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10 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, FOKTLAND, DECEMBER 22, 1918. TRANSPORT BURDEN OF FARMERS HEAVY Jruck Freighting Designed to Relieve Situation. PRODUCTION INCREASE AIM Improvement of Highways and Fa cilities for Moving Crops Will Help to Solve Food Problems. "In relieving the farmer of the bur den of transporting his crops to mar ket when all of his energy should be directed to increasing production of food the highways transport committee has a great opportunity," says Julius L. Meier, regional director of the com mittee's work in the Northwest. "The only way we can do this speed ily is through the development of a highways transportation system. Let us hope that within the next six months we can put over this country organized lines that will take from the farmer this burden of hauling and give him the time which, in many cases. Is as much as the time 6pent in actual crop production. It has been shown that in a great many cases the farmer spends as many hours on the road as he actu ally spends in the production of his crops. "What we need is an extensive sys tem operated by men who are not food producers. As the situation ,is shaping now, it may be boys who have been trained in the motor transport service in the Army. They can be put on motor lines in their own communities. Vehicles Are Available. , "We have developed, within the last four or five years, the manufacture of the vehicles needed for this purpose until they are in sight. A few months ago the objection that was raised to the use of motor trucks was, where will we get the motor trucks; when will they be available? But we have seen a rapid increase in the manufacture, and with the end of the war, coming as it does now, with the release of materials for the manufacture of more motor trucks, we have those things available. We havealso available potential men. men who are trained in motor transport work, who have operated vehicles of this sort. . Consequently what we have before us is simply to work out the details of putting this system in opera tion. "Of course, that involves the obtain ing of highways over which it is possi ble to operate. If the farmer is to dis pense with his extra horses, he must know that he has an assured contact with the market daily and regularly; otherwise he must keep a reserve, no that when the other system fails he can help himself. Consequently, it must be dependable. To be dependable It must not be allowed to develop here and there without supervision, but it must be developed as a National sys tem, as reliable as our train service. "The food administration and the De partment of Agriculture have done a great deal to eliminate profiteering and to eliminate waste between the pro ducer and the consumer, but we must go back to the producer and give him tsomething definite to reduce the cost f production. What is that thing? It Is relieving him of the job of transpor tation. Instead of five farmers driv ing along the road, to town, let each stay at home, and let one man come with a truck and take that stuff to market and return from marketwith the supplies that those farmers need. Circle Starts at Farm. "A great deal of the 'difficulty of the farmers in selling and in marketing stuff has been that they dealt with rep resentatives, so that every time there was a dispute or anything, the respon sibility was passed on to someone else. If the driver of a rural truck smashes a. crate of eggs, he comes back the next day. He is personally responsi ble, and he is going to look at the mat ter in a different way from the fellow who throws the eggs off a train and smashes them. He is nJt working for the farmer. "I have . emphasized several times that the most successful rural motor express lines are those operated by owners who take a personal interest In the people they serve. They repre sent the farmer, and they go from the country to the city and back to the farmer rather than from the city to the country and back to the city. That is another interesting detail. The far mer has been in the habit of having the transportation begin in the city. This transportation circle starts at the farm. It does not come from the city to the farmer and from the farmer to the market and back. He has a greater personal interest in the financial suc cess of this enterprise. "Before the war came along we talked entirely of the growth of the population of the United States, and what we were going to do to feed our own people. Now, our population is going to grow faster and faster. We have got that condition to face, as well as to take care of the starving multi tudes on the other side." LINCOLN HIGHWAY LOGGED SECRETARY COVERS ROAD FROM COAST TO COAST. State Highway Department of Ne vada Arranges to Improve Two Worst Sections. Field Secretary H. C. Ostermann, of the Lincoln Highway Association, has just completed the last lap of his re turn journey to the National head quarters in Detroit, from the Pacific Coast, after spending all of his tlma from the first of May upon the Lincoln Highway, in his official capacity. Leaving Detroit in the Spring, Field Secretary Ostermann drove-first to New York City, and from the eastern ter minus of the highway directly lo San Francisco, making the 3323-mile jour ney over the Lincoln Highway by easy Btages. In the course of his trip Mr. Ostermann compiled the most complete log of the Lincoln Highway that has ver been made covering any route of anything like this mileage. He also conferred with the officials of the Lin coln Highway Association in the many communing along the route and made ti. personal inspection of all improve ment work in progress. In addition to driving on the Lincoln Highway, the field secretary, accom panied by Joseph K. Caine, of Oakland, Cal., California State consul of the Lin coln Highway Association, and S. A. Host,-, assistant secretary, drove the route from Carson City, Nev., through the Tosemite Park, by way of the Tioga road, and logged the route, compiling this information for the benefit of a tourists of the coming year. While in the West Mr. Ostermann completed an agreement with the State Highway Department of Nevada for the improvement of the two worst sections on the Lincoln Highway in that 6tat with funds provided through the Lin- coin Highway Association by John W. Willys, of Toledo, a director of the asso ciation. The Held secretary also nei gotlated with the officials of the state of Wyoming for improvement in Sweet water and carbon counties, to be financed in a similar manner. The Lin coln Highway official was 'also called upon to pilot the first heavily laaen transcontinental motor trucks over the western section of the highway upon their trip to the Pacific Coast. Alt .ough results of actual construc tion are not as extensive as might have been anticipated in normal times. Field Secretary Ostermann expresses himself as being exceptionally well pleased with existing conditions In each state traversed by the highway. He looks with confidence to ft banner year of road building in 1919. Number, Please. Because of the great variety of wind ings necessary for service under vary ing conditions, starting motors and generators are given serial numbers and are usually fitted with a plate con taining this and other data. In writing makers for information in regard to their equipment these numbers and data from the plates should be given, in or der to insure intelligent replies. GOODYEAR BUSINESS LARGE GROSS SALES FOR FISCAL YEAR TOTAL $131,000,000. Six Thousand Employes of Rubber Company Enter Service, 43 Losing Lives. As In former years, tM annual meet ing of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio., held at the company's offices, December 2. 1918, showed that tne past year's business was the most successful in volume and profits of any year in the history of the company. Gross sales for the fiscal year ending OctoDer 31 amounted to $131,000,000 an Increase of J20. 000,000 over the previous year. Net profits for the year were $15,388,190.74 as against $14,044,216.10 for the preceding year, subject to Government war tax, the amount of which is not yet determined. President F. A. Seiberling, in his re port to stockholders stated that ap proximately 15 per cent of the com pany's total volume for the year had been Government business, upon which but a very low percentage of profit. If any at all. had been made, and that final costs might show that this busi ness had actually been handled at a loss, but that no matter what effect this might have had on the net profits for the year, the company had wel comed the opportunity to do its share in helping to win the war and took a just pride in its record. "The results for the year are satis factory,," he said, "when we take Into account that our factories were oper ated with, an inadequate supply of labor during the entire year, more than 6000 of our employes having entered military service 3 having given up their lives' in thew- country's cause and that at no time during the year were we able to supply product In suf ficient quantity to meet the demand. Government restrictions since July 1 limiting our production of pneumatic tires, up to six inches, to 50 per cent of the preceding year's production." All of the directors were re-elected, as follows: F.' A. Seiberling, C. W. Seiberling, G. M. Stadelman, F. H. Adams, P. W. Litchfield, H. B. Manton and J. P. Loomie. The directors in turn elected the following officers: F. A. Seiberling. president and general man ager; C. W. Seiberling, vice-president and manager of purchases; G. M. Stadelman, vice-president and manager of sales; P. W. Litchfield, vice-president and factory manager; A. F. Oster loh, secretary; W. 11. Palmer, treasurer and assistant secretary; H. J. Black burn, assistant treasurer. POINTERS FOR TRUCK DRIVERS Keeping Motor Vehicle Really Clean Is 'Important. Yesterday the driver of a motor truck was a red-necked individual -performing a function, necessary perhaps, but certainly not ornamental nor distin guished. Today the truck driver is recbgnized as one of the, saviors of the Nation and has achieved at least a po sition of respect in his fellow country men's sentiments. Just another' meta morphosis wrought by the war. In the September issue of MoToK, the National magazine of motoring, H. A. Tarantous offers a page of valuable suggestions for military truck drivers, and of course these hints for increasing efficiency are equally applicable to civilian drivers. "How many truck drivers," he asks, "ever have gone over the truck by units, tightening all nuts and bolts in easy reach and out of easy reach? It will surprise most drivers , to learn how loote certain parts get even in a-short run of 60 miles over fairly rough roads. It should be remembered that many of the Army trucks are run at times with an overload, but the overload is not per- FARMERS FIND AUTOMOBILES ESSENTIAL. The consensus of opinion among the readers of the National Stock man and Farmer Is that the au tomobile is as much a necessity as the plow, the binder or the silage cutter. "Taking the auto mobile from the farm,", these farmers say, "would be like tak ing the railroad from the coun try." In the majority of cases it was stated that the automobile on the farm is used 90 per cent for business and 10 per cent for pleasure. Franklin Service Bul letin. manent. Nevertheless, overloading Is a bad thing and the driver should do everything possible to correct the ef fects of this condition. "Cleanliness is a very important item In the care of any vehicle. There are many exposed parts which if allowed to collect dirt very soon will cease to function properly. Take the brake ad justments for example. Usually there is a turnbuckle. a clevis arrangement of V nuts for taking up on the brake rods. These parts, if allowed to accumu- late mud and dirt on the threads, soon ! get 'set' in place and when the time comes to make an adjustment- quickly. It is found that It cannot be done. If the driver will only go over the truck and scrape away this mud from im portant parts he will save much time and trouble later. "Lubrication on a dirty surface is lit tle better than no lubrication at all. For example, complaints about stiff operation of the. brake and clutch pedals, accelerator pedal, etc., are fre quent. This trouble can be cured by the application of a little oil at the joints, but the joints must first be cleaned before the oil is squirted on them. An oil hole will not feed lubri cant if there is dirt at the bottom of It. Exposed oil holes should first be cleaned out before the oil is Injected." So much of our National efficiency now depends on our truck drivers that it would be well if all these individuals could absorb the valuable suggestions In this article. Dry Bearings. If the oil grooves In the bushings become clogged the oil will not be able to reach the surfaces which need it. The use of excess quantity of graphite sometimes serves to produce this condition. NEW MOON RECEIVES MERITED RECEPTION C. H. S. Company Distributes Car in Oregon. TWO MODELS ANNOUNCED Sales of 6-3 6 and 6-6 6 Are Backed "by Promise of Efficient and Permanent Service. Oregon motorists have manifested much Interest In the Moon car, new to the state, but not to the automobile world, which is distributed here by the C. H. S. Company. 65 North Twenty third street, near Washington street. One of the largest garages and repair shops In the state serves as the base of operation tor the new company. The Moon Motor Car Company has been in the automobile field for 14 years at St. Louis, where for 40 years the company has been making buggies and carriages. In the East, Middle West and California the -car has more than lived up to its makers' expecta tions and is popular and widely used In tbose sections. "The new 6-36 Is the counterpart in every essential of the larger Moon models," reads an announcement of the company. "A special Continental 'Red Seal' engine makes It a triumph in economy, and scientific light weight. "Little Six" Announced. "The Moon Company never has with held the money necessary to obtain de sired results. In announcing the new 'Little Six' it offers a car whose cor rect, up-to-date design and'careful con struction place it in a class far beyond that of other cars of similar price. "Features of the car are the ex tremely high radiator running straight back to the high front cowl, low, backward-tilted w.ndshield and ample iom for all occupants. The little car is equipped with Delco ignition, Spicer universal Joints and Tlmken bearings. Its economy of gasoline, "oil and tires makes It a most economical car to buy, regardless of price. "The Moon 6-66 includes the refine ments and comforts which are usually 'extras' in other cars. Its graceful sym metry reflects the latest designs in motor car construction. There is sati isfaction in its silent, swift-running Continental engine that gives assur ance of ample reserve power. There is abundance of leg room in the front compartment and in the tonneau. Even the auxiliary seats are unusually com fortable. Delco Starting System Used. "Delco starting, lighting and Ignition systems insure a perfect, simple and positive means of control. Timken bearings and Spicer universal joint add their intrinsic value to the work of our own engineer. Like all Moon mod els, it is mechanically as perfect as 14 years' adherence to sound principles of construction can iriake it." The C. H. S. Company was organized by men long in the automobile business and with years of technical and prac tical experience. Their garage and shop is well equipped and owners of Moon cars will be assured of service 24 hours a day and every day in the year. ."The car owner wants prompt atten tion, in the city or out on the highways, at all times of the day and night," says a member of the firm. "Expert me chanics (not helpers) who know every detail of a car's construction and opera tion will be ready to serve Moon owners." IS NEW SERIES 19 STTJDEBAKERS .CAREFULLY DESIGNED. Engineers Put In Months of Tireless Working in Prefecting Models of Popular Car. " designing the 'three new Series 19 Studebaker cars, Studebaker en gineers were not bound down to any hard and fast rules," says W. C. Garbe, president of the Oregon Motor Car Company, distributors of the Stude baker. "No one's pet theory was al lowed to dominate the plane for the various units of the new cars. Every one, however, including some of the best in America, was required to set down, as if he were to design a car for his own personal use, specifications for consideration in working out the plans for the Series 19 Studebakers. As a result of these deliberations, and months of tireless work over drafting boards, plans were evolved that rep resented the best that engineers know. Experimental models were then built and put on road and speedway for the famous Studebaker 40-000-mile endur ance test the most rigid test known to automobile history. "The intermediately located trans mission of the new Studebaker cars stands out, perhaps, as one of the most conspicuous examples of the great care and thought given the construction of each unit of the new Studebaker cars. It fs located just back of the clutch and is connected with the clutch by means of a double Thermold-Hardy flexible coupling. "There are four Timken bearings in the Studebaker transmission and each bearing has the splendid mechanical advantage of being adjustable to wear. And, instead of the jour-jawed or dog, coupling ordinarily used, the second speed gear is cut wii.i. internal teeth which act as a clutch, engaging with the main drive pinion when In high gear. The result of this unique con struction means that there is never any difficulty in shifting into high, and easy, quiet gear-changing Is effected with a total absence of the usual clash ing of gear's. The new Studebaker clutch brake still further , aids toward this end, automatically checking the speed of the clutch when the latter is released. "The transmission itself is supported by a sub-frame, a feature new to Amer ican practice and used only on one or two of the highest-priced cars, which also carries the rear of the motor. By this arrangement the benefits of unit power plant rigidity are obtained without the additional cost, weight and inaccessibility of a bell housing and with added flexibility, gained from the flexible couplings." R- C Dumnt, vice-president of the Chevrolet Motor Company of Califor nia, will put in the next two months at his favorite sports fishing and au tomobile racing. The well-known speed enthusiast will be one of the big stars at the Tacoma Speedway gasoline car nival on July 4, after which he and Eanl Cooper, Eddie Pullen and oather celebrities will make a short tour of the Northwest. In between races Durant and Cooper will try their luck In the many trout streams which abound in the Oregon and Washington country. : ..: til ui Charles Better tire service puncture-proof service was brought within the reach of every car-owner, when Charles C. Gates, consulting engin eer, turned his attention to the tire problem and solved it. He put 5,000 to 15,000 additional miles of service into a tire the same tire you have been throwing away merely because the tread was worn. He made that tire puncture-proof, and guaranteed it to be so. Gates Half-Sole Tires are the em bodiment of a proven scientific principle, applied to the construc tion of tires. They are revolutionizing the whole tire industry and the great factory OREGON Portland Hatch'. Tire Shop, 70 Sixth St. Albany Rmlaton Electric Supply Company. Aatoria Kolkrr. Tire A Valcanll.c Works. Baker Independent Tire Company. Bend Best t llarria Vulcanising: Company. Bnrna Boras Girftcri Condon Shelley Garige, Coi-rallla A. G. Held. Dallas C. J. Shreve. Applications are now being considered for the following points where author ized dealers will be appointed shortly: ANNUAL BANQUET ENJOYED ROBINSON - SMITH ORGANIZA ' TION CELEBRATES RECORD. President of Company Makes Good on Promise to Share Profits WHIi Firm's Employes. To celebrate the enviable record es tablished curing the year 1918, mem bers of tue firm of the Robinson-Smith Company, authorized Ford dealers, 33 employes and a number of invited guests gathered at the Benson Hotel last evening for the company's first annual banquet. After a sumptuous dinner an Interesting programme was carried out. M. O. Wilkins, president of the Deal ers' Motor Car Association of Oregon, addressed the banqueters on "Fourteen Points in the Production of Waste." Other speakers were W. S. JlcSamara, manager of the Portland branch of the Ford Motor Company, and O. E. Fletcher. A. B. Smith, secretary of the Robinson-Smith Company, spoke on service to customers and courteous treatment. The most interesting part of the programme was the presentation to every employe of a check covering a CGates E.M. At Only 7& The Cost Enarene Jamea Wllhlaaon, DSS Wil lamette St. Grants Paaa W. H. Co adit Tire Shep. Harrlabara Hill A Company, Inc. mil.boro Hlllabore Garase Com pany. Hood River Heights Garage, Klamath Kails Farnaa A Lucas. La Grande Sstes Half-Sole Service Station. Lebaaon Frank Deollttle. AfcMlaavllle B-Strwt Garage. Marh field Morris-Barber Company. Medford F. R. Roberts. A.alaaa. Roacbarg. Look for SATE raaaw aaanr REaSTCRCO Tha Half-Sols Thre has been developed and perfected by The Gates Rubber Company, at Denver. The name "Half-Sole Tire' la registered la the C S. Patent Office and no other arm or individual has the right to use it la connection with the advertising or sale of tires or tire accessories. . HUTCH'S TIRE SHOP Distributors for Gates Half Sole Tires VULCANIZING 70 Sixth Street percentage of their salary drawn dur ing the period they had been in the employ of the company. In presenting the checks, A. S. Robin son, president of the company, reminded those present that just a year ago when the business was purchased he stated that if it was run on a profitable basis every employe would receive a share, the amount to be based upon the length of time employed and earning capacity. "Despite the fact that the Ford fac tory was operated on a 100 per cent war basis for a long period during 1918," Mr. Robincon said, "and that for several months no cars were received from the factory, the war period has been passed successfully, which, In a measure, was due to the hearty co-operation of every employe." Mr. Robinson congratulated those present upon their loyalty and en deavors to help make the Robinson Smith Company the largest and most efficient Ford agency on the Pacific Coast. Messrs. Robinson and Smith are pio neers in the automobile business. Mr. Robinson has been engaged continu ously for over 20 years in the Industry and has spent a decade on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Smith, a native son of Cal ifornia, has grown up with the busi ness since its infancy. The Roblnson-Smlth Company is lo cated in the largest Ford service sta tion on the Pacific Coast, covering an area of 40.000 square feet, entirely de voted to body building, painting, top making, upholstering, radiator repairs. at Denver has been doubled and re-doubled in the past two years, to take care of the demand. 350,000 motorists, including the greatest business houses of the country, are using Gates Half-Sole Tires as regular tire equipment. They are used because Gates Half Sole Tires are puncture -proof guaranteed so yet cost only 1z as much as other guaranteed tires. Investigate before you buy another tire. There are now over 800 authorized service stations of the Gates Half Sole Tires in the United States. The list below gives the names of those in the nearby territory. Kewberar Stall at Held. Oregon City Geo. Bnchels. Pendleton Bradley Tire Shop. Salem S. S. Montgomery, 177 S. Commercial St. The Pallea Gates A Co. Tillamook Aekley A Miller. Woodbum W. Becker A Sob. WASHINGTON. Centralis St- John A Tit ma. Chehalla Twin City Auto Company. Kelso Peters Garage A Machine Worka. Vancouver Cherry A Cherry. OREGON. this sign : V aaavaaaa. .r u. s.pat. of rice. shop work, part3, accessories, service and storage. After wishing each other the compli ments of the season. aU declared they had spent a very pleasant evening. Tapping Means Loose Bolt. If a clicking or tapping sound is heard coming from the crankcase in terior it ought to be investigated at once. Open the crankcase and ex amine all bearlnc-i and bearing cap bolts. Should a broken bolt be found, all in that bearing should be renewed, as the others are probably bent. Franklin for Fuel Chief. Mark L. Requa, director of the oil di vision. United States Fuel Administra tion, has unmistakably recognised the Franklin automobile to the extent that he has purchased a Franklin touring car and a Franklin four-passenger roadster. Pump Perfection. Motorists who use of one of the hand Auto Springs 4000 Springs in Stock. LAHER AUTO SPRING CO, INC. 34 N. 15th St. 1 pumps will do welt to give the pump a few strokes before attaching It to the valve. This blows out any grit or other foreign matter that nmy be clinging to the pump valve, preventing their find ing their wav Into the Inner tube. Oil spring every week. 3UICK EXPERTS BUICK REPAIRS EXCLUSIVELY 32,000 sq. ft. floor space, jj Live or dead storage. h Cheap rates. PARTS SUPPLIES PORTLAND BUICK i REPAIR CO. N. V. Cor. Sixteenth and Jefferson St. Portland, Or. Main 3419 JI1U1IBIIIIIBIBU 3