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SECTION FIVE Pages 1 to 12 Automobiles, Road Trips and Northwest Hi'"''av News VOL. XXXVIII. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVE3IUER 9, 1919. NO. 43. AUTO ACCIDENTS ARE NOT ALWAYS THE FAULT OF THE DRIVER The Motorist Should Be a Lot More Careful, but So Should the Pedestrian, Too, and "Watch Your Step" Is the Only Safe Rule for the Traveler on Foot to Follow. Oregon Confronted by Same Prob lem of Saving tlic Trees Along State Iligliwajs. rz4lA:- -' : 7V---: -fcorvJ f - " i' -r .4rr'- ' " 7 .. - fcXXD pp.. " ' rgl ' 1 " '. RDD BEAUTY IN DANGER ' W-v 4 " 'JTm n-' ' '777?? stui'ctiox of tiiuics. ( J 1 gC ' (1 J 4 " : " Av - ? V V I . crSSSTAVr - -v - v- -if . r f . - LACK OF FREIGHT CARS ?W 9y 1:1 ' $L4 M'C , PACIFIC HIGHWAY IS BAD 1 ' -S ' I' V5S VW : STRONG KINDS KOA1) CO V - I 1 A' V . VrJJ,A ' ' F i:ki;d with mld. Tlf''W' , i -. 'i?"r. . 8l I " 'A Roadster, Which Got Through 1 1 : -'t. ' " - - ;' I " r'""3. -fv. SlZJZ fi 7? Despite Fierce Mud. I 1 .V.v4- a I I y. -"iTi? rr" 'x, ; III -i llll 1 "fe fe,.-J3k. ig i JJT'" VHr- Kirtl-'"'S- J I I rious kinds, from BUml,o to soapy . SEATTLE. Wash., Nov. 8. Shall the scenic grandeur of "Washing ton's famed evergreen forests be preserved; or shall these towering vistas of perpetual green skirting the state's highways be demolished and replaced by unsightly, blackened stumps? inis is me pertinent question ue ing asked every man and woman in the state by the Automobile Club of Western Washington; this is the question that must be answered by the united co-operation of not only the state, but the entire Pacific northwest and even the I'acific coast, says the Tacoma Ledercr. Tht al ternative is vast stretches of stump fields flanking Washington's beauti ful highways stumps painting a blackened blotch on evergreen road side scenery. Washington can perpetuate native and lrxunant forest looming up in mipfc-y grandeur along the paved j etgnways winding over nui anu val ley, or a monotonous succession of logs, stumps and crumbling roots. In this connection the Automobile Club of Western Washington, as a means of co-ordinating its campaign for good roads, is seeking to preserve the forest scenery skirting all prin cipal highways in the northwest. The organization has been waging this campaign for some time1; committees have taken vigorous steps to prevent logging along scenic roads and the club's resolution aiming to prevent the cutting of trees along highways was adopted by the last session of the Washington State Good Roads Asso ciation in Yakima. Accordingly, the co-operation of every district in the state is asked to win federal and state legislative support to preserve native highway scenery. At the October session of thfe ex ecutive committee of the Automobile club of Western Washington former Senator Ralph - D. Nichols was ap pointed permanent chairman of the club's committee seeking to obtain state legislation preserving the na tural scenery and big trees along state highways. Chairman Nichols urges that all progressive state organizations In cluding civic bodies, chambers of commerce, rotary clubs and auto and road associations, immediately pass resolutions petitioning the state of Washington to acquire strips of tim ber along the highways. The state could do this, it is ex plained, by trading other lands for the scenic, by trading other lands for the scenic roadside strips. Infor mation as to the location of scenic stretches of land along state roads is also desired. LIGHT COLORS FOR El'KOPE Buyers Over There Have Ideas of Their Own About Cars. European buyers of American cars have their own ideas about equip ment. Some times it is found that the conventional black so universal in this country must be changed to a gray or tan of the cars are to sell well abroad. The sleek black leatherette or the smooth gray mohair tops which we affect must usually be replaced with khaki tops on cars destined for overseas. A few years ago when electric starting and lighting were first accepted as the things on this side, old world buyers were insisting on gas lighting and were perfectly content with the Armstrong" starter. Truck Non-Stop Run. A non-stop run of 1451 miles. fCom Green Bay, Wis., to New York Citv in 63 hours is the remarkable record recently established by a new Oneida truck, model B-8, carying a load of one and a half tons. A schedule of 22 miles an hour was maintained, running continuously night and day. except lor meals and taking on sup plies. The truck was shod with heavy-duty Goodyear cord tires. SHORTAGE KEEPS CHEVROLET SHIPMENTS DOWN. Arthur Fields Spends Good Part ol Vacation Trying to Get More Autos From Factory. Arthur L. Fields, of the Fields Mo tor Car company, has returned fro a month's vacation in California, a good part of which time was em ployed, instead of resting, in stren uous endeavors to get a few more cars away from the C'hevroVet factory at Oakland and en route to Portland. The freight car shortage, according to Mr. Fields, is playing red hob with shipments from the factory. It is just now a more important factor than steel strike and coal strike put to gether. Neither of these events has had much effect on production, but the freight car shortage not only has prevented full shipments to coast dealers of their allotments due. but has kept the Oakland factory ehort of materials. To offset the freight car lack, the factory has begun to ship Chevrolets to various coast cities by steamer from San Francisco. Mr. Fields, in fact, was responsible for initiating this plan. He got 15 cars from the fac tory and had them shipped to Port land in this way. and several more shipments are coming by steamer. The Chevrolet factory is running pretty well short of its full capacity because of inability, due principally to freight car lack, of getting full supplies of materials from the east. tifiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiuiiiiiiiuiiiiuiitiiiilniiniiiinuiiniiiituiitiiiiuH Many Franklin Cars. SYRACUSE. N. Y.. Nov. 8. For the second month in succession the Frank lin Automobile company in September exceeded the scneciuie wnich is to bring -the production of Franklin cars up to 18,000 for the current year. Nine hundred and sixty-four cars were scheduled for production that month and the factory report shows 1004 de- I livered to the sales department. Pro duction in Octover shows a further gain over September and at that the over-demand for the Franklin cars Is ctill 7llit farta q licaH nf m y nnf a.t,irn anmHmMiiitiminfiiimfmitiwminiwM..fiMMnittHiiiHiituiwtMmfifi IT ISN'T; always the motor car driver, by any means, who is to blame for automobile accidents in which pedestrians are injured. Goodness krtows, there are many careless drivers, but did it ever occur to you that there are a lot of careless pedestrians, too? On this page are pictured just a few of the reasons why automobile owners as a class become grouchy and temperamental at an early age. A Cole Aero-Eight, fur nished by the Northwest Auto company, was used in posing these photo graphs, with Seargeant Frank Ervin, head of the Portland motorcycle and traffic squads of the Portland police department, suggesting the poses. Sergeant Ervin declares emphatically that pedestrians must be educated in "safety first" requirements quite as much as motorists do. 1 . Here is a prolific cause of accidents. The pedestrian, impersonated by Charles Young, advertising manager for the Northwest Auto company, is slipping across the street in the middle of a block. He has just emerged from between a couple of autos parked at the curb as the Cole Eight comes along. Situations exactly like this occur dozens of times every day in Portland streets, wherein accidents are averted only by good Mud in great quantities and of va rious kinds, from gumbo to soapy clay, makes driving along the Pacific highway through Southern Oregon and Northern California mighty dif ficult in this weather. This report of highway conditions was brought to Portland last week by R. H. Strong, of the W. H. Wallingford company, whe had just come over the highway in a Liberty roadster. Mr. Strong left Medford, Or., for Yreka. Cal.. in a pouring rain. Be tween Ashland and Hilt. Cal., this being the stretch over the Siskiyou mountains, paving work is in prog ress on the Oregon side of the line, with the going generally not very en couraging. Far from it, in fact. On his return trip to Portland, Mr. Strong left Medford on a Wednesday morning and got as far as Glendale that day. The roads were exceed ingly muddy, especially between Grants Pass and Glendale. In the Rice hill and Wolf creek sections the clay was so slippery that driving was most difficult. Between Glendale and Roseburg the Liberty sank so deep in th-s mud In places that its axles touched the ground. Mr. Strong found six cars u I 1 1 lj- n r . n a mtlHilv ,rr0tih hatwuon 3. The middle of a busy street is no place to exchange greetings and 1 1 Canyonviue and Glendale. at opposite enas or ww creeK canyon. By taking soundings with a long pile, thus locating what solid bottom iinitliljiiuiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiuiiiwuiumiiwimiiiiiiiuiiuiiiw brakes and the dexterity of motorists. Portlanders are still notorious as "jayhawkers," despite a city ordinance against the. practice. 2. Far fetched? Not at all. The picture carries its own moral. "Eyes front" ought to be a hard and fast rule of the road for the pedestrian who's crossing the street. half, were on Goodyear tires, the tlrs equipment on the other 31 cars being divided among six different makes. The total number of Goodyear auto mobile tires manufactured this year will approximate 6,000,01)0 about 20 per cent of the country's total production. gossip, yet millions of greetings and vast amounts of gossip are so exchanged daily. 4. Another accident cause The pedestrian. ' mpersonated by Mr. ! ubertthVoughm without a .tYp" Young, has stepped out briskly, and without looking about him, from f'won the plaudits of the other unfor- keVii'nrl a trvet rxr i'nr a. an antnrrv-iKil -r.m num it nun .,'1- f tk. tunate car owners who hadn't been street. Until pedestrians. ,as well as motorists, learn to be careful this I is a situation that will result in many accidents. 5. Ever do this? Chances are you have. One of the surprising facts of life is the watchfulness of providence over pedestrians who thus stroll. 1 through traffic reading a newspaper. 1 6. Introducing Sergeant Frank Ervin, whose "safety first" message, 1 to pedestrians as well as to motorists, is "Be careful." 1 jHMm.m.iHitHtiitimiUMMiituiimiiHIiUniiiiHiiiiiiiiuiMiiKiuiiiiiiiiutiiiHtii iiHrtHHMini iiuiitinmin .imiiHinmufH.! so lucky. The trip north from Roseburg, 215 miles under present road conditions, was made in one day. .despite very bad road conditions for miles. Goodyear Tires Fir-.t. One of the prominent features of a recent fair at Mineola, L. I., was an exhibit of automobiles. On the floor were 64 cars, representing 2S makes, of which 33, or better, than COMPRESSION THIRD BRAKE Murmon Company Urges Motorists to Make Use of It. not forget that your car has three brakes. Put the gears in 'sec ond,' cut off spark and you'll fear no steep grades." says the editor of the Marmon News, the monthly pub lication of Nordyke & Marmon com pany of Indianapolis. "Shut off your motor and slide into second as you roll across the ridge. Ion't 'drive in second.' Shut off the spark if the throttle will not close. Then if you huve a 'six' your motor cools to boot. If necessary a gentle touch of the service brake now and then and of the emergency brake generally will hold you nicely. At times the abrupt or long drop will argue for low instead of second in compression. On all but the steepest descents this will hold your car with but very little use of brakes. It will keep your brakes in reserve for real emergencies, such as a motorcycle shooting around the curve on your side of the road or some similar hair raising episode." SHORTAGE OF FREIGHT CARS Government Assigns Man to De troit to Help Out. Uninterrupted traffic from Detroit and Michigan motor factories within the last month, taking care of all de mands to the entire satisfaction of everyone, has emphasized the wisdom of the action of the United States railroad administration in a&tfigninff an automotive traffic director to De troit to see that every manufacturer in the district was given fair play in setting railroad equipment. Insistent demands of certain manu facturers three months ago lor equip ment for handling their output an' frequent complaint that certain mew bers of the trade were being favoS resulted in the establishment or. h. traffic office here with C. H. Ketch am. widely known in railroad circles, in charge and acting under the direct supervision of Regional Director Har din of New York.. 4