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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
Engine Bore Important.

In shopping for car, engines In
variably are judged by their size trom
appearances) and what they do In
demonstration. The matter OF bore
and stroke, particularly bore. seldom
is considered The salesman may say
something about the engine being
31bx5. but, if he does, the prospect is
sure to ask what sort of gas mileage
the car delivers, or anything that
would seem to get away from the mys-
terry Of bore and stroke.
The bore of an engine Is very I'M
portant. 1t tells a great deal about
economy, power and endurance. A
motorist would be quick to suspect
that he was considering a cheapened
product if the salesman said there
were five leaves in the springs when
the former model had seven, but re-
duction in the bore does not seem TO
mean anything to him.
With stroke of Az inches, six
cylinder engines vary in total piston
displacement as follows for the va
rioIlC hOrpS'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
AUSTRALIA TAKES
TO AMERICAN CAR
British Sell $3.50, Compared
to $4,000 Imported From
United States.

Americans may feel little genuine
warmth toward the British rubber
magnates, but every time a British
automobile maker thinks of the Situa.
ton in Australia he feels much less
kindly disposed toward his American
competitor. The country down under"
last year imported 76,111 automobiles.
OF this number $3.50 were the product
Of factories in England while ap-
proximately $4,000 came from Amer
lean plants. While British manufac-
turers were winning Sc per cent of
the business, their United States
rivals were collaring 65 per cent.
The figures are not regarded as
symptomatic of Australia's drift away
from the mother country. The drift
toward American automobiles is re-
garded as simply a manifestation of
approval of the business policies that
govern automobile manufacture in the
United Kingdom. While American
concerns are soaring to new heights
of efficiency and devoting time and
energy to the problem of market con-
centration, their European COM
petitors are sticking to pre-war con-
servatiSn.
Another tremendous factor in the
popularity of American made auto
mobiles In Australia is that they are
more suited to the needs of that
country. AS compared with English
lakeS, they are equipped with rela-
..vely slow speed motors. making gear
changes much less frequent. They
also conform more exactly to the
standard wheel tract of feet inches
which prevails in Australia.
Service, too, is an item in the
American encroachment on the Aus
tralian market. The far-sighted policy
of providing adequate facilities for
automobile repair that has prevailed
in the United States. has followed the
American automobile on it's journey
.nto world popularity. By comparisons,
the made in England" car suffers in
this vital respect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
What's Wrong With This?

Putting it mildly. economists and
the credit experts are worried over
the overextension Of credit on pur-
chases of automobiles. People are
buying cars in a most extravagant
and illogical manner, they point out,
and warnings of dire results in a
a prophesied financial collapse are
not infrequent. This Is all very in
teresting and seemingly sound, but a
peculiar situation exists at present.
Summed up, it is the discovery that
it isn't SO very expensive to buy
new popular priced car every year
and take no care of 1t. All very
unsound, certainly! But millions are
doing it and the process runs some
thing like this:
A man buys a $1,000 car. paying
one-third down and carrying the
81 900 balance on Is installments OF
approximately $55 each. At the END
of the ~ months he trades in the
car for just half what he paid for
it and agrees to pay the balance.
$3.50. in IS additional installments of
approximately SAP each. This means
that for the first 6 months OF own
ership of the second new car he has
two payments to make. or SGT a
month. For the second months OF
the second year of the plan, how
ever. payments are only $42 monthly.
Then comes the third year VIA
the trade for the third new car and
a new agreement to pay Is more
installments of $42 each. This Is
assuming the list price of the car
remains unchanged. For the first .
months Of the third year his total
payments mean an outlay OF SS4
monthly. The final six months or
the third year, however, mean pay
ments Of only $42. :,
The exact figures are not needed
to bring out the point. 1t Is obvious
that he can pay approximately s99
a month for half of each year ana
500 a month for the other SIN. ana
always have new car. lie a!so
figures that buying will stimulate IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28

Evidence of the close Relationship
between bootleggipg, car thievcry and
makes of cars Is clearly indicated
in the new automobile insurance theft
rates for a large Eastern city as
promulgated for 1926 by the Ma
tional and Eastern automobile con-
ference. Theft rates have been
raised on no less than Is makes o.
cars with annual production of 5000
and over. 1t will surprise many to
know that the increases are not con-
fined to any one particular group OF
cars, yet there is a reason for the
increase in each case.
Several popular small cars are IN
cluded In the list. This Is not sur
prising. Such cars are readily sale
able once they have served the thlef
or the bootlegger's purpose. They
do not arouse the suspicion of the
police since they are usually asso-
ciated with persons of moderate In
come and harmless nature. A rev
OF the better cars are favored by
the bootlegger because Of their sped.
That, too, is easily appreciated. The
most puzzling increase, however, con
Germs the virtual doubling OF the rate
on a high-grade car that is asso-
ciated with aristocracy. Can II De
that bootlegging is becoming faddlsh!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
What's the Answer?

/. Is "no-knock" gas the same as
highest gas?
2. How many makes OF cars are
equipped with air-cooled engines?
3. Why is it advantageous to feed
gas from the hand throttle in traffic?
a. How much gasoline is wasted in
stopping a car on the level?
B. What is the best way to keep
brakes equaliZed?
(Think these over during the week
and look for the answers in this de-
partment next Sunday. You may be
wrongD
(Copyright 1926l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
Broken Cross Chains.

That broken cross-chain may not
be banging a hole through the fender,
but it's chipping off the enamel on the
outside. When the car hounces into
holes the fender will come down
closer to the wheel and the chain
will strike harder Slow up when
going over rough places or steer
around them. Better still, remove
the broken cross-chain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
Good Dancers
Declared Best
Auto Operators

Good dancers make the best
auto drivers.
caught the, imagination of a great
many members of the school of
thought that always is trying to
hook up this with that. The claim
is made that the instinct for time
and rhythm developed by dancing
comes in handy when the motorist
is called upon to avoid a COLI
sion.
Still. there is no provision in
the traffic regulations that before
a man gets an operators permit
he must prove his ability to do
the Charleston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
Sign Saws Watch Yourself"

An enterprising township has erect
ed pertinent sign at a dangerous
point of the highway calling atten.
ton to a mirror in which the driver
sees himself as he approaches. The
sign says, Watch yourself" while
the mirror is said to be a surprise to
many drivers who imagine they look
trustworthy when at the wheel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
Did You Know That

An engine will knock If the spark
gap at the distributor is too wide?
The supercharger is being manu-
featured by a large electrical equip
ment company?
Reduction in wind resistance has
resulted in adding 10 miles per hour in
speed to one of the latest sport closed
jobs?
One camshaft will operate all the
valves of Weight engine If one block
of cylinders is set slightly ahead OF
the Other2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
Girls Join College
Boys in Driving in
Topless ROadsters

College boys are not alone in
driving sporty roadsters with the
tops back during the biting days
of Washington's Winter.
In the National Capitals traffic
stream on one of the coolest days
of the Winter. when every one was
eeking the warmth of home or
office, three girls were observed to
pass a busy intersection with
nothing but a windshield between
them and Boreas' worst.
Rich fur coats and heavy lined
gloves probably made up In
measure for the lack of curtains
and top.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
IF. O. B." Hanging On.

Attempts on the part of many per-
sons in the automobile industry to
abolish the practice of quoting fac
tory prices has never met with sue
cess for the reason that such practice
gives competitors an edge on bust
ness. Now II is being tried by one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28

According to John Smith, who
knows all about cars. one of the most
frightful results of one-arm driving
is matrimOny.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
THE SUNDAY MOTORIST
An Abridged Magazine for Gar O,oners.
EDITED BY WILLIAM ULLMAN
Analyzing Theft Rates.

creased production and, in turn, 6
decreased list price.
Evening star., 1926-03-23
SPRINCTIME
BY d. c. PEATTIE.

The warm unrest and stirring that
lie at the heart of March is voiced
now for us in the flicker'S newly
raised voice. From every oak one
can hear his clamorous whitwhit-
whitwhit-whit, beginning slowly and
softly and rising to a presto forte.
From the tree you may see him dart,
q vision of soft yellow, with gray
white breast softly mottled with black,
a black collar, and q buff head with
Just a slight band Of red upon It that
proclaims him a cousin to the wood.
pecker.
Not yet has he begun his drum
ming on the trees. for the nesting
season, when his little wife will lay
the six pure white eggs, Is yet far
away, and household cares are not
troubling the fiickers now so much as
thoughts Of love. to which young
fiicker's fancy is now naturally and
lightly turning.
In the Middle West the name Of the
high -holer is common for the flicker,
because of the birds fondness for
building, or rather burrowing, his nest
in the tops OF trees. 1t Is said that
a flicker will excavate a passage Is
inches in diameter and as long
through solid oak. The labor costs
weeks of time and is often performed
in great part in the early evening
when fear of molestation Is allayed.
A pair of happily mated flickers will
return to the same hole for many
years in succession unless frightened
away.
1t must be confessed that the
flicker eats cherries and corn when
he gets them, but as he also eats
cedar and smilax berries, sumac and
wild cherries, he helps to spread these
lovable wild plants about. and his at
tacks upon wood-lice and ants keep
the insect life in check.
Evening star., 1926-03-23

Diagonal lines show that the field OF this
flag is green. 1t IL charged with white
crescent and three white stare: The flag
displayed at the Regal Legation ,Ss Of
niversary OF independence day, 1888 ~
The coat OF arms may also be seen at the
base of the legation flagstaff.
The national flag af the kingdom
of Egypt was adopted December 10.
1923. 1t Is therefore the youngest
foreign flag in Washington, but it
displays one of the ancient symbols
which were placed on the monuments
Of Egypt before the days Of Tut
ankh-Amen.
All of the ancient religions employed
the symbol of the crescent moon, and
it usually indicated increasing pros
perity and good fortune, as it does to-
day. Just when it was first used on
banners Is not known, but it was the
principal emblem of the Saracens
during the Crusades. 1t went to
Egypt from Turkey. Gordon says
that northern Africa was under
crescent was flown all along, from
Egypt to Morocco. The crescent it.
self varied in color. as well as the
| banner. but the favorite color for the
field was either green or red.
There are several stories explain
ing the adoption Of this emblem by
the Turks. one dating from the fall
of Constantinople in 1853. Another
tradition places the date 200 years
earlier. when Sultan Osman, the
founder Of the Ottoman empire
adopted the crescent for his symbol
Evening star., 1926-03-23
Surprises
BY FLORENCE DAVIES.

Here's a pretty safe rule. Never
snub any one" Plain. everyday kind
ness would dictate that rule, If nor
fairmindedness and respect for all
mortals and their heavy lot.
Some of us do not want 70 take the
trouble to be kind: others find that it
takes too much straight thinking TO
make the spirit Of fair play overcome
prejudice. But there is purely self
ish and utilitarian reason why ii Is Il
dangerous thing to snub any one.
Never snub any one, because you
never can tell.
Here is what one writer, II. Munro.
says about the matter: Never be flip
PANTY rude to any inOffensive. gray
bearded stranger that you may meet
in pine forests or hotel smoking rooms
on the continent. 1t always turns out
to be the King Of Sweden"
Some of us seldom travel on the
continent, but snubbing inoffensive
strangers is even more dangerous in
this country, where great men some
times prefer TO wear baggy clothes.
and the daughter of your laundress
today may he the council woman from
your district tomorrow.
1t is a common practice to fawn
upon the rich and powerful, especially
when one thinks that fawnins may
result in personal gain. Even now
adays the poets line applies, and
people crook the hinges of the knee
where thrift might follow fawninG."
But in one small town several years
ago the one person upon whom II
would have paid to fawn was the
school janitor, for today he has be-
come one of the wealthiest paper
manufacturers in the country. When
he was janitor no one took tho
trouble to fawn upon him.
1t is a cheap thing to fawn upon
any one or to he kind to them for
personal gain. But it is an equally
selfish and stupid thing to snub any
human being. Even if kindness
would not prevent you from being
rude to human being. no matter how
unattractive he may be. think twice
before you do so. Life holds strange
surprises.
Evening star., 1926-03-23
Answers to Food Questions

There are various forms Of liver dis
orders, and, as you probably know,
even more complicated forms of kid
ney disease. This fact explains my
inability to give you an exact diet.
1t would not be fair either to myself
or to you. Another general sugges-
ton is to pay very strict attention TO
the bowels. Entire avoidance OF con-
stipation will help more than you
perhaps realize to cure whatever form
of liver and kidney trouble may be
present.
I have a little boy. age years,
weight As pounds. He has never been
able to have a bowel movement with
out help. My physician has advised
first medicine and then change or food.
The little boy eats all kinds OF vege-
tables, greens, apples, oranges. grape
fruit, custards, figs and dates. l rare
ly give him cake or candy and never
sodas. He drinks one quart or pas
teurized milk each day and three or
four quarts Of water. He is bright
and rosy checked and appears to be In
perfect health. AS for bread, give
him brown and white for lunch and
breakfast and corn bread for dinner.
Three vegetables with fish or meat
1t Is evident from your letter that
you are feeding your little boy very
carefully and very well. The fact
that in spite of such sensible diet
constipation will continue suggests
that he may not be having enough
exercise. This must be planned and
carried out as carefully as the dietary.
He should begin with very short
walks suited to his power and these
should be heightened very gradually
and always under your watchful eye.
Overfatigue caused bya excessive eX'
ercise will defeat your purpose.
Then there IS, OF course, the op..
portunity to train him in a habitual
however, you are already doing this.
In connection with his food. one
thing occurs to me. While in the
main such foods as fruits and vege-
tables frequently should be strained,
for children of this age, 1t may be
that because Of his good digestion he
will be able to eat the unstrained
foods. This will help in establishing
habits of intestinal activity. Avoid
what are known as concentrated
foods, white flour, an excess Of but
ter, cheese, starch and sugar.
Among the laxative foods which you
may try cautiously are cornmeal.
bran porridge and mullins. peanut
butter, olive oil, figs, peaches. dates,
prunes, oranges, apples, raisins,
grapes, spinach, molasses, honey and
ginger bread.
You will realize, am sure, that
selections from this list must be made
with due regard to the little boys age
and that the foods must be served
in a well cooked. digestible form.
Copyright. 19260
Evening star., 1926-03-23
Circular Rainbows.

It is no unusual thing to see two.
three and even four rainbows in the
sky at once. each one successfully
DINNER, with the blackest part Of
the rain cloud between the first two.
All rainbows look like fragmentary
arc of a great circle. But occasionally
circular rainbows are seen, though
only in waterfalls upon which the
sun Is falling at a certain angle with
the observer. In 1883 Prof. Tyndale
of England made an artificial circular
rainbow by inducing steam into q
glass cylinder and shooting a beam
Of light through it. The instant the
steam entered the cylinder the most
gorgeous complete circes of rainbows
shot forth. On very rare occasions
even the moon makes rainbow, but
the light Is only white and yellow.
Now what do you know about that?
Answers to Yesterdays Questions.
I. Mammals differ from birds in
having hair and suckling their young,
and in lacking feathers and in not
laying eggs.
2. Bats are flying mammals, akin
to mice.
3. Flying squirrels do not really
fly. but glide.
4. All mammals have some hair
except the adult whale; baby whales
have hair.
s. Whales, seals, mantees and man
are mammals, but not quadrupeds.
6. Kangaroos, opossums and all the
marsupial mammals carry their young
in pouches.
Copyright. l926)
Evening star., 1926-03-23
"Puzz7;cks"
.PrszzIeLimeTick.

There once was the head of a j
Who achieved an amazing ,
BY giving )
At q terrible 4
To those who asked questions 3
1. Religious sect.
2. Effect.
3. Suggestion.
&. Of Q mystic nature.
(Note.-Of course, they didn't have
to pay the terrible =" If they
didn't want to. but so many did that
it made the project a very prontaole
the limerick and you'll find out: The
answer and another "Puzzlick' Will
appear tomorrow
Yesterdays "Puzzlick.'
There was a brave damsel of Brlghton
Whom nothing could possibly frlghten'
She plunged in the sea
And, with infinite giee, ..
Sailed away on the back of a Iritoh'
Copyright. 1926)
Evening star., 1926-03-23

, after "a dream in which hc saw
| crescent moon growing larger ana
| larger until ii extended from "farthc~,
east to farthest west"
! The crescent and star togethcr
We're not used by Turks until abOuT
the middle of the sixteenth century
| In the early part of the niueteeutH
| century the flag of Turkey displayed
a crescent and a star of q points. Th"
same insignia. with the substitution
Of a five-point star. were adopted III
| 1926 by the governor of Egypt. who
! had been appointed by the Sultan.
In 1914. when the British occupied
Egypt, the old flag was changed to
| the personal flag of the Khedive. red
, with white crescents. each contain
ing a white star. Another flag of the
Khedives was green. and still another
Of the Khedive's family was blue, dis
| playing O gold crescent and gold
fve-point stars disposed in a triangle.
The last-mentioned design was the
one chosen by the Independent gov
ernment in 1928, substituting for col
ors the favorite green of the Moham
| medans and the silver moon and
stars.
In addition to March i the flag Is
displayed this month on March %.
| the anniversary of the birthday of
King Fuad /. There are other Egyp-
tian flag days. among them the
| Egyptian new year, which falls this
| year on July II, and October 9. the
| anniversary of the accession TO the
throne of King F'uad.
Copyright. 1926l
Evening star., 1926-03-23
$50 YEARS AGO
The Origin of the U. S. A.
Congress Backs Privateers.
BY JONATHAN A. RAwsON. JR.

| PHILADELPHIA, March 23, 1776.-
| Responding after many long debates
| to frequent appeals from the colonies,
Congress today has authorized pri-
watering by passing long, carefully
! drawn resolution. which, if acted upon
| by the people, will mean ruthless war
! fare on the sea against all British
| commerce. There is plenty of aSsur-
ance that 1t will be acted upon.
Citing Britain'S So-called prohibftory
act of December II as justification for
reprisals, todays resolution declares
that the inhabitants OF these colonies
| be permitted to fit out armed vessels
| to cruise upon the enemies OF these
| United Colonies All ships and their
| fittings and cargoes belonging to any
| inhabitant of Great Britain taken
on the high seas will hereafter be
deemed lawful prize, provided they are
taken by private persons to whom
commissions have been granted, or by
vessels Of war of the United Colonies
or of the separate Colonies or by the
people of the country or detachments
| Of the Army along the coast. Enemy
ships, such as war vessels or trans
ports, will be deemed forfeited, subject
| to being libeled and prosecuted in ma
| rine courts to be set up by the sep
| arate colonies.
The preamble of the resolution re-
cites the refusal of Great Britain to
consider petitions from the colonies
| looking to a friendly settlement, and
puts upon the Kings ministers full
responsibility for commencing an un-
| just war upon America. 1t refers spe-
officially to the prohibitory act which
declared the colonies in open rebellion
and sought to cut off their trade with
all nations, and says that because or
| this act it is necessary to provide for
the defense and security of the col
onies and "justitiable to make repri-
sails upon their enemies and otherwise
! to annoy them, according TO the laws
and usages of nations"
The effect of today's action Is to
open American ports to the com
merce of all nations except Britain
and its dependencies, in bold defiance
of the ministry. The immediate result
will be the fitting out Of a vastly in
creased number of priVateers from
New England to Georgia, particularly
| in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
| the Chesapeake Bay. While 1t is
hardly expected that privateers Will
| be able to cope successfully with en-
emy warships, it Is certain that they
will have to be reckoned with here,
after by supply ships and perhaps
even by Army transports which are
not heavily conveyed. One possibility
| Is that American privateerSmen may
now be encouraged to hunt down
prizes in European waters.
Copyright. 1926)
Evening star., 1926-03-23
Distorp Of Dour Same
By PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN.
STARK.
VARiATlONS-Wilde, Wylde. Saw.
age.
RACIAL ORiGlN-EnsIish.
SOURCE-A Characteristic.

Here is a group of family names
which are variations Of one another in
the sense that they all have the same
meaning, though they are derived
from three different words.
Today most Of us know the adjec.
tive stark only through such phrases
as stark mad" or stark naked" We
use the word with vague idea that
1t means the extreme of something,
and, except in such phrases as these,
it is virtually obsolete with us.
It's meaning, however, is really that
of Savage" and wild" 1t was so
used in the middle ages and just as
frequently.
In those days any man who attract
ed particular attention to himself by
reason of his wild eyes or unkempt
appearance, thought literally wild or
insane, would very quickly have been
referred to as Walter LIE Wilde, "
William Salvage" or John LIE
Stark" just as he might have been
called civilian the Red" because of
a red beard or of red hair, or John
the Black" because of a swarthy com.
plexion. And in this manner the peo-
pie of the middle ages hit upon usual
ly the most obvious distinguishing
feature of man or woman to diff.
ferentiate him or her from others OF
the same given name. And in the
course of time these surnames became
hereditary, particularly in cases where
the parent was better known by his
surname than by his given name.
Copyright. 1926)