The Sunday Oregonian., March 21, 1920, SECTION SIX, Image 91

TTTE SUNDAY. OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, MARCII 21, 1920
HERE'S REAL CftUSE
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Driver or Victim to Blame?
No Then Unavoidable.
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and will be glad to give you a list of satisfied
owners.
NO ONE HAS ANY MALICE
Thief, Drunkard and Criminal,
However, Arc Left Out of Con
sideration by Dopesters.
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L'ntl the powers that are can seel
that it is neither malice nor inten-1
tion. nor carelessness of human life,
r.or desire to run amuck which
causes motorists to drive like idiots
ail the new legislation, rules, traffic
,cops and senatorial diatribes which
can be imagined will not alter the
present state of affairs, says Motor
Life Magazine, in an article which
it respectfully submits to the sane
motorist and the intelligent represent
ative of sovereign states as a sub
stitute for arming the populace to
shoot down the reckless driver.
Leaving out the thief, the drunk
ard and the criminal, no driver wants
to run Into anything or over anyone.
If he does so it Is either (1) his fault,
(2) the fault of the thing or the per
son run into or over, or (3) unavoid
able. If, lacking desire, it was still the
driver's fault, it must have been
through failure to do the right thing
or because he did the wrong thing.
Lacking desire and intent to do dam
age to person or thing, when a mo
torist does it and it's his fault, is
because he is ignorant.
Ignorance Greatest Fault.
Xobody wants to be run into or i
over you don t even have to except
the criminal and the thief, the joy
rider and the idiot here. Nobody
wants to be run over. Consequently
when anyone is run intoor run over
and it is their own fault, the rea
son must be found in a failure to do
the right thing to avoid acciJent or
fn having done the wrong thing,
which causes it. In other words, the
cause is ignorance.
So-called "unavoidable" accidents
are frequently so called because of
relieving one party or the other of
any suspicion of having any sense
. . . as when a small child runs
directly in front of a car. Ethically,
such an accident may be the child's
fault . . . legally it may be con
sidered unavoidable. But if the for
' mor case is held true, then the an
swer. once more, is ignorance.
Ignorance is the root of the so-
called "reckless driving' evil, end
the remedy is not more laws, but
better laws. It is not more punish
ment, but more education. It is not
in arminir the creneral public with
pistols to shoot the murderous high
school cirl driving dad's fliwer, nor
Is it a statute designed to take away
a coal truck from a coal company
because a drunken driver happens to
run into a lamp post. It is in see
ing to it that no unfit person is al
lowed to drive a car. When a fit
person does drive a car, he does
not need police supervision to pre
vent him from breaking a reasonable
law.
Examination X Are Joke.
This gets right to the practice of
examinations. An examination as
now conducted, is a joke. Everyone
knows it. everyone, even the officals
concerned in it admit it. li any
should have curiosity enough to ask
whv are these laws jokes?" the an
swer would be found in the fact that
they are made by lawmakers who
know nothing of their subject peo
ple of the same stripe of mind as the
reverend much-to-De-aamirea senaio
rial gentlemen who advocate shoot
ing up motorists by the general puo-
lice to stop accidents.
The practice of licensing anyone
and evervone who wants to drive
motor car is a holdover from the
rarlv davs when motors were few
their potentialities for damage slight
. and Dooular knowledge or tnem nil
Today we have a condition which is
jio more to be compared with that
of ten years ago than chalk is to be
corn-oared with cheese.
Had anyone ten years ago dumped
all the cars of 1920 on the streets at
once there would have arisen such a
howl of Indignation at the insanity
of turning loose so many ignorant
drivers all with death-dealing ma
chines in their charge, as would have
swept the moto" vehicle into the
limbo of forgotten things. Because
the growth has been gradual, we have
tolerated the evils of ignorant driv
ing. Two Coarsen Open.
Every real motorist Is competent
to pass the required examination.
Those who are not competent can get
competent. Those who can't get com
petent have no business in charge
of mechanisms which have so much
potential harm, destruction and sud
den death, locked up in them as has
the motor car.
One of two things Is surely going
to happen Either motorists are go
ing to demand, for their own protec
tion, an adequate, reasonable, proper
and yet strict system of finding out
whether or not a driver is competent
or legislators are going to enact
repressive laws which will fall with
equal severity upon the Ignorant who
should be repressed and the skill
ful who do not need to be repressed.
The root of the present danger
from the motor car is ignorance. The
remedy, of course, is education. To
make sure the remedy has been ap
plied, supervision must be established.
Present ideas of supervision, being
holdovers from the dark ages, must
go. Real examinations, adequate
tests, genuine supervision, are the
evident remedies.
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BOSS AUTOMOBILE COMPAXY.
"Trail of the S-X Arrow" and In
dnstrial Ticture Continued a
Week by Special Keqnest.
So many persons last week attend
ed the tree motion picture show giv
en by the C, I Boss Automobile com
pany in its show rooms at 617 Wash
ington street, near Nineteenth, that
Jlr. Boss announced that by special
request the picture show will be con
tinued every night this week.
The pictures shown Include four
reels of thrilling automobile feats.
The feature is a two-part film en
titled "The Trail of the S-X Arrow."
which depicts the amazing perform
ance of an Essex car driven by two
plucky girls through some of the
roughest parts of the southern Cali
fornia desert.
What that car goes through and
survives, being still up and coming
at the finish, almost passes imagl
nation. The picture is in no sense a
"stunt" picture. The girls in the car
were not attempting any fancy driv
ing feats. Their problem was to drive
through the desert at all, and the
amazing manner in which the Essex
solved their problem for them by
making its way over country that
sure-footed mule would sniff at is
intensely interesting.
The drive to the goal in "the Dev
il's I'unch Bowl" was made b the
girls on a wager that they couldn't
take their car to this almost lnac
cessible spot. But they did it, and
therefrom results the picture.
Two other films are on the pro
gramme. One depicts the adventures
of the Maxwell "Yank" in driving
over some very rough country. The
other, an industrial film, shows how
the Maxwell-Chalmers Motor company
kept its Detroit factories going dur
ing the recent coal strike by hitching
Maxwell trucks and tractors to the
machinery and operating with gaso
line fuel.
The pictures start at 7:30 to 8
P. M., and the performance continues
to 10 o'clock. The show rooms were
crowded at every performance last
week.
the fabric does not. Perhaps several
or all of the plies are punctured. The
tire may not blow out at the time,
but may later. To avoid aloner-the-
road troubles and delay, outside pro
tection and rim-cut patches should be
part of every car's equipment.
"As important as the casing, the
tube should be given attention. When
a new tube is placed in position.
enough talc should be used so that
it will not chafe and stick to the cas
ing when heat is generated. Too much
talc will harm the tube.
"Chains that are adjusted too tight
will tear the casing they should be
loose enough to creep. Storing a car
where the tires will come into con
tact with oil should be avoided, for
it has a deteriorating effect on rub
ber. Driving on street-car tracks is
warned against, as the burden of
weight on a small portion of the tire
will tend to pull the tread loose.
"Tire manufacturers, and esneclallv
the General company, are conducting
expensive educational campaigns for
conservation."
SAVE TIRES, HE URGES
COXSERVATIOX XEED GREAT,
SAYS GEORGE K: CAS.SIDT.
Poorly Aligned Wheels and Tread
Cut9 Neglected Cause Any
Tire to Wear Ont.
CHEVROLET TO LEAD TEAM
Veteran DriVcr to Captain Monroe
Pilots in Indianapolis Race.
ECDIAXPOLJS, Ind., March 20.
Louis Chevrolet, dean of the Amer
ican racing fraternity and patriarch
of the speed sport since the retire
ment from active competition of Bar
ney Oldfield, has been appointed cap
tain of the Monroe team in the Eng
lish international 600-mile race on the
Indianapolis speedway Monday, May
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Chevrolet promises to be the back
bone of America's defense against the
Europeans in the Indianapolis classic
No less than six American speed cre
ations entered for the contest, three
Monroes and three Frontenacs, owe
their construction to his inventive
genius.
Rarely, If ever, has the world wit
nessed a combination of mechanical
genius and driving skill like that
possessed by the great Franco-Swiss.
His only possible rival in this respect
was the late Georges Boillot, who, in
addition to being the champion driver
of Europe, was also credited in a
large measure with the design of the
I'euceot cars.
'Never in history has there been
such need of conservation in all lines
as at present. Dunne the war Amer
icans learned how to reduce waste.
Thousands of things that were here
tofore thrown to the scrap hea-p were
utilized for other purposes, to the
amazement of everyone," says George
K. Cassidy of the American Tire &
Rubber company, distributor here for
General tires.
"But the war lessons were forgotten
when peace came. The country
started on an orgy of extravagance
that is at present unchecked. Many
things that could be utilized are cast
into the discard without a thought
and untold sums wasted by this
means. .
"In Europe, where spending is not
so free as in the United States, con
servation has reached a fine point.
This was noticed by evry doughboy
who went overseas. "Very little is
wasted everything has a second use.
In contrast, America is the most
wasteful country in the world.
"Poorly aligned wheels, due to side
pressure against curbs, cause tpead
wear after 100 to 200 miles of run
ning. One of the commonest abuses
is under-inflation. which causes fab
ric breaks. Every motorist shtould
provide himself with an air gauge to
test the pressure frequently.
"Tread cuts are experienced by
every motorist. It is impossible to
avoid sharp stones or rutty roads,
which pierce the tread and sometimes
the fabric. For small cuts the best
treatment is tir putty, while for the
larger vulcanisation should be done.
'When an under-inflated tire strikes
I ahaxp' stono the rubber gives, but
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ADDITIOXAIi BTJIMUXG TTXDER
WAY IS 10 0x420 FEET.
Xew Factory Will Be Devoted Ex
clusively to Progressive As
sembly of Trucks.
Due to the rapidly increasing de
mand for its product, the Garford
Motor Truck company, Lima, O., has
broken ground for a large addition
to its present plant. The new build
ing is to be 100 feet wide by 420 feet
long, and will be devoted entirely to
progressive assembly of Garford
trucks.
The building will be of concrete,
steel and glass construction, with two
tun floors. There will be three
chassis assembly conveyors in opera
tion, and at the far end the chassis
will roll out under their own cower.
complete and ready for test.
Material will move from the receiv
ing dock by trolley, conveyor or elec
tric hoist, through hatchwava and
tunnels at proper intervals to meet
the assembly as the chassis conveyor
progresses from operation to operation.
A notable feature of the new build
ing will be the glass roof of saw
tooth type with windows running the
length of the building instead of
crosswise as is the usual custom.
The building is expected to be
ready for occupancy by June 1, with
complete equipment, and will be one
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The unKmitcd resources of the House
of Spreckels are back of The Spreckels
"Savage" Tire Company, in its purpose to
make for the motoring public reliable and
dependable goods of proven merit. Not
subject to the whims of stockholders, The
Spreckels "Savage" Tire Company is able
to adhere to the chosen policy of manu
facturing products that are made to a
SAVAGE POLICIES
standard and not to a price. The result
in the final analysis is that the consumer
pays less per mile for the performance
given by these products.
An undertaking of this nature requires
constant research for improvement ne
cessitating large expenditures of money,
effort and time. Few companies are able
to give these unsparingly. The Spreckels
"Savage" Tire Company fs not only able
but does it with a result quite apparent
in "Savage" Tire products. The methods
employed, the selection of raw materials,
the skill of the workmen, the constant
search for flaws, all reflect the purpose
behind the making and are important fac
tors in the manufacture of products bear
ing the Spreckels "Savage" name.
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SAVAGE PRODUCTS
A thorough study of the requirements of the present
day motorist resulted in the making of a new departure
in tire construction. That new departure is expressed in
our D Type Tire. A big, sturdy, flexible, oversize, hand
built casing; made by improved methods, of the best
grades of raw materials, and according to our own speci
fications as found necessary to meet the needs of the
motorist of today; the "Savage" D Type Tire, because of
;i its wonderful performance on the road, has been judged
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market.
Regular "Savage" Tires are made to ordinary stand
ards as far as size is concerned, though in quality they
are second only to the "Savage" D Type. "Savage"
Plain and Crip Tread types are made in all ordinary and
many odd and unusual sizes. "Savage" Ribbed Treads
are made in small popular sizes and the oversize Vx inch
(375). The same careful attention is given to details
effecting the building of these tires that is given to the t
D Type. Each "Savage" in its class is Built to fcjtcel.
"Ravage" Grey or Grafinite tubes make splendid road
companions for any tire. t
The Spreckels "Savage" Tire Company
San Diego, California
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ASSET 15 THE SATISFIED CUSTOMER
of the finest examples of progressive derlng everything from groceries to
assembly methods in the country. furniture. However, H. H. Hoff,
No labor-saving device has been manager of the Duluth branch of the
overlooked in the equipment of this Goodyear Tire & Rubber company.
new addition. Ihese increased facill-
ties will enable the Garford company
to double its output in 1920.
employed this unique scheme. When
ever he sees a pneumatic equipped
truck with tires under-inflated go by
the branch, he calls the owner on the
telephone and warns him of the con
sequences. The owner is always
pleased to get the Information and
the good will brought about by the
phono rail
purchase.
usually leads to future
He rnreful In npplvlnir tub".
This Manager on the Job.
Few people would think pf the tele
phone as a means of selling tubes fori
automobiles, althougS Bell's invention
is widely used by housewives for or-
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At Every Filling
Station the
PLAIN VIEW
FILLING TANKS
can be sold. A long-felt neces
sity; the public will demand it.
From your auto seat you see
the exact number of gallons
you receive, at the same time
it gives you the specific grav
ity of the gas.
AGENCY PROPOSITIONS
will be entertained from high
class salesmen only. Address
AL 874, Oregonian.
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No Truck Can or Does Satisfy
Its Owners Unless Backed
by Service.
Up-to-the-Minute Service is the Watchword of
Our Organization "Users Know." '
Uealy Bros., Thirteenth and Hoyt, hare pur
chased a new Garford.
"USERS KNOW"
Garford Oregon Motor Sales
Company
EIGHTH AND DAVIS .,
Win. Cornfot, President. T. M. CrORhrcnn,
E. N. Wheeler, Vlce-Prea. and (ien. Mitr.
Secretary-Treasurer. J. A. Haley, Sales 31 sr.
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OFFERS
YOU
Trustworthy and scientific inner construction.
The backing of a definite guarantee.
Let us know the ytar, make, and model of your car and we can
fit it with a dependable Columbia.
"Free Testing Service"
COLUMBIA STORAGE BATTERY CO.
All Makes of Storage Batteries Repaired and Recharged
H. M. NISBET, Manager. 109 N. Broadway. Near Glman.
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