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TIIE' SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, APRIIi 26. 1914. REBUILT VALUE HIGH 400,000 Users Found Goodyear The Greatest Tire - Yet 16 Makes Now Sell at Higher Prices Factory Tests Most Severe on ': Remodeled Cars. POWER FIRST ESSENTIAL 8 : ,1? Buyer Get Store for Money In Ma chine Overhauled Than in Sew Cheap Cars at Any Price, V Says Sales Manager. . T t' BT H. R. ROBERTS. Toe keen buyers of used cars today are pot the men who demand some thing for nothing, but the men who demand more for their money in buying a. high-grade, rebuilt car, than they can get in a new. small-powered cheap car. Th sale of over 700 used cars by our company in the past three years has proven not only that the used car buyer demands his money's .worth, but that he demands a quality car, rebuilt and reflnished in the latest style, a serviceable car backed up by a written guarantee, and not a worn-out car at a cheap price. Every traded-in car we receive is sent- to the rebuilding department, wherer it passes through the process of dissembling, inspection, reassembling with"' nw parts where necessary, and re finishing;. It requires from four to six weeks to produce a car in such shape as will come ui to the Winton Company's standard. Nv part of the! machine is overlooked in the inspection, overhauling and re building. Th poces of rebuilding traded-in car fs interesting, and includes more carefol detailed work than the general public suspects'. This article is meant to be a conscious statement of the facts for the benefit of prospective buyers of a rebuilt automobile. A traded-in Car is first tested by the superintendent. Who makes a detailed report of the condition of the motor, chassis and all mechanical parts. This report Is kept as a matter of record, and is referred to four times before the car is ready to be sold; a check is made on this report each one of these four times, so that at the completion of the work it is almost impossible that any defects will go unnoticed. Superintendent Inspects Car. "With the superintendent's report at tached the car goes to the machine shop. It is placed in the hands of ex pert mechanics. There is no feature of the machine that they do not thor oughly understand. These mechanics dissemble the car. Every nut, bolt and screw is taken out of the engine, and each gearing, casing and connection is cleaned by compressed air. and washed in gasoline. The parts are. then inspected with the utmost care. Parts that require minute inspection are gauged with scientific instruments, and wherever a worn or craoked one is discovered it is thrown out and replaced by new material from the stockroom. The engine having been repaired, the work, of reassembling begins. The en tire power plant is put together again and replaced in the chassis. The second motor test is now made. The carburetor is adjusted to the proper mixture of gas, and tne revolutions of the engine are noted. If it passes as to quietness and quick response to the accelerator, it is taken out for the road and hill test. Grades that are, in a great many cases, more steep than most hills on which the car will ever be used after its purchase are selected for power tests. The clutch is tested, gear changes are made rapidly to ascertain that they are in the proper condition, and the transmission and differentials are tested. The wheels and brakes also come under this test. The car must now be in first-class mechanical condition, and finds its way to the wood shop and trim shop. The body attached to the chassis. It is remodeled and brought back up-to-date. Fore doors are put on and attention is paid to any defects in the woodwork ef the body. Careful Tests Are Made. The trimmers fit it out with seat covers and repair the top, if necessary. Side curtains are made and the entire automobile is then reassembled from drip pan to top and curtains, and it goes out for the final test before going to the paint shop. This test is mainly to eliminate any squeaks from the body or1 fenders. From nine to 15 coats of paint and varnish are applied, and then the refln ished car bears every semblance to the new machine as it comes from the fac tory. After the usual sales inspection of the finished car it is placed on the dales floor. The entire car from radia tor to tail lights must be perfect be fore It is allowed to go to the sales floor. If it is not it is reported and the car again has to. be tested and the trouble remedied. Blame It on the Tire From Pittsburg Gazette-Times. We Dropped 28 In 1913, No-Rim-Cut tiro prices dropped 28 per cent. No other tire dropped that much. Our mammoth output and new equipment gave us great advantage. And we pared our aver age profit last year down to Q4 per cent. Now 16 makes sell at higher prices. Some up to one-half higher. You can get four Good years for the price of three of several rival makes. Yet All Lack These Yet all those higher- prioed tiros lack these four exclusive features: ' Our No-Rim-Cut feature, which has ended rim-cutting en tirely. Our "On-Air" cure, which extra, process costs us $1,500 daily. It is done to save the countless blow-outs due to wrin kled fabric. Our rubber riv ets, hundreds of which we create in each tire before we vulcanize. They are formed at the point where tread sep aration occurs, and they lessen this danger by 60 per cent. IwOODPYEAR AKRON. OHIO No-Rim-Cut Tires With All-Weather Treads or Smooth Our All-Weather tread, double-thick and tough, as flat as a smooth tread, yet presenting to wet roads the deepest, sharpest, most re sistless grips. These features have made No-Rim-Cut tires the most popular tires in the world. They have won, we judge, at least 400,000 users. They have saved tire users many millions of dollars. Yet not a tire sold at higher prioea offers you any one of them. - Then Why Over-Pay? Men are right in seeking the utmost in s tire, whatever the utmost costs. Ti re s skimped to sell at an underprice are the costliest tires in the long run. But. the evidence is that No-Rim-Cut tires are the best tires built today. And no reasonable reason can be given for a higher price. Any dealer will supply you Goodyesrs if you say that you pre fer them. THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO Tela Goapuy has no aouwttoa whatom with other niblMr eoMvra which usee tee Goodreer aMuea Any Dealer can supply you Goodyear Tires. If the wanted size is not in stock he will telephone our Local Branch. (1528) I RAGE PRIZES $75,000 Indianapolis Speed Carnival to Be Classiest in History. 24 CARS NOW ENTERED Blame It on the Tire Tie didn't pump it full enough though all the air la tree. He left it soft and spongy like, and scooted ! on with giee. lie skidded and he grldded and whooped - inrougD ciusi ana mire. And when It burst He cursed and cursed And blamed It on the tire. ,-He drove it on the streetcar tracks with confidence superb: lie scraped it on the lampposts and he scraped it on the curb; He alammed it and he Jammed it any way ne mignt desire; And when it popped Right out he hopped And blamed it on the tire. He cut It on some broken glass, but said that didn't hurt; He kept rirht on through sand and mud ana rilled the cut with dirt. It spotted there and rotted there, and soon he howled in ire; When up it blew He blew up, too And blamed it on the tire. He put on chains that ground and chewed and rouged Into the tread. He knew his wheels were out of line. "But what of that?" he said. He whizzed along and sizzed along, he picked up nails and wire And when it banged His fist he whanged And blamed it on the tire. TVho is this man? Go ask the boys who meet him every day. Go ask tne ooys who have to hear the things he has to say. He bores in and he roars in with words of angry fire. Though he's to blame. It's all the same He blames it on the tire. Pittsburg Gazette-Times. Autos In Philippines Increasing. American motor cars are winning their way in the Philippines, the sta tistics showing that the number of cars shipped there increased from 38, valued at $46,377, in December, 1912, to 54, valued at $53,785, in December last. During the calendar year the num ber increased from 475, valued at J&16,761, In 1912. to 679, valued at $$43,958 in 1913. Shipments of parts likewise Increased in value from $1877 in December, 1912. to $9229 in Decem ber laBt, and from $5?,070 In 1913 to $74,660 in 1913. Elimination Time Trials Will Make 30 Total In Contest Noted Rac ers Already Signed 2 "Dark Horse" Machines to Enter. INDIANAPOLIS, April 25. (Special.) Entry of two more cars has been- re ceived for the 500-mile automobile race. They are a Metropol, to be piloted by Joe Horan, of Amplex and Lozier fame. and a Stafford, to be handled by Jesse Callahan, formerly mechanician to Louis Disbrow. The Metropol Is nom inated by a New York City corporation of that name, while the Stafford has the backing of a couple of private owners in Kansas City. Both these machines fall into the dark-horse division of contestants. They may make a remarkable showing:, as did the Gray Fox of Wilcox which last year finished sixth, after barely two months of preparation, or they may go down in the elimination trials, which will probably he held this year. The total field to date embraces 24 cars and drivers as follows: Burman (2), Burman and one other; Stutz (3) Oldfield, Cooper and Anderson: . Gray t ox, Wilcox; Beaver Bullet, Keene; Peugeot (3), Goux, Boillot and Duray; Sunbeam (2). Grant and Chassagne; Delage (2), Guyot and Thomas: Excel sior, Christiaens; King, Klein; Mer cedes (2), De Palma and Mulford: Mer cer (3), Wlshart, Pullen and Bragg; Marmon. Dawson; Stafford, Callahan, and Metropol. Horan. Speed Weedlna-Ont Proefss Factor. In addition there are expected three Maxwells, three Masons, a couple of Isottas. a Keeton. another Marmon, handled by Wilbur De Alene. of Los Angeles; two Case cars, a privately en- tered Pope-Bullet and a couple of others not classified for lack of a name. The reduction of the field to the re quired quota of thirty will take place, after three-car teams have been cut to two, through the medium of time trials, the fastest cars surviving. In' order to be in at the trial finish a couple of three-car outfits have already split themselves, the third machine being entered by a private owner. In this manner, it is thought speed will be the sole determining factor of the weeding- out process. It will certainly assure the classiest field in motor history. ' Thousands Offered Winners. Accessory prizes galore are being hung up, the chief contributors to date being Wheeler-Schebler, $1600; Ray field, $1500; Bosch, $1000; Remy. $1000; Rudge-Whitworth, $875; Grossman, $850; Truffault-Hartford. " $500, and Janney-Steinmetz $150. Altogether, in cash and trophies. It is thought, about $25,000 will be of fered to winners, besides the $50,000 in gold subscribed by the management. Race Notes for Race Nuts BETTER than an 80-miIe-an-hour average is freely predicted among the coterie of critics and race "nuts" that is waiting impatiently for the first fine day to beam on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway when Hoosier Acto mobiledom will begin its favorite P. M. pastime of doping out the next 600 mile motor marathon from the rails guarding the two-and-one half-mile vitrified brick oval The National rec ord of 7s. 7 miles an hour will be as- BCREDCLE OF MILEAGE AND AVERAGE RUNNING TIME BETWEEN PORTLAND AND EUGENE. 0.0 Portland.. 9.8 0:85 8:30A.M. .SRigard... 10.4 0:S5 9:05 A.M. 20.2 Rex $.3 0:07 0:40 A.M. 23.5 Newberg.I 2.3 0:13 0:57 A.M. 25.8 E.3 0:10 10:00 A.M. 31.0 Dayton. . . 21.4 1:10 10:10 A.M. S2.4 Salem 11:20 A. M. 0.0 Salem 18.0 1:00 11:20 A.M. 18.0 Jefferson. 7.8 0: IS 13:20 P. M. 25.8 Albany. 12:45 P.M. 0.0 Albany.... 8.0 0:20 2:00 P.M. t.O Tangent.. C.4 0:20 2:20P.M. 14.4 Shedds. . 4.9 0:15 2:40 P.M. 19.2 Halsey... . 10.2 0:35 2:55 P.M. 29.4 Harrlsb'rg 0.2 3:30 P.M.. 29.5 Wll'ie fry 4.7 0:2S P.M. 34.3 Jctn. City. 12.7 0:50 3:58 P.M. 47.0 Eugene ., 4:43 P.M. saulted by the classiest speed talent of two continents, which makes It alto gether probable that the winning car will travel faster than any machine has ever traveled before for 300 miles. Speedway racing has witnessed a remarkable development within the last two years. The first 500-mile race at Indianapolis was regarded as a dan gerous undertaking until it was ac complished. And because of its danger ous flavor, many motor concerns took advantage of the alluring possibilities orered for obtaining wide publicity. It required plenty of nerve for the most chance-taking driver to risk his life in the unparalleled scramble for glory. TJiere were accidents galore, spills on the turns, cars turning turtle when in terrupted suddenly in -the midst of spectacular dashes down the straight aways. It was just the kind of healthy tonic needed to revive the fagged out speed germ. Automobile manufacturers were somewhat appalled at the stupendous aspect of the first Indianapolis Speed way race and the result was a much smaller field in the second contest. It was then that the affair settled down to normal and the several concerns which were in the game as a means of demonstrating the superiority of their product, made great strides in per fecting their machines to stand the strain of the long grind. Harry C. Stutz. of the Stutz racing outfit, says this policy has made the 500-mile race the leading sporting event of motor dom. The race at once appealed to the automobile designer and engineer be cause of the ideal facilities for study ing the wear and tear on materials in the concentrated grief that can come to a motor car when traveling 500 miles at high speed. Harry Stutz has been building auto mobiles for four years and his speed creations have made a. remarkable rec ord for consistency In all Important contests. No engineer knows the In dianapolis motor speedway better than the Indianapolis man. and no race driv er better understands the element of danger that lurks In the path of the darting pilot who tries to take Its de ceptive turns at too high speed. Stutx says tne average tester who knows how to "take" these turns will defeat the best driver in the world who is unac customed to driving Into them. There Is a knack about it that comes only after weeks and weeks of careful training. Machinery Proves Efficient.' Great strides have been madeduring the last year or two In machine tool efficiency in American automobile fac tories. At the Studebaker plants are a considerable number of machines FORD CAR'S WHEEL BASE EXTENSIVELY LENGTHENED BY, LOCAL FIRM mm Motor tmmm Gfcfe U mfliRscH-.WEisMrG.ca 1 '-:- -I'M' .-.. V--. " , . t J -0 V THIRTY INCHES JLO.VGEH THA.V REGULAR I'ORD. One of the large buildings devoted exclusively to high-grade machine work fos. automobiles Is the Factory -Motor Car Repair Company, at 690-2-4-6 Kearney street, between Twenty-firBt and Twenty-second streets. The shop was opened March 1 and covers an area of 100 by 100 feet. In addition to ordinary machinery, the shop Is fitted with milling and gear-cutting machines, a universal grinder, an overhead traveling crane, etc. , Charles and V. C. Unden. formerly of the firm of Helser & Uhden Machine Works, and E. J. Blaser, who has been in the business from his cradle, and was with Fred Dundee for the last eight years, are the men at the head of operations. One of the first Jobs they undertook was the lengthening of a Ford wheelbase from 99" to 129 inches for the Hirsch-Welse Manufacturing Company. - -- A -S-Sses. Get the Personal Touch When we ask a man to step into the Mitchell Car and feel its mechanical pulse through the steering wheel we arc ten times closer to a sale than we can possibly be through talk and advertising. Confidence is a plant of slow growth. In the sale of automobiles, there only one way to win it, and that's the "personal touch way. Because we have followed such a plan this Spring, the Mitchell Car is better known today than it ever has been. All over America prospective pur chasers have sat in the driver's seat and tested the car to tbetr entire and ultimate satisfaction. So that when they became buyers, they knew almost as much about the car as we know. Th ly bought with the distinct, personal knowledge that rhe car was even better than its advertising said it was. And the invitation is open to you. If you don't know the Mitchell car, this is the way to get acquainted with it. If you have ever felt the slightest doubt that it is the best car at the price made in this country, why don't you go to your nearest Mitchell dealer and ask him to let you drive the car yourself? If thi car. doesn't prove its worthiness on this personal test, then all that we might say on the subject would be words and time thrown away. After you have driven the car yourself and have gotten the personal t' uch after you have found out how smoothly and silently it runs after you have witnessed and felt its splendid action on al speeds and tested the resiliency of springs. . we will give you the details of its manufacture if you want them. But we want you entirely satisfied with the appearance and action of the car and its mechanism before we tell you a solitary fact. If the Mitchell doesn't behave well under your guidance, you don't want any details. But if its action pleases you and imparts, the pnysical charm that we know it possesses, than you wnt to know more about it. We know ourselves just how it looks, just how it acts and just how it feels. But v?e ' have driven it. And that's what we want you to do, so you will know whether it is safe to invest your money in that particular car. When the sale of a Mitchell is completed, there is nothing ehe to talk about. No element of chance or speculation enters into the transaction. You go away knowing just precisely what you have to expert, and amply guarded against uncertainties. You go away knowing that our friendship doesn't end with the, payment of the price. Yiu'jjo away convinced of the splendid merits of the car and the service and honor behind it. It is an ideal business agreement, and there's never any disagreeable "come-back." The "personal touqh" brings about such ideal business conditions. Confidence begins at the beginning, and we want to say t you that your confi dence in this concern and the car it makes can nme be misplaced. We have served the American public faithfully and honorably for eighty years, and the Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company will go on for eighty years more, in just the same way. Eighty years. of faithful service to the American Public Here is the Equipment for all the Mitchell Models Which is included in the List Prices: Electric self-starter and generator electric lights electric born electric magnetic exploriag lamp mohair top and dust cower Tungsten valves Jiffy quick-action aide curtains quick-action two piece rain vision wind-shield demountable rims with one sartre speedometer double extra tire carrier Bair bow holders license plate bracket pump, jack end complete set of first class tools. Racin e Wi s.US.AL Manufacturers of Modern Four and Six-Cylinder Cars OUT-OF-TOWN PEOPLE Mail in this coupon for free copy of Mitchell Catalogue ou Evidence of Mitchell Efficiency. Portland, Or. (E. Morrison). Send me Catalogue u per offer. . i.Jh which have scored Ions; records of 100 per cent perfect efficiency for every working day of nine hours each, the year round. MAY DAY STORY HOUR SET Miss II. K. Marshall to Entertain Children at library. jjhe May day story hour for the chil dren will be held In library hall. Cen tral Library, Friday, afternoon at 4 o'clock. Miss II. E. Marshall, author of "Our Island Story." "Child's English Literature" and a number of other books for children, will tell the story and a May pole dance will be given un der the direction of Miss Ryan, of the Fernwood School. The Portland Story-Tellers' League will meet on Tuesday, April 23. at 4 o'clock In room A. Mrs. L. Altman will give a talk on legends and stories will be told by the members. A number of new paintings have been added to Professor S wee tier's wild flower calendar, which la on exhibi tion in the circulation room at the Central Library. Interest in Mexico has brought to the new book shelves all books relating to that country. A list of books on rose growing has been posted in the circu lation room and a list of popular books on science on the bulletin board in the lower lobby. In order to study In a Baltimore hospital Dr. Albert Miller, of German college, is plsnninr to take 16 trips across tba Atlantic Ocean, and to cover a oistaoca ot 5rt.CAo miles. lie will b employed on a trans Atlantic liner as phyattcian In order to pay his way. and will carry on his studies shea liie Unit la waiting ia port.