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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 21. 1914. GOOD ROADS PROV E "SIDE-By-EACH MOTORCYCLE SEAT INVENTED BY EUGENE 1 j - BMBBBBM- , ...---uXim , ... " -t T-w-i II.. z. uuin. 1 I D I - I BOON TO MARKETS High Cost of Living Solved Measure by Better High ways, Writer Says. LONG TRIPS FREQUENT Journeys of 15 or 20 Miles Held of) Common Occurrence in Old-World Countries, Where Hard Sur face Is General Rule. feT FRED WEST. Manager J. W. Leavttt Company. The building of good roads is the one biggest and most important factor which this country must consider in the next few years. The improved highway is the one means of salva tion for the poor man, for in these days 3t the high cost of living we must look to the cheaper transportation of foodstuffs as our- way out. We can no longer expect to letter our condition through a greater: sup ply of necessities, for every effort we have made toward lowering the cost of foodstuffs heretofore s has been met with the response that the United States is now about as intensively cul tivated as it can be. In other words, our people are" no longer turning . tD the country in an effort to produce a larger amount of food. Therefore we 1 must face the problem of getting along with the same amount that is nDW pro duced. The only solution left for us is to cut. our cost of production and deliv ery, The best way to accomplish this is to provide good rsads, for we have already had many demonstrations of how good roads will work to our ad vantage. Roads Better Living Conditions. The improvement of highways in many parts of our country in the past few years has been followed invariably by better living conditions. Where the roads leading' into a large city have been improved we have seen an in creased supply of foodstuffs on the lo ral markets and a larger number of farmers bringing their products into the city. This, of a necessity, results - in lower prices for the products and a long step toward better living condi tions On the other hand, the Improvement of roads throughout the country is in variably followed by an improvement In farming methods. The agriculturist who heretofore devoted his energies to grazing and the production of rough foodstuffs, such as corn, is now turn ing to what is known as market gar dening. He is raising potatoes, beans, peas and other commodities that are in every-day demand; simply because he can get them to market where here tofore markets were denied him. It is no uncommon sight now to see farmers driving 18 or 20 miles to market with loads of products, which, before the highways were improved, . were denied the consumer. The automobile, it is true, has had a great deal to do with increasing this supply, but even this vehicle would be helpless without high ways. Intensive Farming Result. The advent of good roads, too, has brought about another revolution- that of intensive farming. The coun tries of the Old World have always re garded us a criminally wasteful peo ple, in that the product raised on 100 acres of land in this country was often less than they produced on 10 acres. Oood roads have changed this condi tion. The American farmer now finds that he will get a greater return from one acre of land intensively cultivated than 10 acres farmed in the old slip shod methods. This intensive farming is the direct result of good roads, for where the farmer heretofore found It necessary to cultivate crops, - which made a large bulk, so that his Infre quent trips to market were profitable, now finds that he can take a small load to the consumer as often as ho de sires. Good roads are an undisguised bless- ing, and this every one who has given the matter any thought . will admit. They not only promote increased Indus trial activity, and therefore better the living conditions of thousands of our city dwellers, but they provide an im proved social life for people who live In the country. The family which has access to a good road, and therefore - quicker and more pleasant trips, goes to church oftener, visits the neighbors "Dftener and attends farmer club meet ings more frequently. No one can deny that all of these are Important factors in the farmer's life. george: f. flank asd ris investio.v, o?r which CEIVED A PATENT LAST MEEK. An oddly equipped motorcycle attracted much attention on the downtown streets during the Rose. Festival, its unusual feature being a double seat, the invention of the owner of the machine, George F. Plank, of Eugene. The seat is about 3 14 feet wide, so that two people may sit in it at ease, one on each side of the center bar. It is neatly and strongly constructed of gaspipe and is upholstered with leather. The seat, which Mr. Plank has named the "Side-by-Each," is about six inches lower than the ordinary motorcycle seat, which may be left in position for a. single rider if desired. However, one person may ride on one side, with no one on the other, without losing balance. Mr. Plank received letters patent on his device just before coming to Portland Thursday, and was offered 7500 for a third interest by a. Eugene business man. He is 21 years old. . V H H Tires Win Again EXPORTS 61 MILLION TOTAL FOR X1XE MONTHS ENDING WITH MARCH IS $264)71,734. 23,000 Machines Shipped Compare With 26,700 of Preceding Year, Bat Their Value Is Greater. noreign trade In American motor cars continues to increase, as shown by reports of the United State Depart ment of Commerce. The following comparison of tabulated reports of the exports and imports of vehicles and parts, as made by the. National Auto mobile Chamber of Commerce, shows that the exports of cars for the nine months ending (with last March ex ceeded m valuation by more than $1, 000,000 the exports for the correspond ing period the year before and by more than 34,000.000 the exports of cars dur ing the corresponding period ending with March, 1912: - These are fastened by special brackets and are instantly removable. A fire man's ax also forms - a part of the equipment. In cases of incipient fires the motorcycle men can frequently save the heavy trucks from long, hard runs. And even where the blaze has gained too much headway to be extinguished with the apparatus carried on the two wheeler, it is still of advantage to have the motorcycle men on the ground, us they can locate the nearest water plugs and investigate the best method of get ting at the fire, so that no time is lost when the heavy equipment arrives. BRAKES CARE IS OXLY NEEDED . " 1 f Actual Tests on WUlys-TTtiHty Trucks Are Revelation. Proper attention' to brakes and practical working speed would elim inate many of the motor truck acci dents which are now pronounced un avoidable," says Fred West, local agent for the Garford and Willys-Utility trucks. Testa on a Willys-Utility truck, in actual service, show that, under full speed, with a load of three-quarters of Exports. Cars Parts Engines .. Tires . . 1 . . Totals Cars Parts f ..... Totals No. 14,569 -0. 17,330 9.117 Value. " (14.189.948 2,850,047 519,318 1.869.471 $19,428,784 Imports. $ 1,733,639 618 :40,Z12 f 1,973,851 Value. 17,76i',369 3,587,805 1,391,917 2.SU9.917 12 5,563.008 1,434.059 199.88S I 1,633.947 NO. 20.471 Value, (18.765.656 4.9JS.339 903.7S0 2.378.959 245 $26,971,724 J 545.228 488.710 S 1.933,956 Except engines and tires; fexcept tires. In March, 1914, the United States exported 3508 motor vehicles, valued at 13,043,847, as compared with 2842 cars in the last preceding March, val ued at 12,909,741, showing an increase of SJ139.0U0. Exports of parts, ex clusive of engines and tires, show an increase of $96,569 in the same interval, amounting to 16 per cent. - Only 15 cars were imported last March," valued at $15,869, as against 49 valued at $104, 714 in March, 1913. This great de crease has been almost compensated for by an increase in imports of parts, not including tires, from $13,236 to $90,928. Exports for April from the port of New York were: Automobiles, 2006, valued at $1,533,305: parts, $139,238. a ton, the vehicle can be brought to a stop witnin 30 feet, simply by .applica tion of the brakes. It is equipped with an automatic governor by which th owner can regulate the speed of his truck. The most reckless or careless driver is unable to drive faster than 18 miles an hour, which is the speed ou engineers have proved the : highest practicable lor a truck, of this capacity, a rive-ion Garrord, hauling a max imum load at a speed of nine miles an hour allowed by the governor, can be stoppea witnin its own length. "These facts show conclusively that a iiiue care or the brake lining and conscientious work on the part of the driver will decrease , accidents to negligible number." Percy Barnes driving an eight cylinder Romano Special carries off all honors Rose City Speedway Carnival. In the twenty-five-mile event he made a lap of one mile in fifty-four seconds; time for the twenty five miles, twenty-five minutes and forty seconds. In Two Days' Racing He Never Changed a Tire Don't you think, Mr. Motorist, that tires which give such service and put to such a strain are the tires for you to use? Quality Most Miles Per Dollar Service 65-69 West Park North, Portland, Or. Phone Main 4506, A 2367 Factory and General Offices, Akron, Olio MOTOR TRUCK IS BOON KANSAS CITY BAKERY'S BUSINESS - INCREASES BY BOUNDS. ACTOR IS AO WHITER ROBERT EDESON ISSUES BOOKLET ON OAKLAND CARS. Witty Instructions Given Employes His Garage and List of "Do n't for Motorists" Is Prepared. TIRE GETS HARD TEST i FIRESTONE NO V-SKID BLOWN FROM CAR, BUT IS UNHURT. , Ponder Factory at Canal Explodes and Chiefa Machine la Wrecked by Blast and Scattered 100 Feet. A cablegram to the Firestone Tire - Rubber Company recently from J. W Kerr, their representative In the canal r zone, contained some startling news. The gist of it was as follows: a Mr. Arosemena is chief of the Panama i City fire department. On the night of J June 5 he was aroused by an alarm of j lire. Learning that the Government J powder house was ablaze, he jumped into his auto and exceeded all speed J limits getting to the scene. 5' Upon his arrival the fire seemed in i RiKnilicant. Stopping his car about J 150 feet from the powder house, he got : out to Investigate. A few minutes I afterward a terrific explosion occurred J which killed eight firemen and altered E the landscape considerably. S fortunately Mr. Arosemena was un t injured, but the same could not be said I of his car. He found it to be a wreck S and minus the left front wheel. When E Mr. Kerr arrived he immediately in ! Migrated a search for the missing wheel. I Tire and rim were eventually found I more than 100 feet away, and, to the amazement of everyone, the tire, which was a Firestone non-skid, was abso- ! Jutely uninjured. This is an entirely new method of f blowing up a tire, which' few could f fctand. I 3 Motor Census Recently Taken. 2 An English automobile magazine re S.cently compiled a census of motor s' driven vehicles In the United Kingdom, which may be considered authorita- tive. It was learned that the total "5 number of votor vehicles of all types in S the United Kingdom is 425.838, of which g motor cars comprise 237.907; motorey 5 -les. 178.926. and heavy vehicles, 18,005. S The same authority gives the number 3" of motor vehicles In France as 90.969; Italy, 20.470; Germany. 77,118; Austria. S 14.300; Belgium, 13.250; Switzerland. 10.S70; Canada. 84.793, and the United States, estimated, 1.435,000. Hobert Kdeson, the famous actor of the Strongheart Company, "who recent ly became a dealer for Oakland cars and opened the Strongheart garage at Sag Harbor, Long Island, has added to his manv accomplishments that of author and advertising writer. ISdeson has his own ideas about ad vertising and recently issued a little booklet, which has been copyrighted boosting Oakland cars and his garage business. The book is written in i light vein and i brimming with orig inal and witty remarks. In a chapter giving instructions to employes of the garage is found the fallowing: A company is known by the men It keeps.' Get that into your carburetor or you won't be with us Ion?. "Every man connected with the mD toring business is a robber! (Except the man who owns a car.) So, should you meet a motorist who Is grateful for what yau have done for his car, and doesn't think the bill excessive, cultivate him. "Should any man give you a tip, sing his praises to Allah, or anybody handy. "Don's smoke here, unless you carry accident Insurance. That goes both ways." Another humorous chapter gives a list of "JDjn'ts for Motorists": "Don't be lrke the average English man, who says. It s a beautiful morn ing. let's go out and kill something.' Be careful how you talk to her about self-starters, bonnets, unit pow er. cylinders cast in pairs, clutch, etc. She may think you are proposing. "You can furnish an inferior grade of cigar when you are touring, pro viding you increase the speed of the machine. "Don't be too ambitious, the red light that you are trying to beat may be the town constable. Don't think the girl in the other car is flirting ' with you when she waves her hand; she may only be warn ing you of a trap. It s a good bet either way." Edeson also sells motorcycles and he has one of his characters refer to them in a rare bit of the vernacular: "I al ways thought those poor simps that rode motorcycles were the original cheap-skate guys, but If I can't get a runabout, me for the lonely life on one of those stuttering bikea" 3-M1XCTE VCTrCAXIZERS HERE Repairs Made and Machine on Way in 1 0 Minutes, Is ClaHn. , Drying and vulcanizing perfectly In three -minutes, the new vulcanizing: ce ment manufactured by the Aiiller Rub ber Company, at Akron, O., will make it possible for motorists to have tube repairs done and be on their way ten minutes from" the time they reach the repair shop. This is the fastest curing adhesive presented to the trade. It is known as Miller three-minute-cure vulcanizing cement, and is used in connection with the Akron company's tube repair gum. which also has the rapi curing feature. Much criticism has been made as to the value of a three-minute .cure for permanent repairs. The Miller com pany, however, has demonstrated the greater advantage In better curing and the faster work that can be done with the new product. CRO&S-COXTIXEXT RACE PTjATf Preliminaries Declared Settled lor Greatest of Tests in 1915. An automobile race across the con tinent is now practically an assured event in connection with the Panama Pacific Exposition to be held at San Francisco next year. W. L. Hughson, president of the Pa cific Kissel Kar branch, who is chair man of the exposition racing commit tee, is authority for the statement that the most important preliminaries have been arranged, although there remains a vast amount of work in obtaining rights of way across the various states and counties. This would be the longest road race ever held and undoubtedly wouU en list most of the great drivers of the world. Fire Motorcycles Equipped. Constant Improvements are being made in the motorcycles designed for fire department use. In order to make them more serviceable. One of the new fire-fighting motorcycles is. equipped with two extinguishers, one on each side of the front fork of the. machine. Canada Hds Relay Race. A motorcycle relay race to carry a message from the Mayor of Halifax, N. S., to the Mayor of Vancouver, B. C, is being arranged by the Canadian Mo torcycle Association. According to tentative plans the route will be partly n Canada ana partly in America, the Dominion riders delivering the message at Windsor to members of the Federa tion of American Motorcyclists, who would carry it around the southern shores of the Great Lakes. From there the Canadian cyclists would again take up the trail, making a dash across the prairie to the Rockies. The distance of this proposed transcontinental run Is approximately 6000 miles, and about 100 motorcyclists are expected to aid in delivering -the message - In record breaking time. 'Studebaker Is Pathfinder. A Studebaker "Six" wag the path finder car for the Philadelphia En quirer's recent Atlantic City run. This car, driven by H. R. Groat, also acted as pilot car for the tour itself and dis tributed confetti. 1 "No Horses, No Barns, Clean Oread," Is Slogan to Which Discriminat ing Public Quickly Responds. The .newest and one of the best ar guments ever advanced for the motor truck, as against the horse and wagon system of transportation has been pro duced by a Kan3asClty firm, Paxily's Wholesale Bakery. The day that this enterprising firm purchased and put into commission Its fleet of Willy' Utility three-quarter ton trucks It be gan a systematic advertising cam palgn, calling the attention of the pub lie to the fact that Its bread and other baked goods were absolutely clean. from raw materials to delivery, a cam palgn which was made possible only by Ihe use of the power vehicles. "Clean bread; delivered clean," Is now the slogan of the Pauly Bakery, and the people who buy baked goods have been quick to see the desirabll lty of purchasing products in which cleanliness is made indeed "next to godliness." "There is absolutely no comparison of motor and horse-and-wagon meth ods, as applied to the delivery of bread and baked goods In general " said member of the firm recently. "While our product has always been as clean ly handled as was possible, we really have a big argument to use in our ad vertising now. Aside from calling at' tentlon to tne wnolesomeness and qual ity of . the materials we use, we are making a great play on the legend. 'Clean bread; delivered clean. No horses; no harness; no wagons; no barn.' "And the manner in which the pub lie is responding is indeed gratifying. Our business is increasing by leaps and bounds and we attribute the larg, est share of the increase directly to the use of motor trucks. Without them we never could have made the appeal con cerning cleanliness to the public that we are now making. HORSEHAIR USED IX CARS Upholstery on Stearns and Other Makes, Contains Much of It. This is a horse tale all about horses'- tails and their relation to comfort and luxury in high-grade motor cars. Instead of being a blister to the mo tor car industry, the horse is an almost ndispensable essential. A plausible deceiver, in a spirit of fun, might tell you that upholtsery in motor cars is built up of cocoanut hair. But a trip to the Stearns plant at Cleveland would completely disprove that. Into the upholstery of every car oes the cleaned, sterilized and curled tail and mane hair from 25 to 30 horses. Horse hair is used in varying amounts in all high-grade motor cars," say officials of the Stearns Company. Fourth of July Mieet Arranged. A general round-up of motorcyclists JZL till i truism ufnuf3 Perfect of the East will be held at Saratoga Springs. N. Y.. on July 3, 4 and 5, when riders from half a dozen states will gather for a Fourth of July rally. There will be five tours to the Springs, start ing from Baltimore, Washington, Bos ton, Springfield and Buffalo. And it Is expected that several thousand riders will take part, as Saratoga Springs is one of the most attractive beauty spots of the East, and the many roads lead Ing to the resort are ideal for the two wheeler. Race meets on the Saratoga track, a dance, a banquet and a tour to Lake George will be features of en tertainment offered th riders, in ad dition to the regular sessions of the New Tork State F. A. M.. convention which will be held on the morning of July 4. Bridge Work to Start Soon. CHEHALIS. Wash., June 20 (Spe cial.) County Commissioner Thomas H. Gray, of the Third District, has announced that the work of hauling the steel for the new county-state bridge at Nesika is about two-thirds completed and within a short time active work installing the same and erecting the bridge will begin. Lincoln Highway Started. What Is In effect the first section of the Lincoln Highway leading from New York City to be completed, the plank road from Jersey City to Newark, has been opened. A movement is on foot to rename the road the Essex-and-Hud- son Lincoln Highway. w - y tit tr A i vs. Use Your Credit $300 down, the balance in tlx monthly payment, will buy you a Ford Automobile. 7 interest on deferred payment. The Ford Motor Co.'u guarantee goes with each cur OUR SERVICE IS THE BEST BENJ. E. BOONE & CO. FORD AGENTS Main 3966 S14 Alder St., Portland, Or. The Car of The American Family $1050 Completely Equipped Wka tfanrfc haw ta4 UiSm. Ch Tim. rteBmmuhl Kiia. slJUtk rrfcat . . O. aDmn. Put It Up To The Owner Sealed Openinf cylinder aasurcd AH Swvli timet. Cmin ud Reneir Skene .. . We would rather have you put a Hupmobile owner on the stand In our behalf than one of our best salesmen. For even if you find it hard to credit this story of satisfaction you know that he has no axe to grind. You will find him ready and willing to tell you of continuous service, at low cost, because he feels that his ownership of a Hupmobile has done him credit to his judgment. He feels that in the purchase of a Hupmobile he got something that was even better than he bargained for. Ask Any Hupmobiiist The Hup owner knows that continuous service at lesser cost is a reality along with low depreciation and a second-hand cash vslue far above average. He will tell you that his gasoline and oil consumption is less His tire mileage greater His repair-part costs nothing, or next to nothing His adjustments minor, of the kind he can easily make himself These are the things that make Hupmobile ownership a delight, and put second and third Hups into the service of hundreds of owners. See the Hup dealer today and get the facts at first hand. Hupp Motor Car Company, Detroit Dulmage Auto Company Distributors 46 North Twentieth Street, Portland, Oregon. I