..VTiniIiir 7rXt X3T A.TDOUXVTfl A I.nil-AivnAAu - it I: P I: Si 41 ., .THE OREGON' STATESMAN, iULEit orbcq DELVARE SKID DEVIL IP POSTER URGES Tootle Horn' Trumpet Melo diously 'to-'Pedestrianspr L4 Safety Notes Say American risltors to Japan haye manifested much Interest in a aafety bulletin' limned by the au thorities there. - Copies oCnhe or iginal poster and English ! trans lation have been -received by the National Safety council which has reproduced the following: A 'At the rise of the hand of the pollceraan. atop rapidly. Do not pass tlm by or otherwise disre spect him, . "When a passenger of the foot hove in- sight, tootle the horn trumpet to him melodiously at first. If he till obstacle your passage, tootle him with rigor and express by. word ; of month the warning 'HI. Hi. - t "Beware of the wandering horse that, he shall not take fright as youjPAss him. Do not explode the exhaust box at him. Go sooth ingly -by, or stop by the roadside until be pass away. "Gire big space- to the festive dogr that make sport in the road way. Avoid entanglement of dog with your wheel spokes. -Go soothingly on the grease annd. for there lurks the skid de Dion. Press the brake of the foot as you roll around the corner's(to ar lKi? colla'pRe and tie-up." H. Cameron, managing di rector of the National Safety coun cil, saya that the man who mijide the translation may not know vitry much about our language but ! he 7 - 600,000,000 A YEAR CAUSED BY AUTO ACCIDENTS U5 JfeaLchlife 22, 6 jo Dyes :R3,ooo.ooo If non-fatal injuries each cost Theri 678.000!njuries ..3.65utooo tr4-lhen 7C30O3ai:ctdeital350.00a.O00 . . , T ,. - 50i OTALCOSTOfAODDEriT556l65aOOO Close to 5699.000,000 a year is the ainnuaj economic loss due. to automobile accidents,; both, fatal and non-fatal. This appalling. sum It nly an estimate, as no complete figujres on the number of auto mobile accidents 1n the United States are available, but it has been conservatively estimated that 22,600 lofce their lire each' year by automobiles and $5000 a human life is the lowest ralue put on it by economists. : V J --. ; pt non-fatal 'accidents C7S.000 occur annually, causing average cffc of $175. Then, each accident averages 15 property damage, in surance records ehowf This makes the staggering total of 5581,650, 000 a year. - J No account ts taken here, points outj the Stewart-Warner Safety Council for the prevention of automobile accidents. f the . economic value of time Iosh by the injured due ttk delays caused by accidents or to minor property values, such as belbt fenders, expense incurred While motor vehicles,, particularly commercial ones, are out of service, djue to accidents. Were all these taken into the reckoning, the total flgjure would surely be doubled, or around $1, 113, 750, 000. . 1 t REC0IL1 0 OE By gidi:eh eight 51 Minutes Clipoed From ".. Previous BestiTirpq Over " 490 Mile Course., realizes it pays to be careful. The dtice, however., is just as pood hjefe as in the Far Kast where it H ;-a problem to regulate motor ists as it is'evcrywhere ele. ' brtland H. O. Tenney per- ffcdts flax-pulling machine that 4ay revolutionize harvesting fiber atx. Kehtucky now has two women county sheriffs. Anhie Mathews lias entered up on her second term as registrar of Nw York county. The posi tion pays 312,000 a year and is Hak! to be the hTgliest salaried publif office ever held by a wom an iitjthe United tSates. Driving a stock Gardner idght-in-line sport sedan Bobbie Darrell of Los Angeles recently clipped a full 51 minutes! from j "Cannon Ball" Baker's record fcr the 490 mile dash from La Angeles to Phoenix, California. Despite the fact that the "Gardner j Eight-inline, in which Darirell set his new mark of 10 hours and 2 minutes, was a strictly stock mdl - with the addition -ofan extra gasoline tank, and that Darrell drove the car at average speed of 47.4 miles an hour for 10 consecutive hours. no mechanical repairs or adfust'd ments were made either during the ran or as a result of it. Clone cooperation by the Wes tern Union Telegraph company permitted perfect timing' of the Gardner from start to finish. Af fidavits from official representa tives of this company show the time, of the Gardner's departure from Los Angeles and its arrival in Phoenix. This was i the first time that an enclosed car has ever been used in an attempi to lower the mark set by;; "Cannon Bell" Baker In an open car some time a to. ' It will alfo be recalled that to a stock Gardner sedan belongs the distinction of being the only enclosed car to ever establish a cross-country record from Xew Yorkto Los Angeles. SUNDAY MORNINGS JANUARY 24, 1926 m 1 WORT.TVS ONLY RADIO TOURING BUREAU IS RULED BY A WOMAN Medford Duilding record here for 1925 was $752,840. . ,, ' ' .." T i in - ,.f if t ? ' L -"i . : S :. v i So far has woman traveled from her place in the ho-me that ifoW she has even become dictator to the open highway! Miss Nina Baker is ohfy 25 years old, but she is a recognized authority on motor travel information anywhere in the United States. , ' Radio appealed to Miss Baker as the most satisfactory way of conr ducting an up-to-the minute travel service. so ow he 4s directing the only radio tourist bureau in the world. This clearing house of automobile trael information Is the Stewart-Warner Touring Bureau, and wi:i be broadcast over WBBM. Chicago. WB BM operates on a 22G meter wave length. Branch stations of the bureau wil be es tablished in fifty-two cities in the United States, and Canada Radio talks will be given over WBBM Beveral times a week1. Every" phase of motor traveling will be considered: how to dress; keeping physically fit while motoring traffic laws in the different states; weather forecasts; where to camp, and how to estimate the cost of your trip. . -,. : :.;. '. . The Stewart-Warner Touring Bureau also broadcasts an invitation A-'.ti ntnpr who Dlaix trips to send In, lor free road mapstand charts and any special Information they want, v - r- - Affiliations have been established ;wlth more than 2,000 motor clubs, chambers of commerce, garages, hotels, resorts, and other, travel Information bureaus. whoe resources will be available; for1 tourist's applying to the bureau. ' " ' ' 1 Progress of Haiti Shown ! in Commissioner's Report . . ' .' ; ' i y"" .7"""- PORT-AU - PRINCE - Haiti. Haiti, rich in soil and "agricultur al resources, has just completed one of the best fiscal years of its history. - - - A study of the 1924-1925 finan cial report shows that $8,007,533 Jn" revenue was received by the republic, as compared to $6,580. 424 the previous year. ; This sur passed by $1,298,043 the total re ceipts of 1919-1920, the best pre- fvious year' since the American in tervention. , ,1 5 Expenditures -totaled $7,S43. 64 0, approximately - a million more than ln 19231924. Half' of . this Increaise, however, wai de voted to! retiring debts, while the' remainder was. allotted to public vorks and agriculture. ? BtigadieHUeneral John II. Itus sell, Americaoi high commissioner, has expressed; himself as fwell pleased with. the. improvement . in conditions. CattaaafliBRAKE; SPECIAUSTg;,::. Only Box ayc, , Left for you to take advantage of our sale on brake lining. . f Pon't wait till the last day it rnay be too late. 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