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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
MARYLAND AUTOS KILL
226PERSONSLA YEAR
Special Dispatch 70 The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
BALTIMORE, January 1S.-Auto-
mobile fatalities last year in Mary
land took a jump over the number
during the previous year, according
to figures compiled in the office OF
E. Austin Baughman, commissioner OF
motor vehicles. There were 226 deaths
from automobile accidents In 1879. as
against 1876 for 1921.
The smallest number OF fatalities
occurred during 1920, when 127 people
met death in accidents. In 1919 the
total was 1913 and in 1918 it was 1873.
During August of last year. the time
when most people are travelling the
roads in machines, the death list
totaled Il. November was next high :
est, with a total of "a deaths. and
September and october next, with 20
fatalities per month each. January
of last year has the best record. Only
nine persons were killed In auto
mobile smash ups in the state during
that month.
According to the sixth annual re
port of the commissioner of motor
ginning October. 1921, and ending
September. 1922. there were 212 per-
sons killed in automobile accidents
all over the state. This death toll
showed an increase of twenty-three
over the previous fiscal year and nine
more than the previous high-tide
mark of the year 1918-1919.
The report states that the causes
of accidents cover a wide range. How
ever, the outstanding highest per-
centage of deaths resulting from per-
sons being run down while crossing
the streets or rural highways in
dictates that some measure of re-
sponsibility rests with the pedestrian
victim
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
FAVOR REGULATING
STRUCK TRAFFIC
Manufacturers Recognize
Development Giving Rise
to New Problems.
BY r. A. WRITTEN,
Chief Engineer OF the General Motors
Truck Company.

There is no doubt in the minds of
any of the major truck manufacturers
of the country but that with the de-
velopment Of the motor truck and bus
will come the passage of laws regu-
lating truck and bus traffic.
The motor truck has reached such
stage that it is playing a most i'm
portant part in the freight business
of the nation, and laws are becoming
more and more necessary to govern
this class of traffic.
Contrary to the belief of many per-
sons, the motor. truck manufacturers
are not fighting regulatory laws, but
are actually welcoming them. The
| manufacturers realize that the motor
truck is common carrier" of freight
and passengers, and with this in mind
it seems no more than fair that the
truck should be governed In the same
manner as the railroad when en-
gagged in this class of traffic.
Would Prohibit Overlooking.
Truck men favor the passage of
such laws with a view to prohibiting
the overlooking of trucks (this pre-
venting damage to them and to the
highways over which they operate),
also to prevent unfair and Improbable
competition with motor operated or
OlHcT IOTiHS VI tTdHSpOrldllOH.
Lately there has been a good deal
of talk of passing laws which would
put the truck and bus under the con-
troll or the various state Public Utilf-
ties commi ssions. and this, ! believe.
is a logical solution of many of the
problems now facing the industry. 1t
would be the height Of folly to create
a new bureau in each state to govern
this regulation.
With the motor truck an admitted
success in the freight transportation
field. ones mind naturally turns to
the bus field and seeks to find the an
swer to the question What will the
| motor bus amount to-"
This is a question in answer to
which even the best informed truck
| man could not give you an adequate
statement of facts. We see ahead an
era of bus transportation where thou
ated on the roads as feeders to main
trolley lines and the railroads and
perhaps replacing the trolley car in
densely populated areas.
Service In Small Towns.
We also see In the future an era
when every small town in the coun-
! try without railroad or trolley service
will be served by bus lines.
The business. in our estimation, Is
only in its infancy and the most con-
sentative manufacturer does not hest
| tate to say that vast changes will prob
ably be seen in this field within the
| next decade.
We believe that the bus will have
! big future in the transportation of
school children to and from school. 1t
| has already made possible and prac-
| ticable the efficient and well equipped
| consolidated school" which is rapid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
Pays to Use Chains.

Aside from the safety feature OF the
subject, it pays to use chains when the
streets and roads are even partially COW
cred with ice or hard-packed snow. be-
cause in preventing the rear wheels
from slipping when the car is suddenly
accelerated, power Is naturally saved.
Many motorists feel that their chains
consume too much power, and that they
waste gas when they burden the rear
tires with anti-skid devices; but they
overlook the fact that the same amount
of power is consumed when the wheels
are allowed to lose traction. Without
the chains on the driver wastes just as
much gas and carries no insurance
against Skiddiny
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
Erase Chalk Marks.

In many cities it is rule of the
police department to decorate the
tires of cars with chalk marks as a
means of checking up parking vio-
lations. The officer on the beat makes
periodic round of the neighborhood.
chalking cars which appear to need
watching. If the chalk mark on the
tire matches that on the curb, thirty,
forty or sixty minutes later, what
ever the regulations are, the owner
of the car is presented with a sum-
mons. 1t is a good plan, therefore.
to erase chalk marks on the tires
each morning before setting out for
traffic. A tire that is covered with
marks of previous days not only in
creases the chances of summons
through error. but leads a cop to be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
TRAFFIC PROBLEM
IN CRITICAL STAGE
Increase in Autos Puts Hard
Task Before City Officials
All Over Country.

The large cities must make adequate
provisions for the automobiles in 1928
and solve a traffic problem that has
come upon them so suddenly. in the
shape of 100000 motor vehicles,
that Trey have not as yet had time to
grasp it's magnitude and make neces-
sary provisions.
w. r. Tracey. assistant sales man
ager of the Oakland Motor Car Com
pany, Pontiac, Mich, states that the
problem has now reached an acute
stage.
with New York city. for instance,
doubling the number of it's automo-
biles every three years. and with De-
troit increasing It's automobile regis
placements, every month. the acute
stage the problem has reached may
be fairly indicated" he states.
MANY municipalities are trying to
solve this problem through ordinances
by setting aside certain main east
and west and north a nd south thor
oughfares for one-way traffic. This
has considerably relieved traffic con-
gestion. giving. as II does, practically
double the driving space on these
streets. with the added advantage of
a smooth, continuous flow OF one-way
traffic.
Police Commissioner Enright of
New York realizes that drastic steps
must be taken to cope with this Sit
uation and has made some practical
suggestions which undoubtedly Will
be carried out.
The most important suggestion he
gave was to eliminate the sidewalks
on 9Th avenue and Broadway and
give the whole width of the street
to vehicular traffic. To care for the
pedestrians, he would build the side
walks along the first floors of the
stores and office buildings, allowing
the stores to display goods in an ar
cade effect.
"Other traffic experts advocate dou-
ble-deck streets and highways in the
large cities. In Detroit already there
is an automobile subway in the ap-
proach to Belle Isle. A double-deck
the Grand Central terminal in New
York city. Whatever the ultimate So
luton, the time is now ripe for real
constructive thinking and action on
this subject.
THE saturation point of the auto
mobile in the United States has been
discarded as will-o- til wisp-al-
ways SO far away that it need not
trouble us. The automobile has been
the greatest boon to efficiency, pros
perity and health since the advent of
flexible form of Individual transpor-
tation the world has ever known, and
the world has never discarded or
curbed an invention that makes for
efficiency and happiness.
Therefore. 1t is high time that mu-
nicipal engineers begin to take def
mite action to solve the traffic prob
! lem thatis growing more grave each
year"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
Approved Rear Lamps.

Approved rear lamps is the latest.
being a Massachusetts idea which went
into effect the first of the year. Only
lamps with number plate holder attach
ed are approved. and where the assem-
blies are bolted rather than riveted to-
gether the lamp and license plate holder
each bear the same full name and must
be used together.
Massachusetts is hot on the trail of
motorists who drive with lamps and
plates so arranged that the numerals
can't possibly be read at night. Getting
d motorists number is the last hope of
another car owner or pedestrian who
has been knocked down, run over or
run into at night, so the Bay state de-
cided to bar lot of rear lamps that
We're useless
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
It's n wise man who knows his own
Ford when he goes to the service sta
ti0n to take 1t home again.
Handle With Care.

Folks who are enthusiastic over the
automobile and its great Importance in
transportation too frequently skip over
the fact that an automobile also is an
article of danger. Probably half the
accidents in the country are due to the
fact that drivers do not appreciate the
hazardous nature of automobiling. a
new driver never learns how careful he
should be when driving q car until he
has run into something and had taste
of the danger that is ever present. One
prominent traffic expert has stated that
the only way to- reduce the number of
accidents is to impress upon drivers the
thought that motor car is a danger
GUS article. He believes that when they
see the fact clearly they Will face 1t
with commonsense driving.
When driver passes an approaching
street car he gets as far away from IT
as possible, not because he is afraid OF
damaging the traction companys
property, but because he instinctively
feels that street car is a dangerous
thing to NEEDLE with. Yet he will pass
motor car weighing four or five thou
sand pounds SO close that the hubs al
most touch.
How many drivers realize that at
speed of thirty miles an hour Their car
is travelling through space at the rate
of forty-four feet a second? How many
drivers have any conception of the
amount of damage three thousand
pounds can inf1ict when hurting through
space at such a furious rate? When a
freight car rolls along at only five miles
an hour a motorist will shun 1t like
poison, yet it is not capable of doing any
more damage than heavy machine do
ing sixty.
The sooner we cease to regard the
motor car as a toy the sooner will motor
lists cease to figure so conspicuouSiy in
the accident reports.
A fiction lover Is a man who says he
let's his wife drive the car because she
handles 1t SO much better than he
does.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
Did You Know

That a bag of table salt rubbed on
the windshield every so often will
glass? The theory of it is that salt
combining with water makes it brine.
which has a much lower freezing
point than plain water. And you'll
find that it's more than theory if
you'll just try it during the next ice
storm.
That If your brakes fail when driv-
ing In the city ono way to stop the
car is to scrape the tires against the
curb? Drivers of heavily loaded.
horse-drawn vehicles have long used
this method of retarding their con-
veyances when descending hills. Ac-
cording to law you should be driving
as near the curb as possible anyway.
when trouble comes the curb is a
means of breaking worth trying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14

For those motorists who have diffi-
Guilty in regulating the flow of air
through the core of the radiator in
winter weather. the advantage of
using heavy black paper over the
lower half of the radiator. instead of
cardboard or leather, is worth noting.
Paper shuts off some of the draft OF
cold air and. therefore, prevents chilli
ing of the intake manifold and car
buretor: but, being thin, it does not
keep the radiator so warm as to en-
courage it to boil over.
DOWNRIGHT. 1879. BY the uIlman Tea tune serrice
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
The Old Mechanic Saws:

Covering the radiator in winter is
a. difficult proposition if good results
are hoped for. It's more than a mat
ter of stepping into an accessory
store and purchasing a covering de-
vice, because the addition of alcohol.
or other anti-freeZe solutions changes
conditions. The main point in covers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
Always in Wrong.

Life seems filed with strange anon
allies. While speeders in Detroit are
being sentenced to attend funerals of
motor car victims New York is wor-
rying about what to do with SLOW
pokes," who always seem to be flu
neral bound at times when traffic is
heavy and passing around them is
dangerous
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14

ly displacing the little red school" of
the rural districts.
And so we have a vision Of business
men using the motor truck to lower
the cost of their goods to the public;
we see the bus operated to lower the
cost of personal transportation and
for the convenience of the public; and,
lastly, we see regulatory laws to gov
ern weight, loading. speed and, also
freight rates and passenger fares so
that a definite basis may be set down
for motor vehicle operation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
Try Heavy Paper.

lieve that the car is the sort that
needs watching.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-13
When Gas Was a Novelty

do you mean to tell us 1t is posi-
BILE to have a light without a wick!
exclaimed member of Parliament.
when bill was introduced in 1909 to
grant a charter to gas light COM
pany.
Sir Walter Scott made fun of the
notion Of lighting London by smoke"
and "even carrying the light below
the streets in pipes. But he lived to
see his own home, Abbotsford, lighted
by gas.
We'll have to turn over the dome
Of st. Paurs for gas holder for Lon
dom! declared Sir Humphrey Davy,
the inventor of the safety lamp, with
a merry twinkle.
Il ken it'll take something bigger
than st. Pauls", replied Murdoch
gravely.
When the day came that the House
Of Commons was lighted by gas, the
architect exacted that the pipes be
kept at least four inches from the
walls to prevent fire; for it was
thought that the illuminant passed
along in the form of red hot vapor.
Other people declared that this
strange thing must be a menace to
health, that it would cause eye trou-
BILE, asthma, consumption and other
diseases.
Perhaps, however, the most unique
complaint against the new light"
was that it would drive out the whale
Oil industry, and so mean the de-
struction of the British Navy, since
the whaling ships gave the best
training for sailors.-St. Nicholas. )
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-13
COMING EVENTS

June 25-Aug. So Of M. Summer
July 7-14-Summer school Of religious
education. VassalbQro.
July !O-Aug. 1OABates Summer
School.
July 13-14-Maine Sportsmen's Fish
and Game Association. Squaw Noun
tain Inn. near Greenyille
July 14-Maine Democratic field day.
Oakland Park. Rockland.
July l1-Skowhegan District Sunday
school convention, Shawmut,
July Estate Board of Assessors at
July 2l-Opening of summer campaign
at Wiscasset Inn.
July 21-Aug. 4-103rd Infantry at
Camp Devens.
July 2d-Governor and Council meeting
July 2s-Aug. Unitarian Laymen's
League Institute. Isle of Shoals.
Portsmouth. N. H.
Aug. 10-Eastern Maine Boys and
Girls Clubs tour to University Of
Aug. 15-Western and Central Maine
Boys and Girls Clubs tour to Lew
iston, and Auburn.
Aug; 0:2O1Richmond campmeeting.
ug13-15--Richmond Centennial.
Aug. 15-18-Encampment and tour Of
duty. Field Artillery units Of Ma
tional Guard, Camp Reyes, Augusta.
aug. lo-lZ-Ma1ne Christian Endeavor
summer school. Y. M. c. A. Camp,
Winthrop Center.
Aug. 21-30-New England Baptist
summer school, Ocean Park,
Aug. .21-Maine Pathological Society,
seth anniversary. Highmoor Farm.
Aug. -22-Pierce Reunion. at home of
l.. L. Pierce, Wade Road, Augusta.
Aug 22-24-New England Grange Leg
turers' Conference. Amherst, Mass.
Aug. 22-New England Fat Mems Club,
annual meeting. Portland.
Aug. 2S-Knox and Lincoln Boys and
Girls Clubs tour to Augusta.
Aug. 2S-3p-Androscogg Vale y fair,
Canton.
Sept. 57--Annual convention, Depart
ment of Maine. American Legion,
Pressure Isle. a
Sept. 9-Westbrook. Portland. Bath,
Brunswick. Camden, PASSPORT, Ken
nebunS. Saco, Rockland and Bidde.
I ford Daylight Saving ends.
Sept. 1S-21-Maine State Federation
Of Women's Clubs annual meeting,
Bar Harbor.
Sept. 19-21-Maine Pharmaceutical AZ.
sociation. Poland Springs.
Oct. 3-5-Maine w. c. T. U. annual
State convention, Pittsfield.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-13
STATE HOUSE
Next Meeting une A. M, Tuesday, July "a

property should be allowed to reap
an unfair advantage through tax eX-
emption."
"A study of our Tax Exemption
Laws the Governor said, Indicates
that they are not based upon any
fundamental principle, but are the
result of slow and unregulated
growth where each new exemption
was added to relieve some special
class of property from taxation. To-
day these laws are Unbalanced and
unfair. Without doubt abuses have
crept into their administration so
that property of great value that
should be taxed, is now relieved from
this burden. These laws need to be
revised by unbiased men with a
Statewide vision.
'If at the present time accurate
figures should be obtained to show
the amount of tax exempt property
in the State. some constructive action
might be taken by the present leg
islature. 1t is a fact, however, that
no such tabulation ever has been
made, and while some local boards
OF assessors have uncompleted lists
of tax exempt property more or less
accurate, other boards have no lists
whatsoever. More attention has been
given this matter in the cities where
valuation run into larger figures than
in smaller communities, but l am
of the opinion that the total amount
of property in Maine tax exempt by
law is larger than many citizens be-
lieve.
"As an example Of conditions, !
call to your attention the fact that
the City of Portland with a va1ua-
ton of $100.954,725 has not less than
$9,244,350 of property wholly exempt
by law from taxation"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-13

man named Dan Mcdowell. For
years he has been a driver Of an
engine. But when the era of prog
ress brought motorization and the
horses were sent away to green pas
lures Dan found the task Of driving
a motor too much for him. He, re-
tired on a pension. Then things be-
gan to happen to him.
Woven through this story is love
theme of transcending beauty.
There are thrills galore. Jolts and
tremors flow swiftly as "The Third
in a mighty symphony Of emotions.
The fire scene is beyond question the
greatest and most thrilling ever flung
upon the screen. The rescue of June
by her fireman hero, played by john
ME Walker, is big with dramatic
punch. The crash Of the great safe
and the collapse of the blazing walls
of the Rutherford Apartments are
smashing episodes of drama. The
dash of the old fire horse through
wall of flame with Dan Mcdowell on
his back and their rescue of the
young couple trapped beneath the
safe in the flaming inferno Is another
heart wrenching scene that reflects
the wizardous production skill of EN-
DRY Johnson.
Among those in the cast are Ralph
Lewis as Dan McDowell; Johnnie
Walker as his son; Ella Hall as June
Rutherford; Richard Morris as DR..
Rutherford; Virginia True Board.
man, as Mrs. Mcdowell: frankie
Lee, Josephine Adair and others
adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-13
The Rhodes Student

There is a list of lectures which he
may, or may not, find it to his inter-
est to attend. To his surprise he will
find his tutor frankly dubious about
the value of following too many lee
lures, a doubt which the lecturer
himself is likely to share. More than
once have 1 heard Sir Walter Raleigh
begin the term by explaining that his
auditors would probably find his dis
courses of little value for Schools"
The lecturer keeps no roll of the
members of. his class, and it is the
common practice of undergraduates
to sample various courses at the be-
ginning Of the term and to continue
only in those which seem to them
worth while. This is the practice
which ones tutor usually recon-
mends. The result is that lecture
courses at Oxford begin commonly
with good sized audiences which tap
Ell off to a small and faithful few by
the end of the term.
From what the American Rhodes
Scholar Gets from Oxford, by Frank
Aydelotte, in Scribner's.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-13
COMMITTEE TO
STUDY MAINE TAX
EXEMPTION LAWS
Governor Baxter To Name
Three Of Members
Resolve for Recess Committee of
Five Men Passed by S1st Legisla-
turc as Result of Governors Mes
sage to Legislature-Gov. Baxter
Points Out Need of Revising
These Laws

Has the State acted wisely in eX-
empting from taxation property VAL
ucd at millions of dollars? This the
question which will be given COM
prehensive study by committee of
five and will be reported on before
Dec. /, 1925, as the result of a re-
solve which was passed by the S1st
Legislature.
This committee will consist of the
State auditor, the chairman Of the
Board of State Assessors, and three
citizens to be appointed by the Gov
ernor, and it's duties are specified
as follows: To investigate the tax
exemption laws of the State and to
collect and tabulate statistics show
ing the amount of tax exempt pro-
perty in the several classes as emu
merated in Section 6 of Chapter 10
of the Revised Statutes and the
amendments thereof and report it's
findings and recommendations to the
Governor. The sum of $500 is ap-
propriated for the expenses of this
board for each of the fiscal years,
1924 and 1924-25.
The amount of property in the
State exempt from taxation has
grown slowly but surely, each Leg
islature in turn making additions
to the classes that escape taXations.
In 1857, only one-half a page of
reading matter was required to
describe the classes of property that
were tax exempt. This list has now
grown so large that the mere recital
covers two solid pages.
The tax exempt property described
in 10 paragraphs is which, generally
speaking, are as follows: 1, Property
Of the United States; 2, State, county
and municipal bonds; 3, Property of
educational institutions; a, House.
hold furniture, not exceeding 5000 to
a family; S, Church buildings, in
Guiding parsonages upon which no
rent is charged: 6. Certain classes
of live stock; Z. Certain classes of
farm produce; 8. Polls and estates
of Indians, persons under guardian
ship or blind persons; 9, Soldiers and
sailors of the Civil war; 10, Property
of water companies in cases where
fires are eXtinguished without
charge: II, Lands planted to forests
and trees; ~, Mines of gold silver
or baser metals; 13. Money loaned on
real estate mortgages in this State.
More than 40 different classes of
property are enumerated.
The act providing for the commit
tee to look into this important ques-
ton came as the result of one Of
Governor Bakers messages to the
S1st Legislature. Governor Baxter
then declared that fundamentally all
the property within the State equally
should pay taxes and no class of