Judge — March 22, 1924 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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The Curtain is Raised The new cars have been an- nounced and their prices and specifications are ready for the public. Whether you want a Ford or a Rolls Royce; whether you are interested in balloon tires or the standard sizes; whether you would like brakes on all four wheels or only on the two rear; whether you prefer sedan or roadster—the Motor Depart- ment of JUDGE will give you free unbiased advi s to the selec- tion, operation and maintenance of any car. Fill out the coupon given be- low and mail to the Motor De- partment of JUDGE at 627 W. 43rd Street, New York City. The only cost to you is a stamp for reply. Experts will give your questions careful consider- COUPON Motor Department Jupce 627 West 43d St., New York City I am considering the purchase of acar to cost about $.....and am especially interested in one - (make) é eee (type) My requirements for a car are as follows: Capacity . j Type of body.... eae Driven and cared } we ae Uf for by . chauffeur Kind of roads over which car would be used wie. D have owned other cars of the following makes: mately the type in which I am interested are handled by dealers in my territory: Please advise me as to the car best suited to my requirements. Jones unfortunately put some “white mule” in his radiator to keep it from freezing. MOTOR DEPARTMENT Subscribers desiring practical help or tech- nical information about motor care, trucks, ‘accessories or touring routes, can obtain by writing to the Motor Department, Supox, 627 W. 43d Street, New York. No charge is made for this service. Please remember that @ teo-cent stamp should be inelosed for reply. Wuat Is a “SpEEDER” ? FE HAVE tried in previous articles | to indicate the utter absurdity of the average automobile law which judges the recklessness of motor car driving solely on the basis of speed. We have indicated how such a law and its interpretation by some of our courts may make a virtual criminal out of a careful driver who drives along a parkway or boulevard with no cross streets and with but little traffic, at a speed of twent: miles per hour, whereas the same driver | might be within the law if he operated his car at fifteen miles per hour through con- | gested tenement districts with children playing in the street. If no accident hap- pened in the latter case he cannot be | called a reckless driver, although the chances are 100 to 1 in favor of a disaster under these conditions, as compared with the twenty-six mile speed on an open driveway in the suburbs or in a park. Furthermore, the law does not take into consideration the weather conditions or 28 the mechanical condition of the car. This is all wrong as is evidenced by the fact that very few of the serious accident occur on a parkway where the largest number of speeders are apprehended. We stated before that on any open roadway in which any possible obstack or danger can be observed 300 feet in ad vance, a speed which can permit of stop- ping within 100 feet is more than safe Likewise in a congested tenement district in which a child may dart out from the curb fifteen feet ahead of the car, a speed which will permit of stopping within six or seven feet is none too conservative. Therefore, it is not speed but stopping ability which should be the eriterion of ss driving. And now let us cm- phasize again the fact that when weather conditions are such that a car cannot }« brought to a stop within a safe distance when traveling at the legal speed, the motorcycle enforcement officers who judge of the criminality of automobile driving solely on the basis of speed are not able to perform their duties—and this at a time when driving is most dangerous and when speed laws, if they exist, should be enforced with maximum rigidity. Another fallacy of the present means of enforcing the speed law is the lack of differentiation between speed permitted on hills and on the level. Ev. -y motorist knows that a car going up a fairly steep hill very use dow diffi stop grac deer abil thel take side dow Is i avel plis act som opel tim of t und coul ‘ig dete car still fore con inte dist way ist that that on | 00 comicbooks.com