is ready for con- nection with such a roadway now. The Ellicott City Pike will shortly be in that condition, for the shouldering work now going on on that thoroughfare #s making it a potential high-speed roadway. Such a roadway cut through Franklin! town and routed back of Pim- lico to Towson and thence to either roadway north to New York would solve the difficulty, and would not require much construction work. Of course, the Mohawk Trail through Central Pennsylvania is the -perfect answer to the question of avoiding big towns. BSo is the trail up through Hackensack and across the Bear Moun- tain Bridge to New England points. But wherein lies the saving along the Eastern route unless traffic is routed around Philadelphia and Baltimore? New Jersey has sdlved the problem by the Newark-Jersey City viaduct. Can- not other States do as well? Maryland Accidents Increase. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, October ul;mmno- ‘accidents ve grown }':’f-'»"m 0.7 par mnooo persons in 1910 BALTIMORE, October 11. —anln auto drivers, continually the Jokes concerning their hehnflnr 'blle at the wheel, have a real champion in John R. Rostmeyer, director of I‘w B-Atllkmm'z) Safety Council. comment upon a news| article which nu(?unl’ Ml:h?l: Schroeder, deputy automobile com- missioner :)f ‘eryllnd as terming women “stupid” and cha them with cluttering up traffic mfl with petty charges, Rostmeyer declared “there are no comparable statistics available upon which one could base such a conclusion.” “Pel’hfl in the remote future,” he sald, lfl(r exhaustive tests have been made of woman and man drivers, under exactly similar conditions, it will be Ppossible to estimate the reaction of both sexes to emergencies and to definitely determine which sex is safest at the wheel. Until this is done, it is unfair to indict an entire sex for the mistakes | of a few of its members.” Not even science is prepared to pro- nounce one sex more stupid than the other at the wheel, he said. vy Only the other day,” he declared, 1 attended a meeting at Pflflburflh and heard talks by scientists who had 2 Study of motor accidents. And the sum ‘ substance of their re- marks was mn while their investiga- tions had not produced evidence show- ing women were safer drivers than men, uhadnothunnhownumywmthe reverse.” Rostmeyer sald he believed the chief Teason women have been held up to ridicule because of their driving is that they seldom get as much practice at the wheel as men. “The average man drives his car more than the average woman,” he pointed out. “He usually drives to work and often uses his car to drive around town. If there is no second car in the family, the woman gets a chance to drive only when the man is through using the family c: He added thl'. he believed much of the tendency to criticize woman drivers so freely lay in the habit of the public to indict an entire class for misdeeds of a few individuals. “Take truck drivers, for instance,” he said. “Most persons are convinced sianly Tiguring in, sceidosts. Howerer, stantly g in accidents, However, our \ntzm trwck contests, in which 1,600 drivers participating, have proved this is mn the case, ln “xll month none of the drivers in ?nu‘lfimn" nor has there Inm & single atality.” , | public definite] to entitled “Delivering Groceries and THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. = DAT‘N& far back vfl:o H\c mdham at in service I05 years. Special Dispatch to The Btar. POmC Mich., October 11.—Lower costs of d}Mb\I tion, with the general benefiting by major economies in movement of mer- chandise to them, are becoming more & t as & result of the series of Nation-wide impartial studies of the truck costs, problems and methods of individual vocations. Origin of Data. To_these surveys thousands of busi- ness firms, operating trucks of all make have been contributing facts and fig- ures from their cost records and valu- able data from their experience in the operation and use of trucks. This was revealed in a statement by President Paul W. seutr. identified in the relml wvrrhu nflnm ation-wide analysls of t.hz denvery methods and problems of still another of the great truck-using grocery and meat operating more than 170,000 “acfivery Thacks, - The re 3 ea Profitably,” is illustrated with charts, m diagrams and printed forms. It s available to such stores, without charge or obligation, the complete re- sults of this ucb-flnd.\n( study in handy reference form. Thus it can be used immediately by the individual store for improving delivery service to consumers at reduced cost. “From business men throughout the country, including owners of small PARAGUAY ECONOMICS AIDED BY AUTOMOBILE stores, a of | Trade Commissioner Declares That Republic Needs Tronsporta- tion Facilities, ‘That the automobile will prove to be one of the most important factors in the economic development of the South American Republic of Paraguay is the opinion of American Trade Com-~ Mr. Tewksbury points out thlt f.he mundmu h.n- dicap to Paraguay’s progress lack of adequate transportation flmll ties. There are but few hard-surfaced roads in the whole country at the resent time. One of these is a granite thway running from Asuncion, the year, and little pected until the tween the two countries At the beginning of 1930 there ‘were registered in Paraguay 865 passenger automobiles and 772 trucks and busses, of which 98 per cent were of American make, While the country is a relatively small market for sutomobiles, imports have shown a marked increase ‘:nuflzl the last five years. Ten years - cording to Mr. Tewksbury's report, there were only 50 motor vehicles in coun W e e Shu! © of auf ve luct o "‘:;"im Valied at something more than $200,000, including passen- ger cars valued at $83,000 and trucks worth $79,000. The trade bulletin just issued is one of a series of studies on the automotive markets of South America, being made by the Commerce Department. It will be followed within .a short time by similar studies on Brazil and Chile. ILLITERATE DRIVERS HELD ROAD MENACE BY A. A. A. Many States Still Do Not Require Proper Examina- tions. Declaring that no one who is unable to understand highway warning and direction s! in English should be al- lowed to drive a motor vehicle, the American Automobile Association re- to proucr. the publh: against the presence of thouundu cumpleu llll'fifltfl on the ln spite of the tremendous volume of motor vehicle laws, regulations and or- dinances confronting car owners at every turn, there are now 35 States with a registration of more than 16, 000,000 where drivers are not subject to any examination as to their under- standing of danger and direction signs. This is the high light of an ex- haustive survey made by the national motoring body, which, among other things, disclosed that those States that do not require the applicant for a per- mit to distinguish between “Stop” and “Go” have the highest average percent- age of illiteracy. “On the bllu of our survey and of our analysis of existing laws, there is no doubt whatever that the time has come when in the interest of national safety on the highway this serious lax- ity in the requirements for driving privileges must receive attention,” Thomas P. Henry of Detroit, Mich.. president of the A. A. A., declared. s Two Connections. Afllhlwnco\lnt 1s to make two con- nections the ’DI' Mount Vernon 2d.of the " the ety in the near LOWER COSTS OF DISTRIBUTION ATTRIBUTED TO TRUCK STUDY Impartial Survey Undertaken to Ascertain Problems and Methods of Indi- vidual Vocations. C., OCTOBER 12, 1930—PART FOUR. (Sketches by Calvin A. Fader.) —BY P mg, opposite ot i cclon cmrfluéc mfl75 flmmfl‘pof oo T iy queshere, was read fo citizens assembled here. JAMES W. BROOKS. mamwc bd"wmldd injster, NEW TRAFFIC IDEAS SLOW IN SPREADING General Relief, However, Is|wa; ‘Coming, as Evidenced by Detroit Area. Bow fast does the world move? Seci- entists can determine the actual speed of the world quite accurately, but they tilized | cannot calculate the speed of progress. more by truck opmwn in the vocations so studied. . “Thousands of successful business firms have been and are co-operating with us wholeheartedly and unselfishly in the interests of better, faster and cheaper distribution. “These reports are based on surveys by trained investigators who have main- tained and are maintaining close con- tact with representative companies lo- cated throughout the country. Their findings embrace the operation of trucks of all makes, “Hence no direct benefit accrues to our company which is not shared by the entire truck lnduury But it is one of our principles to contribute in the fullest measure to more economical and more efficient truck opera we feel, is one of the mpvnl!hmflu of {el:dmr‘up of commercial transporta- . “These vocational studies deal with 1 | Wayne County Importance Retalling; the Cost of Retail Food De- m llmmnl Delivery Pmfluble for t.he Mht ‘Time; tory Schodulu' Bervice; Gapitalizing Delivery Steps Toward Lo ‘Truck Onlh: Eliminating Excess Mile age; Provi Bound Maintenance; Develop Truck Personnel; Se- Equipment.” lecting S mfih\fl- ‘Truck Until recently a century or more was required for a new idea, & new invention or diacovery to find its way around the civilized world. But with the transpor- | tation and communication equipment of today new things spread overnight, such as midget golf. Striking Instance. But even in this age improved meth- ods frequently are slow in lpre-dlnu A striking tance of this found in motor transportation. Whlle cities all over the country have m—unnns in the throes of traffic congestion an high cost, ill-planned highway pro- rump. Wayne County, in which Detroit is located, has virtually solved the traffic problem. Wayne County has a story and an exhibit that warrants the attention of every community suffering from traffic- itis. On September 1 of this year Wayne County had completed no less than 624 miles of hard-surfaced roads. But the amzing feature is that some 300 miles of this pavement is of a 40- foot width or greater. 35 Grade Separations. In addition, Wayne County no 35 grade separations, 33 of which m .z rallroad intersections and 2 at impor- tant highway intersections. During the year 51 miles of pavements were wid- ened and 32 miles of new pavements were bullt. And another flumndlnl fl'dnl on the ogram is the continu- ous. scquisition of wider Tights of way. These are being ired af an average rate of about a mile a week. Conse- quently when money is available for wide pavements, and there is a need for them, Wayne County has a place to put them. Wayne County is looking at motor transportation from the business end as well as the pleasure. Well paved ar- teries lndln. out in all directions from Detroit have tended to equalize real estate values; they have made it pos- sible for city workers to live in spacious and “countrified” districts away from the city; they are helping downtown Detroit merchants and business men retain their customers. ‘The accomplishment of the Detroit area has not taken place by mere n Paragias | WARREN GREEN HOTEL Forty Miles from Washington Over the Lee Highway Through the Bull Run Battiefield Lee Highway, Route 311, Is Now Open. RGER, Proprietor. Warrenten 250, Special Sunday Dinner, $1.00 ton : Virginia Lafayette Tea Room l“ Ww. Plln&d-sl- Scotland Beach Hotel Scotland Beach, Md. On Chesapeake Bay Sea Food and Chicken Dinners, $1.25 @ Phone Grest Mills 5-F-13 “The Blue Ridge Mountains Are Most Beautiful Ne Come to PEN-MAR Sunday for a Real Chicken Dinner at THE BON AIRE Only 70 Miles—Over Paved Road Mrs. B. F. Die Biue Ridge 5136-3 GRAY'S HILL INN Tiseking the Potomes Formeris e part o1 Wt Vernon Luncheon Dinner Richmond Road—16 MI.—Ph. Lerten 8-F Mrs. K’s Toll Houshf Tavern TWENTY MINUTES' DRIVE Straleht out 16th Street to Maryland igh iroush- Trame. ibt brings ou' ty this colorful old Tavern for a 'l'op Sirloin Steak Dinner B NNE ™ g, West of Frederick by Mg bty i) alse afternoon u.‘ ancwicnes: space. Phone Prederick, ore E. Bryan, Propr. RED FOX TAVERN Middleburg, Virginia 'A-0|7 r% Phene Middleburg 39 o u Horseshoe Hill Inn Falls Church—Route 211—8 Miles m_Dinner, $1.50 te. “Ample pai S, 30" heo On Richmond Road % veeent verma ™ Home ¢ CooKin ‘Luncheon or %ppfir— Dinfier 28100 #1284 Upper Road to Alexandria 10 Minutes South of Highway Bridoe " Deliclous Fresh Sweet Filtered Valley View “Cider Barrel” Open daily until 9 P.M. 23 miles out Frederick Pike 13° COLONIAL INN Wn(mimter, Md. S l D YEAR pecial Dinners 50c to $1.25 .@ Visit Our Indoor Golf Course for an Hour of Real Enjoyment chance, nor have the automobile indus- tries. contributed. more. heavily. than | other industries. The Detroit reglon has done what other communities can do with a proper usage of avaflable money. Shortly highway officials of New York and Pennsylvania are to inspect traffic relief 1!cllll.!ea in the Detroit area. last few {el.l'l roadbuilders from all ove'r the world have visited these high- ys. The news of Detroit’s accom- Du.lh.nwnt is spreading and doubtless soon other i come to ande separations, pavement wldth and hard surfaces, rather than trafflo ordinances, consti- tute the only nethod of relfef. Measure Road Unevenness. The United States Bureau of Public highway surfaces. The device is known as & roughometer. The State of Cali- fornia is using the roughometer with excellent results, having reduced the roughness of its asphaltic concrete hlghwl s from 22.1 inches per mile in 1927 to 10.5 inches per mile in 1929. In [two sections of highway in three coun- EASTERN SHORE ROAD CONTRACTS ALLOWED Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, October 11.—Contracts amounting to $60,363.20 and calling for construction work on two bridges and ties on the Eastern Shore were awarded by the State Roads Commission last week. Proposals for buudin‘ four sections of highways in Prince County will be recelved by the commission on September 23, The sections to be con- as follows: Concreting 1.17 miles of State road from Silver Hill to Suitland. Resurfacing 1.2 miles along the Che::rly road, from Landover road to Resurfs 0.9 mile of State high- ‘way, froi iver road to Tuxedo. La; concrete shoulders along Main street, Laurel, from Baltimore- w:ahlnzton Boulevard toward Scaggs- ROAD WORK GIVEN GREATEST IMPETUS Subjects Featured by Sixth International Congress Cited by American Motorists. ‘The Sixth International Road Con- gress, ?ddtmh"e this week, marks the greates| petus ever given high construction, declares the Ameriean m torists Association in a statement issued last night summing up the activities of the congress. “A total of 282 official delegat frome 60 countries, participated in the six-day congress, the purpose of which is ta foster good roads throughout the '055 Discussion by the conferees 1 principally around the question of ulm:- way cosntruction, maintenance, administration and financing. “Highway construction in the United States,” the delegates were told, “is gressing at the rate of approximately | 33,000 miles per year, Including Federal and State programs. The total cost lasy year, expended by the 48 States, amount- ed to -$1, 194775000 ‘This sum is In addition to the Federal aid expenditures. “The road mileage of the world today, according to data submitted, is 7,800,000 miles, of which lpproxlmlkly half is in North, South and Central America. The European countries rank second with a total of 2,500,000 miles. The bulk of the world’s mileage is divided primarily among five countries, United States, 3,016, 440,000 mil 3 Canada, 425,000 mlles, and A\Istrl“l. 360,000 miles. “Of interest to American motorists were statistics showing that there are 7.8 automobiles for each mile of high- way in the United States; that there s but one automobile for every 55 persons in the world, the ratio in the United States being 1 for each 4.5 inhabitants, compared with a ratio of 1 lutomobflo for each 216 persons outside of the United States. “The work of the congress,” declares Thomas J. Kuh. the history of and will mean much $5 the 399 onuhi a-lum- from the 59 forelgn_ countries in the solution of their own highway tion problems.” We hnve 6,500,000 fnrmeu, 5,500,000 own cars. The foreign delegates this . | week are being taken on l‘h!n:h'ly in- specuon tour of Central &&= GRAHAM SIXES AND EIGHTS * ALWAYS FAR IN ADVANCE i~ GRAHAM Offers this Undeniable Evidence of [ eadership in Value Graham asks everyone interested in quality in 2 motor car to look at this diagram—to see for themselves-how much more value. Hcrc, in the Graham Standard Six Town Sedan at $845, is an abundance of quality-and-value featuresnot found elsewhere atanything like the Graham _ price. Make for yourself the comparisons which prove " undeniably that Graham does give the greatest value in the world at the price. - The Graham Standard Six Chassis and Body 1—Rubber mounting of front springs to eliminate wheel fight. 2—Radiator grid to protect core from injury. 3—Hydraulic shock lbsorbeu front and rear. 4—Big 12-inch hydraulic brakes, larger size than generally used in this price class. $—Self-adjusting spring shackles: 6—High-grade lacquer finish. 7—Cam-and-lever steering gear. 8—Adjustable clutch and brake pedals. 9—Rubber-cushioned rear engine support. 10—Additional frame cross member at the transmission box. 11—Independent parking brake. ‘84 raham offers in € 12—Shatter-proof Safety Plate Glass throughout. vision. 15—~Rubber-cov steering: 20—High-grade design. 13—Narrow body pillars for unobstructed 14—Iaterior adjustable sun visor: ered, steel-reinforced steees ing wheel. . 16—Throttle, horn button and light switch above steering wheel. 17—Coincidental lock, locks ignition sad 18—Wide door openings: 19—Adjustable front and rear seats: hardware of individual 21-Strong, slatted roof construction: 22—Heavily-framed body construction: STANDARD SIX FOUR- DOOR TOWN SEDAN ndard and Special Saeaen: "Siandar rices at hmty Loy ann 4 owest extra cost for such 23—115-inch wheelbase. And in addition to the features illustrated above, the Graham Standard Six offers” these advantages—66 horsepower motor with 207 cu. in. displacement; 7-bearing crankshaft, 81.4 sq. in. of main-bearing surface; full length water jackets; pressure lubrication toall important bearings; silent chain drive for water pump and generator v Semmes Motor Co., Inc. Downtown Parking Garage 613 G Street N.W. 1526 Fourteenth Street N.W. Phone Number: Potomac 0772 National Auto Sales 33 New York Ave. N.BE. ASSOCIATE DEALERS H. C. Flemin Hyattsville, Md. Brosius Bros. & Gormley . Rockville, Md. Motor Co. E. B. Frazier Motor Co. 518 10th St. N.E. ™ L an Motor Co. E St. N.W,