Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-08
HEADLIGHT DRIVE
TOSTART TONIGHT
All Cars With GIaring Lamps
Will Be Sent to Test
ing Stations.
RY WILLIAM ULLM.AN.

Tonight will mark the beginning oil
the end Of tho binding barrase OF
headlight beams that automoblies Wlth
out off focus lamps have laid down
with destructive and disconcerting ell
feet in Washington for many months
With its attention called forcibly
TO he fact that night driving In the
National Capital was frausht Win
grave and growing hazards, the Amer
lean Automobile Association, nache"
hv the Metropolitan Police Depart
ment will start at o'clock on Il
citv.vide campaign to bring every
motorist before an official testing s'".
tion TO determine the correctness Oh
the headlight equipment on his car
and TO make adjustments needed.
Policemen Will Watch.
Every patroiman and traffic ponce,
man in the city has been instructed
IN check up on the motor cars Whose
fights blind pedestrian ana mo.orist
alike. Official light testing ana au,
i,,stinc stations have been eStaoAslieu
in various parts of the city: ana " 'ne
rearest of these the notorlSt must go
when the udIlSShouo
cars lights are pointed OUT.
No arrests will be made, but the OF.
Gambling car owner will be escorted. IL
this is necessary. to the adjustment
station. .,... ,,o
Police escorts for all who visit the
testing and adjusting points Is no,
experted 10 be necessary. anu Wuui"
60 far toward multiplying the poteh-
tia,ly wholesome effects OF the cam:
nai.n. it is pointed out by oihciais.
Il is estimated that half Of the lis-
trict's 100000 motor cars nave oaol9
adjusted lights.
Voluntary Tests Expected.
Made conscious Of the dangerous SIT
nation. and acquainted with the Vitai
need for cooperation, it is antlclpateu
that thousands of motorists VIII ACT
Voluntarily i'm the matter OF lahlI'S
their cars to their neighborhood sta,
tions TO be tested. Every motorls'
should take advantage Of the oppot-
tunity to have his lights ADJUSTED VIII
ont cost. regardless of his cohhoence
that they are properly aimed anu Az
cused, it is pointed out. >,
Even the very best of headlight de'
,.icos orc subject to conditions that
will convert them, in short order, into
h,jnding forces of the worst type, eH-
merits saw. and, for this reason, no
car owner should assume his lights
10 he in proper focus. Only thof
ouch lest with the most ehhcient OIL
equipment will determine the &c
curacv of aiming and focusing, tras11c
experts maintain.
Six stations in widely separated
parts of the city will be ready at
o'clock tonight to receive those mo
florists who come voluntarily to have
their lights adjusted and those VINO
are brought to them by policemen.
Locations Are Listed.
The station locations will be:
Police Department light testing sta
ton at 1909 E street.
Seward Square southeast, between
PENNSYLVANIA avenue and Fltth street.
G. street northeast, between FOUR
teenth street and Maryland avenue.
Lamont street, between sixteenth
street and Hiatt place.
nj street, between Twenty-sesenth
and twenty-eighth streets.
Maryland avenue southwest, De-
tween First and Second streets.
Traffic authorities are confronted
also with the task of checking up
on hundreds of drivers whose permits
lapsed July by act of Congress pre-
scribing renewal before that date.
From Tuesday morning there has
been a long line of applicants for per-
mits at the Traffic Bureau. The ma
iority comprise persons who nave
been licensed to drive for periods as
long as Is years.