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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
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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.
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