Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1931, Page 51

In the Motor World Y G. ADAMS HOWARD. been thought many times)every human factor ex:\.tering into Ttggi simplicity was a kind or1 automobile ‘F,ccldencs,h said M':), virtue. to be desired. In the Hoffman. “Strict adherence motor world particularly this|them by all motorists would un- was thought to be the case. Many | questionably contribute to greater ople looked to the simply manu- | safety on the highways and ‘would ?:m‘,ured cars devoid of compli- reduce the ghastly sg’crmce in cated parts and attachments.' human lives each year. Many people looked to simplified : and few traffic regulations as| Radiator Protection. being the best solution of all evils.| Warning that frozen motors Pecple looked to simplified traf- annually cost car owners millions fic light signals, where there could ' of dollars, the American Automo- be the least possible chance of bile Association declares that mo- misunderstanding. | torists can savg themselves h'efvy 0 ilv Di: repair bills and at the same time Emporaxilysh soanied. divert approximately $50,000,000 But all these thoughts are be- jnio pusiness channels by prepar- ing discarded, temporarily at least. ing their cars to withstand the It appears to be the day of many ' gepredations of Jack Frost. problems both in the world at "“rpe 5 A A, cites tabulations of large and in small personal mat- | ¢he ynited States Weather Bureau ters. The pendulum of habit may {4 g ow that a downtrend of the swing the other way in the near temperature may be expected future, but not so at the present | throughout the country within vie the next three weeks, and, with Automobiles have ~about as|{he possible exception of the ex- many complicated parts as is pos- treme South, it may be expected sible for the manufacturer to stuft |to fall as much as 30 degrees. in under the hood. Multiple cyl- | Pointing out that more than inders, dual carburetion, com-|1g000,000 motor. vehicles are reg- plexed ~transmission and even|jstered in the area where the mixed gasoline is the order of the | temperature falls the lowest, the day, to say nothing of four-wheel | ational motoring body says that brakes. It should not be said for | 3 ‘ayverage of three dollars spent a moment that the majority of iy preparing each of these for these extra devices are not for|.;1q weather would mean the ex- better cars, but surely it is not for penditure of around $50,000,000 sliabliely. s-and service stations. As for traffic regulations a lot it an_ ! Repair Bills Saved. can be said, but probably to no | advantage. Most of us know that | “At the same time,” says the there are too many regulaticns. A, A. A, “car owners would save This unnecessary number, to-|themselves heavy repair bills and gether with the lack of uniformity | the annoyance and trouble result- in the various States, does more |ing from frozen motors and bat- than anything else to nullify any | teries. These usually follow in advantage they were promulgated | the wake of sudden drops in the for. temperature and often destroy Traffic Light Signals. ‘the mechanical efficiency of the Traffic light signals were at one f,Z‘;;msé”;‘f,fi;’{'r“ causing damage :fl"‘: ,‘r"}?:eN‘;‘g,‘gg”{:,;,‘(‘a{;,;gyfi‘;“;g | “While anti-freeze preparations a necessity, and being made at the | form the basis of p"?te‘f:‘mg tfll;e same time with the same purposes, | Car in Wmter.hthey : U buno 4 2 they were more or less alike. The used until the auf °mh° (;1 a8 changing green, yellow and red been made ready forit e cl anz‘e lights swung their way into be- {:g:: Summer to Winter condi- ing at many of each city’s inter- e segtlons. Then some cities aban- | The A. A. A. outlines some ?f doned the yellow light, believing | the simple precautions that should its plan in the scheme of things be_ taken aslfullows. d 1 unneeded. Following that a few| 1. Have all rust an scae‘:'e- officials of some cities adopted the | moved from the engine jacket, flashing yellow, the skip yellow,‘mdl,‘“‘)r and other parts of the 28l 0 g:fifi‘:fig;}z we have' the added_\ and complete cleansing with a This newcomer may be all that | was{flpgnsols\;tdlon, preferably one is desired in days to come. It may |Contalning soda. work well in co¥1juncti0n with the | 2. Tighten all parts of the cool- other lights. That remains to be |iNg system. Careful attention seen, but in the meanwhile, gone | Should be given to hose cor;nec- is simplicity along with the other | tions, gaskets, expanslo}r:l‘ P! atefi things in the automotive sphere. | drain cocks, pumn packing at‘}: Maybe we are looking for an Brease cups’ or fittings on the Utopia or the millennium, but it water pump. The radiator should | - |also be inspected for leaks. wopld Seem [Nine o nave stand” | %', Use anti-freeze solutionswith ard cars that could run with the | 3. o bilit; ith- | boiling points above that of water. D ey dependability widh It is desirable to use a solution out all the gadgets, dohickeys and : 5 whatnots thgat §,e today’s fiitures’ that will not boil out and leave It would seem nice ‘to have only the motor “npl‘O!EC(e?- f three or four traffic regulations| The statement continues: that mould fgitve s?teAax(lid“speec{g Do Not Put Off. movement of trave! 0! wou [z + * ‘There is a tendency of many *em leqkmlly nice to have tramg car owners to await the first re- signal lights, not too many of | port of freezing weather and then rush to the nearest filling station, them at that, that with a_couple | changes of color would safely keep | qrain off some water, and fill the the intersections clear and every- | ragiator with an anti-freeze prep- aration. In the meantime, small body happy. | Well, there may be a traffic| leaks have crept into the cooling system and passed unnoticed in | Banta Claus some day, maybe. the Summer. As a result, the The rising toll of automobile | i % accidents constitutes one of the | anti-freeze mixture, put in with-| out an inspection of the cooling | country’s most serious problems, according to Paul G. Hoffman, di- | system, soon evaporates and sud- rector of the National Automobile denly the motorist is faced with Chamber of Commerce, director having his car engine freeze at a of the National Planning Founda- | time when the car is most needed. | “The Bureau of Standards, tion and responsible for the pres- i which has been studying various ent Albert Russell Erskine Traffic which has been studying rarions| Bureau at Harvard University. idents 1 ased 12 points out that where a glycerin | oo aoAt, Thtaities A peres (or glveol) solution is used it is! ities t and | g:nejru‘sxeer;t,lgat&l;txcegntper i | essential that any leakage_ in the | cooling . system be repaired to Good Safety Rules. avoid waste. The bureau also says In view of the fact that a re- | that there is no reason to believe loaswi did that distilled glycerin (or glycol tumobile accidents were caused by | i"‘ e ?xfavm:fncoe\;r";%wckg | bad human judgment, Mr. Hoff-| 903¢% 5".“~9-th Pl il man has set forth the following OF D10:¢S I the 3 12 safety commandments which! “Regardless of the type of anti- 1 should be obeyed by every driver: | {12eze used, the motorist should ! 1. Don’t pass on hills or blind avoid waste by having the level | curves—you might just as well | Of the liquid in the cooling sys-| drive blindfolded. tem at least two inches below thei 2. Don't challenge the right of overflow to allow for thermal ex- way—if in doubt, take no chances. pansion.” 3. Don't fail to signal all turns E;ggr.fellow behind is no mind REGISTEREb VEHICLES TO SHOW A DECREASE 4. Don’t cut corners—that's the other fellow’s territory and he 3,000,000 Worncut Cars to Be! might claim it. 5. Don't cut in sharply after Junked, Prophesies A M. passing—the driver behind hates the ditch as much as you co. 6. Don’t cut out suddenly from | behind a parked car—it may be | both the start and finish of your | trip. 7. Don't weave all over the highwav—that’s why there's a' center line. 8. Don’t attempt to beat a stop light—it might beat you. 9. Don’t come to sudd:n stops without signaling — rear end crashes are costly. 10. Don’t lag in traffic—vou have no right to delay those be- hind. 11, Don’t take a chance on faulty brakes or tires—it's a sav- ing you’ll regret in the long run. 12. Don't be reckless at any time—you jeopardize not only your own life, but the other fel- ow’s as well. “These rules involve practically MOTOR DON'TS DONT.PARK PARALLEL WITH WHEELS TOUCHING THE CURB! This year, for the first time in auto- motive )::smry. the number of motor | vehicles Tegistered at the end of De- |cember will show a decrease as com- pared with the year before. This fact ' is establish>d by the research of the| American Motoricts’ Association, which indicates tota. registrations will be 400,000 to 500.000 less than at the end |of 1930 and below 26,500,000 for the first time since the middle of 1929. At the sama time, increased gasoline consumpticn ‘shows motorists are mak- ing greater use of their cars than ever before, and that the condition with re- gard to reduced registrations is but temporary. | “While Fall motor car sales are sea- sonally good and more than two months of the year remain, old cars disappearing from service will more than offsei new registrations,” says |Thomas J. Keefe, general mamager of the A. M. A. “What with car manu- facturers, dealers, motor vehicle author- lities and owners themselves partigipat- ing in it on an unparalleled scale. junk- ng is expected to reach three million sornout and unsafe cars. This happy fact, in itself, will reduce registrations at_the end of the year.” It was an Increase in the sale of commercial vehicles and trucks that kept the total registrations from show- ing a decline last year, the American Motorists’ Association ~ figures show. Passenger cars licensed by the 48 States and the District of Columbia were slightly below the number in {1929, but the total for the year was /22,300 above the previous year’s fizures. | Pointing -out that the result this year R | (1] i A A ull'm = —By FRANK BECK. S N S N NN = +ESH. AUTO ECONOMY DLE 10 CONSERVATIONS Production Officials Hold National Session of SLAE: Speclal Dispatch to The Star. DETROIT, October 10.—Advanced conservation methods that make pos- sible economy as well as speed in build- ing automoblies were revealed here this week, when production officials of the plants held a national session of the Society of Automotive Engineers, at which™ they compared notes. As an ance of speed, It Wwas shown that a carload of frames, shipped {from Milwaukee on a Thursday after- noon, reached a Pontlac, Mich., plant the next morning. and left the as- sembly line in finished cars the same afternocn. From the assembly line, the cars were loaded on a freight train, which hauled them to Milwaukee the same night. new cars were delivered to purchasers. Possible Without Haste. ‘This was possible, it was made plain, without undue haste or any lack of care in established factory routine, such is the modern precision which factory methods have attained in comparison with those of 10 years ago. The sdvancement has come through scientific study by which stocks are | now kept to a minimum. Formerly it was thought necessiry to place orders for materials far in advance of factory needs to be certain of a supply. Back in 1920, which, it will be re- membered, was a slump period, pro- viding ample stock to guard against lack of material was the alm of manufac- turers. But 1921, with its losses from forced economic ' adjustment, brought the beginning of a change. Where once the supply of material was suffi- cient for three months ahead, this pe- riod has been shortened to as little as three days. In one corporation. each division submits monthly a forecast based on 10-dav reports of stocks and reports of actual and estimated sales from the distribution end. This forecast, | ering the current and three forwa months, estimates the number of cars to be sold by dealers, delivered to the dealers and manufactured. The forecast, as accepted, lets a fac- tory proceed with output and with or- ders for materials to cover it, subject to adjustments that may be necessary. Plants Are Zoned. 1In place of the large stock rooms that factories used to have a limited amount of space is assigned for stock near the point where it is to be used. Entire plants are “zoned.” with experienced men in charge, and they have little use for any reccrd excent & report indicat- ing a shortage. By this means the efficiency of handling has been improved until a supply for only three days is now normal. How improvement In welding processes | kes possible the production of all- ;‘lfel bodies for cars was described for the production forces by W. Meadow- croft and James J. Pough of Philadel- hi ia. All-steel bodies have fewer parts than composite bodies of steel and wood. The doors consist of two pieces only. There are no_outside seams visible in the body shell. Other characteristics of the all-stez] product are lower tops for head room. less weight and lower center of gravity. With these factors the claim is made that the all-steel body is safer and gives better visibility and silence in car operation. ; Entire Side Made. By the use of mammoth stamping mac¥flnery the entire side of & body is fabricated from a single sheet of metal, with the openings formed by dies to reinforce it. The chassis frame and body follow the same lines, so that they reinforce each other, and body silis can be_omitted. In all-steel body bullding the skin or shell becomes the chief structural mem- ber, wjth additional strengthening members where needed. A sedan body requires 2,303 apot welds, in addition to flash welding. » “Bonderizing” of sheet metal parts of & car also was explained at the engi- neering session. This is a term that has been widely used in the last year, but few automobile owners know what it means. It is a process by which the surface of fenders is treated before inting. The parts are hung in a g(-!mn[ mixture of chemicals, which de- posits on them a fine coating of copper of crystalline texture that makes it re- cem& to paint. lerizing also acts as a preventive of rust. (Copyright. 1931, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) |will be the first of its kind since the end of 1895 found four cars registered, Mr. Keefe declarcs. | “The present situation is indicative of & vast amount of replacement buy- |ing at the first sign of general improve-~ Iment in conditions. Knowing that, the |automobile industry is not discouraged. (From the standpoint of safety, the |junking and retirement from service of |old cars will have a decidedly whole- some effect. A decline in registration ngures!orlslwnumeunmul.gflce to pay for the broadly beneficial effects that it will bring.” =X Very OFTEN YOUR CAR GETSLOCKED IN A PARKING PLACE, AND IF THE TIRES ARE AGAINST THE CURS, IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE 70 GET OUT. TRYING To"WORM® OUT OF SUCH A POSITION DAMAGES TIRE SIDEWALLS TRY To KEEP YOUR WHEELS ABOUT TWO INCHES FROM THE CURB » Power Needed. Another reason why everybody wants a powerful car is to be able to get out of a parking place—by pushing half a dozen cars that have the brakes locked. Unchangeable. He—That driver ahead must be Miss rigluh, my old school teacher. He—She seems to be so reluctant about letting pass, By Saturday afternoon the | BY AUGUST VOLLMER, Chief of Police, Berkeley, Calif. Not until good road manners are the rule rather than the exception and it becomes bad form for a pedestrian or operator to be selfish, inconsiderate | or discourteous, may we expect an ap- precinble reduction in the number of injuries and fatalities suffered in auto- mobile accidents. We must recognize the limitation of | the law of legislators and the inevita- |, The development of safe driving | bility of the law of averages. They | demonstrate that reduction in acci- | dents must be accomplished through | education. Operators and pedestrians alike must become accident conscious and be constantly aware of the dangers that ere incident to increased use of auto- mobiles on streets and highways, Fixed Toll Exacted. With a definite percentage of inat tentive, careless, selfish or discourteous operators using the streets, the law of averages exacts a definite fixed toll. Figures compiled by the National Safety Council show & gradual rise in deaths caused by automobile accidents, which have increased from approxi- mately 12 deaths per 100,000 persons in 1920 to approximately 27 deaths per 100,000 persons in 1930, The number of de:ths per 100.000 registered automobiles from 1920 to 1930 ranged from 106 to 135, averaging | for the period 119 deaths for every 100,000 cars, ‘Reduction in Accidents Can Only Com When Operators and Pedestrians Un- selfish‘ Considerate and Courteous. GOOD ROAD MANNERS HELD CURE FOR ALL TRAFFIC ILLS ( cities and unnecessary expenditures of money for traffic regulation and control. Manifestly, from these data, it is im- possible for police _departments to IDELEGATES NAMED 10 ROADEONGRESS Travel Needs Are Pointed Out by M. 0. Eldridge. Delegates to the twenty-ninth annual | change the mental habits of the public | convention and road show of the Amer- | to city, and State to State; where pass- | This latter, obviously. is a more de- | pendable figure than the one obtained by relating population to deaths by au- tomobile accidents and indicates that fatalities will rise with increased auto- mobile registraton. Imposition of a gasoline tax in many of the States has made possible a more accurate figure for comparative studies | of traffic accidents. e data are only available for three years, but the tables compiled show that for every 10,000,000 gallons of | gasoline consumed in this country theve are 21 deaths from accidents. Recently Chester Fiske, secking a scientific method for the study of fac- tors involved in traffic accidents, de- vised & “Traffic Accident Index” based on traffic volume and the number of accidents. By relating the number of accidents iat a particular corner to the volume | of traffic at that point a figure is ob- | tained comparable with a like figure from any other similar location. | Traffic Index Modified. This traffic index is modified some- what by other factors, For illustration, there is a slight increase in the acci- | dent index as the volume of pedestrain traffic increases and a decrease as the relation of vehicular to the pedestrain | traffic increases. The studies made by the National Safety Council and Mr. Fiske are aids to intelligent traffic regulation and con- trol. They help to avoid the costly mistakes made in the past by most|in this through enforcement campaigns, but good road manners are dependent to a very large measure upon the uniform | appointed by the governors of practical- | behavior of people who utilize the high- ways. This, in turn, is very largely de- pendent upon uniform legislation. ‘The development of safe driving pel the operator to act correctly in emergencies—is promoted to a very appreciable extent by the® necessity of conforming to fixed driving rules. ‘Where thess rules change from city ing street cars is permitted in one cit; and prohibied in another; where signal- ing in one manner is required in one community and differently in another; ties through which one passes, opera- tors become confused and safe driving habits cannot become established. No Political Boundaries. Automobil= operators know no political boundaries, passing readily and easily from one city to another and from one State to the other. There are probably autos in_each State from every State during all the months of the year, and continental driving is increasing yearly. Hence, the necessity for creating a uni- form group of rules and regulations to govern the operation of vehicles on the highways in this country. After all, we are all creatures of habit. While it is true that good habits are not easy to acquire under the most favorable circumstances, the inattentive, emotionally disturbed, distracted or con- fused driver, obedient to the habits which are firmly established, acts un- | consciously, but safely, in emergencies. Hence, once good driving habits are ac- quired, they are very likely to add enormously to the safe driving qualities of the operator. In every city, county or State there are some lawmakers or enforcement of- ficials who believe that they have the legal panacea for all of the traffic flls | from which society is suffering. Few, indeed, are sufficiently acquainted with | the facts to pass intelligently upon this difficult problem. Scientific Data Necessary. A national uniform code is useless un- less supported by the most convincing type of scientific data, careful studies of existing traffic conditions in cities in every part of the cou:try and liberal discussion of the several phases of traffic control from every point of view. | The National Wonference on Street and Highway Safety has performed this service for the Nation, and the uniform vehicle code and the model munic- ipal traffic ordinance provide national standards which should receive the ap- gmvl.l of every lawmaking body if we ope to ameliorate existing conditions and reduce the number of deaths and injuries caused by vehicular accidents country. |GAS KNOCKING TENDENCY CAN NOW BE PREDICTED | Automotive Engineers Engaged in Developing a Universally Standard Method. A movement of unusual interest to motor car users, but which, due to its technical surroundings, has had little popular publicity, is & co-operative ef- fort on the part of the automotive engineers of England and the United States to determine and develop a universally accepted standard method for measuring the “knocking” tendency of motor gasolines. ‘The Society of Automotive Engineers quietly has been working on the prob- lem for some time. By its fuel re- search and standardization work it k now it {pto the possession of manufacturers and users a standard method of grading fuels. This accomplishment, say the experts, is one of the most important auto- motive achievements of the decade ane will be reflected soon in the car owner’s ability to specify power qualities in his gasoline in the same manner that he specifies exact requirements in other commodities. Fuels will be bought by “octane number.” -~ Mather Highway. A memorial highway nearly 50 miles in length will be built in Mount Rainier National Park to commemorate work of the late Stephen T. Mather, former director of the National Park | Service. The highway when completed |will provide & new entrance to the | Sound region from the Yakima ey and the East. glare. _— Careless backing of the car is respon: sible for 14 out of iiriee. according es, Columbia Division Automobile the | the numerals had disa] MARYLAND 1932 TAGS GIVEN WEATHER TESTS New License Plates to Be the Choice of 17 Samples, Says Purchasing Bureau. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTI:{ORE, October 10.—When Maryland automobile owners receive their 1932 license plates they will place on. their machines the choice of 17 samples subjected to weather tests and other examinations for the quality of enamel and metal by the State Pur- chasing Bureau. Next year’s tags will be the combina- tion of the background of one sample with the numerals of another. Four sets of each sample are printed by prisoners at the penitentiary. Two sets iately are sealed in en- velopes, while the others are mounted d | on two wooden frames. One frame is set up on the west side of the insti- tution and one on the east. Then they are exposed to the weather for six or seven months. At the end of that time the most weathered frame is sent to the State Purchasing 7 the sealed samples for . ‘This year the frame contained samples ranging from comparatively fresh ones to those on which the d had faded and The samples of two firms gave the best results this year and they were combined to form the tags for the coming year. California Car Ratio. ‘There is one automobile to every 2.78 persons in California. Sales Exceed Food. In 622 cities automotive sales exceed food. i ican Road Builders’ Association in De- troit, January 11-15, 1932, have been | 1y all the States in the country. The State of Michigan alone has 600 special representatives of the governor | appointed to attend this annual road- building event. Tennessee has selected | 200 to represent the Governor. It is ex-’ | pected that several thousand personal | represontatives of State executives will | be present. | 25,000 to Attend. The annual road show and conven- | tion of tht American Road Builders' | Association assembles 25,000 State, | county and city officials, contractors, engineers, manufacturers, _distributors _ | where speed varies with the communi- | and motor freight operators. Reports dealing with highway and street sub- jects will be presented by leaders in road-building, numbering nearly a thou- sand. At the road machinery and ma- terials exhibition—the largest exhibit of { heavy machinery held in the United States—road by compare equipment and materials. The exhibit of motor freight equipment this year is expected to attract much atten- lon because of its completeness, | "No more important problem faces the |average American city than how to | provide best for the travel needs of |lts citizens, according to M. O. Eld- ridge, assistant director of traffic, Dis- | trict ‘of Cblumbla, who is chairman of the committee of the city officials’ di- vision of the A. R. B. A, that is study- ing the subject. Urban Sections Predominate, The United States has been trans- formed from a country predominantly rural to one predominantly trban. Cities are increasing in number, area |and population as people are drawn by economic necessity to congregate in the vast industrial and commercial centers. In this transition the neces- sity for efficient and convenient trans- portation within and adjacent to cities has been acute. Directors of traffic are forced to se- ‘ture maximum results from the limited facilities available, and certain sections of the traffic report will deal with this phase of the problem. The interpretation of the general concept of rignt-of-way, the laning of traffic, safety zones, traffic control at |circles and multiple intersections and the application of a measuring stick to the needs of parking are subjects which will be reported. Reducing accidents and congestion by proper design and the radii of curbs at intersections will be included with the idea of eliminating in the design of future improvements the undesir- able conditions which are proving a serious handicap to & smooth, unin- terrupted flow of traffic. Committee Members. Other members of the committee are: J. W. A. Bollong, traffic engineer, Seat- tle, Wash,; W. S. Canning, engineer- ing director Keystone Automobile Club, Philadelphia, Pa.; H. C. Dickinson, Bureau of Standards, United States Department of Commerce of this_city; C. G. Gonter, traffic engineer, St. Louis, Mo.; Maxwell Halsey, traffic engineer National Bureau of Casualty & Se- curlty Underwriters, New York City; E. B. Lefferts, engineer blic service dgpartment, Automobile Club of South- ern California, Los Angeles; Burton Marsh, traffic engineer, Philadelphia, Pa.; Gus A. Schuldt, presiding magis- trate, Police Court of this city; Hawley 8 , American Electric Railway Association, New York City; Russeil Wise, chairman New Jersey Traffic Commission, Trenton, N. J. Uniform street maintenance records are the subject of a co-operative study between the International City Man. agers and the American Ro!l‘d Bul Assoriation = ilders’ Auo:‘lllt‘lnn. expected that e two years will be reqnlrgg before a complete report can be made. In only & comparatively few cities are main- tenfnce records kept in such a manner as’/to permit intelligent analysis of costs. ‘This effort will develop a flex- ible system for such records as can be readily installed in any city, regard- less of the size of form of government. Rigid Tests Proposed. The director of the Department of Public Health in California has a rigid nation for all automobile drivers as a means of reducing automobile fatalities. He states that too much attention is paid to regulations for safe driving and too :.Im: attention to the human ele- ment. roximately Radiator Service We Repair All Makes CREEL BROTHERS 1811 14th St. N.W. ' Decatur 4220 uilders will inspect and | A Universal Acceptanc 3 A. A. SAFETY-RESPONSIBILITY HELD EFFECTIVE INSTRUMENT e of Measure Urg_ed by Canadian Insurance Superintendent at White Sulpllur Meeting. Universal acceptance of the A. A. A. safety-responsibility law as a powerful instrument for the promotion of high- way safety and an effective means of compelling payment of compensation to victims of automobile accidents was urged on the cdnvention of insurance | underwriters and agents, in session here today, by R. Leighton Foster, superin- tendent of insurance for the Province of Ontario, Canada. History Outlined. Mr. Foster's address, in which he outlined the history of the measure, the rapid progress it had made, the | extent to which it had side-tracked | agitation for compulsory automobile in- | surance, the need for uniformity in the | provisions of the law as among the | various States in this country and the provinces of Canada, was the high light of the recent proceedings of the joint | annual meeting of the International | Assoclation of Casualty and Surety Un- | derwriters and the National Association of Casualty and Surety Agents. “I doubt,” sald Mr. Foster, “if any new legislation has ever received so promptly such striking evidence of in- ternational approval as has thi mobile safety-responsibility la Thorough Indorsement. ‘The Canadian expert opened his ad- dress with a thoroughgolng indorsement of a statement recently made by the Ontario commissioner of motor vehicles on the benefits accruing from the On- tario law, modeled on the A. A. A. bill, as follows: “The law is working smoothly in On- tarlo, according to its true intent and pus . No serious administration dif- ficulties are being experienced. I know of no support in any quarter for a radical revision of the law along the | lines of universal compulsory insurance or otherwise, and I believe that future refinements in its provisions may be expected to make it one of the most effective instruments yet conceived to promote safety on our highways and to assu-e compensation to the victims of motor vehicle accidents.” Effect in 18 States. Citing the fact that the law is now | in effect in 18 States in this country | and four Canadian provinces, Mr. Fos- | ter declared that uniformity in its pro- | visions is essential to achieve its maxi- | mum possibilities. | “Non-resident _motorists.” tinued, “are too numerous in all States | and provinces for it to be otherwise. | Milady’s | Automobiles have that a clinging vine rambler. & way of proving can be a regular | | The housewife who knows _that | { mayonnaise may get rancid when the | contents of the jar ere well depleted should be ready fo appreciate the fact | that it is foolish to try to give the body of the car a satistactory grooming | when the can of polish is nearly | empty. This is particularly true of lacquer polish, the active ingredient of which either settles to the bottom or is used up before the can is empty. The woman motorist who wants to put 8 bright polish on the car, or who | wants to help the hired man do a good job, will buy a fresh can of polish and always shake well while using. And throw it eway when it is about three- quarters empty. | Put this down as the Autumn eaution of the week: Don't expect equalization | from your brakes when stopping on wet | leaves or on leaves which may look dry, but which may be wet and slip- | pery underneath. | Whether or not she appreciates the fact, miladv has helped to minimize many an evil on automobile row since becoming personally interested in motor | jcars. For one thing, in the larger citles there are fewer bribes to chauf- feurs in the consummation of car sales. | ‘Woman buyers do more of the actual | shopping and know what they want | without being quite so dependent on James. Another forward step is the | doctored garage bill. It used to be quite a laughing matter to see the | “‘queen” paying for more gas than the | car actually used. She now knows | | how many miles the car should do | | to the gallon, how much gas costs and | | how far she has traveled in the course of a month. ; Leaders in the trade and industry have long lamented the existence of | | these evils and there have been many futile efforts to eradicate them. Then | | along comes milady—stepping from the i back seat to the wheel. Voila, as they I.uy in Paris. Jim Tully, king of vagabondia, de- | cries the practice of driving children | to and from school over short distances. Let them walk for the good of their health and their soul is his idea. What better time is there to encourage | the habit than during crisp Fall days? More good news for women who de- mand the utmost ease and comfort when driving the car. It is now pos | sible to attach a device to the clutch | Whereby that bothersome control need | Dot be touched for starting, stopping | or " shifting gears. Several different companies are manufacturing similar devices and the prices are reasonable. The vacuum device that operates the clutch is controlled from the throttle lever on the steering post, so that you can switch back to the con- ventional arrangement whenever you are driving fast over the open road or in hilly country. You may not have noticed it, but be- cause of your habit of directing your | voice to the passenger who sits to the right of you there is a tendency to look to the right when approaching an in- tersection. A comparatively small per- centage of drivers look both ways. So many women have expressed dread of having a wheel come off I think it is about time to make it clear that, with the car given any kind of reasonable attention, this risk is ex- tremely slight. Perhaps a brief word pwt‘ure of the situation “will explain mal ‘The rear wheels are attached in a very different way than the front ones. 'rhg are drawn up on the tapered ends of the rear axles very much as a vine- gar cruet is fitted to its stopper (view- ing the process backward). A large nut is drawn up on the threaded end of the .ler;Cir 7 5 c Vel BUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS COMPLETE GREASING 95(: Motor and Chassis cleaned by steam, simonizing by experts, at proportionately Low Prices. Super Auto Laundry INC. Lo Bakery One Block 2312-20 Beti Park Georgia Ave. Phone North 1010 b . Too | den stcpping may twist and weal The four Canadian provinces have f lowed closely the provisions of the - A. A. bill, but at least haif of the en- acting 18 States have omitted or varied one or more of its important provisions. “This Jack of uniformity in the fun- damental features of the law is most disturbing. It has resulted in much adverse criticism against the safety-re- !lwmibfl::‘y laws in general which Is unjustified. It makes difficult the sys- tematic interchange of suspension rul- ings between States and provinces. It represents the greatest single menace 1 foresee to the ultimate and complete stlucesa of the safety-responsibility plan.” Mr. Foster appealed to insurance e- utives and agents to “consider ser usly taking on the job of selling Amc ica on automobile safety-responsibili legislation.” He continued: Education Needed. “The crying need of safety-respons! bility legislation today is e{’iuclflnnv education of State motor vehicle ana ec ol | insurance officials, education of the le- 2al profession, education of insurance company executivas and agents: above all, education of the public. The law has tremendous possibilities; greater, 1 venture to suggest, than its sponsors ‘pl?l"m“reg-"] g e particularly stressed the impor- tance of sympathetic and efficient ad- ministration of the law. “In the last analysis,” he said, “thc success and pcpularity of the law de- pends on the character of its adminis- tration. If it is administered by offi- clals who are sympathetic, believe in it and have adequate appropriations, its administration will probably be and the law popular. Advocates of safety-responsibility legislation must satisfy themselves that it will be well administered; that the good will of offi- clals is assured, and that suficient funds e appropriated to make its efficient administration possible.” Safety-responsibility laws have been enacted in whole or in part in the fol- lowing States and Canadian provinces: Indiana, Maryland, Delaware, Nebraska, North Carolina, California, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, New Hamp- shire, New Jersey, New York. North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, South Dakota and_Wiscons Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Eiward Island and Manitoba, in Canada. This means that 41 per cent of the car owners of the United States are operating under pro- Visions of the law and 50 per cent of the car owners in Canada. Motoring BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL. axle and is held in position by & cotter pin which goes through a hole in the axle. The hub cap is merely for deco- rative effects. tightly do the rear wheels to the axles that they can be r&v’: only by using a wheel puller or by orous hammering on the axle ends. :eniaintkl:dds of construction, however, ractured rear axle will wheel to come off. Y The front wheels revolve on “dead” axle pivots. They are held in position with washers set in keyways, nuts and cotter pins. Threads are reversed so that should the nuts start to move the tendency would be for them to tighten rather than to loosen. It is more com- mon to have a front axle pivot break than to have th o) e wheel itself com you noX( you“ hl;‘;fl followed the W realize that ead a wheel come nflyol::'tdr.-l | are careful in applying Too using the brakes. ing may break a rear axle. sud- front axle pivot. S Service men say there is quite & dif- ference between the complaints lodged by men and women. The former are troubled more by engine and body noises because they talk less while they drive. Women are more annoyed by the controls, demanding attention if the gears do not shift easily or if the brakes fail to bring the car up with a Jolt. In a question of gas and ofl mile- age the woman driver complains be- cause of the annoyance of having to Stop so frequently at filling stations. %Eln[\'ltw it more from the cost stand- nt. TRANSMISSION CHANGES Further Improvement Seen Due to Many New Inventions. Free wheeling, synchromesh trans- missions and other types of continuous or automatic change gears designed to do away with the noise and inconven- lence of gear shifting have caused the Society of Automotive Engineers to be- gin the study of motor vehicle tran: missions anew. Coupled with their de- sire to improve American cars, activity abroad, particularly in Germany and France, has accelerated this work. Inventions are coming from all parts of the country. Two engineers came from Texas last week with plans for a new device which they claim will elimi- nate the present gear shift box. It is not unlikely that within the next five years additional marked improvements will be seen in transmissions. Serious Trouble. Mr. Binks was buslly e with & spade in the mud beside his car when a stranger hailed him. " he asked. “Stuck in the mud “Oh, no!” replied Mr. Binks cheerlly. | “My engine died here and I'm digging & grave for it.” AUTOMOTIVE BRIEFS Hill & Tibbitts, Inc., Ford distributors, announces the formal opening of its new quarters, 1114 Vermont avenue, the early part of this week. Willlam G. Hill is president; J. Melford Sanders, vice president and treasurer, and E. Hurst Hardy, sales m: A Good oil, as you know, Is the life-blood of a motor. is its death-warrant. Autocrat Motor Oil ranks as “Pennsylvania’s Best.” By its use you aveid all lubrication troubles. yourself. “ BAYERSON OIL WORKS . 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