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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1918)
TIIE SUNDAY OIIEGOXIAN. PORTLAND. K AUGUST 11, 1913. VOGLEB SEES CAUSE TO BE OPTIMISTIC Head of Northwest Auto Com pany Back Home From Visit in East. , LIBERTY MOTOR PRAISED I factory orders for 75 cars and trucks. at another over 50 and at two others 25 cars each. It is not believed the new tax contemplated will stop the sale or production to any great extent. "There is no threatened shortage of gasoline in the United States, and there is no reason to believe that the Gov ernment Intends placing a prohibitive tax on gasoline, either.. Of course, there will be a tax placed on it, but not pro hibitive. It Is declared there is a visible supply of gasoline above ground at this time to last the country for the next two years. I found an optimistic feeling among the big business men of the country. all having confidence in our Govern ment and willing to boost the Govern ment In its efforts and work at this time- Of course, you run across a few old pessimlstswho see nothing but dis aster and ruin In store for us and see dividends go glimmering for some time, but they are few and far between. "I come back much encouraged over conditions and more than satisfied re garding the outcome of it all." Automobile Man Greatly Impressed With Henry Ford's w Eaglo Submarine Chaser Plant and Speedy Work Being Done. IDEAL STATION CLEAN THE WAR-TIME GAR HYATT ROLLER BEARING CHIEF DESCRIBES PERFECT SHOP. T. W. Vogler. president of the North west Auto Company, returned to Port land last week after an absence of about a month in the East. He has some mightily interesting observations to make regarding conditions in the automobile Industry, and the progress being made In constructing Liberty airplane motors and building Ford ."Eagle" submarine chasers. "Of course, the absorbing topic of the East at this time is the war, said Mr. Vogler. "However, It has been de- elded by unanimous consensus of opin ion that it is to be short-lived, particu larly so in the light of events transpir ing over there at this time. "Do not misunderstand me in this statement. There is going to be no let-up In carrying out war activities. Personally. I feel as sure of tne out come of the war as I am living after "Clean Cars, Clean Shop, Clean Talk," la Mott. of Service Station In Kewnk, If. J. "Clean cars, clean shop, clean talk." These three phrases, hand-lettered on a pasteboard square, impressed themselves so deep In the minds of B. G. Koether, manager of the Hyatt Roller Bearing Company, Detroit, when he saw them In a Willys-Over land service station In Newark, N. J., that he wrote an article about them in the little Hyatt business magazine, which he calls the Quleterlon. About these three phrases he writes a de scription of an ideal service station. These three phrases might have been reversed and would have more seeing the shipbuilding on the Coast I dearly shown the cumulative, effect and the building of the Liberty motors and aircraft production, as well as the manufacturing of all lines of war equip taent. Vast Work Being Done. The average cltlsen has no concep tion of the tremendous work the auto mobile Industry Is doing for Uncle Sam in making munitions, guns, trac tors, trucks and aeroplanes. No other Industry is doing so much outside its regular sphere as is the automobile In dustry. The shipbuilding and aircraft programme would be impossible with out the aid of the automobile factories. - "I was fortunate in having an lnvl tation extended me through a personal friend, E. LeRoy Pelletler. of Detroit, a very close friend of Henry Ford, through whose courtesy we were given access to the wonderful . agle plant. "Now, a few facts about the Liberty motor. This motor develops 100-horse-power more than any other motor in the world. It has a- longer me or service, notwithstanding the fact that It is the lightest motor In the world in propor tion to its horsepower. I saw this motor on test turn over better than 1650 R. F M. At I860 R- P. M. It develops 450 horsepower. This motor weighs 802 pounds and will make better than 135 miles per hour. "The best German motor, the Mer cedes, weighs six pounds to the horse power: the average English, French and Italian motors weigh three to four pounds per horsepower these in com parlsbh with the Liberty motor, which produces a horsepower to every 1 pounds. . Liberty Plane Described. , "The Liberty airplane, of the DeHav lland type, is the most practical of all forms now in use. It Is a. two-seated combination battle and reconnaissance plane, as well as a bomb plane. It car ries two merf, four machine guns, ten bombs, wireless and photographic out fits, and with all this load is still as fast as any In present use. , "European engineers said It would be Impossible to build such a plane, as It -was impractical to build motors of greater power than they were building. Still, we did it. "The airplane body is now being built and assembled In Detroit, and on our way out to the Ford shipyards I saw six of them In practice.- I saw -one making ISO miles per hour. I also saw It making loops, nose dives, spirals and very other movement of wnlcn any plane is capable. "It has climbed 10,000 feet In less than 7 minutes and has made 21.600 feet In 50 minutes a record attained by no other machine. It uses ordinary oil of any one of the several standard cylinder oils, and the average gravity gasoline. "There were lots of things we could not do before we started into this mix- up. according to our European advisers. For example, we could not make air plane blades. My friend. Mr. Pelletler, advised me that he saw a little town In Ohio turning out 100 blades a day of as fine a quality as were ever made on earth and they could make 1000 per day by enlarging their plant. Not only that, but he told me that, whereas the cost had originally been $80, It had been reduced to $40 and then to $20, and nobody knows at this time how much more American process and Amer ican skill will reduce cost. Hew Eagles Are Built. "How many airplanes can this coun try produce? I do not know; but I was given to understand that we will pro duce more airplanes during this and the coming month than England and France together have produced In the whole of the past year; and, from what I saw. I would believe It. "The work and production at the shipyards where the Eagle submarine chaser Is being produced is nothing less than marvelous. In view of the fact that the plant was started on the 22d day of this last February. "The plant consists of one building 1700x400 feet and another of 400x175 feet. In the larger building there are three railways, side by side, running the whole length of the building, on which run flat cars. On these the keel of the chaser Is laid, and to this the hull is built. The boat is started one-quarter mile from the water. When it is finished it is ready for launching at the water's edge. It Is 200 feet long with 25-foot beam and equipped with a 2000-horse cower steam turbine capable of mak Ing 22 miles per hour, or plenty fast enough for Its purpose. "In the construction of this craft 246.000 rivets are used, giving yon some Idea of what it means to build one a day. which will be the production In a very few days. "I could tell you a lot more about teem, out on account of restrictions Imposed will have to refrain. Suffice to late, nowever. they will be swift enougn ts move fast at maneuvering, large enough to keep the sea in rough weather, let light enough to go seeking submarines in any waters where the U-boats dare to operate. They will both patrol and fight. 'Too much praise cannot be given to Mr. Ford, who is producing this ship, and his executives for undertaking and carrying to completion this wonderful " work. It will stand In the chronicles of Industry as a great- work and In the books of the German Admiralty as an entry of calamity. ' Government Tikes MnterlnL t ' found -fthe automobile Industry hampered by the fact that materials are taken over by the Government. Most factories I visited were piled up .with orders, which condition will be relieved. It was believed. In a short time, as It Is believed that the Govern ment will be able, to release material after Its own requirements are filled. Factories, however, for the most part are kept busy on war orders. As for the Reo Company, It ha on file at on of the three virtues, thus: 'Clean talk. clean shop, clean cars, says Koe ther. "And after them might well have been added, 'Satisfied customers.' You will find that a clean car Is the result of a clean shop, and that a clean shop Is the result of that habit of cleanli ness, both moral and physical, which is indicated by clean talk." An extract from Koether s article follows: 'The sign was tacked to the wall. right over a big washstand; right where anyone entering the station would see it. And it was a big service station, too. The building was of con crete, white and clean. To the right, and left of the entrance drive were of fices, and in the back a big room where many cars were placed in order ly rows. And attached to the front of each car, in a case to protect it from dirt, was a card listing the work to be done. Many of the cars were Just on storage placed there for the day by business men who use their cars as a means of transportation (and there are some which still say pleasure cars ). And the cards on these cars were just marked 'Storage.' 'A women came In for her car. She was escorted from the office by one of the service station men, and he was dressed as a business man, not as a mechanic who had just cleaned out a transmission case. And no smoke from a cheap Turkish cigarette was blown In her face as he talked with her. - He took the card from the case and checked over with her the work that had been done. And then he helped her Into the car and drove It out for her. And the car was clean; there were no marks of greasy hands. A man drove In a car for some ad justments and repairs. The car - was promised for 5 o'clock, and I knew by the way the man said it that the car ould be ready by that time, for it was said quietly and in a gentlemanly, business-like way. 'The whole service station reflected the sign that was on the wall up over the washstand. Not a fancy sign, un derstand, but just a simple, homely sign that held a message for each em ploye. And the sign read: "Clean cars ! Clean shop! Clean talk!" And why not. Brother O'Mine?" ends Koether"s article. "Why not clean cars and clean shop and clean talk? "It Is just as easy as dirty cars and dirty shop and dirty talk. Many a salesroom with its leather lounges and big chairs, its palms and ferns and Eastern rugs, is only the exterior to a dirty, disorderly interior an in terior that you would not wish your wife or mother to enter because of the foul language used by the hangers-on; an Interior from which It would be almost Impossible to send out a really clean car. The service station has got to be- maintained. It Is a mighty Im portant link In the merchandising is the Chevrolet "490 99 f. o. b. Portland We Are Able Again to Make Immediate Deliveries The Chevrolet "490" is the proper practical car for you to own because its whole scientific con struction spells "ECONOMY." It comes fully s equipped with electric starter and lights. It uses . very little gas and oil. Its tire mileage is. very long and in performance it far outshines higher . priced cars. What More Could You Ask? REGNER & FIELDS, Inc. Distributors CHEVROLET PASSENGER CARS COMMERCIAL CARS SCRIPPS-BOOTH SIXES. Grand Ave. at E. Bjurnside FORESIGHT HAS WESTERN AUTO COMPANY ABLE TO GET CHALMERS CARS. . I Fortunate Situation Due to Action of Roy Hemphill In Ordering All Hot Spots Possible. . ',. One automobile dealer who is for tunate these days in having cars to meet the big demand for automobiles is Roy Hemphill, manager of the West ern Auto Company, Chalmers distribu tors. It is all due to Mr. Hemphill a foresight a few months ago when he was East in taking a chance and or right, and he placed his orders for-a big allotment of the Chalmers "hot spot" models. Now the Western Auto Company is reaping the reward of his foresight, for it has been receiving cars when other firms have not been able to do so, or have obtained limited ship ments only.' The Chalmers hot spot is becoming widely known throughout the Oregon and Washington territory for its ex cellent record on gasoline consumption made possible through the hot spot de vice which enables the car to burn even distillate without difficulty. Chalmers owners are reporting to Mr. Hemphill, not only'high gasoline mileage records, but non-repair records, as well. JustfHink What 22,022 Miles Without Stopping Means ! "Mor e Miles per Gallon ' "More Mile on Tires" Maxwell Motor 2S ws 5-Paeaencar Car,' Roadster - - - -5-Piwwpf, with AU-WmUm Top ; Rsadrter, with All-Weather Ton (10 J-Pkm. Mu - - - 1271 t-Paa. Town Car - 127S ' An rttmtL . v Pin in, -? Wli.whnh ngalar mqolvmmt C. L. Boss Automobile Co. ' Vancouver ' Branch -" 110 W. Sixth St. : j 615-617 Washington St. " Portland ' You have read of course, that the "life" of the best aviation motor is 150 flying hours. And you must know that an aviation motor repre sents the highest development of gasoline engine building. Must be to withstand such strains for so long for when you consider all the conditions, that 150 flying hours constitutes a terrific feat of endurance. Figured in miles at the rate of speed our own Lib erty motor has shown 144 miles per hour it is 21,600 miles. And in order to sustain its load in the air that motor is working to capacity all the time. ' Now consider the performance of that Maxwell motor which, in 44 consecutive days and nights running -never stopped, and covered, with its pas sengers, 22,022 miles! It is a strange fact but true as any metallurgist will demonstrate for you that a motor, like a man or an horse, will do better with a rest from time to time. For motors and the metals of which they are made, . ars also subject to "fatigue." So the crucial part of that test was in its constant running not a moment's relief allowed from the heat to cylinders or the motion of reciprocating parts. Our records show many cases where, according to owners' statements, motor cars have gone 100,000 miles 150,000 and even 200,000 miles. But we don't consider those cases exceptional. Any Maxwell motor car will live to do that if kept oiled and given reasonable care. And we are frank to concede that some other makes of cars can show similar mileages for, a3 indicated above, .intermittent service with rests between, is what the car is intended to do. That is normal service. But to withstand the terrific fatigue involved in that 44 consecutive days and nights "non-stop" test; and to cover, with four passengers, 22,022 miles ; and, doing that, to average 25 miles per gallon of gasoline too that car must be a Maxwell. A plan, so why not a business-like Berv-! derin ahead a" th? cars he could con ice station with the motto, "Clean cars. clean shop, clean talk?" VESTA BATTERY HERE NOW Gibson Electric Garage Distributor for Well-Known Line. The Gibson Electric Garage & Stor age Battery Company, at Twelfth and Alder streets, which recently took over the distributorship of the Vesta battery in this territory, is having much suc cess with it. F. H. Hlldebrand, man ager, haa calls for the Vesta almost every day. The Gibson Electric Garage Jt Storage Battery Company also spe cialises in electrical trouble work of all kinds, and has a large business of this nature. To Make Handy Tool. For use In certain conditions the or dinary type of straight pliers are inef cient. It is possible to heat an ordi nary pair of pliers and bend them Just below the Jaws and above the pivot. After' they have been tempered again you have a useful tool for getting at nuts, bolts or anything else In an In- aecessable location. tract for from the factory. At that time there was still a lot of doubt in the minds of most dealers as to Just what would happen in the au tomobile business. Some of them were fearful that the bottom would drop out of the market and that there would be no demand for automobiles. Everybody knows what happened. The demand became greater than ever, and with fewer cars with which to fill It, an automobile shortage developed which is becoming more acute. But Mr. Hemphill had read the signs Your Week End Motor Trip The two-day run over the Pacific Highway to S BRTtSH COLUMBIA. an ideal trip at this season of the year. See British Columbia some of the grandest views and displays of nature's rugged grandeur on the Pacific Coast all within easy reach of the center of Vancouver reached by good auto roads. Hundreds of miles of mag nificent auto drives. For road maps, illustrated "Where to Go" folder and full In formation, address 3. n. DAvisonr. City Publicity Commissioner, Board of Trade Bids;., Vancouver, B. C. Vancouver Exhibition, Aug. 19-24 Full display of natural resources and manufactures of British Co lumbia livestock and agricultur al exhibits from entire North west holiday attractions horse racing motor racing dally. NEVER BEFORE In the history of the country was there such an urgent demand for efficient tractors. To produce the food for our country and allies we must use scientific and modern farm implements. The Heider Is a practical one-man tractor for Northwestern -farmers. It Is easy to control stop or reverse all with Z one lever. The photograph above shows the simplicity of . the Heider the boys are doing the plowing. - The Heider . is cheaper to operate burns kerosene and saves the gasoline for war purposes. ' Used a Heider Two Years Not a Cent of Expense Working Every Day i CLEVELAND, Oregon. R. M. WADE A CO., Portland, Oregon. . - Centlemeni I purchased one of your 12-20 Heider Tractors two yearn ago. I am farming over 24M ncren and cultivating n 4,-HCrc orchard. The orchard ban very steep hills, but I expert- , enced no difficulty in climbing these hills with the Heider. I find the Heider Tractor Is nil that Is recommended . to he. even more, it has done nil the work for me, nnd . for leM money than all the horses I have had heretofore. I am pleased with my purchase, aw there hna been no expense for upkeep. I have not spent a cent for repairs. Yours truly, . JOHN KHKON. ..... Oldest Farm . Machinery House In the Northwest m H wrie Todr I I 3 I 1 rf! Ever since man ceased to depend on wind and oats to move from place to place, a pneumatic tire superior to the GORDON Tire has not been pro duced. It is guaranteed 5000 miles, !o3 6000 miles An adjustment percentage under i 1, resulting from 75000 tires out 16 months, bears evidence that the EQRDDN Tire is not giving the car owner any trouble to speak of. Excess mileage gives a cost as low as " . a-mill-and-a-half-a-mile" 7aWaWaWaWAvaWa Pacific Tire & Rubber Co. 445 Stark Street t f 3 S3 33 5 m 1? o: l1 i I