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Show GLARING LIGHT WILL BE ENDED Federal, State and Local j Authorities Will Combine Com-bine in Campaign li NKA So nice, I WASHINGTON, April 29 The headlight evil Is going to be corrected if It takes the government and all I state and local authorities combined 'to do It. That is the assurance given out by experts of the United States bureau of standards who are co-operatinK with a special committee on motor vehiclo lighting of tho American Illuminating Engineering society. Automobile manufacturers, too, ar& Interested in regulations concerning headlights and have offered to aid the bureau of standards and legal authorities au-thorities In their work What the. authorities aro especially desirous of accomplishing is the creation crea-tion of recognized standards for automobile auto-mobile headlights and the formulation formula-tion of a uniform headlight law throughout the country An agreement has already been reached on the kind of llpht re- quired and the limits for controllingi glaring light. The establishment of headlight adjusting stations in garages, gar-ages, according to tho bureau ofi standards, hus been a desirable step toward uniformity in automobile lighting. Bureau of standards experts have been swamped with offers of help from all over the eountrv An informal in-formal organization of state authorities, authori-ties, representing all of New England, Eng-land, Now York. New Jersey. Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and Maryland, has been formed. Their main purpose Is to establish a uniform headlight law among their own states and to urge the same law upon other states until the whole country Is covered, Thelr's Is the frst step toward federalization of a I uniform headlight law. Uniform law alone, however, could not abolish the headlight evil, say the men studying the situation here. Besides Be-sides such laws there should be a uniform procedure in enforcing these lawE and. especially, an extensive campulgn of education for enforcement enforce-ment officers, garage men and automobile auto-mobile drivers The committee of illuminating engineers en-gineers and all aOsoYnoblle experts nit. rested are working together for a plan of action that will Include these essentials. oo |