TO
THE STJM)AT OKEGOXIAN, PORTLAM), AUGUST 3, 1919.
F. W. A. VESPER WILL
BE IN CITY TOMORROW
Dinner at Chanticleer in
Honor in Evening.
His
MANY DEALERS TO ATTEND
President of National Automobile
Sealers' Association to Speak on
Automobile Legislation.
Don't try to see the big- chief of any
automobile concern in Portland tomor
row afternoon. Each and every motor
car dealer of Portland, and this applies
also to numerous others through the
state and In southwestern Washington
realize that it would be necessary to
take upon Itself the necessity of fur
nishing suitable homes. , Accordingly,
it purchased approximately 120 acres
immediately south of the plant, upon
which modern homes are being built.
These homes are not of the type
commonly known as "factory houses,"
but are modern, commodious resi
dences of stucco and brick, and are
sold to the workmen on such extremely
liberal terms that they - are being
snapped up eagerly as soon as erected.
Twelve have already been completed,
and are now occupied. Thirty-three
more are in the course of construction,
and will be ready for occupancy not
later than November. Streets are being
graded and improved, and it is within
the present plans to continue until a
minimum colony 6f 600 houses has been
completed.
USED MAPIiE SYRUP FOR OIL
Motorist Finds Anto Motor Does Not
Hanker for Sweets.
WILLIAMS PORT, Aug. 2. Several
weeks ago T. L. Newcomer was the
recipient of a gallon can filled with a
dark brown liquid from a friend who
owns a garage. Without a second
thought the motorist placed the can in
his garage for future use, believing its
contents to be automobile oil.
Occasion for the use of the oil came
a few days ago. Newcomer poured
half of the contents of the can into his
TRUCK MOST HAVE CURE
"AND SO DOES LOCOMOTIVE,"
SAYS AUGUST JUNGE.
Diamond T Track Dealer Removes
Into 3Iodern New Quarters in
Ninth Near Flanders.
The. care of a motor truck Is very
essential, says August Junge, Diamond
T truck distributor for Oregon. "A
strong, well-built truck will, of course,
Btand much abuse. But the day comes
when even super-construction is tried
beyond its power of further resistance.
The truck will never be built that will
respond to neglect as it does to care.
"Take, for instance, the average
railroad locomotive big. powerful and
rugged were it to receive no more
attention than most trucks, we would
still be traveling as the early pioneers
did, instead of on steel rails.
"Yet few of us ever think of the
locomotive other than as a machine
that is constantly moving, instead of
spending, as ii really does, more than
half of its time under the care of
skilled mechanics. Of course, the motor
truck does not require this unusual
degree of care and constant adjust-
ALL ABOARD TO LOG THE EOUTE TO KLAMATH FALLS FOE ELKS CONVENTION.
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TIflS KRAJflCLIX CAR IS MAKING THE RUN TO KLAMATH FALLS AND RETURN TO OBTAIN COMPLETE ROAD
DATA ON THE TRIP FOR THE ELKS.
Bee the automobile section of next Sunday's Oregonian for complete information and a log of the run. With Law
Rnes E. Therkelson. sales manager of the Braly Auto company, the automobile editor of The Oregonian left -Portland
Thursday morning for the round trip. The Franklin is going to Klamath Falls via The Dalles and Bend and will return
by way of Crater lake, Medford and the Pacific highway, thus getting information as to both routes. The Franklin was
selected for the path-finding run because of its ability as a road car. The photo shows the car leaving the Braly Auto
company in Portland Thursday morning, with J. C Braly telling Therkelson (at the wheel) to stop for nothing.
near at hand, will be "not at home" to
callers on and after 4 o'clock tomor
row. This doesn't mean, of course, that
places of business will be closed, but
only that the head, chief, big man of
the concern will have something else
on his mind at that time.
The occasion is the visit to Portland
tomorrow of F. W. A. "Vesper of St.
Louis, president of the National Auto
mobile Dealers' association.
Among sellers of motor cars as a
business Mr. Vesper looms Just as does
Charles E. Hughes among the lawyers,
the Mayo brothers among the doctors,
Marconi among the men of science. So,
naturally, a visit from him is an event
of moment.
Mr. Vesper Is probably the best-posted
man in the United States on matters
having to do with the interests of mo
tor car dealers. Especially is he an
authority on automobile legislation,
national and state. He is at present
engaged in a tour through the west,
addressing meetings of dealers on mat
ters pertaining to legislation in their
Interests.
He will be rn Portland tomorrow and
at night will be the principal speaker
at a dinner at Chanticleer inn, on the
Columbia river highway. Dealers from
Portland, throughout Oregon and from
southwestern Washington have been
Invited to attend the dinner and many
of them have accepted. Probably be
tween 75 and 100 dealers will be there.
The Dealers' Motor Car association
of Oregon has arranged the dinner, a
special committee composed of A. B.
Manley of the Manley Auto company,
J. W. McCallum of the Northwest Auto
company. W. C Garbe of the Oregon
Motor Car company and M- O. Wilkins
being in charge.
Dealers attending will leave the Mult
nomah hotel at 4 o'clock on a drive out
the highway as far as Multnomah falls.
There Mr. Vesper will be introduced
around at an informal get-together lit
tle outdoor smoker and after-meeting
all hands the party will return to
Chanticleer for dinner at T.
Mr. Vesper, of course, will be the
main speaker. TL W. Schmeer of the
United States National bank will be
another speaker. He will discuss the
always Interesting subject of automo
bile finance.
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machine and started on a trip which
ended soon after he had left his garage.
Unable to locate his machines' trouble
he had the car towed into a garage,
where mechanics found maple syrup
where oil belonged.
KELLY STANDARD IS HIGH
TIRES BUILT STRICTLY ON
QUALITY BASIS.
TIRE COMPANY BUILDS HOMES
Pennsylvania Rubber Company Is
Erecting Model Town lor Employes.
In common with hundreds of large
manufacturing concerns throughout
the country, the Pennsylvania Rubber
company has, for the past two years,
faced a serious shortage of housing
facilities for Its workmen.
The remarkable growth of the mak
ers of vacuum cup tires has brought
a steadily increasing army of expert
workmen to the town, with the result
that houses were soon at a premium.
The rubber company was quick to
H. Ainscougb., Kelly Dealer for
Portland, Says They Ontlivo
Guarantee by Far.
"To make a product to the very
highest possible degree of limit and
keep it at that standard has been the
policy of the Kelly-Springfield Tire
company since its inception," declared
J. H. Ainscough of the Kelly Tire Sales
company, Kelly-Springfield dealer.
"Since the Kelly tire was first put
on the market it has been the policy
of the company to keep to hand-made
methods of manufacture and to keep
each tire up to the careful standard, so
that Kelly-Springfield quality might
never be lowered in the least.
"How religiously this has been kept
with the public is shown by the fact
of the great mileage being made by
Kelly-Springfield tires in every class
of work. This policy also applies in
the treatment of customers, for it is an
axiom of the Kelly-Sprlngf ield service
that no Kelly tire user shall be dissat
isfied. Although the Kelly guarantee
of great mileage is possible only the
minimum mileage is promised.
"For instance, the Kelly cord is
guaranteed for 10,000 miles and that
guarantee means 10.000 miles or more.
Kelly tires are built on quality and
long mileage and not upon adjustments,
although should an adjustment be
necessary it is made cheerfully. The
average last year on all Kelly tires
sold throughout the United States was
more than 12,000 miles and the ad
justments were less than one tire in
every 500 manufactured.
"There is but little guesswork in the
Kelly tire. That is due to the fact that
it is hand-made and its inspection sys
tem is so rigid. One inspector is de
tailed to every three builders, and he
sees that every step in the making of
any type of tire must be right or it is
rejected. This close supervision helps
the buyer because of the fact that he
knows when he gets a Kelly tire he
gets one that is manufactured under
the strictest conditions in the tire bus!
ness and naturally he expects mileage
and gets it or the company makes good.
On the Kelly Kant blips the gnaran
tee is 7500 miles, the average mileage
on these tires in Portland has been not
less than twice this distance.
raent. Just the same, we cannot ex
pect to cash in on the manufacturer's
efforts unless we do our share in seeing
that avoidable obstacles are not placed
in the way of efficient performance.
"The dealer who values his reputa
tion and the good name of his trucks
would rather refuse a sale than know
lngly place one of his vehicles in the
hands of a person or firm whose only
attention would consist of pouring
gasoline into the tank or adding
occasional quart of lubricating oiL 1
have always made it a point to im
press upon owners of Diamond T trucks
that grease is cheaper than steel and
that a few minutes spent in inspection
of the truck each day are minutes
turned into dollars."
Mr. Junge and the Diamond T truck
6ales agency of Oregon have just re
moved into new quarters specially built
for him in Ninth street between
Everett and Flanders.
States, so manufacturers could not pro
vide especially mad tires for the test."
Now that the war is over American
manufacturers whose products played
part in its winning are receivng
congratulations. Among these is the
Gates Rubber company of Denver, Colo.,
whose products were regarded as an
"economical necessity" durln-r the con
flict
When the government curtailed tire
production in the United States soon
after America entered the war, the
Gates company was not among those
affected. No restrictions were placed
on the Gates plant by the war boards.
nd the company was permitted not
only to continue operation at full ca
pacity, but materially to increase its
output, including both tires and fan
belts. It was Denver-made fan belts
that Uncle Sam used on his fleet of 200
motor trucks moving men and muni
tions on Long island.
BRAKE ADJUSTER IS ADDED
COLE AERO-EIGHT HAS
EQUIPMENT.
NEW
Brake Band Now Automatically
Tightened as Used by Inge
nious Device.
In line with its policy of Incorporat
ing in the Cole Aero-Eight every con
venience and economy, tae Cole Motor
Car company is equipping all its pres
ent models with an automatic brake
adjuster which makes annoying ad
justment of the service brake unneces
sary. It is an exclusive Cole feature that
automatically takes up the wear on
the service brake bands.
Every time the service brake is used
there is a certain amount of wear on
the brake band. Properly to apply the
brakes on a car. ordinarily it is neces
sary each time to force the brake pedal
down a little farther. This wear takes
place gradually, but none the less cer
tainly. The day arrives when the mo
torist is unable to stop the car quickly
with the service brake alone and must
resort to the emergency.
When this situation arises the only
remedy is to have , mechanic adjust
the brakes. These adjustments are nec
essary at regular intervals. Naturally,
much time is lost while the adjust
ments are being made.
The automatic brake adjuster on the
Cole Aero-Eight chassis is mounted at
the junction of the service brake pedal
and the brake rod. As the wear on the
brake band takes place notches within
the adjuster automatically move back
on the brake rod and absorb the sur
plus length occasioned by this wear.
Consequently adjustment of the service
brake pedal is made every time the
brake band wears down a trifle and
the amount of leverage necessary to
apply the brakes properly remains constant.
PERSHING ROUTE SELECTED
Proposed Transcontinental Highway
New York to Pacific.
The "Pershing highway," a proposed
transcontinental route from New York
to San Francisco, was organized re
cently at a meeting in Lincoln, Neb., at
tended by representatives of several
states included in the projected itiner
ary. The road, as laid out by the organlz-
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The Most Serviceable Truck, hi America
Paige tracks are among the first trucks to have the bumper integral
with the frame, all weather proof cab and the odometer on the wheel
as standard equipment.
True, those are not vital things, but they do indicate the thorough
ness with which Paige Trucks are designed and built; the generous
margin of Safety, Satisfaction and Service built into every Paig$
Truck; the Proof in short, that Paige Trucks ere Built for Durability.
PAIGE-DETROIT MOTOR CAR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICH.
COOK & GILL CO., INC.
Distributors
Detailed Specifications Upon Application
Broadway and Everett Sts-, Portland, Or.
era' maps, passes through Washington,
Springfield. I1L, Laclede. Mo.. St. Jo
seph, Lincoln and Cheyenne, Wyo all
of which places have figured import
antly at one time or another in General
Pershing's career. Mostly, the route is
a composite of established trails, fol
lowing the Lincoln highway from San
Francisco to Grand Island, Neb., and
sections of other roads from central
Nebraska to New York.
This is the third Pershing highway
project launched in recent months. A
north and south "Pershing way" was
organized In December in Minnesota,
WAR
SALES FORCE LN THIS PREDICAirENT OUGHT TO
ANY MANAGES WEEP.
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TIRES HAD TO STAND GAFF
TESTS BT GOTERXJfEXT
MIGHTY SEVERE.
Tires Put Over on the Road, Kept in
Pickle, Baked and Jazzed Over
Nails and Glass.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. (Special.)
When it comes to buying automobile
tires Uncle Sam is from just one state
-Missouri. He has to be "shown." He
doesn't accept the word of a dealer
any more than a horse trader wonld
the declarations of another of his trade.
The guarantee of a manufacturer of
tires looks about as good to the gov
ernment as an international treaty did
to the kaiser five years ago.
And in war times Mr. U. S. Govern
ment is a little more "fussy" than
usual about the kind of goods that go
over the rims of his motor vehicles.
During the late controversy he gave
every tire purchased an acid test
literally and figuratively. When a
motor machine was sent across to join
in the Hun chase, the army general
staff had something more than a
"hunch" about how that machine was
going to perform under fire. Also there
were reliable statistics at hand to show
how the tires under the machine were
likely to "bat" in pinches and out.
In his report on government tests of
tires, an officer of the motor transport
corps says:
"The road tests were over the worst
highways In Maryland, and were with
exceptionally heavy loads of merchan
dise.
"The chemical test was scientific the
tire being put into a tank of acids
and salts, where it was kept for 48
hours. After the chemical test it was
put through what is known as the
"fire test." The tire was tossed into
an oven and baked, the result indicat
ing whether the rubber was cured
properly.
The overseas test was the severest
of all. The tire was put in a spin
wheel with an Inner tube and inflated
to 100 pounds pressure. It was then
spun around a sort of cam shaft at
terrific speed, striking all kinds of
broken material glass, tacks, nails.
sharp-edged stones and metal big
enough to penetrate the rubber tread
and inner fabric
"These experiments were made with
a new pneumatic tire of each make for
each test. Tires were bought at dif
ferent points throughout the United
"Wind
Did It!
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He was a well-known Portlander.
His eyes had been bandaged for weeks.
The time was at hand for their removal and the fateful ver
dict of "sight or no sight,"
Then the doctor, for the first time, revealed the cause of the
eye trouble, namely a "habitual riding in an automobile with
out proper eye protection against wind."
No eye is safe no car is complete without
PRITCHARD
and the Pike's Peak Ocean to Ocean
highway has adopted as an official sub
title "The Pershing Transport route."
FARM VAXCES ARE INCREASED
And the Automobile Is Responsible
for Much of Gain.
Value of the automobile to the far
mer is indicated by these facts:
The increase in farm values during
the 20 years prior to the end of 1900
averaged $400,000,000 annually. Dur
ing the same time our population In
creased, roughly. 60 per cent, or 21t
per cent per annum.
The increase in farm values in the
18 years following (these are the latest
figures available) averaged Jl.300.000.
000 a year, over three times as much as
in the pre-automobile period. Our popu
lation increased during the same period
S3 per cent, or 2 per cent per annum.
Don't attempt to start the engine
unless the spark Is retarded and the
switch key inserted and turned in the
fv-irrh
Wind Deflectors
They have made an instantaneous
hit in Portland they are highly
ornamental as well as highly use
ful ; and autoists generally will soon
recognize them as necessary equipment.
GEREER
"The Radiator Man"
AUTO SHEET METAL AND
BODY MANUFACTURER
Tenth and Davis
notice to
dealers:
We have an excellent
money-making propo
sition for dealers in
Portland and Multno
mah county, for which
we are distributors.
Details upon request.
...
The Radiator Man
nia Ir the la root that arreeted George W. Dean. Muter of the Howard Ante
mobile company here, when he returned Inst week from a vacntion trip.
However, Mr. Dean didn't weep when five salesmen suddenly presented
themselves to him. all hobbling on crutches. He threw up his hands at first,
then laughed. The salesmen, headed by the irrepressible Frank V. Smith, were
only trying to make emphatic their predicament in not having enough Buick
cars to fill demands. Lett to right, the hobbling five are: W. C. Montgomery.
I. M. Smith. Ed V. Knox, iL F. Markworth and Frank V. Smith, and ths other
man ia IXr. Dean,
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Fastidious Drivers
are higMy pleased with
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