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. .8 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND. JANUARY 4, 1020. PORTLAND DEALERS AT F. W. Vogler, W. H. Wailing ford and Others Go East. GOSSIP ALONG AUTO ROW Several Motor Car Concerns Re model Quarters" and Doll Up ,'. Their Sales Rooms. .... Thi is the week ot the Dig event In motordom, the New York show. "While not as many Portland automo bile dealers have gone east tottend Jt as Is often the case, several of them are now In New York and will take In both the New Tork show and the Chicago show which follows It. The Chicago show comes the week of January 24-31. Fred W. "Vogler of the Northwest 'Auto company hasn't missed a New Tork show for longer than the mem ory of man runneth not to the con trary. He would rather miss a Thanksgiving turkey dinner than the New Tork show. He left Portland a couple of weeks ago to visit the Reo and Cole factories previously to tak ing in the shows. Arnold Cohen of the Oldsmobile company of Oregon is taking in the New York show this week, accom panied by Mrs. Cohen. He left Port land a month ago and journeyed east by easy stages by way of California. This Is as good a place as any to tell a tale out of school on Mr. Cohen. "While his brother Ed puts in about half his life between Portland and the Oldsmobile factory at Detroit the truth Is that Arnold, though he has been in the automobile business quite a few years now, has never before ventured east of the Rocky mountain line, in fact has nevar even seen the Rockies. His friends here are con fidently predicting that he will bring lick a bill of sale to the Brooklyn bridge. Before he returns from the .east, Arnold and Mrs. Cohen will visit the Oldsmobile factory and go through the entire place from radiator to nuts. "W. H. Wallingford of the W. H. "VVallingford company. Liberty and BriRcoe distributors, left Portland last week intending to reach New Tork in time for at least the tail-end of the snow.. Following that he will .go to Chicago and in between times will visit the factories he represents. Le Roy R. Fields of the Fields Mo tor Car company, Chevrolet dealer, is another who made a hurried de parture late last week for New York. While there he will meet C. M. Steeves, salesmanager for the Chevro let interests on the Pacific coast, and some of the big chiefs of the General Motors corporation. He expects to bt gone three or four weeks and of course will take in the Chicago show. -A- B. Manley of the Manley Auto company is back at the Hupp factory and may find time for a jog to New York and Chicago. C. M. Menaies, well known Portland automobile man. Is also at the Hupp factory and may accompany Mr. Manley to New York and Chicago. Or he may not. Bert Roberts or tne nooeris motor Car company. Republic truck dis tributors for Oregon is strong for the internal gear arive irucit. x ne nu- puoiic iruoK wnicn nia imii is bcumii, bo -fast in the Oregon territory is "equipped with this drive and this fact, says Mr. Roberts, is one of the rea sons for its remarkable sale in Ore gon and other states. "The Internal gear drive delivers the power to the driving wheels, he points out, "just where it is most ef fective, where the application is strongest and where loss of power from the motor is least, which means the transportation of ' merchandise with least amount of energy and con sequently at smallest cost. And this sfter all is what a motor truck is for." ''In the recent motor truck develop ment tour in the east, "four internal gear drive trucks were pitted against 13 of the worm-drive trucks. There were 18 entrants in the tour and only five finished with a 100 per cent mark. Four out of these five were Internal gear drive trucks and a Re public was one of them." which has recently remodeled the whole ship fore and. aft ia the Ore "ton Motor Car company at Burnside and Broadway. Its sales room space has been entirely rebuilt and the ar tistic eye of F. M. L.eeston-Smith. general manager, has been responsi ble for a unirue scheme of window and wall decorations. The Oregon Motor Car company has a long lease on this corner, which is one of the most desirable on automobile row. More than one Portland automobile ales room has been dolled and brisked up to date. One of these is the quarters of the Oldsmobile com pany of Oregon, which has been en- : tirely remodeled and renovated. Close to ;J15.000 has been expended in the remodeling,' which includes a tile tions, giving one long salesroom, and : re-building of the offices on a mez zanine flooV in the rear. The office arrangement under the new scheme was worked out by Edward E. Cohen along his own ideas, and is a model of handlness and convenience. If Kdward ever decides to quit the au temobile business, he could come pretty near to qualifying as an archi- tect. " J. H. Miller, superintendent of the W f 'J i" Lr 1-1 1 i-" L" fantnlv a A 1 1 a.. . n... . J?-.;N wap a Portland visitor last week. "While here quite naturally he passed ..the time of day with F. C. Atwell, "manager of the International-Mack corporation in Portland. ACASON HOT SUPER TRUCK NO CXAIM MADE TO BEIXG - MOST WONDERFUL EVER. Design and Construction, Declares " - Chief, Based on Good Old Common Sense. ; 'When the first Acason truck was -manufactured in April, 1J16, our in dention was to incorporate the com- ..mon sense teachings ana experience ""of all the various types of motor - trucks built sincethe start of the mo- tor truck industry," says President ..Acason ot tne Acason Motor Truck ; company, Detroit. "Wo made no at tempt to design a supernatural, won- durful machine embodying any the oretical fads, fancies or practices that could be called experimental. "To t&o ftublic t& terms engineer.- NEW OHK HOW ing and 'designing seem to suggest a lot of technicalities, algebraic formu las and mathematical problems, yet they really mean, at their best, noth ing more than common sense, based I on actual knowledge. Anyone might claim to have spent 10 of 15 years in research work evolving the design of a motor truck. Such statements admit lack of know ledge of the essentials of this busi ness because the Information needed to guide the manufacturer Jn build ing motor trucks comes only from actual contact with the daily opera tions of motor trucks in the hands of their owners, not from dreams in a drafting room. ''Common sense' naturally indicates that a motor truck to be used by the general public in the .hand of good, bad and indifferent drivers, should be as simple and understandable as pos sible. Free -from complications and of straightforward, simple, strong construction. "The fewer parts used on a motor truck, the better for the' user. Every attempt has been mad to achieve simplicity in our product. To the inexperienced, complications,' and & multitude of details sometimes tend to create the impression of excellence, but a talk with any experienced own er or driver proves that simplicity is what they now look for and demand. For each detail of Acason construc tion and for every unit used, there is THIS BEATS SEEING it,. J , , I . U j..UL , : SEEIJiG PORTLAND FIRST FROM THE BRIDGE OF HIS MAXWELL IS SLIGHTLY MORE TO THE TASTE OF , THIS SALTY EX-GOB. Herein is introduced to fame for the first time Norman McLeod Whiting, one of the rlsina: youne printers, who helps make up this section of The Oregonian. The said Whiting held the navy during the late war. V hen he got mobile company. Now he puts in his spare time from the arduous labors of printing in Jazzing about town in. the Maxwell, an occupation, he finds vastly more to hia likiner than being urged by a huskv iimmyleKa to "hit the deck" preparatory to going on watch tew waicnes as any man can in tne a simple and straightforward rea son." IDEAS BRING HARD CASH GOODRICH RUBBER COMPANY . REWARDS EMPLOYES. For Every Suggestion Worth While Award of Money Is Made to Bright Employes. Eight years ago the B. F. Goodrich Rubber company of Akron, Ohio, got an idea on ideas. It decided to install a suggestion award system for em ployes offering the management con structive ideas for improvement of safety-regulations and devices, main tenance, sanitation, methods of pro duction, elimination of waste and ma chinery equipment. Since the scheme has been in op eration some of the most valuable modern improvements in the plant have been made through suggestions of employes. Once a month the suggestions are looked over and awards made. Last month the awards for practical Ideas amounted to $643. One man received $200 for an idea, another $100 and two $50 each. Many were awarded smaller amounts. Whether or not the suggestions re ceived are of value, the employes are called in for conference and are commended for their Interest. Often the discussion results in advice from the suggestion engineer which enables the worker to improve his idea and obtain the final adoption of his sug gestion. The plan has met with big success at Goodrich and is growing in popularity each year. Releasing Clutclr Pedal. By means of a straight stick In which have been cut a number of notches it is possible to hold down the clutch pedal so as to throw out the clutch while making repairs, etc. In operation the end of the stick without the notches is placed against the clutch pedal, which ' is pushed down and the appropriate notch is caught on the edge of the front of the driving seat, from which the cushion has of course been removed. " ' T s . i . " w'iiwiuy,. ; jit' :: XfA'S-d LfeA -i.siv 1 -Vi 0,i - , , Jack Hemlnger, tvell known aalraman. le the gent bealde the par; He and J. States Motor Car company. 33 Grand avenue, which will distribute the The Bell, which is made In Tork, Pa., by the Bell Motor Car company, has L-head type, and comes fully equipped, with niotometeT; bumper.and epotlieht. and, leather. .upolUrjr THIS CAR WOULDN'T STOP FOR BLIZZARD Little Overland Made Mem orable Run to Fossil. . EARS OF. DRIVER FROZEN P.- JT. Shown of Fossil Makes Re markable Ran From The Dalles x' In the Big; Snow Storm. "While most persons were hugging the family stove and wishing there were some known method of Inject ing a little more jazz Into the Are during the big blizzard that swept most of Oregon last month, P. N. THE WORLD THROUGH A PORTHOLE, EH, MATES? out, one of his first acts was to buy though, being a printer, he had it pretty soft in that regard and atood as well - known navy and get by. Shown of Fossil. Or., was driving a new model 4 Overland car Into a re markable enow-bucking run from The Dalles to Fossil, a distance of nearly 100 miles, over roads that are not boulevards at best, but in such a storm would have seemed impossible to any ordinary man. Mr. Ehown was not trying to set any records, or to establish a repu tation as a man'of suicidal mania. He had one main idea, and that wa to get to Fossil at the earliest possible moment, that he must get there and that he would get there. The doing of It he left to the car. He is Overland dealer at Fossil and had gone to The Dalles to get de livery of one of the new Overlands from Harry Hays, W lllys-Overland-Paclflc territory man. The car was delivered to him by Hays, who had driven up from Portland with it on Monday, December 8. That was the day the big storm broke. Wife's Illness Decides Him. Mr. Shown had as good intentions aa any man ever did have about re maining right there in The Dalles until the storm blew over. But he had no sooner so decided than he re ceived word by long-distance tele phone that his wife was ill at .Fossil. It was an imperative call, and he de cided to set out next morning on the trip, storm or no storm. As any person who has ever driven to Condon and Fossil can testify, there are some canyons en route that are bad enough in good weather, but in a howling blizzard such as was then raging must have been truly awful to travel through. Mr. Shown knew all about them, and what the east wind can do to snow in those canyons, but with one companion he set out the next morning. Here is a letter he wrote the other day to Bert Eling. Willys-Overland-Paciflc manager here, telling just a few details of the trip that followed: "We started from The Dalles on Tuesday morning In a foot of snow. A car broke the trail for us for about ten miles, but from there on we broke our-own trail through from 12 to 20 inches of snow on the level, and drifts up to four feet. Full Force of Blizzard. "When we came up on the level from the Deschutes river we struck the heart of the blizzard. The wind was blowing a gale, the snow was drifting ' badly and the temperature was hovering around zero mostly below. But only three times did we have to get out of the car to help ourselves out of drifts and the little MEET THE BELL CAR, MOTOR ROWS LATEST 1 - . V ? ear didn't stop until she ran out of gas about five miles from Condon. "It was pitch dark and all we conld do was to drain the radiator bo it wouldn't freeze and seek shelter, which we fortunately found within a mile, after freezing our ears and one of my hands. The next day we all walked to Condon for the necessary gasoline, and finally, with the aid of four husky men armed with shovels, we made the rest of the way to Fpssll through SO inches of snow and four foot drifts- or worse. "By the time we reached Fosiil it was the firm belief of our party that when it came to plowing snow the little Overland 4 had the world beaten." OWNER PLEASED WITH KISSEL Local Distributor Gets Letter From Gratified Driver. . "Owners today take as much inter est in ascertaining the ability of their cars, as their brothers of yesterday with their favorite horses." says H. J. Mcintosh of the Mcintosh Motor' Car company,' local "Kissel distributor.. "A typical example Is the follow lng excerpt of a letter. I just received from a prominent owner, who says: 1 have tried It out on the 'hills. I have slowed it. down to a walk on high. It Is as sensitive as a thor oughbred, and is constantly surprls- rating of printer, first-class, in the this Maxwell from the C. L. Boss Auto , ing me with the many things which it does, and does in masterly fash Ion. " T am not given to the use of ad jectives,' he adds, 'but you may say for me that my car has more than fulfilled every expectation and that it has yet to fail In responding to any emergency." XEW GENERAL MOTORS PLANT Munitions Factory Purchased for Making Autos. NEWARK. N. J., Dec. 20. The dis mantling of the International Arms & Fuse, company plant at Bloomfield, N. J., and the installation of machin ery for the manufacture of automo biles by the General Motors corpora tion, are progressing rapidly. At the plant it was announced that the work of preparing the factory for production was being rushed to com pletion and that manufacturing would be started within a few weeks. The International Arms & Fuse company developed the big plant, which extends nearly two blocks along Grove street, Bloomfield, for the manufacture of war materials and at the end of the war it was one of the largest munitions plants in Jer sey. The negotiations for the pur chase of the works, which have been In progress several weeks, were closed a few day ago. PNEUMATIC TIRES CHEAPER Truck So Equipped Costs Less Than Horse Equipment. That motor trucks are superior to horse-drawn transportation method for speed, weight of pay-load and cost is generally conceded. The re placement of horses by trucks has been so rapid that practically noth ing but gasoline-driven vehicles are seen on city streets and country high ways. A truck equipped with pneu matic tires will pay for itself in five months, according to John S. Taylor, fruit grower of -Palmetto. Fla. His five -ton trucks on Goodyear pneu matics replaced 20 mule teams and drivers, hauled 240 boxes of grape fruit a distance of 72 miles daily at a cost of 3 cents a box against 10 cents for mule team. The speed of 10 to 19 miles an hour over asphalt and also deep sand allowed the packers to work full time instead of waiting for mule teams to arrive. DEBUTANTE. ""JSC " A 74 C. Oaler comprise the nrvr "Western Bell In Oregon and Washington. a 4-cyHnder G. B. & S motor of the It has a full-floating rear end N , S - 4 ... VI f j zi i i 4 ' t Power Strength I Its Quality The Ford chassis is made of the highest quality vanadium steel the best material possible to use, regardless of price. You can pay more, but you cannot buy better quality. Its Strength and Lightness This vanadium steel, heat treated by Ford methods, has more than three times the strength of ordinary steel. If freight cars could be made of it, they would weigh only one-fourth as much as they do now and yet could carry the same heavy loads. So jthe Ford car of vanadium steel is strong and sturdy enough to stand up over all roads, under all conditions. Its Power Because of its lightness, the Ford car has the most power per pound of weight. It always gets you there and brings you back. Its Economy Its lightness and strength make it most economical in tires, gas and , oil. Everyone can afford to own a Ford. Its Price The Ford car would sell anywhere, regardless of price, .because of its quality, its strength, its lightness, its power and its economy. But when all of these features are combined with the lowest price made possible through Ford effi ciency methods and quantity production the demand is universal. " Over 1,250,000 Ford cars will be purchased in 1920 with 1,000,000 production. S.o 250,000 purchasers will be unable to get their Ford x:ars this coming year. . . Place your order now before the overwhelming spring and summer demand begins. TnirL$l?2r Truck Chassis $550 CSuPeIeI50 louring Car $oZ5 TwPriu n t tw; Sedan $87 Self-Starter $75 Extra These Pr,ces F' B' Detr0lt Equipped With Self -Starter For Sale by the Following Authorized City Dealers: Francis Motor Car Co. Rushlight & Penney Robinson-Smith Co. East 13th and Hawthorne East Third and Broadway Sixth and Madison Talbot & Casey Wm. L. Hughson Co. Palace Garage Co. East Ankeny and Grand Broadway and Davis Twelfth and Stark A $25.00 Deposit Places Your Order on File HEAVY TRAVEL PREDICTED MA.VY TOURISTS TO COME IX 1920, SAI'S CUTHBERT. Pacific Xorthwest Tourist Associa tion ClUf Home From Exten sive Tour In East. SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 3. Heavy Increase in tourist travel In 1919, will be even greater in 1920, according; to Herbert Cuthbert, executive secretary of the Pacific Northwest Tourist as sociation, who has returned from a month's trip to eastern cities arranging- with tourist agencies and railway traffic officiala to direct tourist travel to the Pacific northwest. Tourist agents nd traffic officials predict a large increase in travel to the Pacifio northwest for 1920. Mr. Cuthbert says. Mr. Cuthbert spoke on the Pacific northwest tourist campaign at the convention of commercial and . tour ist association secretaries at St. Paul and obtained passage of resolutions to congress in nupport ot requested appropriations for road work and other improvements in the national parks. He followed this up by taking the resolutions to Washington, I. C, and doing personal work with con gressional committers and went-rn 1 ' - - S 1 However expressed in terms of economy, service or performance, the Low Cost Ton-Mile compre hends everything the user desires in a motor truck. Garford Oregon Motor Sales Co. EIGHTH AND DAVIS Wm.- Cornfoot, President T. M. Geoghegan, E. N. Wheeler. Vice-Pres. and Gen. Mgr. Secretary-Treasurer J. A. Haley, Sales Mgr. Mlillllllillil THE UNIVERSAL CAR There are over 3,500,000 Ford cars now in actual use every day. Over 1,000,000 more will be delivered during X920. The Ford car has become a universal necessity. . What caused this universal use? What are the reasons for this con stantly increasing demand? members of congress to secure the passage of the appropriations. Mount Rainier national park. Mount Baker and Crater lake are each in cluded for appropriations of $100,000 and up for road work. In the recom mendations'1 to congress of the for estry and national parks departments. "All Indications give assurance that the tourist traffic of 1920 will ex ceed the record-breaking travel of 1919," said Mr. Cuthbert. "I have no longer any fear that tourist travel to Europe will seriously affect travel to the Pacific northwest. One of the principal reasons Is that so many peo ple have to travel to Europe on busi ness now that transportation com panies cannot take care of enough tourists seriously to interfere with tourist travel in America. "This is the year we should edu cate people to see America now. If we once get Americans enthusiastic over the beauties and attractions of their own country, travel to Europe will not materially affect tourist travel in this country. My slogan all through the east has been: 'See America Now,1 make every American desire to see his own country and proud of his country." Many Farm Tractors. More than 314,000 motor tractors for farm use will be manufactured in the United States this year, according to the estimate of the department of agriculture. Ninety thousand of these tractors, representing about 1100.000. 000, wtll be sent abroad and will be used to increase the crop production of nearly every country in the world. nnnnnnMinniMMnMnc TRUGK NECESSITY PROVED POWER "WAGONS INVALUABLE DIRIXG COAL- STRIKE. Kissel Distribution Call Attention to Many Useful Things Per formed Dy Trucks. "That the motor truck rendered In valuable service for municipalities during the recent coalstrike was only another example of the usual dependability, economy and adapta bility of the motor truck in meeting unusual transportation demands," says H. J. Mclntosn of the Mcintosh Motor Car company, local Kissel distributor. 'In the middle west quite a few of f The Columbia Storage Battery Company wishes its customers and friends A Happy New Year and extends an invitation to all to come and have their batteries tested free. Columbia Storage Battery Co. 109 N. Broadway Broadway 516 II. M. Nisbct, Manager our distributors wrote us that the motor truck took the place of rail road locomotives in helping move freight cars loaded with coal from nearby mines and shipping points to the yards of the local electric light, gas and water pumping stations, to provide heat to municipal and indus trial buildings. "I noticed in the daily papers at the time that when different switch men's unions refused to move freight cars loaded with coal mined by volun teers, motor trucks stepped into the breach and kept up the supply of fuel at a time no other motive power was available. "If these motor trucks had not proved equal to the job, many addi tional hundreds of thousands of em ployes as well as scores of industries would have had to shut down. "The fact that motor trucks did not employ coal for motive power made their operation economical and effi cient and did not use up fuel that could have been used in any way by Industries or municipal buildings." Columbia Storage Datteriej Li niin. iMiit 111