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AUTO SECTION AUTO SECTION An Independent Newspaper, Published !( the Beat intjireits of the People, Consolidation of The Evening News, and The Roiaburg Review ROSEBURG. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1927. VOL. XXVIII NO. 153 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW. VOL. XVIII NO. 227 OF THE EVENING NEWS VISIT 1EG1 DURi SEASON One of the most interesting phrases of motor vehicle statistics Is that showing the. volume and movement of tourists or out of the state traffic. From January 1 to September 30, 1927, there were a total of 79,848 foreign or out of the state cars registered at the 39 points of reg istration within the Btuta of Ore gon. Nearly 50,000 of the visiting cars entered the stute during the three mouths of June, July and August, the high mark being in July when the foreign registrations for that month reached 19,591. ." " A barometer could scarcely rec ord more faithfully the alchemy of ' nature in transmuting the rigor of winter into the glowing- opulence of summer, than does the prosres . sive tide of tourist traffic. Starting in January of this year the foreign registration totalled 1,732, for February they reached 2,4 Rl, in March - they numbered . 3,929, for April 5,284,1 May 7,331, ' and Juno 13,700. Then came the ,' crest in July : when 19,591 wore ' registered, and the beginning of the decline for the season in Au- gUBt, when the registration aggre gated 16,853 and during September .8,901. - , During the year 1325 there wero 82,713 visiting cars registered, ana tin 192C, 92,050, an increase of ap proximately 9,300. It is probable that the total figures for 1927 will not disclose as great a. ratio of in . crease, nevertheless the figures for tho 12 months of 1927, it seems, will show a total of foreign regis tratlons reaching not ' far from 100-.000. ' This much have Oregon's scenic i wonders and her magnificent high ways, already accomplished in at tracting the sightseers of ' the earth. As people learn more of : Oregon's simple and artless gran- cleur,- her bewitching beauty .and " the Intriguing enchantment . with which nature has endowed her, the "7riood ot tourist) travel will swell' to greater proportions. , It is of . interest, to . note- jtho ' 1 sources from whence, Oregon's vis itors came during the season now coming to a close. .California leads with a total of 44,589 cars, - and , Washington isjiext with an aggre gate of 15,578. From Idaho 4,694, Colorado 1.091, Montana 945, Utnh 893, Wyoming 445, and Nevada f t There were 693 cars, from Texas, 691 from Kansas, 531 from Okla lioma, 502 from Arizona, . and 127 from New Mexico. f ' From tho Dukotas there were , , 4C8, from. Nebraska 690, from Min , nesota 550. from Iowa 718, from Missouri 467, from Wisconsin 347, from Illinois 883, from Kentucky ,46, from Tennessee 48, from Ar kansas 85, from Mississippi 28, and from Ixmisiana 54. Without a doubt many of those from the MIs , sissippi Valley states, came to Ore . gon to make their future- dwelling place, and Btake their.future in n state .upon which nature smiles more feelingly and where the ele ments In their destructive and sinister moods are unknown. 1 There were 542 cars from -Michl pan, 614 from Ohio, 324 from -In-'dlana, 293 from Pennsylvania, and 32 from West Virginia. The land of Dixie contributed liberally to Oregon's tourist pa geantry, every state of the Old South being represented.. From Alabama there were 29, from Flori da 259, from Georgia 30,. from South Carolina 5, from North Caro lina 21, and from Virginia 22, and from Maryland 40. , ; From New York thero wero 394 cars registered, and from New Jersey, 132. From cultured Now F.ngland came many visitors- to Where Rolls the Oregon." There were 20 cars from Maine, 8 from New Hnmpshlre, 4 from Vermont, 33 from Connecticut 17 from Rhode island, and 12 from Massachusetts;. From Alasga there were 14 cars, and from the District of Columbia 34.. t Over 1200 cars from foreign countries visited Oregon during the present season. From Canada there were 1,207, from Mexico 2. from the Canal Zone 7, from Eug land 2, and from our tropical pos sessions in the far Pacific, tho Philippine Islands 1. Ashland close to the California border on the Pacific highway, with a total ot 17.435. registered Ihore visiting cars during the pres ent season than any other point in the state. Grants Pass was second with 11,143 and Medforrl followed w ith 10.368. At Roseburg there were 2.245 foreign cars registered, at Klamath Falls 3.582, at Eugene 2.798. at Albany 1,454, and at Cor vallis 615. From the east, there were 3.638 cars registered at Huntington, 1,245 at Nyssa, 2.948 at Ontario, 870 at Raker, and 733 at Ijl Grande. At Pendleton .there, were 1.434 registered, at Mllton Freewater 1.267, at The Dalles 1.508 and at Hood River 698. At Astoria, the foreign registration to talled 381. at Gold Beach 364, and nt Lakevlew 219. At Portland they reached 8.189. Salem they aggre gated 4.519, at Iiend 697. at Ore ' gon City 471, at Tillamook 158, at Seaside 151. and at Marshfleld 187. The other points registered less than 100 visiting cars, each. WE DO LIKE TO BE Those Long, Sleek Lines Are-Put There to Delude Us, But BY ISRAEL KLEIN, Science Editor, NEA Service. The automobile body these dayd Is getting as much attention, if not more, as the power plant itself. For while tbe engine has reach ed the point ot efficiency where It is practically taken for granted, the entire car Itself still has to meet the appraising eye and exact ing tastes of the buyer. Those tastes, tbe manufacturer has discovered, have turned their attention not only toward the ap pearance of the car, but to its ar rangements for tbe comfort of the passengers. And so the manu facturer has called in the body de signer, and the body designer has called upon his best resources to furnish a body that would be both highly attractive and comfortable. The ends to which the designer has gone are no better brought out than in the talk of A. B. North- rup, prominent body designer, at tbe recent semi-annual meeting of the Society of Automotive Engi neers. In it he emphasized the Important relationship ' of appear ance and comfort and disclosed the ways in which these are accomplished. Few Motorists Responsible for -:'. Increasing Accidents S - : CHICAGO, Oct. 19. Traffic acci dents have increased at a high rate In the last ten years, yet only five per cent of the motorists of Ameri ca are responsibly for them. . Such is the surprising revelation made to members of the, National Safety Council at its sixteenth an nual safety congreas: 'here. Charles E. Hill, vice-president of the organization, brought out 1 the point that there wasran incnease-of 2$J per cent in deaths from auto accidents In the ten. years from 1917 to-1926.' Thti'fatalltles hi 1927 Were' 6000. : Lost year, he says, there were 23,000. . t , "In other words," he points out, "during 1926 there wero more peo ple killed through automobile acci dents i than were killed at grade crossings during - the entire ten year period." , .. .,(.. ' Ydt blame for most of those ac cident b- may be 1 placed on I he GRAIN RATE HEAR- - INQ FOR PORTLAND ( A moo la trd preu Leased Wlr) ' , , SALEM, Ore., Oct 18. One of .the hearings In the grain rate case now in process before the Inter state Commerce Commission un der the Hoke Smith resoultlon may be held In Portland. The public service commlsslonvwas in formed today by. John E.vBenton, its solicitor at Washington, that with the conclusion ot the hearing now In progress at Minneapolis and one to be held In Chicago two hearings will be held on the Pa cific coast. Tentatively .Los .Ange les and Seattle have been selected as the locations for the hearings, but the Oregon service commis sion' announces that It will attempt to have n hearing in Portland, or New Road Through The Everglades By NEA Service. MIAMI, Pla., Oct; 18. Two years ago a party of motorists at tempted to cross the southern everglades of Florida between the Gulf ot Mexico asd the Atlantic coast They found themselves in pathless wilderness and were res cued by airplanes. - ; . ; . : ; By next spring, this same wilder ness will be traversed by a fine macadam road which will cat the trip across the everglades to two hoars. This Is the hew Tamlamt Trail, named so because ot its connec tion between Tampa on the gulf side and Miami on the east. Its to tal length will be 298 miles and Its completion will have cost the state ot Florida almost 114,000,000. By means of this road, touring through Florida will be one con tinuous circle of sights. Visitors now will enjoy a new and entranc ing side of this sunny state. This wild country Is full of wild game. Seminole Indians occasion ally penetrated this region, but it was not until the highway engi neers came along that so many white persons presented them selves here at one time. Cutting this road, especially through the wild and marshy ever glades, has been a particularly heroic and troublesome engineer ing job. Dredges had to Bteady Horizontal lines are accentuated and vertical lines obscured In ern type car. Note the long windows, the wide molding, the sweeping cause the eye to travel from front to rear. shoulders ot only five per cent of the motoring public, he adds. "About 95 per cent of the motor ists of this country are reasonably safe," Hill believes. 'The remain ing five per cent, however,- repre sents a large army of more than a pUllion reckless and incompetent drivers flitting about the 'country without any regard for' the safety of themselves or thelP fellowmen. 4'They include drivers who are deaf,, blind, of immature age. In en feebled condition due to old age, those who are intoxicated' and then those - who are analogous' to the farmer's mule.'' i ' . j . ; Hill contrasts , tho qualifications required of a motorist und those of a locomotive engineer,. tb show h6w dangerous motoring la today lni the hands of iuupracticed drivers, j "The immediate remedy," he thinks, "lies In a constructive cam pnlgn of education." ' ' - ' possibly a- part of the Seattle heuTing. In Portjond. The Pacific oast hearings will probably he the latter part of November or varly In December, SEEK MISSING MAN SAN FRANCISCO, OeL 18. Edward Cureton, 25, missing In structor In the Oregon. University school of ' education at Eugene, Oregon, was being sought in the San Francisco district today. Cure ton's mother, Mrs. Elva S. Cureton, lives at San Jose and his father, Dr. Edward Cureton, lives at Stockton. Mrs. Cureton gave the only clue to searchers when she declared that her son told her about two weeks before he dropped out of sight that he might leave the University. '' Links Florida's Coasts This map of lower Florida shows how the new Tamlami Trail will cut through tho Everglades. themselves over soft swampy soil. Great drills had to hammer deep into the hard bed rock. And great saws had to be used to cut their way through four miles of cypress forest. Many ttreama had to be crossed and bridges built on foundations found deep below the marshy top soil, to make this road complete, r IT lOOIli Edward E. Spafford, new national commander of the American Legion, was greeted in true conquering-hero style by his buddies when he returned to New York from the Paris convention. They hoisted him on their shoulders as he descended the gangplank and carried him to a waiting auto. Mil I This bleak, trackless watte In i& rJ?V?wS h - OH TWtheVp havjb to verted into fine road crossing the state by next spring. It Is 90 miles from Miami to the I to be mounted on Kreat caterpillar I gun coast, straight westward. Yet this stretch cost almost half of the (entire cost of the 298 miles of road 10 jampa. i nis, more man any - thing else, tells what It meant to cut across this trackless wai-te. All supplies and heavy machin ery bad to be hauled at immense cost. Huge drag line dredges bad these two model designs of the mod fenprs -and other lines whteh . - the Florida Everglades will tractors to net them over the soft , soil. The worker camped alono In jthn wilderness, entertained by the 1 cries or tne wild turkeys and mai- lard ducks, the hoots of the and the screams of the eagles. Travelers going through next summer will enjoy flmllar versions by day and night. 3 CHEATED! They Make Attractive Autos Built f$r Passengers "Experience has si own," tie said, "that passenger comfurt de mands that the body he hunt a round the passenger, 'loo oiton the job h Btarted in the reverse or der by making an attractive design and then squeezing the passengers into It. "Milady may endure discomfort to wear a small stylish shoe, hut being squeezed Into un automobile body by suoe-horn menious is eu' lirely different" t ; How to muke room for the pas senger and still not reveal a large, cumbersome machine is the ' prob lem of the body designer. He solves it sometimes by availing himself of a long chassis. Then he may make the car low. the driver and passengers nuiy sink into their seats and stretch their legs com fort baly, while doora are widened to let the occupants go in or out with ease. , - . , i : ' Short Chais.it, Long Lines ' . But now comes the demand for shorter bodies und therefore tbe necessity of shorter chassis. Here, forced to adapt an attractive yet comfortable body to a Bhort chos Bi, the designer has revealed his genius. , , t ; ; This is apparent by the use of cheat lines. Cheat lines do just what the word Implies they make Denote believe they are getting something they arent actually get- LET'S Years ago, when we still also had the obsession that future mankind would be legless. The automobile was to divest us oi these necessary appendages, for we would have no more use for them. ' . . . That idea is gone, we still them, i !.'':.;' : I : ' ! But we have never itiven up deprived us of the opportunities to the extent at Which , we used to when we had to walK to the corner grocery or, run for the street, 'car. . ; J .' , I ' i . , Now, however, comes the University of Wisconsin - with the report of a medical study an d tests made among its student mo torists to show that even seated at the driving Beat we get enough exercise to assure us of good health. Our arms move with the steering wheel and our legs with operation of the clutch and brake pedals, enough At least to keep' them active and stir, the blood within, ub.. '. ; ,.,'., ,V i , ' iu . . '. . All that sounds good. But, as has already been suggested let's take a walk. i ' : ' ' 1 1 ' Let's get out from behind the wheel, where we have been cramped up after a long .ride, stretch our arms and legs, take a few long, deep breaths and take a walk. ' ' SENATOR WATSON ' WILL NOT RUN ( ,riini Itmb Lf aied Wire J CHICAGO, Oct The Trib une ay& today that Senator James K. Watson, of Indiana, discussing Indiana politics hero, said he had "ruachml tho dociBlon not to run Tor public office uguln." Senator Watson would mako no definite atatemeut about reporta that he might be a candidate for the Republican nomination for prealdeut. 1 ' WOULD ABOLI8H ORDER WASHINGTON Oct. 18. Ahol Ifllunent of aKrlculture department regulations requiring acid waHh hiK of applet) was demanded pf Secretary Jardlne toduy by Sena tor Waterman, Republican, Colo rado. He presented complaints from Colorado which declured that 01' Trusty I rAMniT .Uiyr QBED TMF CAMWJ AMD I ... r-.l-r- . . I M- HAT! ' . I I b. con. 1 x I Vrv rui ' Jh a V i i i . it rr . a v a v j a. t 1 11 tlng. In this case, the cheat lines make us believe v;e are getting a long, low, a leek and attractive car, wMle It is no longer than the stubby automobile on the same chassis without such lines. Cheat lines, generally, run hori zontally to effect this lengthy ap pearance. Tbe windows are made longer than they are high. Panel Ine is widened and run in a lone I line across the length of the body. the fenders are made long and sweeping and window reveals are widened to accentuate their length. Vertical Lines Taboo The color design, too, helps. Every effort is made to conceal vertical lines, for horizontal lines accentuate the Idea of a long, low body. ', Yet comfort isn't overlooked. In fact, It is part of the designers main thought when be builds up his model body. He must consider head room, leg room, seat width and door width. i Even the . interior trimmings of tthe body have to be considered, I not so much for appearance, -as fur the comfort of the passenger. As Nortbrup put it: "Ornate cloth patterns, heavily figured laces running hither and thither, or a preponderance of but tons, plaits and tassels destroy the res it illness of the interior. Simple tailored design, on the contrary, tends to eneouragy relaxation and rent fulness." WALK sympathizer with the horse, we have out leg", and we 'still use i I . . ) ; ; , , . : the notion that the automobile to exercise our bodies at least On regulations were? ruiulng the market inifor anplvs ia the western purl of the stale. PRODUCTION INCREASES, Automobllg production for Att gurt Increased 14 per cent oyer that of July, or 8 pur cent over Au gtiat of lunt year. More than 800, UtiO hiotor cara were manufactur ed In August. ' 1 1 i TEACH WOMEN DRIVERS The Now ark, N. J., safety coun cil Iiuh provided a free course In automobile driving for women. The lessons are given once a week fur five weeks, followed by a road test preliminary to a state mad test for licenses. Miss Sylvia Jantzer of Azalea was In Itogeburg during the morn lug visiting with friends and at tondlng to business matters. By Wootton .lllT QBED TMF CANtd AMD ST I SETSMFFICLIGI CLE VEtAKD. O., Oct. IS. A de vice which automatically gives po lice and fire apparatus the right of way thrash congested traffic dis tricts tu wen ttieo out Here, H. E. Wltwer, the Inventor, makes use of the vibration from the warning horn or siren of fire : apparatus to switch the traffic light at the street Intersection to green in the direction that the ap paratus Is driving. . . ' A sound receiver is piacea at tho side of the street a distance from the traffic light. ' When the annaratus anroaches tne receiver fiVA sounds its Biren the Instru ment connectea witn tots ukiuu light automatically lights tbe green, right-of-way signal. The born or siren, set at a ueii- nite pitch, gives a determined num ber of vibrations. The receiver, sensitive only to these vibrations, ' will not act wnen a noiBe ot any - other vibration Is sounded, i ; ; Four receivers are used on prin cipal intersections so that official , cars driving in any. direction- win have the advantage ' of an open road, . Iif case two cars are travel- i Im? in different directions the one ', which sounds Its horn - first gets the advantage of the green lignt while the other Is forced to obey; i the red stop light, eliminating the . danger of at eollliioa. ' The so'.r.d recamrs ar pmrea tar enough from the Intersection no that there to time for tne g- . nl to ahow an amher catrtIo l$ht before mtaE Un ch&n$t from re4, to gjeefc. . . " , How's She Hittin' By ISRAEL KLEIN ' : Science Editor, NEA Service.. ' When the balloon tire first came i Into use, motorists were presented I wiah a new difficulty the shimmy, Of course, the shimmy was known j In the earlier days, but not under the circumstances In which the ' larger tires Introduced It. . - t ' , A car might have been perfect In every respect,' and yet It shimmied, j '! At that time, the fault was laid t expressly- on the"' balloons' them selves, and to some extent It may still be there. ' But by this time englncors have Improved the bal Iooiib to the extent of almost en tirely eliminating It an the cause of shlmjny. -t Yet the shimmy porslsts. If It does thore's something wrong with, the car Itself, most likely. The wheelB may not be aligned. The tires may be unequally Inflat ed; Or they may have been attach ed recklessly and unevenly. The stoerlng gears may be loose. Or the wheel bearings' may not be The front whefla may tcs In too much or too little. Or tbe-.''may ba unequally balanced. And even the aprfttgs themselves may eaoas me wheels to shimmy It their aprlbs clips or shackle bolts are loose, ' Be It b that all them factors mast be checked up to flirt the cause of that wobWIng station ot the front wheels that Is transmit ted to the driver through tho steer ing system.- First, attention must be paid to the steering wheel and gears. Play should be about one to one and a half inches at the circumference of the wheel. It It's more, the gears should be taken up. Secondly, the wheels must be tight, the bearings properly ad Justed so that there should be no more than about a sixteenth of an Inch of "shake" on the rim of each wheel, and the front system must toe-In and align properly. To chock toe-In, jack up each wheol and spin It while holding a piece of chalk at the center of the trend. The chalk should be held perfectly steady, so that It may mark a line down the tread show ing the amount the wheel toes In. This may be about a sixteenth ot an Inch In most cases, although some wheels toe in an eighth ot an Inch or even more. Of course, tills test presupposes that there Is no play at the hubs. If there ia this should be tightened, p tlrst, Practice should be made of In flating tho tires to their proper pressure once a week. The mnu-ffaetiM--re advlro should he follow ed. Eqnal Inflation of the front tires eliminates this as a possible factor In wheel shimmy. Lastly come the spring shackles, bolts and clips. Their effect Is felt especially when the car la moving at a high speed. They Bhould be tightened. SPIRAL APPROACH A tall building witb double spiral ramps from ground up has been suggested as a new kind ot ap proach to a contemplated bridge over the Mississippi nt New Or leans. It would save space and re duce cost of the bridge, say Its ad vocates. 145,563,000 ON ROADS Canada spent l-IS.SItf.OOO during 15)26 on construction of all Its pro vincial highways. Tho mileage cov ered by this expenditure totaled 46,824. i