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I HEAR ST S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 7, T-01 ;i U C Courtery to Pedestrians and Other User: of Roads Would Prevent Bad Legislation. Bv REED L. PARKER. Courtesy on the part of owners and drivers of motor cars will do more than all the laws on our statute > ok' to eliminate fhe disagreeable Altitude of the pedestrian towdrd the passenger or of one selfish driver toward another. Courtesy is what is needed to place motorists on a more companionable footing, to make touring more generally popular, and to make the running of a town car an asset rather than a drudgery. • Every one obeys or should obey the laws because of the penalty attached lawbreaking. In obeying the laws the motorist does nothing more than is necessary. The laws do not cover every sort of emergency and they do not by any means allow for all the varied predicaments that be set the driver in towft and in the country. courtesy is something that can not be legislated into motoring. Here are a few rules which should be unwritten law to every motorist: Never shout in disappproval to a pedestrian or the occupants of an other car that may have offended, probably unintentionally. In driving in town refnember that if you are traveling slowly you should be near the curb to your right as possible. Fast moving vehi cles have the right of wav to your left. In passing a car do not cut in im mediately. Give the driver passed a chance to fall in behind you without applying his brakes. Never Crowd a Car. Never crowd another car toward the curb or into traffic. If you intend to slow down, because of a delay in traffic or for any other reason, hold up your right hand so those in your rear may know’ of the stop. This will save them scorching their tires and may save you from a buckled fender if th*» pursuing driver hasn’t time or warning enough to ap ply his brakes in time. Never reverse against the general direction of traffic without first warning those who may be back of you. Take your time In making a turn. Give the freely rolling cars a chance to slip by without applying their brakes. If you are prepared to make the turn, give the drivers passing you a signal to go on instead of leaving them doubtful as to your intentions. Should you see broken glass, pails or anything else liable to cause a puncture, stop and pick It up or re move it from the road. You only lose a minute’s time, and save others, per haps, an hour's work and money. In parking your car against the curb leave enough room so you can easily get out. Never wedge another car In. If you see anything wrong with the car of another driver—for instance, if the tail light is gone—warn him. The warnings costs you nothing and may save him a fine. Horn a Warning Signal. The horn is a warning signal, not n plaything or the part of a ‘’Won derland” entertainment. Use it spar ingly in town. A quick push of the button or bulb is enough to warn pedestrians or other drivers. Never crawl up to a pedestrian and then frighten him to death with a terrify ing blast that could be heard sev eral blocks. Besides being unneces sary, it usually leaves the pedestrian hating every automobile driver that < v. r lived and prejudices him against the entire industry. Never dash through a crossing. Give the pedestrians a chance. Usu ally they are as much in a hurry as you. In the country, remember that the automobile and the horse-drawm ve hicle have equal rights to the road. Remember that your presence in a motor car doesn't give you the right of insulting persons on the road. Never scream at residents along the highway. Slow down when you meet another vehicle. It often will save yourself injury. A skid may cau°e injury to nil concerned. in tow'n. never cut off a vehicle vou have passed. I’?e your horn at curves and to warn vehicles you are overtaking. Keep the cut-out closed as much as possible, especially at night. Gourtesy is something that has no limitations. A few definite examples have been given. They are worth consideration and certainly a trial. Electric Shifting Of Gears Discussed n*:TROIT, MICH. Dec. 6—The members of the Detroit Section S. •V F. turned out in numbers to hear the advocates of ‘‘shifting gears by electricity” at the November meeting of the society held in Detroit. Three papers were presented. W. McCarrell, chief engineer of the Vulcan Motor Devices Company, of Philadelphia, discussed “A Specific Type of Electric Gear Shifter;” “Elec- ro Magnets and Their Application o Gear Shifting” was the subject of R. Underhill, chief electrical engi neer of the Acme Wire Company, w Haven, and Frank N. Nutt, chief engineer of the Haynes Automobile ; ’ompany. Kokomo. Ind,. discussed, The Application of the Electric Gear Shift on the Haynes Car,” A prominent automobile engineer stated that the manufacturers of low- Pr 11• od cars would be obliged to adopt the electric gear shifting device in- id of using the hand shift methods. Tire Men Outside As Big Show Opens The tire men are being sadly miss- j at the Automobile Show this year. N ii that they don’t want to be In. hu: that a new ruling of the Na- • ‘oral Association of Automobile and '•■ti'sscry Manufacturers prohibits activity in this line. Maxwells Unloaded Direct Into Warerooms H[RF |[j ^'•'1* •$•••!• »]•••{• •*•••!• +•+ +•+ Booth Tells How Efficiency Is Gained by Method L_ ■ s? Three carloads of Maxwells taken from the sealed freight ears and placed upon the fl oor of the Maxwell Motor Sales Company on Madison avenue in less time than it would take to drive seven miles. T HE Maxwell xjotor Corporation has introduced improvements over the old method of unload ing and loading automobiles in a;- lanta. They have established the'r big distributing house and warerooms right on the railroad tracks. Friday morning three carloads of Maxwells arrived in Atlanta and were brought directly to the door. The crew of workers on the second floor threw open three iron doors, pulled the seals from the freight cars and 1n about fifteen minutes all nine of the automobiles were standing in their place In the warehouse, ready for dis tribution in the South. “What an Improvement over the old system," said C. H. Booth, South ern district manager. “By the old plan the dealer gets notice that a ship ment has arrived for him and gets h's crew of men together, packs gasoline and skids into his own car and drives across town to the freight yards. Aft er waiting around the yards for the disposal of routine railroad work, lie finally gets open the freight car. “When the automobile has been taken out, gasoline is put in the tank and each car is driven across town to his place of business. The same in convenience is experienced every time he ships a car away from Atlanta. "Think of the time wasted and the gasoline consumed in thin manne". And too, tires are worn and scratched and sometimes cut by careless driv ing. Now the arrangement we have is Just as convenient and economical as shipping motor cars from the fac tory. “We don’t even use a drop of gaso line. Simply roll the cars in and out of the big room, Just like moving them about the floors. They go to the dealers and purchasers Just as spick and span as when they leave ihe home plants. "The enormous capacity of the warehouse enables us to unload or load an entire trainload In a couple of hours. I guess that’s getting effi ciency and service down to a fine point in the South. "The big -warehouse fronts on Mad ison avenue, at No. 141, and runs all the way through to the railway tracks in the rear. From here we will also conduct our offices and re tail sales departments." GREAT STRIDES ARE MADE BY ELECTRIC VEHICLES At the annual convention of the Electric Vehicle Association of Amer ica in Chicago many facts were brought forth to indicate that the electric vehicle Is gaining ground at a very creditable rate, and that the co operation between vehicle manufac turers and central stations is per suading prospective users that the electric truck has very material ad vantages over the gasoline truck for a large portion of the transportation in and about large cities. Ford's Fixed Prices Are Subject of Suit Dayton Concern Disregards Court Order and Automobile Officials Enter Vigorous Protest. The efforts of the Ford Motor Car Company to maintain its fixed pri^e on its car have led to an interesting legal action in Dayton, Ohio. Some time ago the company secured a tem porary injunction against a compajny for alleged price-cutting, and now it is claimed the injunction has been violated, wherefore contempt pro ceedings have been commenced. In the petition of the Ford com pany it was alleged that the defend ants obtained Ford cars by fraudu lent means and infringed the patents on these cars by selling them below the fixed retail price. The company set up the surprising plea that any action in contempt of the court or der was for the purpose of enabling agents of the Government to secure evidence in its investigation of the business methods of the Ford Motjr Company. The company also alleged that agents of the Ford Motor Com pany sought to induce it to violate the injunction. Secretary-Treasurer Couzens. of the Ford Company, when interviewed re garding the matter, said that the com pany welcomed the investigation. He said that instead of having induced the defendants to violate the injunc tion they had caught them at it. Electric Vehicles And Their Function “The Convention of the Electric Ve hicle Association at Chicago last week was one of the most satisfactory con ventions I have attended,” says a letter to Mr. Yule, New York manager of the B. F. Goodrich Company, written by S. V. Norton, sales manager of the truck tire department of the factory at Akron. “It was fully up to expectations in every respect. “Of course.“ the letter reads, we were most interested in the discussion of tires for electric vehicles. The need of the electric vehicle, In the way of tire equipment, varies so greatly from the gas car standard that we listened with intense interest to what the elec tric vehicle men had to say in this connection. , _ __ •The situation is complex F. Iv Whitney, who spoke on this subject at the convention, named as tne essential features in a tire for electric vehicles. In the order of their importance, the following: Efficiency, durability, resil iency, weight and price.” Dr. Deming Starts Record Return Trip Pasadena Man Will Tour South Through North Carolina and Tennessee, Missing Atlanta. Not satisfied with the record he re cently set by driving: across the con tinent from his home fn Pasadena, Cal., to New York, Dr. Lee C. Dem ing is about to undertake the re turn trip. With his wife and daughter Dr. Deming proposes to drive his Over land car op a tour through practi cally all of the eastern and southern part of the United States, winding the journey up with another transconti nental drive. He left New York on the “Ideal Tour” through New' Hampshire, Ver mont and Maine. Coming back down the coast the party will stop at Bos ton, cross Connecticut and Rhode Is land for a short visit in Philadelphia and then proceed to Washington. Record Is Hung Up In Westgard's Tour Field Representative of A. A. A. Completes Frisco to New York Journey. The recent tour of W.. O. L. West- gard, field representative of the American Automobile Association, was the longest and in some respects the most important of the five cross country routes so far logged by the national organization. Starting from Los Angeles after the completion of the Indiana makers’ tour, the “Trail to Sunset” was followed through San Diego and Yuma to Phoenix. Ariz., where, leaving the Santa Fe trail, a southerly detour was made along the line of the Bor derland route through Tucson, Bis- bee and Douglas to Lordsburg, N. Mex. Mr. Westgard touched Texas, Ar kansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, the District of Columbia. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, ine end of the journey. Now Jersey Outfit Sure To Be in Line Races at Indianapolis Will Draw Wishart and Entire Crew. Mercer Cars Fit. Overland Driver Slackens Pace and Burns Nose of Canine on Rear Tire There is a stretch of road a few miles beyond the city limits of To ledo much frequented by mororists going to and from the city and es pecially liked by testers from the Willys-Overland automobile plant. These men use it for speed trials and the final tuning up of their motors | before sending the cars back to thej paint shop. Broad and level and an ideal stretch for “tuning up,” the road has but one drawback. It is ‘‘dog haunted.” All during the summer a bull ter rier has stationed himself at a point on this straight-away Just where the driver is tempted to open the throttle to the full limit. At first the brute attracted little attention, but when he! put in an appearance day after day the Overland men grew accustomed to him ancf his tricks and in the course of a week nicknamed him “Snapper.” His specialty and one ambition is to chase automobiles going at a fairly high rate of speed. When he sees one coming he darts out to meet it, and if the driver is nt all timid he is liable to be forced off the road in his en deavor to escape hitting the dog. Then, when the car is passing him. Snapper tacks on to a rear wheel and tries his best to get a grip on a tire. Hence the name. The canine goes through this samo performance with nine out of every ten cars that travel the road, but for reasons best known to himself and probably one or two of the testers, he no longer approaches a car driven by an Overland tester. They tell the story that early in the summer one of the men grew tired of being chased, and by cleverly changing his pace manged to burn Snapper’s nose good and proper, on the rapidly moving tire. Whether the story is true or not, the fact remains that the dog can spot an Overland car a block away and never seeks to molest it. When he sees a stripped chassis coming, he gets off the road entirely, crouches low and remains quiet, only to shoot out again a minute later at the unsuspecting driver who follows. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. —Inquiries by various members of the Mercer racing team, particularly Spencer W ishart, last year's second-place win ner, seem to indicate that the entire New Jersey outfit will be on hand again for the next Indianapolis 500- mile struggle. DePalma, Bragg and Wishart are expected to breast the tape. The past season did not see the Mercer crew as lucky as it might, due to the fact that two of its ma chines, the biggest, were green. The third, the 300-cubic-inch “baby,” per formed brilliantly, as usual, not only giving Qoux a hard run at Indianap olis. but winning the Cobe trophy at Elgin with ease. Toward the end of the season all three cars did well. Two cleaned up dirt tra<’k meets, as at Brighton Beach. N. Y., while the other took second at Santa Monica. Next year, with all the “bugs” out of their sys tem. they are expected to prove a sur prise. INSPECTION OF CLEANERS. If .t car is in continual use and is using excessive amounts of oil or gas, the dirt accumulated in the strainers will he heavy, and inspec tions should be made often. If your car has exhaust gas pressure for the gasoline feed, It is advisable to make an examination of the strainers and others cleaners through which the gas passes on its wav to the tank. 'This fji T Mats. Week JDaeJi Daily iiSTS-tS | JEWELL KELLEY COMPANY Will Offer Ihe Big Scenic Melodrama OVER Nights |10-20-30 ( vnts Mats. J 10c&20c i Reserve Seats fcarly Five Tons ol Massive Scenery Ladles Free Monday Night demand for broadcloths. One of the interesting phases of the current season is the growth of the de mand for broadcloths Of course, the call for these suitings is not large com pared with the movement of a few sea- I sons ago, when broadcloth was the fashionable fabric. In recent seasons the interest shown in these goods was practically dormant, ao that the de mands at present make broadcloth loom up as they have not since their pres tige waned. REPUBLIC , S X A G G A R D TREAD TIRES SfpubJic 3t*99ora Tr+md tat i3-£2 I9CB REDUCED IN PRICE A consistent reduction in the prices of the Republic now places this tire of the highest quality Within the Reach of Every Motorist INVESTIGATE TO-DAY THE REPUBLIC RUBBER CO. 237 Peachtree, ATLANTA You’ve seen them everywhere-—on the city streets, on the country roads, in quiet neighborhoods and at fashiona ble places. The Overland design has become so familiar that you recognize it at a glance. DID YOU EVER CONSIDER THE REASON? It didn’t .just happen that all these people bought Overlands. They found out for themselves that the Overland rep resents the very highest possible automobile value at the lowest possible cost. WHY DON'T YOU FEND IT OUT? Overland Southern Auto Company 232 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga, ALL THI5 WEEK [ m 3 ] a Matinees Tues, 1 hu s., Sat. THE GREAT DIVORCE PLAY SrnPMftMT ‘ Eleanor Montell Next Week EMMA BUNTING in “The Giri From Out Yonder” ATLANTA’S BUSIEST THEATER FORSYTH KEITH VAUDEVILLE TWICE DAILY WEEK DEC. 8lti FIRST APPEARANCE IN DIXIELAND YVETTE! The Whirlwind Dancing Violinist in Unique Novelty GOLDSMITH & HOPPE THE MANAGER & THE SALESMAN THE ROSARIES | ELDRIDGE & BARI OW CAPTAIN CHINK’S FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN BOY SCOUTS j NICHOL SISTERS Hickey Bros. KENTUCKY Acrobatic BELLES Dancers The ATLANTA 3 DEO. 8 NIGHTS COMMENCING MONDAY SPECIAL MATINEE WEDNESDAY KLAW & ERLANGER Present ROBERT A* ASCHE KAVTOX, Who Sol»e» the Mjltery “THE ARGYLE CASE” By HARRIET FORD AND HARVEY J. O’HIGGINS, in collaboration with lh<* fa- mouM detective, WILLIAM J. BURNS. PHII.ADKLPHIA COMMENTS LAST WEEK: “Best thing Hilliard ha* done.”—Preaa. “REAL Detective Play.”—Telegraph. “Tense. Ingenious.”—Inquirer. “Excellent Acting."— North American. “Fine Climax©*.Record. ‘‘Sparkling Con -dy.”—Bulletin. “Best Detec tive Play Yet.’—Ledger. The Dictograph—The Finger Print Proeeaa—Original New York Cmmi. PRICE m EVENINGS—2fte, BOe, 75c, 91, fl.SO and 92. - WEDNESDAY MATINEE—25c to 91.AO. MATINEE SATURDAY Thursday, Friday, Saturday Seat Sale Monday 9 a. m. THE FINEST CAST EVER ASSEMBLED IN THE BIGGEST PLAY OF THE CENTURY H. H. FRAZEE Present, ROBERT EDESON ROSE COGHLAN WILTON LACKAYE EUGENE WALTER'S DRAMATIC MASTER I’lKCK aassSSiw LOLITA ROBERTSON ' . MAX FIG,WAN LYDIA DICKSON The Ortaiilual Production. Direct from a ReanoiTn mn at the A*t»r Theater. New York, nud the (or‘ Thr-'fr Ch»~»iro. NIGHTS, 23c, 5Cc. 75c, $1. $1.50, $ ?. MATINEE. 25c. 50c, 75c, (1, $1.50.