TIIC OPvEGOxI SUWDAY JOURNAL, POHTLAND,
SUNDAY
HORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1C1C.
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LlAliY-ACCiOOITS ARE .
TRACEABLE TO POOR
OR DISHONEST TIRES
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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.
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TIRICHANGINiTESl
ON FEBRUARY-. 22ND
The JournarsJ$uggestiris
Taken 5 Up? by JheHcll
. Management, ;
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ALL EQUIPMENT STANBARD
Tools Vsad Will Be Saoa as AxS-'6stua-
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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. - ,
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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; : 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
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- 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,
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Route to Highway
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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. :
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United SiaicsTire Company
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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 .
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NOirTHWESTf AUTO CO.
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