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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
New Taxing Method
Used i'm Paris as
Motorists Protest

PARIS UD.-For 40 cents a month
automobile drivers may now run past
the gates of the city without being
bothered by the customs guard service,
which collects tax on gasoline brought
into Paris.
A sort of season ticket Is to be sold
by the city at prices supposed to cover
what drivers ordinarily would pay. IN
der the new plan they can avoid the
long lineup of cars that waits at every
gate to get green ticket certifying the
amount Of gasoline in their tanks. This
ticket must be presented upon re-enter-
ing the city.
Recently several hundred drivers
demonstrated the absurdity of the sys-
tenn by returning TO the city in a group,
without green tickets, and demanding
simultaneously that their gasoline be
measured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
TRAFFIC OF TUNNEL
PROVES STlMULANT
Need of New York Highways and
Other Projects Revealed by
Flow Of Vehicles.

One of the most striking products Of
this motor age has Just completed its
first year Of usefulness. This Is the
Hudson vehicular tunnel which gives
New York City q safe, high-speed outlet
to New Jersey, according to E. e. Duffy,
highway educational writer.
During 1928 more than eight and a
half million passenger cars, trucks and
buses Travelled through this concrete
encased tube unmindful of the Hudson
River overhead. Spaced rs feet or more
apart, these motor vehicles passed
through the tunnel at speeds not eX-
ceeding 80 miles an hour.
OF all the features that make the
tunnel tribute to the engineers who
planned and built it, perhaps none is
more significant than the ventilation.
For the most part the washed air in
the tunnel is as pure or more pure
than the air on the open streets. Tests
have shown that the quantity Of auto
mobile exhaust gas present is usually
less than one-half of the low adopted
standard.
The Hudson vehicular tunnel bears
out the precept Make no little plans"
In 1919, when the tunnel was planned
for operation in 1924, 1t was coura-
geously estimated that the traffic for that
year would be 100000 vehicles. For
tunately, the tunnel was designed for
q much greater traffic, and now cngi-
neers estimate that by 1884 its capacity
OF about 100000 vehicles yearly will
have been reached.
The true significance of the Hudson
tunnel lies in the demonstration that
cities can successfully invest in modern
appliances for the accommodation of
the ever-prolific automobile. The Jump
in automobile sales within the last few
years reveals that 1t Is folly to predict
when the public will have absorbed the
greatest possible number Of vehicles,
for, as one manufacturer says, the
market for cars parallels that of shoes.
Consequently, every growing city and
every city that expects to grow is faced
with the problem of providing more
Projects comparatively as gigantic as
the Hudson tunnel are hanging fire in
large and small communities all over
the country because OF timidity
Sensibly designed highway projects
usually more than exceed expectations.
The Philadelphia Camden Bridge across
the Delaware River Is carrying great
deal more traffic than was expected and
the tolls will bring the bridge COM
pletely into public possession for free
operation long before the first antici-
pated date.
Modernism is needed in highway de-
sign. This modernism should be all
embracive Even the 678 motorists who
ran out of gas last year In the Hudson
tunnel were Immediately supplied will.
one-gallon cans of fuel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
Uniform Traffic Light System In y. S.
Is Expected to Decrease Motorists Worry

uniform size and of the same color
combinations. They would know that
a red signal would mean stop and
remain halted until a green signal is
displayed. They would know that green
safety of others; and that yellow after
green means stop before entering the
intersection, unless when the yellow
first appears you are so close to the
intersection that you cannot stop with
safety. They would learn never to expect
yellow light after red, since the ex-
perts say such signal Is dangerous to
safety.
Turns to the right or left while the
red light Is showing would be pro-
hibited throughout the country, If the
uniform system is adopted
Large mushroom buttons which pro-
ject several inches above the pavement,
would be considered a menace unless
the street is very wide and the musl-
room used to designate a non-traff1c
space
DISTINCTIONS in the road would be
marked with alternate black and white
lines sloping at an angle of IS degrees
or by white and black checkerboard
squares.
Gates protecting railroad crossing
would be marked with alternate black
and white stripes sloping at an angle of
IS degrees.
The code. several thousand words in
length, defines every detail in the con-
struction and regulation Of traffic sig
nails, signs and markings for. city use.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
TRAVEL MONEY AIDS.
j. S. ROAD BUILDING.
Prosperity and Nations
Greatest Industry Depend
on American Highways.

American motorists annually are pay
ing only about Ia cents per mile Of
travel for street and road improve
ments, according to E. E. Duffy, high
way educational writer.
During 1928 the motor car registra-
ton was roughly 100000. These
cars averaged in the neighborhood Of
5000 miles of travel A conservative
estimate Of operating expenses places
the 1928 automobile travel costs, which
include gasoline, oil, depreciation. taxes,
upkeep and so on at IL billion dollars.
OF this sum only two billions, or one
sixth, was expended for all road and
street improvements.
Industrial economists and highway
authorities point out that with both
pleasure and commercial traffic increas-
ing by leaps and bounds, the annual
highway expenditures must be increas-
ed. Conservative figures show that the
United States, with 70 per cent of the
worlds automobiles, spends altogether
for new cars, repairs, fuel, truck drivers
and chauffeurs' salaries, insurance and
other items, no less than $4,000 900 900
yearly.
Adding to this figure the investment
In dealers establishments and storage
and Servicing garages, gasoline filing
stations and the money invested In cars
purchased prior to 1928 gives total Of
about $25, 000, 100000.
Manufacturing motor cars has for
some years been the Nations chief in
dustry In 1923 more than 1000 900
people were engaged in one way or an
other In producing materials and In
manufacturing 100000 passenger cars.
trucks and buses, worth In excess Of
$500, 100000.
This tremendous motor industry. re-
sponsible In large measure for current
prosperity, is dependent upon the high
way. Investing in highway improve
nents Is investing in comfort, conven-
fence and economy for the car user,
Mr.. Duffy says.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
HIGHWAY PATROL
PROvES|TS WORTH
Pennsylvania Officials Find
Record of Accomplishment
in Five Years.

HARRISBURG, Pa, March 9.--Five
years of State highway patrol has
brought better enforcement OF motor
traffic regulations on the open roads,
Pennsylvania officials believe.
The State highway patrol. organized
specifically to enforce motor traffic reg
ulations and to aid motorists, has been
watched by other States as an expert
ment during the first year of its exist
ence.
Capt. Wilson c. Price, superintendent,
says it has passed from the experiment
tai stage to a place where citizens OF
the State can be certain political domi-
mace and interference are not factors.
They Mean Business!
1.-THE only man authorized to with
draw informations has gone West"
That is the message boldly displayed
over the door of the headquarters Of
fee. It is representative Of the force
organized to enforce motor traffic regu-
lations and refers to informations for
arrests.
From a struggling corps of rs officers
and men, the patrol has grown In five
years to a force of 385. with the recog-
nized right of arrests not only for au-
tonobile law violations but for all Of
lenses Plans now are under way to
increase the force to 500.
Last year 100000 miles of highways
were covered and $4,000 arrests made
by members of the force on regular and
special patrols The cost of operation,
more than 100000, was exceeded by
the amount of fines collected, the value
of stolen property recovered and the 81
fee which goes to the State for exam
nation of applicants for drivers
licenses.
Tricks Are Forbidden.
The first general order written by
Capt Price, and still adhered to. for
bids patrolmen from making arrests by
tricks, such as hiding behind an OBJ
struction and then pursuing the motor
list. A rule also holds against speed
traps"
Before taking his place on the road
as a member Of the highway patrol, a
candidate must undergo three months
instruction in training school here.
He is taught to ride and care for a
motor cycle and Is instructed in the
fundamentals Of criminal law and pro-
cedure. geography and the States mo-
tor vehicle laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10

the trucks so traded. In computing his
income and profit tax, the taxpayer de-
tern1ined gain based upon the actual
market value of the used trucks. The
commissioner Of internal revenue. on
the other hand. determined a deficiency
In tax payments on the theory that the
credit allowed on the old trucks, and
not their actual value, should have been
the basis Of the gain realized.
The board upheld the contention Of
the commissioner and ordered q recon-
putation of the tax.
"The boards decision clears up
another of the knotty problems which
have long confronted commercial motor
truck owners In making their tax re-
turns" said Thomas j. Keefe, general
manager OF the American Motorists As
ISOLATION. ut is interesting to note
that the question arose out Of tax re-
turn filed for the year 1920 and was
decided by divided board"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
Ethyl Gas Effect Tested.

The use OF gasoline containing ethyl
fluid as an automobile engine fuel does
not affect materially the percentage
of carbon monoxide contained in the
exhaust gases, says the Department of
Commerce, following a series of tests
conducted at the Pittsburgh Experiment
Station Of the United States Bureau
of Mines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
Pilgrimage to Snow Cross.

Automobiles will be used during a
part Of the second international pill
grimage, July 8-18, of Christians to the
Mount Of the Holy Cross from Minturn,
in the central Colorado Rockies. The
foot pilgrimage. which Is to be nom
sored BY the Mount Of the Holy Gross
Pilgrimage. Inc, through DR.. o. w.
Randall of Eagle. Colo, the Denver
Post and the Denver Tourist Bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
Entries Filed at indianapolis.

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway re-
ports that entries are rapidly coming In
for the American grand prize, the new
name for the 500-mile Indianapolis
classic Memorial day. Milwaukee,
which has not been represented for
four years, will send two boys to the
race this year-Frank Brisko and Carl
Marchese. Other new faces are certain
to add zest to the sport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
A. A. A. is REPRESENTED
AT 10 EUROPEAN PORTS
Importance of Motor Travel Brings
Service to Facilitate Accredited
Motorists Through Customs.

Representatives of the American Au-
tomobile Association are maintained at
10 European ports of entry to serve
accredited motorists, facilitate their
passage through customs and start
them off under their own power.
This statement was issued by the
foreign travel division of the national
motoring body as an indication of the
importance European motor travel has
assumed in the world of motoring.
The A. A. A. says port representa-
tives are maintained at Oslo, Norway;
Marseille. France; Copenhagen, Den
mark; Queenstown, Liverpool, South
ampton, London, Glasgow Cherbourg,
Havre, Boulogne, Hamburg, Bremen,
Antwerp, Naples Genoa, Gothenburg,
! ROTTERDAM, Bergen and Stockholm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10

Traffic signals conveying the same
meaning everywhere would assist the
driver and the pedestrian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10

The automobile ceased to be a lux
ury and became a necessity 20 years
ago.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-30
Sharks Confidence in
Pilot Fish Cost Life

A pilot fish failed .miserably in its
duty and came to grief the other
morning, when according to the fisher
men, it piloted a 300-pound shark into
the seine on the fishing schooner AL
den, off South Shoal lightship, Nam
tucket shoals. Pilot fish and shark, to-
gether with a catch of mackerel, were
hauled aboard the schooner. The
shark was killed and the pilot fish was
brought to the fish pier and probably
sent to the museum of COMPARE
tive zoology at Harvard.
Fishermen at the pier said that they
could not remember ever having heard
of such a catch being brought in here,
and expressed belief that the shark
and the pilot were following the mack
erel from southern waters. The speci-
men brought in is eighteen inches long,
weighs about two pounds and is of an
amber color, transversely banded with
darker stripes. The pilot fish is SO
named because it is often seen SWIM
ming with shark, and sailors are Of
the belief that it is the sharks con-
slant companion.-Boston Transcript.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-30
Highway Beauty Matter
of Highest Importance

The highways in many parts of En-
rope carry their appeal to the traveller
not simply as public improvements OF
great unitarian value but as works
of art, if such an expression may be
applied to a public thoroughfare.
Through beautiful lane of trees. be-
tween hedges or attractive fences Of
stone or other material, the highways
run and lure the traveller on. 1t Is an
idea which Is being caught up in
America and turned to valuable ac-
count. It is now being applied, If on a
limited scale at first, in Missouri. The
trees, shrubs and hedges now being
planted along the principal roads un-
der direction of the state highway
commission is an enterprise that prom
Uses to give Missouri a return. hither-
to denied, on its heavy investment In
these improvements. The selfish eff
fort to capitalize ON that investment
has lined the highways at many points
with ugliless. 1t is a procedure the
public should resent, and the best way
Il donkt is for the communities
~ n state to aid the high
N - ! p In what it is now
uhdert kansas City Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-30
Red Tape Involved In
- Lease of Public Lands

Uncle Sam has a quantity of per-
fectly good grazing land going to
waste and wants, to do something
about it. 1t seems that. the answer to
the question would~be to leasesit out!
This sounds simple, but before any.
thing can be done about it four bu-
reaus of the Department Of Agricul-
ture will have hand in making the
arrangements.
First off, the Forest service, under
whose jurisdiction the land comes,
must take action. Primarily the areas
involved are. forest reservations or wi
tai watershed sections. These must
be protected in their first intent above
everything else. Erosion and Overgraz-
ing must be guarded against as well
as types of plant life which might
poison stock.
The bureau of animal industry, the
forest service, the bureau Of plant in
dustry and the bureau of agricultural
economics will combine in the work.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-30

Buildi house without blue
prints al specifications is the easiest
way to " ste money. Properly drawn
blue priu s.. with accurate specifica-
lions, ara simply detailed plan for
the spending of your money. 1t means
that you Nave things planned out In
advance building and that all ex-
penses. liz been anticipated. You
know whal Fou are going to get from
the beginning to the end. Accurately
prepared blue prints and specifica-
lions are worth many times more
than they actually cost. for without
them timel is lost in trying to study
out how ne different parts go to-
gether, and there are endless oppor-
tunities for the making Of changes
and substitutlons with an accompany
ing greater expense and probably
cheapenina of the quality of mate
rails.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-30
Community
&pB,ildi4g.1A
N3R3C q a6kI9E ]
Bird Sanctuary Gives
Town Distinctive Touch

!. In acharming little American town,
with wide green lawns, beautiful shrub
berry, a profusion of flowers and fine
bid elm and maple trees arching many
Of the streets, the citizens have set
aside a certain wooded area as bird
sanctuary. In that region, birds are
safe from human molestation. AL
though the grounds of the sanctuary
cover a limited area, its influence ap-
pears to have spread through the
whole town.
In many yards there are bird-feed-
ing stations. Trees along the main
streets have little feeding platforms
nailed to them. Bird baths are al
most as common as hitching posts
used to be. The visitor there sees a
regular parade of lovely birds. some
rare, some common, all a little less
shy than usual. Natives speak IA
miliarly of warblers and of varieties
difficult to identify except for the true
bird lover. Wild ducks swim on a
pond not stones throw from the
highway and take afternoon siestas
under the shrubbery Of private homes
and even in the school yard.
If the author of Main Street" has
never visited such a town, he has
missed something really fine in Amer
lean life. There are more such friend
" and beautiful communities in this
country than the average person real
ICES. Evansville Courier.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-30
WHY aeri6es to Speed?

Over in valley is beautiful.
tall. redwood rec that worries those
who drive hobbies too fast. Un-
less people i've permanent beauty
more than gll4e thrills object forci-
bly,, that tre IS almost certain to come
down.
And whyyshould that tree-or any
other tree ips a residence district. any
where--be cut down? Speed in home
neighborhood is never essential. but
beauty is. Warnings can be posted at
corners, al dents can be prevented in
that way. ut nothing can be done to
restore the magnificent beauty that
dies by the AK. The Redwood league
might say word in this case. as it
says mas or the sake of our noun
tain TIRE San Francisco Call and
Post.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-30
Very Likely

Judge Ben B. Lindsey said at
Denver dinner:
"Some people, when tell them
that marriage ought only to be en-.
tered into with elaboration, with
thought for the future of the species
well, some people retort that love
matches are the only right and prop
err ones.
'"These people set love, or what
they call love, too high. They are
like the woman.-twice divorced. by
the way-who quoted in an argument
against eugenics:
"''Tis love that makes the WORLD
SO round
"'Very likely said another woman
for there's no crank like a lover
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-30
Small Church. Big Organ

Mr.. Carnegie's first gift of an organ
to a church wis made to the little
Swedenborgian church in Allegheny
(Pa.) of which his mother was mem
Der and which he attended as boy.
When it was installed, the pipes were
so tall it was current joke that the
organ that Mr.. Carnegie had given
was so big that it had blown the roof
off.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-30
ION Aate Gels MedalofHa4or
M0l

Eadie's narrowest escape from
death, he says, came as the result CT
his having for tender in the boat
from which he was working, an In
experienced youngster. A diving boat
is equipped with two TASKS of COM
pressed air. When the pressure falls
below $50 pounds that flask is shut
off and the other one turned on. Eadie
had gone down to do certain piece
of work. He soon noticed that he
was getting less air than he needed.
He signaled for more but got no re-
spouse. Again and again he signaled
and, realizing that the air in his he'll
met was getting foul very fast, he
decided it was time to go up. So he
signaled that he was coming up and
got a, reply. But the greenhorn and
two civilian employees who were in
the boat with him didn't pull M.
ne slgnafed again. Finally, after seV-l
eraI agonizing minutes during which
he almost lost consciousness, he was
pulled up. 1t was fifteen minutes be
fore he could speak, then he found
out what had been the trouble. His
tender had not been watching the.
gauge on the first flask and did not
see that the air in it was completely
used up. so the master diver had
been suffocating with full unused
flask of air in the boat!
The high spot in Tom Eadie's ca
reer came in December, 1927, when
the submarine S-4 was rainmed by tile
Paulding and sank to the bottom. 1t
was Eadie who went down and by
tapping with hammer on the side of
the sunken sub, received the signals
from the trapped men which told that
there were still some survivors of the
accident in the torpedo room. The
story of the battle against the icy
water and the heavy sea to save the
lives of the trapped men is famil-
lar to most Americans. But not all
know of the heroic deed of Tom
Eadie. 1t was the deed which brought
him the Congressional Medal of Hon.
or from the hands of President Cool
idge and the story of it is told briefly
in the following citation:
For display of extraordinary heroism
in the line of his profession above
and beyond the call of duty on Deem
Der IS, 1927, during the diving opera
tions in connection with the sinking
of the U. S. S. S-4 with all on board
as a result of a collision off Province
town, Mass. On this occasion when
Michaels. C. T. NJ, u. s. Macy. while
attempting to connect an air line to
the submarine at depth of l02 feet
became seriously fouled, Eadie, under
the most adverse diving conditions. de-
liberately, knowingly and willingly
took his own life in his hands by prompt
ly descending to the rescue in response
to the desperate need of his companion
diver. After two hours of extremely
dangerous and heartbreaking. work by
his cool, calculating and skillful la
bors he succeeded in his mission and
brought Michaels safely to the surface.
There is little that can be added to
that simple recital of heroism, but If
there were anything that could be
added, it should be the words of Com
mander f. II. Brumby of the control
force who was on board the Falcon
at the time Of the rescue and who
said 81 have never known so fine an
example of cold blooded, deliberate
heroism as that shown by Eadie."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-30
Guinea Pigs Good Eating

Your menu of the future may list
one of the Oldest American dishes,
but one which you probably have never
tasted-guinea pig. The Farm Journal
reports an increasing interest in rails
ing the little animals throughout the
country and points out that they are
as appetizing as either rabbits or
squirrels. and that, since they are en-
tirely vegetarian in diet, their flesh
Is among the cleanest Of domestic ami
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-30
why Not?.

The :yc21g 2assai cHsQer was show
ing the pretty girl over the ship.
lawfully interesting" was her YER
diet, '.and tell me, do they close the
portfolios when the tide rises Pear
sons.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-30
Hle Future in Sight

Good architecture has a definite
sales value, and the prospective build
er Of a no 3 can be assured that If
his house Is wen designed 1t will have
a better resale value than less at.
tractive neiyhbor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-30
Precariously Placed

cit is high time you were insured
against accidents, SIR"
"Why?"
"You are sitting on the boxing
champions hat.'-Lustige Blaetter,
/. Berlin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-30
American "Rovaltv".

On account of their great wealth,
and the generous benefactions, the
du Pont family has been called "the
royal family Of the United States"
There are "A individuals of this name
in Wilmington, Del, all Of whom, eth
er by their present holdings or ex-
pectations, are millionaires.