MOTORISTS “S. Q.” BEjNGJESTED Reflex-o-Meter in Washing ton in Connection With Film. Your I. Q. may be high, but your B. Q. is low unless you can step on the brakes P. D. Q. An apparatus called the reflex e-meter is in town and Washington drivers can have their S. Q. tested. B. Q. means safety quotient, and drivers are endowed with it according to their ability to react to an emer gency. First tests were made yesterday in front of Loew's Palace Theater. They will be continued today. The reflex-o-meter measures the time it takes a driver to recogflize an emergency necessitating a stop and get his foot on the brake. Accord ing to the sponsors of the device, it Is the general belief that the action Is simultaneous, whereas S. Q. tests show that the average reaction time is five-eighths of a second. The person to be tested on the reflex-o-meter sits down at a table beneath which are a clutch pedal, brake pedal and accelerator corre sponding to similar devices in an automobile but with very dissimilar results. When the “accelerator” is pressed down a green traffic light shines, on a panel before the ope rator's eyes. Green Light Changes to Ked. If you plan to take this test and Want to make a high score, stay on your guard, for next thing you know the green light changes to red and you’re supposed to take your foot ofl the “accelerator” and mash the "brake." This action halts a stop watch which was started when the light flashed red. The “teacher” reads from the watch hoW long it took you to put on the brakes. Then he gives you a card with your score. Average S. Q. is 100. The fellow who makes 125 or 167 is considered excellent and goes to the head of the class. A score of 500. the highest pos sible. is virtually unknown. A dan gerously low reaction is shown by any score under 50. The 500 score can be attained by transferring the foot from accelerator to brake in one-eighth of a second. Half a second rates a 125 score, a full second only 62. Pamphlets containing 25 questions on safety will be distributed at the demonstrations. Each question has three answers, one of which is cor rect. A mark of 85 is considered excellent. Time Importance Shown. The Johns-Manville Co. manufac turers of the reflex-o-meter and spon sors of the safety “school” conducted in this connection, has charted figures to show the importance of a fraction of a second in stopping a car. The figures show the following: If a car is traveling 50 miles an hour and the driver's reaction time Is five-eighths of a second, the car will travel 45 feet before he gets his foot on the brake. Then, if the pavement is dry and unobstructed and his brakes are in good order, the car will travel another 138 feet before It can be brought to a safe stop. Accordingly, at 50 miles an hour a driver with average reaction should keep a clear space of 183 feet ahead of him if he wishes to avoid acci dents in an emergency. Safe stopping time varies with the 1 speed of the car and the reaction of the driver, tests show. An average driver, it has been found, will require 22 feet to stop at 20 miles an hour, : but the length needed for stopping in creases much faster than the speed of the car. So at 80 miles an hour he will need 425 feet for stopping and his car will travel 73 feet before - he begins braking. 1 •.. LANDON NOT TO SEEK CALIFORNIA DELEGATES Kansas Governor's Decision Not “Deal” With Any G. 0. P. Group, Declares Friend. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 27.—Charles A. Sunderlin, Los Angeles attorney. | said yesterday Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas had informed him he would not enter the California primary as a candidate for the Republican nomina tion for President. Sunderlin. an old friend of the Kansas Governor, said he told Landon that if California sent an uninstructed delegation to the Republican national Convention, it would be, in effect, a “Hoover group." A faction supporting Gov. Frank P. Merriam as California’s “favorite son” remained to contest today the organized move for an unpledged delegation. Sunderlin said Landon’s decision not to bid for California’s support at the May 5 primary could not be consid ered. in any sense, a “deal” with any other Republican group. Have Your “S. Q.” Tested rTV'OBiE^T^11':’1 -1 ~ "*■- „ -**■■ """""HML 1 I ■( '"i-fr I WB&&.... I A reflex-o-meter test of a driver’s speed In reacting to an emergency. A truck bearing this apparatus is in Washington in the interests of safety in connection with the safety film “Hit-and-Run Driver.” which opens to morrow at Loew’s Palace Theater. Tests are being made of the S. Q. (safety quotient) of Washington drivers. The apparatus registers the time required for a driver to take his foot from the accelerator and put it on the brake and bring his car to a stop. GIRL ACQUITTED ON SLAYJNGCHARGE Jury Accepts Theory She Was Driven Insane by Father’s Advances. By the Associated Press. ANADARKO. Okla., February 27.— Emma Willis, 18-year-old farm girl, was acquitted of the murder of her father yesterday by a Jury which ac cepted the defense theory she had been driven insane by cruelty and improper advances from the 51-year old sharecropper. Plans were launched immediately to obtain her final freedom through a hearing on her present sanity. W. H. Cooper, defense attorney, said be would give physicians at the Supply, Okla., Insane Hospital several weeks to observe her and then start habeas corpus proceedings. "I feel lots better." said the bru net girl as she was led from the court room to await transfer to the hospital. “Well, they’ve declared me crazy. I don't feel any different than I did before they said Z was Insane, though." Her pleas for her mother to remain near her brought the protestation: “Land sakes, child, I’ve got to get on home to wash your clothes for you to go to the hospital in.” Sheriff Elmer Finley, promising he would take the girl past her home on the trip to the hospital, advised: “Grit your teeth, Emma. You’ve been through the worst now—this isn’t going to be so bad.” Receiving the case at fl:50 am. yes terday. after hearing a sordid story of mistreatment of the defendant by her father, Iddls H. Willis, the Jury re turned Its verdict after 2 hours and 50 minutes of deliberation. It read: “We find the defendant not guilty by reason of being Insane, and fur ther find defendant to be dangerous to the public and the public safety." Chile Plantings large. Chile expects bumper crops in 1030. MENINGITIS TOLL IS 15 IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ■7 the Asiocieted Press. NORTON, Va., February 27.—The spina! meningitis death toll in the Southwest Virginia outbreak reached 15, with the report of another death as the result of the disease. Physicians estimated that there were 35 meningitis esses In the counties of Wise, Dickenson and Russell, Public meetings are banned In Dickenson and in the Dante section of ’ Russell. Complaints were reported to have been made to Dr. C. H. Reagan of the State Health Department’s Southwest Virginia office, that some dance halls and tea rooms have refused to observe the quarantine regulations. IF ITCHING KEEPS YOU AWAKE USE POSLAM Concentrated skin comfort — that’s what Poslam is! Put just a little on that aggravating, itch ing spot tonight. Almost at once the itching stops and by morn ing the redness and irritation begins to fade. Hence healing is promoted. Why wait for-re lief? Get Poslam today and get sleep tonight. Your druggist sells Poslam, 50c, or a convincing trial sent free. 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