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4. -THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1914. .5 iJ w to SAFETY - OF NATION DEPENDS GOOD ROADS , SAYS HILL Better Hrghways Make Better and More Contented Farm- ers, It Is Stated. MEAN" FEWER IDLE MEN ICttcb Depends on the Boll and Alonff With Karbftndxy 0f Modtra Tlm Oot Problem of Good Botds. K By- Fred Locklex Somewhere In the Bible in a versa that gays "And the old men shall dream dreams and the young men shall see vision. Home men claim that Samuel Hill is a dreamer. Others say, "His plans sound well, hut you must remember he is a vision. ary." Both of these classes are right. He is a dreamer and a seer of visions, but he makes his dreams come true. Some of these self-satisfied, sneering believers In letting well enough alone who call him a vlssionary occasionally drift across his right of waj and wake up with a rude shock and a cry of anguish, and wonder if it was a stroke of lightning or an earthquake that hit him. A Kansas cyclone- re. moves obstructions from Its course, so doss Samuel Hill. About the only dif ference between Bamuel Hill and a Kansas cyclone Is that one Is a de structive force, the other a construe' ttve force, but they are about a stand off in getting obstacles out of the way. Samuel Hill Is th apostle of good roads, and he has all the enthusiasm Of the apostle of old for his cause. He is like one of those old Crusaders who buckles on his armor to smite the Saracen. Spends His Own Money. If you can imagine one of these old Crusaders with a stenographer across the table from him, a Home telephone at his elbow, and a book on good roads In his hands, with fiery enthusiasm and tireless eai working toward the realization of his ideal, you have a good picture of Samuel Hill. , Does It sound like a contradiction to say that a man who spends 16 hours a day and hundreds of thousands of his own dollars to promote good roads, cares nothing for themT It is true nevertheless. It is also true that, al though he is the president of the Home Telephone Co., he cares nothing about telephones. He Is a worker for and a believer In better rural mail delivery, parcel post, cheaper express rates, water transportation and a host of other things, yet he cares nothing fpr them. - "No," said. Mr. Hill, "in themselves, I care nothing for these things. They are merely a means toward a desired end. I am interested in the nun on the land. The country that loses its producers ' will soon go into decay The safety of the republic lies in the hands of the man on the land.- We don't want to turn the running of our government over to the Mellens and Wall street speculators, neither do we want the soap bor orators to run it We jwan.1 rUiei maiirn th land - whose only Interest is to see that we have good government to be in control. "Wa "can't keep the man on the land unless we ran give him good roads, telephones, frequent mails and some of the comforts and conveniences his .labor helps to earn. "The man on the land who is a thinker, and by that I mean a pro gressiva and i enterprising nan, will; not- stay on. the land unlet be Is enabled to raise hi family in com. fort. He will come to the city. "Did ; you ever notice that the sons of farmers who come to the city do not have families such as their fath ers had? They may have one or two children, but they are not the all-round resourceful men that their fathers were. : : , - . . : a, , . V. c i Commission Named. "Some time ago there was a com mission appointed in Massachusetts to investigate - abandoned - farms. A good highway was built through the district and to their surprise-the com mission on abandoned farms found there was no problem to Investigate there, were no abandoned farms'. - "With a good road to get to qa and from the abandoned farms, they had aft been purchased and were being farmed. "The trouble is too many people fail to realize what good roads mean to our nation. They say indulgently, 'Oh; good roads is his hobby, my hobby Is golf,' They fail to realize that the safety; of the republic is involved In the building of highways, while we could manage to struggle along with out golf "Yes, I mean Just that the life of the republic. The safety of our nation is, involved in getting good roads. Without good roads the drain, on the best blood of the nation will, go on. Farmers' sons and daughters will not stay on the land. The girls, who are intended to become the mothers' of men, the perpetuation of a hardy and virile race, come into town to become stenographers or manicurists, while the ' boys quit the gang plow or the pruning shears to become chauffeurs or laborers in the city, "Did you ever stop to think of the menace to our institutions of a top heavy - population, a one-sided popula tion, where our cities are crowded and the farms are hut half worked? Can't you see what It Is doing, over-crowding the labor market, increasing the cost of living, making an unhappy- and discontented class a ready, field for the seeds sowed by the agitator?. Did you ever realize that the battles of the world have been fought by the farmers? Look It up. The farmer, when aroused, will settle the matter. Do you remember how Paul Revere aroused every Middlesex vil lage and farm? It was the embattled farmer that threw off the yoke of England. Mast Hot Heglect Tanner. We can not afford by neglect of the man on the soil to draw him to the city, and have his place taken by foreigners. Good roads are more than a matter of providing a safe and speedy high way for the pleasure tourist in his automobile. "It is the thing that will break up our large ranches into small farms and put a contented, industrious pro ductlve and independent class of peo ple on the land. "The day is not far distant when the auto truck will go to the farmer's field, get his wheat or his fruit or his produce, take it over good roads to the river for shipment to the market. Then we will make use of the natural highway water transportation to sup plement good roads in getting the farmer a large share of the price paid by the consumer for his goods, while at the same time the consumer by paying less will be able to consume more. Knob Depends On Soil. . "You remember how, in the folk lore of the Greeks, Antinous, when he wrestled with his antagonist, renewed his strength when he touched the each. The earth was his mother. So the earth is the mother of peoples and. nations. We came from the dust workers and thinkers in the- i country. - "What a good road means to land values was shown when the annual rental on farm lands' within two miles of newly constructed highway increased $1.33 an acre on an average. The state of Washington - bad a wonderful opportunity to be a leader !n the good road movement, but the introduction of politics into the road problem has given good roads a set back that will 'require years to over come. Washington's misfortune was Oregon's good fortane, for the best trained road men in the United States came into Oregon, and Oregon is building roads that will serve for all time to come as an example of what a good road should be. - We have 40 trained road builders a work in charge of our highways. We have over 2000 men at work on the Columbia High way between Portland and Astoria. . ; "In China they have, roads which were built long before the birth of Christ. Chinese coolies have used the roads for centuries to transport freight and passengers in a one- wheeled vehicle like a wheelbarrow. In their language they call these human horses ku-li, which means 'he who sells his strength in bitterness.' We call them coolies. we JO not want any coolie class among Ameri cans. "We do not want our producer to sell his strength in bitterness. We want to give him good roads and other modern comforts and conveniences, so REDUCTION OF FUEL CONSUMPTION AM OF MOTOR NDUSTRY Indianapolis Motor Speedway Sets New Mark for Next Year's Races. Already the people of Indianapolis are making arrangements for the next S00 mile -race to be next year over the great brick speedway. One of the most notable changes an nounced fot the next year is" the reducing of the dis placement allowed for the motors from 450 to 300 cubic inches. Five hundred miles at 100 miles an hour, without a stop or tire change, on one gallon of oil, and 26 gallons of Hi gasoline, Is the difficult target the that though he earns his bread in the management of the Indianapolis motor sweat of his brow his bread will not speedway has set for the motor Indus be bitter. try of the world to shoot at during the Sent of Gratitude. 4 next three years. Nineteen fifteen is "Our nation owes a debt of gratitude I already expected to show a distinct to the automobile, for it has attracted step in the right direction. universal attention to the need of First, to reduce fuel consumption, better roads. It has caused the city the cibie Inch ciston displacement of man to apply his intelligent effort to improving, our highways. "Making: a road is an art, yet you will find thousands of land surveyors and road commissioners who think they are road builders. I can find 10,000 men who can make a passable watch to one who can make a passable road. We need to realize that road the next Hoosler contest haa been cut to 300, the minimum weight, how ever, remaining the same at 1600 pounds. . These specifications are ex pected to stay in force at least three seasons, or until every branch of the science in this class of competition has been thoroughly probed. When I6CU w 1 . , ' . , . i . ,i I mere is no mure iu u, a. lunuji r our money in allowing amateurs to ex- dU.tl0n TUI . ' l6S, 1 neriment with our roads cubl Inches being the final goal. "Oregon is putting herself on the Regulations of this character nat- hlghway of progress. I hope she will urally put automobile racing into the not let the politician in search of a experimental division of the Industry, Job or the camp follower seeking the where, properly. It belongs. The day spoils, divert her from the splendid I when makers can take stock or semi- work she is doing. Money spent on roads, if wisely spent, is better spent than If spent for militia to handle the I. W. W. In other words, roads mean fewer idle men in the cities, as there will be more work for them in building the roads and in handling the work on the farms.' AUTO MAY DISPLACE MULE IN THE ARMY War Department Rapidly Mo torizing Its Military Equip ment These Days, stock models and compete with them successfully is past, as the last 600 mile sweepstakes race, won by foreign' ers in specially built cars, amply tes tifies. Europe has for some time re garded gas contests as a laboratory. not a proving ground, which explains in a large measure her success. In line with this idea, it is thought a number of American lactones will enter the game from business If not patriotic motives. Special racing de partments, having no connection what soever with the ordinary branches of production, except to lead the way, will be Instituted, and a determined effort to put the United States once more on a footing with her foreign competitors begun. of the earth and we go back to the 1 gt, i"m8ters n Washington, earth, .no we lose our virilitv and I ? C ' E1 Paso' Texas; Fort Sam Hous- pany. Grove City," Pa., $2265, delivery at New York; $2290, delivery at El Paso; deliveries within 90 days. Driggs, Seabury Ordnance company. Sharon, Pa., $2440, delivery at Wash ington or New York: four within dree The government Is fast motorizing 1 weeks and four per week thereafter. its military equipment, and it is pre- Lord Baltimore Truck company. Wash dieted that within a few years the Ington, $2500, delivery at Washing mule will have passed out of the armv ton within 90 days. Kelly-Sprlngfleld as has the horse from the streets o Motor Truck company, $2400, delivery We large cities throughout the coun- at Springfield. Ohio; four In seven try. days: eight in 14 days: five in . 21 days. Bids for furnishing 17 motor truck It is understood early deliveries will chassis to the United States govern- be considered in awarding contracts. ment were opened Monday, May 25 ,by earth, and we . lose our virility and vitality when we get away from the soil. The strong nations have their roots in-the soil.- How long will a tree live if you remove it from con tact with the soil? "How long will this republic live if you force on it an artificial life in the city, a hot house existence, an abnor mal fibre destroying existence? The tree which wrestles with nature be comes strong. You do not grow oak trees in a hot house. We grow our ion, lexas; Chicago, and St. Louis. Those opened In Washington were: Thomas B. Jeffery company, Keno sha, Wis., $2300 each: delivery within' 40 days at Kenosha; Velie Motor Ve hicle company, Moline, 111., $2022, de livered at Moline; $2074 delivered in New York; $2112, delivered in El Paso: deliveries within 44 days. Federal Sales & Service company, Washington, 2uu, aenverea at Detroit within 60 aays. Bessemer Motor Truck com- nssmmniMUinni r WIWIIMIIIIWIIIIISJISJIMIIIMIIUIIIIIIISIIIIIHHinilllllllSIIIISMni mm Arrogant Prices The evidence is that Goodyear tires are the best tires built today. They outsell any other. And they won that place by millions of mileage tests. II that is so, an extra price means simple arrogance. Or it is used to infer an extra quality, which doesn't and cannot exist Or it is forced by limited, Ligh-cost production. None of those reasons warrants you in paying the higher prices." Our Latest Saving Price is our latest saving. For years we worked solely to increase the Goodyear mileage. No-Rim-Cut tires then cost you more than others. j We reached the limit in good tires, then turned our efforts to reducing cost. Now No-Rim-Cut tires cost you hal what they used to cost Last years I reductions totaled 28 iper cent And many of the tires which once undersold . us, cost you more than Goodyears now. The reason lies A Sure 25 Saved om Tires 16 makes of tires now sell above Goodyear prices. Half of them sell about one-third higher. As between them and Goodyears, you are sure of one saving right at. the start of 25 per cent our factory efficiency in our matchless out put in our modern equipment It' also lies in our modest profit which last year averaged Q4 per cent in Things Others Lack These four features of No-Rim-Cut tires are found in no others, whatever the price: First, our No-Rim-Cut feature. Second, our "On-Air cure done to save the countless blow-outs due to wrinkled fabric. . Third, our patent method for combating tread separation. Fourth,ourAll-Weather tread ourdsuble thick, resistless and -skid, yet as fiat and smooth running as a plain tread. These are all costly features. One of them adds to our tire cost $1,500 per day. Yet we offer them all in No-Rim-Cut tires, and no high-priced tire offers one of them, i i If these facts appeal to you, ask your dealer to get you r Goodyear tires. ! GOODYEAR i AKRON. OHIO No-Rim-Cut Tires With All-WeatherTreads or Smooth THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO This Compur haa m eoaaaotloa waste with amy other rabbor eoauaia wmlea mm Vbm Goody - Any Dealer can supply you Goodyear Tires. If the wanted size is not in stock he will telephone our Local Branch. IHMHWIUUMMMUIIilllUlMMHafl When we sell yon LEE TIRES we know we nave given you absolutely the best tires that money can buy, dc cause- only the best grade of rubber and fabric, regardless or cost. goes into Lee lires every LEE TIRE is made by the correct, wrapped-tread single-cure process that other maKers use on only a small portion of their product. Lee Tires are furnished in either regular tread or Zig-Zag Non-Skid "Masttr Slippery Situmtitns" Call and let us tell you more about this wonderful tort a Chanslor & Lyon Twentieth and Waanlntftoa, Portland, Oregon. PERFECTION FORDSTARTER ft ' STASTS WITH TOOT Price $25.00 .10O E77XCXZ2TT EA8XLT nrSTAXXiS9. A C. HANSEN SEWARD HOTEL - or Broadway Anto Co. 86 TENTH STREET 3 43 2 42 42 42 42 Efr . i3U1I1Ij Uiil- : ' : I'LL OWN A LOZIER TOO" 5 WERE THOSE THE EXACT WORDS with which you voiced that wish that hope? NO MATTER. You may vary the words but the desire remains the same. Always will until satisfied with a Lozier. PERHAPS YOU,. LIKE MANY OTHERS, have tried to appease, to allay, that longing by a substitute an automobile of similar size or price. Or perhaps a cheaper one. IF THAT IS THE CASE then your longing for a Lozier has only been accentuated inten sifiedas your appreciation will be when that coveted Lozier is eventually yours. AND THAT MAY BE SOONER than you had hoped. It is now within your reach that Lozier. Assuming of course that price has been an impediment. IT IS NOW- POSSIBLE for you to gratify your heart's desire to own a Lozier for $2100. THAT IS THE WONDERFUL FOUR the car that has created such a sensation in mo toring circles and turned things topsy-turvy during the past few months. IF YOU HAD ASKED US to build you a Lozier to meet your own individual needs and purse, we could not have more nearly approached your ideal. FOR THIS LOZIER WAS designed in response to insistent demands from thousands most of them already Lozier owners and dealers for a car of Lozier quality, made as all Lo ziers are made to "stay" good and at a price "around $2,000." THIS IS A TRUE LOZIER in every line and in every detail of construction and finish. Made without a mental reservation made up to the Lozier standard, for it must carry the Lozier name-plate and Guarantee. WE ARE MAKING 4000 of these quality Fours and that will not nearly supply the de mands at the rate they are going now. The large production makes the price possible that and the fact that it is a four. If s a 100 per cent car 100 per cent in service and satisfaction that Lozier Four. ITS A SEVEN-PASSENGER CAR, TOO by making it a four we are able to utilize the extra wheel base for passenger space instead of for extra motor length. And to make It first class in every detail. BUT YOU'LL HAVE TO SEE and ride In this Lozier Four in order to appreciate it. And to fully appreciate the excellence of mechani cal construction and finish, you will have to spend time enough to look it over critically. "Closer scrutiny will disclose Lozier super iority as we have said many times. SUPERFICIALLY some other cars at similar prices may look all right though they can not look like Loziers. But close inspection discloses those properties that make Loziers famous as the cars that Stay Good. AND IT'S BECAUSE YOU KNOW Loziers do stay good, long years after other cars have become old and gone out of fashion, that you .have said so often "Some Day IU Own a Lozier, Too." DON'T TRY TO SUBSTITUTE you can't fool yourself. You want a Lozier. You al ways have wanted a Lozier. And you will continue to want a Lozier until you get one. If your order comes at once you can have that coveted Lozier within a few days. . But as our allotment is limited, don't delay. BESIDES, THE OUTDOORS CALLS and think of the pleasure that will be yours when you sit behind that Lozier radiator that im posing front and see in the envious eyes of acquaintances that desire inspired in those words, "Some Day I'll Own a Lozier, Too!" Famous Apperson 3 ;! "Jack Rabbit" "The Wizard of the HUlt" 3 -4 42 The one car that has stood, through thick and thin, for Mechanical Perfection! as witnessed by the thousands who applauded the first automobile that ever came to Portland, in last Wed nesday's parade. And you can take it for granted that any manufacturer, in these days of assembled, clap-trap tin wagon im itation motor cars, who has the mon- . ey, the brains and the organization to build all of his own car and build it mechanically right,' will not neglect a single point of efficient equipment of luxurious refinement. PRICES AND MODELS F. O. B. Portland. Ortsron All with Electric Lights. Starter and Fall Equipment. Light 4-45 Tourinf for 5, f 1750-Rosdster for 2, f 1TBO 6-45-58 Tourinx for 5, f 2350 Toarinz for 7, 924BO 4-45 Tonrlne for 5, f 1035 Write, Call or Telephone APPERSON MOTOR CAR CO. Main 634 H. W. CURTIS. Manartr Factory Branch 58 North 23d Street A-7338 IIllDlIllIIEillllll DID YOU EVER Use Diamond Squeegee Tread Tires? CHEAPER AND BETTER THAN OTHERS TRT JL SET ARCHER AND WIGGINS I I OAS ITUXT, OOBEU SXXTX. I MAGNETOS AND PLUGS Win 1, 2, S m 500-mile race at Indianapolis, May 30. 25 out of 30 cars to start used BOSCH MAGNETOS. 26 out of 30 cars to start used BOSCH PLUGS. Distributed by Ballou & Wright Broadway at Oak - - - Portland, Ore; 42 "The Choice of Men Who Know" i Light Four $2100 Light Six $3250 LOZIER MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT 2 OopTrigbt by Losiac JUtor Compay . X t , - " BZ8TXOITTTOM :' NORTHWEST AUTO COMPANY. : F. W. VOGLER, Pre, Brotdwey at Conch Magneto Repairing Magnetos Recharged by Factory Methods. A Complete Stock of Spitdorf Repair Parts. C. B. MINERS M. 4337. A-7171. S.W. Cor. 16th & Alder NORTHWEST AUTO CO. Factory Distributors of Cole, Reb, Lozier Cars BROADWAY AT COUCH STREET Main 8887 A-4959 Equipped with the only enamel bake oren In the State of Oregoa for baking fenders, hoods' and lamps work guaranteed two years. New York Auto Painting SPEEDWELL BUILDING, 14TH AND COUCH STS. Frank Ertler . , - Ernest B ranks Manager 'Main 6773 Asst. Mgr. AUTOMOBILE AND SHOP SUPPLIES SparkPlugs . TOOLS Brake-Lining MOTORCYCLES AND ACCESSORIES Preer Tool emd Supply Co. T4 Slxtb aa m wk mm. IDIamoodl Vulcanizini&Retreadini B. C ELODCtTT. St-31 srortb l4t,aer OemeU - antes seals T90S. ,