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BLINDING LIGHTS
CAUSE ACGIDENT
Badly Focused Glims Are
Often Result of Care-
lessness by Motorist.
Who is at fault if an approaching
automobile with
temporarily blinds a driver and causes
Aan accident?
This is a much discussed question
and one on which there Is consider
able conflict in legal opinions, accord-
ing to Charles M. Hayes, president of
the Chicago Motor club,
Importance of Lamps.
“Nevertheless,” he
dazzling headlights
continued, *“it
serves to emphasize the [mportance of
properly 2 and
brings home the fact tha ling or
badly focused lights are in most in-
stances the result of carelessness,
“The large number of sta-
tions, the ease with which adjustment
can be made, and the
proper headlights In the field of
ty serve to
bolie of neglect.
Pointing to some of the legal opin-
fons on the question, Mr. Hayes said:
“In the case of an accident where
the driver was blinded by street car
lights, the Supreme court of Maine
held: “It is the duty of a driver of
an automobile to stop his car when
for any reason he cannot see where
he is going.’ This language was like-
wise quoted by an Ohio court.
Was at Driver's Peril.
“In a case In the state of Washing-
ton, the Supreme court of that com-
monwealth held that ‘to proceed at
all. in the face of those conditions,
wns at his (driver's) peril’
“However, the general theory seems
to be that whether it is negligence to
proceed driving an automobile in the
face of blinding lights, depends upon
the circumstances, to be decided by a
jury, and not by any specific rule of
law,
“Most states have adopted legisla-
tion providing for proper lights, The
Illinois motor vehicle act provides that
drivers approaching each other at
night must dim their lights when not
less than 250 feet apart; the Indiana
statute specifies that drivers must
dim the lights when approaching each
other, and the Wisconsin code orders
lights operated in such a manner that
there will be no glare or dazzle, and
also provides for official stations where
lights shall be tested.”
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importance of
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Air Cleaners Useful on
Practically All Autos
Alr cleaners which are used on prac-
tically all automobiles prevent dust
from entering the engines, minimiz-
fing wear on pistons, rings, bearings
and other vital parts,
As 2 rule the oil-wetted type alr
cleaner will operate without attention
for a period of one year. However,
when a car is operated under extreme-
ly dusty conditions cleaning should be
done more often, Cleaning and re-oil-
fng is accomplished in the following
mouner either by the car owner him-
sed or the service man,
llemove the cleaner and wash Jt
thoroughly by moving it up and down
in a pail of gasoline. Allow the clean-
er to dry for a few minutes and then
suturate the filtering muterial with
oil and replace,
It is important and necessary to
clean and re-oil the oll-wetted type
air cleaner as indicated, In order to
maintain its maximum cleaning efll-
ciency, according to H. G. Kamrath,
research engineer,
Discard Old Plugs
Tests show that a motor in which
spark plugs had been used for more
than 12,000 miles developed 81.2 horse
power, when run at an engine speed
equivalent to 20 miles an hour, The
game motor run at the same speed
equipped with a new set of plugs gave
a horse power reading of 380, an In-
crease of G8 horse power,
FOG OGHOOULOGUIOHDBTOO0S
THE MOTOR QUIZ
{How Many Can You Answer?)
Q. What country leads in road
Improvement and
activity?
Ans. United States,
Q. What countries lead In
mileage of surfaced highways?
Ans, European countries, Thelr
surfaced highways began with
the old Romans, and have been
kept in good condition through-
out the ages, Europe has 630.
000 miles of wed roads as
compared to 150,000 in the Unit
ed States,
RQ Is nsumption
less on high type roads?
Ans, Yes,
require
construction
surf
gasoline e¢
Where a vehicle will
a gallon for 15 miles on
a high type road it will require
1.2 gallons of gasoline on the In
i and 1.47 on the
poor type of road.
QQ. How do «i
roads affect mu
and depreciation of automo
Ans. As a type of roa
comes poorer maintenance
and depreciation is son
the same ratio as the
consumpiion
termediate type,
Terent type
iintenance, cost
¥ » ie
in gasoline
above,
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Automatic Garage Light
Is Quite Handy Device
A stoplight switeh fastened to a
beam and connected into the light elr-
will provide an
matic light for the garage. When car
drives into the garage its front wheels
switch on the light
A cord to the lever of the
switch should be fastened to a board
cuit as shown auto.
at the ceiling.
stop-light
——
STOPLIGHT
SWITCH
WIRE CR
CORD
INCLINED
Nano"
Sd
When the Car Rolls Into the Garage,
the Front Wheels Turn on the Elec.
tric Ceiling Light,
hinged to the floor in such a way that
the front tires rolling on to it will pull
the switch to the on position. A push
button switch Is included in the elr-
cuit, of course, to provide a ready
means of turning off the light, If the
weight of the board will not allow the
spring to pull the switch up to the
off position, use a suitable counter
welght.—Popular Science Monthly,
AUTOMOBILE FACTS
“Auto fumes made safe” says
scientist, And now If some one will
only make them fragrant,
» * *
A “puncture” vine, a noxious weed,
capable or destroying automobile tires,
has been discovered in Hazen, Nev,
» . »
An effort Is being made by motor.
fats in Ohio for the repeal of the law
which requires the display of a white
cross nt every spot along the traffic
highway where there has been a traf.
fic fatality,
- * -
During the month of September M1
persons a day were killed by automo.
biles In this country, When we get the
namber up to an even hundred we
enn hold a progress exposition or
something,
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Two ways to Inlure
tomobhile engine are to
tor when the ear 8 standing and to
drive at high speeds hefore the ens
gine has been warmed up to an ef.
ficiont temperature.
sire any an
race the mo
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The
SANDM
STOR
SEO HALL we Join the others?” asked
Mr, Yellow-Headed Blackbird, of
his mate,
“Oh, that would be so
his mate answered cheerily.
“There is such a good crowd near
yonder prairie,” Mr, Yellow-Headed
Blackbird continued, “And 1 know
where there 13 & good marshy pond,
*
yes, nice,”
too,’
“Oh, you are very wonderful,” said
Mrs, Yellow-Headed Blackbird,
“What do you say to these plans,
pirdlings?' asked Mr. Yellow-Headed
Blackbird of the four bird youngsters,
“There'd be lots more playmates
Blackbird.
chack, chack, the
“Ah, they take after us,” said Mr.
The four birdlings had been gray
time before; gray eggs
They had been In
of rushes which was safely
some
pond. The nest had been warm and
So the Yellow-Headed Blackbird
family went to join other-yellow-head-
There had been
they had lived,
these all went along, too,
ed blackbird families
others where
good many of them went and
a huge, huge colony,
* said Mr. Yellow Headed -Black-
when they arrived at their new
me, “we should have come
in the
here ear-
season, It's delightful
“So nice families, too”
Mr. Yellow-
Mrs. Yellow.
the children
many
All the others greeted
Headed Blackbird and
Headed Blackbird, and
were greeted, too,
Mr, Yellow-Headed Blackbird looked
very handsome with bis
and bright yellow waistcoat and beau-
tiful black sult with white touches to
the wings,
Mrs. Yellow-Headed Blackbird wore
a brownish suit, and her yellow hat
and front feathers were not so bright
as Mr. Yellow Headed Blackbird's
were, Her hat, too, was trimmed with
brown.
It was unusual for these birds to
have joined the others when they did,
for usually all the birds are together
during the time that they are’all set-
ting up nest keeping and attending to
the young.
But this family, with a
joined the great later than
they should have done in order to
keep up Yellow-Headed Black
birds’ ways.
“There is no
do love company,” sald
Headed Blackbird, as he began
tering to the old and new friends,
“We crowd,”
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VEeLow
cap
few others,
colony
the
mistake about it, we
Mr. Yellow-
chat-
sald
are a sociable
is no mistake about that”
“What fun it will be with so many
of us” the birdlings
They were quite grown-up by now,
At least they considered they were,
and it not far from the truth,
although their mother and father
thought they were still young children,
All of the Yellow-Headed Black
birds chattered and then they gave a
concert that of the
new arrivals,
Had the new arrivals been other
than Yellow-Headed Blackbirds, they
would not have thought it an honor,
for the Yellow -Headed Blackbirds
make a very when they
ging.
It sounds like a squeaking
chorus than a singing concert,
They give different sorts of squeaks
and feel quite with
selves and with
At least thes
squeaking so
sald,
was
evening In honor
queer noise
fuore
satisfied them.
each .
do not oblect to the
is, for they gather to-
gether in huge crowds, ar here you
find one you're sure of finding many,
They n
way when they
ove about in a most curlous
make these
squeaking
e painful,
80 It cannot
sounds, as though It was quit
but they keep on doing it,
be so very painful
Surely, they can’t think it so beau
tifol that
“It's
Yellow-Headed Blackbird
“Fine,” sald Mrs Y¢
at all costs it must he done
fine that we came” ald Mr.
How - Headed
Blackbird
“Fine.” sald the four children
And all thelr new
bors squeaked
“Fine, fine. fine”
’ fq ¢
irienos a
nd neigh.
GABBY GERTIE
nA
ARMS
“The lost compact produces a shin.
ing example of carelessness.”
sess ns
Dear Editor:
'M GETTING super-calloused to
super-salesmanship, Yesterday 1
stopped at one of these super-filling
stations to get the oil changed in my
automobile,
A neat lad in a blue kimono greeted
me. “Seven quarts? Yes sir. And your
name and address, please?”
I explained that I wanted to take
the oil with me; not have it rent, Un-
to have my name so they can write
and invite me to call again when In
the neighborhood. ,
All this ritual took some time, and
I wondered why they don't take care
of today's customers more expeditions.
ly and let tomorrow take care of it-
self. And who wants letters from a
filling station? [I get the most Inter.
it diluted.
The next guy who demands my ad-
dress 1s going to be surprised to hear
that I live at the county poorhouse,
Fred Barton,
(Copyright)
(THE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
THE POOR MAN'S CORE
F A child in eating an apple merely
girdles it—that is, eats around the
apple's “equator” and leaves intact its
upper and lower zones, it is a sign
that he will never be rich. The com
mon saying is that he leaves a “poor
man's core.” Thix very common super:
stition is probably based upon an in-
stinctive and unconscious psychology.
The child does not show that natural
acquisitiveness of character which Is
the foundation of wealth, If he had
that quality he would eat the apple
to a “clean core,” and “the child Is
father of the man.”
But there may be lingering In the
superstition, also, a remnant of ancient
myth and magic. There is an old cus-
tom, still said to be practiced in Bo-
hemia, in which the eating of an ap-
ple Is connected with future abun.
dance, which custom is based on sym-
pathetic magic—a clear survival from
primitive times, The first apple that a
young tree bears ia given to a woman
who has borne a large number of chil-
dren and she must eat it entirely up.
By doing this she communicates by
sympathetic magic her own fruitful-
ness to the tree which will, next year,
bear an abundant crop. Should she
eat the apple only partinlly the sym
pathetic magic would not, naturally,
be so powerful and the desired abun.
dance might not ensue. It will be seen
that there is here the same idea found
in the superstition of the boy and the
“poor man's core”—viz : that a com-
plete consumption of the apple is nee-
essary to insure future abundance,
{® by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
wens
(@ by McClure Newspaper Syndicate)
PRB BLCL GORE PG ISP BY
Al Jolson
Al Jolson, starring in “The Jazz
Singer,” scored his first victory in
the “talkies,” in fact his first appear.
ance in pictures, He followed with
“The Singing Fool,” next with “Say
It With Song,” and later with “Mam.
my.” Jolson was born Asa Yoelson,
son of a Jewish cantor, in St. Peters
burg, Russia. His climb into stardom
on stage and screen was meteoric,
renee {J
SOOO
For Meditation
:
Tver |
By LEONARD A. BARRETT
FRAUD
N THE report for 1029 of
the bureau of securities of
New York the statement is made that
twenty different kinds of financial
fraud were perpetrated last
Most of these frauds dealt with very
large f and affected a
large number of persons. In sp
the gullibility of the people who be-
came
annual
slate
year,
sums of money
ite of
victims of these
fairly large percent
oodwinked into
20 forms of
fraudulent financial
transactions, esch
the
he car
different from
thor anld
ot , could
t
t
1107
ried out in t}
when so many pro
tective measures
are engaged in de
tecting such
cause for grave
We nat.
L. A. Barrett, 2
concern,
urally ask
& condition
In the first
the
posxible v
question, why is
without first
That is, he must be convinced
his scheme. If this condition exists
he Is willing to take that chance,
otherwise not. Here we find one an-
gwer to the question—Why 20 kinds
of financial fraud In 19207 Is the law
strict enough In its detection as well
as in its punishment of crime?
there not too many technicalities
which permit of loopholes for escape,
as well ax for lawyers of a certain
type to argue in favor of acquital for
their clients? Too frequently a man
who steals nothing more than a loaf
of bread is given the full penalty of
the law, while the man who steals
from a bank, through which act many
persons are made to suffer, receives a
recommendation for mercy from a con-
victing jury.
Another answer to the question is
that our legal machinery operates too
slowly. Within nine weeks from the
time the Hatry swindle in London, Mr,
Hatry and all his associates were In
prison serving 14-yearsentences,
Punishment for crime In England is
speedy. No technical delays are per.
mitted. The criminal is gulity until
proven innocent, England might teach
us a lesson in how to reduce the num.
ber of financial swindlers
(2). 1920, Western Newspaper Union.)
wns] J rssinsssiiiissonss
How It Started
By JEAN NEWTON
WHY DO WE CALL IT
“BANJO?”
BARi0-=how much contumely has
been heaped upon your vibrating
have been ma-
laughed at and
guilty of such
unknowing of
How you
humiliated,
scorned, while those
discourtesy were all
your noble lineage!
Yes, indeed, banjo--noble
have been your forbears,
lowly some consider your present
estate, Well may zea thram forth
trinmphantly and proud: for you are
come, albeit somewhat altered In
form, from Pandoura, the favorite
stringed instrument of ancient Greece
and named after the god Pan,
(Copyright)
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ligned,
indeed
however
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