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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS FOR DRIVERS. Novel Scheme Boing Tried in Chicago,

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1924.

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Unsa' Ilrivors aro boing a shallow pan of water. eliminated from the employ of big i If the applicant puts the gaso. taxi companies in Chicago by alline can on the table, holding the series of psychological tests. lighted candle he doesn't got tho job. Likewise he fails abould be place the sugar or salt in the pan of water or a heavy object on the wabbly tablo.

The author of the tosts is Prof. A. J. Snow, assoolate Instructor of psychology at North-western University.

Co-oporating with him in the nrovemont are officials of the Na- tional Assoolation of Taxicab Owners and advisors.

safety

FOR EMERGENCY. The third tost is known as the For council"fear-time reaction" tost,

this Boow has contrived a device with wiree and controls each of which has its purpose.

Thoro are three tests. First, the driver is asked to look at a shoot covered with The potential driver, seated at various figures and then describe the apparatus, is asked to connect what he has soon. This is to loose wires to their binding peste. ascertain the driver'a powers of The lights in the room go out. attention, observation, momory Only a tiny pilot fight guides him. and general keenners.

CAUTION NOTED.

He is told to koop connecting these wires and to stop only should For the second tost the ap-something unusual happen. In plicant for the driver's job is that event he is to turn off a taken to four tablos.

switch (corresponding with the ignition) and atop on a pedal (cor- rosponding with a brake).

On one table the man finds a book, a sack of sugar and a sack of salt, a can labelled gasoline, and some heavy object. He is asked to transfer all these articles as quickly as possible to the other three tables,

The rapidity with which the man connects, the wires is noted.

Then follows a torrific flash. A flare of electricity leaps before him.

On one of those tablos a candle If the applicant is the kind of man the taxi company wants to hire, he will turn off the switch and step on the brako.

is burning. The legs of another ara unsteady. The top of the third is completely covered with

IS RACING POPULARITY DECLINING?

ten yards was down to five, and in this position they shot over the lino.

In its own way the performance

Is automobile racing dead, kill-was miraculous, perhaps more so ed by the final perfection of the then the straightway race might have been. It stampod the soal automobilo? The question is of perfection on the modern au raised by the recent performance tomobile, motor chassis and tyres. at Brookfield of the Talbot-Dar It was a teet, a display, a fulfill racy team, which finished ono, two and three, with five yards ment, a triumph. But it was not racing and it was not sport: A between, in the 200-mile raco: sporting race is one in which The performance was dazzling ;

ovory man extends bimself to the all three cars broke the world's record for the distance, keeping utmost and the best "ulment" up the amazing speed of 102.27 miles an hour, and this with engines of 1500 capacity.

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So the question is boing seri- ously asked if the finest showing

But it was too dazzling. It got made by drivers in a 200-milo

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was not sport; it was mechanics race has not unwittingly killed in planning your PICNICS or joy rides,

and engineering, and a race is a eporting event.

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The morning of the race tho Talbot-Darracq drivers bad a consultation. They had been testing their care and they know

HOW IT HELPS SALES. what they were capable of, Bo they put numbers in a bat and Despite nation wide objection drew lots to soo which one should to compulsory liability insurance have the honour of winning the in the United Statos, word comes race. K. Leo Guinness draw the from Switzerland that this form lucky number. G. Duller was to of motor insurance is considered como in second and H. O. D. a boon to motordom. Sogravo was to bo the third. They decided that the second car should finish fivo yarde behind the first and the third one five yards bohind the socond.

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The threo cars them pounded has put an end to this liability. can now pe accommodated. around the track, about fifty yards Other dealera repeat this between each, running superbly praise of the compulsory liability A measure is on foot now to Imum for motor cycles is 10,000 the purchase price.. at a rate of a mile in thirty-six | law.

make this a federal law.

france. Part of this insurance Fotolguera driving cars in Swit This law was first taken up by. According to this law, a motor must be borne by the polloy zarland do not come within the Sugravo ccomed to be taking the a single canton of Switzerland in car owner cannot get a lloonas holder, not

jurk diotion of this law. But a load, but instead the three cars 1913. It grow so fast in before be has taken out liability The additional cost for the way I being worked out by which oloned up within ton yards of popularity that now practically insurance amounting to not lose owner. It is estimated, ranges, they: lao-will be made Iable for each other. On the last lap the every canton has a similar law, than 20,000 francs. The mins from about one to two per cent of acoldentur junt as the ballých kroz