Show Blame Carelessness Of Motor Owners For Many Thefts BY ISRAEL KLEIN ScIence Edl Editor or NEA Service American motorist are aro paying higher Insurance premiums on their automobiles because of ot their carelessness nn and forgetfulness They are losing from to t a a year let alone alono lono time Une from their work and use of ot their cars This loss lass Is the this result of ot the growth of o automobile thefts that thatIs thatIs Is 13 going on apace with Ith ith the In Ins Increase crease in motor cars can Despite vigilance on the part or of tho Iho 1 police and some soma different locking devices device these thefts are growing and making this problem more difficult to solve tolve Only SO 30 per cent or of o all motor notor- motorists are Insured against theft or of their a automobiles and only 20 per cent of ot the Insured cars curs stol stol- stolen stolen en are arc not recovered reeo Yet this small proportion of all the tho cars car In Inthe the tho country perhaps only about cars in all brings brinsa their loss up lo to some torn These figures are furnished by bytho bythe bytho the tho American Automobile association lion tion and ond the th National Automobile Underwriters conference and may maybe maybe be taken ns liS auth authentic OWNER OWNEll DOESN'T HELP The I aggravating point Is that these thefts arent aren't In the least way discouraged by the tho average 8 driver lie He just forgets or doesn't take lake the tho additional pains to lock locI hip hl hi car Out ot or cars cats examined on New NewYork York streets recently only 30 were found locked 1 Yet Va all al II tho cars gr were locks The underwriters have havo collected statistics showIng per cent ot of tho cars equipped quipped with approved locking devices are habitually left unlocked when parked As a 0 result Insurance companies are planning to change chango the require requirements ments of or their policies dropping Ih their lr present otter offer of or reduced rate It Ir the tho car Is equipped with a lock and merely assigning lg a 1 rate based on experience with the various types ot or cars Yet locking devices arent aren't to bo discouraged se url ed They are arc wa wanted ted Their depends how how- non non- ever er on educating the driver to form the habit of locking the car 01 or 01 LOCKS Due to the tho difficulty ot or doing this underwriters say ay the tho best type Ipe or of lock Is what hat they call the Iho coin eoln- coincidental coincidental lock loek which locks lock the tho car carIn carIn carIn In tho same tamo action In which the ignition Is shut off The motorist they reason doesn't forget to shut shutoff hu oft off the ignition when ho he parks Having Ha formed a habit of that the same sarno action should be used to Lock ock the car Many t types of or Ignition and ant other forms ot or Coincidental locks are the result They lock with the ig- ig Ig lc and just a quarter addition addition- additional al turn of or the key Icey unlocks them th-m Garage men object to these how however ever because the cars cant can't be moved freel freely LOCKS S So the tho underwriters approve other forms form of ot locks that arc semi semi- semi coincidental coincidental or require an addi addi- additional additional additional operation before leaving the car There Is the tho transmission lock the wheel lock and other forms that come in Ihl this Ibis class Tho The slon lon lock has the objection of or keeping the Iho car In neutral leftIn when it should best hest h st be left In gear Rear when facing down a II steep sleep hill for fot example to help the emergency brake control the car So it Is found Cound each typo lypo ot or loci hit has It Its Ita peculiar disadvantage Despite De these minor faults how how how- however however ever lr the argument Is presented that thes these locks at least will dis courage the thief front from trying to steal the car lot I at cb b c ct t r rk rr k r e ee d a e C Cr r The Ignition lock at A Is Ii a 0 c ind dental lock while that at C Is of the tho S ml send fobs e n It shows s how Iho locking device de at the dash dash- dashboard board Is conn connected Stith Ith the Ibe Igni- Igni Ignition Ignition tion |