THE DAILY BRITISH WHIGy SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1918. PAGE TWELVE In the Automobile World Sn. le Most accident avoidable and may be avoided if the danger is rec- ognized or realiz in time Few motorists are alist. but many there are who do not possess the ixth sense of skill which enables them to see the erisis far enough abead to elude it. Motoring is a splendid game in which the object is to drive the car from day to day without even a close shave, let alone a damaged mud gaard or possibly a wrecked car. Pit- ted against the driver and his mount are constantly changing currents of traffic which combine in various ways To make it more difficult the diree tion and contour of the road and the quality of the surface vary in unex pected fashion, Obstacles such as ditches, telegraph poles, steep hills stone fences and trees have a hand in maqing the game harder There fore it is only natural in the give and take of trathc moyement that emer gencies arise, and the driver must be trained to see the danger while it is still a potential one and not simply taught how to be able to wiggle out of it after it becomes a reality. Give the average man a car with- out any brakes on it, but with the steering gear wn perfect condition, to operate over a level stretch of coun try, and he will drive so slowly that the chances of an accident are very small. But give the same man a car with both brakes and stéering in good shape, and he will cheerfully enter a situation to which his brakes may ngt be available without slowing aowfl, Why? Because he has fail ed 5 realize thé seriousne of the situation. Take the brakes off en tirely and he will be careful, but al low him to enter a situation in which his brakes are of no use and the chances are that he will become cau tious until the unexpected happens and he is abreast of the dange: Conversely, give him a car with brakes O., K. but with the sieering gear so |deranged that it may stick temporarily at any moment, with the wheels pointed straight ahead, and he will drive very slowly except per- haps when the road is clear Yet he things nothing of dashing into a situ- ation where it is impossible to step to one side or the other, where the only way of preventing a mishap is by using the brakes. Whenever it is seen that there is a possibility of either brakes or steer ing gear becoming useless it is advis able to proceed more carefully--so carefully that when an' emergency arises, either one, whichever is avail able, will be sufficient for the exi- gency. There is an element of surprise in eyery accident, and the' motorist are AN ANALYSIS OF AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS situation t he rare 1s¢ he is ir, when without * the car brakes in- harply to caching the had in mind the | man jumping off « would have left a com- 1 roadway b Street car r to the car he which case fartable | marg the mot at least if passi would watch ly for any indi cation that 1 wa uddenly g in the way might. have weeident, or tween going of his been too narrow to avoid hg ight TH been passing another machin « steering as well as brakes = would been "useless Therefore 1 ssing the street car he should ha: proceeded as slowly as seemed udent, considering that the steering was temporarily us In passing along a congested street with several lines of traffic from curb to curb, there is great danger when close to vehicles parked along the curb that somebody w art out di ctly front of the I Steering t of thé questior d the time short that the will not arrest the machine unless it is ing slowly Hence it is advisable to watch the mo pedestri ans carefully to prevent accidents of this sort When two or three crossing the roadway necessary to be more steer than when one matter how badly confused a single person may become it is almost inva riably possible to steer the car around him if there is not time to slow down, But with more than one th is dan- ger that in their confusion they will scatter so that whatever path is cho sen for the car there is the certainty of hitting one of them Che point is that two ways of avoiding accident, by us ing the brakes and steering Most road mishaps are due to failure to re alize their approach to a crisis which may render one or both ineffective, and it is not until bath are that the smash takes place have brakes mony vement of persol are together it is careful how you 18 Crossing No there are only nsel useles Queen Amelia of Portugal is graduate physician and 'has been giving her services to the military hospitals in England. Fifty women 'in Detroit combing the 'office buildings to cure recruits for he United: States navy. } are 8o- AAA AAPA MN ing his field of operations-- truck. his new Reo 1 "vernacular of automobilia. Phone 200 =: _ Call in and see it at Boyd's. 2 THE REO MOTOR CARS "The Gold Standard of Values." J Motor Truck Has Supplanted the Horse UT WHY WASTE SPACE vious fact? The. horse belongs in the fields- ~his feet in the soft earth, not on the pavements. here and every business man wants one, or as many as will supplant his obsolete equipment, do the work and do it better and then increase his business by widen- by stating such an ob- The motor truck is -broadening the territory over which he can deliver profitably. The only question to be settled is which motor After you have seen this on" you will be safsfied that the REO is ,500-pound * a Reo from radiator cap to tail light, as they say in the "Speed Wag- HE truck. wagon is 34 -ton 'Hurry-up" ~ George Bo yd 129 ay Street fdrain off HEAVY AUTOMOBILE TAXES IN THE UNITED STATES House Committee Sets Schedu le of $10 to $140 on Each Ma- chine; Extra 2 Cents a Gallon Added to Gasoline tax on gasoline-and an excess t on use of automobiles has been [has been in use. vd ted by the house ways mitt for the $8,000,000,000 venue bill soline tax will be two cents to be paid by the producer or manufacturer The automobile tax, which is in addition to the 10 per cent. tax on manufacturers' sales agreed on Tuesday, will be paid by owners of cars and will range from $10 ona $500 car to $140 on a car costing between $4,500 and $5,000. Motor trucks will pay according to the same schedule as automobiles, because of damage they do to roads On motoreyeles there will be a flat tax of $5. Another tax probably wil be devised to hit the dealers in used cars It is estimated that the tax won gasoline will bring in between $40,- 000,000 and $45,000,000 The automobile tax is estimated to pro- duce not less than $125,000,000. The tax will be assessed accord- ing to the retail list price of the car at the time of manufacture, There will be no deduction for the age of com~ re- The a gallo the rth of time it a car cost- pay just as model costing the the ear nor for the le Hence ing $3,000 in 1910 w much as 1918 same. amount. Second, the tax will be and will have to be paid by owner whether it is in use or The schedule of taxes agreed on is as follows: Cars costing $500 or less, between $600 and $750, $15; tween $750 and 31.000, $10; tween 1,000 and $1,500, $30; tween $1,500 and $2.000, $40; tween $2,000 and $2,500, $60 tween $2,500 and $3,000, 60; tween $3,000 and $2,500, $80; tween $3,500 and $4,000, $100; tween $4,000 and $4,600, $120; tween $4,500 and $5,000, $140, In other words the tax increases $10 for every $500 after the $1,000 price is paid until it reaches $3, 000, when the increase is at the rate of $10 on every additional $500 of the car's cost. The tax on car cost- ing $10,000 would be $360, while the tax on a $15,000 car would be $560, an excise the not. up- $10; be~ be- be- be- be- be- be- be- be- J AUTO NEWS f Sy The car owner who would rather produce all his own "ingredients" at home may be glad to know that an excellent body polish may be made from the following: One pint of turpentine, one pint of wood al- cohol, one guart of distilled water and one quart of parraffine oil. The aleohal and turpentine should be mixed, after which the water anc paraffine oil should be added. The best way of mixing the latter two is to place them in a bottle and shake them briskly The solution should be applied with the soft side of a Canton flannel cloth and polish- ed with a dry cloth About the best material to use in the stuffing box of a gasoline pump is hemp string and soap. Gaso- line will dissolve almost any kind of oll used as lubricator, but it has no effect on soap, so that soap may be used in place of grease as a lubricant or in place of red lead, in making screw joints tight. "Why Bulitt club?" 'Because every rested for speeding was going just as fast as charged." did they out of manage to pet that automobile time he was ar- he admitted he the cop An excellent way to locate sus- pected leaks in the carburetor float is to immerse the part in hot water. In this way any gasoline in the in- terior will be vaporized and will force its way out of the hole, which may be located by watching for the bubbles to rise The float should, of course, be removed. from the water the instant the bubbles cease arising. Take Care With Water System. When draining the water system of the car it is well to make certain that no water remains in the pipes and jackets, by rocking the front of the car This will throw the water out of bends- and pockets. The major- ity of thermosyphon cooling systems easily enough, but in the system it 1s necessary to use care. It is a good plan in draining off the water to let it run into some receptacle, a large can or pail, so that it cangbhe used again. The reason is that in all. water there is a certain proportion -of for- eign matter that forms deposits on the cylinder jackets and radiator. In the water already used this deposit may he supposed already to have been made, whereas with fresh water a new deposit will be precipitated. By us- ing the same water over and over again this furring up of the water Spaces may be minimized, Miss Margaret. Henderson has been elected borough "clerk in Phoenixville, Pa., at a salary of*$1,- 260. pump Miss Elizabeth 'C been Mass., Blanding has teaching school in iAttleboro, for 69 consecutive wears. NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE Only about one man in each 208 exceeds a height of six feet. Spain supblies the world with more than three-fourths of its olive oil The bottom of a bird house ingpat- ed by a Michigan man can be remov- ed for cleaning. In a Paris cathedral is a bell weighing twenty tons, while its ae- cessories weigh another ten tons, For bending large pipes without injury a portable, but powerful hy- draulic press has been invented. London has 73,600 miles of over- head telegraph and telephone wires and 921,000 miles under ground. Lightness is the advantage claim- ed for a gasoline engine piston made of aluminum in skeleton form. The Brazilian Government has es- tablished a sanitary and prophylac- tid service to pgevent the spread of malaria, The throttle valve of a new auto- mobile engine gontains an electric coil for heating the gas and making starting easy. South Atrios diamond output reached 2,902,000 carats last year, an increase of $56,000 carats from the previous year. Small wheels which can be dropped to each side perf, a 'rider of a new motoreycle to retfin his seat when his machine stops. The fireless cooker 'originated in Norway and was brought to public attention for the first time at the Paris exposition of 1867. An electric magnet weighing oly seven pounds, bit which will lift more than 100 pounds has been in- vented for machine shop use. The. Government .of Argentine plans to import camels as an expéri- ment to take the place of horses and oxen in semiarid regions. Devices to prevent watre entering a person's ear while the hair is being shampooed have been patented by a' Massachusetts woman. Some French scientists have decid- ed that tobacco has an injurious ef- fect upon the heart even if the higo- tine has been removed. N To save room in election booths a Minneapolis man has invented a vot- ing machine which three men can use at once mand all secretly. 1 Just Think What 22,022 Miles Without Stopping Means! "More Miles per Gallon' "More Miles on Tires" aviation motor is 150 flying building. Maxwell Motor Cars endurance. Figured in miles at the rate 21,600 miles. - « 175 15 5-Passenger Car Roadeter - . . . 5-Passenger, with All-Weather Top 5- Pass. Sedan. - 21% 2-Pass. Coupe - 2065 All prices £. 0. b. Windsor, Ot Willirhasle regular sguipmeuy with Sedan 1350 running never stopped, and sengers, 22,022 miles! will demonstrate for you time to time, parts. J.W.Martin 110 Clergy St., Phone 1192w That is normal service. ~ that 44 consecutive days lon of gasoline too- You have read of course, that the "life" of the best hours. And you must know that an aviation motor repre- sents the highest development of gasoline engine Must be--to withstand such strains for so long-- for when you consider all the conditions, that 150 flying hofirs constitutes a terrific feat of of speed our own Lib- erty motor has shown--144 miles per hour--it is And in order to sustain its load in the air that motor is working to capacity all the time, Now consider the performance of that Maxwell motor which, in 44 consecutive days and nights covered, withuits pas- It is a strange fact but true--as any metallurgist that a. motor, like a man or an horse, will do better with a rest from For motors and the metals of whiclrthey are made, are also subject to "fatigue." So the crucial part of that test was in it§ constant running--not a moment's relief allowed. from the heat to cylinders or the motion of reciprocating Our records show many cases where, according to owners' statements, motor cars have gone 100,000 miles--150,000 and even 200,000 miles. But we don't consider those cases exceptional. Any Maxwell motor car will live to do that if kept oiled and given reasonable care. : And we are frank to concede that some other makes of cars can show similar mileages- for, as indicated above, intermittent service with rests between, is what the car is intended to do. But to withstand the terrific fatigue involved in and nights "non-stop" test; and to cover, with four passengers, 22,022 miles; and, doing that, to average 26% miles per gal- ~that car must be a Maxwell. The Argentine Government is fos- tering experiments by farmers with rice and potato cultivation, both by dry farming and irrigation. An inventor has patented a mo- -torcycle tire in which he elaims so to compress the rubber that it will automatically close punctures, To help fruit pickers a Californian cutter which fits the thumb and forefinger and dis strapped to them. Brushes weighing less thay half an ounce, which ean be carried inside hats on which they are to be used, are the invention of a Parisian. About 240,000 tungsten filamoent electric lamps were sold in the United States last year, of which some 75, has invented a scissors-1 ike 000,000 were minjature lamps. By fractional distiliation Under re- latively low. pressure an Italian has found a y¥ to remove aleghol from wine without otherwise altefing it. An inventor has patented a lattie- ed foot scraper to be inserted in an autothobile runuing board to lessen the amount of dirt carried into a car. Educational authorities of New South "Wales are introducing the stu- dy .of the Japanese language in se- condary schools and the Sydney Unl- versity. o A farm tractor only four feet high and three and a half feet wide, which does the work of two horses, ay is the invention of a California grchardist. A centrifugal pump that bas been invented in England is said to handle unscreened sewage of a consistency that would choke any other type 'of pump, . With several advantages over a wind shield an attachment for motor- cycles has been invenfed that de- flects alr currents and dust above a rider's head. Basing their calculations upon ra« dio-active phenomena, two British scientists have advanced the theory that the Maka is at Teast 711,000,000 years o rd. cage that can be used in- doles as well as out of doors and which will hold a ball driven into it has been invented for golfers to' prac- tice puting. Until « recent years Norwegian farmers used but 5,000 to 6,000 tons of nitrates as fertilizers annually, but this year they will use between 655,000 and 60,000 tons. The motorist ny také a hint from . steam boiler 'ofghieers by mixing a tittle glycerine with the cooling water to prévent the forma- tion of scale, in which capacity it fs sald to be very efficacious, The glycerine should be used In propor- sons of half a pint to each five gallons of walter. mg JEFF MUST THINK EUROPE IS A BARBER SHOP ?- by BUD FISHER. hn wet, JEFF, AT LAST THE ALLIES ARE CET TING Even EOR ALL THOSE AIR RAIDS BY DOING SOME AIR RAIDING THEMSELVES. AIR MEN DROPPED Some BomBS ON COLOGNE LAST NIGHT! © ou. SURE: CoroGgne! HERE'S A MAP o& GERMANY, THeRe'S COLOGNE! Ste x? ~ Im. CoLOGNE'S wAYy T™e IN TERR! Y You-<AN'T Miss xs IN BLG I'm NOT LOOKING I'm ™ For COLOGNE = TRYING FIND BAY RUM! ie i JA Fovevs