Show The cars car's headlights may have little or nothing to do with how bow she's hitting but they are Import import- Important important ant factors in assuring comfort and safety for the passengers So it is essential that the head head- headlights headlights lights be kept properly focused and in III good condition Tarnished reflectors dirty lens lens- lenses es burnt burntout out bulbs pr or poor con con- contacts contacts may be the cause of a seri serI- serious serIous serious ous accident The first essential in securing good headlights is to see that the reflectors ren and bulbs are aren In n good shape The lenses should be taken out and cleaned thoroughly Tho reflectors should be polish polish- polished ed with a 11 thin solution of o lamp lamp- lampblack lampblack lampblack black and alcohol but extreme care should bo be taken that no scratch be left on its surface Pol Pol- PolIshing should be by means of a alight alight alight light circular motion and only in Inona ono one direction Bulbs should be bo checked chocked at tho the same time so that they furnish their full Cull candlepower candle power Sometimes insufficient brilliance of oC lamps may be bo duo to an over over- or an undercharged battery or to poor contacts Testing the battery and the lines to the headlights is the way to check on this There is a fad In some parts of the country for the blue or daylight type of headlight bulbs They are bought in the belief that they give gl more and at the same time do not hurt the eyes of approaching drivers Both ideas Ides are mistaken The The blue bulb has been found to give no more mono light than the tho clear dear bulb and yet jet et use much more current curren from the battery Tests have ha shown that clear bulbs are just as asgood asgood asgood good in lighting the road as the blue bulbs and in fact are even better In cases of o fog or we wet roads Focusing of o the lights is simple especially since manufacturers have lia provided pro the easiest means to accomplish this Back of every headlamp head lamp Is la II a screw in most cases or a knob or ether other sort of ot adjustment ap ap- All that is needed is to back the car about 25 feet Irons iron irona troma a wall so that It stands on level lave 1 ground and direct the lights a athis at this wall wall wall-at at night of course A horizontal line b be drawn on the wall at the same sam I height as the headlamps head lamps The best bes assurance of oC proper would be filling the car in back bac pith passengers But wheN this cant can't c nt be done ilone another horIzontal line Une should be drawn about si sito sIx sIxto sixto to eight inches below the first firs and the fights focused on thIs one The reason is that loading th the car tips the lights upward and that the lowering of the lIghts light In focusing compensates for this Merely turning the sore sere cre o or knob or other adjustment back o of each lamp is enough to direct t t. e c beam into a II sharp wile wide light Ugh so that the top of it Just reaches the lower horizontal line if 1 the car ar is 11 empty or the tho upper lino IIno linof it If f it Ik Ic occupied It is Just a matter of oC moving tee no bulb forward or J 1 JunUl until it reaches the exact focal point of the the- headlamp head lamp |