Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1937, Page 86

G—+4 DONT OVERDRVE YOUR 153 G Motorist’s Main Concern Is to Exercise Restraint in Controlling Power. Rolling off the assembly line with more convenience and safety features than ever before, the 1938 automobile asks only that its new owner refrain from handicapping it with too much emphasis on the driving controls. Main force, or even a dominaung aiii- tude toward the car, has no place in the modern scheme. The new car is not to be overdriven. Some one has summed up the cau- tion to today's driver by saying that the latest car virtually drives itself. It merely needs guidance. Some ob- servers believe that with so much power under the hood and such an abundance of deceleration available at the brake pedal, the driver’s main function is to exercise restraint over the car. For several years it has been the mark of the amateur to attempt to drive cars by force. Such tactics were | necessary in the days when gears shifted only if the driver had the strength and skill to handle them, and when stopping was literally a process of jumping on the brake pedal. Tods the weight of your foot on the brake | pedal may be all that is needed to slow down the car. On the level a car will | often lose as much as 10 to 15 miles | per hour in speed merely by lifting | your foot from the accelerator pedal. Crowding the engine by pressing hard on the accelerator pedal is also out of the picture. Tests with a num- | ber of the latest cars show that they | pick up speed in direct proportion to pressure on the pedal. FREQUENT OIL CHECK MAY AVOID TROUBLES Moment's Lifting of Hood May Reveal Erol_un Line to Filter or Leaky Plate. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 31. 1937—PART SIX. e T et e e = e Trap of Yore Mounted policeman awaiting many long years ago. 9 Ao “speeder” on Conduit road Corners of Earth Contribute To Today’s Auto Perfection World’s Resources Geared to Supply Finished Material That Puts America on Wheels. A giant unseen ‘“assembly line") reaches into the far corners of the world for the materials that make the | final product of American industry | the finest in the world. This vast conveyor system welds mines, farms, ranches and forests | into a single unit with factories | which convert natural resources into | the myriad products essential to pr ent-day life. The system ® utilizes | great ocean-going freighters, rail and truck transportation and not infre- quently the air. Each unit is & vital | Jink in the continuous operation nfi the greatest industrial system the world has ever known. The units of this system are so big and so important that they are or- dinarily considered vast industries in themselves. Rarely do we view the The idea of being too sure the en- | gine does not need oil is one that may i lead to trouble. While it may be true | that the engine is not using up nm'i more oil than you think it is, a mo- ment's lifting the hood may reveal a broken oil line to the oil filter. If the filter splits open it will allow the oil to escape rapidly. Also loose valve cover | plates will leak oil freely. i One of the most dangeroys hills is a comparatively short one which fol- | lows directly after a long decline. Drivers overheat the brakes on the first hill and then find themselves in trouble when they have to stop going down the second one. Remember that the internal expanding brake becomes | less efficient as it is overused, as con- | trasted with the older external con- tracting brake which seized and burned out. | If there is any question about shift- | ing into a lower gear on an upgrade | elways make the change above 20 miles | per hour. Modern second gears are| not made for pulling below that speed. | Your car may lose 5 miles per hour | in speed during the actual shift. TROUBLE IN STARTING TRACED TO TECHNIQUE | Press Button Before Turning on | Ignition Is Found Efficient Method. If you are troubled by having the| starter motor hesitate when trying to crank the engine maybe it is because | you do not make good contact when pressing the starter button, If this is| the situation, you can prove it to your own satisfaction by trying a different way of cranking. Press the starter button before switching on the igni- tion. Nothing, of course, happens when the starter button is pressed until the | ignition switch is closed, but this order | of doing the job results in better cranking. The explanation is that by closing the contact at the starter but- ton the subsequent completion of the| circuit when the ignition switch is| turned to the “on” position results-in | better path for the current. The ig- | nition switch make better contact. { HIGH GAS TAX RATES PROTESTED AT PARLEY Business in Southeast Seen Suf- fering Because of “Excessive” Levies on Fuel. Business in the Southeastern States is suffering because of excessively high gasoline tax rates, Baird H. Markham of New York, director of the Amer- ican Petroleum Industries Committee, told delegates at an Interstate Confer- ence on Automotive Taxation held in Atlanta, Ga. The conference was called by the American Petroleum In- dustries Comimttee, and was attended by chairmen and secretaries of State Petroleum Industries Committees in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina emd Tennessee. The highest gasoline tax rates in the United States are to be found in the region bounded by the Atlantic, the Gulf, the Mississippi, and the | Mason-Dixon line, where Federal and | State levies range from 6 cents to 8| cents a gallon, Mr. Markham said. Va- | cation resorts, hotels, restaurants, stores, garages, filling stations, tire shops, tourist camps, and other busi- nesses would gain by lowering the high gasoline tax barrier which is now frightening many desirable tourists and Visitors away, he asserted. Buyer of New Car Gets More Value Now Thanin 1926. ‘The 1938 automobile is an out- standing value as compared with previous years. On the basis of car weight alone the 1938 new- car purchaser gets $1.62 in value for each dollar he would spent in 1926, a manufacturing authority states. This figure does not take into account the infinite improve- ments made in cars in the last 12 years by the engineer, the metallurgist and the designer. It puts no dollar value on the many intangibles of progress having to do with comfort, convenience and safety. It reckons only with the actual mass in the car, a comparison of weight alone, with no credit for lighter, stronger and safer alloys now in general use. entire structure as the co-ordination of the series of big industries that it is. Perhaps the simplest way to catch | sight of it is through the best known | of the consumer industries, the in- dustry whici has done more to shape | the character of American civilization | than any other—the automobile in- | dustry. Antimeny From China. The obscure miner who goes-into the ground for antimonite, in China, probably is aware that a goodly pro- | portion of his product comes to| America. But he probably has little | conception of the role it is destined | to play in the industrial picture over | here. He knows little or nothing of | the processes through which it must pass in order to emerge as antimony, nor of the importance of that metal | as an ingredient of the Babbitt metal alloy used in main bearings and con- necting rod bearings. He has no means of realizing the importance of | his own contribution to one of the prime essentials of everyday Ameri- can life. The making of steel is one of Amer- ica’'s basic industries, and the de- mands of the automobile industry.ac- | count for the major portion of ‘h"i steel output. | The basi' ingredient of all steel is iron. Other elements are added in| | varying proportions to obtain different | types of steel. These elements in- | clude earbon, manganese, phosphorus, | sulphur, silicon, nickel, chromium, molybdenum, vanadium and tung- sten. | rom plain carbon steels are made | the sheet metal for bodies, bolts, nuts, | screws, crankshafts, camshafts, con- | necting rods and the frame. Bumper | bars are made from steels of a higher carbon content. Each Plays a Role. Nickel adds toughness. Chromium adds hardness, Silicon prevents cor- rosion at high temperatures. Manga- nese adds strength. Molybdenum im- proves both toughness and strength. Vanadium increases resistance to shocks. These elements come from many States of the United States and from Canada and South Africa as well. In the same way, the rubber that is grown on the great plantations of India and South Africa is destined to be worked into various products at the big rubber factories of the Nation. But those rubber factories wouldn't be 50 big were it not for the demands placed upon them by the major au- tomobile manufacturers. Other raw materials used incidentally—but in vast quantities—in the tire and rub- | ber industries include carbon in the form of lampblack, sulphur and cot- ton, each an important means of live- lihood in some section of the United States. Wool from the vast sheep country is used in cloth for upholstery; for floor covering and for felt washers. Turpentine finds its way through the paint-manufacturing industry to take its place with other transformed raw materials. Sand and Soda for Glass. Sand and soda are ingredients of th: safety glass which passes through the vast factories to be included finally | in the finished automobile. Rubber has scores of uses besides its use in tires. Its principal use is in cushion- ing various parts of the car against vibration, achieving quietness. Lead enters into the motor car in rubber, paint and glass. Large quantities are al:o used in storage batteries. Goats and hogs furnish necessary elements of the upholstery. Flax furnishes the linseed oil used in paints, and also in core oil, which is mixed with sand in the foundries. Cow- hides ‘provide the leather required for upholstery, gaskets and oil seals. Cotton is a basis for nitrocellulose products, such as Duco and safety glass, besides being important in up- holstery. Corn is a source of alcohols and other derivatives used in paints and lacquers. Pure copper is used in the electrical system. Combined with zinc, it forms the brass which is used in bushings, screws, hydraulic brake pipe con- nectors, and hub cap covers. Clay is mixed with quar* and powdered feldspar to make porcelain, used in spark plugs. Whole World Contributes. These scattered elemelts, assem- bled from far-distant sections of the world, over the throbbing arteries of the world transportation system, find their way, along with scores of others, into the completed automobile. Chev- rolet has to have them in order to build the kind of automobile on which the company has founded its reputa- | tion. A lull in the output of automobiles and trucks is invariably reflected in a slowing down of the tempo in a score or more of allied lines. De- creased activity would necessitate slow- ing the line throughout the great manufacturing plants, throughout the mines and forests and ranches which supply the factories with raw ma- terials, and throughout the vast trans- portation network which moves the tonnage for the system. All along the line the various units are interdependent. Their mutual productivity rests upon the well-being of one another. The importance of the automobile industry in the entire economic and social picture may be judged by the fact that the whole far-flung system of materials supply is patterned after the compact and efficient motor car assembly line. Auto Ownership In U.S. Advances To New Records Motor Vehicle Registra- tion for Year lIs Put at 29,000,000. Ownership of motor vehicles in the United States and in the entire world has advanced to new records, a statis- tical survey released today by the Au- tomobile Manufacturers’ Association establishes, The survey which con- tains figures pertaining to the opera- tions of the motor industry during the 12 months preceding the current auto- mobile show period reveals that & number of other new records also have been set. The association estimated motor ve- hicle registrations in the United States at 29,000,000 of which 24,600,000 were classified as passenger cars and 4,400,- 000 as commercial vehicles. Registrations in the United States accounted for 70 per cent of the 41,- 750,000 motor vehicles in service throughout the world. Domestic use of motor vehicles, as measured by gasoline consumption set a new record during the 12-month period with 19,300,000,000 gallons of gasoline being consumed in motor ve- hicles. Eighteen thousand motor buses were produced by the industry during the period—exceeding the output for any previous 12 months. —_——————— Carry Credentials Along. Due to the increasing activities of Western States in stopping tourists at border towns, motorists are ad- vised to' carry their licenses, motor club membership cards and other identification data. Border patrols are operated largely to count tourists and to keep out undesirables, but creden- tials are always handy. 4 HEATER Burns Ga soline in patented, sealed metal chamber! No more shivering while your motor warms up! This amazing Heater heats in Stewart-Warner South Wind Car 90 seconds—at a cost of only % of a cent an hour! Utterly safe—fully automatic== easily installed without hose or thermostats. NATIONAL SERVICE CO. 1630 14th St. N.W. NO. 0030 AUTO SHOW PRIZES but it al“o exists even when the roadsl are relatively free of traffic. That is especially dangerous because it means that the car ahead or behind may not be able to stop as quickly as yours, if your car is one of the newer ones. It is just as dangerous Dfl-:flkl;z cars. Yg“ A“fll) nc get by as | be to eliminate glare on sunny days. quickly as you hope to, or you may " ? be alower at the job, Thers i no|Another will be to provide bewter visjs certainty. That's the danger. bility for trafic markings on the SR highway surface. Colored concrete 2 . will be used for & low rounded curb- Colored Highways Tested. ing or island separating eastbound if yours is an older car and the others Experiments are going forward in|and westbound traffic on U. 8. Routs are newer. the plan for coloring concrete for |40 between Indianapolis and Cum- One place to watch your step is in | highway use. One result of this will I berland in Indiana. SAFETY NOTE With cars of uch varied power and performance capacity on the highway it is impo‘tant to bear in mind that there actually exists a dou- ble standard of motoring. This is more apparent the more cars there are on the road at any one time, AWARDEDWINNER Miss Helen M. Jarboe Gets $50 and 12 Tickets to Exhibition. Miss Helen M. Jarboe of 4425 Four- teenth street N.W. was the winner of the automobile show puzzle contest held by the Washington Automotive Trade Association with the co-opera- tion of The Evening and Sunday Star. Officers of the trade body offi- ciated as judges. The winning slogan, requested along with the correct an- swers, was not announced. Many thousands took part in the contest. Miss Jarboe receives $50 and 12 tickets to the show. Mrs. Harold Axtell of 1476 Newton street N.W. won the second prize of $25 and eight tickets to the show. Mrs. A. C. Nelson of 642 D street N.E. won the third prize of $10 and six tickets to the show, and A. D. Cushman of 5935 North Fourteenth street, Alexandria, Va., won the fourth prize of $5 and four tickets to the show. Those winning 10 prizes of $1 each and two tickets were Iva MacFaden, 1705 Lanier place N.W.; Miss Agnes M. Weschler, 1335 Newton st. N.E.; the Rev. A. F. Tobler, Lovettsville, Va.; Nancy*B. Luke, 1819 G street N.W.; Etta Witherspoon, 1810 K street N.W.; James Edward Madden, jr, 1316 East Capitol street N.E. Mrs. Elizabeth T. O'Brien, Apartment 22, 1361 Irving street N.W.; Pearl Mc- Pherson, 104 W. Thornapple street, Chevy Chase, Md.; Margaret Murdock, 722 A street SE., and Zella Boteler, 6805 Forty-sixth street, Chevy Chase, Md. Those winning 25 prizes of two tick- ets each were: R. B. Farquharson, the Kenesaw Apartments, Sixteenth and Irvingg streets N.W.; Jim Jardine, 4334 P street N.W.; Mrs. L. H. Taylor, Lin- coln, Va.; Mrs. Anne 1. Jacobs, 1511 Upshur street NW.; Vernon O. Kan- able, Room 1091, Veterans' Adminis- | tration; Harold E. Barker, 260 Lansing street, Colmar Manor, Md.; Mrs. George P. Pargen, 6616 Piney Branch road; Mrs. Vernon A. Ellis, 2223 Ran- | dolph place N.E; D. Eugene Brown, {2728 N. Lexington street, Arlington, Va.; James E. Corey, 3106 Rodman | street N.W.; Mrs. Fred Kirby, 1226 | Jackson street N.E; Mrs. Elizabeth | H. Menke, 611 Sheridan street NW.; | Mrs. O. F. Lockle, 3037 O street NW.; | Staff Sergt. Clayton Arthur Bean, !Quanermasm- Corps, Army Medical Center; Mrs. Blanche M. Parker, 2215 | Lawrence street N.E.; Mrs. Ella H Paulson, 6011 Thirty-third street N.W.; Elbert Charity, 2809 Sixteenth place N.E.; Marvin W. Will, 616 Oglethorpe street NW.; Mrs. W. J. Thornhill, 3608 Austin street SE.; Norman W. Shaw, jr, 13 Timber Brauch drive, Alexandria, Va.; John L. Collins, 653 East Capitol street, Apartment 104; Dorothy C. McCoy, | 2707 Adams Mill road N.W., Apart- | ment 107; Mr. and Mrs. Leean L. Huff, {1519 North Capitol street; Helen R. Stoll. 3018 Twenty-sixth street N.E., |and E. B. Farr, 2301 Cathedral ave- | nue NE. better car with AMOCO-GAS in it - - -1t will give vou a better run for your money! AMERICAN | Police Nabbing Slow Drivers. | New Hampshire police now are em- | powered by law to summon to court | any drivers who are impeding traffic by traveling at an unnecessarily slow rate of speed. The law is expected | to eliminate much Sunday congestion and danger. | : 1 Vhats new and exciting af the Auto Show?2” LW answer you in one word-PACKARD!” 4. “Sure, | ordered one. Why,the monthly payments run only a few dollars more than on the smaller car I intended puying. And I lan to keep the Packard at least a year longer, so I'll be money ahead in the end.” 3. “’But look sharp, or you'll mistake the new Six and Eight for the big expensive Packards. They've ctepped up the wheelbase of both the Six and FEight by seven inches! Are they the big, stream- lined beauties!” 2. “Packard’s crammed more real im- provements into those cars than you'll see over a five-year period! There's an entirely new rear suspension, a new type of all-steel hody insulated like a radio studio, new body lines.” 1. “Take my advice and make a bee line for the Packard space as soon as you get to the Show! You'll find two brand-new cars that will give you the thrill of a lifetime—the new Packard Six and the new Packard Eight.” Here’s the 1938 Packard news in a nut-shell 4. A Chassis that needs lubri- cation only twice @ year—and then at never more than 16 points. 1. Both Packard Six and Pack- ard Eight seven full inches longer in wheelbase . .. much wider bodies. . . bigger trunks. 2. New type all-steel hody that is really quiet—result of long research withagreat University. 5. New, more beautiful treat- ment of the famous Packard lines, the lines that keep your car in style, not for justa sea- 3. Entirely new type of rear 0%1h Y5 100 suspension—Packard’s exclu- sively. Makes possible gentlest and safest ride ever built into a motor car. 1938 PACKARD SIX & EIGHT" *also known as the Packard 120 By all means, see these new Packards. Even more import- ant—don’t miss driving one! e S % % B Sl STl BN 3 2 “ S oo The new 1938 Packard Six, 122 inches in wheelbase—a big, handsomely-trimmed car that is typical of Packard’s " gstonishing dollar-values for 1938 s Packard Washington Motor Car Co., Distributors repubiic 0123 CONGRESSIONAL MOTORS 900 M St. S.E. EDWARD H. CASHELL, INC. Rockville, Maryland COLONIAL MOTORS 1711 Wilson Bivd., Clarendon, Va. ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE Connecticut at RICHARDSON BROTHERS 2204 Nichols Ave. S.E. VERNON MOTOR CO. 8700 Wisc. Ave., Bethesds McREYNOLDS MOTOR CO. 5832 Georgia Avenue HOFMANN MOTOR CO. 19 Md. Ave., Hyattsville, Md. TYSON’S CROSS ROADS GARAGE Vienna, Va. JERMAN-CHAPIN MOTORS 1520 14th Street 8527 Georgia Avenue SCHULle‘ENMOTOR CAR CO. PRY MOTOR CAR CO. WALLACE MOTOR CO. H St. N.E. 5019 Connecticut Avenue COURT HOUSE SQUARE GARAGE Warrenton, 8. & . h &