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Show BEAYER PRESS Workers Recruit Science ''1 L Untile cm Hifrhwnv' v " HI MlUlllitO J Fntnlltlc Ui ri Ueiy 2 1 WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK... - By fzf Ia '' Try dnVks JW r 0 -- V XX or! (effect WNPSHIELD X A yy infra-re- d BEAM V TV R0 " VhK : wmK A W 7 is :.WINGBV WOV V F SewkgJ tables; AUTOMATIC DUMPERS hard-hittin- m yr-l,c ' LIGHTING HIGHWAY . ing cars automatically by invisible Autos of the Future, Say Pioneering Enginee- rsrays from cables in a street. (2) Read and Gasp at Their Elaborate Ending motoring's "hazard zone" with in effect a, battery of windshield wipers through non - skid Precautionary Plans! methods. (3) Infra-re- d rays from car to car to slow down vehicles By JOSEPH W. LaBINE approaching too rapidly. (4) Radio beam warnings from one car to anto sudden death 39,700 per- other. Automobile accidents dealt (5) Electric eyes to control and cost the nation two billion dollars last year. highway lighting so that any given e record and a dis- - area i,s illuminated only when traffic That is not news. It is an requires it. ce which should be emblazoned in letters of fire along W of rd and other home. .S lr4 f4 j 77 I Bere are traffic developments Gadgets Will Eliminate Human Element in predicted for the future: (1) Guid- lomatic 3r making t I I X (.NFPA-REd- ELECTRIC jhUJ ;; which .NC Tr Hgjf? NNELIZERS AC t ( 'aid, ilea (coins S. Spears, j Chicago,! 5 all-tim- , jery Im Life I highway of the land, although it already many headlines in the last few weeks. has screamed today, for the first time, there is a definite, being carried into every corner of the United States an army of 8,000,000 who, with their families, make up quarter of the nation's population, in an effort to drive grim reaper from the highway once and for all. THAT is NEWS. And scientists today are able to predict confidently that je time is in sight when science will take over the con- dents. k of a car when it is not at war dd we'd would e depriva; silver ! are i ErJ on flattery, j will find 37,000,000 motor vehicles on the road 10,000,000 more cars than now choke the highways! Except for ' the relatively few heavy traffic routes which are properly lighted, the inadequate systems used for illuminating the highways, and the blinding glare of headlights on the road, are two chief reasons given for rural roads being the scene of most fatal auto acci- organ- - But oicesofjf yonr moving Se to leave the control in the AmericJ er'i hands and restore that souktirri fctrol to the driver at times when f ume, era River." take it tire would ordinarily ay from him. HAT ia news, too. fense Twelve national, civic, national and business organiza-fJ by r( are recruiting the troops forj ; beards. t war on death. own DM 3ne would expect to And lined up rpressioc such a campaign the American ss.omooue association, the Auto- chat lij nve aaiety foundation, the Hich- Education board, the Interna- sal Association of Chiefs of Po- the National Automobile before :re bra and the National i;ety council vere sic and so they are. md of Jilt is encouraeine to learn that totm f banner is also being carried by a ordinarily independent groups t. tie American Leeinn. thu Gen. his rJ Federation of Women's Clubs. tbel ;ves F National Congress of Parent-scher- s and the National Grange, the National Grance. far-seei- X 'J Deal-associati- to the "one-lunge- rural areas more auto ' ' " Science is developing a new Clintock. This development will also make use of infra-re- d light cells, he rays and photo-electri- c says. When the first chugged down Main street, a speed of 30 miles an hour was considered remarkable, and as a result, no particular demand was put on the brakes. Nowadays, stock cars are manufactured with much greater speeds, and more efficient brakes have followed brakes which can bring cars to a stop in less than half the distance formerly required, if the proper traction can be obtained on the road surface. Such traction is a simple matter when road surfaces are dry, according to Professor Lessells, editor of the technical journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Eliminating the "hazard zone" where wet pavement causes skidding accidents will be one of science's greatest contributions to traf- . themse' F sys- tem of highway lights for certain areas which will supply e long-rang- visibility without glare illuminating the road so that a driver can see as far ahead as in clear day- r" ' light ' Glareless Headlights. ' Because the taxpayers would all if highways were floodgroan lighted by this new lighting system, traffic experts say that glare-les- s headlights will be necessary on 90 per cent of the highways. Here, too, science has the answer in development of polarized glass for headlights and windshields to eliminate glare without reducing the amount of light on the road ahead. Looking to the car of the future itself, the public is assured by the auto makers that the cars of the next few years will make the present models look more antiquated than the first horseless carriages. A crystal-gazin- g picture of what kind of a car today's driver may " cue accidents result in swift and Fible death, relatively, than in more crowded thoroughfares f cities. f of Science Takes a Hand. "d it is especially heartening to pver that two active groups rep-Mthe Scientific rpsmirrps nf F great universities. These are Waffle Safety Institnto nf Mnrth. Fern university in Evanston. I1L, a e Bureau of strrpi traffic of Harvard university at ph -wage. Mass. .wo "crvstai.aa mnt jtmsia 70ro" Miller McClintock, director of rrvarj bureau, and Prof. John Tit at li '! WSSells. fit M3ceooh1.coM. htoti rs f Bit- "It recently ... ,. ...Starllllnn..!:... "v'"uuvb wuna wiui vi-the day science will make accidents next to impossi- - t n i - ' - 'Jf m I t "-- Lfi " I ' ' 1 I X 'rd iJ I 1 f rj '34 speaks of the day 4 ,m ColIidin with another, er now careless he may . 1 DOSsii.l. 4n l ( 11 .cu electrical cables which, VoJ r,4a i tar comes to a i ...... Or firnnnt . .1.--daneerous Re 1 -- "v ...i. iu uusirucuun, JQ. Utomain .u -....eiujr wiie uie sieer-5- . C. drlver by radio con- center the car over , 1: t L!ie ancl ste t safely around i .t . "C in. to the (xnl.-- i iZ?1; urrPB. ln Hn' Ld,Lml buTperi8l.ble by Thi - II til ia would be stalling rear oi W0Uld actuat .u. Cells in frn k'' ,J!Ji8le hi .. ocr fields. COnlroIs -- X ' ft rPer" rav , ES "MX Tn- - Technology McOintock kL ;i l! ' -- 4 r. f- infra- tom- Photo-L'- c ne" would reduce car overUking an- - rapidly. !"Jve. to t:lht 11 YORK.-- In 1929. at 'the age of seventy-one- , Frederick H. Prince, the Boston banker, was stiU playing polo. He has great faith in the durabibty of ime Better men, institutions Than Reform and governments, for Business as long as they be-- 1 have themselves. He left for Europe to forget about business for a while and intimates that it would be a good thing if the government would be similarly neglectful "Washington should stop trying to reform business and leave the situation to time," he says. Time has treated him nicely and he may well give it a testimonial. At seventy-nine- , he is the grand seigneur of American business. Only four years ago, he engaged in a g slugfest over the con trol of Armour & Co. He got what he was after the chairmanship of the board. He has many such trophies, having controlled 46 railroads, and, in general, one of the biggest cuts in the American dream of any man of his day. His (mainly liquid) fortune is estimated at around $250,000,000. But, for many years Makes Point he says, he has of Being in made it a point to Debt Alwavs fce about $20,000.. 000 in debt That is revealing in connection with his ideas about money and success. He emphasizes the dynamics of money. It Isn't money unless it is working. Stagnant money just dries up and blows away. Hence you draw cards even if you do have to drag a few chips for markers. He's a little too heavy for polo, with a massive gray head, deep sunken, pondering eyes, and heavy, gray moustache; a bit grim, per haps, but not formidable. When, early in October, 1929, a small black cloud appeared on the horizon, he viewed it with a telescopic eye, saw it for what it was, and got out of the market The cyclone never touched him Until a few years ago, he was still riding to the hounds at Pau, in southern France, master of the hunt He has marble palaces here and there, one of them the former man sion of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, at Newport Remarking that he has been in business 55 years, he says this little squall will blow over in two or three months. i ELECTRIC CABLE CONTROLLING I Lemuel F. Parlon XJEW fy SPir For Your Spring Wardrobe e rutur on and may them- - the lights highways at l"lunat Predicted by Dr. Mc- ofT Dr. MHIcr McClintock, director of Ilarvard university bureau of street traffic research, examines a model "city of the future," where traffic will move quickly along flc super-highway- to Professor safety, according Lessells. Pointing out that the solution of the problem must be found at the conpoint where the car makes tact with the road, Professor Lessells adds: "If we can instantaneously create a dry surface, over which the tire is always passing, the car's brakes will keep' it under controL I anticipate that some way will soon be found to make this possible." Autos on Increase. The car owner who thinks that traffic safety will come only when fewer autos are on the highways is In for a big disappointment, if a recent survey of automobile and traffic oxperU means anything. They expect, on the basis of present trends, that the next 20 years s. be riding In tomorrow, is given by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, World war ace, and engineering "prophet" predicts: Captain Rickenbacke "It will be an attractive car to ride in. In size and appearance the interior will be like a small living room. It will, be and there will be no noise or vibration. "You will have to look twice to It will be less find the engine. conspicuous than in cars today. It or it may be radimay be al like certain airplane engines. It may be in front or it may be behind. In any case, it will be lighter and more compact but Just as powerful as the engines you are used to." C Western Ntwpapr Union. ' reason Isn't quite clear, but days, the colleges compete for tuba players a. well as athletes. Dr. Walter Albert Tuba Aces Jessup deplores Prized Same this and other of the phases at Athletes scramble for stu dents In the annual report of the Carneeie Foundation for the Ad vancement of Teaching, of which he is president The fight seems to be entirely in the field of activities. No mere scholar gets comretine bids from rival faculties, Since he became head of the Carnegie foundation, in 1933, Dr. Jessup has been a consistent deflationist, so far as education is concerned. He wants fewer and better students in the colleges. 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