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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 11. 1920 ESSEX CAR PACES MATCH RACE BETWEEN AIRPLANE 'AND MOTORCYCLE. illlllllllllllH Csnny Business Man Spends Time on Investigations. HARD CASH CONSIDERED rtiaiile Is How Can Such "Person Hare Iarffe Sam for Auto on flight Acquaintance. 6 MOM-CMS ARE REAL INVESTMENT VALVE-IN-HEAD When the average American busi ness man. makes an Investment in volving anywhere from $1000 to $5000 he carefully investigates the matter from all sides and calls in expert ad vice on which he can depend if any phase of the subject seems to be a little beyond his personal experience. When that same supposedly hard beaded business man purposes to in vest a similar amount of money in a motor car he generally walks down automobile row and1 buys the vehicle that catches his fancy, matches his wife's new furs or meets some equally unessential condition. Only the fact that all modern Amer ican cars are reasonably good pre vents the average buyer from being stung every time he plumps down his money. We shall try to indicate some of the points that should always be considered in buying a car. The question of price generally set tles itself automatically. The buyer knows about what figure he can af ford to pay. His first step should be to get a list of all cars in the price class in which he is interested. From these he can narrow down his search and make a reasonably definite list of eligibles, for closer scrutiny. Select Standard Make. To be a satisfactory buy a car must be manufactured by a well established company which will remain in busi ness. If the concern making the car fails the vehicle becomes an orphan, for which it is difficult to obtain parts. Be sure that the manufacturer is solidly established in business. Next the dealer should be scruti nized. Has he facilities for making quick repairs? Is his service efficient? Is he able to give his customers re placements or broken parts without undue delay? All this is going to be vitally important during the later life of the new car, and the dealer's status is easily established by a few in quiries made among owners of the make of car he sells. Face to face with the car itself, the first thing for the intending pur chaser to settle is the size of the ve hicle that will best serve his needs. The bride and bridegroom who live next door to a man with seven chil dren had better not buy a seven seater. Common sense will rule here. The prospect should certainly be care ful to try the seats, all of them, to see that thj?y are perfectly comfort able. A long-legged man in a car with skimpy lee room is in for much discomfort. If the buyer is to do the driving he should be sure that the pedals and other controls are placed within reasonable regard for his phys ical limitations. Get Expert Advice. Having examined the external qual ifications of the car. the buyer should next proceed with an investigation of its mechanical efficiency. And right here we should emphasize the desira bility of the intending buyer securing the help of some qualified expert on whose integrity he can rely to help him weigh the mechanical merits of the vehicle under consideration. Of course, if the prospect is qualified to decide for himself through past ex perience he will need no outside as sistance. First as to the performance desired in the average man's motor car. To begin with, local conditions will some what govern this factor. If the car is to be used in a hilly country it must hajve plenty of superfluous power. And no matter- where it is to be used it should have a modest turn of speed good acceleration and flexibility. This latteT qualification means that it must be able to throttle down to a slow speed while in high gear and must also be able to travel fast. A range of speed on high gear of from four miles an hour to 60 would be good flexibility. These three fac tors and the hill climbing ability of the car should be brought out in the road demonstrations and a motorist of experience should be in the car with the intending buyer, unless he is a veteran, to make sure the vehicle meets all these conditions. Are Adjustments F.ay( And now we come to the vitally im portant matters that lurk under the hood. It should be ascertained that all the parts, particularly those hat are certain to need cleaning or ad justment, are easily accessible. Are the oil and grease cups easily reached for adjustment and refilling? Can the differential housing be reached to drain, flush and refill it at intervals when this is necessary? Are the brake adjustments easy to make? Getting down to the more technical details of the mechanism, it should be ascertained that the car under con sideration embodies parts that are big enough for the work they are called upon to perform. This applies to gears, bearings, shafts and similar parts. Obviously, determination of these is bevond the average car buyer, espe- ciallv if it is his first car. Inquire about among owners of the car in vour neighborhood. See if there is general or frequent complaint of a certain failure or breakage. If there is. -vou may put it down that the ve hide has a structural weakness. The the appearance is not the only or the principal thing to remember is that ruling desideratum In a motor car. TO GET TIRE OX THE RUS Here's Correct Way to Mount Yout Straight Side Casing. ' Many owners find it difficult prop erly to mount straight side tires. The correct method is to lay the rim on the floor and insert the valve stem of the tire in its proper location. Next force the bead for ten inches on each side of the valve stem into place. With the tire started in this way, the oper ator should force it into place by stamping upon it with his feet, first on one side of the valve stem and then on the other. If the feet prove not sufficiently powerful to force the cas ing into place a tire tool must be utilized, the ends of the rim being pried into place with a screwdriver, The new owner frequently gets the tire in place only to find that he has gotten the ends of the rim overlapping in the wrong way. A rim contractin and expanding tool is a great help in this connection, but sometimes this useful device is not at hand, when the above method may be used. Seven million dollars has been paid for the registration of motor vehicle and the licensing of chaufeurs and operators during the first four months in Kev York state, . Iff' 3 Portlanders attending motorcycle races at the Roue City track recently enjoyed the unique spectacle of a three mile race between an airplane and a motorcycle, paced as shown In the picture by an Essex car. driven by Forrest Bradley and George V. Adams of the C. L. Boss Automobile company. Following the race the car. the same stock model that last fall set a record of 2 hours 2t minutes from Astoria to Portland, drove an exhibition mile around the track and made it in 58 seconds, only four seconds slower than the record for the track made several years ago in a racing car by Barney Oldfield. WATCH RADIATOR HOSE THAT MAY BE TROUBLE WHEX EXGIXE IS OVERHEATED. Trn Cul!nn nt tinea. r ,... 1 1 T .- 1 ,..., "iat. One That 'Goes Bad.' Often Freeze. -Pumps When engines which normally keep cool even in hot weather or heavy climbing begin to heat up, suspect the condition of the rubber hose which connects the radiator with the water Jacket. There are two such pieces of hose, but it is the top one that usually goes bad. because it carries the hot water from the top of the engine into the radiator. The bottom hose carries the cool water either to the pump, if there is a pump. or directly back to the water jacket. if the engine uses the thermosyphon cooling system. Cars that use pumps for water cir culation have smaller pipes and con sequently smaller rubber hose con nections than those which thermo-syphon cooling systems. use Hot the and hose fre- water gradually disintegrates rubber and cotton of the hose when the inner lining of the breaks down into a mush it qutntly stops up the hose connec tions to an extent sufficient to pre vent proper water circulation. ftc placing such a hose connection can be done in a few minutes. Sometimes engines which cool prop erly in winter heat up when the first warm days come. In engines of the pump circulation type,, this is often caused by a hitherto unsuspected freezing or the pump, which has re sulted in broken pump wheel blades. Dismounting the pump and taking it to pieces is the only way to make sure of this trouble. The remedy is a new impeller in the pump. MILTON COMES TO FORE SPEED FIEXD CUTTING XICHE IX HALIj OF FAME. Clean-Gut Victory at Tacoma Speedway Follows After Other Achievements. By his clean-cut victory at Tacoma last week, following his win of third place at Indianapolis and .first Uniontown, Tommy Milton, speed king, has served notice that he must have full consideration" as an aspirant for the 19-'0 speedway point cham pionship. . . As a matter of fact. Milton's 156- mile-an-hour dash over the Florida beach last winter was only an Inci dent in his long apprenticeship. He began driving races in his own road ster, on half-mile tracks, and gradu ated to speedway ranks only after two seasons on the minor ovals. Success has never turned" Tommy's head. He remains the same quiet, modest, well-bred youngster he was before he became famous. Veteran critics see in Milton's driving many characteristics that once featured the AT SONNY, NEAR MITCHELL COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY. si- sec Thin bamlet vilth the youthful nam the highway between Cascade Ioc thta month pavement should be co beside the steam roller lo a Chevro ' ' a. j. ' jo, w yv. y"i f a, sa' Quarto y . njaaffillTOrjPlBfc. . jr ' " xw work of Barney Oldfield, "master driver" of the older generation of pilots. This fact is undoubtedly caused by the close friendship which exists between the present speed king and the first holder of the crown. To great extent, Milton is an Old field protege. He often asks the big tire builder's advice and always fol lows it. Milton drives low turns like those Indianapolis faster than any other drivers, yet 1 a Elide he works back irra.diia.11v to the inner rim, seldom perceptibly moving his steering wheel and never sawing it. He almost never hesi tates before passing slower cars, but plans his passes well ahead and man ages thus to keep his car continuously in full flight. Off the track Milton is a hard worker, does his own "trouble shoot- ng" and prepares his own car for its competitive work. 'They say he's lucky," comments Barney Oldfield, Milton's mentor. Maybe he is, but that's because he takes care not to build bad luck for himself. A MAXWELL TOWN THIS JACKSOX CEXTER, O., TAKES PRIZE FOR NUMBER. In Population of Only 685 There Are More Than 400 Max well Car Owners. Just which town in the United States is really Maxwelltown? Some time ago an article appeared in Punch, the publication of the Maxwell-Chalmers people, describing Paris. Tehn., as the city that should bear that appelation on the ground that Paris, with a population of 5000 has 216 Maxwell cars in use. As soon as the article appeared, H. O. Weitschat, former Tacoma, Wash., newspaper man, who is editor of Punch, began to rpxeive letters. Among the letters came one from a booster of Jackson Center, O., who de clares that city has Paris backed off the map as the genuine Maxwell town. "You pulled a 'boner' in writing up Paris. Tenn., as Maxwelltown," he de clared. "Jackson Center, O., has a population of 685 and we say to you there are over 400 Maxwell cars reg istered in that vicinity, all sold by the Maxwell dealer there." Another Ohio town heard from was Sylvanta. which claims the distinction of having sold 350 Maxwells from a town of 2002 population. Water in Crankcase Oil. Few motorists realize that a com paratively large quantity of water gradually accumulates in the crank case, mixing with the oil and forming an emulsion, which has impaired lu bricating qualities. This accumulation of water is more pronounced in win ter than in summer and Is found to a greater extent as the number of cyl inders increases. This brings out the importance of changing the oil every 1000 miles, and for the best lubricat ing results every 500 miles, in which case the old oil may be run through a chamois skin to remove the water after which it may be used again.. Change oil every 800 miles. POINT TUNNEL, ON THE UPPER n If JW'X ' e la the center of paving operations on k and Hood River. Before the end of mpleted into Hood River.' The let- . TUBES SAVING TIRES CHEAP, UXBRA-XDED STOCK TO HANDICAP CAS1XGS. Maximum Mileage Delivered Only When Tires Get Proper Support. How do you buy an auto tube as a merely necessary and somewhat inci dental accessory or as a part of the tire as vital as the casing? Upon the motorist's answer to this question de pends, in large part, his freedom from tire troubles. The car owner courts trouble when he buys tubes care lessly. The fact that tire costs are largely dependent upon tubes is frequently overlooked. Though the motorist has learned to shun "gyp" and 'ino-narae tires" by reason of bitter experiences along the road, a bargain price fre quently causes him to buy an inferior tube. Cheap and unbranded tube3 will handicap any casing. Leaky tubes ruin millions of tires annually through under-inflation. Or dinarily the motorist blames his cas ings for troubles for which his tubes are almost entirely responsible. un the other hand, good tubes enable a tire to deliver the maximum mileage the maker built into it. The best casing is at the mercy of poor tube. As the tube represents a small sum in comparison to the cost of any standard casing, it is frequent ly the part of economy to throw away nferior or worn-out tubes. The pur pose of the tubs is to hold air and to keep on holding air. When it fails In this it Is worthless. The Miller Rubber company be ieves that tubes have been an lm portant factor in increasing the mile age of its casings 115 per cent in the last few years. Tube rubber is sub jected to constant laboratory tests. Walls, for one thing, must stretch to nine times and then return to no. mal. Today all standard tubes are built of laminated construction. In other words, they are built layer on lyer up to the proper ply. This construc tion is made necessary by the fact that rubber in its natural state' is wretched air container. Both chem ically and physically it leaks air. By using a number of layers of rubber no tiny flaws can go through. Some tubes, if punctured, are easilv mended. Some rip. The difference in tubes is worth the same careful attention from the motorist that he gives to the purchase of his casings. FIRST CAR, CROSSES SUMMIT Automobile ToAved Short Distance Due to Bad Road. EUGENE, Or.. July 10. (Special.) The first car over the summit of the Cascades by way of the Mackenzie pass reached TSugene Monday. A party of people from central Oregon made the trip in fair time, but reported that their car had to be towed short distance east of the summit because of a very bad stretch of roe.l torn up by construction work. The snow did not interfere In any i Fresh new tires from the factories of the world's most famous makers bought at inside prices now sold at $5 to $25 under previous prices. lm Bed I J Van- I Btse tlln BMd TTnbna Z8xS Stl.M (12.33 $2.1 80x3 10.95 11.95 t.lS SxSti 14.0O S2xSVi 1S.70 1&S s.oe lx4 18.0S II. IS S.40 12x4 19.0O 21.05 S3x4 1S.S0 12.70 .SS 34x4 20.&5 23.10 3.85 35x4 24.45 27.35 4.10 3x4 20.20 27.05 4.2C I?iVi 28.80 30.85 4.35 33x4 2A.95 31.80 4.50 S4x4Vfe 27.SO Sl.OS 4.SO 85X4H 23.65 31.00 4.75 30x4H 20.10 83.15 4.85 35x5 32.70 37.95 fi.AO 37x5 34.75 40.20 6.00 j Eagle Tire' Company 122 If. Broadway. Portland. Or. Phone Bnsdmr 101. . ' FAST 0Y TetCCWAM WIGHT TELEOKAM WIGHT tgTTEfrCWAM TftC KNOCII MUST M AK AN X ri OTHERWISE THE TE.UEGRAM SEJYD tAc- Mfnwtme Tttalrvm. xuAfcet to rr terms on Acreof. i fircA arr WWy.- agrmf to. 30 po g 10am 42 1 ex Flint. Mich June 26 Howard Auto Co Portland Ore Sixty seven carloads forwarded Great Northern since sixteenth Eight forty-fours one hundred eighty seven forty-fives three forty-sixe3 one forty-seven thirty-four forty-nines . Buick Conn These carloads are now arriving. We have a few, in excess of waiting orders, for IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Is Your Order Placed? m 14th and Davis Sts. HOWARD AUTOMOBILE CO. Bdwy.1130 56-241 g IIIIIIII!illillill!!!lllliiii!!II!illllllIllllllllllll!!!llllllil!ili!H they said, as most of it, except In shaded places, had disappeared. while the trip can be made with out a great deal of difficulty, mem bers of the party declared it was no pleasure trip, and would not advise anyone except experienced drivers to attempt it at the present time. The highway east of the summit is being rebuilt. The west slope, near the summit. Is quite rough, the traveler's aid. Good progress is being made with the grading of the highway between Blue river and Mackenzie bridge, and cars can travel that stretch with but little difficulty. Hundreds of Eugene people have driven over it during the past few days on the way to the springs and other resorts on the up per Mackenzie river. GOODYEAR HAS OWN" PAPER New Ixs Angeles Plant Employes Will Read About Themselves. In accordance with the custom of maintaining a newspaper for employes at its various plants throughout the country, the Goodyear Tire & Rub ber company of California, Los An geles, is announcing that a newspaper will be established at the factory there in July. The new Los Angeles factory pa per will be called "The Wingfoot Clark," giving it the same name that Is being used in the other Goodyear plants. The paper is the fifth that has become necessary by reason of the unprecedented expansion of the com pany, with factories at Akron, Ohio: Toronto, Canada; Goodyear, Conn., and cotton plantations near I'hoerux., Ariz. .Willdfd. Don't Roblt If you put off getting your Wil lard Battery regis tered at the very beginning, you are robbing it of hours of future service. Why take chance? Be sure that your next battery baa Threaded Rubber Insulation, the kind selected by 136 manufacturers of cars and trucks. WJLLARD SERVICE ' Kinta and Everett and EaNt Barnffide Bt Seventeenth. 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