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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-06
In the Motor World
BY q. ADAMS HOWARD.

/ higher than a year ago, but the
increase is less than the national
average.
These three cities are examples
of fact finding plus action.
"In each case the city has Spon-
sored an elaborate survey OF traffic
and then has acted to improve
facilities and regulations.
There is no value in compiling
a beautiful report and then plac-
ing it on the shelf. Similarly there
is little merit in building new
streets and making new ordinances
unless one has used scientific
methods to learn what is needed.
In San Francisco, for example,
test trips were made on a num-
Der of leading streets to determine
the average miles per hour which
could be made in the thick of
traffic.
Such study indicates at a
glance which streets are the most
congeSted. Figures were also
gathered indicating the number CT
seconds delayed on each street.
Analysis Necessary.
There may be many causes of
delay in congeSted areas but only
a thorough analysis of the traffic
will indicate these clearly. The
chart showing the traffic COM
pared in downtown Boston is an
illustration of this point. 1t de-
picts the comparative number OF
trucks in different areas of the
city. Commercial traffic, for eX-
ample, is negligible in Boylston
street but a major problem on
Dock Square. The authorities
may know these conditions in a
general way without survey, but
when hundreds of thousands of
dollars of public money are there
by spent for relief, general knoWl-
edge is not adequate.
Similarly the authorities need
full data on the actual physical
structure of the city. 1t is not
enough to know that streets are
narrow and crooked or that there
are too many blind corners. The
city must know the exact dimen-
SionS. Pittsburgh, for example,
has this information Immediately
available.
when a city has at hand it's
engineering and traffic data
(which must be up to date to be
of permanent usel it is then and
then only in a position to make
sound regulations and physical
Improvements. The three cities
mentioned are presented solely as
typical examples because there are
at least a dozen more doing SIM
liar work.
Too Satisfied.
TOO many citizens today are
satisfied with the opiate of regu-
lation. You cannot make more
street space by the mere passing
of an ordinance. You can, it is
true, make the street somewhat
more safe by making traffic more
orderly, yet this is only tempo
rary aid. The weakness of regula-
ton is seen most clearly in deal
ing with parking. Let us suppose
that all cars are forbidden from
certain streets. That does not
provide space for them. If there
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is room on nearby streets for
parking or if there are public or
private parking lots or buildings
near at hand then the regulation
may be help. But if the parking
demand exceeds the existing facil-
tiles, then new construction is the
only valuable answer.
I'm this fact-finding program
we must not neglect the study of
human nature and of accident
data which are closely related.
Some authorities believe that the
unprotected nature of our roads
with many intersections is the
greatest cause of accidents, others
contend that it is the needless
ness of human nature. These
points of view are merely two
aspects of the same situation.
Certain it is that the training of
drivers and the education of
school children can do great
deal toward improving the quality
of attentiveneSS to traffic.
w. A. T. A. Meeting.
The Washington Automotive
Trade Association will hold its
first meeting of the season tomor-
row night at 8 o'clock at the City
Club.
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AUTOMOBILE HELD GREAT AID
IN PROMOTION OF EDUCATION
Students and Teachers Enabled to Recu-
perate From Strenuous Duties in the
Quito -Doors-Small Schools Unite.

being eliminated and the larger onss
are taking their places, all of which
is made possible by the rapid and con-
Venient transportation furnished by the
automobile. Many of the high school
students are of an age and in localities
where it is legal for them to drive an
automobile themselves, and their par
ents permit them to use the family car
to get back and forth from their high
school classes. This same convenience
which is available to the older high
school students is also at the disposal
of all the teachers and members of fac
ulties and other officials. For instance,
the work of county superintendent of
schools is greatly increased in effective
ness due to the fact that he can get
around to all parts of the county with
great facility through the use of his
automobile. What applies to these edu-
Gators applies in lesser degree but
substantially, nevertheless to instruc-
tors who live in the same community
in which they teach.
There has been a good deal Of dis
cussion as to whether or not college
students should be allowed to take along
an automobile for use while attending
one of these institutions of higher
learning. There are undoubtedly two
sides to this question. 1t is quite con-
ceivable. however, that, given the right
kind of student body which would
be group of young men coming from
intelligent homes and given college au-
thorities who know how to deal with
youth. there should be no unpleasant
complications growing out of a student
having an automobile with him at col
lege
Auto of Practical Service.
have known of college students who
have found an automobile of great prac-
tical service to them in connection with
their college work At times they used
the car for pleasure purposes, but used
at the time good deal of ordinary
common sense. On the other hand,
those young men who take automobiles
to college and use them only to get into
trouble of one kind or another would
doubtless be better off without them.
AS matter of fact, these young men
might be better off without any college
education whatsoever.
There is one feature of university life
which certainly requires the use of hun
dreds of automobiles. This is their
athletic programs. and particularly their
series of foot ball games in the Fall of
each year. Not only does the automo-
bile frequently take the players to the
field where the game is to be played,
but it enables endless numbers Of
alumni and friends and rooters to see
these big nterschool foot ball matches
in all parts of the United States.
tCopyrirht 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-06

LONDON (P.-British motorists and
jurists are becoming not little con-
cerned over the question Of how to dis
tinguiSh between the theft Of an auto
mobile and the unauthorized borrowing
of one.
Under English law it Is impossible to
convict a person of larceny without
proving not only that the property in
question was fraudulently taken. but
that it was the takers intention to de-
prive the owner permanently thereof
The culprit in whose possession the
missing car is found need only declare,
Il didn't steal it; I only went for a
ride" and it is up to the prosecution
to prove him a liar.
Police Court cases show the borrow
ing" habit is on the increase, and mag
istrates have frankly admitted that a
strict Interpretation of the law does
not permit bench or jury to assume
that theft was in the mind" Of the
person who ran of with the car.
Unless there is evidence to show he
liked it we'll enough to keep 1t indefi-
nitely or definitely planned to sell it as
loot. there is small chance of convict
ing him of anything worse than the
petty theft of little gasoline and oil
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LEGAL POINT OVER STOLEN CARS
DISTRESSES ENGLISH JURISTS

IL 1t can be proved he did not furnish
gas and oil at his own expense.
1t is highly irritating to the motorist
who had been without his car for 48
hours to have to listen to an argument
over whether the man who took it was
acting amino furandi" or merely "cepit
ct aSportavlt' the automobile from its
alleged resting place beside the curb.
So there is a growing demand for
amendment of the existing law
Meanwhile it is possible for the VIC
timized owner, If he wants to go to the
trouble, to bring civil action against the
joyrider-to sue him for the inconven-
fence and mental distress he has caused.
So far. however, no such case has come
into court.
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BY H. CLIFFORD BRoKAw.

Schools and colleges are opening their
doors to millions Of students in the
early Autumn and the automobile is in
creasingly factor in the carrying OF
the vast educational system as 1t OBJ
tains in the United States. To begin
a discussion of this topic it should be
stated that the Summer vacation can
not be entirely disassociated from the
school year. 1t is the period during
which students and professors recuper-
ate from a strenuous season OF study
and get in splendid physical and men
tai condition for another period OF edu-
cational effort.
In this connection the automobile
has been of tremendous service. 1t has
been the medium of vacation transport
tation for endless thousands OF students
and teachers. 1t has carried them
everywhere and brought them back TO
their studies refreshed and ready to get
down to the business OF learning ana
iI,.parting knowledge.
When the public schools open through
out the United States there is modified
a large number of automobile BUSES for
the purpose of carrying children to and
from their school buildings. Due to the
fact that the automobile is available 1t
Ildo DCCiI DOSoLDlC AOI many va S@AS
smaller district schools to abandon their
inferior buildings and have their pupils
carried to- larger centers OF learning.
While the automobile may appear to be
sounding the death knell of the little
red SchoolhouSe, the virtues OF which
patriotic orators have given themselves
to extolling, nevertheless, there are great
advantages from the standpoint OF the
improved education of the children In
concentrating them in larger school
buildings In these larger places they
naturally have at their disposal much
better equipment and the quality of the
instruction is higher, since the larger
schools can afford to pay higher salaries.
Larger School Methods.
The larger schools also enable the
children to get the instruction of spe-
cialists, rather than being taught the
whole range Of grammar school subjects
by one or two persons. Consequently,
this tendency toward consolidation Of
school districts is being manifested
throughout the Nation. The result OF
all this is that motor trucks are seen
stopping at houses in these outlying
districts to pick up the children and
carry them to school.
Even if those school districts were
not consolidated. the influence of the
ducing the attendance at the smaller
district schools. Parents of children
realize that there is much advantage
in their offspring having the benefit OF
the better educational facilities. Most
of these parents own automobiles and
are willing to drive their children back
and forth to school daily over a con-
siderable distance in order to give them
the better advantages. There are also
now established on most highways
public motor buses in which it is an
easy matter for children to get trans
portation from point near their
homes to a point near their schools.
Other Advantages Enumerated.
Coming into a consideration of the
high school situation, we find that the
smaller high schools are gradually
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-06
Record Tourist Traffic.

Four wheels and concrete road haze
all and more of the old lure for the
vacationist, judging from the amount
of tourist traffic over the Susquehanna
and Horseshoe Trails and through the
city of Williamsport. the converging
point of these two great Eastern high
ways. The past Summer was the
heaviest touring season ever expert
enced, the Lycoming County Automo-
bile Club of the American Automobile
Association reports
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Test for Dragging Brakes.

Here's a way to find out whether
your brakes are dragging: Speed up
to 80 miles and hour on smooth, level
road Then shift to neutral and let the
car coast. When the speedometer
shows rs miles an hour take out your
watch. If the car is not rolling five
miles an hour or faster at the end of
one minute have the brakes inspected.
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An interesting treatise on ascer-
tanning traffic relief is given in the
monthly bulletin of the National
Automobile Chamber of Com
merce, published in New York City.
Zone bridge is worth thousand
regulations" says Robert P. Page,
jr., member of the street traffic
committee of the N. A. c. c., who
continues, 1.-The bridge across San
Francisco Bay from San Francisco
to Alameda is an example OF
Americas discovery that facts and
facilities will solve traffic.
"San Francisco has the proud
record of reducing its motor fatal
tiles 80 per cent under last year.
Boston, which already had low
record, is also somewhat under
last years total. In Pittsburgh
the number of fatal accidents oc-
curing within the city are slightly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-06

Coming into a consideration of the
high school situation, We find that the
smaller high schools are gradually
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KING IF CIRCUS JOHN RINCL|NG
 BUYS OUT FIVE
NOW SUPREME RTNGMASTER OF CIRCUS WORLD; SIX CIR
 CUSES CONSOLIDATED

NEW YORK, Sept, 10, (P)-John Ringing, who started as a singing clown, rules as supreme ringmaster of the circuis world by his purchase of five of the foremost competitors. The last of the famous five Ring ling brothers acquired control of the largest group of tent shows in the world, including talent, menag- cries, equipment and winter quar- ters.
 The shows are the Sells Floto, Hagenbeck, Wallace Animal Show, Sparks and John RobinsonS and Al c Barnes Wild Animal Show.
 Altho the exact figure was not disclosed it involved several mil lion dollars. About 5000 persons are employed.
 With capital of $5 Ringlings opened performances in their home village and spent $3.70 for handbills advertising a trick horse, a bear and their own talents
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[. \. HOUSTON |S
 NAMED CHAIRMAN
 [. ]. p. COMMITTEE
HUBERT WORK SUCCEEDED BY SOUTHERNER AS HEAD OF
 NATIONAL PARTY

WASHINGTON, Sept, 10, (P)- For the first time in 73 years of it's history the Republican Party Mon day reached into the south for a chairman of the National Commit tee selecting Claudius H Houston of Tennessee to succeed pr. Hubert Work The new chairman was the choice of President Hoover.
 MT. Houston is a native of India na. reared in Tennessee and now a resident of New York City. He said in his speech of acceptance that the work of the National Commit tee must be a year round task and not a mere spasmodic campaign effort.
 The new executive said he was severing all connection with firms with which he now holds executive posts in order to devote full time to the work of the committee and he intends to move to Washington to take up the affairs of the Party as soon as possible.
 Ralph Williams, first vice-chair- man, will take charge of national headquarters as acting chairman until MT. Houston can relieve him
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BUY SLAYS FATHER
 WHO REPR|MANDED
 HIM; ND REMDRSE
STAYED OUT. LATE AT NIGHT, SPENT TOO MUCH MONEY,
 FATHER SAYS

FRIENDSHIP, Wis, Sept, 10, (P) his father, James Gals ton, scolded him for spending too much money and staying out late at night, Duncan Galston, IA, is said to have shot and killed his parent as he slept in his farm home near Adams on Monday.
 The boy was arrested in pool hall; money used to finance his playing is said to have been taken from his dead parent. He pleaded guilty at the preliminary hearing and was bound over for trial.
 The boy showed no remorse and said he had quarreled with his oarent who later lay down to sleep then the boy said T thought it over" and decided on killing him.
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RESURRECTION VALLEY GARDENS

The greatest surprise tourists receive on their first visit to Sew ard is to see the wonderful growth of vegetation of every native and cultivated variety for miles up the Resurrection valley.
 In numerous clearings in the timber, as well as on home places within the city limits, are gardens of raSpberrieS, strawberries, goose berries, entrants and peas, po- tatoes, beans cabbage, cauliflower. carrots, and every other kind of garden plant, which are not sur passed of luxuriance in any state of the Union.
 We who live here are used to these growths, but it takes the surprise of the tourists to remind us of the tremendous riches we have in the soil right at our doors.
 The area of the Resurrection valley alone could support a pop- ulation of 5OOOO on berry and vegetable gardens.
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WHAT A FARCE.

At last nights council meeting it was reported prohibition agent Boyce anu deputy Reed had both enjoined council members for bet ter policing of hte city; that too many drunks were running around loose and that chief Guest spent too much time driving the fire and street department trucks. Also, that a special officer could make his salary arresting drunks.
 So it's come to this has it? If con- ditions in town are so bad as these men paint it why not declare mar tial law. Immediately following the complaints a canvass was made of the city and not one drunk was seen, Guest said last night.
 Another councilman stated he had never seen the city as orderly
 astheSesendh arenct sJuitdinsna and So few drunks as the last six months. Every citizen knows this is true
 The so-called many drunks will be kept off the streets when the dry squad man, under-cover men and marshals perform their duty in stopping the sale of alleged liquor. { In the meantime the City of Seward will endeavor to run it's own business in it's usual clean method without interference from government men who apparently haven't got enough knitting of their own to do.
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FORFEITURE BOAT OL|MPOS ASKED
 CANADIAN COURT CLAIMED THAT U. 5. SALMON TROLLER WAS FISHING IN
 E. c. WATERS

VICTORIA, Sept, 10, (P)-For- feiture of the U. s. salmon troller "Olimpos No. M 2168 and all of it's equipment and cargo on account of alleged violation of treaty regula- tions regarding fishing, is asked by the Admiralty division in the ex- Admiralty court Monday.
 The vessel was seized August 24, off Pachena Point, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, by the government patrol boat "GivenchI'
 It is claimed the boat was fishing illegally in British Columbia waters. The owners have a week to enter appearance in the suit.
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EDITORIAL
REMINDED ALASKA

The recent merging of the Wien Alaska AirWays, Inc, the Bennett -Rodebaugh air lines and the Anchorage Air Transport Co. by Col. c. B. Eielson, Alaska's premier pioneer lace" and world renowned aviator who has been decorated by many foreign cuntries as well as the United States government should bring to mind of all Alaska citizens those who are not already air minded-that the Territory has an air-service which will be sec- ond to none, in the very near future.
 Thru this merger the public is offered better schedules, every modern safeguard at all times. and speedier service. The lonely outposts are such no longer for with the large number of airplane landing fields in the Territory more than 70 of them -comuni- cation with Fairbanks, Nome and Anchorage, is but a day off. With the completion of Stewards field. now under construction, this city will take it's place with other Alaska aiFminded towns
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WORK FUR GRADUATES IF INDIAN SCHOOLS
 SAID ID BE PROBLEM

WASHINGTON, Sept, g, (P)- Indian wards of the government must be trained and equipped to hold jobs in the present-day United States, the Secretary of the Inter ioc Ray Lyman Wilbur, stated in 9 letter addressed to Indian School Supervisors at the opening session oI a weeks annual conference of the Department.
 The same idea was expressed by D.. H. B. Peairs, general superin- tendent of Indian education The livest problem in Indian education, he said, is to find work for the graduates of the Indian schools. The young students often get a good education or learn trade, only to return to the reservation where they find no employment for their learning or, skill.
 Obviously the future of such In dians is not found on the reserva- ton but away from it", stated pr. PeairS.
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CASTON|A STRIKERS
 CLAIM WERE LASHED
 BY ANT|COMMUN!STS

CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept, 10, (H) Exhibiting marks on their bodies as proof that they had been spirit ed away last night and beaten by anti-communist men, three men returned, Ben Wells, textile mill or ganizar; Q. N. Lell and C. D. Say lors
 The Gastonia strikers said they had been taken to a lonely spot where they were dashed, then left to find their way back. A mob scattered the record of the court house where a trial ended yester day when juror became insane
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BONDS RETIRING OLD
 ISSUE Is PROPOSED

WASHINGTON, Sept, g, P)- The Rlint River &z Northwestern Railroad Co., has filed an applica- ton with the Interstate Commerce Commission. it was announced, for authority to issue first mortgage 6 percent gold bonds in the amount of $125OO0
 The applicant operates entirely within the State of Georgia.
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BUDAPEST NJ LONGER
 IS RENO F0R EUROPE

BUDAPEST Hungary, Sept, 9, Hitherto Budapest has been the Reno of Europe, where ill- assorted couples could obtain di- vorces literally while they wait ed
 Under new orders the judges of the divorce court now must call the parties together and endeav- or to bring about reconcilia- ton. If that is not possible, they are given 30 days to consider whether they will resume mar ried life.
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NEW STYLES STRESS
 RICH SOBER SHADES

PARIS, Sept. g, (P)-There is much change in the colors dress makers of influence here are showing for advance winter cos tumes as there is in lines and skirt lengths.
 Among the smartest shown are rich, dull colorings like eggplant purple, mahogany red, leaf mould brow, ivy and deep emerald green and wine dregs or chembertin red which is shade browner than the burgundy of last year.
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ALBERT vO|GHT IN SEATTLE FROM NORTH
 MADE TRIP IN KYAK

SEATTLE, Sept, 10, (P)-Albert Voight, of Los Angeles, travelling in an Eskimo canoe from Juneau to New York via the Panama Canal, arrived in Seattle Monday night.
 He said his boat ran thru the ocean swells and he suffered no worse inconvenience than thor ough wetting
 He will remain here for several days before putting off southward.
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ELIMINATION OF WASTE
 SOUGHT IN ORE STUDY

WASHINGTON, Sept, g. P- To prevent waste through ap- plication to mill operation of Knowledge of complex ores, the microscope laboratory at Inter mountain Experiment Station of the Bureau of Mines, Department Of Commerce, in cooperation with the University of Utah, is engaged in the study of complex ores.
 This study has extended over a period of several years, the De- partment reports, and some of the most intimate mineral as sociations of lead-zinc-i and copper ores have been examined.
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The salmon trolling vessel 4Kath- crime E" seized May 29, off Rose Spit, Dixon Entrance, on 9 charge of illegal fishing in Canadian wat CTS, will be sold by the Canadian government at Prince Rupert
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NATIONAL LEAGUE

Chicago 4; Boston 3. Philadelphia g; St, Louis 3. New York 6-10; Cincinnati 3-4. Pittsburgh g; Brooklyn [.
 AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 6; Washington 4. Boston 6; St. oLuis 2.
 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Missions 6-19; Sacramento A. Hollywood 4-6; Oakland 2-5- San Francisco TIT; Portland 3-3 Seattle 8-3; Los Angeles 6-5.
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Elections Held in Colombia.

Nv Cable to The star.
BOGOTA. Colombia, october =
Municipal elections were held through
out Colombia yesterday.