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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
CAMPAIGN STARTED
AGAINST TRUCKERS
Discourteous Drivers, Who Hold
Size Gives Them Special Rights,
to Be Curbed.

Hard .boiled truck drivers who
give plenty of evidence of their con-
viction that might makes right are the
especial objects OF a campaign that
has been launched to curb their dis.
courtesy by the National Safety Coun.
ell. The councils drive on this type
OF motor vehicle operator is being
made through owners of large fleets
of heavy trucks.
The following statement has been
issued in connection with the cam
uaign:
"'Don't Hit Me, I'm a Big Boy is
the sign that some truck drivers dis
play on their machines. Some of
these commercial car operators are
a disgrace to the employers they rep
resent, These reckless drivers do not
slacken their speed when crossing
boulevards, nor do they give consid-
Grafton to approaching vehicles, but
tumble across with a shrill warning
from their exhaust whistles for other
traffic to give way. Drivers of pleas
ure cars have to stop because they
dare not risk collision with such heavy
vehicles Drivers who stop suddenly
when large trucks loom up at cross
ings might be bumped from behind.
Careless operators usually laugh when
driver of a passenger car has to
apply the brakes quickly In order to
avoid q collision. and often a heated
argument follows.
DRIVERS of loaded trucks often fiirt
with accidents because of their speed
ing. which not only involves a pos
sibility of personal accident, but also
endangers the property OF their EN-
ployers and others. These speeding
trucks sometimes jar the plaster off
r. ~ =. n
ways. and small bumps under the
hanmering Of heavy loads become
deep ruts. In New York City recently
a special police squad was assigned
to pay particular attention to reckless
driving on the part of truekmen"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
WOMAN MOTORISTS
ARE MOST CAREFUL
Survey Shows They Take Fewer
Chances, But Are More
Easily Ratified.

In motordom, at least, the female
Of the species is less deadly than the
male.
Statistics collected from different
cities indicate that women do not
literally indulge in the chance-taking
driving which seems TO be the delight
of certain types of male autoists. The
survey. conducted to determine wheth.
er caution and courtesy are instructive
feminine traits, revealed the follow.
ing interesting facts:
Women are not generally speeders.
Married women appear more care
full than single girls.
Few women are "one-arn" drivers.
Drunken drivers are not in the
feminine class.
But
Woman drivers appear to be more
dangerous than men during the
period of instruction.
The women have little respect for
mo parking rules.
Some of them lose their heads when
they get in a traffic jam.
AS a class they are not more pro-
ficient than male drivers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01

West Virginia. like it's neighbor, Vir-
GINA, retains the atmosphere of the
old South. It's people are hospitable,
its land warming, its scenery pleasing,
its traditions deeply rooted,
Along Midland Trail.
A summation of all that is truly
West Virginian. of all that is beauti-
full and traditional in the State. is to
be found by the motor1st in the Mid
land trail. a ribbon of hard-surface
road stretching from White Sulphur
Springs. In the eastern part of the
State, to Huntington. in the west.
White Sulphur Springs may be reached
from Washington through the ever
delightful Valley of Virginia, passing
through Winchester and Staunton.
The Midland trail. traversing the
State from east to west through pic
turesque ground almost every inch of
the way, was first a bison trail and
each Summer many centuries ago
huge herds of these now all but ex-
tinct animals Numbered over 1t, seek
ing cool mountain passes, leaving be-
hind them the heat of the plains.
The Buffalo trail, as ii was known In
the early days of colonization,> may
have been first seen by a white man
in 1742. when Peter Sailing went
down the Kanawha River; or, per-
haps, 1t was the surveyor, Christopher
Gist, who went up in 1851.
At any rate, this trail dates from
time immemorial natural pathway
broken by animals, utilized by the red
man and perfected and smoothed by
those who came after
The Midland trail. leaving White
Sulphur Springs resort noted Tor
its curative powers as early as l172---
moves westward to Lewisburg, to
Lookout to Hawks Nest, to Gauley
Bridge and from there on to Charles
ton, the capital of West Virginia.
From Charleston, the motor tourist us
ing the Midland trail is directed to St.
Adams and Hurricane. from there to
Guyandotte and thence to the inn
portant city of Huntington.
Lore Of Countryside
Thus is briefly sketched the route
of this outstanding West Virginia
highway. Not so briefly, however,
are told the many impressive things
which the inotorist meets along the
way: the lore of the countryside. the
enchanting spell of ailuring vistas.
long tightly locked; the moving story
Of events closely connected with the
Midland trail from revolutionary times
on down to the present day.
At White Sulphur Springs, where
the tourist from the East viii take up
the Midland trail. the lover of things
old. of stories quaint and of ninuets
long since ended will find much in
which to reyei. White Sulphur was
the fashion when candles sputtered
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01

in great halls and when the journey
was made by lurching stage. Still a
popular resort, White Sulphur in
those days was colorful with the cos.
tunes of the times, picturesque with
its customs, quaint in its native sim
plicity.
From White Sulphur the motor
tourist turns the nose of his car
northwest to Iewisbufg, thriving
town and one which clings to the old
traditions while lending willing ear
to the song of progress
Lewisburg, settled long before the
Revolution. was a great center in
the turnpike days and popular STOP
over point for droyers from the West
bound for the markets of Baltimore.
Richmond and Philadelphia. Taverns
and inns there were apIenty to house
and feed and quench the active thirst.
and. SO the story runs, Lewisburg
nights reverberated with the sound
of joyous merrymaking. The 1925
motorist viii find in Lewisburg much
to intrigue, and the forests back of
Rupert, a town beyond, will have an
almost irresistible appeal to the hunt.
er or fisherman in the party.
Headquarters of Lee.
Lees tree. under whose spreading
arms the Confederate general had his
headquarters in 1861. still stands on
Big Sewell Mountain, beyond Raj
nellie. The Old Stone House, a solid
sentinel standing four-square to the
elements on the last westward slope
of Big Sewell. was constructed In 1924,
and at this typical inn of the last GEN.
fury. such men as Andrew Jackson,
Thomas Benton. John Breckenridge
and Henry Clay were frequent
visitors.
Hawks Nest. which the motor
traveller reaches soon after passing
through the pretty town Of Ansted
affords one Of the most beautiful views
in this or any other section Of the
country, and in the old days it was
much frequented by the stages. Here
is what one writer, whose pen has
been stilled for many decades, said
about Hawks Nest:
Now and then it ltlle road courses
along the margin of some rocky and
stupendous precipice often several
hundred il not thousand feet in
depth, and as the mail coach. drawn
by four spirited steeds. whirls you
along the perilous cliff YOU feel an In
voluntary shuddering at the slender
barrier which separates you from
eternity.
And 1t may he added, Hawks Nest
today lis as ruggediv marvellous as II
was awesone 10 the correspondent OF
the stage coach.
GauIey Bridge. q PROSPEROUS town.
Continued on Sixth Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
MIDLAND TRAIL DELIGHTS
CAPITAL MOTOR TOURIST
West Virginia Scenery, Hospitality and
Traditions Found Accordingly Inter-
esting-Route Once Buffalo Haunt.
BY WILLIAM ULLMAN.

West Virginia State which for hundred years hidden
its superb natural beauties under blanket of poor roads and
whose wonders and historic places
denied to coming forth the light preenng
itself in the CLEAN Of winding highways displaying holiday
many auements reckoning
to the Washington automobile
great State and territory replete with Of rugged
beauty West Virginia rich tradition stepped the
of the early days of the Republic has embarked upon
building program which making the region discern
ing motor tourists
It fact that too few motorists of the delights
awaiting them upon tour through West Virginia Washing
tonans know the beauty of Hapers Ferry They such
spots in West Virginia lovely until few years ago
tubed by travel of almost kind and to this day prmeva
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
PUTTING CAR In SHAPE
BEFORE TOUR ADVISED,
Wise Motorist Anticipates Rigors Of
Road by Seeing That Every !.
Part Is Working Right. !.
BY FREDERICK c. RUSSELL.

Conditioning the for outdoor for extended
period be thought camping and rampng
far the moo concerned but those who have had
occasion know how important have the
dton for the rigors of would attempt
into the outdoors with unprepared machine than they would
take a long hike in dancing pumps.
Back to nature from handy service far
the automobile concerned Many motorists do realize how
dependent they the negborhood garage the filling
tons down the street and the service departments of the
zations from which they buy their These convenence
always available the great spaces neither
they needed the motor will put his proper
dition before he starts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
AUTOMOBILINC ACQUIRING
'WORLD CONSCIOUSNESS
Foreign Types introduced to Keep Com
petition Alive, Although Industry in
U. S. Is Facing No Danger.
BY HERBERT S. HoLLANDER.

With European invading this side Of the Atlantic and with
American manufacturers making strides
ket earth motordom appears to be acquiring world
sciousnes in the argon Of the street, world slant
Recent reports OF decline in the domestic sales of low
priced American have failed fears OF automove
depression the temporary Observers simply
point the world market for this explain that with
radical decrease domestic demand for the owprice level
could be maintained through high production the foreign
sembing plants.
The sauraon point automobile production according
prominent will when family the
face OF the globe has and when out.
When has the world slant the subject the automobile
business be III the early development In
fact those who read the future with the of pioneers
day which all hut the exclusive makes Of American
will be dirt cheap for Americans and used
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
TENSION MADE ON BREAK
Motorists Often Confused in Mat.
ter Of Timer Action.

Motorists who like to know just how
things work are often confused over
the matter of timer action as it affects
the spark. They know that by pass
ing low tension current through the
primary winding of the induction coil
a high tension current available for
jumping the points of spark plug is
induced. The primary current is
made" and broken" by the breaker
points and the question in the minds
of many is whether the high tension
current in the secondary is induced
on the make or on the break.
The question is easily answered.
High tension current is induced on
each, but considerably more on the
"break" II is customary, then. to
consider the break" as doing the
trick.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
Maryland Soon to Oil
Favorite Highways
Of Local Motorists

Washington motorists will
take warning from a bulletin
issued by the Maryland State
Roads Commission which states
that on August 10 OiIing will
start OH the S0lOmOns Island
Road from SOlOmOns Island to
the end of the new oil below the
Chesapeake Beach road.
Oiling is also contemplated, be-
ginning August 16. from Bene-
dict to Hughesville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
Many Can't See 1t.
Ignition Wire Warning.

Just because the garage man uses
pair of pliers to tighten the screw
that holds the ignition wire terminal
to the spark plug when he inserts a
new one ts no reason why you should
try to go him one better by giving
each one Of the screws few extra
turns. II screw is turned down too
far 1t will spread the terminal or strip
the threads and actually loosen it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
AutOists Quitting
''Hard Highroad"
For Inviting Trail

Motorists are no longer confin.
ing themselves to the hard high.
road" but are delving off into the
hinterlands to an increasing ex-
tent. Drivers are now seeking
out the hidden beauty spots. and
superior car construction is en-
abling them to get TO hitherto
impregnable hooks of wild glory.
This movement on the part of
motorists will result in the open
ing of new roads, bringing within
easy and comfortable reach points
now too impossible to appeal to
the average tourist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
SAVING DOOR WINDOWS.
Glass Less Liable to Break on Slam
ming If Raised.

Generally speaking. a. car-door win
dow is less likely TO shatter when the
door is slammed If the glass is ali the
way up In this position 1t has sup
port for all four sides. whereas when
II Is part way open the top side is
unsupported, Extra wide doors. as in
coach models. call for extra precaution
in the matter of saving windows from
I1reallage. A point few owners realize
is that the wider the doors the more
leverage is applied to IT by the arm
of the person pulling 1t to from the
inside. More force, more chance of
overtaxing the window pane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
Retarding Spark
When Cranking Car
Is Safety Factor

That bit of advice anent plac-
Ing the spark lever in a retarded
position when cranking the engine
Is particularly apropos when the
timing has been set ahead little.
BY setting timing ahead the car
will travel faster on the level and
not SO well on hills. You will have
to retard the spark little more
on hills and be extra cautious
about retarding when cranking
Backfires are more likely TO be the
result of ignoring this advice when
timing is extremely advanced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
TURN SPARE TIRE.
Other Side Should Be Exposed to
Elements for While.

Realizing that the rear Of the car
Is the wrong place to carry a spare
tire, the efficient car owner at least
tries to make the best of 1t. That
is why he makes it a point to turn
the spare around now and again, SO
that one side of the tire will not
always be exposed to the mud, water
and oil from the roads.
If the tire carrier is such that the
spare must hang In the same position
all the time. at least the shoe can
be turned to have the other side face
the sun for change. Or the spare
can be run on wheel for a few
hundred miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
Dealers Will Discuss
Auto Trade Problems
At Session TOmOrrO7

Washington AutomOtive Trade
Association will hold its regu-
lar monthly meeting at the
City Club tomorrow night. The
meeting will be in the nature of
a forum session for the discus
sion of problems of the auto
motive trade. Dealers are urged
to avail themselves of this OPP
portunity to propose topics for
special consideration or seek in
formation that others i'm the or
ganizatiOn may give them. Presi-
dent Stanley HOrner will pre-
side.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01

Summer road heat is hard on tires.
They should be inspected at regular
intervals, cuts repaired and pressure
well maintained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
MAKING SWEEPING
TURNS BAD DRIVING
Slows Up Traffic in Back and
Is Harder to Do, Ex-
pert Declares.

Motorists who have been accus-
toned to making sweeping left turns.
to the chagrin and delay of all other
drivers behind. can listen with advan-
tage to H NJ. Lucius, secretary of
the Automobile Club of Maryland
who prescribes a simple formula for
overcoming this driving deficiency.
Discussing the subject. Mr. Lucius
says:
AT every corner we find some
driver who gets himself into a jam
and holds up the whole traffic stream
because he pulls to the right to make
a left-hand turn and to the left to
make a right-hand turn.
Il have spoken about this many
times. but, from the number of people
who still make the mistake, it will
not hurt to discuss it again.
What puzzles me is that every mo-
torist who has been driving longer
than month has not discovered the
little secret long ago. 1t would seem
that the difficulties they get into
would show them their mistakes
Want Plenty of Room.
The instinct that prompts them
to pull wide for a corner. of course
is easy to see. They want plenty Of
room to make the turn But what /
can't understand is that these drivers
haven't found that the turning radius
on present-day automobiles has de-
creased to point where a short turn
can be taken with the longest car.
Here Is the trick in a nutshell:
BY pulling to the left-center for a left
hand turn no one will cut you off by
passing on your left. Straight and
rfght-hand traffic will go by on your
right and you can watch your chance
to get through the oncoming line.
Similarly. by pulling over to the
Hght-hand curb for a right turn. no
one can cut you off and straight and
left-turn traffic will go by on your
left.
Many Can't See 1t.
Simple, isn't It? Yet there are
countless automobiles who cannot
seem to get it through their heads. II
l saw such a mistake only occasion
ally would not speak again of IL. but
every day at almost every corner doz-
ems of drivers mess up the traffic
stream and get themselves into bad
humor by a perfectly simple mistake
on their own part.
Also drivers will find their turn
easier II they give their hand signal
in plenty of time when about to make
a left turn. When about to make a.
right turn. II is best to make a decided
move toward the cross street. Hold
ing out your hand only holds back the
cars behind when they might be
sweeping by, for they watch for you
to make left turn"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01

CONTINUED on Sixth Page. )
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-09
RICHMOND

a painting by Charles Hawthorne
" no was born in Richmond. has beer
noticed by old friends as a Magazine
cover. THE Fish and the Man" by
Hawthorne, is the painting on the
cover of the Literary Digest for No
vember 6.
The Swathmore Chautauqua will be
held in Richmond the last of this
month, November so. 81 and December
/. There was meeting of the guar
antors at the fraternities office Tues
day evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Call are on a
hunting trip in northern Maine
Mrs. Lena Harlow went to the Gar
diner hospital last Wednesday for
medical treatment
Miss Lilly Holt OF Portland visited
her parents in town this week
Mrs. George Dunn, daughter Marion
and son Alfred of Portland have been
visiting Mrs. Herman MUSE.
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Richardson and
Miss June Richardson were visitors
in Portland last Tuesday.
Among the hunters at Gibbs duck
shooting camps this past week were
Harry Duren of Greenfield, Mass,
Charles Kinsman of Augusta and
Lawrence Hill of Belgrade.
Ernest Pinkham was IA business Wis
itor in Gardiner Friday.
Mount Carmel Chapter. O. E, S. at
the regular meeting Thursday eve-
ming had inspection. Mrs. Elizabeth
Whitney of Bowdoinham being the in
specting officer. when two candidate
received the degree. There We're visi-
tors from Bowdoinham Brunswick
I.itchfeld Dresden and Houton. A fine
banquet was served
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-09
Deliberate Question
Better Approach
To Winter St. Bridge

An hours special session OF the
City Council held Monday evening TO
deliberate on the question OF secur-
ing a better approach to the WINTER
Street bridge resulted in no de1nlte
action by the Council other than
vote to assemble in executive session.
at 7.30 o'clock Thursday evening OF
this week at which time Mayor
Price declared that some definite be-
ginning toward the solution problem
would be made.
DIR. Price called upon Street Com
missioner B. +. Jose to explain the
details of the plan under discussion
and this Mr.. Jose did by presenting
map Of the location showing that
In order to secure the approach the
city would have to have IS feet OF the
land now owned by Max Goldberg.
cry Solicitor +. L. Goodspeed point
ed out that there was no question
but what any city or town had the
tlSht TO alter or widen any existing
street Tor the public convenience and
IL necessity required it, and that it
was the inherent right of munich
pailtles by eminent domain to take
such action. The rights of property
oWners are protected by damage
Grains. and by right of appeal In
answer to question of the MAYORS
Mr.. Goodspeed stated that the city
COUNCIL mad the right to say whether
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-09

OF not such action was necessary &C
cording to the statues, and also UNI
der the provisions of the City Coun-
ell. He further suggested that the
law provided that in case of proper
petition made to the City Council. il
such petition was not acted upon the
petitioners would have a further APP
peal to the County Commissioners.
Max Goldberg, owner Of the pro-
perty was then invited by Mayor
Price to express his views upon the
matter and this he proceeded TO do
at some length He declared that he
did not think that il vas necessary
to take Is feet from his land, and
further stated that he would gladly
give the city five feet. The next half
hour a verbal battle waged, between
Mr.. Goldberg and the kCitY' Fathers,
for while Mr. Goldberg rehearsed his
previous service to the city with
frequent reference to how he had be-
nefitted il the Chair endeavored to
hold him to the subject at hand. He
said that it was a. question of fin
ances he would be glad to give the
city the money. but that he needed
this land for his iron. Here Alder
man Perkins interviewed with a sug-
gestion that the iron be put on sum-
mer street but TINS only launcneu a
detailed explanation Of the general
business conditions OF the iron col
lecting industry. After trying vainly
to pour oil on the troubled waters
DR.. Price called a truce in the even
ing's festivities, and pointed out that
such proceedings were of no avail.
After a final examination of Com
missioner Jose's map the combat
ants again expressed their good will
toward the city. and the meeting was
adjourned.
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15-Year-Old Girl
Wins CapetOWn Swim

London, Nov. S-(P)-Tn the shark
infested sea, with the water colder
than that of the English channel 10
year-old Peggy Duncan today swan
from Robben's Land, to Capetown, a
distance of about seven miles in nine
and one-half hours. says a despatch
to the Daily Express from Capetown
South Africa.
The little girl was the only one of
six women and six men to finish.
One girl abandoned the swim a mile
off the coast after having been thir-
teen hours in the water. Another girl
saw a shark when three miles off the
coast and scurried to a nearby boat
Owing to the GOODNESS of the water
all the men in the race had given up
at the end of three hours.