The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-06-01
MARIETTA WOMEN
WANT LIGHT LAW
TO START A CAMPAIGN FOR A
STATE LAW FOR LIGHTS ON
ALL MOTOR VEHICLES LIKE
MASSACHUSETTS.
(From Sunday Constitution)

The Marietta Woman's club is pre-
pairing TO launch agitation for the
motor Vehicle Light Law" which
will be presented by the two Cobb
county representatives, Gordan Gam
and Marion Dobbs, at the next meet
ing of the legislature. This move
ment has been in progress for more
than a year, but was brought to an
issue and taken action following an
editorial featuring Dim Your Lights
appearing in recent edition of The
Atlanta Constitution.
Frank Reynolds, member of the
board of Directors of the Georgia
State Automobile association, author
ICES the statement that the state as
ISOLATION and the Atlanta Automobile
association will stand directly back of
the Marietta Woman's Club of which
Mrs. |. A. White is president.
This motor light law has been adopt
ed by Massachusetts, and goes into
effect in Rhode Island, at an early
date. Five other eastern states are
preparing to adopt the same law.
Mrs. Grant Chairman
Mrs. A. D. Grant is chairman of
the public safety committee of the
Marietta Woman's Club and the Cobb
county federation, and will call a
mass meeting for the early part of
June, to perfect plans for pushing
this bill. The cooperation of all
clubs throughout the state is urged
by the Marietta Club.
The Marietta Woman's club will
pattern its bill after the Massachu-
sets "Motor Vehicle Light Law"
which follows:
every automobile operated dur
ing the period of from one-half hour
after sunset to one-half hour before
sunrise shall display at least two
white lights, or lights of yellow or
amber tint, and evary motorcycle
so operated, at least one white light,
or light yellow or amber tint, and
every such motorcycle with a side
car attached in addition, one such
light on the front of the side car
and every motor truck, trailer and
commercial motor vehicle used sole
ly as such having a carrying capa-
city of three tons or over, in addi-
ton, green light attached to the
extreme left lateral extension of the
vehicle or load, which shall be visi-
BILE not less than two-hundred feet
in the direction toward which the We
hicle is proceeding; and every such
motor vehicle shall display at least
one red light in the reverse direc-
tion.
Every automobile so operated shall
have a rear light so placed as to
oh oh hoL
white light so arranged as to illumi-
nate and not obscure the rear regis
ter number. No headlamp shall be
used on any motor vehicle so oper-
ated, unless such lamp is equipped
with tense or other device approx
ed by registration, designed to pre-
vent glazing rays. Application fol
such approval accompanied by a fee
of $50 may be made to the registrar
by any manufacturer or dealer il
such tense or device
Every automobile used for the car
riage of passengers for hire, every
commercial motor vehicle or motor
truck, so constructed, equipped OF
loaded that the person operating
the same is prevented from having
constant, free and unobstructed
view of the highway Immediately in
the rear, shall have attached to the
vehicle a mirror or reflector so placed
and adjusted as to afford the oper-
ator clear reflected view of the high
way in the rear of the vehicle.
II and when, during the perior
when motor vehicles are required to
display lights, there is not sufficient
light within the travelled portion of
the highway to make clear all We
hlcles, persons, or substantial objects
within distance of at least one hun
dred and sixty feet, no automobile
shall be operated unless equipped
with two headlights of approximate
equal candle-power, which shall
throw sufficient light ahead to make
clearly visible all vehicles, persons
or substantial objects within a dis
lance Of one hundred and sixty feet.
Every tense or other device de-
signed to prevent glazing rays, the
use OF which on motor vehicles. shall
be applied and adjusted in accord
ance with the requirements Of the
certificate approving the use thereof
Every lamp bulb or light used in any
headlamp on motor vehicle shall
be of twenty-one spherical candle
power. Every reflector which is used
as part of such headlamp shall
have highly polished, silvered or
glass rejecting surface and shall be
free from dents, rust and other inn
projections.
The operator of every motor We
hleie shall permit any police officer
or motor vehicle Investigator and ex-
amlner to inspect the headlighting
equipment of such motor vehicle and
TO make such tests as may be neces-
sary to determine whether the pro-
visions are being complied with.
There is one thing to be said for
the movie people: you never hear
them complaining that they are fore
ed to exist on a starvation va0a