The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1920, Page 7

SSIS tet medical attention, for personal injuries result- n from automobile accidents, The §,000 Industrial organtsationa, trade associations and governmental | agencies comprising the mtional| Safety council have just undertaken | the biggest jod ever attempted by the council! during the cight years of ite exiatence—to teach the fundamen-} Mls of safe driving and motor vebt- | Maintenance to every motor and passenger car driver em- in industry, whether or not his) employer is a member of tho} cotincil. | ‘Lhe purpose of the undertaking ts | theeefold: Pirst—To reduce so far as possible | the number of fatalities resulting | from automodile accidents, which | how approximate 15,000 a year—one| Person killed by an automobile every 3 minutes Second—To save for tnduxtry and | the public at large the millions of | @ollary lost each year thru property @amage result! from automobile Accidents, this loss amounting to $500,000 a year in a city of litte More than half a million population. Third—To save for industry some Fk ef the many millions of dollars now out annually for compensation, lost time, and ‘The national safety council, thru 40 local councils, has for several | carried on a campaign againat “walking and other forms of care | on the part of pedestrians. But it has discovered in this cam- * paign that while the pedestrian ts re- Sponsible for a large percentage of | &ccidents, at least an equal percent. age of automobile accidents is due to of the safe methods of mo- car driving or maintenance on part of the drivers of commer. ve i council, with the aid of auto- | Mobile manufacturers, automobile | @riving instructors, automobile traf | fe managers, repair men and the) ‘epresentatives of practically every | smdustry interested in any pened ot! the automobile accident ‘conducted a nine months’ ney a | the causes of accidents and means of eradicating those causes. This study has just been completed and the find- lished by the council in the of @ set of 12 safety bulletins automobile drivers. of getting a aet of the hands of every every taxicab £ iF i soetitl GRAVEL ROADS ~ Keat Deo og tg Dee ‘Tacoma Wighline— Fair to King county line. Renton concrete read open two miles beyond Auburn; good also good via Boos umclaw excellent. ALL PAVED ROADS IN GOOD CONDITION Beach—Closed one m of North Trunk road (paving under way); detour. Vashon Island — The Seattle-Vashon Heights ferry diacontinued. Des Moines-Portage ferry is in operation. Road from Vashon Heights south closed for paving Other reads on iwiand good to fair. Kent — (East Side) —New con- crete pavement epen + con- tinuows concrete road from Henton te Auburn. gRReGee ONDER CONUERUOTION y Beidge—Over Snoqualmie—Open. in “ui Bridge—Over Green river near Auburn—Closed. Orillia Beidge—New vridge open. For further information regarding King county seate call Main 6 bess 7, The King of Siam, devotees of Pacing and other sports, was sponsor for the first automobile races re- @ently held in Bangkok. (LES, TRUCK National Safety Council Undertakes Large Job tenance which enters into the acch | lars and the speeding up of automo dent problem, will be distributed by | bile and motor truck traffic thru the the national council thru its local) elimination of lost time due to acct councils, thru automobile schools, au-| dents, which now amounts to thou tomedile clubs, automobile Insurance | sands of hours dally in every big in companies, and thru every other | dustrial center, means which presents tteelf. | “It te incencetvable,” says C. W For the council feels that tf ft suc-| Price, general manager of the nation ceeds In making a sot of the lessons | al mafety council, “that any man into available to every chauffeur and) whose hands a met of these lessons | truck driver in the country, it will| ls placed should not get, at the very mean annually a saving of thousands | least, one idea which would at some of lives, a saving of millions of dor! time prevent one accident." Seek Uniform Laws Against Auto Thefts As a solution to the problem of) er, provided by this law, is te have checking the vast number of automo | charge of all records of sales and ex bile thefts thruout the country, the | changes of used cara, of all thefts National Automobile Chamber of) and recoverins, and of all cars held Commerce has decided on the em in storage or for repair. couragement of uniform state IAWS! jrnsavits describing the automo to control the exchange of Used 8F8. in) 16 be transferred from one per This decision is the result of 80) oo. to another must be filled out by auni've study of ubject by. =~ Fas, pn nay for.| both persons in the transaction, and, lowed the ceulitation that stern steps | With the details of the transfer, must ote > Bayes be : tense nseni to eer be filed with the state motor vehicle the ever-increasing number of thefts | “°mmissioner. due to the laxity of the present| In cane of theft of a car, the motor oa Vehicle comminsioner of every state | To help the state legislatures in| !* to be notified and given a deserip- this effort, the chamber has drawn | !09 of the stolen car by the commis. up & model anti-theft law, which will/#oner of the state in which the be presented to all state assemblies | theft occurred. On the rec at their 1921 sessions. The law, ax| olen car, all comminsioners are to drafted, is intended expecially to reg-| De notified. ulate the purchase and sale of oot | Under the mame taw, every garage ry of a} THE SEATTLE STAR ACCESSORIES NO mpeodster can escape, | Angeles, where motorists like to peed thru the tunnels, To stop them, Sergt. Frank Harlan, of the motoreycle squad, has chught on the idea of detecting violators by the | Here's a speed trap from whichpetiscope. He waits and watches sees bow long it takes a car to pans thru from the moment it hits the shadow at the other end t to the time it is abreast of him. He knows the | roads, Vollrath concludes these pre-| which has so much to do It's In 108) thru this instrument, at one end of | length of the tunnel and therefore | tutions are necessary to secure) regrettable condition of many a tannel, and using a stop-watch,|can calculate bow fast the car Is motions to a polloeman standing by, | structed. who seta off after the speeder. presiearmmammarrss Is Your Auto Stored For those who store thelr auto mobile during the winter monthe: or at any other time, the follow. ing suggestions might be usetulk Never store a car in or near & Ifehch Roads | Well Drained Writing in the Ohio Motorist, a ward Vollrath of Cleveland, ©., | stable, because the ammonin former c« der of the &lst | fumes present in stables harm division in France, talks highly of | the paint and upholstery. the highways of France for their Raise the car from the feor by good drainage and the constant care given them. blocks of wood placed under the Do not use jacks, as the axles. Four years of constant heavy | least Jar would cause it to topple traffic have done havoc to the roads, | off. but they showed up wonderfully storage batteries t @ well under those conditions. “Their ‘ any for storag®, GF foundations were as secure as bed arge it full by ronning the rock,” ix Vollrath’s explanation of | motor while the car is jacked SB ‘The motor should be run at @ speed of 20 miles an hour enti the hydrometer reads 1.260, Wipe off the top of the battery with a rag couted with household ammonia, and coat the terminals with vaseline. Deflate the tires to a preamp of 15 pounds to the square inch, Drain the water from the radia» tor and run the engine unt® the motor is heated. Drain the of from the eran case and replace tt with a heavier oil, Remove the spark ping pour a cupful of oil into each cylinder, replace the spark pings and turm over the engine by hand powered times to cover the cylinder walle thoroly with oil. thia. “In their prime, as we found them,” he writes, “they were as smooth and unbroken as @ parlor floor, Skidding upon mich roads was unknown, as an automobile speed of 50 to 60 miles an bour | was @ common affatr, “AN roads had a natural border of from five to 10 feet In width—the natural soil, Outside this border was the invariable ditch about 18 inches in depth. Thru this border, at Intervals of 100 or 200 fet, were cut slanting lateral furrows leading from the roadbed to the drainage ditches, The drainage was perfect. At similar intervals were pinced «mall heaps of road material for quick repairs, while a corps of care | takers, mostly old men, kept con stant watch that the road surface was kept unbroken.” From observations of the French | rolled top-dressing. 3. Constant care, the absences | good roads: | 1, Good drainage, without which If it exceeds the Kimit, he| no successful road can be con- ‘The automobile industry largest among the users of 2. Good foundations and property and iron. WELL KNOWN FIRM motor vehicles and parta, It provides | for the licensing of the business of dealing in second-hand vehicles, and prohibits the removal, mufilation or altering of makers’ numbers. or repair shop nrust keep a descrip. tive record of every car left for storage or repatr, and muat report to the police if they find an identifica | en mark or number mutilated or | AUTO TALK HOLDS USED CAR SALE! One of the largest males of its) CLEAN BRAKE BANDS ;ments and reducing skiddmg to a) A state motor vehicle commisston- | changed. ‘How Will This Do? To Keep Skidding Down to Minimum se tonconted with a view toward|( HOW ABOUT THIS Deen concocted with a view toward avoiding accidents on slippery pave || satan icnow Thy Automobile,” might be the head on a story of minimum, here is the latest all ready || now ittie the avernge car owner to be tested... It ie based pede | can tell the police when his ma. ton'e ape ye ‘eithy wa 1] chine ts stolen. ‘The Ban Fran ‘All the appliance consists of te a! pipe fitted over the rear axle from) claeg News found that men can't even tell the color of the car, the kind of tires, or the engine or | license number, Probably your || cop» can tell the same tale. Avoid Double Accidents by eo, wars eee| Light Signal, by plates of steel The pipe is half oe an oe iets decicnas thdal filled with mercary. should be taken by motorists in| When the automobile is moving! rouble at night, there are two that straight ahead, the mercury will be Kerosene squirted on brake bands will help them grip the drum. The kerosene has a tendency to dissolve the ofty matter on the bands, leav log the surface clean. Squeaky brakes are also remedied by the use of kerosena tune of rubber ax pavement where it can help to deaden the sound of heavy automobile traffic. Such places as in front of hospitals, schools and hotels have in front of them a few yards of rubber pave |ment instead of the common wood) | Diocks or stone sets, MUDDY RADIATOR When it t# necenary to clear the |radiator of accumulated mud, it} should be Nushed from the rear and/ not the front. This is to avoid getting water into the magneto or London t# experimenting on the!" ignition system which ts often short- circuited when moisture enters, The municipal garage movement has taken firm hold tn Chicago. The idea fs to build a two-level garage in Grant Park to be paid for and) | maintained from fees charged for | parking cars. Other cities also have | taken up thie pian for the city owned and operated garage in their business districts, kind ever held in Seattle is being | conducted by the ShieldslAvengood | Motor Co, | Eleven well known makes of cars, | all rebuilt and repaired, are being offered at great reductiona | Considering the number of visitors calling at the salesrooms at Lith and FE. Pike, the success of the sale seems assured. Stewart Ford Speedometers City ordinance requires all maintaining an approximate level in the pipe. But as soon as the car heavy Uquid metal will tend to react against the force that throws the car | sida. In this way, the mer- opposing force would keep the _|A to B. With the appliance, the re-| action of the mercury would keep the skidding down to from A to C. Altho it would not prevent skidding | altogether, the mercury pipe would reduce the side swing of the car and) thereby make riding on slippery roads less dangerous. POWER LOST BY FRICTION One-fourth of the power of a motor vehicle is lost by friction. That is, excepting the power that is lost from improper lubrication. To make the most possible from the engine's power, therefore, grease cups should be kept thoroly clean and constantly filled with grease. All bearings and) working surfaces should be inapect- ed often and cleaned and lubricated. | ‘The tnternabcombustion motor using petroleum spirit, invented tn/ 1883, was the first step towards the production of the modern self- propelling road vehicle. “Back to Normalcy’ Physically as Well as Financially CASCA-TONE “Slack” Energy TODAY Regenerate Your At All Druggists skids, the comparstive inertia of the/ .|from 10 to 25 | ought to be adopted generally thru- {out the country. Both pertain to the use of a bive light to notify other motoriata of a danger that re- quires the offer of wide berth on/ | their part, First is the case of an accident which makes it necessary for an automobile to be towed in at night. The towing and the towed cars are feet apart. In the dark a pedestrian might mistake the space between the two cars as clear | for a dash across, stumble over the) towing ropa, and another serious ac cident might occur. To avoid this a common signal ought to be gener- ally adopted. A blue light on the windshield of the towing, and one on the towed, machine might save many a life. Another dangerous situation at night occurs when a motorist has to get. out and repair his machine, He may have to work on the side toward the road and, if he has no light to show himself to an approach ing driver, there is the lability of another serious accident. The on- coming motorist might think he was giving the stalled car wide enough berth, but it might not be wide enough to allow room for the man | working beside the car. To avold this, also, a biue ight signal should be generally adopted. It could be attached to a trouble line and hung from the top or wind shield of the car on the roadside. In such @ cane & motorist coming along the road would know by the biue light that wide berth should be allowed to prevent further accident This bloe light signal system ts used in connection with railroad ac cidents and the towing of barges on waterways. Its use by motorists at night would prevent many doyble ac cidenta. Take it up with Dad Tell him how easy it ig to geta Dayton by joining our Christ- mas club now. automobiles have speedom- eters. Your Ford dealer sells them, — Stewart Products Service Station 910 East Pike Street WHEN CARBON COLLECTS The collection of carbon on top jof the piston head ts often greatly Rocebennend by the lathe center mark | in the head. This hole should be filled up. It te the starting point! at which carbon begins to collect and soon there is a mound at this point. The rapidity with which car- bon collects can be reduced by smoothing the walle of the combus- | tom chamber, expecially the top of | the piston. 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