a uraay, KPECT ACCIDENT IN TWENTY YEARS This Is the Average Toll, Ex- perts Tell the Auto Drivers. ; Washington, 'May 7.--The aver- 6ge automobile driver may expect to have a serious accident about once in 20 years. e But 1 or 2 per cent. of the drivers should thank their special guardian gels if they don't emash a car or n down a pedestrian every é&ix mths, or oftener, This is the way drivers classify under to-day's standards snd condi- tions, according to Dr. Walter V. Bingham of New York, director of =the Personnel Research Federation. One of the large problems of high- way safety, he says, Is to recognize incorrigibles before they do any Bn Gamage, and to banish them from the steering wheel. =o Accident '"'repeaters" cannot be picked out by outward physical ap- pearance, psychologists agree. There probably are just as many blonds among them as brunets. They have no distinctive facial characteristics, or other earmarks. "How, then, can you determine who will be predisposed to accidents before the subject begins driving?" The question was put wp to Dr. Bingham, who was chairman of the committee on causes of accidents re- porting here at Secretary Hoover's recent safety conference, and also to Dr. F. A. Moss, professor of psychol- ogy at George Washington Univer. sity and secretary of the same com- mittee. Drivers Are Tested. "There are personal factors which can be revealed by psychology lab- oratory test of the appHeant for a driver's license," answers Dr. Bing- ham. "You can determine exactly All the distinction and smart appearance that you ould expect to find in a car with body by Fisher. wung low, gracefully proportioned, finished in ttractive Ontario Gray Duco, with smart Landau- "r+ ows, this conpe~--~despite. its low. price --is at. ome in any company, on any occasion, business or 'cial. In addition, it provides Chevrolet's charac- ristic economy and the superbly smooth operation : the Improved Chevrolet valve-in-head motor. Artillery type wood wheels are standard pment on the Chevrolet Coupe. Disc op Rp BS pg RY, extra cost. we DISTRI BUTORS GARAGE, LIMITED CORNER BROCK AND MONTREAL STREETS. 'PHONE 600. T. J. ALEXANDER, Arden, Ont. Phone 9. me ' « NEW LOW PRICES THE DAILY BRITIS how long it takes to act after an emergency is perceived. "The average driver, we have found, requires about one-half a sec- ond in emergency to take his foot off the accelerator and put it on the brake. This means the car traveling at 30 miles an hour would go about 22 feet before the driver acted. "Some types of nervous disorders unfit a person to drive, while others have no such effect. One eminent psychologist says that a person suf- fering from acute melancholia is one of the safest of all drivers, because he takes extreme precautions against accidents." D. Moss has made extensive tests into the personal factors which cause accidents. One of his tests was a simple device of "What's wrong with this picture" to determine a per- son's judgment and perception of danger. He has applied the stand- ard intelligence test to drivers, also. You Needn't Be "Smart." A high grade of general intelli- 'gence is not necessary to be a good driver, he' demonstrated, but a sub- normal mentality makes a dangerous driver. He found taxicab chauffeurs with the minds of seven-year-old children, and they were having trouble. * "A small number of people be- come chilled and quite helpless from fear when confronted by sudden emergency," says Dr. Moss. "We have located them in tests on stu- dents in the university. "It is possible, also, to judge one's eye and hand co-ordination by tests. This is fmportant in passing cars and driving up to curbs. These tests are quick and practical and will locate dangerous traits. "Women are no more dangerous as drivers than men, given equal practice. They have no distinctive psychological tendency to accidents. The influence of fatigue on auto- mobile accidents, according to these authorities, is marked. A tabulation of 28,000 traffic accidents in New York state last year showed that more than twice as many accidents occured during the evening rush hour as in the morning rush hour, ONE-DAY TRAFFIC IN THE ANDES MOUNTAINS. Motorists well acquainted with one-way streets in the: larger cities should have little trouble getting ac- customed to the one-way, one-day roads in the Andes Mountains. Roads in these Peruvian mountains are so' narrow and dangerous that highway regulations permit the use of them in one direction only during speci- fied days. Traffic originating in the upper reaches of the Andes is per- mitted to move down only on Turs- day, Thursday and Saturday of each week. Up-moving traffic from the lower districts is allowed the use of the roads on the other days. Railroads Use Busses, Two Colorado railroad companies which have seen a considerable amount of thelr business go to com- peting bus lines in the same terri- tory have decided to run busses in competition to the existing bus lines. At first the railroads were bitterly opposed to.bus travel but now they have decided to meet the competi- tion at its own game. Focus Headlights, With the season approaching when many motorists are again seeking the open road, special attention should be given to mobile headlights. Headlights odt™~of focus not only make night driving difficult but ene danger the lives of other motorists. Auto Industry Grows. Canada's automobile business con- tinues to become more valuable to that country. There has been a steady inerease in the number of cars manufactured. These machines are for both domestic and export purposes. : A -------------- Heavy Bridge Traffic. The Queensboro bridge in New York accommodates 35,000 vehicles dally. According to the steady :a- crease in the number of vehicles which go over this bridge, it is be- Heved that the count will soon be 40,000. > Berlin Traffic Plan. Traftic methods in Berlin, which are modeled on American lines, are to be improved by installing turn- stiles in the subway, according to reports of the information service of the German Travel Reer:iting Bureau. In the Automobile World NEW JERSEY HAS STRICT AUTO LAWS The New Jersey state legislature passed nearly a half hundred bills relating fn some way to the opera- tion of automobiles in the state, par- ticularly strict enforcement of traffic laws. Two of these were directed against dunken drivers and were framed so as to eliminate all technicalities which would prevent action of the courts against offenders. One of these bills eliminates the provision calling for a summary ar- raignment of offenders and permits their prosecution at any time within 30 days. In cases of first offense, magistrates are permitted to impose a fine of 3250 or a jail term. For the second or other offenses of the same law a jail sentence is mandatory. For the guidance of magistrates, the legislature adopted a bill defin- ing reckless driving as "the driving of a motor vehicles in any manner which unnecessarily interferes with the free and proper use of the public highway, or in any manner which endangers the life or limb or property of any person." AMERICANS NEED NO PASS. PORTS IN CANADA American citizens need no pase ports to tour in Canada. If the au- tomobile is to remain in Canada less than 30 days a touring permit is ob- tainable from the Canadian customs officers at the port of entry, allow ing the car to be run in the Domin- fon for one month without securing a customs bond or depositing duty. Cross-Mark Autos. Many leading automobile manu- facturers are cross-indexing and marking the autos they manufacture to make them thief-proof. With spe- cial markings, it is usually simplg to identify automobiles. This is ex- pected to discourage the practice of stealing cars, A Digest of the . BEST in WIT By Courtesy of ZIFFS MAGAZINE Aw, Gwan! Joaquin Miller, the "Poet of the Sierras," wrote an even worse hand than Horace Gree- ley. Miller was once invited to be the guest of honor 'at a liter- ary society's banquet in Boston, the . Boston. . committee sent to him saying: "MAKE A CROSS ON A SHEET OF PAPER IF YOU ARE COMING AND A CIRCLE IF YOU ARE NOT, AND MAIL TO US. No wriTING." Miller duly sent on the sheet of paper marked as requested, but the committee was left up a tree. They didn't know whether the mark was a cross or a circle! * ow Certainly! A lui young fellow named Bab- 1 Had a girl, a timid young rabbit. But i so rough, She exclaimed: "Quit that stuff; You should take a hiss nice--and not grabbit!" "a There's many exciting dates that never get into history. .« 0» . Now, Now! 'What's coming of in here?" Asked the f. 'stick. ing his head in the room where the students playing strip poker. Vi" \\N ECONOMY ar yeah Si CHAMPION Dependable for Every Engine H WHIG RD in the World and Sales still mounting During the first three months gf 1926 Dodge Brothers, Inc., and their idiariés built and sold more motor vehicles than any other manufacturer in the world, except Ford and Chevrolet. 71,189 retail deliveries were made by Dodge Brothers Dealers in the Uniteq States and Canada between January second and April third. This represents a gain of 37 per cent over the same period last year and 69 per cent over the first quarter of 1924! Third largest in the world! And sales CONTINU- ING to mount week after week to new record break ing levels. : In fact, during the week ending April 24th retail sales reached the remarkable total of 9,566--the greatest single week in Dodge Brothers history! These figures are all the more significant when you realize that the gain of the industry as a whole over last year is only 12 per cent. There could be no more convincing evidence that today'sproduct is regarded as better than ever before and that the present prices make it the most im- pressive value Dodge Brothers (Canada) Limited have ever offered. Touring Car $1030 Coupe - -¥1095 Roadster - 1030 Sedan - - 1160 f. o. b. Toronto, taxes to be added M. OBERNDORFFER 124 CLARENCE STREET DonDse BROTHERS MOTOR CARS MADE IN CANADA > Unequaled Results With Unexampled Economy The trend today is toward 'the Chrysler "20" because the Chrysler "70" is in line with the national trend toward genuine economy. It satisfies the growing desire to make the dollar go farther--to make it buy more comfort and enjoyment. The plain fact is that the Chrysler "70" af. fords all of the roadability, speed, of riding of bulky, cumbersome cars; and to those adds its own inherent advantages. It is far less costly to buy and to keep. It gives twice the gasoline and oil mileage of many cars which it equals and surpasses & . It goes deep into materials and mani. facturing. No car is bulltof finer materials no car is built to finer standards. The result is that Chrysler "70" stands a way arouses highest praise of men and women who ate vied to the CLARK BROS, 371 King Street. . Telephone 2357.