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8 4 THE OREGON SUNDAY. JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY. MORNING,. JANUARY 10, ; 19X5. ENGLAND'S .RUBBER . EMBARGOES SERldUS FOR UNITED STATES If. Present Con'ditionsr Con " tiniie; - Price of Products Wlir Double in Year, SUPPLY: IS HALF DEMAND ' Xaaafaotutera Urging Gorerameat to m 'Take Actios That W1U Brlaf w! ' Itrltoaa to Tirmt, ft. 'Now York, Jan. 9. Alarmed at Great m Britain'! peraietence In continuing her embargo1 on exportation of rubber to the United States, deaplte toftaurahcea that h ntmfA . TrnAlin-' wilt nnf -Intra poeaeaatan of her enemies, rubber men. from tlr makers to manufacturers' of toilet articles are clamoring for the -United Rta tea to take some action to relieve the situation.' The industry gives employment to 250,000 workmen, i There is a possibil ity' of famin tricr for that rnni1i In the United States, while London's dock are piled high with a product which can't be sold. Due to the fact that her whicli is admittedly within her rights. Is menacing her own producers with ruin, leads to the growing belief that England may be attempting to coerce the .United States Into acceptance of tfrmn i In other things. ' , '. - Slabber Price Soaring. Crode rubber in New York is selling at from 8? o 91 cents a pound: in ICngland it ia going begging at 51 cent, a pound. If this condition con- a tlnues (t meana that the United States will par next year about 100 per cent advance on the prices of automobile acceaaorlwa. druggists' sundries, arti cles of clothing, houaehold gooda and thousands of other thing in the man ufacture of which rubber 4a used, ao cording, to rubber men. The aalllng of B. C. Work of the Goodrich Rubber company by the Lusl tania fori Kngland a few days ago was ti enablei the American rubber men to coopruia directly with the British rubber handlers in a new effort to have tbesban lifted.. The visit became necessary when, according to unoffi cial reports, the Washington govern ment informed the embargo committee of the Rubber club and the Rubber Trad Association ofNew Tork that it is 'powerless to help.' This is taken to mean that England's price for lifting the embargo is more than the 'United states can consider. Half Quantity acquired. - The normal --requirements of crude rubber by the United SUtea for 1915 will be 46.000. tons. So long as the British government maintains the pres ent embargo there is only available- for . the United States about 35,090 tons from Braall: and 5000 tons from oher sources. ' Europe will take at least u7C0O tons of the Brazilian crop, re gardless of price, so that the United States is confronted with a demand of (5,009 tons and an available supply of about 32.(00 tons. The United States will be about 30,000 tons short and oth er countries oversupplied to the same extent, .i Mince the Brazilian and African pro duction will, be absorbed mainly in the United States, the oversupply will be in the plantation products controlled by Great Britain. TheyBrailHan rub ber will go to very Iflgh prices and bring great wealth to Brazil; the Brit Inn - rubbers will steadily 'decrease in value and finally cause tremendous loss to the producers. TJmlt Boos to Be Keaeaed. The drop in prices of British rubber, is not yet severe because American manufacturers, hoping for a speedy settlement of the embargo, have con tinued to buy their usual quantities 'of British rubber, storing it in Singapore, Colombo, i England awd Canada for prompt shipment to New Tork when trade is resumed. Thrtie conditions cannot exist much longer, rubber handlers here assert. There Is a limit to the amount of Brit ish rubber Americans can afford to fi nance, and) carry abroad, and that limit soon! will be reached. As soon as American buying ceases the price of ' British rubber will fall to the point 'where British dealers and plantation owners will be confronted with. ruin. Americans soon will be compelled tn decide whether to buy Brazilian rubber or close their factories, it is declared. , It la obviously dangerous, they think, to buy Brazilian rubber new at in flated prices because the embargo may be removed at any time. Then -the price Of this rubber will fall BO per rent aind those who have bought wilt be at' a great disadvantage over those who have, waited. However, those who auy now will have a great diaad? vantage, in jthe event that the embargo stands. y ( X. Difficult Poaitioa. " The Unfted States manufacturer la 1n a most difficult position.! He ought to buy, buf he darea not. He ought at this season of the year to be manufac turing; heavily, but he hasn't the ma terial. About One-half of Jthe rubber workers are now unemployed,, but nothing can be done fori; them until the embargo is removed or stability .given to tjhe industry in ome other . way. - , - v American rubber dealers and users have ftuggftRted that relief be provided In one of these three ways: Removal; of . the - embargo tinder proper guaranteed agreement by the tBrltlah government that it will nof remove the embargo for at least six months; !.,-. ,. - r Immediate action by the American congress- prohibiting au.solutefly th importation of British rubbers or prod. ucts thereof ! or any kindl of manu factured rubber goods into! the United States.: - -f .... f Of these measures the first is pre f erred here., . It would restore the manufacturing industry of the United States andi' the crude rubber Industry of Or eat Britain to a normal and lalthy basis, immediately and with out the creation of friction, the han ulera say. - ' U ;'..- . The fieooivd plan would ai least give NEW MOTORCYCLE BEAUTY RUBBER SPONGE ''' JyyK ; 1915 Dayton, which has Just arrived. The first 1915 Dayton arrived In Portland Tuesday afternoon and is making a steeng Impression on motor cycle enthusiasts. The -new model em bodies a noteworthy grou? of motor cycle innovations and improvements, both in construction and design. The kick starter is a new feature which enables the rider to start the mo to with boC wheels on the cround. The new Dayton motor embodies all that is essential to spoed,. power, and re liability. ; - "We are greatly pleased with the new Dayton and its Improvement over the 114 6del.,, said W. T. Srwta, local agent. . , ; - IS NB7 COMPOUND FOR MAKING SOLID TIRES Technical Writer 'Says in Solid ' Form - It Is Flexible and Compressible, FAMOUS DRIVERS ENTERED Eddie Pollen, Oldfleld. Billy Cajrlaoa and Othen Will AU Be NEW CAR SURPRISE OF AUTOMOBILE SHOW Model Totally New and Sells for Much Less Than a Larger Machine, a totally new Wlnton Si car with a 128-inch wheel bas One of the surprises of the New York Automobile' show which close! last night, was the exhibition for the first time by the Wlnton company of smaller but whlh sells for, practically $1000 less than Its big brother, "Model zi." "This new car," said Air. Stevens, manager of the Portland branch, "4s practically an Invitation model. By that I mean we are building it in re sponse to an insistent public demand for a car 'not quite so big as our Model 21, and still embodying all the quality of tb largest and most costly cars. For several years we have been urged to fill this unsatisfied demand. We were told that the industry offered buyers nothing of highest quality except in the great big cars; that the buyer who wanted something slightly smaller was forced to accept considerably less quaU lty. Our investigations showed this complaint to be well founded. So we have designed this new model. "There is a marked similarity be tween the new-size Winton Six and the larger one. The motor is of the typ ical Winton Six type, with L-head, big valves and balanced moving parts. Motor, clutch and transmission form a unit power plant, completely housed. The clutch has five pairs of dry plates. The transmission has four forward speeds and reverse. There is a uni versal Joint at each end of the drive shaft, and the rear driving gears are spiral bevels. The rear axle is or tn full floating type. All springs are of chrome vanadium steel, with Dann oil- cushioned Inserts. Springs are semi- elliptical s in front and three-quarter elliptical behind, and rear springs be ing onderslung. Wood or wire wheels are provided at the purchaser's op tion." WORKING DOUBLE SHIFTS According to - a telegram received here from Howard M. Covey, who is now in the east, the Cadillac motorcar factory began working nlgbt and day shifts January 4, In, an effort to meet the demand for the new model ma chines. Incidentally it has been learned, that the Cadillac eight cylin der machines have been selected as the official car at the San Diego ex position. There two seven passenger tourers and two seven passenger limousines have been purchased. Two Cadillacs will be used at the Panama- Pacific exposition also. The chassis will be ' employed and ambulance bodies put oa them for hospital 'serv ice. - - ' ' ' . Journal Want Ads bring results. r From time to time manufacturers and inventors have epme forward with some sort of composition to replace the pneumatic tire on automobiles. Some have worked with fair success. but none-has shown the Qualities of elasticity and the property of meeting road conditions of the standard offered by the pneumatic, - - . Paul James, in the Scientific Amer lean of recent date, has something to say in regard to a brand new tire prep aration, which Is herewith reproduced. He says: - "A good pneumatic tire should he both flexible and elastic. India rubber is flexible enough, but it Is not suffi ciently .elastic. ' v .; i ?The solution of the problem appears to be furnished by a new material of remarkable properties, which la pro duced by an Ingenious process In Paria. This product consists , essentially of India rubber, containing multitudinous minute bubbles of gas. distributed throughout Its mass. The material re sembles a rubber sponge in which the cavities are separate and do not com municate with each other. Hence it has received the name "caoutchouc moussee or rubber foam. The process of manufacture Is baaed on the Increase of solubility of gases with increase of pressure. Rubber in the pasty stage of vulcanization Is en closed In a steel tube with nitrogen, at a pressure of 8000 to 4000 atmospheres. The compressed - gas dissolves In the semi-liquid rubber,, which, when the tube ia opened, expands to four or five times its former volume and solidifies, imprisoning in its mass myriads of little gas bubbles. . ' ; "The material, in fact, combines the properties of Its two Ingredients. It is as flexible as rubber and as com pressible as gas, so that it may be era- Remarkable Run on Low Gear Is Made fire rasseng-e XJght BU Travels 166.3 IKUm fig il Boars and 7 sonnies, Carrying' 4 yassesgers aad liuggage. A. r Haynes Light ,Six, five passen- ger ear has covered loe.3 miies in low gear in -11 hours, 7 minutes, in a remarkable run made between New ark. N. J, and the Delaware Water GapfVecently, according to A. O. Seib- erllng, general manager or- tne naynes Automobile company, Kokomo, Ind. It carried four passengers and, with lug gage, weighed 8200 pounds. The motor wasnot stopped at any time and the gear shift lever was .never touched after the start The run was purposely made over the worst roads in tnai section of the oountry, including moun Uln climbing , and long stretches of mud, to" test the reliability f the Haynes Light Six tinder adverse. con ditions. One hundred miles were trav eled in six hours, fS minutes. The temperature of Jthe water aver aged 120 degrees for the entire trip, and its evaporation was negligible. No water was addd at. any time. With " the low gear.the gear reduc tion ratio between the. motor and rear axle is UK to 1. The average speed was IS miles per hour- The motor ran at an average rate of 1675. revolutions per minute throughout the entire 11 hours of the drive, a remarkable per formance. This motor Is of "the en bloc' type. - ' ' ' Decision Important To Manufacturers A decision of much importance to all motor car- manufacturers was re cently handed down by - the United States district court of northern 111! nols. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis presiding. The court decreed that the Barry Sales company, formerly agents of the Ford Motor company, be per petually restrained and enjoined from using the word -Ford" in any adver tising or rePre8entn themselves as agents for the Ford or imitating the Ford trade : mark in Chicago, Illinois, or elsewhere. This decison is of great importance inasmuch as It establishes a precedent and - removes any, annoyances i with which many motor car manufacturers have had to contend. The effect of it is to offer absolute protection to the manufacturer's trade mark. DIRECT ADVERTISING PROVED ITS VORTH Campaign inDecember Had Marvelous Results De spite the Season, When the big Reo double page auto mobile ad appeared In The Sunday Journal four -weeks ago, the occurrence created much speculation and Interest among men who sell goods of all kinds as to what the result would be. , The local ad was exactly the same as ap peared simultaneously , In 115 of the leading newspapers of the United States, In the leading magaslnes arid 30 agricultural and automobile trade Journals.' - ; Those on the inside who knew .that the day's advertising has cost the Reo 880,000 in cash $20,000 larger than any previous single advertising cam paign declared it the most daring thing ever attempted along that .line. , But the Reo people aasertthey did not consider it daring at all. They failed to see a risk, even though the ad appeared in the middle of December, when most ' business firms are retrenching, and despite the fact that the article being advertised was so recently regarded as a luxury. Self styled advertising experts de clared - that the Reo was making a blunder that the results would not Justify such an outlay, and particu larly at such a time, but - - Tremendous - unprecedented re sults,' said Salesmanager Rueschaw the one man who ought to know. II only recognise one kind of results from any advertisement and that is orders, accompanied by the cash er a check. Not words of commendation Or criticism. not ; results arrived at by p--found theorising just plain orders And these have tome breesing in like a February bllxxard. Within 24 hours after- the ad had appeared Lansing -had become the mecca for automobile , dealers from everywhere, . f ; . -"We are accustomed to ah;anntal , stampede when the Reo announce ments are made, but nothing to equal this has ever occurred before. . ' v' : "And the best part of it was the fact that this big daily campaign actually sold - the cars to the ' ultimate con sumer." ' ' ..,. .' His Income. - , From the Chicago News. -' Scribbler Have you any kind, of 1 a farm that a literary chap like me could make a living ont -, , r Real Estate Broker-jSure! ' You" could work on the farm' days and- write nights to make a living. ,- iron can1e made rustproof by . heat- v ing it red hot and brushing it' with ? linseed olL ' ployed in the form of a solid ring. In the place of an air tube of a motorcar or bicycle tire. A tire so constructed Is non-collapsible, for' a puncture af fects only a few of the Innumerable gas bubbles." SAFETY FIRST Asto "Truck Owners .: Frotetjt Yourselves ARalnst , ODSTLY ACCIDENTS UfefOuf Automatic Drop - AUTO FENDERS : -:. '':',j ' Just Invented. w ROLAND-CHANDLER ,33. Union Avctme. Phone Vordlawn 1713 - , LrSSSSSSBSSSSSsaSSSSSSSSsSSSSSSSBSl TACOMA PREPARING FOR ITS AUTO SHOW Tacoma. Jan. 9. Tacoma is rushing preparations for her second annual Automobile Show, which will come two weeks after Portland's big show is held. The date for the Tacoma event is set for February 15, and already a dosen of the Sound dealers have signed for space. " The show will be held In the Gimu rink and special decorators have be gun to turn the place into an inviting show room. The walls and ceilings will be massed in greenery and in place of the old system of lighting, electric globes will peep from hanging baskets of flowers and fernsi "I have given free rein to the deco rators, telling them to go ahead and arrange the nail to suit tneir own tastes." Ciald Manager Sommers. "The man In charge of the decorating is one of the best I could find, and he is well known for his originality in preparing for public exhibitions or tms tana. "I have had no trouble with the local dealers about renting space for the show. Last year showed what could be done with a little cooperation. All of the dealers were well satisfied with the shoving we made last year, "and there ls'everv reason to believe that this next show will make the first a matter of forgotten history. I have had dosen of letters from other towns in the state asking for space. It seems that we have at least aroused th eagerness of the outside public" to the extent that they want to come in and see just how w are prepared to die play new stuff." The fa TT?Xil1 rum stability: to thsatsituation. American manufacturers could , buy Brazilian rubber, knowing that our market would tot shortly be flooded with cheap f-BMtish rubber. The third plan has been urged by those who believe that the motives underlying the embargo are : ulterior and who are agitating for prompt re taliatory measures. This plan has not been of ficlaliy presented at Wash lngton, but1 has been unofficially dis cussed. Kngland has so far declined to discuss the embargo or tier lnten tions conoerning it. - ' , Itnral Solves. , . ' ' From Tid-Blts. .. ' Suburban Resident It's simply fine to wake up in th morning and hear the leaves whispering "utsida your window. y . ' - - City Man It's ell right to hear tb leaves ; hisper, r but I never ? could I stand hring the grass mown! ... .. : mxjari 1 1 aw- GRAND PRIZE IN TOE JOURNAL'S CIRCULATION AND TRADE qONTEST REO PURCHASING POWER, during an unprecedented market crisis, made possible the 1915 REO THE FIFTH AT $125 LESS. The REO factory is finsfti ciajly the second strongest automobile concern in the world. That is the answer; A SURPRISE REO SIX of sixty superiorities at $1385, f. o. b. factory. You get here the nation-wide "REO" quality in a six. . ONiE HUNDRED OF THESE CARS on their way to Northwest. See them at our showroom. THE NORTHWEST AUTO CO. BROADWAY AT COUCH STREET . MI A. E A i - ' t -. IL ILj Fortlaad Including Gray &. Davis Starting and Lighting System. The Lowest Price Car on Market with This Equipment. Second Grand-Prize In The' Journal's Trade and . Circulation Contest - " V The 1915 MAXWELL is creating the greatest furore ever known in the t . automobile world. Come see : it ride in it climb hills in it. It's the sensation of the year. : ' ."IPACIIFEC IVHOTTOlS 'GO;. - 682-4 : WASHINGTON STREET B. . COKEIT. Staaager - Phona Mala 75 ' ill rani T Tl TI L uurloads Left the Buick factory at Flint, Michigan, at r o'clock p. m., Thursday, December 31, 1914; for distribution in the Pacific Northwest; VALVE-IN-HEAD XT MOTOR CARS VALVE-IN-HEAD MOTOR CARS OREGON Albany ... 4 Astoria . . .'- . . . . . . 4 Baker . . ...1. . ... 5 Independence ...... 4 Pendleton . T. . . . ... 8 Salem . . . . . ....... 4 The Dalles 4 Portland . 33 IDAHO Moscow WASHINGTON Auburn 5 Bellingham ........ 5 Colfax .....10 Ellensburg 5 Everett 10 Hoquiam .......... 5 Ritzville 5 Seattle . . . . ...... . .35 Spokane . 25 Stanwood 4 Sunnyside ......... 5 Tacoma .......... . 5 ..Vancouver ........ 5 Place Your Order Now! Howaird Automobile Go. MEL G. JOHNSON IVtoagcr. FOURTEliNTH AND DAVIS STREETS PHONES MAIN 4555, A-2550 What Mi An Automobile? in iiii Is it appearanceCTT) Is it performance .t Is it endurance A combination of theoe qualitieo you cay Given the opportunity we can prove toydu that in no automobile at anywhere nearHhe price are these essentials so highly developed asin the i 1915 "Get the Personal Touch' Mitchell, Lewis & Light Four or "Baby" Six. Vitit Our Show Room Staver Co. EAST MORRISON, AND EAST FIRST The Light Four 2 ft6 5 passncer, 35 )l. P. motor f4x5Hf wheel ba 116 Inches. Klec trtc llgnt and ta.rtr, power tire pump .and full equipment The Baby" Six S. S m.na pa.Mnrr. d ti.i-., (4nm) motor whl baaa lit Inchea. KlMtrie Hehta and atarter. power tire pump and complete equipment r - '--Raoln K S12SOSLlnc '- -.6 fTtmwmmmifHMWf?ti?itrttfmti