Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
.MILADY'S MOTORING
BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL.

BY FREDERIC
A reckless driver doesn't need a Com
pass on the dash to know when she's
going west.
A New Yorker tells one about his
wife, who called up around in the
afternoon to say that she would stop
of to drive him home. His Office is at
Forty-seventh street In the well known
roaring forties
"You stay right where you are" he
commanded. "You Just got your drivers
license this morning. You couldn't pos
sibly get through this trafic without
wrecking the car"
"Ill be right up" came the soft
answer over the wire. I'm down at
Twenty-third street now"
If the man who lubricates the car
starts to use the same grease for the
water pump as he employs for the
chassis, better head him of and insist
that he either use special pump grease
or permit you to have this part of the
work done elsewhere. Too soft a grease
on pump will permit lubricant to get
into the water. Oil In the cooling sys-
tenn makes 1t less efficient.
The weeks safety hint concerns
bringing the car to an emergency halt
from a high rate of speed. Always
apply the brakes moderately before
help to equalize them and will tip you
on as to how TO steer If front brakes
pull the car to the right or left.
For the impending birthday ami
versary, why not something little diff
ferent In the way of a personalized
accessory for the car? One Of the
smartest fltments is a monogram to
attach to the headlight cross-bar.
Something decidedly .ritzy is a
chromium plated screen to fit over the
radiator core such as one finds on for
eign jobs and two Of the smartest
American cars. They cost $50. But, as
many wiser birds have said, we only
live once.
Women who have become discouraged
with their driving and who are in
clined to curtail their use of the car
accordingly should absorb little cur
rent psychology. Driving skill is OBJ.
tanned through conditioning" which
is just a. more scientific term for prac-
tice and habit.
The reason why so much poor driv-
ing is discovered on week ends is be-
cause there are more of the less
conditioned drivers on the road. Skill
is just matter Of keeping everlastingly
at 1t.
On q recent trip I had an oppor-
tunity to study the woman driver in
action. / found that, among other
things, she maintained a good rate of
speed on the open road and was not
n a n ell In lpfH
ing through the cities was invariably
lively and handled with elaboration
that marks the expert. I noticed that
she did not like to be overtaken, pre-
ferring to take the lead at all times.
SO decided TO experiment little.
1t may therefore be Of interest to
record that was able to get ahead of
her every time there was a halt for
trafhc. She invariably stumbled through
the gears, generally because Of running
too fast in low. Another difficulty was
trying to shift into low before pressing
the clutch pedal all the way down.
The radiator is one Of the most i'm
portarlt units OF the car, although 1t
appears TO be inert and unimportant.
Its purpose alone-that Of providing n
means Of regulating the temperature
OF the engine-is unique in itself. Many
motorists think 1t simply serves to cool.
Especially with radiator shutters is
the radiator useful in warming up the
engine and in Maintaining an efficient
operating temperature. Often when the
engine and in maintaining an efficient
jackets and in the radiator is warmer
than the air.
In most radiation systems water is
drawn from the bottom Of the core and
is returned at the top after having been
pumped through the water jackets In
an upward direction. This arrange
ment Is used because the natural
tendency is for the water to rise as 1t
heats around the engine. However, in
one other system water Is returned to
the radiator at the side and flows
crosswise. This Is considered by some
engineers TO be more efficient arrange
ment.
Radiators are composed of a core and
i a she'll. The former is quite intricate
and, Of course, is the real expense of the
unit. One type is made up of vertical
tubes spaced with metal fms. The
honey-comb type is more common and
| consists OF a maze of hollow fins
| through which the water passes. This
| is the more efhcient type, but also the
most costly TO repair in event of leakage.
Because the water from the engine
jackets is returned to the radiator. a
woman does not have to be especially
gifted mechanically to appreciate that
merely cleaning out the radiator isn't
necessarily going to rid the cooling sys-
| tenn Of rust. The sediment usually starts
at the engine and Is carried to the
radiator.
Rumors of the coming painless au-
tomobiles may be the industry's corr
fession of inability to compete with the
| flapper.
Recently q woman drove her car into
another machine, which she did not
notice approaching from the left. Two
men riding with her at the time saw
the other car, but did not want to be
back seat drivers. Aver since Learning