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Evening star., 1926-12-12
BIG DECREASE SHOWN
IN MOTOR PRODUCTION
November Output This Year Low
est Of Any Month
DurfnE 1890.

Motor vehicle production for No
venber Ia estimated, At Approximately
24b, 900 units, according to figures Of
Automotive Industries, 4 trade pub.
licAtion. This compares tinfavorAbly
with october production. which was
S4s, ,40s Units and with hgures for
November last year. which were 377..
4sS.
Production for 1925 up to the end Of
November is placed at 4.272,00 units,
against 4.S36.271 for the entire year
1925.
November output this year was the
lowest Of any month In 1928 and De
cen1ber production IL expected to be
still lower. 1t IL confidently expected.
however. that the opening Of the ma
tional automobile shows next month
will BE- a powerful trade stimulus.
The production decrease for last
month, wfile showing 4 general cur
tailment, largely IL attributable to re-
duced operations by the largest
manufacturer, who, at this time last
year. was in active production OF, new
models. Other companies were less
than ( per cent under their totals for
1921.
Evening star., 1926-12-12
WIDER HIGHWAYS
ARE SEEN AS NEED
Michigan Road Builder Presents
Views on Advancing Ideas on
Distances Across Road.

state road offfcials and the general
motoring public have been Selling the
highways short" and now are paying
the penalty In congested traffic. seri-
Gus accidents and endless inconveni-
ences. in the opinion of Edward n.
Hines. noted Michigan road builder.
Mr.. Hines Is a pioneer advocate of
better highways and Ia widely known
~ the father of Wayne County Mich.)
famous concrete road system.
I'VE thought when we built a H.
foot road nearly 90 years ago that We
were building for the future" MIR.
Hines said recently In a. public ad-
dress. "A few months later we built
them 1s feet wide, and We have kept
on increasing the width until we have
In Wayne County many miles OF 40
and s0-foot roads, and the super high
way total right OF way will be 204
feet wide
Mr.. Hines thinks the super highway
will serve the future needs for a while.
but he adds that 1t will take several
such roads to serve the city of the
future.
Practically all cities in the United
States need wider thoroughfares," he
said. Il have taken several drives in
the past few months and the conges-
tion 10 so bad that one does not feel
secure when he starts on a pleasure
Jaunt unless he is equipped with the
services of a first class legal firm, a
casualty insurance company and a
vocabulary of high-powered exple-
tives.''
Evening star., 1926-12-12
DEFENSE HIGHWAY COMPLETED
WILL BE OPENED DECEMBER %
Road Link Costing $4,000 Will Shorten
Distance From Capital to Annapolis
By Seven Miles.

When this gesture also proved .un-
successful. he took the matter before
the state Roads Commission and
finally succeeded in having that body
agree to apportion a certain amount
Of the annual allotment Of State roads
funds to Prince Georges and Anne
Arundel Counties for the construction
OF the road.
The first section Of the highway In
Prince Georges. 1.57 miles. was
completed on January 27. 1921. and
Georges and SAT miles in Anne
week.
Had not the counties advanced the
money necessary for the work this
Fall, the opening OF the road would
have been delayed for more than 4
year. No appropriation from the
state Treasury could have been
made until next June.
The total cost Of the road ID slightly
more than $s40, 900, which makes the
per mile cost somewhat higher than
the average for the State Of Mary
land. At present. the average
throughout the state is $4,000 per
mile. The figure for the Defense
Highway construction is approx
nldLeiy $S0,UOV. state rOdu OFFICIALS
explain the higher cost an due to the
fact that a number of bridges and ap-
proaches had to be built.
OF the 24.03 miles Of the Defense
Highway. 14.09 are In Prince Georges
County and 9.94 miles In Anne Arun-
del County.
While the new highway was under
construction, it was the practice Of
motorists bound to and from Annapo.
lis to use the route which passed
through Upper Marlboro.
Evening star., 1926-12-12

washington and Maryland motor
lists are going to get an ss4o, 900
Christmas present. The state OF
MARYLAND is the Santa Claus.
The gift itself Is the Defense High-
way. the new link between washing:
ton and Annapolis. After years OF
waiting, the road. which will shorten
the distance between the Federal and
Maryland capitals by seven miles. Will
he thrown open to traffic on Decen,'
ber %, according to announcement by
John N. Mackall, chairman OF the
Maryland state Roads Commission.
That the road was completed this
year Is due to the cooperation OF the
residents Of Prince Georges and Anne
Arundel Counties and It II to them
that motorists owe 4 debt Of graft
tude.
when the state funds for the con
struction Of the highway. became ex-
hausted the residents OF these two
Maryland counties. through their ON.
cials, advanced the necessary money.
The state treasury will repay the
counties later.
The Defense Highway, alishtly over
24 miles in length. extends from the
BlAdensburg road to Parole, Md. It
was started In 1918. The late =. Z.
Magruder, clerk Of the Court OF Ap.
peals at Annapolis for many years,
was the first to advocate the building
of a direct road connecting the Ma
tional Capital with the seat OF the
United States Naval Academy. t.
Mr.. Magruder first sought to have
the State Legislature pass q bill ap.
propriating the money to build the
road, and, falling, he later tried to
get the Congress Of the United States
to grant the necessary funds.
Evening star., 1926-12-12
HOLDS AUTOS RAISE
STANDARD or LIVING
DR.. Lee Claims Motor Cars Also
Have Cut Costs Of
*saR 44a5s
Transportation.

Motor vehicles have reduced the
cost of transportation ana have served
TO raise the standard of living Of the
American people.
This point Ii made by DR.. Judson
F. Lee Of Lewis Institute. who de.
clares it will become evident to all
when 1t Is realized that Competition,
the economic law. has drawn the line
clearly between the motor truck and
the railroads and between the motor
coach and the street car
Addressing the Chicago section OF
the Society OF Automotive Engineers.
DR.. Lee declared that "the future
market for automobiles is assured
and may he dominated by the Ameri-
can car manufacturer. The relation
Of this new means Of transportation
10 the older systems seems clear to-
day: each has Its own sphere. the one
being complementary to the other.
The problem is one OF coordination,
not Of competition.
"The railroad is the wholesale long
distance carrier Of the Nation: the
motor vehicle can best serve in short
hauls. even ioor-to.door delivery.
Whether the motor coach is now re.
garded as a competitor OF electric
and steam railways il Answered BY
the fact that J34 electric railways
are operating motor coach lines ana
1857 steam railroads are using motor
vehicles az feeders and AZ extensions
from existing rail lines"
Evening star., 1926-12-12
FAST DRIVERS KEEP
SPEED LIMITS DOWN
Dealer Explains Why City IL Slow
In Establisheng Arterial
Highways.

Thoukhtless driving practices of the
very car owners who are anxious to
see higher speed limits established. on
outlying thorouRhfares are vital fac
tors in keeping traffic Authorities from
taking this step.
: Creation Of arterial highways upon
which greater speed way be made
probably will follow proof that an In
tellisent majority OF drivers are q pa
BILE of handling their cars with safety.
These thoughts are voiced BY Oscar
Coolican, local automobile dealer. who
declares:
There are several cases In point
right here In Washington. October
sAw the lons.desired higher speed
Sone established on Massachusetts q
avenue. Raising the limit to 80 miles
An hour on this avenue long had
been the plan Of the traffic director.
but he was forced to reiterAte for
months that 1t would not be in the in.
tArest Of safety to allow speeds beyond
% miles an hour until motorists have
proven themselves capable OF safe
driving above that limit.
THE trafic director had only one
sound criterion OF this ability OF
drivers. That was how well they
obeyed the old speed limit and how
OUculSUL tHSy were 10 LIE StOp 0A8 81
that called upon all drivers to halt
before entering from side streets.
1T obviously IL dangerous to enter
a street upon which trafflc In moving
at % miles an hour4if one cuts In when
one plea ses. At 80 miles an hour, 1t IL
doubly dangerous.
inability OF some motorists to
realize this retarded the achievement
Of the desire OF = majority, who felt a
higher speed would help traffic con-
ditions.
There IL apparent in many cities a
trend toward permitting higher speeds
in order to lessen congestion, which is
a big factor in accidents, but no city's
traffic authorities are going to make
the change unless motorists prove
beforehand that 1t will be sound"
Evening star., 1926-12-12
Auto Thieves Become More CUNNING
When Safety Locks Are Improved

The news seems slow In travelling
because 1t has to travel 80 far. but
the truth IL that the automobile can.
not be locked against the determined
thief. Every new scheme seems to
make 1t more difficult for the thief
to make away with the car. but he,
too. improves. He is cleverer than he
used to be.
One of the latest wrinkles is to COM
bine the ignition coil with the lock
in sealed compartment. The object
10 to prevent the thief from running
a wire from the underground ter
minal Of the horn to the ignition coil,
thereby circumventing the ignition
lock. But what is to prevent the
thief from carrying a spare coil with
him?
One weakness Of concealing the H.
milton coil lies In the greater difficulty
Evening star., 1926-12-12

Wet weather still Is bad for auto
mobiles. Impervious as they seem to
he to weather conditions. cars still are
apt to be crippled by a bad rain. es'
pecially a driving one. Two things
are affected most. the strap-type
shock absorbers and the brakes.
When the straps Of the absorbers
or spring controls become water
soaked they carry some of this water
into their coils upon striking bumps.
This causes slippage and results in
noise and jerky spring control action.
The other main trouble has to do with
water.logging the brakes. This may
be more noticeable on four-wheel
brakes, oddly enough.
The explanation is simple when 1t is
recalled that owing to the increased
friction surface presented by four
wheel brakes they do not have to be
adjusted 80 closely. This, however.
becomes an objection when driving
through an excess of water. because.
with the friction surface so greatly
affected by water, braking efficiency
la minimized greatly. The water-log-
gif1x Of four-wheel brakes, however, IL
not possible where they are OF the in
Evening star., 1926-12-12
Shock Absorbers and Car Brakes
Affected Most by Rainy Weather

closed type. and the trouble is much
less where they are shielded.
II the spring controls get soaked,
drive carefully. for the springs are
being robbed of their protection. II
the brakes get saturated hold the
brake pedal on for several minutes at
time and start brAking earlier than
usual when desiring to stop. This
serves to drive out the water and re-
store the brake lining efiiciency to
something more nearly approximAtink
normal.
Evening star., 1926-12-12
TRAFFIC CHIEF OPPOSES
REGULATIONS or TRUCKS
Haynes Holds Government Super
visor Would Tend to Restrict
New Transportation Development.

Government regulation Of the bust
ness Of trucking IL objected to on
three grounds by J. r. HAYNES OF thA
National Industrial Trafic League
and traffic director OF the Chicago AS
Sociation of Commerce.
The three reasons for his belief
that regulation would he harmful are
cited by Mr.. Haynes a. follows:
Regulation would tend to restrict
or destroy the elasticity which makes
the truck go valuable.
1t would tend to retard the develop.
ment Of A new and rapidly growing
facility Of transportation.
The truck ID just entering the de-
velopment stage and should b left
free to find its place In the transpor-
tation system Of the Nation
The present system of operation pro
teots the shippers. who are resornnG
increasingly to the use OF the motor
truck. Mr. Haynes mAintAtrs
Evening star., 1926-12-12
QUlCKENS BRAKE ACTION.

Most brake pedals have to be pushed
through too great an arc before they
take hold. Brake pedal slack cannot
always be taken up. To eliminate II
on cars not provided with an adjust
ment for this purpose it is simply
matter Of making pedal stop so It
cannot come back to the limit with
the drivers foot removed. 1t is worth
considering this alteration, for a. frac-
tion of a. second gained in getting the
in stonninr.
Evening star., 1926-12-12
Floor Gives Leak Clue.

The season is approaching that
makes for e4sy detection of leaking
carburetors. During the Summer any
of the. fuel that leaks out on the ga
rage floor quickly evaporates. With
cooler weather the rnotorist will find
1t simpler to determine whether his
lower gas mileage IL due to d leak in
the CArburetor.
Evening star., 1926-12-12
MOTORING
Our idea Of blows hs horn fof
the motor cycle cop to get out Of the
BY WILLIAM ULLMAN.

TN the battle Of cylinders. tht
eights are mastering their forces
for a vicious attack upon the
4 established type of American
Automobile power plant-the me-
dium-size six This new maneuvef
will be brought emphatically to the
attention of the motoring public al
the New York Automobile Show
January 8.
According to a leading automotive
trade publication. the industry has
been advised of the debut of three
new lighter eights. This is just
Bit conservative. The fact is that
there will be no less than f1ve new
small straight eights.
These predictions are apt to be
made obsolete any moment, tor
changes are many at this season
and secrets are closely guarded. 1t
is known, for instance. that General
Motors is preparing for a new car
rumored as being named the La Sale
Whether this is the new and smaller
eight to be sponsored by Cadillac
remains to be seen.
AuDuG1l uCW lSHtCI Sti a SHt
eight. the S-77, already is in produc-
ton and is no secret The roadster
will list for $1.4os, the sedan at
1885 and the Wanderer sedan at
$l.74s. The last named is the model
with a front seat that folds back to
form bed
Gardner is we'll under way with
q new light eight on 122-inch wheel
base. This will be known as the
series 80 line. if you can keep this
in mind without confusing it with
the Pierce-Arrow and Chrysler
products known under the same
magic number. This Gardner will
rang in price from 81, ,3o5 to $1,6os
for the various models, and will
therefore. be one of the hot con-
tenders against the established SKIES.
Of course, Gardner, like some of the
other manufacturers OF eights, will
boost a larger car of the same type
at higher prices just to add swasger
to the name plate and as further
inducement to switch to an eight.
The truth of the whole business
Is that Buick. Nash, Studebaker,
REQ, WHY'S, Flint, Chandler, Hupp
and Hudson have the medium size
six field so tightly sewed up that
the most effective weapon of COM
petition which the smaller manufac-
turers can utilize at the present mo-
ment is to cater to the public's in
creasing preference for eights. This
does not mean that all these light
eights are going to be happy sue
cessors to the established sizes, but
it does mean that the public will
be treated to a more generous taste
of eight cylinder performance. The
theory behind it can be stated by
paraphtasinR 4 well known remark,
"Once an eight owner always an
eight owner
What has happened in the six
field, many believe, can happen in
the eight. The food of light skies
has made Americans converts to
multi-cylinder cars. Many have
found light. skies far more trouble
some than good fours, but the tfior-
NOUS success of the mediuf1- sire
skies demonstrates that when He il
dissatisfied with a light six the aver
age fr1otorist goes on to 1 better six
rather than back to>a four.
4 -
Will the public try the light
eights. and, finding them wanting,
Evening star., 1926-12-12

In servicine 1t. Much can get out AZ
order around switch, circuit breaker
and coll II there ID trick way 10
open the coll container. the secret
soon is likely to leak out throush
service men. II the container can he
opened BY / mechanic or a car owner,
1t also can be opened by a thief.
Evening star., 1926-12-12
MARYLAND ROAD CHIEF
FIGHTS DIM HEADLIGHTS
Commission Chairman will Ask
Legislature to Compel Bright H.
1urina tion IA prever1t AccidAflts.

lum1naC1On TO Prevent AccloenIS.
Dimn1ed headlights are going to
pass out of Marylands automotive
picture IL the State Legislature acts
favorably upon the request of John
n Mackall, chairman of the state
Roads Commission. Mr.. Mackall will
submit a measure to the Legislature
next month which calls for prohibit
tion of dimmed headlights except in
parking.
Many accidents. particularly those
affecting pedestrians. are tra6eable to
the practice of dimming headlights,
Mr.. Mackall declares. Bright lights
are imperatively needed IL motorists
are to have a commanding view of
the highway, he believes.
Another proposal to be laid before
the Legislature by the state roads
chairman Is one that will designate all
State highways as boulevards, giving
traffic on them right of way over
vehicles on lateral roadways and
lanes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-14
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskv

ment. Then the Soviet Government
resorted to drastic means to defend
the Revolution. Comrade Felix Ed
mundowich Dzerzhinsky was chosen to
lead the fight as on SO many other
occasions, the right comrade was
chosen for the right job.
comrade Dzerzhinsky properly used
the sword Of the cheka. Blow after
blow was delivered at the counter
revolutionary conspiracy. The name
of Dzerzhinsky became most hateful
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Wilma, he was already identified with
the revolutionary movement. In 1895
he joined the Social Democratic Party
of Poland and Lithuania, revolu-
tionary Marxist party led by Rosa Lux
emburg. He was known among the
comrades under the name of "Jozef'.
In 1897 we find him among the
workers of Koyno, an Industrial city.
but the workers there were not organ
lied. Here he was arrested by the
cars police for the first time and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-14

From Cracow he came back to Rus
sian Poland in 1905 and settled down
for work as executive member of the
party. During 1905 he was again kept
in jail for a few months.
In 1906 Dzerzhinsky was a dele
gate to the Unity Congress Of the
Russian Social-Democratic Labor Par
ty. He was elected to the Central
Executive Committee as a represen-
tative of the Socia[D Democratic Party
of Poland and Lithuania. At the end
Of 1906 he was again arrested in
Warsaw and released in 1907.
In 1908 he was arrested and sent
to Siberia, but he spent there only
seven days. He escaped and again
went abroad. He returned to Warsaw
in 1912 where on September 1 he was
once more arrested and condemned
for three years. In 1916 the Moscow
Cars Tribunal sentenced him to six
more years for activity in the Party.
The February Revolution opened
for him the doors of the Central pri-
son in Moscow. He went to Petfo-
grad and joined the fighting ranks OF
the Bolsheviks. In August 1917, he
was elected to the Central Committee
Of the Bolshevik Party and worked
in Petrograd. In the October Revolu-
ton we find him serving as a member
Of the Military Revolutionary Council
and on December Z he was chairman
of the famous cheka.
After the counter-revolutiona for
ces were broken UP, Comrade Dzerz-
hinsky become Commissar Of Ways
and Means Of Communication, where
he proved to be just as good an organ
izer as he was merciIess fighter Of
the counter-reVolution Later he was
elected chairman of the Supreme
Council of National Economy and on
this post the great collaboration of
Lenin, the great revolutionist died
July 20, 1926 at $40 P. M.
Comrade Dzerzhinsky IS dead but
he left behind him an accomplished
job from which the workers OF the
world will learn how to defend their
revolutions and build up a Communist
society.
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to the bourgeoisie while 1t was pro
nounced with pride by the workers as
they saw in this apparatus the protec-
tor of the revolution. Bourgeois and
socialist, pacifist and christian all
alike condemned the red terror. They
cried for mercy for the oppressors,
whereas they not only kept quiet but
actually supported the butchering of
100000 workers and peasants in
the last war, and today these same
opponents of red terror are taking
part in expressing and numbering the
struggling workers, peasants and the
oppressed nationalities.
Comrade Dzerzhinsky showed the
whole world proletariat how to defend
a workers revolution.
HOMRADE Dzerzhinsky was known
~ among revolutionary workers of
Poland and Russia for the last 80
years. In 1894, while in college in
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sent for three years to the province
OF Viatka, and later SO verst farther
north in Siberia to Kapgorodock. From
there he escaped in 1899 and returned
to Wilma. Soon after he went to Mos
cow. In Moscow he purchased a pass
port for 10 rubles and went to War
saw. Here he launched a merciless
campaign against the PPS. elements
(Polish Socialist Party, an organiza-
ton of reformists and nationalists) and
was one of the most beloved leaders
Of the Warsaw proletariat. In 1900
he was arrested in Warsaw, where he
was first detained in the fortress and
later sent to Sedlece. In 1902 he was
deported to Eastern Siberia, but on
the way escaped and went abroad.
In Berlin, in 1902, he took part in
the second congress Of the Social
Democratic Party Of Poland and Lith-
uania and afterwards settled In era
COW, Gaicia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-14

This is how the capitalist class
teaches the workers a lesson in what
not to do when taking power in its
hands. In 1871, after the fall of the
Paris Commune under the assault of
There and Bismarck, over 10000
workers were butchered by the CAPT
'talists. But this fact does not alone
in the history Of the class struggle.
The same happened when the work
ers' revolutions were crushed in Fin
Land, Germany, Poland and Esthonia.
Yes, in every struggle of the workers
for their rights, the capitalist class
uses all its power to drown the fight
in workers blood. Even in the every
day struggles this method is applied,
only on ''small scale.
But even 10000 martyrs of a Paris
Commune would be a "trifle" as
compared with what would have hap
pened to the workers had the capital
list succeeded in Russia after Novem-
Der z, 1917. s SO
The Proletarian Revolution in Rus
STA was victorious at first with few
martyrs. There was no cheka in the
first days of the revolution. 1t was
created on December z, 1917 to defend
the Revolution, inasmuch as the bour-
geoisie, the landlords, the former cars
officers began a campaign to smash
the workers and peasants govern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-14
BY q. X. eEBERT.

--."After the fall Of
the proIetarian die
1atorship the black
est night began for
the Hungarian pro-
letariat. The white
terror ragged thru
cut the land"
The presi dent
calls Vagi to order
and Instructs him
to speak in his own
defense.
Vagi continued
fearIessly: "SeV-
enty thousand pris-
onerS were thrown
into the dungeons
and numb erie s S
martyrs were sent
to eternity"
From the speech
Of comrade Stefan
Nagi, before the
court Of Horthy on
July 10, 1926, in
Budapest.