Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-18

quarterly meeting.
The action was taken follow
ing a report on this subject made
by A. r. ErSkipe, chairman of a
committee named by Alvan
Macauley, president of the cham
Der. L. A. Miller and Robert w.
Woodruff are the other members
of the committee.
The chamber also included in
its resolution an Endorsement of
the recommendations made by
the Committee on Employment
Plans and Suggestions of the
Presidents Organization on I'm
employment Relief during their
conference in Chicago, September
%. The report as adopted by the
chamber follows:
Your committee, named to
consider ways by which the au-
tomotive industry may cooperate
with the Presidents Organization
on Unemployment Relief, has
made survey of conditions
within the industry.
I'VE find that the individual
companies generally began to
spread employment several
months ago.
I'm the light of the Govern
ment request for continued CO.
operation and as a means of
meeting the present emergency
of curtailed production during
the Fall and Winter months, we
now recommend that:
THE board of directors of the
National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce place this report be-
fore all of the companies in the
motor industry, and that:
Each company be urged to
spread its pay rolls over the
greatest number of persons pos
Sible.
1T is further recommended
that this chamber indorSe reso-
lutonS of similar effect adopted
by the Committee on Employ
ment Plans and Suggestions of
the Presidents Organization on
Unemployment Relief at Chicago,
ILL.,, September g."
1t cannot be said that the au-
tomobile industry officials are
not doing everything in their
power to help the existing situa-
ton.
Less important, but of interest,
is the following report:
Soundproof Cars.
Sourdproofed automobiles have
been placed on the witness stand
of science to prove their case of
silence.
Using accurate instruments
which permit a measure of sound
conditions, DR.. William r. BarsS,
conSultant in acoustics of the
Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology, has been experimenting
with two automobiles of popular
make, both constructed along the
latest principles of noiSe-reduc-
ton and both identical except for
the fact that one was upholstered
in mohair velvet and the other in
a f1at-surfaced fabric.
Both cars showed similar rec
ordS in the main, but at certain
speeds and at the higher sound
frequencieS, the Shriller noises,
the mohair- upholstered car was
considerably quieter, according
to DR.. BarSS' findings.
During the tests, the cars were
lacked up and their engines run
at various speeds with the win
dowS closed and with them open
while sound measurements were
made. The cars were then taken
over an actual running test at
h -
records were kept of the noise
conditions inside. Both sets of
tests were run under conditions
as nearly identical as possible.
Standardizing Signals.
To aid in settling the present
lack of Standardization in road
and street traffic signals, a COM
mittee of the American Road
Builders Association will report
on specific instances of lack of
uniformity at the twenty-ninth
annual convention and road show
Of that organization, to be held
in Detroit in January.
It has been found that recon-
mended standards proposed by
various organizations have not
been adopted to any great extent,
and there is urgent need for in
tensive research on the utility of
various devices to the end that
some degree of standardization
may be attained. The organiza-
ton of a research group or
foundation is also recommended
by the committee.
Harry E. Neal, traffic engineer,
Ohio Department of Highways, is
in charge of the committee
studies.