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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11

manding the cooperation of the pa
tents. with the full understanding
that while 1t may not be the right
remedy it Is worth trying.
In discussing the point advanced by
Commissioner Stocked. that back of
every automobile accident there has
been a mental slip, Richard C. Halde-
man, president of the Pennsylvania
Motor Federation, states that authori-
ties may be compelled to give each
holder of a drivers license his own
speed limit. beyond which he may not
travel.
Some drivers think rapidly, some
slowly, and others do not think at
ALL" said Mr. Haldeman. THE driver
whose mental comeback Is speedy may
be expected to handle his machine
properly in an emergency. That is
not true of the driver whose mental
reaction to conditions is slow. While
the mentally agile operator may take
care of himself and others at sneed
of so miles an hour. the slow thinker
who travels at that rate is a menace
to everything on the road.
Mental Reaction Tests.
ut is not beyond the range of posi-.
bility that in the near future the mo.
tod vehicle operator will be required to
submit to test which will show his
mental reaction, and it is also posi-.
BILE that after this test the authorities
will fix for him maximum speed of
25 miles an hour, or 35 miles, or so.
1t is possible, too, that variable limits
will be set for the individual speeds
at which he must travel in congested
sections. A half-wit can hold car
on level section of concrete in the
open country where there is no cross
traffic, but where traffic is congested
or at dangerous intersections a nimble
brain Is the chief need of every auto
mobile driver.
There are few standard reasons
foc every automobile accident, such
as failure to observe the right of way
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
Parking Scheme Fails.

What was believed to be a solution
of the parking problem in Lincoln.
Nebr., has been blown into thin air
when a lawyer showed the mayor of
the town that his pet scheme was
illegal. The mayor advocated the sale
of reserved parking spaces in the
downtown section of Lincoln at the
rate of So q year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11

the additional road space to the side
that he acquires by driving in the
middle of the highway. At 40 miles
an hour it would take but one-six.
teenth of second.
Instead of adding to the safety
OF open-highway driving, this prac-
tice is dangerous. 1t means inter-
ference with machines coming from
the opposite direction, as we'll as
those passing from behind. With the
passing of the crowned road. every
provision is made for each motorist
remaining on his half of the high.
way. 1t is far safer all around. The
thought that the middle of the road
IS less hazardous is 81 menacing IL
discard"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
TIRE LOCKS NEED OIL.
Motorists Can Keep Spare Easily
Accessible by Little Care.

Some motorists are so fortunate in
the matter of never having to change
tire that they forget to give the at
tention necessary to keep the lock on
the spare In good working order. AL
ways subject to the ravages of the
elements. these locks may quickly
rust and stick fast against the best
efforts of the key to release them.
A drop of light oil applied regularly
when the rest of the car is being lu-
bricated is assurance against having
to spend an hour or so, perhaps fu.
tilely, trying to break the lock when
one has fiat tire out on the highway
far from the repair shop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
Center-of-Road Driving Held Unsafe
Even if Auto Is Going at High Speed

Utilizing the middle of the high.
way on the assumption that it in.
creases the factor of safety when
driving at high speeds is practice
to which, many thousands of mo-
tor:Sts resort daily. Just how much
does this precautionary measure, in
itself. contribute to the cause of mo-
tor safety. is the question asked by
Oscar Coolican. local Packard dis
tributer.
Answering the query, Mr.. Coolican
says:
1T contributes very little. If a
motorist were driving at 35 miles an
hour and were to lose control of his
car it would take him approximate ly
only one-twelfth of second to cover
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
PLAN TO PUBLISH ATLAS
OF EUROPEAN HIGHWAYS
Issue of International Document
Will Be Discussed by Tour
ing Council.

Publication of an International atlas
of European highways will be dis.
cussed at the forthcoming meeting of
the Central Council Of International
Touring, "a semi-diplomatic organiza.
ton, composed of European countries.
The meeting will be held in Paris dur.
ing the month of October.
Among other subjects listed for dis.
cussion are the collaboration of Euro.
pean countries in the dissemination of
automobile touring propaganda in the
United States and South America
tourist insurance, unification or aboIi.
ton of daylight saving time in En-.
rope, statistics of the movement of
foreigners in the various countries
and other questions in relation to the
fostering of tourist trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
COASTERS ARE WARNED.
Practice of Allowing Car to Run N
Gear Is Harmful.

Coasting with the car in gear and
the ignition switched off commonly is
supposed to increase the resistance Of
the engine to the forward movement
of the car. The increase is negligible
disastrous. Even with the throttle
closed in such a case. gasoline is adj
mitted to the cylinders and, unex-
ploded. it cOndenses and drips down
the cylinder walls, Thus, it washes
off the oil by which the pistons are
fabricated. The potential damage of
such practice is obvious. 1t should
not be exercised
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
SAYS MANY AUTO ACCIDENTS
OCCUR ON SAFE" HIGHWAYS
Connecticut Motor Vehicle Commissioner
Warns Drivers to Maintain Proper
Mental Condition.

| il we declare by Il sign that we think
a certain speed safe for certain
| location, then let us actually mean it
and enforce it, 1t may not make a
great deal Of difference whether a man
| is driving car 20 or 25 miles per
| hour, so far as actual control of the
| car is concerned, but from the view.
| point of discipline, if an authority has
reasonably determined that the lower
speed is proper, then everybody ought
to be held to it. Speed. even some
times comparatively slow speed is d
factor in most accidents
Proximate Causes of Accidents.
The fundamental reason for nearly
every motor vehicle accident, accord
ing to Mr.. Stocked, is the lack of
mental agility or of nerve force to
meet unusual traffic situations.
While it is true" he explains, that
| every motor vehicle accident has a
cause to which it is popularity as.
cribed. such as, for example, inatten-
ton, failure to grant right of way.
skiddinS or poor machinery. yet in al.
most every instance that is a proXi-
mate cause only, and no accident
would have happened unless preceding
it there had been mental failure or
slip. In other words, about every
motor vehicle accident has in it's back
ground and as it's fundamental cause
a failure OF mind action.
Whatever can be accomplished to
make road better and driving less
complicated lessons the requirements
for mind acuteness. SO there is bound
to be a larger number of drivers wac
have sufficient agility of mind 10 meet
the improved conditions; who had
there been no improvements, would
have been unable to succeed This
means that all highway and street
builders must give more careful study
to the actual environment from the
viewpoint of safety. always conscious
that they need to consider the mind
attitude of the operator of a motor
vehicle or of the pedestrian or other
participant in traffic.
THE road builder or engineer must
put himself into the drivers seat of
every car and into the position of
every pedestrian and see what, if any.
thing, there is which he by his par
tlcular scientific knowledge can cor
rect or change so that the traffic par.
ticipant will be relieved of problem.
In Connecticut the State Highway De-
partment has been employing this
type of safety engineering for several
years, and it is now so thoroughly
effective that accidents on the high.
ways of the State are gradually be-
coming less
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
Combining Safety Activities.

The commissioner calls attention to
the efforts being made oy his depart
ment, as directed by the Connecticut
Legislature at it's last session, to con.
solidate safety activities throughout
the State. He recognizes that a pro-
gram for traffic improvement can be
stated only in general terms. He
states that the recent legislative act
indicates that the doctors, having dis.
covered what Is the matter, are about
to make a prescription, and are de.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14

| railroad grants at $40 to $25 an acre
Northern Pacific brings 25 selected
MldwesteIn farmers and homeseekers
10 tour Montana.
Froid = State Senator Schnitzler
nalyests $4,000 bushels grain on
5000 acres.
Montana offers for sale all state
royalty oil, about 1000 barrels a
month
Proposed Great Falls natural gas
line will cost about 100000.
Billings-Record Petroleum No. 8
Big Lake well gives rs barrels a day
at $500 feet.
Havre-Milk River Refining Com
pany building 75O-barrel plant here.
Waller - Power-Wilson Company
adds showroom to its store here.
kevin-S10,OCO being spent on new
schoolhouse here.
Conrad II Pondera Valley Bank
moves to new quarters.
Great Falls-Contrac let for new
Central Christian church to cost S54,-
Brldger-Drilling to be resumed in
Red Butte oil polspect No. 8.
Hysham-Sugar beet crop estimat
ed at average of IL tons per acre.
White Sulphur Springs-Cast iron
pipe arrives for city water mains.
Dlllon-Standard Silver-Lead Co.
will work extensively on rich ore in
Chineman Gulch.
Columbus-Local elevators work
double shift to handle S5O,OOO-bushel
crop.
Contracts totaling S336,667 award
ed for road construction projects in g.
Montana counties.
Bainville-Heavy grain crop here
has taxed harvesting and shipping ca
pacity.
G. at allsF-Hope Engineering Co
may build 100000, 3O-mile gas line
from Kevin-Sunburst field to Sweet
grass Hills wells.
FLEETWOOD will hold North Mon
lana Corn and Seed Show, October .27-
Havre-Hill County had shipped
$4,000 bushels grain by September 10
Harlowtcn-Ballar Hospital being
reopened with large staff.
Laurel-Northern Pacific LAYING 90
'on~d stool On branch lines here
Forsyth-Elevator Co. will have
.ew warehouse and alfalfa cleaner.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
UPTON TONS SINCLAIR'S M,
BOOK ON OLD B ; 07SEw

: Upton Sinclair has ~.
! book on Boston, Mas promised
Sacco-Vanzetti case 1"SS =. and H.
! work, Money Writes Ills Newest
; from from the presses Of I sR come
: Charles BOni in October Albert 1
: expose eI of some promineni.t is an
e ent0 day " authors. SincIs sit PIES,
: novel novel, Oil, has been a ' stars fine
ton. - 0ahhed in RI,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14

Montana spending S4O9,OO on state
Observation-Disclosures Club women
VIII build modern clubhouse here.
Farms on Butte Division of Great
Noftharn produce 100000 bushels
wheat this year.
Great Northern ships 65-car stock
train east, September 10.
Livingston has spent 100000 this
year on civic improvements.
Llvingston-SSO,OOO greenhouse be-
ing built here.
East-and-West Logan Pass high
way, Glacier Park, will take two years
to build.
Big Timber-Local flour mill reop-
ened with strong backing.
Lame Deer-Cheyenn Indian tribal
iio3r MIL reopens for grinding.
7, lower llne will be built along West
rl att Lake, this winter.
Whltefish-Work begins on new
treat Northern station here.
Bonner-Milwaukee Railway build
ing new phone line into Blackfoot
country. WV
Bureau of Public Roads WORKING
lad on "a miles important Northern
Montana highways.
Three Rosebud county growers sell
Al rams for $1,657 at Miles Citv sale.
Ierry-Recent Prairie county fair
hest on record.
Montana will try heavy oil higbwa .
Surfacing on Butte-Anaconda and
GREAT aFlls-C-ascade highways.
ooc 191 oo man Campaign begins for
S265,OOO Hockenbury system hotel
Miles City-Natural gas line al
ready laid As miles from Cabin creek
ana VIII brlnng service here October
Mills City-Big smokestack for
rev power plant will be PIT feet high
kOundup-Cedar Dome test well to
is down 1900 feet. "
Melstone-2500-foot test oil well is
TO be drilled on Ivanhoe dome.
Shelby-Northern Natural Gas Co
has l9.5OO,O0 foot daily flow from the
new Edwards No. 1 well and 4 500 O0O
dav from the Lutz No. 1.
White Sulphur Springs The ola
built. A9ii my re-
Montana will ship nearly 100000
cattle to East this year.
Montana range conditions have nov
er been better than now.
Observation-Disclosures is underway
of new Northern Pacific roundhonse
Moore-Montana Power Co. work
no IN this vicinity Tightening and re-
inforcing their lines.
-MoOre-David Motor COMPANY is
erecting a new filling station here
GiendIve-Work is progressing ran
idly on the new Glendive- Circle Brock
way branch of the Northern Pacific
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
MONTANA WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

Great Falls II Sewer work done
ready for S3,756 bitulitbic na ~ po or
Central Avenue ~
Togo Creek mines in Judith Basin
nave produced nearly $2O,OOO,OOO in
sapphii es. "
Forsyth-Old Hammond irrigation
p oJect being modernized and improv-
ed. ~
Observation-Disclosures have doubled
1876 car consignments for handling
Montana crops.
Wheat Yields reported mn
to 40, so and 60 bushels per acre
Lewistown-State will plant 3OO.-
OOO native trout in local streams.
Lame Deer ranchers will have about
~ bushels wheat to acre.
Observation-Disclosures oil will drill an
other well on Bears Den dome
Observation-Disclosures oil well near
Black Butte is down 900 feet.
Whitfish-O. H. Haldorsen will
Lake.
Belt stockgrowers ship 16 cars fat
stock in one day.
3ludDle wire gold and sill
yer deposits reported in Stookentakit
mine.
Havre-Prospectors find S185-a-ton
ore only two feet from where former
owners abandoned work.
Great Northern engineers start al
Saco for survey of Big Flat branch
line. ''''N''
Malta-Farmers' Elevator receives
up to 131 loads wheat a day.
Llbby-ZonoGte company will soon
start bill mill on heavy zonolite or
Libby-Winter work begins on Lin
mines near here.
Melrose-First cattle shipment of
year rs II cars at sos a head.
New 63-mile Glendive- Circle branch
II Northern Pacific to open 1000 900
acres farm land, 100000 acres being
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
Poplar Threshing Halted Since
Late September By Weather

Poplar, Oct. 6.-With the exception
OF lew hours last Saturday, Poplar
people nave seen no sunshine since
sept. rs. A week of almost steady
drlzzlng rain, muddy roads ana wet
gram has stopped almost all farming
operations Wednesday there was
prospect of settled weather, but it will
take days for grain to dry sufficiently
Tor threshing. According to Howard
bogart, Fort Peck agency, the record
OF rainfall so far this month is LIT
inches. 1t is estimated that there are
Two i,. weeks of threshing work left in
TINS vicinity Twice as much grain
mas been brought to elevators to date
as had been brought last year at this
time, and grain in this locality is the
pest generally, it has been for wears.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
PENNEY REPORTS
BIG GAIN FOR SEPT
Chain Store Sales Grow Like Pro-
verbal Green Bay Tree-ShOws
What Proper Advertising Will Do.

Gross sales of the ]. C. Penney Co.
for September showed a gain of 29.3O
per cent or an increase of $3,112,8 $780,
90 over the corresponding month in
1926.
The gross volume for the past
month amounted to S13,735, 1926 as
compared with the figure of S1O,622.-
291.61 reported for September last
year.
For the nine months of 1927 the Gu
mulative gross sales are reported as
$95, 1897 ,3O9.3O, a gain of 22,8S30, 1861
80 or 31.23 per cent increase over
the gross sale for the same period of
last year which were $73, 107, 14O.61.
All indications point to the ]. c..
Penney Company surprising the
S15O,OOO,OOO figure set for the gross
sales volume of 1927. With snow now
falling in the northwestern states, a
considerable increase in volume of
sales for this time of years is expect
ed from the Penney stores in these
sections.
The rate of increase in sales volume
for the year to date is ahead of the
increase for the corresponding period
last year. This is attributed largely
to the intensive sales programs put
into effect this year coupled with the
celebration of the 25th anniversary of
the ). c. Penney Company, the latter
being marked by exceptional values
offered to the consumers.
Recent expansion plans announced
by the Penney Company indicate a
steady development in all sections of
the country and will further insure
the Pennev Company maintaining its
lead as the second largest chain store
system in volume of sales.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14

ments each payment repayable in 10
years. ~
The letter stresses the Soviet,s re-
auction In the credit demand and
abandonment of its insistence upon
having one-thilrd in cash. This re-
quest for cash would have made
France pay the Soviets during four
years about liz times as much as
Moscow paid France besides the ex-
tensions of credits.
Mr.. Rakovsky emphasized that the
Sovlets regarded the credits as quite
as much in the interest of French in
GuStry as OF the Soviets because
france after the war became "an in
dustrial nation and the productive ca
paclty OF her industries much sur
passes her national needs and there
fore her development is conditional
upon the conquest of new foreign
markets."
The letter gives Russian statistics
to show the steady extension of Fran
co-kusslan trade during three periods
nine months in 1924-25, five months
IN 1926, and 10 months in 1867
french exports to Russia in these
periods in millions of gold rubles
were Z, and 20, respectively. The
russian exports to France for these
periods PER- Wee 26,000,000 rubles, 49,
OOO'OOO rubles and 100000 1ubles.
respectively The French imports Of
Russian petroleum products for these
periods were 100000 rubles, 10000
OOO and 100000 rubles.
when payments on the debts start
ana credits are extended, said Mr.
KSanovsky, sit may be expected that
The first year French exports to Rus
sla Will reach 60,OOO,OOO to 10000. 900
gold rubles." O'O00'0oo
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
Soviet Russia Agrees to Pay
Pre-War Debt to France

ment in the absence of official con-
firmation.
The policy announced by Charles
=. Hughes when he was head of the
State Department that the United
States could enter into no negotiations
until the red propaganda from Mos
cow was stopped still stands as the
basis of the American policy, it was
explained in reply to inquiries as to
the present attitude of the State De
partment toward Soviet Russia.
Almost four years have passed and
the State Department has shown no
inclination to depart from this basic
policy so far as diplomatic relations
are concerned. The Department OF
Commerce, however, has lent its as
slstance to American business men in
giving them advice and furnishing CO.
operation in their trade with Russia.
and the Department of Agriculture
recently placed desk in the depart
ment at the disposal of a representa-
tive of the Russian Department of
Agriculture during a visit of several
months here in order that he might
study agricultural methods in this
country.
Discrepancy Alleged in British Wall
London, Sept. 26.-Special Paris
correspondents of the English news
papers emphasize the continued dis
crepancy between what they describe
as the actual position of the Franco
Russian debt negotiations and the
claim of Maxim Litvinoff and the
Moscow Foreign Office that settle
ment has been reached.
They refer to Litvinoff's statement
as fiction, the only basis for which is
the fact that a year ago France ac-
ccepted the figure of 6O,OOO,OOO gold
francs as the annual sum which the
SOVIET Union was to paw toward
service on the Russian pre-war bonds
Further, they intimate that a com
plete settlement is impossible as long
as the Soviet refuses to accept the
claim of compensation for the French
losses due to naturalization of pri-
yate property in Russia.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
NEW RULING ON RUM
PRESCRIPTION BY DEPT

: beginning October 1, all whis-
: key prescriptions must be pre-
sented at drug stores within three
! DAYS after being dated by the
! physician who has issued the pre-
; sc!lpuon, 1t was learned last ev-
: While the local drug stores
nave not yet received the official
. noIlIIIGcatlon, representatives of
the United States treasury de-
parrment orally have announced
. the new edict.
ABOUT six months ago the fed
eral department objected to wills
Key prescriptions being filled af-
ter III days had elapsed from the
tlme OF issuance and a limit of
ten days was instituted.
: Every physician is allowed
book OF 100 prescriptions every
three months.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14

The rumor that the Soviet govern
ment proposes to make the annuity
payments partly in oil has aroused
the fury OF the British oil interests
who are doing all in their power to
interrupt the negotiations thru mis-
representations in the French press.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14

PETERSON CO.. PIentywood
B. LARSEN. Westby
J. o. JOHNSON. Medicine Lake
GILBERT OLSEN. Dagmar
DECKER BROTHERS, DoOley
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
Negotiations May Afford Precedent
on Settlements

Moscow, Sept. 26.-The Russo.
French debt negotiations-describec
as settlement here-may well fur
nlsh a precedent for settlements with
the United States, Soviet Russia he
ing willing to solve the much-aggra-
waited debt problem in the interests
OF peace and good will throughout the
world, the Associated Press was in
formed on the highest authority last
night. i"''
A Foreign Office spokesman de-
clared that a settlement with tbe
United States should prove more
simple than that with France. because
OF the smaller aggregate amount in
Volved and because of the economic
interests of both countries.
Moscow halls the so-called settle
ment as big victory for Soviet di-
plomacy, the point being advanced
That before the October revolution
Russia paid to the French 400 900 600
gold francs in interest alone.
The Foreign Office spokesman serv-
ca notice on persons likely to try TO
profit in an Legitimate way. SAVING
That special commission will be an
pointed to pass upon the genuineness
OF the pre-war Russian bonds and will
declare valid only those held by
French citizens and issued ORIGINALLY
2y former Russian governments for
French loans.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14

MOSCOW u S r. Sept 22The Soviet and the French
government nave come to debt question
today 49, 'eO"N "oroao announced
said: ~ i0" ne"o agency, LlCvlnoff
affirm and authorize you publicly to report that
he Soviet and French delegations full h
not ea On the debt question The general agreement has
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
RUSSIAN STATISTICS GIVEN
TO SHOW TRADE FXTFNSTO7

Paris, Sept. &c -'Jhristian Radov-
sky S letter transmitting the offer to
France Of q settlement Of pre-war
debts says that the Soviet Govern
ment previously gave way to the
French on three points such as the
French demand for most favored ma
ton commercial treatment The note
also reveals that the Soviets original
ly asked for credits of $500, OO0, 900,
one-third in cash, in four yearly pay
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-14
American Policy on Russia Explained
to Be UNCHANGED

Washington, Sept. 26. - Reports
mat an agreement has been reached
between France and Russia on the
funding of the Russian debt to France
were received here with interest but
officials were not prepared to com