THE SUND1T DREGOXIAN. PORTLA3flJ, 7 'AUGUST T, 1920
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ROOSEVELT URGED
Buifding of Route Lined With
Trees Proposed.
AID BY ALL IS SUGGESTED
President of Forestry Protection
Association Outlines Plan to
Clnb In New Tork.
Lined -with memorial trees.
Roosevelt road of remembrance would
be the greatest of all memorials In
honor of the ex-president, Charles
Lathrop Pack, president of the Amer
ican Forestry association of Wash
ington, declared at the memorial tree
planting for Theodore Roosevelt and
Quentin Roosevelt by the Park Gar
den club of Flushing. N. Y. He epoke
of the educational value of ehip-by-truck
week and said:
"In a Roosevelt road of remem
brance every citizen of the United
States would have a part and no
finer memorial could be erected than
such a memorial highway. It would
be another sign to the world that we
are Americans all and that we live
in a united country. But even
greater than that would be the educa
tional value of such an undertaking.
As never before the United States
needs a great outstanding lesson in
forest conservation for this country
today faces one of its gravest prob
lems; the perpetuation of its great
est natural resource, the forest.
"Millions are to be spent on im
proved highways that the producer
and consumer may be brought close
together. Next week a ehip-by-truck
drive will be launched. Let us beau
tify these highways in the build
ing. If there could be a great for
ward movement such as I picture in
tree planting the result would be a
citizenry awakened to the value of
trees as a national asset. This would
direct the thought of the citizen to
caving the forests. If Theodore
Roosevelt were alive he would in
dorse heartily such a move. He saw
the danger years ago when he called
the first conference of governors at
the White House. He pictured to
them a warning that no man present
could forget.
"A great message Is seldom heard
until after the giver of it is dead.
These trees we plant today are sym
bols or ever renewing life. Let us
then keep the message Theodore
Roosevelt gave us alive.. That mes
sage was that national prosperity and
well being is dependent upon a na
tion's forests. With such a memorial
arousing the whole nation as it surely
would for each could have a part
Theodore Roosevelt would both be
honored and would know that his
message had been heard."
Memorial trees are being planted
along many of the highways of the
country, the American Forestry as
sociation points out and calls on the
automobile world to co-operate in
this work everywhere because of the
great opportunity to better cement
the relations between the motor user
and the citizen. The Daughters of the
American Revolution at its last ses
sion in Washington adopted unani
mously a resolution urging a Liberty
Memorial park and a memorial drive
leading to it. The American Forestry
association has called on the states
to plant memorial trees along the
road to Mount Vernon, the nation's
shrine.
Shlp-by-truck week. May 17-22, Is
of the greatest educational value to
the good roads movement, Mr. Pack
says, adding that the great burden
of good roads Is civilization. In manv
places now such as along the Dixie
Highway, the Lincoln highway and
many other roads trees are being
planted. It would all result in a
great national memorial if memorial
tree plantings were taken up along
with every -road building plan. The
. American Forestry association will
send any motor club or individual
free tree planting instructions on re
quest to Its offices in Washing
ton, D. C.
Woman's club have notified City
Water Superintendent Price, in charge
of the park, that they will furnish
washtubs in order that motorists may
do the family wash. The nark is
supplied with city water and already
many campers carrying their own
tubs have strong clotheslines between
oak trees and buns out the family
laundry.
The city has expended all available
funds this year for the park, but
plans by another season to provide a
rest room, equipped with magazines.
FARMERS TO KEEP HORSES
Soil Tillers Depend on Steeds to
Serve in Emergency.
Farmers, when discussing; the mo
torization of the farm, are always
ready to state that even though most
of the work of the farm will be
done in the future by motor-driven
devices, the horses would" still be
found necessary. H. F. Harris, pres'
Ident of the Bethlehem Motors cor
poration, calls attention to the fact
that street car railroads were elec
tricized and for a long time main
tained large stables of horses.
"Electric roads have no horses to
day," said Mr. Harris. "Big busi
ness in the -large cities motorized,
and for long periods continued to
maintain stables of horses because of
some lack of confidence in the motor
equipment. Big business gave up
EXIT OF OLD DOBBIN
IS WOT FUR DISTANT
Horse Soon to Cease as Fac
tor on Farms.
AUTO EXPERT TELLS WHY
Many Breeders Trying to Delude
Themselves and Other bnt to
No Avail Is Assertion.
WASHINGTON, July 31. An auto
mobile expert of the national capital.
who has been gathering statistics In
regard to tha relative cost of keeping
horse and maintaining a truck or
tractor, predicts that the time is not
far distant when Old Dobbin . will
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This 3-ton Rpablle track: for several months has been taking; the place of
a locomotive and making: three trips a day towing; a freight ear on a rail
line betrreen the Homestead Iron-dyke mines and the Oxbow tunnel, near
Baker. The truck, which la equipped with ateel-flangrd wheels, vras sold
there nine months ago by tke Roberts Motor Car company, Republic
distributors for Oregon.
their horses. Farmers will motorize
and continue to keep their horses
until such time as their confidence
is thoroughly established in the mo
tor equipment of the farm motor
truck, -tractor, etc., when they will
quickly give up the horses."
cease to be a factor on the farm.
"The horse is dying hard, but
nevertheless he is surely dying out
as a power unit on the farms of
America," declared this expert.
"Many farmers, and more especially
horse breeders, are trying to delude
themselves into the idea that the
farm horse will never bo relegated to
the extreme rear. An indication of
this was brought out at the recent
convention of draft horsa breeders at
Indianapolis. During that conven
tion the president of the association
issued an interview in the Indianapo
lis newspapers In which he asserted
that the time will never come when
we can get along without horses on'
the farm; They still furnish nine
tenths of the farm power and will
continue to do so."
Shortasre ( Good Hanu,
"This horse breeder admitted that
there is a scarcity of good farm
horses of the draft type. We have,
plenty of interior animals and those
of the poorer grades,' this breeder
said. but there is a noticeable short
age of good animals and the demand
for good horses is becoming heavy
with the prices rising.'
"Without knowing it, this breeder
has provided the one best argument
against the use of horses on the farm.
The prices are rising for good horses,
he admits. And be further admits
that good horses are scarce. He might
well have pointed out facts shown in
government reports that horses of all
grades are more than a million in
number less now than two or three
years ago.
'This breeder might have learned
from government reports that the
horse has proved to be an economic
failure on the farm. The government
figures compiled before the -war show
that it costs $150 a year to keep a
horse and this figure should be dou
bled now. And then this report
shows that 40 per cent of the farm
er's total working expenses are
chargeable to the use of horses.
Bone Expensive Feeder.
"Ineffeciency Is the horse's middle
name, too. It is commonly allowed
that the horse can only pull a little
more than his own weight. While a
1200-pound horse may possibly de
velop power equivalent to four horses
by mechanical test, at the same time
this power can be exerted and applied
for only a short space.
"The horse eats what Is equivalent
to one-fourth of the crops he pro
duces and he delivers but from 2 to 7
per cent of the energy contained In
the food he consumes. The horse
works on an average of but 100 days
In the year and has to be cared for
and fed 365 days in the year.
"With motor trucks and tractors
now recognized as efficient and de
pendable power units, I assert that
there is no longer an excuse for keep
ing horses to raise corn to feed horses
to raise more corn for horse feed. It
is an endless, very expensive and
highly inefficient cycle that the farm
er has already stood for too long."
Oldest Maxwell Dealer.
The oldest Maxwell dealer in the
world and the youngest Chalmers
dealer in the present organization are
a few of the titles proudly borne by
N. L. Btever, president of the Biever
Motor -Car company of New Haven,
Conn. For sixteen years Mr. Biever
has held the Maxwell franchise
through all the many uncertaintfes of
a business which developed from
matter of pure sporting speculation
into the third largest Industry In the
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COOD ROADS BIG . HELP
REAL DIVIDENDS DECLARED
PAID TO SEATTLE.
TIRES
50c on
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HALF PRICE
50c on
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Growth of Motor Transport Is Re
yarded as of Huge Talne to
Nearby Communities.
BBATTLE, Wash., July 81. Good
roads are paying Seattle and nearby
communities real dividends daily, ac
cording to an editorial in the Seattle
Times. The editorial sketches the
growth of motor transport in that
section or the country. It says:
"A hundred of these machines are
operations 'over the fine thorough
fares out of this city in every direc
tion. They handle Several hundred
tons of freight every 24 hours handle
It ewiitly, surely and cheaply.
"So well organized has this busi
ness become that tariff schedules have
been drafted, regular hours of service
provided and bonding arrangements
made to protect shippers against loss.
Moreover, this business still is in the
stage of development. It Is much
bigger today than it was a year ago;
it will be a great deal bigger a 12
month hence.
"The swift truck, operating over a
specified route and eerving a spec
ified district, assures the rural mer
chant and the rural dweller service
such as neither ever previously has
had. The same trucks bring to Se
attle, from innumerable point3, farm
products desired by urban dwellers.
"Every time a new road is built,
opening upa farming district prev
iously served indifferently, if at all,
new possibilities are presented for
truck freighting.
"Good roads pay by attracting
tourists during the summer.
"But they also pay the year 'round
by providing superior transportation
facilities for King county communi
ties and communities elsewhere In
western Washington."
HOOD RTVER PARK LIKED
Motorists ETen Do Family "Wash
ing at New Camp.
HOOD RIVER. Or.. July 31. (Spe
cial.) The Hood River automobile
park, opened only a few months, is
already winning popularity with mo
tor traveler from many states. Sev
eral . nights this summer the camp
has been filled to capacity. Last Sunday-license
plates showed automo
biles present from Missouri, Wyo
ming, Colorado. Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, California, Utah and Kansas.
Visitors declare the park one of the
best equipped in the state Four
ovens have been provided for cook
ing. Members of .Uie ilooi fviverj
Unlimited Mileage Guarantee '!'r"
Special Week August 2-7
.We purchased six carloads (6492 Tires) of "Clingstone" brand,
made by the Lancaster Tire & Rubber Co. of Lancaster, Ohio,
at a price that permitted us to sell them at just half the pres
ent retail price. .
Nearly 5000 of these tires have been sold within the last few
weeks; therefore, this is practically your last chance.
These tires are strictly high-grade, fresh stock, guaranteed
both by the manufacturers and ourselves. They are made of
new live rubber, with pure gum friction and 174-ounce long
fibre cotton duck. The tread is an effective non-skid of the
tough white oxide of zinc compound.
Adjustments will be made by us at
any of our eight stores on an un
limited mileage basis. Defective
tires will be adjusted liberally re
gardless of how far they have been run.
Our Amazing Prices
(Subject to Withdrawal Without Notice)
Size. List Price. Sale Price. Saving.
30x3. . . . $21.25 $10.63 $10.62
30x32 . 27.75 13.88 13.87
,S2xSy2 -: 32.15 16.08 16.07
31x4..,.. 42.05 21.03 21.02
32x4. 42.80 21.40 21.40
33x4.. ,-..r 44.50 22.25 22.25
34x4.. 45.75 22.88 22.87
35x412 64.35 32.18 32.17
These tires are not "seconds" "retreads"
"made-overs," "half soles," or cheap tires
made of inferior material.
This sale includes thousands of
tires of other makes all sizes
both cord and fabric at startling
reductions. Call and look over these
tire bargains. -
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Averaged 27 2-10 Miles Per Gallon
Total Distance Traveled 3442 Miles. -
Total Gasoline Consumption 126xz Gallons. C
Total Oil Consumption 2 Gallons.
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93DSO 36 COLLECT NL 21 EXTRA -' Sent to all dealers 72120
Toledo, O., July 20, 1920.
H. H. Elms, Willys-Overland Pacific Co., Portland, Org.:
Transcontinental car left Joliet, 111., 8 P. M. Tuesday; 964 miles in 44 hours, averag
ing 22 y2 miles gallon. Rough roads. Twelve drivers so far. Please notify your dealers.
, WILLYS-OVERLAND, INC
Canaday 4 A. M. July 21
3S4 sf fd 44 Collect Nl 1 ex 93Sp Sent to all dealers,
Toledo, O., July 21, 1920.
H. H. Eling, Willys-Overland Pacific Co., Portland :
Transcontinental car left Des Moines 12:30. P. M. Wednesday; thirteen fifty-eight
miles in sixty and half hours, averaging twenty-three and eight-tenths miles gallon. Last
hundred fifty miles thirty per gallon. Roads bad. Fourteen drivers so far. Please notify
your dealers. WILLYS-OVERLAND, INC
Canaday.
D509CH 71 COLLECT 1 EXTRA NL Sent to dealers 72220
Toledo, O., July 22.
H. H. Eling, Willys-Overland Pacific Co., Portland, Org.:
Transcontinental car left North Platte, Nebraska, 9:30 Thursday morning on time;
eighteen thirty-one miles seventy-two gallon gas, averaging twenty-five and half miles per
gallon. Average Cedar Rapids-North Platte six hundred miles thirty-one miles per gallon.
Forty miles through mud with chains, many miles second speed through sand. Many
dealers wire distributors not sending daily information. Suggest you wire them daily col
lect. Will wire Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
WILLYS-OVERLAND, INC
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D366CH 32 COLLECT NL Toledo, O., July 23.
H. H. Eling, Willys-Overland Pacific Co., Portland, Org.:
Transcontinental car left Cheyenne 8 P. M. Thursday, one hour ahead Twenty sixty- :
four miles in ninety-two hours, averaging twenty-six miles gallon. Seventeen drivers so far.
Please notify your dealers. WARD M. CANADAY.
A445CH 48 COLLECT NL 1920 July 24 P. M. 8:37
Toledo, O., July 24.
H. H. Eling, "Willys-Overland Pacific Co., Portland, Org.:
Transcontinental car left Rock Springs Friday afternoon on time. Twenty-three fifty
four miles eighty-eight gallons gasoline, averaging twenty-six and three-quarters miles per
gallon. Average between Cheyenne and Rock Springs two hundred ninety miles, thirty
two and two-tenths miles per gallons. Roads sandy and hilly.
WARD M. CANADAY.
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Toledo, O., July 25, 1920.
H. H. Eling, Overland Co., Portland, Org.:
Transcontinental car left Montello, Nevada, approximately 450 miles northeast of
Reno, Saturday P. M. Twenty-seven thirty-two miles one hundred two gallons gasoline,
averaging 26 and 78 hundredths miles per gallon. Koads bad.
WARD M. CANADAY.
July 26, 1920 5:55 A
A150SF 34 COLLECT BLUE 1920 JUL 26 AM 10:04
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Willys-Overland Pacific Co.,. Portland Org. :
Transcontinental car arrived San Francisco naught .five A. M. ' Total distance three
thousand four hundred forty-two miles. Total gas one hundred twenty-six and half. Total
oil two gallons. Car in splendid condition. L. M. STEWART.
Willys-Overland Pacific Co.
Broadway at Davis Phone Broadway 3535
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