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Show SAFE ROAD LIGHTING "Legislate against the glaring headlight fiend," says the motorist. But legislation doesn't cure the evil of glare, mainly because the law which cuts down th eglare so it is "safe" also eula down the light so much that its use is unsafe. Comparatively speaking, glareless lights can be, and are made, but their use requires a scientific adjustment ad-justment of the lens, reflector and lamp, each to each and the whole .to the running plane of the car. Such an adjustment does not remain permanent; per-manent; variations in tire pressure lights the lamp and reflector. ness of parts alter the relations of th elamp and reflector. For the present, better designs of lenses, greater strictness in regulations regula-tions as to tilt of headlights, and better designs of headlights must he depended upon to minimize, if not to cure the evil But in the future, the complete cure will come in lighted light-ed highways. A hundred years ago cities were unlighted, or if lighted at all, were very poorly illuminated. In thousands thous-ands of small towns today the street lamps are so few and far between that the neighbor pays his evening visit equipped with a lantern. Yet our cities are well lighted; so well lighted-that the "glare- irouble of headlights is easily solved by forbidding, for-bidding, in cities, any but signal headlights. i Exactly as the Post Office department depart-ment maintains beacons to guide itb mail fliers at night, so will the National Na-tional Government eventually light its national highways at night. With the volume of traffic which will inevitably inev-itably flow over national highway between great centers, it will be more economical to light them from the side, than to permit the motorist to light his own section of the road with an illumination which causes ! accidents. |