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Evening star., 1925-07-19
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driver. AS he approaches such a haz-
ardous point, the driver looks to the
left and then gazes intently to the
right to make sure that no other car
is speeding toward him. The high
building or construction may obscure
his view. His peripheral vision is
limited to an angle of approximately
as degrees If a diagonal mark is
painted on the curbside and roadway
to inform him exactly when he
reaches this angular position, he will
understand that he Is in the danger
zone and will interpret 1t as a mark of
warming. He will be strictly on the
lookout for intersection traffic.
A scientific traffic survey made re-
Gently by the automotive authorities
of the Bureau of Standards on that
stretch of much used boulevard from
the Klingle Bridge to Chevy Chase
Circle has been reduced to facts and
figures which the average motorist
can understand. These data are the
irrefutable evidence which demand
the installation of the stop boule-
ward" system for the intersecting
streets from Calvert to Oliver streets,
Inclusive. Safety curves plotted by
the Government engineers to demon
strate traffic conditions along this
popular roadway look like contour
maps of a group of hills in a rolling
country. The intersecting roads, in
all cases, under prevalent conditions
demand that the motorist reduce his
speed aS1h he approaches these points,
Evening star., 1925-07-19

Where peripheral vision is the poor
est, the speed has to be the slowest
Running north on Connecticut ave
nue.. the safe speed when the pave
ment is slippery ranges from to 26
cipleS of the clear course ahead"
plan. When the pavement is dry. the
safe speed variation runs from IL
miles an hour to a velocity which
would violate the most elastic speed
law now enforced in the United
States. Travelling south on Connecti-
cut avenue from Chevy Chase Circle.
the safe speed when the pavement is
wet ranges from 10 to 27.5 miles an
hour. When this roadway Is dry the
safe speed, according to the clear
coaSt-forward" rule, runs from IL
miles an hour to maXimums treble
and quadruple that figure. The points
of greatest hazard are at a point
where a private road between Abe
marie street and Grant road inter
sects Connecticut avenue and at the
Porter street corner going north,
Cathedral street, Albemarle street,
Jocelyn street and Morrison street
intersections. When proceeding south
on Connecticut avenue. the intersec-
tions of greatest hazard are at Jeni-
fer. Huntington, Upton and Porter
streets.
Observations made at certain cor
ners where the view of the oncom-
ing driver is obscured either becauSe
of buildings or other Instructions
indicate the need for cautious and
Evening star., 1925-07-19

is that it is readily possible to enforce
them. This is no encouragement to
the embryonic system latterly Matched.
for it is as easy of enforcement as
all the other laws which have pre-
ceded it. Motor experts. no matter
who they be, admit generally that
authority must put fear of the road
ahead into the heart of every car
user if he is to be converted from
a driving fool into a motoring wise
man. By this, your writer means
that a real fear of the highway
menaces or policemen ahead will put
a curb on rash, reckless and the
devil -the-hindermost style of
automobile operation, which now is
rife wherever machines are driven.
One of the purposes of the proposed
clear course ahead law for Ameri-
can motorists is to keep the fear of
accidents constantly in the mind of
the car driver. The enforcement OF
this law would be efficient, but not
particularly spectacular. officers with
special dummies or other signal de-
vices would be stationed at dangerous
points along our principal thorough
fares where travel was maximum.
For example. the officer might be sta
toned in the bushes that abut some
highly dangerous curve. The dummy
used by this guardian of the law may
be a special flag, banner or manual
stop sign. Decision as to it's shape,
size, use and character would rest en-
tirely with the officials in the State,
city or locality in which the plan was
practiced. The policeman would be en-
powered to thrust this signal into
the highway at any point where an
automobile or a. pedestrians legally
might be. Unless the approaching
automobile was stopped safely before
it reached the signal, it would be an
evidence of reckless and illegal driv-
ing. The driver would be ushered be-
fore the proper authority and fined or
lectured severely, according to the
complexion of the case. :.
The clear view ahead" plan of mo-
tor car operation has been followed by
some drivers for several years sue
cessfully. They have driven their cars
with care and caution, the guiding
guardians that have kept them out of
trouble They never took the trouble
to diagnose their methods and to de-
fine accurately for the benefit of the
many million other car operators
what they did and how and why they
did it, Any driver of an automobile
who operates his machine in close ac-
cord to the safety factor lis following
Evening star., 1925-07-19

under complete control or ne will eX-
pose himself and perhaps others to
extreme danger. 1t is better to be
safe than sorry
Under prevalent speed law systems.
drivers court accident and injury by
looking behind and scanning the
stretch they have Just covered for pur-
suing policemen on motor cycles. The
proposed system fosters safety and
well being to car drivers because 1t de-
mands that they keep their eyes on
the highway in front of them-the
clear coast forward and haven of
safety. At night this safe view
ahead is regulated by the illumination
range of the headlights on the car. In
following another car the clear course
is that distance which the vehicle in
front must necessarily go before it
can be stopped. For the second driver
to correctly gauge the safety distance
which should stand as boundary be-
tween the two cars, he must allow an
interval both for his perception time
and his reaction time as well as those
of the operator ahead. At one point
the clear course may be a distance of
but so feet, while at the next inter-
section or curve it may be 200 feet.
ONE splendid suggestion which the
Bureau of Standards makes is
that diagonal lines should be drawn
across the sidewalk and roadway ut
dangerous intersections to aid the
peripheral vision Of the average
Evening star., 1925-07-19
Nleas distance G. betweeU
shots ih reaction tests

this system when he can stop his car
quickly without skidding in the path
of the unobscured forward stretch of
highway. All those who drive in this
safe and sensible manner will avoid
any repetition of the accident which
SOME able rhymester has presented in
these words:
Here lies the body of Edwin Gray.
Who died maintaining his right of way:
He was right. dead right. as he sped along.
But he's Just as dead as though he'd been
x 4
A T the present time, when Washing
- ton motorists have for many
months been almost bewildered by fire.
quent changes in the traffic regula-
tions, the adoption of some standard
lied, wear-worthy and all around ef-.
ficient regulation like the "clear
course ahead system seems appro-
pirate. Traffic Director Eldridge is
doing his level best to try out every
feasible plan which will curtail acci-
dents and yet will not unduly compli-
cate motoring conditions in the Ma
tional Capital. The frequent changes
referred to above have to be made.
Some proposals succeed while others
fail. The successful ones are retained.
The failures are rejected. The streets
first President are today really the
automobile proving grounds for the
country When our traffic tangles are
all united, when our local motoring
riddles are solved and when our
streets are made maximumly safe for
pedestrian and vehicular traffic, the
rest of the country is bound ITO play
copycat and pursue the preachments
which Washington will practice. In
the sequence of events, the clear
course ahead scheme will doubtless
be tested. 1t has the Endorsement of
the Society of Automotive Engineers,
the most influential organization of
it's kind in the, world. All Uncle Sam
asks is that the system be given
fair trial. He is convinced that under
such conditions it will prove it's worth.
The drivers clear course forward
is as many feet in front of his car as
he can see on his side of the road.
Temporarily, many drivers are blind
as bats as they speed around curves.
where bushes, buildings or other OBJ
structions as we'll as the layout of
the road obscure their view. There
may be a bridge out, a traffic. tieup,
broken glass on the highway. an open
ditch, an obstruction or d pedestrian
ON the roadway just around the curve.
The operator. must drive with his car
Evening star., 1925-07-19
D4aqou al 11re shows
where aNdle Of Side
Va ew begins. U

careful operation at those points.
For example, when you are travel
ing south on Connecticut avenue at
it's intersection with Wyoming ave-
nue. your range of peripheral vision
is limited to a space of 81 feet in
which you would have to stop your
car in time of emergency. A safe
speed when the pavement is dry for
motorists to pass this road junction
under the clear course-ahea pro-
gram would be 12 miles an hour.
X < x
A POINT of maximum danger was
the intersection of Florida ave-
hue and Thirteenth street northwest.
The stop" regulation now enforced,
which obliges Florida avenue traffic
in both directions to stop and give
precedence to Thirteenth street vehic-
ular travellers, vitality reduces the nat
ural motoring dangers at this intersec-
ton. Formerly the drivers rolling
rapidly down the Thirteenth street
hill had to be able to stop their cars
in a space of AZ feet in order to be
sure of avoiding serious accidents.
This meant that their automobiles
could not travel at a speed in excess
of 13 miles an hour when the street
way was dry.
Going west on Park road, at the
Beach drive intersection. the drivers
peripheral vision, as reduced to the
space in which he can stop his car
in time of need with safety, is 25 feet.
A safe speed at this intersection on
a dry pavement is II miles an hour.
Proceeding down Snake Hill. in Rock
Creek Park, the maximum safe speed
on the worst curve is % miles an
hour. This translated into emergency
stopping conditions means that the
operator could bring his motor car to
standstill in a space of 100 feet.
Proceeding up Ross road, in Rock
Creek Park. safe speed on the first
curve, which is extremely hazardous,
is 19 miles an hour. On this curve the
factor of safety, as typified by the
distance in which the driver must be
able to stop his car. is rs feet. De;
scending Morrow road the safe speed
on the first curve is 20 miles an hour.
The exact distance of visibility here,
as reflected in the "clear-course-
ahead" principle, is only SO feet, and
logically this is the limit of the path
in which the driver would be called
Evening star., 1925-07-19
All Conveniences.

THE new $50, 1000. 900 terminal station
of the Pennsylvania system in
Chicago, just thrown open to the pub
lie after 10 years of construction
work, contains among other conven-
fences a morgue, chapel and Jail.
Evening star., 1925-07-19

one Justification Of the speed laws
~ which now are enforced in the
District and the rest of the country
Evening star., 1925-07-19
Washington Scientists Shake Hands With Modern Motoring Prober
BY GEORGE III. DACY.

THE year, some time in the fu-
ture-the place, a dangerous
curve in Rock Creek Park-the
actors in the novel sketch,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-14
That Knife-Like Pain
Is Only One of Natures Warnings of
Weak or DisOrdered Kidneys.

Have you lame back, aching day
and night? Do you feel sharp pains
after stooping?. Are the kidneys
sore? Is their action irregular
Use Doan's Pills-the medicine re-
commended by so many Redwood Falls
people. Ask your neighbor! Read
this case:
Mrs. Geo. Federly, 622 Mill St.,
Redwood Falls, says: "Overwork
broke down my kidneys and I had
considerable backache. Homework
was hard because of the knife-like
pains in the small of my back. I had
bearing down pains across my kidneys
continually and felt tired and all worn
out. Specks f1oated before me, blurr-
ing my sight and making me dizzy.
My kidneys were irregular in action.
bought Doan's Pills at Freyer &
Knapp's Drug Store and two boxes
cured me of the pains in my back and
my kidneys acted healthy again."
Price Coo, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Pills-the same that Mrs.
Federly had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-14
Tin-Can Irony

How comes it that none of, the
great Adams family has protested
against the use of the portrait of John
Quincy Adams on internal revenue
stamps devoted to tobacco? Per-
haps it is because the Adamses do
not buy the small tins of the popular
mixtures of smoking tobacco, across
whose top is pasted the stamp which
bears the likeness of their distin-
guished progenitor
j. @. Adams was the most Puritanic
of our presidents. He did not smoke;
he did not play cards; he took no part
in those pleasures in which Henry
Clay INDUCED no freely. Perhaps
that is why Mr.. Adams became presi-
dent and Mr.. Clay never did.
The chief pleasure of Mr.. Adams,
according to his biographers, was
swimming, a chilly pastime at best,
and suited to his icy blood. All the
good fellows disliked him cordially,
much as they were compelled to adj
mire the quality of his brain.
And now, when he has been in his
grave three-quarters of a century, and
his memory so faded that most peo-
pie had forgotten he was elected by
the house of representative until
the campaign just past, his visage
adorns tins Ct the weed he reprobat-
ed. 1t IS peculiarly ironic.-Detroit
News.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-14

of the Minnesota trunk highway OF
Baboock road system are given this
week in a highway bulletin, with .
notation that the size of the mair
road system of the state and the de.
mands from it may be seldom real
lied by the average citizen. The bull.
letin says:
Minnesota railroad mileage, all ad-
ded, is only 1000 miles greater thar
that Of the state trunk routes.
/ Grading on the state system meas
ures 4,797 miles, exceeding by SOC
miles the distance from Winnipeg to
New Orleans and back.
4 Crawling on 1884 miles of the
Minnesota system is over 500 miles
greater than the round trip mileage
! from ST. Paul to Seattle.
| The $50 miles of pavement on
trunk routes, in one Continuous strip
would reach from Winona through
st. Paul and Minneapolis to Winni-
peg.
Bridges on the system, placed end
to end, the engineer asserts, would
make an elevated way more than ten
miles long between the Twin Cities.
Mileages of 1924 improvements on
the Minnesota system are easier to
grasp:
New crawling totalled 5O4 miles
or over 80 miles greater than the
distance from st. Paul to Luverne
and return.
New grading for the year measured
568 miles-the round trip distance
from Mankato to Minneapolis to Or
tonville and back.
There was 80 miles OF new pave
ment built-ten miles less than the
distance from Rochester to Mankato.
The army of about 100 patrolmen
is about a fifth of the enlisted
strength Of the Minnesota National
Guard.
Dirt moved in improving trunk
highways last year would make one
pile 800 feet high and mile around.
Ditching along the routes measured
20 miles and over mile of tile was
laid.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-14

tarians participated. Such demon
tration of Christian unity Detroit has
never before witnessed. Most extra
ordinary of all, distinguished Jew
ish rabbi preached in a Christian
church and the dean of st. PauPs oc-
cupied the pulpit of Temple Beth Ell.
All in all, it was Sunday long to be
remembered.
The millennium hasn't come, but it
looks as if it might be on the way.
This general exchange Of pulpits in
Detroit is harbinger of day when
we shall look back to UNCONVENTIONAL
strife and sectarian bitterness with
something akin to pity. How Henry
Ward Beecher, Horace Bushnell and
Phillips Brooks would have reveled in
such practical and inspiring example
of spiritual unity and great good will!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-14

1t would be advantageous if one
Sunday year at least were set apart
for general exchange of pulpits and
with an every-widening circle of par
Elephants. And in the meantime all
of us might profit by repeating with
Whittier:
Forgive, o Lord, our childish
ways,
The separate affairs that we raise,
The varying tongues that speak
Thy praise!
Suffice it now In time to be
Shall one great temple rise to
Thee,
Thy church our broad humanity
Detroit News.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-14

Some IS miles of guard. rail
safety fencing was built at about
20 cents a foot installed. More than
seven miles of guard rail was re-
paired.
More than 25 days of travel at $50
miles day would not take traveller
over all the Minnesota trunk high
ways or Babcock roads.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-14
u. S. Government Warns Farmers
About Disease Caused by Rats.

They carry Bubonic plague, fatal to
human beings. They carry foot and
mouth disease, which is fatal to
stock. They kill chickens, eat grain,
cause destruction to property. If You
have rats RAT-SNAP will kill them.
Cremates rats after killing them
leaves no smell. Comes in cakes,
ready for use. Three sizes, 35c, Csc,
S1.52. Sold and guaranteed by Far
rell & Keefe and Public Drug Co.
26-2ts.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-14
Practicing Chris
tan Unity

Detroit clergymen to the number
of forty-eight exchanged pulpits Sun
day and with complete disregard of
UNCONVENTIONAL lines. Methodists
preached for Congregationalists, Bap-
fists proclaimed the Gospel for Pres
byterians; Episcopalians listened to
Presbyterians interpret the teachings
of Christ; Universalists and Uni
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-14

Animal instinct isn't SO impressive
when you know the men some dogs
associate with.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-14
What to Spend
for Advertising


At the end of each year the aver
aga merchant is confronted with the
question: "How much shall spend
i for advertising next year,"
In solving this perplexing problem
he will be interested in what other
merchants in his line are spending.
Every merchant knows that happy
medium in an advertising appropria-
ton is rarity-that most retailers
spend too much or too little upon
this silent agent.
Despite peculiar local conditions,
whatever they may be, comparison is
the most efficient barometer to aid in
arriving at a suitable appropriation
for advertising. The following fig
ures are the result of an investiga-
ton by the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States into the percent
age of net sales spent for advertising
by retail stores. Let every merchant
compare his expenditure with the
figures of others in the same trade
given below. They will be of great
value.
Common
Grocery stores Figures
Sales: Less than 100000 -O.2%
$4,000 to $4,000 0.2
$4,000 to $4,000 -0.2
100000 to $4,000 -0.3
$15O,OOO and over ---O.3
Shoe Stores
Sales: Less than 100000 1.6
$4,000 to $4,000 2.1
$4,000 to $99,OOO--2.2
100000 to $249,OOO 2.8
$250,OOO and over ---3.8
Department Stores
Sales: Less than $250,OOO--1.7
$25O,00O to $499, OOO-2.2
100000 to $999,OOO- 80
$1,OOO,OOO to $780, 0O--2.9
100000 to 9,OOO--2.9
$1O,OOO,O00 and over -3.2
Jewelry Stores
Sales: Less than $2O,OOO--2.6
$4,000 to $49,OO0--2.9 :.
$4,000 and over 4.3
Drug Stores ------------------O.7
Speciality Stores -----------3.4
Hardware Stores
Sales: Less than $4,000 -O.66
$4,000 to $4,000 -O.65
$4,000 to 100000 -O.79
100000 to 100000 OH
$1,000 and over -O.70
Clothing Stores --------------1.98
TRUNK ROAD SYSTEM,
GOSH, AMT 1T BIG
(By Highway News Service)
Figures indicating the magnitude
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-14
We're PARTNERS nom
with the Service COMPANY

THESE young people are happy
/ because they have just made
their first investment. Now they
are on the right road-the road
of thrift and saving; if they follow
it to the end, it will lead them
straight to financial independence.
They have felt for long time that
they were not saving enough. The
young man has good position
his life is they are pay
ing of the mortgage on their home;
still, they are not satisfied.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-14

But in the purchase of preferred
stock in their service company
they have taken step in the right
direction. A few shares have been
purchased outright, and they are
arranging to buy more on the
monthly investment plan.
Their future is assured-in later
years they will have saved enough
to put the children through school
and college; and when old age
comes they can live comfortably,
free from financial worries.
Evening star., 1925-06-27
HEARD FROM SPIRITS.
Shepherds Parents Say They Knew
He Would 60 Free.

INDIANAPOLIS, June ~ dP}.-
Mrs. Martha Shepherd Hayden. II
years old, was joyous today over the
acouittal at Chicago of her son,
William D. Shepherd of the charge
of numbering William McClintock
millionaire orphan.
Mrs. Hayden. devout member of
the Spiritualist Church. lid that for
many days she had received mea-
sages from the spirit world assuring
her that her son would be fHeed and
she expressed qualification over the
confirmation Of the MESA ge she de-
clared had come to her
BENJAMIN Hayden, her husba nd
also n member of the Spiritualist
Church, said that only two days ago
2. message had been received from
a Shepherd spirit who signed himself
"Benja min Harrison
You see, that is Mrs. Hayde MS
second cousin-the former President
Of the United States explained Mr..
Hayden. He told US that we had
no cause to worry at all
Mrs. Hayden. whose eyesight Is
falling, said she had not feared the
outcome of the trial following the re.
ceipt Of many messa ses from depart.
ed spirits.
Evening star., 1925-06-27
RUM CARS WOMAN
LURE IS FINED $10O
Led Police in Fast Chase to
Take Attention From Liq.
uor-L Laden Auto.

Speeding along Rla densburg roa d
carly today a between 20 and S5 miles
an hour in an effort. il Is charged. TO
detract attention of police from d
liquor Ia den automobile following A
short distance behind. Miss Margaret
Van Horn. young white woman. Of
G25 Third street. was arrested and
given the ma ximum fine Of 500 in
Traffic Court today on the charge Of
reckless driving.
Capt. Guy BurIin game and officers
l.. NJ. Wilson. Leo Murray and L. F.
liartmsn pursued the speeding car for
two miles and were forced 10 travel as
high * miles an hour before the
fair driver was finally stopped TAX
ing the. stand in court the Young
woman pleaded guilty To the char rye
but refused TO make statements
The arreStins ofr1cer. however testi-
fied that the girl told a policewoma n
al the House OF Detention. where She
was taken after her apprehension. ths
she travelled at the excessive rate be
tween the District line and Mount
Oliver Cemetery 10 clear the approach
10 The city Of policemen in order that
the liquor. car could enter urmolested
Incide II there was rum car be.
hind. il esca ped the officers.
The officers told the court the ca r
driven by Miss Van Horn had no back
seats. and in il were found several
empty charred kegs and some corn
meal spilled over the floor,