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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY HORNING, JUNE IS, 10X5. INFLATION IS MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE IN CAKE OF TIRES Weight Each Car Has to Car ry Factor in. Degree of in flation. ROMANCE CONTINUES, MOTOR BUSINESS IS CITED AS-CRITERION CAR! OUGHT TO MAKE GOOD HILL CLIMBER FIRST CAR SHIPPED THROUGH CANAL v Scientific Treatment Given v': Studebaker Cam Shaft f Is Real Wonder to Behold, . NO GENERAL RULE GIVEN MIGHTY- FURNACES USED Construction. Speed, Power, etc Are -AH Hatters WUch Affect Tires, Zt Xa Said. True aCalgnt Emat af Today Is One .Who Xeepa raitti With the Oos- - ; W Vll' ' tomer at all ri -si (Editor's Note Th. following article oa in fuiUna of tires mi prepared esrloslTely for Th Jonrnal by John T. llxary of tb Columbia TU. Repair A Supply Co.. wbo haa bad many rr' f i per Voce itt building tire, and la the first of a aerie, f article cm bow to set the maximum service from year tire equipment.) The most Important point in the car, of tires is Inflation. There are bo muy different factors having- Ln influence on the osage of tires that so f rule for inflation can be adopted which will be exactly suitable to. all conditions. Construction of your car. It weight and distribution, speed and I ; power, road conditions, the expert oVJ careless driving, all hare important! connections , with the strains to which the tires will be subjected. Consequent ly a fixed rule for inflation would pro duce different results,- and If one listens to all the advice given by tire and . repair ' men on this subject. . its effect after (ummlng it all up, would be something like the advice riven toy a tire i maker when he said, The best. way to make tires last longer Is to take them off the wheels, dust them carefully t with French : chalk and 'flowers of sulphur, wrap them in paper and then In tin foil, lay them away in a cool, dark, dry place. They must not be used on a car, because tires deteriorate In use." : J7- Bohodnlos Are SeoontBtended. "The schedules of Inflation : recom mended by the tire companies provide, however, a basis from which to work. Usually the front tires should be in flated from 15 to 18 pounds per inch of cross section and those on the rear from IS to 20 pounds per inch of cross section. Thus a tire haying a cross section of 4 inches on the front wheel would take from CO to 72 pounds, and those on the rear. wheels of the Bane.nUa from SO to 80 pounds. The variation in these pressures de pends' upon the things before men tioned, especially the weight: of the can? For 1 example, tires on a car weighing 1800 pounds do not "require as. much air pressure as the tires on a car weighing 2500 pounds. The tires ride hard when pumped up to a high pressure and used on light cars, but with the same pressure ride com fortably on a heavy car. So It will be seen that the weight each tire has to carry is an important factor In determining the correct in flation. -? To find this weight, first weigh the front and then the back part of the car separately- by running first one and then the other half on the platform -scales. The weight car. ried ; by each tire win be one half of either of .the respective amounts. This weight being found, it might be well to consult .the table of carrying capacities.: of . pneumatic tires recom mended by tire-makers in any :of their price : lists and see just what your tires have been having to do and what they ought to do, v Seflactioix Xs Caused.' - i A four inch tire inflated to 70 pounds pressure and carrying a weight of S00 pounds will naturally ride easier than the same size tire with the same inflation carying a weight of 700 pounds. The heavier- weight Causes some deflection of the tire on the ground and-Increases the action, adding to the comfort of the ride. There is good . reason in easing down the pressure a bit, because speed and resilience' are what pneumatic tires are for and there Is no : use in over doing the pressure which would cut down both these desirable qualities. Still the larger .part of tire troubles cocoo from running1 "soft,". Rim' cut ting, side cracking, heating, creeping and chafing are among these. If not inflated to proper shape under weight Of load, the side walls of a tire will suffer from ; the constant bending, owing to the leverage brought; upon threads and rubber, the former chaf ing and cutting, while the latter has its elasticity kneaded out of it and the heat; which is thus produced causes separation. The great danger is in going to the extreme, and a great many car owners, " in .this way, sacrifice :. tire efficiency and ttit1 mum mileage. ' If you find the tires ride hard when inflated to 80 pounds pressure it is safe to reduce the pressure to 75 Touring Necessities Trunks, Gloves. Lunch Kits, Dusters, Thermos Bottles. Ete.f Etc BALLOU & WRIGHT Broadway at Oak AUTOMOBILE AND bparkFIugs ' TOOLS . f . Brake-lining MUlUKtYCLES AND ACCESSORIES I Freer Tool and Supply Co. ; 74 Sixth and 311 Oak Sta f ; -' ion Main 1682, A-16Sa C. C. Clinton in Ms new . Stearns-Knight pounds or 70 pounds, providing this does not permit the tires to bulge or flatten under the weight of the car. ; Don't guess af the pressure from appearances; 'use a guage or have your tires looked after at any of the service stations, where they will only be too glad to see that, you-, have the right pressure in ! themt Tires some times appear to round up well, but When tested with, guage you ma y find the pressure is entirely too . low to secure best results. : Whatever else you do, , keep your tires properly inflated. .' MOTORCYCLISTS WILL RACE COAST TO COAST ne Hundred and Seventeen Aiders Ha(e Entered in the Contest. " I One - hundred ' and seventeen riders will participate in the coming coast-to-coast motorcycle relay race which Is to start from New York city about July 19. The cross-country course has been divided into 89 relays, each cov ering approximately 90 miles. Every possible precaution Is' being taken to prevent the loss of a single Instant in hurrying the message from President Wilson across the continent to -San Francisco, - in the shortest possible time. Three riders are to be appointed for each relay the first .to carry the mes sage, the second to continue with the dispatch in case of accident to the firBt. and the third to take up the trail should both of the others be "put out of the running. Every participant Is supposed to know thoroughly the portion of the course which he is to cover, so that he will be able to make the quickest time under any condi tions, i . -J.- The route for the dispatch will be the central New York; route from New, York city to Chicago, thence to Sterl ing, Hi., over the Lincoln highway. From Sterling, the Journey to Daven port. Des Moines and Omaha, will be over the Rock River i-oute. At Omaha the riders will again follow the Lin coln highway to Ogden, Utah, where they will take up the Overland trail to Reno. The remainder of the route from Reno to San Francisco will be over the Lincoln highway, by way of Sacramentoi. ..' Good Time Made In Road Contest Walla Walla, Wash-, June 1 2. As the result of an argument between Henry Zuger and John Clodius as to whose car can make the trip from Walla Walla to Waitsburg in the least time a match race, was run from this city to Waitsburg over the Inland Em pire Highway June 9, and Clodius' car, driven by J. B. Bartlett, won, mak ing the distance of 23 miles in 24 min utes. Paul Welch, who defeated "Wild Bill" Devins of Spokane in the east ern Washington championship at the local track Sunday, drove the losing car. ' - - - The county commissioners . were In session yesterday and upon hearing of tne race oraerea, snerixx Lee Barnes to get busy pointing out that public highways cannot be maintained for racing purposes. It May Be That you need some rood automo bile , supplies. . .Diamond tires are giving excellent service and are much cheaper.. . .Less than 3 per cent come back for adjustment... Master carburetors are making good... Guaranteed saving on gaso line 15 to 2 .per cent and more power. ; . - ARCHER AND WIGGINS OAX STREET. COBZTZTB "Many Thing's for Automobiles." SHOP SXJPPUES - , " four-cylinder, machine driving up steps at Citr. park entrance. RUSSIA IS INVITING FIELD FOR AMERICAN : COMMERCE LEADERS ? . 'i -"'' BBaBsaBiaaBBaBBaaaMaaaBaaaaB Awakening of the Extensive Country Must Appeal to U. S." Business Men, :" C H.-' Williams, the Portland branch manager of the Goodyear Tire, and Rubber company, received last -week a very interestingr letter from W. T. Logan, a factory representative of the Goodyear people who has Just returned to America, after a stay of several months in Russia.- ' 1 Logan ( Is greatly impressed J witn the opportunity America ; has in se curing business in Russia, and has the following to say regarding the : coun try: .- v f :. .,. : "All evidence Is that Russia is hav ing a great awakening, and there is no end to the possibilities there 'for Amer ican business institutions whose rep resentatives study Russian conditions and prepare for; business realizing that Russia is not the United States, and that American business methods must be modified and adapted when applied there., r",- .' Auto Trad Gaining. " i' f "Germans have had much of Rus sta's commerce. No master what the outcome- it will be long If ever be fore the war feeling, subsides. And that ; makes ; America's i opportunity. Few people in thin country appreciate Russia's vastness. its lack of develop ment In industries of its own, and its possibilities. - ' "Take; the automobile Industry; when the war started there were only 12,500 : motor vehicles In Russia.- trucks, -pleasure cars, large and small. The government purchased between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000 worth while I was there. After the ; war Ameri can automobile' products will be very well known. The Introduction Is now being made. It Is up to American .man ufacturers to follow ; the introduction READ THIS TELEGRAM . - . . '::' - : ' '':;; ' (: -. -., -.- : .'.-'-. . ',- ' . . A. C. Stevens. Manager, Portland. Sell every used car you own at $100 to $500 lower than the lowest price quoted by any other dealer on the coast. Make this sale the chance of a lifetime for Portland people to get high grade cars at absolute rock-bottom prices. - ; THE WINTON COMPANY. Cleveland, May 29, 1915. THIS TEIGRAM HAS STARTED THE GREATEST AUTOMOBILE CUT-PRICE BARGAIN SALE ever held anywhere. See these cars today. Try them. Name your own price. Be a high-grade car owner NO W. Save hundreds of dollars . " t r- ' " ' ; - " : ' ' . ... .'' " 1 . .. : -- '1 i W : --it ' -""- ';"?; ?fK;;;";f : ';...;v".;;(j .;. --' k:' -; r?" ' yr , Open Evenings Until 9:30. f ME WINTON COMPANY 23RD AND WASHINGTON STREETS, PORTLAND if they care for the enormous business that can be their's.t Mr. Logan sailed from New 'York in January.- To reach Petrograd he went first to London; to New Castle by rail; by C50 ton steamer to Bergen. Norway; thence to Christiana and Stockholm; from there instead of across the Bat tle he went to the north of Sweden, within SS miles of the Arctic Circle, going around the north of -the Baltic in reindeer sleighs: through ' Finland; then by . train : to Petrograd. the , trip from London requiring seven days. He remained in Petrograd 10 -weeks, 'ex cept for two short trips to Moscow," KirsslsTia Are Sospitable. "Moscow, the ancient capital, is Rus sia's business center. Petrograd is the governmental and diplomatic head quarters."' continues the letter. "Judg ing by those I encountered, the Rus sian are a most hospitable and court eous people. The official language seems to be French, and some Eng lish. German is known extensively, but now there is a war ban against speaking it, with heavy fines for of fenders. - "All industries are now . centering on government work. One hears noth ing but war talk. Russia has 8.000, 00Q men in training- or action and ev erywhere . there seems serene confi dence that nothing - but victory is ahead. ' "In Russia it seems that people either have plenty of money or none at all. Those, who have' are great spenders. Food supplies are apparently plentiful, 4ut city prices hotel prices- are away up. J saw strawber ries at 85 cents apiece: apples at 75 cents. Hotel far Is affected now by the fact that, most of the better cooks and chefs are with the army. "I want to say just a word In tri bute to Ambassador Ma rye. at Petro grad. Nothing can exceed the friendli ness, the courtesy and untiring energy with which he and his staff are per forming their .difficult do ties." LEG FRACTURED BY AUTO f Walla Walla, Wash., June 18. Going Into the ' ditch three miles east of Waitsburg. last Sunday, E. W. Collier of Pomeroy had his -first mis hap on a proposed trip from Pomeroy to St. Louis. Ole Norris of Dayton; who was with Mr. and Mrs. Collier, and their daughter, received frac tured jleg and was left in Waitsburg while the party continued to Missouri. By A, H. Brown. .. Northwest Manager, Studebaker Cor- i - poratlon. . - Romance never dies. . We ., may be too close to it to recognize it, but it is as surely here today as it was when Achilles fought with short, stout sword against the Trojans and when King Arthur went forth in coat of mail to battle against the heathen that threatened the 'Chivalry of old Eng land. Today American romance bat tles in overalls, . conquering and di recting nature into channels that best serve mankind?- Bibbs ' Sheridan in Tne, Turmoil sang at his work be cause he ' found romance in directing a machine that . relentlessly chewed strips of xinc into little disks all day long. At the Studebaker automobile factories in Detroit, men find, romance in machines that are equally interest ing and, often absolutely": superhuman. Romance lingers with the village blacksmith who still heats the horse shoe art the flowing forge .beneath the spreading. chestnut tree; and for those with eyes' to see,' romance looks over the shoulder of the controlling genius of the-' immense heat-treating furnaces of the Studebaker Corporation, the di rect and mighty descendant of the fire of the village smith. Science talks in the terms of romance when it speaks of the steel in Studebaker automobiles. Steel may be sick and require doctor ing; steel may be too hot or too ' cold at a temperature Of 1000 or perhaps 200 degrees; steel may need to have Its fever, quenched in oil or in water, and - then go into the furnace once more for further treatment. Seat Treatment Secret. The r for gings. of the village smith could be as primitive as the art Itself without serious -consequences to the work in hand, but- think what such a hit-or-miss method would mean to an antomobilet A defective part might mean death to the occupants of a ma chine. . Long experimentation in the Studebaker plant and elsewhere by other leading scientists has estab lished the fact, that certain steels re quire certain definite aegrees of heat if the best .results are to be obtained. Only by Its heat treatment is Stude baker able to secure the combination of strength and lightness found In Its vanadium and other steels. For example, take a cam shaft. It must have exact, scientific heat treat, ment A man seated before a number of - dials with levers - below electric pyrometers, for beat gauges glances from one to another and occasionally touches a lever that sends a trembling hand on a dial one way or another. What romance is there in this! What great adventure in sitting in a' place so quiet, so clean, so seemingly unex citing? . But think what in imagination-this man sees! ; The hand on a dial sags back to 1500 degrees. Instantly the master mind sees a cooling furnace that means Even the " automobile business - is benefitted- by . the recent opening - of the open river from Portland, to Lew - perils-danger. The steel shafts it Is heating must; be maintained at 153tf degrees. . Instantly a controlling lever is shifted. With his eyes on the gauge he sees the hand : creep back to 1530 degrees before he releases the lever. Studebaker uses 58,000,000 cubic feet of gas a year, most of it in these mighty furnaces that treat the steel. Troeess Xs Careful. What knight errant protecting the defenseless from, the aggressions of in justice and greed has better served tbe world than this man whose very task breathes the sweet air of a. duty faithfully performed In protecting the defenseless? . For after all, an automo bile is bought on faith, faith. In the Integrity and the honesty of the man- rpHE first quality . you notice in Gole Eight when II you get it on the road is its unusual poise- . no side-swerve, no tendency for the rear wheels to leave the road or bounce about. This is due to three things the - steadiness of the motor, the car's low center gravity, and the Cole direct spring drive suspension, which amounts to i a built-in shock ab- soroer. The driver of a Cole Eight car enjoys the ride along with the others he doesn't have to hold himself always ready to shift into second or to putj oh the brakes for the bumps. . The ' peculiar poise of Cole Eight emancipates him from strain mental - and physical -; and the other ' passengers from jars, Jolts and jerks. ;.'- .. . Cole 6ight. has full seven-passenger capacity, a wheelbase of 126 inches, weighs less than 3500 pounds, road ready, and in it all of the modern luxuries of motor car design are included. . . - " . ' . Such as aisleway front seats, out-of-the-way auxiliary .. . seats, tire pump operated from : the driver's seat, and electric starter worked by a simple small foot button. ; Everything about' Cole Eight is simple and get-at-able. . . . Cole Eight either; in traf fictor en tour astounds you with its new delights. , ' ; ; , e:;,. -..L ,-.--.. . - ,, . - f. COLE MOTOR f. o. b.' Indianapolis V---" Distributorm ' ' " i Main 887 Hearse sent to Vassar tt Bros., : Lerwls t laton. The honor' of having shipped I tbe first machine ' after .- the canal 1 opened goes to the Studebaker corpora - nfactarer and all the "men who "serve him. - The purchaser is defenseless, and , the "true - knight errant in these days of romance is the. man who rec ognises '.- that fact and who stands ready to keep faith with that faith the buyer -has in him. c.:t; .;-?:;;.- -X, v--' So the Studebaker cam shaft goes through one heat treatment after an other after . it is forged until it has had five. s The' first after-forging ( re lieves the forging strains, that is, the piece is heated to 1025 degrees Fahren heit so that all fissures or crevices in the grain caused by the: terrific blows of the hammer run together weld, so to speak and close up. . . ; This heat-treating process is a very careful one, for it determines the final PetfectfyrPbised' All Speeds , CAR COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS, U. S. A. "1 Bmlders of the Standardized Car . Ndrthweot Auito F. W..Vogler, President . ' " BROADWAY AT COUCH A-4959 ton. l tion who last week shipped a hearsi I from this city to C. M Vassar & Bros, 1 Lewtoton, Idaho, on the J. N. Teal interior grain structure of the haf t. After this treatment it isvquenehei in water, and when it comes out it 1 very' hard. It is then heat-treateJ again very slowly, and allowed to cool slowly. 'This heat treating is not In tense enough in any way to chang the grain of the steel. It does, how ever, alleviate the hardness, so thai the. piece may. be ground by emerj wheels. -:-. . - And all these Studebaker procease mean that romance still lives, but that it is seen only by those who have eyet to Toothed wheels revolve and breah the clinkers in an ash sifter patented by its New York inventor. 1916 Series Twelve eaasj . Co.