The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30

course in gasoline automobiles for correspondence students. It is de- signed for the man who owns and operates his own car. A feature Of the course is its discussion of en- zine troubles, their preventions and cures and compaon road repairs. Declaring that a motorist, while reading sign of ten letters, will or dinarily drive 140 feet, in which time he may drive off the road or into another machine, advertising signs along the right of way on high ways in Oregon are to be removed at once. Signs on private property will be removed whenever permission can be gained.
 The finest existing stretch of the Lincoln Highway between New York city and San Francisco Is said to be new six-mile road between Eliza beth and Railway, in New Jersey. It will be surpassed only by the Ideal section, which the Lincoln Highway association is to build with the CO operation of the Federal government and the state of Indiana, south of Chicago, this year.
 Florida has a rolling court" oper- ating on the Atlantic boulevard near [ and their baliffs patrol the high way in passenger automobiles, ac- companied by dozens of deputies on motorcycles, ready to bounce upon any driver who endangers traffic. Upon making an arrest, the deputy and his prisoner proceed until met by one of the rolling courts"
 Gasoline costs $1 gallon in Aus tralia.
 A three-wheeled automobile, weighing only 120 pounds, has been invented in Japan.
 An automobile fire engine was re- gently christened with champagne at Windsor Eton, Eng.
 Jamaica has 15.O0o motor vehicles and approximately 2,o0o miles of good macadam roads.
 New York state has ranked first in the number of automobiles reg istered for the past Ii years.
 A windshield" pipe, with the front of the bowl higher than the back, has been designed for motor ists.
 In tho Philippines there are ap- proximately 13,5oo motor vehicles. or three cars for each mile of road.
 Automobiles are used as bath houses for changing clothes in many of the resorts along the Atlantic coast.
 The United States furnished $500 of the 7,2S3 passenger automobiles and trucks imported into Denmark dur ing 1921.
 Nearly 5oo.oOo.ooO gallons of gaso- line were used during May. This was within 100000 gallons of the high mark in August, 1921.
 A .I.. n aI~s paid by an indemnity insurance com pany in New York for 35 different accidents to workmen injured while cranking automobiles.
 The newest postage stamp nf the United States of the special delivery variety, will show q messenger mounted on a motorcycle, instead os the old fashioned bicycle.
 An automobile school for chauf- feurs has been opened in Constanti nople. The school, which Is the first of its kind in the near east. is op erated by the near east relief
 A new per cent stamp luxury tax Is imposed on motor vehicles in Bel gium. Automobiles used exclusively for professional or commercial pur- poses are excluded.
 Miss Hazel Jones, daughter of United States Senator W. L. Jones, is motoring from Washington, D. C., to her home in the state of Wash ington. Miss Jones Is driving the entire route herself.
 During tho school season 40. 900 children are transpored by motor bus every day in North Carolina. Ninety three per cent of the children car ried to school at state expense are carried In motor vehicles
 Of the 103 persons killed in rail- road accidents in Texas during 1921, careless driving of automobiles was the cause of 7s deaths upon railroad crossings. All told, there were 200 railroad accidents in the state during the year. and 136 of these were to automobiles.
 To tour the federal aid roads ia the United States, which system. of 1S0,000 miles, is being designed to serve the whole country, would re- quire nearly two and a half years, travelling in an automobile 80 miles an hour, eight hours a day, on all working days.
 Because truck drivers, who are forced to drive for so many hours at a stretch to hold their jobs. fall asleep at the wheel, an effort is being made in California to have all employees adjust the hours for their drivers so that no individual will find it necessary to drive for pe- riod longer than he can stand.
 In Central Park, New York city, an automobile signal with sharp spikes around the base of the stand ard is placed in the midle. of inter- secting streets. The spikes pro-