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TIIC OPvEGOxI SUWDAY JOURNAL, POHTLAND, SUNDAY HORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1C1C. i ' k LlAliY-ACCiOOITS ARE . TRACEABLE TO POOR OR DISHONEST TIRES - - r- - Important' Part is' ' Fabric ; Which ,1s Used to Carry I yAir Pressure. BEST ; MATERIALS USED Description of way la WUeh Casing Ar Had ad Cm Exercised la Maying. By A J. Savage. Br the user of the pneumatic auto mobile tiret technical points are not considered, nor is it necessary for him to know them in-order to obtain serv Jc and 'satisfaction from the -tire on bis car. lie should, nevertheless, im : press a few interesting points upon his mind if he is to derive all the service possible, nave the minimum number of road tire changes, and provide for the safety of his passengers and himself. A large number of accidents can be traced to blowouts of poorly construct ed or dishonestly made tires. , The life of the tire starts from the quality of the carcasa or fabric used to carry the air pressure. ? Tire fabrics are of many grades and of many strengths; and, as in everything else, ou cannot get something for nothing. It ' require - large money expedi tures and many experiments to devel p the fabric "that will most safely sustain- the tremendous pressures which tires must stand. Some idea of this pressure is conveyed by the fact that we use in Savage tires from 4 to 8 ; layers of fabric depending upon, the sise of the tire, and each layer of fab ric must pass a pressure test of sev eral hundred pounds per square inch. One Iff early Perfect Fabric The most perfect fabric today is Sea Island cotton. The high grade, long staple Sea Island cotton fibre comes from certain parts of the United Btates, particularly from the coast of Georgia. It is known for its high ten sile strength, as well as for its bend ing, qualities. . ; As we all know, if one takes, a piece of iron wire and bends it Quickly be tween the fingers, it will soon begin to beat and will shortly break, because' of the 'crystaJlzatlon of the metaL This same law applies to all materials un der stress. The constant bending un der tension of cotton fabric will even tually destroy It; and, were it not for the particular ability of this long fibered Sea island cotton to sustain continued bending, it is doubtful If the pneumatic tire would be a -success. - -The next consideration in tire con struction, is the perfect adhesion of the various plies of fabric. This, in tire building, is calied frictioning, a rather misleading terms, as, when fric t toning 1 well done, it eliminates the thing for which it is named. . i Process of yrictiontag. , In- frictioning. the fabric is thor oughly impregnated with a high grade of rubber and various vulcanizing in gredients. It is also coated on one side with the same materials. The va rious oliea of- fabric needed, depehdlng upon the site of the tire to be made, are then built up on a steel or castiron core of absolute smoothness. 'After the carcass is ' completed, the tire ria j'ut . through various manufac--turing operations. '. Each part of the tire must be property vulcanised. "By thiaVwe mean a combining of rubber and sulphur which must be done thor oughly. Manufacturers can easily make occasionally good tires; but to - make uniformly good tires all the time is more difficult. Thl result can be secured only by careful laboratory tests of materials; by establishing nigh standards for materials and for various manufacturing processes, and by a thorough and careful Inspection of every step in tire building to see that the standards are followed. AUTO IS EASY:FOR. WOMAN TO. HANDLE:.; i i " ' ' - ' . v. ' ' - ' . " "... v -l-,VC'','i'?'r 1 -- - - ... yt: yy-'1'hj ' " I I lit ' -. J!Z ,? i! ' - -' ' . - J ' f - - " I t I' j0 - - yy- f , : vjr , ' ' J I I i I , 7 1 Ef.iPRESS TO STA 6 EA TIRICHANGINiTESl ON FEBRUARY-. 22ND The JournarsJ$uggestiris Taken 5 Up? by JheHcll . Management, ; .-St , ALL EQUIPMENT STANBARD Tools Vsad Will Be Saoa as AxS-'6stua- ly Carried On. An StocHii - ' ' , Automobile fans who are lr In a practical,: demonstration 'rested the rivalry and sport of a good con; Jft are going to-have a special evenlni a the in changing "tires and who e 1 Geography Governs Price Rise Reasons "Gasoline has gone up again!" That statement -a a headline has been the melancholy vUion which irreeted the motorist on a few days of the 'past few months. With it there baa always been some explanation as to why the nrice should have gone up. In" Portland the explanation is that the great demand has boosted the price. The explanation is a mat ter of geography, according to the many stories which are published in the different parts of the country. For example, down in Cal Ifornia gasoline is going up almost as much as taere. JEhere the, public U told that the petroleum, which pro duces the gas, has not been so rich in the qualities whicn proauce tne spirit, as has been that which poured from ' the gushers some months ago.' On the Atlantic seaboard the accept ed reason is that the Panama canal blockades have shut off the California apply, and prices went soaring ac- y cordingly. Same Old Story. : Boston. Feb. 12. Nicholas De Lo renzo assumed the role of pacifist in a free-for-all fight among three brothers-in-law here. Now he is rest ing uncomfortably in a hospital with rasor slashes on the face and a bul let near the heart. - , -- ' j"i : in m Took Bicycle Trip. , Gettysburg. Pa., Feb. 12 U. P.) William ; Haner has returned from a pleasure- trip- of; 2334 miles- to Flor ida. . He rode a bicycle every inch of the way except when sand forced him to dismount and walk. : 'Service" Declared Mere Use of Word Sealer Says Ken Behind MDaeh Ad attsed Term Mean WaU out Can not BellVer Goods. "The much-advertised serviee, in the autombile business is merely a use of the word," says Frank C. Riggs of the Frank C Rlffgs Motor Car com pany, Packard dealer. "The men behind it mean well, but they cannot deliver. It is a matter of making a tremendous use of the term 'service, but little or no use of service itself. The salient attributes are lack ing: a building properly designed in which to serve customers; experts who can readily give the right Sort of in formation on-any suoejet tnat is jr Interest to a customer, if it concerns automobiles; and an adequate organi zation actuated by the spirit to fulfill courteously, promptly and with hon esty the orders of i all customers. "Experience ; has a place here, to, and an- appreciable and constant vol ume of business is essential to support an organization extensive enough to make specialized depart ments practicable. The last haa an other significance, for an organization sufficient properly to care for the wants of patrons cannot be local mere ly. It must reach into all territories where the clientele it would benefit may choose to travel. Such an organi sation and auch a service cannot be a transient or loose-knit affair: it must be stable and enduring, the growth of many years effort, and sup ported solidly by the allied manufac turing and sales forces of - the com pany attempting It." Above Miss' Gladys Trlmbel, demonstrating the easy control of the modern motor car. Below, left to right A pull of eight pounds stops the car : with the emergency brake; pressure of six pounds controls the steering apparatus of the car. A Buick was used for demonstration purposes. SALES MANAGER FOR THE B. F. GOODRICH CO. A Foe to Tuberculosis - The Journal of the- Amerieam Medi cal association (Aug-nat s 1913), re-v-tewbur an article oa-7h influence of Calelam Salt on - Coitstitatioa and Health, said They (the authors) report number of - concrete Instances ta which patient gained? la vitality and energy- alter taking cal clam." .. ' Doctors agree that - an tuberculosis lowered vitality and lost energy must be overcome. , 1 ' ' , One of the . constituents of Eck man's Alterative is calcium (lime), in ucb combination with other valuable . Ingredients as to- be easily assimilate. by the average - person." - To this, : a part, is due its success in the treat ment of tuberculosis- a service - which even some ethical practitioner have acknowledged to their patienta. We make no wholesale- claims , for It but since it contains no opiates, narcotics or habit forming drugs, a trial is safe, Sold, by The Owl Drug company and leading 'druggists.. , v , - Scxmaa Zboratory, FMladtlpMa. ' ' " z ' ' V- ' y I - ' - , r ' I c '?" - - I j r 4 $ yyj ; I O. Itntherford. H. E. Raymond, s'econd .vice-president of the B. F. Goodrich Company, of Akron, Ohio, reltnquished the office of general: sales.: manager to .W. O. Rutherford, at- the January -meeting of the company's board of directors. Just concluded. Mr, Raymond will continue actively -aa vice-president, exercising general supervision over sales and ad rertlsfng policies. r . . - W. Pi Albright, branch manager for the Goodrich ' company in this city, gave out this - information, yesterday. Mr, Rutherford will begin bis new du ties at once. Mr. Rutherford has been ocmnected with the company for 1? years. - Me baa been a branch manager at Ienver. Detroit and Buffalo, going from Buffalo to the home offices as Mr. Raymond's assistant 9 or 10; years ago.-. SyjjQ J l-:&iiM 0?O(5M-3 When the self-starter became a re ality. Instead of a dream, the automo bile came Into Its own in its appeal to the woman driver. For many years the man of the fam ily refused to let his wife or daughter take a hand in the management of the motor, because Of tne difficulties or starting and the chances of getting in jured through a backfire. The proposi tion was bad enough for the average man, and undoubtedly a terror to .all but a few of the , most atbietio ox women. , With the perfection of the many starting ' systems, tha crank became merely a memory of a useful device In case of an' emergency. How simple Is the system today just turning a switch or touching a pedal compared to those labors of th days gone! The chances of a stalled motor un der the former operation caused pedes trians to star a bit when a women came down Washington street at the wheel of a ear. Today not even the traffic policeman, who formerly gave the women the right of way, makes any exceptions of traffic rules for the- fair drivers. What a lot of smile used to be brought .to the surface when a woman finally had to call on a man to help her get the car out of the traffic when something did happen. That Is, the men smiled, and women felt Just a bit chagrined. Just such occurrences made some women declare that they never wouldj i drive. But tha self-starter has overcome all that. See how easy it is tor a woman to handle the car today. Just for experimental purposes. Buick was taken in hand by Miss Gladys Trimble, an enthusiastic girl driver of Portland. A small pair of scales was- used to determine the ac tual pressure used to control the car. It Indicated that it takes but a five THE INTAKE Through Paul . Smith, vice-president of the Chalmers selling division, an nounuement was made yesterday con firming; th appointment of Frank B. Willis as sales manager of the Chal mers jaotor company.- 'Mr. Willis haa been connected with the Chalmers sales force during the past year and a half, in which v period he haa been Instrumental in develop ing new sales territory and Increasing dealer representation. . Previous to Joining the Chalmers company, Mr. Willis was connected with the Packard and Studebaker comoaniea. hevvlne- been Packard dealer in Indianapolis In 1907 and 1908. He has an . acquaintance among motor car dealers from coast to coast, and Is on of the most popular men In the Industry. - Just to show how procrastination la the death or any go. I thing might be mentioned in Instance in whlon a Chal mers was sold one day of . last week. Another of the local dealers had the man on hia list, and the purchaser was very enthusiastic about the car: He called up one or twice during tha snow to find out when he could have a demonstration. The dealer was a bit backward about taking the machine out In the snow, for fear he could not do the car credit. . Friday the sales men went out to the address and was told that the man had bought a Chal mers, and was already far down the state, touring on business. : Arthur - T; " Brown has ' 'Joined Vthe Studebaker Northwest family. His en gagement began on- February i 10; and his territory is the east env part of Washington. 'Ht will work out of the Northwest headquarters, which are lo cated here. T --. c ' '-' .- ; Mr. Brown, who, by the way, no relative of - Manager A. H.- Brown, of the local branch, was 'formerly with the Otis Elevator Co. -, - v ? . ; ; In the peak of a new cap for motor lsts is a .celluloid window with shut ters with which the opening can be altered In size. - . - pound pull to turn the Buick Light. Six when it is In motion. Another test showed that eight pound of pull on the emergency . positively stopped the car. The gear shift varied under the circumstances in which the motor was stopped and the position of the gears. However, the ' pressure necessary for gear control is almost nlL The clutch was tested by using a pivoted lever, with a cross arm press ing against It. This required a weight of it pounds to operate. or nta- f J will con- Ssrent sura. Empress theatre Tuesday, Februir?: C S2. nal, the Empress has annout a tire changing contest, in which? seven teams from the local repr uvea of standard tire com pan make some lightning changes. Briefly, the conditions of t test i are as follows: . . The d makers' : service teams, consis two men, come' on the stage tire lnnated to . do pounds pt t. mounted on any rim which they to6se to bring. Tha size of .the tir:shall beaS4x44. ; fj All Equipment Btamdard.) - Competent judges , will test tve tire for pressure, and at the cracft' of. a gun, j the teams will start. Flrs they will let all the air out of the tlr t. take It off the rim, separate the tut,le and caein g, and then remount It, "pdmping It by; hand to the original 60 pounds. All the equipment will be standard, a-uch: as can be found on any cr, and the Judges will be the . last coirt to pass on any equipment or toola ; which the irews may use. The Judges will be men Interested in the automobile business, outside of the tire anil sup ply houees. . j Already the team of the tire re tailers are trying out their different rims; and tires, with an object get ting them on and off in less time than ever before. All are picking them-' selves as winners. Trophy to Be Offered. Those who are tentatively entered in the contest are: The Goodridh - tire, the United States tire,- the Edwards Tlral shop, representing Goodyear tires; Hughson & Merton, Walter service: A. J. Winters & Co, and possibly one or two other that have not been heard from. . The winners of th contest will re ceive a handsome trophy from the Em press theatre. In addition to other prizes which are yet to be announced. WINTON SIX GAR OE COMFORT t 1-'.. 1 -- -Mana-er A. C. Stevens, of .the local faHoi branch of the Wlntoa ; : iotor " Car Oo at the wheel of the new Winton,1 one of the most ; -beautifully finished of : high Amm.ttoay'-Q-X-- "The new Wtnton nas arrived la. Port-1 Inaj aeata , very ,s comfortable type- land.; -The upholstery and body-work is , exceptional. A. very novel feature is tha seating arrangement in- the ton- neau which make th .two extra, fold-j standard. , Foot room under the front seats gives all' the . passengers ample space for comfort Th . motor is the Win ton Netr-MotOT doming Into Usage P. M. How Plays as Important , art la AatomobUe 3Parlaae as Xoas Si Eoim rovai. V "." '-'ySyii-? - R, P, M-". What do the mysterious initials, - now so common . In the de scription of any" modern, high speed automobile, signify? With the advent of the 1916 season, "R. P. M."eas com into as common usage as a." p (horse power),? the -; letters which tor year meant so much to the prospective buy er of aear. : ' - f . . ; y,'- i "R. P. - M." t doe not stand for ' a brand of cigars, but in motor parlance means "Revolutions Per Minute' : in shaft. When about four years ago. a foreign built racing car was brought to this country, and. although-having a piston displacement of only 183 cu bic inches, began showing more speed than the fastest cars then built, Amer ican engineers began to take notice. The solution they found was in the high speed motor a : motor turning over 2500 or more times each minute and sine then the trend of American manufacture haa been in that direction. In view of the fact R. P. M." now plays such an important part In tne automobile industry, it is here ex plained how the change was brought about: ; t : First by reducing the weight of the moving parts. Every ounce taken off piston and connecting rods reduced the force of the impact at the end of each trolls and saved so much lost power. Second By reducing bore of cylin ders. This gave an explosion chamber that ; allowed r quicker combustion of compressed gas. Nor does the gas force of explosion drop aa quickly as In IsivaWSB twra r eViArt vtrAlrs Youthful Bandits ta New York. Third By ? lengthening the piston New .York, Feb. 12. The police are troie- iIore leverage is obtained on trying to suppress a holdup gang op-tne cranK8nart-" A small bore. long era ting along Riverside drive. It cou-' stroke cylinder gives the full power ? sists of two -pugnacious boys who way-1 the expanding gas, like the barrel of a lay nicely dressed youngsters, pummel .rifle. There is also better "scaven them and steal their pin money, j SiifiT.'" better charging of cylinders and pocket knives, dollar watches .-- and J better compression, fountain pens. rDon't tell or we willl Fourth By enlarging the valve kill you," is their parting threat. J openings. LArge valve openings give . I, ' ,", . 'Quick passage to the. burned gas leav- Painter- Strangely Stricken. Pittman, N. J., Feb. 12. As she fin ished her thousandth painting of cats, Mrs. E. 3JL Gardner, relative of Asa Packer, founder of Lehigh university, was stricken blind. ing and the fresh gas entering the combustion ' chambers. They also re duce back pressure on the exhaust Stroke. When writing ar eaiBag ea pleaae oeottoe Th Jearaal, 0nud- fi - . -x . . . . Drifta StiUCuoke Route to Highway . . ; ' :r ' ' i - ,,-r - ' Roadmaater Teon had a number' of crew ut -yesterday opening up the main highways .in the eastern part of th county ?"to '-rehleuiar travel. ,'No attention has been given yet to . the cross roads. It- will bv impossible .to- Illinois Plans to ife:Build Good Ecr 1 Stat at XAst is Wakiag Xp if. glaalng to roll Itself Oat of Zz Boad Imom ToM. ? Of the 15.000 mft of roads in i: state, of Illinois only about 10 i . cent ar Improved. The state h ever. is waking vtp and comme-i . to pull Itself out of the mut T ! r couaUes, : Cook, - Clark and Verm fcave "Voted bond issues to constr permanent highways. ' . f Fourteen others will ' probabl v v o i on bond Issues- this -year. Twtlv others are discussKgr the matter n may decide to levy an extra t i ; The legislature has validated the : . 000.000 bond - issue of . Cook co r i and it will be available after "July 1 The program of expenditures ex tends over five year, i Verm!: rounty proposes to spend S1,600,CD j : three year. It la expected that fr 8.000.000 to tlO.000,000 in bonds w bo voted by counties In the state 1 April and perhaps Cook county w probably bund 'three miles of tl Dixie highway this year, leaving c-i'-. on mil m the ; county to be c ; pleted. -- -iy day to go out on th Columbia riv. highway, owing to the huge sno drifts eaat of the Sandy river. crw of men will be put at work t morrow to open up the drifts this r '. of .Crown Point so that travel that f. can be restored. It may be sever, weeks" before the highway will t open beyond that point, it dependtn on weather conditions. As thvre no urgency, the clearing of the roa will be left to natural causes. The Grip in th r Knobs The knobs on the Nobby fead Vbite" the road-surface like a file on metafc? The traction is so intense tffet it is next to impossible for. the tread to slip Ar skid. It is the angle, height tl ickness, tough ness and resiliency of the kij-bbs that make 'Nobby' Treads the surest of i jnti-skid tires-r the Aristocrats of the Road. V t ' T . While ; f Nobby' Tread sales! have increased phenomenally, adjustments (6ntthe basis of five thousand miles) have gone doWn to an almost unwritablyj small fraction of thjj total sales. : -1- United SiaicsTire Company Nobby' A. 'ClUln' Uaco' 'Royal Cord 'Plain' INDIVIDVAUZED TIRES" .i-f- yyzy--y: .n,!:: y t.yfyy. ft: ';t a4 : 0 -he, SF B W . a SS7S IK Less Than a Dollar Per Car Per Year! MR. JOHN N. TAYLOR, Reo distrib utor at Columbia, Missouri, recently told an assemblage of. Reo dealers that it had cost him less than fifty six dollars to . give service to fifty-six ' Reo buyers in one year. AND HE SAID the service was such the l satisfaction of those fifty-six Reo customers, was such he has ordered, and J confidently expects to sell, just twice fifty-six Reos in his - small territory the coming year. SO YOU SEE : he must have done all that the most exacting of those fifty six Reo buyers could ask. BUT YOU ARE NOT a. dealer, you say. , "And so, how can dealers fig ures interest you? Tell you: THE KIND OF A CAR that dealers most like to sell is the kind to buy : - if you are looking for low maintenance cost and all-the-year-round service. 50 PER CENT OVERSIZE" in all : vital : parts the , Reo ' factor of safety .. is one of the reasons. The others are Reo quality in every ounce of . material and . Reo accuracy r in the -, making of every part. REO; GOOD INTENT -all there is - of Reo integrity-goes to you with your Reo. WE ARE NO JOHN N. TAYLOR --but; we are just as enthusiastic . about Reo cars as he is and we can show ' you , some other . things about Reb! ooaistruction that will impress you profoundly. DEMAND IS TREMENDOUS Factory thotisands behind orders. So the only way is. to-order now and get a definite delivery date. THERE ' ISN'T A . MOMENT v TO " - LOSE in getting your order into our hands if you'd have your Reo when i t yquTl want it for earlydelivery. ;,. Reb- Motor Car Company . ytxi!Mf: Lantintv: Michigan NOirTHWESTf AUTO CO. t .. gtotrfhotots BlOiPWAT AT COU OK .Thono i Broadway 637, A-495S . . ' ... tm ' ' ' . m j ; j t
