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The Washington times., 1919-12-20
FIGURES SHOW GROWTH
OF MOTOR INDUSTRY
Only $4,000 Cars in u. S. in 1904
Paying License Revenue Of
$l93oO0.
&C. N. CLAUDY IN Meter Lifes

We do trow (. Digging up
some old statistics from forgotten
census reports one can ascertain that
in 1906 there were some ts,oee cars
registered In the United States paying
a license revenue OF about siss.eoo. or
about the same amount which the
District OF Columbia paid in 1918. In
that hazily seen infancy OF the motor
car industry, something less than
three-tenths OF per cent of the total
rural road and bridge expenditures
were represented by the fee paid by
motor cars. In 1918. 81 per cent OF
our total road and bridge cxpendi-
lures was collected as revenue from
motor car owners who paid for little
tin tags designed to let the policeman
know who you are when you shatter
the speed limit. run over the old apple
woman on the corner or transport
Illicit liquids from one dry latitude
into another equally dry Longitude.
Say. do you like statistics? DO you
like 'em in columns or spread out
over the page this way Or don't you
like 'em at all? Anyway. read these
before you answer. There are
two and a half cars for every mile
Of road IN the United States. But not
in each and all of the States. Nevada
has two cars for every three miles OF
road. while little Rhody has sixteen
cars for every mile of road. Pretty
soon she's got TO have a semaphore
system or her cars will bump. There
il one whole motor car (fivvers are,
statistically, motor cars) for every
sixteen people. At the present rate
of getting cars in about two n three
years the entire population OF the
United States could go riding at the
same time. and as that would
include all the crossing cops and ell
the bicycle and motorcycle policenca,
wouldn't IL be grand and glorious
feeling? Already California and Me-
braska have car. for every seven
people. Amt any car but what can
hold seven IL they sardine in prop
erly.
Say, honest. do you like statistics
The Washington times., 1919-12-20
COMPETITORS
Of ELECTRIC ROADS
Company Askk Permission V RsXs.
Freight Rates 10 Stay
in Race.

Evidence that the motor truck ~
a serious competitor Of the eis~srs
railway IN dependable and economies
OF freight and merchapl We.
says G. c. Frey. OF the Kissel Mote
Car Company. was again eviasnoss
recently, when, i Bderstapd, the Nh
waukee Northern Electric Compaay
applied to the railroad commissioness
at Madison. Wisconsin. for authority
to increase its fast express rstes b.
Zone. so that IL may compete With
the motor trucks running betw~~S
Milwaukee and Port Warrington.
II understand that the highwayi
betweeh these two points are ex-si
lent examples OF good roads, which
VI q facI IL one explanation wa
motor truckr plying over them Az
able TO compete with the railroad. ii
low rates as well ss In tim. schedule
This is only another example O.
the benefit OF good roads. If the M
tor truck lie given u square deal. and
by a square deal mean a righ, al
way of good roads. y driver thsf
knows how 90 handle HE truck. p
truck that is built OF quality Mx
tertals on tho right principles An
loaded the way IL should be iosA>a
both as 10 capacity and division g.
weight over the entire truck. you wi
find that the motor truck is the MOI
economical dependable and adspir
able transportation unit In the cosn
try today"
The Washington times., 1919-12-20
Limitation on Rule.

4 limitation on the rule applied
in the preceding case is Illustrated in
a recent case decided by the supreme
court of Kentucky. In this case the
insurance policy covered a building
which was described as a grocery
store and residence.
The building was destroyed by fire.
and the insurance company refused
to pay the loss on the ground that
at the time OF the fire the insured had
several quarts Of gasoline on the
premises which he had intended us
ing for cleaning an automobile and
vulcanizing some tires, but the pres
ence of the gasoline was not shown
to have been the cause of the fire.
In deciding that the insurance COM
pany must pay the loss, the court
ruled that the prohibition against
keeping gasoline on the insured prem
ises must be interpreted to mean the
habitual keeping of gasoline.
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though the Western roads are very
beautifully with their rugged, impos-
ing mountains and great untamed
plains, 1 miss the sweeping, curving,
graceful highways Of the East.
miss the tobacco fields and the pine
trees.
ITO me there Is something very
beautiful in the dense, low-growing
foliage OF the trees that line the East.
ern roads. 1t seems to be softer and
greener than any seen farther West
and the birds perching on it seem
tanner and sing sweeter.
Motored Several Times . Week.
Last spring and summer, when
was playing at the Globe Theater in
The Canary used to motor two and
three times a week out through New
Rochelle. Rye, Greenwich, Stamford,
New Haven and Hartford, to Spring.
field, Mass. At Long Meadow, a sub
urb of Springfield, l am building
the house that mother and Brad
(Brad is Miss Sanderson's very IA
vorite dog) and I are going to spend
the rest of our vacations in.
"We would start early in the mornt
ing most of the times and motor
straight through. just stopping a,
some wayside tea house for lunch
eon-such delicious. cooling lunch
cons they were during the warm sum.
mer months. But other times we
would take two days, and those were
the drives I loved best.
"It is fun to drive lazily around n
the quaint old New England towns
of Massachusetts, and Connecticut
Then there is Yale. at New Haven
and the indescribable university at
mosphere' that envelops the whole
town. 1t has an old and established
air that makes one feel the great
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Insurance validity.

Motorists who keep their cars on
their own premises will do well to
heed the warning pointed out by a
recent decision of the supreme court
or Kansas, relating to the validity of
insurance on such premises
Most standard insurace policies
covering buildings of all kinds con-
tam a provision making the policy
void IL gasoline is habitually kept on
the premises. In the case in question
II appeared that such a policy was
obtained on a barn in which the
owner kept his car when il was not in
use. Usually the tank of the car con
tanned several gallons of gasoline
one night when the car was not in
the barn the building was DESTROYED
by fire. and when claim was made on
the insurance policy the company re-
fused to pay the loss on the ground of
the violation OF the prohibition re-
lating to the keeping of gasoline on
the premises. The court sustained
this defense.
To avoid such consequences the in
sured must obtain a rider" from the
insurance company permitting the
use OF the building for .'live" automo-
bile storage. with the Incidental pres
ence OF gasoline.
1t will be observed that the viola
tion of the policy in the case in ques-
tion was not the cause of the fire, yet
the court held it to be fatal. OF
course. if the policy had described
the building as a garage the court
might have held that the company
was bound TO know that such use OF
a building involved the presence of
gasoline, but even in such case
there is room for contention. in the
light Of the very technical attitude OF
the courts in dealing with such cases.
and property owners should invaria-
The Washington times., 1919-12-20
AUTOMOT
SECTION

forms arc always the center Of a.
traction when they cooperate with
civic authorities In drives aD&
parades. Men and women recogniss
the effect Of scout training on the
health And character OF boy,
AZ evidence Of the country ~riAs
Interest a recent exhibition Of the
nlm. Men In the Making" shewine
the glorious trip from Akron TO Pert.
land Me. in a Goodyear eouippss
truck train. wac riNen at the sxols
stve Hamilton Club In Chicago fos
ten days and was viewed with intsas~
interest by Chicagos -Four Hus
dred."
The Washington times., 1919-12-20
JULIA sANDERsoN ON MOTORING.

I'm a few centuries, when / am an
old woman, l am going to devote a lot
of time to motoring, for it is such
a fascinating diversion, and it takes
SO little energy"
That is the substance Of what Ju1ia
Sanderson replied to the question DO
you like motoring?" recently asked
her while on tour with "The Canary"
in which she and Joseph Cawthorn are
starred.
II should like to motor now a lot
more than 1 do she continued, "but
don't have time, and, besides
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hicles figured has reached beyond -nt
hundred thousand marx.
Fallacy Disproyed.

a number OF recent cases point TO
the fallacy of the popular idea that
nre apparatus and other official mo-
tor apparatus may be driven through
the streets in total disregard of the
usual precautions necessitated by To-
cal conditions
In one of such cases it is held that
superintendent of a fire department
Is personally liable in damages to a
pedestrian who is injured by an au
tomooile OF the fire departmen
which was being driven at an exces-
siVe rate of speed by a fireman, the
superintendent being in the car at
the time.
Under such circumstances the su-
perlntendent is held to be a party to
the drivers negligence, notwith-
standing the fact that at the time OF
the accident the car was being oper-
atcd on official and urgent business.
The Washington times., 1919-12-20
LEGAL POINTS FOR
AUTOMOBILE OWNER
Important Decision Covering In.
surance on Garages and
Other Recent Cases.
ny our LEGAL CORRESPONDENT.

The DEVELOPMENT Of the law relating to
entornooiles has been ss phenomenal as the
Development of the automobile industry IT.
sslf. Text books, statutes and court de-
sfsfons that owe their existence 70 TINS
comparatively new held Of industry and
equivalent of many hundreds OF volumes
and actually amount TO many hundreds or
thousands Of pages Of printed material.
That practically eyeryb body Is very deeply
Affected By this new and ever growing field
81 law - proposition that probably looks
.n~ ournrnS nnnf.,,s modtscation o3 'n q, ,be
truth. but will be seen from the series
OF articles which will appear in Saturday. 5
veek. and Of which this is the eighth. the
statement made will bear the severest test
In this series II is proposed TO get the
mobiles and to present IL in such a form
that IL will interest, instruct and help
Times readers in the great variety OF sit
uations which arise from time to time out
Of the ownership, use. sale. purchase, man
uf1cture, repair or storage OF automobiles,
sr from the conditions due to the general -s
pucations of our daily existence
The tritc proposition that the lay
Is a yardstick by which all human
achievement and progress may be
measured Is interestingly emphasize
by the recent publication by Matthew
Bender & Co. OF q new edition OF a
legal textbook on automobile law
r"Huddy on the Law OF Automo-
biles',.
First published in 1906. when il was
the first American textbook on the
subject, u has now reached a sixth
edition. so rapid and KALEIDOSCOPE
have been the changes and develop
Tnents on the legal side OF the auto
mobile industry. The new edition
contains nearly thirteen hundred
pages. and as authority for it's texS
cites no less than $500 decisions Of
the highest courts OF the various
States and 81 the Federal courts.
II is estimated that since 1896
when the first case relating to auto
mobiles came before the courts. The
number OF cases IN which such We
The Washington times., 1919-12-20

my car, seriously damaging it. Have
claim for damages?
Ans.-The law does not require you
to assume that such a crossing might
be made, and to take special precau-
tions in anticipation of it. Upon the
driver Of the other car rested the
obligation of giving you due warn
ing Of his purpose. Unless you were
negligent in failing to keep a watch
on the road ahead of you so as to be
in position to heed such a warning,
or in driving at such a speed that
you were unable to control your car
when the situation was disclosed to
you, it is obvious that the other driv-
er was negligent in some particular.
In this event you would be entitled
to recover the amount of your da,n-
ages. assuming that there were no
distractions to your view, there must
have been some decisive act Of negli-
gence which your question does not
disclose. Upon whose part was it?
If you are in doubt about any legal
points relating to automobiles, pritc
to L. J. Faulkner, Automotive Editor
of The Wdshington Times.
The Washington times., 1919-12-20
HEADLIGHT CHARMS RABBIT.

Recounting his experience with his
Ford car, George Amber, Detroit
tells the following:
TT was in July this year. My Tife
and I were in Canada. Travelling one
morning at . o'clock on the road be-
tween Ridgetown and London, the
glare from the headlights blinded two
fat rabbits, who remained in the di-
rect path of the car. promptly pick
ed them up and. Oh. Boy! how We en-
joyed our rabbit dinner"
The Washington times., 1919-12-20
Answcrs 10 Questious.

Q.-B. F. D.-On a public road my
car was proceeding east, while an
other car approached from the west
The latter car, to enter a private
driveway on the south side of the
public road, crossed the road, and in
doing so was driven into the side Of
The Washington times., 1919-12-20
BOY SCOUTS ON TOUR.

Boy Scouts and the splendid out
door life and training they represent
always prove of interest to Ameri-
cans with red blood in their veins.
The sturdy youngsters In trim uni
The Washington times., 1919-12-20
LEGAL POINTS ON GARAGE INSURANCE Nae9%aNT HeSRNT

bly, have their policies indorsed so
as TO show specifically the requisite
knowledge and permission of the in
surance company as to the presence
of gasoline.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-06-16
PERSHINC STADIUM
is SPORT MONUMENT
room facilities.

4
The remaining portion of the
stands resemble a semi-circle which
has been somewhat flattened, and in
close an arena 210 by 1870 meters. A
500-meter track and a 220-straighta
way, a gridiron, a diamond and full
grounds for all field events are being
laid out. 1t will be necessary to re.
move 5000 cubic meters of earth in
grading and 10000 cubic meters of
cinders will be rolled to perfect the
track surface.
The entire structure will be of re.
enforced concrete.
In order to give the various ma.
tions an opportunity to cheer their
team, blocks of seats will be reserv-
ed for the leading countries.
The site of the stadium between
Campt. ST. Maur and Ecole Joinville,
two French military training stations,
in picturesque part of the Bois de
Vincennes, just outside the Paris
wall, ON the road to Joinville, was
formerly a field for training in trench
warfare. Its proximity to the city
and its accessibility combine to make
the location ideal.
After the games the stadium will
be turned over to the French gov
ernment by America as a gift in the
interest of International sports. 1t
adjoins present French athletic
grounds. The use of the stadium for
the inter-allied games, the most i'm.
portant athletic event since the Olym-
pic meet at Stockholm in 1912, will
distinguish Pershing stadium as the
most important sports arena in Eu-
rope.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-06-16
LEAVES DOGS LOCKED
IN KENNEL; COURT HOUSE BUNCH
FAVOR PROSECUTION TO THE LIMIT

You've heard of uptown scandals,
but here's the latest.
Daniel NJ Cavaness, the county
prosecuting attorney, is guilty of in
humane acts and may be prosecuted
by the Courthouse Humane society,
OF which organization Judge Will
Linn is president. general manager,
and legal adviser.
According to Old Lady Gossip Mr..
Cavaness and his family who are
now visiting friends and relatives in
Cleburne, Texas, left their pet ca
mines locked up in the kennel at the
Cavaness home, 927 South Eighth
street The animals remained in the
doghouse for a considerable time be-
fore neighbors discovered the cruelty
Those favoring administering pun
turn from Longhornland, say he com
mitted the act Intentionally, mali
SACuoig anu WllnOut just IAuSC anu
that such act was inhumane, savage,
barbarous,, fiendish, brutal and cruel,
and that he should be punished, not
withstanding his high position and
rank around the county capital.
Mr.. Cavaness staunch friends de-
clare that the prosecutor did not COM
nit the act Intentionally, that it was
pure an oversight and assert
that the prosecutors brilliant record
established during the period he has
served as county attorney will not
warrant his being prosecuted. They
declare, however, that If the court
hose Humane society should file
charges against him, the defense
would not enter a plea of temporary
insanity.
William Stacey, assistant county
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-06-16

the Egyptians are urging Wilson's
OF small nations IN support of their
contention that the British protec-
torate assumed in December, 1914
should cease now that hostilities
have ended, Americans may find the
situation interesting.
THE causes OF the present open
defiance OF the British" the soldier
writes are many and varied. and on
the whole do not reflect any great
credit on the present administration
OF the country by the English
When England first entered the
country some 81 years ago. as the
result of decision by the great
powers, Egypt was on the verge of
bankruptcy, as the result of extra.
vagance and misrule by Turkey.
"One of the greatest causes Of
dissatisfaction in Egypt is the sys-
tenn of 'eapitulations. These are
laws by which the subjects of Euro
pean powers are not subject to the
ordinary laws of Egypt When a
foreigner commits crime he can
only be tried by the sanction OF his
own government and only before a
mixed tribunal composed mostly of
his own nations. England has pro-
missed they shall cease during the
present year.
when England entered Egypt it
was with three announced objects
First, to restore the financial status
of the country, second, to abolish
capitulations, and, third, to educate
the Egyptians to point where they
could govern themselves. In the
first two they have succeeded.
Egypt is in a good financial con
dition and it is promised capitula-
tions shall cease soon. But in the
third, object failure, has been the
result.
England introduced a system of
secondary education of a secular
character ON western lines, without
considering the Egyptians are an
Oriental people. A system of edu-
cation totally separated from the
Mohammedan faith brought about
stata OP rasentmaut
Then a lot Of Englishmen were
imported to take fat government
jobs, regardless of their fitness,
leaving only minor jobs to the
Egyptians. The Egyptians are di-
vided into two classes: the Effen-
di, or educated class, and the Fella-
heen or peasants. The greatest am
bition of the Effendi is to obtain
job in the civil service or become a
lawyer Young Egyptians flocked to
the schools and equip themselves
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-06-16

for handling the greater part OF the
government work. However, they
find these jobs are mostly reserved
for Englishmen, often no more ca
pable than themselves.
consequently there is large
class of educated unemployed. Out
of this class was born the national
ist party, fifteen years ago Ae-
cruits were gained through the nat
ural objection Of Mohammedan to
being ruled by a Christian.
Another cause for trouble is the
close alliance of many families with
Turkish families They view the
breaking up of Turkey with dismay
as the breaking up popf their reli-
gion
so much for the Weather class
The Fallaheen, wholly uneducated
and living to themselves on little
bits of land, have for the most part
obtained real benefits from British
rule; irrigation, abolition Of forced
labor, limitation of conscription,
protection from Bedouin marauders,
etc. They have been apparently
grateful and contented. Hence it is
difficult to account for their con-
difficult to account for their atti-
tude.
The greatest complaint seems to
be due to army reqnSitions. The
complaint is general taht stock and
crops have been taken and not paid
was for the British to demand from
for The method generally followed
the headman of the village a certain
number of donkeys, corn or other
commodities. The headman would
then take them from the villagers
and hand them over to the military
authorities who would pay for them
in bulk. There was no supervision
to see that the money was dis
tIlbuleu. consequently III numerous
cases the money was never paid
over to the actual owners. The Eel.
laheen then were told by the head
man that the British had not paid
him
These things gave great oppor-
tunities for political agitation One
of the demands is that British eva
cuate Egypt at once. This the Brit
ish never will do, for two reasons.
First, the Suez canal is necessary
for the maintenance of communica-
tion between the parts of the EN-
pire; second, much English capital
is sunk in Egyptian cotton
British policy is now one of CON
ciliation, but it will ltake long
time to regain the good will of the
masses. The present trouble is far
more serious than generally appre-
ciated and it is question which
way it will result"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-06-16
By United Press.

Paris, June 1.-(By mail THE
enterprise OF Caesars legiondarles
who erected as an arena for theiI
sports the vast coliseums whose ru
ms have been seen by thousan Is oi
Ianks in southern France or in tn!
valley of the Moselle and the Rhine
was not more audacious than the
undertaking of the A. e. f. TO erect
monumental concrete stadium 500
mites rfom home shores for tho ben.
efit OF inter-allied games, June % to
July G.
The historian of the future who
tells how the structure was rushed
ITO completion in an amazingly short
time, on the eve of departure of the
Americans from Europe, at the hands
OF engineers, pioneers and doughboys
in khaki, in spite of delays and diff.
ticulties which are inevitably connec.
ted with an engineering feat of such
proportions, will present a narrative
with 0s many elements of romances
as the striking chapters in the Amer
lean war story.
While the ground was donated by
the French, and the original plans
were drawn by French engineers.
the completed stadium will be as en-.
tirely and genuinely American as the
commander-in- of the A. e. F..
whose name it bears. The money
for the work, about 10000 francs,
was furnished by the Y. M. C. A.
Pershing stadium will in shape re-
semble an enormous horseshoe, and
will have a seating capacity of 22,-
600. Along the south side of the
field the grandstand extends in
straight line for one hundred me-
ters, with seating capacity of 1900.
This is the only part of the stands
which will be covered and it will
contain the boxes which will be oc.
cupied by notables during the time
THE games are in progress, from June
% to July 6. This "Trbunte d'Hon-
neur" will be thanked ON either side
by other stands. The 220 meter
straightaway is to be laid out in
front OF these stands.
Beneath the grandstand a regular
American sanitary gymnasium will
be installed with ample dressing
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-06-16

attorney and acting prosecutor during
the absence of Mr.. Cavaness stated
this morning that he was undecided
as to whether or not he would act on
the request of the society and file
charges against his boss" The as
sistant states that Cavaness notified
President Linn of the C. H. II. S
when he was reminded by his son
Dan, that the dogs were locked up
Judge Linn states that he received
the message from Mr.. Cayaness. but
not until the dogs had been liberated
by neighbors.
Miss Predictor, the courthouse stem
ographer, says the question of
whether or not charges should be
filed against Judge Cavaness will re-
suit in controversay between
Messrs. Linn and Stacey