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11 REPUBLIC TERRITORY GREATLY ENLARGED REPUBLIC TRUCK DOES HEAVY HAULING IN KLAMATH FALLS COUNTRY. WHOLESALERS DICK AUTO TRUCK LIES HI Light Weight and Durability are the best Guarantee of Quality Roberts Motor Car Co. Gets Truck Shipments Solve Prob 11 Counties in Idaho. lems of Grand Rapids. ALLOTMENT IS 500 TRUCKS COMPETITION EASILY MET . I .Wv mtltx r faJM .Wotv miUl on mm TlfE SUNDAY OREGOXLVX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 11, 1020 HO no MM 1 tlf ra if! Oilier Gosi ot Local Trade In cludes Upturn or Tire Man and Cook & iill Policy. f One of the pioneer motor truck dis tributing: firms in Oregon is the Roberts Motor Car company. Several years ago this firm brought the Re public truck into this territory. In those days Belling trucfts was a good deal like selling the first issue of Liberty bonds it required a vast deal of pioneering work. The prospective purchaser had to be absolutely "shown" before he would even con sider the purchase of a truck. But the Roberts Motor Car com pany "showed" the merits of the mo tor truck so thoroughly that today there are about twice as many Re publics in this state as any other make of truck. livery county is sprinkled with yellow chassis trucks. Naturally, the factory has appre ciated this aEgressive distribution of its trucks. It has just indicated its appreciation in a very' substantial manner by allotting' to the Roberts Motor Car company, as additional territory. 11 counties in Idaho, in cluding Boise, the state capital. O. W. Roberts and H. I. Stoute myer, for some time territory repre sentative for the firm, are now in Boise opening" a wholesale and re tail branch there for Republic trucks. From this branch will be handled all wholesale business for eastern Ore Ron. Mr. Stoutemyer will have charge of the branch, which will in clude .not only a salesroom, but a part supply depot and service sta tion for Republic trucks. These de partments will be operated along the same lines at the Portland head quarters. To take care of the increase in its Oregon business, its seven counties in Washington, and the nw territory- in Idaho, the Roberts Motor Car company has signed for the delivery of 5(10 Republic trucks in the' coining season. In the year just closed the firm sold 335 Republic trucks in Ore ' son,' and its business totaled $1,000, 000, which will be considerably in creased this year. Dave Crawford is general sales manager for the company. The serv ice end at the new Koise branch will be in charge of Earl Bowyer, who has had long experience with the Repub lic line. Cook & Gill, distributors in the Ore gon territory for Paige cars and trucks, who recently removed .into a 4-story quarter block at Eleventh and Burnside streets, that is one of the best equipped automobile plants on the Pacific coast, go on the theory that every employe is a potential member of the firm. Owners of the firm and all department heads once a month hold a "get together" meet ing with the employes, which is mightily enjoyed by all hands. One reason for this is that there is noth ing -formal about it. In discussions of the business and methods of im-1 proving it,- much stress is placed on the value of suggestions from em ployes. There is a standing offer of $5 for the best suggestion and $2.50 for the second best, as decided at each of these monthly gatherings. After business matters have been threshed out, all take on coffee and sandwiches. At the monthly meeting last week, they were further enter tained by the prowess of "Kid" Meeker, one of the Cook & Oill men. who handled a sailor opponent rather roughly in four rounds. F. H. Xash of the Atterbury Truck Sales company of Portland, will depart in about a week for the Chicago automobile and truck show. While there he will meet his new service engineer, Carl H. Charnquist, former ly of Omaha. Mr. Charnquist was recently sent by Mr. Xash to the At terbury truck factory, where the fac tory is co-operating to put him through every department in the plant in a three months' course so as to insure his being familiar with every process in the manufacture of Atterbury trucks. He will also take a shorter course at the Stewart fac tory. M. J. Woolach, assistant manager of the American Tire & Rubber company of Portland, returned last week from visiting the plant of the General Tire &. Rubber company at Akron. O. It was his first trip to big league ter ritory, and he was amazed at the vast business done in Akron. The General plant, for instance, had no finished tires left, everything having been whipped out to fill orders made weeks before. The factory already has one big addition in full operation, with another one under construction. I". H. Hearsch, western division manager for the Kelly-Springfield Tire company, waa a recent visitor in Portland with C. U. Meade, man ager of the new Kelly-Springfield factory branch here. Mr. Hearsch had Just returned from a visit to the fac tory of the company at Akron, O., and Its new factory at Cumberland, Md.. which Is to turn out 10,000 tires a day when completed. The company is starting something new in building Its second factory outsi'de of Akron, but iS dnlnir m nn ri 1 1 t"i. i-i. 1 I : I- " I'VTTT, I'CIICi that Akron has reached its limits as . isaurj center. .several hundred trained workmen will be transferred from Akron to Cumberland when the new plant is ready. "W. S. "Wells, president of the Mar.h. field Auto company and his brother ana partner. Hank Wells, were hosts at a dealers' get-together banquet in Marshfield recently. Guests inclurinri C. Chancy of the Coos-Curry Auto company, Banaon, Or.; p . L. Greenough of Coquille. Or.: T. R. Harr-l,,t,, Maxwell service manager at Portland; Charles Hall, president of the bank of Southwestern Oregon and of the Ore gon state chamber of commerce, and Ted Herlihy, Chalmers manager of wholesale sales for Oregon. One fea ture of the evening was a banquet, the menu of which was made up en tirely in automobile terms. Guess for yourselves what some of the follow ing items indicated: Oregon gasoline cocktail, specific gravity 66, Marsh town bootleg special, warranted seven years old and made in 1919. under slung canvas-back duck, retreaded yams, non-skid salmon, Jiot timken pudding, cotter key of cigarettes, pantasote dressing miracle oil sauce, thernio-siphon pimentos. Buttery I'll lor. A very convenient filler for putting electrolytic in battery Jars is made by steaming an old jar until it is soft and then forming a sort of spout at one side by means of two pieces of board. When th( Jar cools It retains the etuii-'C Lliat lias been glvcu it. ZZT "'yri "r-nn.W- - VT'V. fno and one-half-ton model owned by City Transfer company of Klamath Kalla, with four-ton load of nay." Thin truck nam sold by the Jloberts Hot or Car company 'of I'ortland tkraogk the Dunnnm Auto company of Klamath KhIIm. "This truck," says a letter , to the Roberts Motor Car company here, "is making the run to Blich. 60 miles, under extremely bad road conditions, the snow being about one foot deep on the level and drifting until the truck has to break its own track. Recently It made the round trip in one day", carrying 6200 pounds one way, and is the only truck making the run, as others have been taken off, unable to handle the grades." OWNJili CAX SAVK HIS CAR BV I'Olil.OWIACi D1RECTIOXS. Uriseoc Mail Points Out the lm- liortaucc to livery Motorist of Keeping Car Lubricated. "Instruction books are really a part of the sale of the car that they go with," says Warlne Sherwood, ad vertising manager of the Briscoe Motor corporation, Jackson, Mich., "because the instruction book, if read and followed, will greatly increase the appreciation of the owner of the car and, from an otherwise indiffer ent owner, make of him a booster. "It does not follow that everyone who buys an automobile is person ally going to keep his car in run ning shape. Especially is this true among the high-priced cars. But among cars of medium price, such as the Briscoe, the owner will take it upon himself to attend to the small adjustments necessary, and he will take pride in understanding the me chanical features of his car. That is where the instruction book plays an important part. "Take oiling, for instance. Once a month the average car owner takes his car to the garage man for a thor ough oiling. He would rather trust this matter to a competent mechanic than undertake the unpleasant task himself. But there are bearings in his car which need attention every -50 miles of running. By reference to his instruction book these are easily .located, and these grease cups are, in the Briscoe, readily accessible. The oiling chart will, show also the cups that need a twist or two every 500 miles, and so on. "If the oiling instructions alone were followed the instruction book would well pay for itself in saving the owner repair bills caused from dry. bearings. That is. in effect, the importance of the instruction book to the automobile manufacturer and dealer. Mr. Brown finds by reading nis instruction book that the fan bearing should have grease every 600 miles, and, simple though it appears, the bearing will run hot if neglected and serious damage will result. Mr. Brown in ignorance will blame it on the car rather than on his own neg lect. "Batteries and ignition also require constant attention and the complete Instruction book treats these items so that tne novice can understand. Then. if he fails to have his battery exam ined according to instructions and the gravity is too low.' he cannot reasonably blame anyone but him self." utor can accumulate any quantity of cars. "There are . 30.000 dealers in the United States. If each dealer secured only one car for storage, the factories would have to produce a surplus of 30.000 cars bey.ond the present de mand. That is entirely out of the question. "I expect to see the demand for cars increase after the New York show and pass beyond all possibilities of production following the Chicago show." TOCKIST CAMP AT JLKWISTOX Delsol Park Is Chosen and Im provement Will Be Installed. LBWISTON, Idaho, Jan. 10. After more than a year of planning by the commercial club and the city coun cil, action has been 'taken by the council looking toward the immediate location and improvement of a site for an automobile tourists' camp. The site chosen is known as elsol park, a wooded stretch along the Clearwater river about two miles east of the city. The city owns this property, and will carry out improve ments which will make it one of the attractive camp sites in the north west. City Engineer Burns has prepared plans and blue prints which will be used as a basis for the improvements. These include the Installation of a pressure water supply, with Bhower baths, the planting of more trees, building of benches, tables and out buildings: and the construction ofa new lateral road that will give three entrances to the park. The park commission Will visit the Delsol park site and determine the extent of im provements needed. USE FOR J! DCDGE KNtilNJi FUMES USED TO BUMP OFF PESKY RABBITS. . ENCLOSED CAR SHORTAGE JORDAN' SAYS DEMAND CAN'T POSSIBLY BE 'MET. Lack of (ilass Crop Vp to Add to Diriieulties of Much-Harried Auto Manufacturers. ' Edward S. Jordan, president of th Jordan Motor Car company, urges Jor. can dealers to safeguard, their spring business by taking now all Jordan cars- they can get from the factory. Jlr. Jordan sends this message from England, where he went to attend the Olympia motor show and visit the principal foreign motor car factories. "We are now producing BOO cars a month." says Mr. Jordan, '"with orders from dealers for Immediate delivery of ten months" production at this rate. There is every indication that the de mand, will increase steadily through out the winter. "The closed car situation from the standpoint of deliveries is most dis couraging. No one can begin to pro duce enough closed cars to meet more than a fraction of the demand. No one could possibly have anticipated such a demand. Even if it could have been anticipated producers of plate glass for windshields, top lights and closed car windows would be unable to sup ply sufficient glass for months to come, furthermore, the production of closed car hardware is far too limited to satisfy the demand. Besides all this, the number of body manufac turers is very small considering the demand, their facilities are limited, and they cannot get enough men qualified to build high-grade closed bodies. "It will be impossible for any fac tory to include closed models in their shipment of open cars. Any dealer who shows inclination to hold up shipments of open cars for closed cars will have to pay the penalty in the spring through the shortage of open cars when he most needs them. We therefore urge all distributors or dealers to safeguard their epring business by preparing for it as we have prepared for it by notifying all our suppliers that we are ready to take any quantity of material they can tihip at any time. "There is already a shortage of 1.00O.000 cars. There will be a short period during the winter -when every dealer cannot sell every car he can get for immediate delivery. But de liveries this year will be so widely distribtitad an.t production so far short of demand ibat no dcalw ot ilisUih- MOTOR TRUCKS RELIABLE NOW Different Story rrom Trucks First Built in Early Days. "'It's a far cry from the motor truck of today to the first models at the start of the industry," says H. J. Mclntosn of the Mcintosh Motor Car company, local Kissel distributor. 'When trucks were first placed on the market for general sale, they were far from being reliable hauling units. In fact, most of the trucks then sold were simply express bodies mounted on passenger car chassis with lower gear ratios. "Today trucks are built of the best possible material obtainable on the American market. Steels have been developed especially for trucks, so that lightness and strength are com bined. "Motors have been specially built for trucks, where formerly they were only developments of passenger car motors with few changes. "Dealers are selling trucks along business lines, where formerly men bought trucks because they thought they ought to buy them. Now trucks are sold on their merits alone." TIRES LAST FOR THREE YEARS Car Goes 32,54 7 Miles Over Sands "Without a Puncture. The west provides many pitfalls for the tire user, soft sand, ruts and sharp rocks testing pneumatics to the ut most. Often there are no roads to follow, cross-country driving being necessary. Added to other, disad vantages is that of burning hot sand throughout the desert wastes, which sound the doom of many a tire. Re cently H. T. Alexander of Ban An tonio, Tex., reported that his car, carrying three-quarter to one-ton loads between Castroville and San Antonio and over other rough roads ran 32,547 miles without- a puncture during three years of operation. Australian Turns Exhaust Into Rabbit Burrows and It's Good Night for Poor Bunny. Early in. the lth century, the pio neers of Australia, confronted by the problem of obtaining fresh meat at low prices, began to breed rabbits for table purposes. The experiment proved a success from the very start, but It was not many years before the blessing of plentiful rabbits began to take the aspect of a plague of the most serious character. Multiplying with amazing rapidity, they began to overrun the rich ranch and farm lands and the damage re sulting from their feeding on the crops ran into millions of pounds sterling a year. To combat them, or ganized drives in which all the set tlers in a wide area would participate, were staged and thousands of the pests were killed from time to time. But the problem has never been com pletely solved, and today the Austra lian farmer looks upon the extermina tion of rabbits as part of the routine of farming. The customary method of extermi nation is by digging out the burrows, but Walter Hawker, a rancher of Anama station, Clare, has devised a means which enables him. to kill rab bits quicker and more cheaply by using a pick and shovel. He uses a Dodge motor car. His method is described in 'the fol lowing letter: "You will be interested to know a new use for the Dodge car. I am fumigating Tabbits with it. I remove the silencer and fit on a piece of 1 14 Inch pipe with a reducing socket and a water pipe union, six feet of one Inch bore hose, go to a burrow the upwind side, face the car to the wind, put the hose into the burrow In the most upwind hole and fill that hole up with dirt. As the smoke comes out of the other holes, fill in till all are packed. If a large burrow, run the car for five minutes, when every rabbit will be killed. "The exhaust fumes are mostly car bon monoxide, which forms a certain compound with the blood of the rab bit and poisons it. I worked the Dodge car for six hours for a con sumption of two gallons of petrol, and fumigated 17 large burrows. This would have taken seven men eight days to dig out. I reckon that one day's work saved 20 pounds at least, as the seven diggers and one cook at 2 pounds 2 shillings a week, one boss at 4 pounds a week and feed fqr nine men at 17 shillings a week conies to 28 pounds and 9 shillings a week. Ded.uct the cost of petrol, oil. wear and tear, and two men to fumigate, you will get an easy saving of 10 pounds, and the rabbits are killed so much quicker." Cleaning Celluloid. The celluloid windows that are so much used in motor car tops have always been difficult to clean with out scratching the material, so that Its value is impaired. There is on the market today a cleaning compound designed for use on the imitation Ivory which is used for making combs, brush backs and other toilet articles, and this crearr Is Ideally adapted for cleaning celluloid win dows In the ear top. The windows and the imitation ivory articles have the same bas. celluloid. uiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii: I DIAMOND) I Toatl of 85 Tons-of Freight Now Handled Daily From Large. Central Terminus. "What . ship by truck" can mean to wholesalers is well illustrated, its advocates point out, in Grand Rapids, Mich., where 19 truck routes, operat ing 22 motor trucks, have the staunch support of wholesale dealers in fruits, groceries and drugs. These Grand Rapids dealers are backing "ship by truck" because. - by speeding their consignments to neighboring Michi gan towns. It permits them to com pete with Milwaukee wholesalers. Last spring- the Grand Rapids men found that the Milwaukee whole salers were making substantial in roads on their, business. . Lake trans portation waa making it possible 6pr the Wisconsin dealers to get their shipments into the territory more quickly than could the Grand Rapids houses. They were shipping into the Michigan port cities that had the best railroad facilities. Ship by Trorlc to Rescue. Grand Rapids dealers, dependent entirely upon the railroads, were not eo fortuuato in obtaining quick de liveries. Then the ship-by-truck idea came along, they adopted it and now they claim to be far outdistancing their rivals. In Grand Rapids "ship by truck" operates through a central terminal. This terminal, which-was fostered by the local Klrestone ship-by-truck bu reau, operates under the name of the Associated Truck Lines of Grand Rap ids. It was started In. June. 1919. By the first of September It had outgrown its original quarters and wan forced to move to a larger place. Today more than 170.000. pounds of freight is leaving its two loading platforms daily. Incoming freight, representing return loads, is per cent as -great. The shortest route is 22 miles long. The longest Is 50 miles. Quick Deliveries Made. Deliveries to Muskegon and Grand Haven, the principal cities in which Milwaukee. competes with Grand Rap Ids, are made by 5 P. M. of the day an order is received in Grand Rapids provided .-the order is telephoned in before noon. Deliveries are made to Kalamazoo the same day on orders received if it is telephoned to the wholesale house before 10 A.'. M. Delivery by the wholesaler to the terminal station saves the motor truck the time that would be required in making a "pick up." This is the big advantage found in the central ter minal system. It expedites the han dling of incoming freight in the same manner, the consignee or hl3 agent calling at the terminal for it. In addition to that at Grand Rap ids, central terminals for motor trucks are successfully operated in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Louisville. IDAHO MOTORISTS APPEAL Busses and Truck Freighters Now Required to Furnish Bond. BOISE. Idaho, Jan. 10. (Special.) An appeal has been filed in the Idaho supreme court involving the constitu tionality of the motor carrier law, chapter 106, section 3, of the revised codes. The appeal is the case from Ada county against Frank Crosson, operator of a motor truck, and J. F. Koll, operator of a passenger car. Motorcar operators contend the law is class legislation as it requires motor busses and freight trucks to rurnisn a bond, whereas no such re quirement is made of railroads, street cars and other common carriers. XEW PENDLETON' TIRE FIRM L. A. Dare of Seattle Has Agency for the Diamond Line. pft.N'DLETON. Or., Jan. 10. (Spe cial.) The Dare Tire & Rubber com pany Is the newest member of Pendle ton's automobile colony. The concern is headed by L. A. Dare, formerly vice-president of Piper & Taft of THE difference between a Maxwell and a larger car is largely a matter of weighty , Each carries the same average passenger weight, travels over the same roads, and at the same speeds. Per pound of metal the cost to make each is about the same. One lasts just about as long as the other. The mission of the Maxwell is to carry the same load, over the same roads, and at the same speeds at extremely low costs. That is highly efficient transportation. It is expensive to haul dead weight. Therefore, every superfluous pound has been eliminated. Light but strong metals have been used. These are the quality metals. They provide the "toughness," the wear, the ability to stand any strain and shock; and yet they are light in weight. This is the secret of the Maxwell. It explains why a Maxwell delivers a mileage that is inexpensive that is troubleless that is almost endless. The greatest efficiency economy record ever made is held by a MaxwelL It ran 22,020 miles con tinuously without one single stop of the engine, carried a full passenger load, averaged 22 miles to the gallon, at a speed of 25 miles an hour! The story of the Maxwell and its great acceptance by the world is a story of its metals. For in five years 300,000 have been built, and these have made many friends. 1920 production increases to 100,000 Maxwells. Which will supply 60 of the demand. Price Advances $75.00 January loth C. L. Boss Automobile Co. 11 615-617 Washington St. Portland mm 'ill. I .iKa'iiniiiiHiwiri! 'Jk Seattle, one of "the large sporting goods houses of the northwest. The company will distribute Diamond tires for iilliam. Morrow, Wallowa, union. Umatilla and Baker counties. For the present its headquarters are in the Penland Bros, warehouse, but a location in the business section is being sought. Seized Spark Plug-. When a spark plug has been screwed in too tightly and has then rusted It is very hard to remove. Here is a method of doing it. Build a shal low dam of putty around the top of the plug and then fill it with kero sene. Let the kerosene soak in for 12 hours and it will loosen the rust so that the plug oan be unscrewed. &!r -the nation's freight car Ask W.H.Holt 54 East.79th St. what he thinks of 'Diamond T Trucks and Service. Diamond T Truck Sales Agency 89-91 North Ninth Street. Phone Broadway 176 torage With the machine pasted plates and nonbreakable jars are guaranteed for 15 months. Investigate before you buy your new battery. We test and repair all makes of storage batteries. See us about your electrical troubles. Sunset Electric Co. Phone Broadway 126 48 North 8th Street at Davis (Note The carrying capacity of a Reo 34'ton speed wagon is never exaggerated or misrepresented. It is sold strictly on its rated capacity of 1500 pounds. ) Portland Bolt & Mnf g. Co. Their Experience The commodities manufactured by the Portland Bolt & Nut Manufacturing Co. frequently make delivery loads small in bulk but heavy in weight. Mr. J. M. Llewellyn, president and general man ager, states that the REO -ton Speed Wagon, purchased by them over a year ago, has many times carried loads exceeding of a ton fre quently as high as a ton and a half. Their Speed Wagon has never been in the re pair shop and has "been on the job" every working day. The service the REO SPEED WAGON has rendered has made Mr. Llewellyn justly enthusiastic We might add that the experience of the Port land Bolt &. Nut Mfg. Co. is by no means ex ceptional rather, we would say, ordinary. Statements from owners should be suf ficient evidence for any intending pur chaser. Northwest Auto Co. Portland, Or. Distributors "The Line Complete" Alder at Eighteenth u J If