The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, July 13, 1919, SECTION FIVE, Image 75

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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY OREGOISTAX, PORTLAJTO, JULY 13, 1919. 11 TRULY IK IS STORY OF GOODYEAR Great Plant Rises From Bor rowed $3500 Investment. 30.000 TIRES MADE DAILY In Only 2 Years Factory Has De veloped From Little Place to ITIncty Acres. The story of the automobile tire, now a part of the daily life of mil lions of pcoiM all over the world, fur nished one of the greatest of all indus trial romances. Although originally invented by an transferred them into tbe class of high speed transportation agents. In the manufacture of tires of high quality, only the finest of cotton fab rics can be used, for if a tire is built up of fabric containing; tbe slightest defect, its deterioration In actual ser vice Is bound to originate at the point of defect, however emalL The Good year Tire Rubber company has long had Its ideas as to what to expect from cotton fabric Oftentimea it was unable to buy on the open market the kind of fabric that had the tensile strength consistent with the Goodyear ideals of manufacture. So a few years ago it secured its own cotton mills In Goodyear, Connecticut. and by developing Its own processes of tire duck manufacture was able to con struct a fabric or canvas stronger than any other tire fabric on the market. To carry out the idea of perfecting to the greatest possible extent the raw materials that go Into their tires. Good year later opened up an immense cot ton plantation in Arizona, developing a !".0u-acr. project In the Bait river valley, on which a long staple cotton haa been produced that Is better than the long staple cotton of any part of the world. The output of the Goodyear factories Is now 25.000 tires a day. tnd it will be 30.000 tires after July 1. The company recently developed and announced a new plan of factory management which Involves a broad and comprehensive principle of an employer's council of industrial relations in keeping with the T WHITE COM PAX X )LXAGEE DIS CUSSES COXDITIOJfS. New Heavy-Dnty White Truck, With I Doable Redaction Gear Drive, Giving Great Service. Conditions throughout the northwest In the automotive Industry are better than ever, and the demand for trucks Is enormous and growing fast. So de-1 Clares R. A. Parker, wholesale manager I of the White company of San Francisco, I following a tour of Oregon. Washing ton. Idaho, Montana and British Co-1 lumbla. 'Mr. Parker found the demand for I trucks so great that orders are being booked far in advance by the dealers. says C. W. Cornell, manager here for I the White company. "We find that I trucks are coming through in faster I time now and the factory is shipping more of them, so we will be able to make deliveries more rapidly in the I near future. The farmers are buying trucks In increasing quantities and they are buy ing high-grade trucks such as the I SEEING PORTLAND IX A NEW OLDSMOBILE EIGHT. - - - . -H'-w Urn I mm i- - -vr .-. .r IJl V " hi-!a fca ... aZf ' ,- 'i 'N tmOmB ' A A " a" r Y .:-SS?3 THE UNIVERSAL CAR The Ford ear can well be called the People's Car, became tfaer are more than 3,000,000 of them in dairy operation. That is about seven to one to the nearest follower in the motor car industry. This would not be so if the Ford car had not for sixteen years proven its superiority in service, in durability, and m the low cost for operation and maintenance; this would not be so if the Ford car was not so easy to understand, so simple in construction that anybody and everybody can safely drive h. It is everybody's necessity became it doubles the- value of time, and is the QuicJc, convenient, comfortable, juod cccsaQinical4&cthodf tcsnportaa tioa. . Leave your order with any one of the dealers list! frfVa. Francis Motor Car Co. E. 13th and Hawthorne Palace Garage' Co. 12th and Stark Wm. L. Hughson Co. Broadway and Davis Robinson-Smith Co. 6th and Madison Rushlight & Penney . 3d and Broadway Talbot & Casey E. Ankeny and Grand Araela C.hea. at tbe helm, la gtvtag Eaad C. a lei da. grarral attoraey of the Olds Motor Works, aad party a drive Ibreaak Wsaui(t Park prellamiaary ta tiaaia Kim mgawar mp. Edmund C Shields, general attorney for the Olds Motor Works, Lansing. Mich., was a visitor In Portland last week. He arrived here at Just about the same time as the new Oldsra obile Eight, and Arnold Cohen of the OldamoMIe Company of Oregon took him and his party on a drive about town and out the highway. Mr. Shields is In the front seat beside Mr. Cohen, who Is driving. Others fn the party are John O'Rafferty, Miss Nellie Shea, Miss iMlia Shea, Miss Anna Shea and Miss Margaret Tuberty, all of Mr. Shield's party. Englishman, the modern tire Is truly and typically American In its develop ment and chief features. It has brought rubber from a lowly place among the modern industries to the rront rank, so that today it stands only a little way behind steel in the Industrial affairs of the world. Only a few years ago the motorist nuld not start out on a Sunday after noon's rid. with his family without fear aad trembling for his tires. The comic papers were filled with tire troubles. Now all this has been chsnged and the old difficulties are practically eliminated. The motorist of today may format hia tires and give himself the peace of mind necessary to an enjoy able trip. Le raima. ine speao drove one set of Ooodvear tires at Day ton. Florida. 400 to 600 miles in offi cial tests at speeds exceeding ISO miles an hoar, breaking all the world s speea records from one to twenty miles. The tires at the end of the trials showed no signs of wear. This shows what the tires of today will do. Ceadyrar Grwwtb Asaaslag. A large part of this tire development lias been due to tbe Goodyear Tire and Rubber company of Akron. Ohio, the largest single rubber concern in tbe world. The name of the Goodyear com pany has come to be as Indelibly asso ciated with the automobile tire as the name of Charles Goodyear is linked with tb. vulcanisation of rubber. The Goodyear company towers among the wonders of American industry. So amaslng haa been the company's development double in three years, fifteenfold In the last decade that it Is difficult to keep pace with its tre mendous growth. These factories stand as a symbol for the service and quality of product that has made the company a leader in the rubber Industry of the world. Its rarely paralleled expansion Is truly spectacular. From less than 15.000 square feet of floor spare to Its present area of 95 acres, exclusive of its branches: from 100 employes to aoproxlmaiely 30.000 this is the story of 30 years. From an Insignificant little enter prise In a straa board factory bought with borrowed capital to one of the world's largest manufacturing corpo rations It has rapidly forged ahead. The mammoth plant which bears the Inventor's name, although he had no part in Its inauguration, was estab lished in 1899 during the period that bicycle tires and carriage tires were the most prominent rubber product. The growth of the automobile indus try to sisable proportions a tittle later waa responsible for the greater expan on of th. plant. modern trend of the times. During the present year the company is looking forward to a business of approximate ly tl7S.000.000 gross, with reasonabla assurance that this will be accom pushed. NEW BODY FOB TRUCKS MAXY AUVWTAGES CLAIMED FOR LATEST DESIGN". Commerce Truck First to Equip With Everyway Body, Made for All Kinds of Jobs. An all-purpose truck body designated as the Everyway body la announced by the Highland Body Manufacturing com pany of Cincinnati and one of the first truck manufacturers to add it to Its body equipment line is the Commerce Motor Car company of Detroit. The body haa been designed to meet the rapidly increasing demand for motor truck body that will enable th farmer to use his truck economically TICK I Sl'DI TRY THIS WAY TO (,KT OLTl Just remembering that the slower a wheel turns the more traction it has will enable many motorists to avoid the. terrors of a self-dug grave when stuck in mud or sand. Nine owners out of ten. when stuck In the mud, will put their cars in low gear and then race their engines for dear life, short ening the life of both tire and motor. With the wheels going at such a pace it is impossible to get any traction, even if straw or twigs are placed beneath the treads, and tire chains will be slipped around idly. The effect is usually to dig a deep hole and increase the difficulty. The correct wsy is to pack cloth or twigs below the wheels. ow gear and only speed the motor sufficiently to take the tea without tailing. Above all things, .don't race the engine. ! cloth use lc motor clutct la Debt Far First .130O. The growth of the company has been f a sturdy and enduring kind. Start ing with an Initial investment of only 1 12.500. of which only $3500 was In cash, and that borrowed, the plant is Bow valued at nearly $30.000. noo. with an output In 1911 of $121,000,000. But no sooner had the new Goodyear company started than it became volved In patent litigation, which greatly handicapped Its progress. The complaining company in this litigation was a million-dollar concern, with plenty of money for carrying on tbe suit, while the Goodyear Tire at Rubber company was 'practically with out funds fur this purpose. After a long battle, hoa-ever. the smaller com pany a on its case and in the victory eeieoration which followed the entire City of Akron participated. Then cam. financial troubles and the whole situation appeared hopeless. But again fortune was on the side of the struggling young company and the aturm waa weathered. In 191 th. output of th. Goodyear company in value had increased to toet.)i0 from a bumble stsrt of less than 1500. 000 its first year. The Good year company waa the pioneer in the development of many of th. types of tires that are now serving to make automottv. transportation a success. Among these, the most conspicuous are the straight-side automobile tire and the pneumatic "cord' tire, both of w hich were brought out in 1904. Good year pneumatic cord tires for motor trucks have taken motor trucks out to haul a load every way. It Is so con stituted that It will also find a market with city truck users because of the diversified loads It will carry. The body is made in three eTxes as follows: Truck capacity. Load space. Cuhie ft. Welirht. V to 1 ton e-Jx 9S 96 8O0 IS Ml tons 8?xt2t 7?-lL- ..(! 2 to x tons S:xl44 S3-144 10O0 The body is self-contained: all parts that, go to make up the various designs into which it can be converted are on the truck at all times, thus making it possible to change the body to suit any load at any time and any place. It la well within the limits of weights recommended by automotive engineers and sufficiently rugged to withstand resign usage in country or city service. All sills, floor boads, alata and stakes are of well-seasoned oak: joints In floors being tongue and groove and panels being rabbeted into floor: all Joints are made up with white lead. This gives a grain tight body, one that it is claimed will not absorb moisture and deteriorate. All reinforcements have been designed to give maximum strength with minimum weight. When merchandise must be protected against the weather provisions are made fot the nse of a paulin. The truck for farm use will haul grain In bags, bulky produce, farm produce in crates, cement in bags, barn yard fertiliser, poultry in crates, farm machinery, dressed meats, fence posts, fruit and vegetables In baskets, boxes or crates, baled hay, wheat, oats or corn stalks, coal. dirt, gravel, hogs. cat lie. sheep, cotton, sugar cane, appiea. potatoes, melons, cabbages, etc, etc For citv use It can be used to trans port the raw material on one trip and bring back the finished product. It ran be used as a passenger ous, serv ice pick-up wagon, carrying bottles, baggage, expreas, grain, wood, ice. fur niture, hardware, fruit, dairy produce. White In prefereno. to cheaper ma chines! Many of the farmers and mer chants in tbe northwest formerly owned c'jeap trucks and . they have found that first cost matters not at all in the purchase of a motor truck, but that performance does. They find that a good truck will pay for itself in a short time while a cheap truck will be In th. repair shop so much of th. time that the profits are eaten up in garage bills. "Farmers and merchants are being educated along a dollars and cents basis. They are learning that Initial expenditure must be commensurate with the returns on the product, or they are not getting their moneys worth. Therefore they are getting good machines, working them long hours, caring for them properly and making money. "The demand for trucks In Oregon and Washington is particularly great because of the huge business boom. Logging camps are using Whit, trucks to haul lumber and rough logs long distances. The good-roads movement means further Increase in track fleets and truck purchases because good roads and truck transportation go hand in hand. "There lc a great reclamation project underway in southern Idaho which will cost millions of dollars. Most of the material and much of the supplies will be hauled by motor trucks. This will open up a rich farming country which will support several new cities and in crease the demand for trucks. l he new double-reduction gear drive, heavy-duty White truck is caus ing favorable comment throughout the northwest as well as In other parts of toe Facirie coast. A few have arrived and are In th. hands of users. Invari ably they give great satisfaction. Tbe new truck is proving economical and reliable and a money-maker for the owners because Its trips to the repair snop are few and far between." I I 1 ' ''"-! WAR ENDED JUST IN TIME JkO CARS SOW IF IT HAD CON TINUED LOXGEB. , business and the great accomplish- I bile Importers that no increal on 1m ments that are possible are due as ports could be allowed at present ow- much to the aid of the automobile as l ing to the necessity of guarding the Head of Paige Organization Says Even Another Month Wonld . Have Had Dire Effects. SORREVTO FLATS ARE SOLD Ralph W. Wilbur Makes Purchase for $23,000 Cash. Ralph W. Wilbur, attorney, has pur chased the Sorrento flats at Bast Twenty-eighth and Washington streets. in Sunnyslde, from Mrs. W. S. Toole. The consideration was $25,000 cash. Th. Sorrento flats are of brick con struction, and were built In 1912. Mrs Toole is removing to a new home she has bought at 1111 East Washington street. National Park for Maine. At last the east is to have a na tional park. Congress has created In Maine the Lafayette national park. comprising a tract of more than 10,000 acres on Mount Desert island, on the coast of which lies the city of Bar Harbor, long a Mecca for motorists and "resorters" generally. All the land was donated by public spirited citizens for the express purpose of founding this national reservation. The present shortage in passenger automobiles offers a clear indication of what the aituation would soon have been had the war continued another year or so, in the opinion of Harry M. Jewett, president of the Paige-Detroit Motor Car company. "Had tb. great factories continued to devote their energies more and more to production of munitions and equipment essential to the war it would have soon become impossible to obtain passenger cars, he says. "Thou sands of automobile dealers would have been forced to close their doors. No doubt it would have taken years for the manufacturers to get back to the pre-war basis and to resume manu facture of passenger automobiles in anything like sufficient quantity. "Few realize that had the war con tinued even a month longer many bust nesses in other lines than the automo bile industry would have been forced out of the game. Had the supply of passenger automobiles been shut off. the slowing up effect on business in general would have been Immediately apparent. "The conditions would have approxl mated those that would follow if our railroads ceased to run. What would have happened in this country is lndi cated somewhat by the situation exist ing in England due to the fact that factories were obliged to stop manu facturing automobiles. Rolls-Royce cars that cost when new $6000 have been sold at prices ranging from $21,000 to '124.000. and 1913 and 1914 models of cars of any make sell now for more than they brought when new. "I believe the rapid pace of modern Dont race th. engine. Ton cannot abuse th. engine worse than by allow ing It to race at high speed without s load iBUICKl m m : EXPERTS? BUICK REPAIRS EXCLUSIVELY 32,000 sq. ft floor space. t : J 4-- . UVC Ul UCttU BlAJlevg?, ma Cheap rates. PARTS SUPPLIES PORTLAND BUICK REPAIR CO. X. W. Cor. Sixteenth and Jefferson St. 5 Portland, Or.' - Main 3419 I TIRE; Odd Sizes 34x3 35x4 . 36x4 37x4 37x4 See us before you have your wheels cut down we have all the odd sizes in both types Straight Side and. Quick Detachable. Bargains in AH Standard Makes of Tires Portland Tire Co. 331 Burnside St. Portland, Oregon Phone Broadway 2275 - to any one thing, possibly excepting the telephone and the telegraph. If one could appreciate the aggregate of time which is saved In one day by the use of the automobile, the realisation would be staggarlng. BRITISH COXTIXUE AUTO BAN Import of American Cars Still Is Strictly Limited. LONDON, July 12. The automobile section of the American chamber of commerce in London has made repre sentations to the British board of trade to have the import restrictions on Arerican motor cars further relaxed. If not entirely removed. At present the importation of motor vehicles and parts thereof is limited to E0 per cent of the 1913 imports up to September 1. 1919, in proportionate monthly quantities. Sir Aukland Geddes, president of the board of trade, informed the automo- future of st rling exchange on America. Sir Aukland said the board of trade could not consider any one trade or industry by itself, but must look at everything with a view to the best in terests of the nation. From this point of view maintaining Great Britain's financial position and therefore the po sition of her exchanges was the es sential consideration, he declared. The American chamber of commerce here announces, however, that the gov ernment has promised to review the entire import and export position on September 1, and that the board of trade has agreed to a concession in favor- of importers not represented in 1914 who have since established sizable busi nesses dependent on automobiles from America. Dirt Causes Missing:. In tractor operation, a frequent cause of engine missing Is the forma tion of fine particles of metal that have flaked off the motor on the segments of the high-tension distributor, forming a fine dust, which short circuits the distributor. The remedy is to clean the parts with a slightly oiled rag. The trouble is not frequent in tbe later types of magnetos. A Walnut Road. Recently in an Indiana city engineers were Installing a concrete foundation along a main thoroughfare. In excavat ing they came upon a corduroy road. buried several inches under the street surface. The road was constructed of black walnut and extended, they found later, for a distance of nearly a mile. The logs were in excellent condition. . Missing. When missing occurs in one cylinder at slow speed, while the firing is all right when the speed is raised it is a pretty good guess that the fault lies in too wide a spark gap in tbe plug- of that cylinder. the car ieai JL4 ZlHK dl4 aU that sell. and stays sold on merit $1450 at Portland I YMP' IAN Is Open to Lire Dealers ' Ease of control power strength, beauty and standardization of parts are the features that have made the New Olympian a national favorite. from 3 to 50 miles on "high" and very economical McCraken Motor Company Distributors 490 Burnside St. Phone Broadway 93 eX the alow apeed. heavy duty daaa aad tuv. ' "