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Evening star., 1925-11-08
GOOD ROAD MILEAGE
TOTAL NEAR 100000
United States Bureau Reports Big
Strides in Surfaced Highway
Building in Year.

Surfaced roads in the United States
will total close TO 900 miles by
the end of this year.
In addition to surfaced roads. a
considerable mileage has been graded
and drained according to engineering
standards. There were 236,294 miles
of such road at the end Of 1924 and
1859 miles had been constructed dur
ing that year. These figures are
believed to indicate that the improved
road mileage Of all classes will ap-
proximate 740, 900 by the end Of 1925.
State reports show that 12S,347 miles
of, road were surfaced on the State
systems at the end Of last year and
that the total mileage of surfaced
county roads was 339 .5oS, the entire
surfaced mileage being 467 .905.
Since 81 SAL miles of road were sur
faced in 1924 by the States and coun-
ties, it is believed probable by the
Bureau OF Roads that the total sur
faced mileage in the United States
will exceed 495.000 at the end of this
year, because il Is known that prog
ress has been equally as good this
wear
Evening star., 1925-11-08
WINTER WEATHER
HINTS TO AUTO|STS
New Drivers Given Advice on
How to Keep Cars Rum
! ing in Cold.

In view of the large increase in the
number of new cars and new car
owners registered in the District this
Fall, the Washington Automotive
Trade Association believes it would
not be alniss to set forth some i'm
portant cold weather suggestions for
these new owners.
The suggestions have been simpli
fed as much as possible and are gen.
eral enough to apply to any new
automobile.
Topping the list is the advice 10
Keep the new car i'll a heated garage
as a means of avoiding mistakes in
cranking the engine. The w. A. Il. A
stresses the Importance of getting IA
miliar with the starting of the engine
and of avoiding the complications of a
cold garage until the process is fully
understood
Many owners Of new cars do not
really know when the engine has
started reads paper Of the aSsoCi-
alton, Engines are so quiet that
they are often reCranlled and rechol<ed
when they are actually starting. This
results in excessive crankCase dilution
and unneCes sary strain on. the battery.
New cars should not he washed or
polished while they are stone cold.
II wash and polish is needed the car
should be allowed 10 remain in a heat
ed garage until the body is at more
normal temperature.
1T is generally recommended that
after 500 miles of running spring con-
troll devices should he inspected and
Iightened. II may be necessary TO
alter this process Il little with the new
car in cold weather. Inspection of the
devices should he attended TO. but
tightening is not always advisable
owing Ia a tendency for these acces-
Sories TO contract and tighten auto
matically when the thermometer is
low
Another important point is to make
sure that denatured alcohol is used as
al anti-freeZe. Wood alcohol may con
tain injurious acids
The first genuine sale OF an Ameri-
can-built motor car was made in 1898
Evening star., 1925-11-08

owner only one or two places to make
an adjustment?
The extra adjustments are made at
the factory and are supposed to be
correct for all varieties of driving
conditions. They usually regulate
the acceleration or prevent excessively
rich mixtures under certain condi-
tions. There are times, however
when these other adjustments may
need to be touched, particularly il the
service station mechanics have failed
to obtain proper results with the regu
lar adjustment or adjustments.
That gasket leaks, spark plug leaks
or petcock leaks can be detected by
squirting a few drops Of engine Oil
around the suspected points? If
there are leaks present bubbles will
form. In detecting leak around the
intake, however. it is necessary to
work along different lines, for it is
then a matter of dealing for a suction
leak and not a compression leak. The
simplest method is to release a mouth
full of cigarette smoke around the. in
take and note whether the smoke is
sucked in at any points. Before con-
Quoting the test it is best to discon-
meet the fan so that the smoke will
not be blown away
Evening star., 1925-11-08
Two Parking Pointers.

Even if the doors of the closed car
are locked and the windows are not
lowered far enough to allow thief
to poke his arm in. it is always safer
to close the windows tightly. The car
with windows open, no matter how
slightly, is a greater attraction to the
car thief than the car with windows
fully closed. Once a, thief is attrac ed
to a car he usually goes TO work on
il even if the job is harder than he
anticipated.
Sometimes the rapid parker" does
not fare as we'll as the fellow Who
takes little more time with the job.
Though a space may be narrow and
the work of worminG the car into it
tedious. it is comforting to know, and
very practical TO assume, that az time
passes the chance increases that the
owners Of the cars ahead or behind
will soon return.
Evening star., 1925-11-08
THE SUNDAY MOTORIST
An Abridged Magazine for Gar O,oners
EDITED WILLIAM ULLMAN

I'VE should have turned to the left
at that corner"
ASK the cop; he'll know"
Now, which way do we go?"
These remarks from passengers
and many more such like-are as IA
miliar TO the average automobile
driver as they are dangerous. When
anything on this order is said the
tendency is to stop the car rather
abruptly or TO swing around to the
left. Obviously it is the basic in
gredient in the making of a serious
accident.
There is one safe rule to follow
however, when passengers make sug-
gestionS and when there may be some
thing in considering their remarks:
Pull over to the side of the road and
look the traffic situation over before
acting on any of their suggestions.
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What's the Answer?

/. What is meant by stating the
timing of the valves as opening or
closing SO many degrees past bottom
or upper dead center?
2. How many plates are there in
a so-called single plate clutch?
3. How is the shaft of the speed
ometer fabricated?
d. Why should there be greater
clearance for exhaust valve tappets
than for intake tappets?
5. What would cause a motor 10
continue to run after the ignition is
switched off?
Think these over during the week
and look for the answers in this de.
partment next Sunday. You may bs
wrong0
Evening star., 1925-11-08
Don't Lose Tire Kew.

There are several good reasons why
the key to the spare tire lock should
be concealed somewhere in the car
rather than carried in the pocket.
1t is more likely 10 get lost in the
pocket. That is often more serious
than losing the key to the car. be
cause in the latter event the chances
are the car will not be stranded 10
miles from the nearest garage.
The spare tire lock can be removed
by any professional tire thief in a
jiffy. It's function is mainly TO pro-
vide protection against the petty or
amateur thief. If the key is concealed
somewhere in the car he will not be
able to find it, because he will not
venture to look for It.
Any thief who takes the trouble
to look through the pockets of the
car to find the key to the spare tire
lock would be missing a good chance
to steal the whole car.
Evening star., 1925-11-08
Did You Know

That much of the wear on the
treadS of balloon tires is caused by
turning corners too fast? Because
cars are lower with balloon tires and
traction is greatly increased there is
A tendency TO go faster when turning
While the driver does not feel it. the
car skids a little and the tires take
the punishment.
That some carburetors have as
many as four adjustments, although
the instruction book will show the car
Evening star., 1925-11-08
Imitation Performance.

Every motorist knows the shine on
a cheap car may look as good as that
on Il fine automobile and yet not be
the same or as good finish. But of
late the motorist seems to have over
looked the fact that the same thing
applies to performance. A car may
perform just as well when new as
"a more expensive car. and yet be
simply an imitation.
Evening star., 1925-11-08
Round and Round We Go.

hOuUQ anu VIC w.
Some one has said that if a thing
is kept long enough it will come back
into vogue again. Apparently this
party was thinking of the motor car,
for in spite of the evolution of the
automobile, many of the things sup
posed to have been cast aside forever
are coming back with gusto.
How the world laughed at the old.
fashioned toot-toot of the bulb horn
after the IIlaXon and Sparton made
lie. 1t was so old fashioned to press
n bulb and hear a funny little honk
come forth from the other end OF
the brass tube. The electrically op.
Grated horn was such an outstanding
improvement. both in convenience and
in safety. And yet-what is the mean
ing of that nobby little bulb horn
on that smart roadster just passing ?
How far the hand horn idea will
go no one can predict with certainty,
but ii serves to illustrate the point
that the old things do come back
in time. One of the smaruest cars
seen on the streets in many day
brought observers to their toes when
il was discovered that the trimmings
were brass-not nickel.
The swing back to the open car.
with the roadster preferred. is obvi-
ous. Another return engagement is
the sedan. 1t began to look as if
the five-passenger sedan was becom-
ing q relic. There were so many
coaches. Now several Of the most
popular makes no longer list coaches.
They are called Sedans.
There are those who can look ahead
to a nation paved with marvellous
roads and picture the narrow. high.
pressure tire coming right back into
style again. One of the outstanding
cars of 1850. when hills will have been
reduced to mere grades, may be the
tWo-Cvlinder car. capable of making
20 miles an hour on fifth speed.
Looking back is apparently the
safest way of predicting what's com
ing.
For Sake Of Safety.
We're on the wrong road
''T'un l0gt nv hat -
Evening star., 1925-11-08

tected. If these are not provided the
owner should see that the regulating
clamps or screws are tight so that the
shield cannot be opened without
danger of breaking the glass. The
NF-type of windshield which can be
opened only by an inside litter. Of
course, is always safe against the
thief If it is closed.
Evening star., 1925-11-08
LOCK YOUR WINDSHIELD.
Care Enjoined Against Thieves
When Car Is Unprotected.

No automobile is locked If the wind
shield isn't locked as well as the doors.
All the thief has to DO with the un-
locked windshield Is to pull the upper
half outward, insert his arm and open
a door from the inside. WindshieldS
on the better grade cars are equipped
with fasteners which should he used
whenever the car is to be left unpro-
Evening star., 1925-11-08

OF time for the inexperienced speeder
10 gather the fact that the terrific
noise was the howl of a blown out
tire. When driving fast the operator
frequently is called upon TO decide in
a fash whether TO avoid danger by
going faster or slamminG on the
brakes, The speed of other vehicles
must be accurately judged. and de-
cisions have to be even speedier than
I be car itself
Evening star., 1925-11-08

or more other owners told them in
emphatic terms Willys-Knight was
the car they ought to buy!
Anyone of the quarter-of-a million
will tell you that the service he has
enjoyed has been literally hawless,
through his entire period of owner
ship that his engine-repair bills
have been practically nil. AS for
valve grinding or carbon complica-
tons of any character, these are
outside his experience. He has
never expended a dollar because of
either, nor has he been without the
use of his car for a day or a single
hour!
There has yet to be discovered the
Willys-Knight owner who does not
appear to exaggerate when the ques-
ton of be,5o1nanee is to the fore.
Evening star., 1925-11-08

Registration of automobiles i'm the
District of Columbia was - per cent
more for the first SIX months of this
year than for the corresponding period
Of 1924
Evening star., 1925-11-08

The price of gas may waver bit.
but. like the leaning tower of Pisa and
the Brooklyn Bridge, it manages to
stay up.
Evening star., 1925-11-08
Drive Fast, Think Fast.

One reason why fast driving is
hazard for the average motorist Is
because there are SO few fast think
ers. 1t requires a measurable period
Evening star., 1925-11-08


after 10 years use, increases in power,
increases in smooth and silent nun
ming, inc>eases in all-around efficiency
esrh eue1y mile IT,.
"Another WHY'S Knight this is
the answer, meUIably, to the query as
to what car any one of the 100000
present WHY'S Knight owners again
would buy. Extraordinary satisfac-
faction. Extraordinary performance.
Extraordinary long life. Naturally,
your Willys-Knight owner is an en-
thusiashc owner. And he is steadfast
in his loyalty. He will buy another
Willys-Knig ght. He will recommend
the same course to all who enquire.
He k,,otus that neither YOU nor he
c<rsp x,ooI.>o e>sr-h f>,xos,>,: 111>, -,
Evening star., 1925-11-08

A sweet-runnlng car, power
full, quiet, smooth, from the
first turn of the enginc-at
5000 miles, as at Is, 1000 to-
$1,000, it is still more pow
erful, still smoother, still
quieter. And at IS, 900
miles and over, an even
greater improvement is in
evidence. For this car is
driven by the patented
Knight sleevc-valvc engine,
the only motor mechanism
that iub,uUes with use-the
Evening star., 1925-11-08

The first genuine sale OF an Ameri-
can-built motor car was made in 1898.
Evening star., 1925-11-08


culated-250, 900 owners .. II
Not such an impressive total
as automobile registrations, y
en- nsaese, are recorded today. T.
But-W1llys-Knight owners ~
are not 'mass' owners E
They are select lot. Select, w
and selective. The motor ~
car SOPHISTICATED. An owner
group that is value-wise.
Ask any Willys-Knight own
erwhy he bought his Willys-Knight.
Ask him for full and frank express
sion as to the sans sfacnan he has had
in his car -.
Ask him about engine-repair bills
about enforced lay-ups because of
valve-grinding or carbon cleaning...
Question him about performance
about the condition of his engine,
at 5000 miles, at 25, ,000-and-50, 900,
at Is, 900 miles or better -.
And, above all, ask "Jyou eve, had
10 bzy another, schat car rouM 1on
next hu1?"
Anoverwhelming majority of WHY'S
Knight owners will tell you they
bought their present W1llys-Knights
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-08
W.P.RICHARDSON IN SEATTLE ON
 WAY TO ALASKA

SEATTLE, July (P)-General W. P. Richardson, former chairman of the Alaska Road Commission is here eh route to Alaska, where he will vis- it his old friends and recuperate from severe illness. He will be joined here by Brigadier General Harry Fay Tor, chief of the Army Engineers, on his way to Alaska to make survey of roads, rivers and harbors projects.
 Richardson and Taylor, who were West Point classmates, will sail Sat urday. Richardson spent 20 years in Alaska, going to the Yukon as lieu tenant in 1897. He was on various war department assignments, and aft CT resignfiing from the road commis- mission he retired from the army
 During the war he held the rank of a brigadier general.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-08
 BE COMPLETED
 BY GOVERNMENT

SEATTLE, July 8 (P)-Reclamation Commission Mead, travelling with Sec retary Work, announced yesterday be fore the Hartley-Work conference that the government would construct the Kittitas high line project regardless of whether the State guarantees 6 settlement or not. He said there is several ways of doing it, and cited the offer of Kittitas county and set clement company formed at Ellens- burg to relieve the state of liability
 He said Senator Jones had pledged any change necessary in the law to be made at the next session.
 Commissioner Mead added: T would like to see this plan worked out, whereby the Kittitas people would undertake this land settlement work themselves with the aid of the Wash ington State College and other agen- cies."
 He announced he was working on g. plan whereby the Kittitas project would be the laboratory in which would be solved larger problem of development and settlement in the Columbia basin project.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-08
Trustees Named to Act.

SEATTLE, July 8 P)-Carroll Graves, an attorney for the Kittitas organization, announced that the stockholders of Kittitas and of the Settlement Company had elected J. W. Swalwell and George T. Reid of Seattle, R. L. Rutter of Spokane, W. L. Steinweg of Yakima, and Phil Ad- ans of Kittitas Valley trustees, with power to act.
 Graves said the company would deal directly with the Federal government of Hartley maintains his stand against permitting the State to guarantee the lands which the Kittitas high line wa ter would add to the agricultural area of the state. The company is eapi- talized at $300,000, all subscribed with $60,000 additional as a reserve in case some of the stockholders fail in their obligations.
 Swalwe1l, Rutter and Steinweg are bankers, Reid is vice president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and Adams is a farmer politician.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-08
Evolution Not the Issue

DAYTON, Tenn, July 8 (P)-Doc tor John R. Neal, one of Scopes con- sel stated that the speech of William J. Bryan last night indicated that Bryan would seek an amendment to the constitution abolishing ''the exist ing constitutional guarantees of reli- gious and educational liberties of the people" He declared that the de- fense did not object to this program, but would insist "that the great issues of this case is not whether evolution is true, or even whether it conflicts with religion, but whether the Ten nessee legislature transcended the limits set upon it's powers by the Con- stitution of the United States and by the Constitution of Tennessee, thus at tempting to control the mind in it's struggle after truth"
 Neal declared that Bryan's speech forecast that Bryan would move rap- idly from the lower court to the Su- preme court of Tennessee, then from the supreme court of Tennessee to the supreme court of the United States, and having lost the fight would seek to amend the constitution
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-08

For Alaska, the service, we propose, will be welcomed by all who would eliminate the ocean voyage, and who want to arrive at their destination with all possible comfort and speed. The Alaskans l have talked to, thus far. are very enthusiastic over the ad. vert of this company into the Terri tory. and considerable financial sup port has already been ra 3eiye from towns and communities already visit ed by myself"
 Much has been said about the storms along the Alaskan coast. and what chance dirigible would have in such a storm, MT. Campbell said. He re. called the time the United States Ma val airship, Los Angeles landed and was moored to her mast at Bermuda in the face of 40 mile an hour gale. In conversation with a skipper of an Alaskan steamer, MT. Campbell was told few captains would take a chance with their vessel, endevoring to make a landing alongside of dock, in wind of such velocity. Either or both the vessel and dock would be damaged if the attempt was made, it was stated.
 Residents of Seward, interested in the proposed service to Alaska, are requested by MT. Campbell, to call at his office, in order that he may be giv- en the opportunity to present to them, authentic information on the subject. Various articles regarding the com. pany, it's aims and hopes, will be pub lished occasionally by the Gateway.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-08
Alaska Marble Be Used
 In Washington Building

OLYMPIA, Wn;, July 8 R-The Capitol commission announced yester- day that the cost of completion of the capitol building would be $3,167,- 900. It was decided to use Alaskan marble despite the many offers of sub- stitutes, on the ground that it made a better appearance to justify the add ed cost. The marble will be used for facing the rotunda above the spring line acres, which was deferred on ac- account of the limited appropriation, but is covered in the contract so it can be ordered this year.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-08

Senator responded to the compliment by thanking the men and bidding them goodbye.
 Senator Dill is weary of travelling, and for that reason believes he will change his itinerary. He departed this morning for Anchorage where, he is under the impression, he will make his headquarters for the next few days The suggestion wa made to the Senator, that owing to his travel worn condition, he will eliminate his interior trip to Fairbanks at this time, and make another journey to Alaska at later period. He said he believed he would do so, entering the Territory on his next trip, via Skagway and the White Pass, down the Yukon and out over the Richardson Highway
 The further suggestion was made to the Senator that he make trip to the Matanuska Experimetal farm in the Matanuska valley, and note the agricultural possibilities of that dis trict Also to make trip to the coal mines and to the mining region, near Anchorage. The Senator was delight ed to hear that at Anchorage, golf club would be found. According to his plans upon departure from Sew ard this morning, he expects to return to Seward on Saturday or Sunday, de- parting for Seattle on the steamer AL aska.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-08
DIRIGIBLE WILL
 SOON BE FLYING SEWARD-SEATTLE
MANAGER HERE FOR PURPOSE OF SELLING STOCK ALASKA
 CORPORATION.
OFFICES IN HoLBEN BUILDING
Statistics Given Proving Sound Finan cial investment Ar Transporta-
 tion Service.

From Seward to Seattle in an air ship in 30 hours. This is a certain ! ty," o. A. Campbell, assistant mana ger of the Alaska and Northwest Dir igible Company, who is now in Sew ard stated to the Seward Gateway yesterday. Continuing MT. Campbell said: ''It is only matter of short time when the above statement will l be in effect and the residents of AL aska will soon be making trips to 1 the states, via this air line, which af- ter five years of effort, will undoubt- edly come to a successful conclusion 1 this summer"
 MT. Campbell, accompanied by Mrs. Campbell and his son, Coyle, who is secretary of the company, have taken an apartment in the Tecklenberg building this morning where he will be glad to show those interested photographs of the first dirigible which will be put into the Alaska service by the company, and to give all or any | information regarding the plans of the company, and of the ships themselves. This is his second trip to the Terri l tory, having made a preliminary trip 1 thru last summer. The present trip will carry him to every point in Al aska including far away Nome to which the company will also operate it's air service.
 "The company, MT. Campbell said, 1 is an Alaskan Corporation, incorpor- ated in Alaska. Seventy+ive per cent l of the stock is in the treasury and seventy-fve per cent of the money
 subscribed in Seward will be left in
 the local bank. From past and pres ent indications, I do not anticipate having much trouble raising the Sew
 ard quota of approximately $S,O00
 within the few days I will be here
 Perhaps the recent editorial by
 Arthur Brisbane, will give the aver | age peISOu D6tltI luod or the man.
 cial success of an enterprise of this
 nature, than were I to talk for an
 hour Mr. Brisbane's editorial which
 appeared recently in the Seattle P.I.:
 The first capable man acting on the
 thorough realization of the flying ma
 chine future, will establish for his
 stockholders and himself such a for
 tune as would make the Vanderbilts,
 Hills and Huntingtons look like small
 financial crumbs
 "This quotation is not made in a
 spirit of braggodocia," MT. Campbell
 stated, "but is an actual fact as sta
 tistical reports, covering aviation for
 the past number of years, will bear
 me out. A brief record compiled by l (Aviation), the foremost air publica-
 ton in the United States, compiled the | following record of the advancement
 and development of the freight and I passenger traffic of Europe.