THE SUNDAY 6HEGONIAN, PORTLAND. MAT 9, 1920
NEXT
IS
PORTLAND AUTOMOBILE FIRM MOVES INTO NEW QUARTERS
HERE, AND OPENS TWO OUTSIDE BRANCHES.
A GOOD ROADS Ml
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Tei Candidates Declare for
Importance of Highways.
BIG PROGRAMME URGED
Both Republican, and Democrat
J'tkssJbilitlcs Are United In Sup
5 port of Better Roads.
PRESIDENT
It-the- next president of the United
States has his way, as presidents not
infrequently do, there will be no trou
ble Mahout backing up the national
KOOJ roads programme during the
next four years. The next president
is a good roads booster. This is not
only- logical, but practically assured
by iris own words.
Ifthere is any reason to doubt that
thesentiments quoted are in fact
those of the next president, assurance
may be given that the chancel are
about ten to one that no mistake has
beeTV made. He would have to be a
very dark horse to be missed. For
safety the statements of ten prospec
tive? nominees are reproduced, and
the -travel and transport bureau of the
B. F. Goodrich Rubber company at
tests to their authenticity. Without
exception the candidates have come
clean, as the saying Is. risking party
and platform on this one thought for
all the people.
IV. should be added for the benefit
of political forecasters that no sig
nificance attaches to the order in
which the statements appear. The
sequence was arranged by W. D. Al
bright, district representative of the
ioodrich bureau. The statements of
the 'Candidates follow:
Hoover Urges Organisation.
Herbert Hoover Arguments for
good roads are so evident that they
neel no reiteration. What is needed
is organization to maintain what
roads we have and to build more
roads. Much of this must depend
upon purely local effort and it is
by "jhe creation of organization to
build up such activities that our coun
try 'makes its best progress.
Senator Warren G. Harding Trans
portation has made every avenue of
civilization. There is no advancement
in production and exchange until
there are highways to facilitate the
transportation involved. We shall
abl'enhanee the advantages bf Amer
ican production when we add to the
convenience of transportation through
the -construction of highways suited
to nse of modern motor vehicles. It
is the one agency of putting every
community in the republic on the
way'; of commercial progress.
Governor Frank O. Lowden Good
roads mean greatly lessened trans
portation costs. They increase the
value of the farms. They make con
solidated rural schools possible. With
good roads life becomes easy and
agreeable in the country and the flow
of our young men and women from
the country to the city is checked,
f Railroads Are Overloaded.
"William G. McAdoo The failure of
the'railroads to keep pace with the
growth of the country has developed
a transportation problem which seri
ously menaces our economic develop
in cat and prosperity. It will be many
j eart before the railroads can be
hrouKht up to the required standard.
AleSTi while our best chance of imme-'
rliate relief is great systems of state
highways, so laid out and constructed
as ti supply the automobile and mo
tortruck the additional transporta
tion1 facilitjes the country impera
tively needs. 1 strongly favor the
const ruction or good roads everv
where through both state and na- I
tional aid. After we build them we
must maintain them by an intelligent
system of superintendence. Let us
keep, our highway departments out
of politics and in the hands of the j
best- engineering and business talent
of the country.
Major-General Leonard Wood An '
adequate good roads system is the
commercial liaison vhich makes the
profer co-ordination of the require
ments of producer, manufacturer and
consumer. The need for such a sys
tem was strikingly demonstrated
durrijig the war. and it is as great
now.,aB it ever was. Good roads mean
better and more productive farms,
bringing remote rural sections into
closer touch with the markets. By
providing something which makes
possible the development of farms we
perform a service of inestimable value
to the country as a whole.
Bryan for Peace Roads.
Attorney-General A. Mitchell Pal
mer The national system of trans
portation and distribution is so es
sential that every possible facility
nius,t be provided to encourage pro
ducers of farm commodities and mer
chandise to increase production. The
improvement and use of public high
ways in addition, to airways, railways
and.watei ways as avenues of convey
ance, is vital to the progress and pros
perity of the people.
William J. Bryan The time has
come for the systematic development
of national highways and the con
clusion of peace gives an opportunity
to celebrate the ending of the great
est of world wars by the building of a
memorial peace way. reaching lnte
every state and forming a commercial
nvi "i unii oerween the common
wealths of the nation.- It would
greatly relieve the railroads by fur-
. inning a roaaway tor both passen
6f and freight traffic.
fcenator Miles Polndexter Good
roaos construction, retarded by the:
war, should now be pushed vigor
ously "and nothing should be permit
ted to interfere with the expansion
and development of these important
arteries of transportation and trade
which at the Immediate moment can
servw to materially reduce high ltv
ttrg costs by facilitating the move
ment of foodstuffs from the farm to
the table. I favor an extensive Bys
tern - of national roads built by the
fttlftr!al government located with a
vew to military defense as well as
and commercial use and co-or-dMutted
with existing highways so as
ytorm a national as well as local
syaiem.
...Ioh Dnon Cites California.
Spyernor James M. Cox The es
tablishment and maintenance . of a
5Qd ' roads system throughout the
fccuiitry is as essential to the life of
jHf; nation as proper circulation of
bvod is essential to the life of the
rmMvtdual. With a perfect highway
stlUtem there can be no stagnation of
W!Wportation at any time. Normal
iltCjeds, promptly and properly met will
-vnt perplexing and costly emer
gencies. enator Hiram Johnson We have
rrard' great object lesson of the value
oX jsood roads in the paved highways
irf'-my own state of California. They
aveibeea a great factor in the de
epfpment of the state, opening up
utfijuna which hitherto were lnans.
!fWe nd aBding to the prosperity of
aJI The improvement of the " high
wsryw of ie nation undoubtedly will
be of great economic value to the
country as a whole, relieving the con
gestion which now exists on other
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W. IT. 'Wallingford company, which distributes Liberty and Briscoe can and
Grahim Bros.' speed truck la this territory, bow Im uw 9100,000 build
Ins;. The upper picture shows the 100x100, two-story concrete and brick
building at Fifteenth and Burnslde streets, into which the W. H. Walling
ford company removed last week. The first floor is devoted to show
rooms and service station, with offices .on a balcony. The shop occupies
the entire second floor. The building embodies many features of motor
car headquarters in the east visited by Mr. Wallingford. The center picture
shows the new Wallingford branch in Astoria, and the lower one a portion
of the front of the Wallingford branch in Corvallis, both recently opened.
The company also has a branch in Pendleton, for which a building soon is
to be erected.
transportation facilities and making
distribution of the nation's commodi
ties easier and cheaper. The good
roads movement - meets with mj
heartiest approval.
IiAVE PREPARES FOR CAR A VAX
Good Roads Promised for the
Tour in That County.
KUGENE, Or., May 8. (Special.)
The Lane county court will see. that
the Pacific highway through this
county is in fine shape for the Ad
club caravan from the Linn or Ben
ton county lines to the Douglas coun
ty line. 'If the caravan comes by way
of -Corvallis the travelers will find
a first-class macadam road to Junc
tion City. Pavement from there will
have been completed for about eight
miles toward Eugene by the time the
caravan- comes through. The rest of
the distance to Eugene will be good
macadam. From Eugene to the south
there is state pavement for six miles
to Goshen, and from Goshen - to the
Douglas county line there Is all good
macadam except a short stretch be-
tween Saginaw and Cottage Grove.
If the caravan comes by way of the
Harrisburg ferry, a good gravel road
from that point to Junction city, three
miles, will be used.
IS
PROGRESS BETWEEN ECGEXE
AND JUNCTION CITY.
If Present Rate Is Maintained, This
Section of Highway Will Be
Hard-Surfaced by June.
EUGENE, Or., May S. (Special.)
Rapid progress has been made in lay
ing pavement on the Pacific highway
between Eugene and Junction City
since the weather turned good.
The first Job completed after op
erations were resumed by the Clark
& Henery Construction company,
which has the contract, was finishing
of a stretch 600 feet long on the out
skirts of Junction City. This 'was
held over from last fall to get right
of way for a wider ' turn. Several
sharp curves are being eliminated on
this contract between Eugene and
Junction City.
In good weather the company is
laying a mile of pavement each week.
At this rate the contract will be com
pleted some time in June.
The National motor vehicle law is
now in effect, and it is a federal of
fense, punishable by a fine of J6000
or a prison term up to five years,
to steal an automobile in one state
and drive it into another.
PRETTY SOFT FOR THIS PILE
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A pile-driver Is our Idea ef a perpetual fall gay, but this one was caught
in a moment of ease. It wels;bs five tons and maVes a good load for this
SH-ton Republic truck, which is haulino; it to the new Portland munici
pal terminal, where It will bump piles Into the river bed for the next'
few months. Despite the heavy sTerload, the Republic handled It with '
ease.
MANLEY MEETS SHRINERS
EAST INTERESTED- IX COMIXG
CONVENTION" HERE.
If All "Attend Who Promise, : Auto
Dea-ler Says Portland Will
Sleep Standing Vp V"
A. B. -Manley,"" president of the
Manley Auto company, on a trip to
the Hupmobile, Grant, Stearns and
National automobile factories met
many Shrlners who plan to visit
Portland for the Shrine convention
next month. All are looking forward
to the time of their lives.
"If all come who said they would.
Portlanders will have to sleep stand
ing up, said Mr. Manley. Several
of my personal acquaintances in the
east have already engaged transpor
tation."
Mr. Manley's trip was occasioned
by the need for- more automobiles.
Though. he landed in Detroit about
the time of the switchmen's strike,
he convinced the respective factory
axecutives that he had to have more
deliveries.
"Factory officials and transporta
tion men of Detroit were very much
'in the air' on account of the big
strike, and many factories had to
close down for several days due to
lack of coal." said Mr. Manley. "Ex
cept for the temporary shutdown.
however, the Hupmobile factory is in
excellent position to increase its pro
duction. Additions which will prac
tically double the capacity of the
plant should be completed in about
60 days. The roofs were being built
on the largest super-structure while
I was. In Detroit.
"Since my visit In Cleveland last
January work has been completed on
a large wing which increases the
plant and output of the Grant fac
tory about 30 per cent. New build
ings were also going up at the fac
tory of the F. B., Stearns company In
the same city. It has been Increased
about 50 per cent In size by recent
additions.
"Because of the freight ear short
age the dealers in the east no longer
ask or expect to have cars shipped.
Instead, they dispatch crews of driv
ers to the factories for drive-aways.
These dr'vers surge 'back and forth
in bunches of from five to 20 men
waiting for new cars to leave the
plants.
"During my stay in Detroit, Cleve
land- and Indianapolis I saw crews
from Nebraska, Oklahoma, St. Louis,
Kansas City, Atlanta, Charleston, Vir
ginia. New York and Boston. It
seems that all the available freight
car equipment Is being sent to the
west and the southwest, and that
dealers within' 1500 miles of the fac
tories have been trained to drive their
DRIVER, RIDING AROUND IN A
TRUCK.
cars overland. This habit has been
ueveiopeu 10 sucn an eiiri.i mil nrrns'13 too loose. This trouble can be cured
have- been organized in the eastern by a careful filing of the face of the
centers to handle drive-aways for the nut so that it can be screwed to the
dealers in neighboring states." 1 notch ahead.
Setting the Nut.
Castellated nuts have a way of
tightening us between notches. If the
nut is Ecrefsred up to the notch ahead
; ; i; " -.w'ST"': III
THE FRANKEIN G
Its Superior Performance
Is a Matter of Motor Gar History
20 miles to the gallon of gasoline
12,500 miles to the set of tires
50 slower yearly depreciation
THE measure of "satisfactory motoring today is what a
car does. And motorists are realizing that it is quality
and principles not luck which enable Franklin own
ers to get the above results.
The; Franklin Car is the easiest riding, safest driving, least
fatiguing car today. Requiring least care, it gives least
trouble " and creates least expense. It is the most advanced
automobile in design and construction. That's why these
road records in different parts of the country have been pos
sibleand with only one driver at the wheel constantly on
each trip.
New York to Boston and return (458.8 miles) in
12 .hours, 5 minutes
Indianapolis to Syracuse and beyond (832.6 miles),
in 22V2 hours , 1
Cincinnati to Cleveland and return (553 miles) in
15 hours, 45 minutes
Boston to Syracuse and return (693 miles) in 24
hours, 20 minutes, with a woman driving
New York to Montreal (398 miles) in 9 hours, 59
minutes
Waterloo, Iowa, non-stop, dirt road record (865.4
miles) in 24 hours
It is too tight, while the notch back
The Cooling System.
This is the time of year when the
average car owner needs to be re-
' minded that his cooling system needs
BRALY AUTO
601 WASHINGTON STREET
PORTLAND
a little extra attention. The anti
freeze mixture should be drained out
and the system be flushed with clean
water. Many car owners find it- bene
ficial to put a solution of baking soda
and water in the radiator and run
the engine for 20 minutes or half
an hour, after which the soda mixture
is drawn off and the cooling system is
flushed out thoroughly with clear wa
CO.
ter. This tends to remove any scale
that may have formed from the anti
freeze mixture. Also this is the time
to renew the rubber connections of
the cooling system.
Cleaning Pail.
In overhauling the car the wise
owner keeps a pail of kerosene at
hand in which t immerts yarious4
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small parts. An ingenious owner re
cently hit upon an excellent idea. He
fitted in the bottom of this pail a
strainer with legs lifting it about
three inches above the bottom of the
pail. In this way dirt and sediment
sink below the strainer and the kero
sene keeps cleaner for a longer time.
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