THE- OREGON -SUNDAY .JOURNAL,' PORTLAND. -SUNDAY MORNING.8 APRIL 23, 1916.
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HIGHWAY
THROUGH
JOHN DAY VALLEY
MAY BE SURVEYED
MajheuWand Grant Counties
: ,Have, Already Agreed, and
.Wheeler,. Baker Likely To
ROUTE-. IS PICTURESQUE
Son Parts of . Country Tannins; XmoA
j m4 la Othsxs Lmugfd Uons .
. tain Sirtrlctg Trav.rs.d.
Definite steps are being taken for
survey for a state road from the
Columbia river highway to Ontario
through the John Day valley. The
Malheur and Grant county courts have
joined in a request to the state high
way department for the survey. A
petition is being circulated in Wheeler
county to be presented to the county
court and the matter will come up
before the Baker county court next
month. There is also scheduled a
meeting at Baker next month at which
representatives of the counties inter
ested will be present to urge the es
tablishment of the road.
As planned the road will run
from Ontario through "Vale up Willow
- creek to Ironsides, through Unity in
Baker county to the headwaters of the
John Day river.
Thence down the John Day river
through Prairie City, John Day and
thence to DayvlUe. Sprague and to
Fossil in Wheeler county; thence by
- some route to be determined to con
nect with tae Columbia river highway
either through Gilliam or Sherman
county.
Each County to Kelp Fay.
Each county through which the prj-
posed highway runs Is to advance
the expense of the " survey within its
borders.
It established, the road will tap a
section of the state where there Is no
railroad and where there Is practt
vnUp no desert land.
The route will bring Portland US
miles nearer Idaho than any other
route.
State Engineer Lewis has made the
following estimate of survey, expense:
Gilliam county, $2500 to $3000; Wheel
er county, 13000 to M000; Grant
county, $7000 to $10,000; Baker
county, $3500 to $4000; Jtalheau coun
ty. $1000 to $1500.
.' r ft. K. Donnely of the state engi
neer's department, who has been over
the route, reports that there would
be 40 miles of the road In Gilliam
county. Here the road will reach an
elevation of 2800 feet and will be al
most entirely in the midst of wheat
rieJds except aoout iz miies mrougn
Thirty Mile canyon.
Parts of Route Picturesque.
In Wheeler county the distance
j Would be 51 miles over a mountainous
' country with many small and fertile
valleys. Twenty-six miles would be
through well settled communities.
' 'There, would be 18 miles of new con
struction of which 12 miles are now
' under way.
' ' Grant county Is mountainous and
picturesque. A good all the year
' around road could be built from Junc
tion to -the summit of the Blue moun
tains. The road would- run through
the forest reserve for some distance.
' Baker county is also mountainous
with many fine streams. Burnt river
and Powder river being the main ones.
The section is very prosperous, but
Isolated. - The mileage in Baker
county would, be about. 25 miles, of
which 10 miles would be new con
struction. - Malheur county Is moun
tainous with many large and rich val
leys. -The route from Ontario toBro
gan Is through a level valley 18 miles
to Vale and 44 to Brogan. Above Bro
gan the road would lead through can
yons to Ironside.
According to the estimate of Mr.
Donnely the mileage by counties
would be as follows: Gilliam, 40.5;
Wheeler, 6; Grant, 90: Baker, 25:
Malheur, 78, a total of 284.5 miles, of
which 80 miles would be new con
struction, . ' ;
' ' ' Ksarly All Water Orade.
Of the 80 miles under the head of
new construction, 32 miles are now
passable, leaving 48 miles to be abso
lutely new work. With the exception
of where- the road would cross the
Blue mountains the entire route would
be a water grade. The proposed route
across the mountains Is the shortest
pass that can , be found and will be
only. 14 miles from timber line to
timber line. ;Th road could be trav
eled nearly the entire year.
Court's Decision Is
Virtually Nullified
Governor WIthycombe and Treasurer
Xay Xef use to Dismiss Cantlne, as Is
Recommended by Engineer Xj.wIs.
What is regarded as a virtual nulli
fication of the decision of the state
supreme court that State Engineer
Lewis is the head of the state highway
department Is the failure of Governor
Withycombe and State Treasurer Kay.
as members of the Btate hlghwaycom
mission, to approve the recommenda
tion of Engineer Lewis that Chief Dep
uty Cantlne be dismissed, in order to
reduce administration expense ana con
tribute to the saving which was prom
ised by Governor Withycombe In his
advocacy of the consolidation of the
state highway department with the
state engineer's office.
The salary of the chief deputy is
$3000 per yaer, and to this is to be
added a large amount for traveling expenses.
In his recommendation to reduce
overhead expenses, Engineer Lewis
said that the work of the office at
rrefnf dlri not fustifv the nresent ex-
Ipenditure.
About the only work that Chief
1 Deputy Cantlne could be assigned to,
Is understood, is the making of a recog
nizance survey of the state for the pur
pose of adopting a system of state
roads. This work properly should be
done by the head of the department.
If done by a subordinate, the head of
the department would have to go all
over the ground before he could ap
prove of it. This would be a duplica
tion of effort and expense.
Governor Withycombe said recently:
"Personally, I think that Engineer Can-
tine should continue in his present ca
pacity, and should be employed in mak
ing a recognizance survey of the high
ways of the state. This would be a
splendid field for his activities."
It has been announced by Governor
Withycombe that no .final action will
be taken on the recommendation of
Stat Engineer Lewis until the Mb v
(meeting of the state highway commis-
I sion; which is to be attended by the
advisory Doard, composed or .Leslie
Butler of Hood River, J. H. Albert of
Salem, and S. Benson of Portland.
TRAFFIC LAW IS NOV
SHINING TARGET FOR
A SCORE OF
CRITICS
California Speedway
ization Forms
Present System Said to Be'
Inadequate" to Meet Needs
Now Found Apparent. .
SUGGESTIONS ARE MADE
Declaration of O. X. Measles That
Portland Trafflo X.aws Are All
"Bui Starts Something.
MT BIG MEN THINK
OF. PREPAREDNESS
Preparedness means that you have
taken precaution to equip yourseir
with those things which give you pro
tection from an impending disaster,
but you must also consider others, for
if you are not equipped with the
Ritelite Dimmer it may be you who
could have prevented a car from gotner
over the bank, or it may be you who
blinded the other fellow so he could
not see a pedestrian who lies at
death's door as a result of your lack
of consideration. Would the price f
a pair of dimmers of the right kind
mean anything to you if tomorrow
you find yourself in one of these or
in many other predicaments which
may result from negligence? Would
you advise the Nation to wait unril
they were defeated before they pre
pare? Would you smash your car be- j
fore you Insured it? Some people .do.
No preparedness is equal to that which
prevents human suffering and the sav
ing of human life. There are a great
many who procrastinate until the in
evitable has occurred, then comes the
expression often spoken: "If I had
only bought a pair of R1TELITE
DIMMERS this, would never have hap
. pened."
The following men believe in pre
paredness and that is the reason they
are top-notchers; they lead and others
follow:
Griff Steele. . X A. King,
'h S- e.onv A- R- Porter.
K' lK,?by- W. B. Doane.
Wan'erPHofman. 5" l"neyman
It C. Humphreys.,- ",r.ton
Jacob Rosenthal. R- R- GUtner.
Palace Garage. M. O. Wilkins.
Fire Chief DowelL. E. C McLean.
F. L. Warren. L. E. Sauvie,
Winton Company, E. Ehrman,
;W. J. Burns, O. E. Overbeck.
J A. Randall. . K. J. Jeffreys.
Frank Lucas. E. B. Hazen.
'Dr. R. L, Benson, F. Frledlander,
Helen I Corbett. F. M. Parks,
J. C. Ainsworth. B. F. Boynton.
A. A. Bailey.- I. M. Starr.
John Eells. -V E. Elmore Grove,
A. L. Finley, . H. R. Blauvelt.
. - and -many others.
Stiff Stock Car
Sets 70 Mile Pace
Pat. Applied for.
It is a pleasure to go (or a drive
either day or night with Rlt elite Dim
mers on your car. In the daytime
they are an ornament and at night
'yoJiT Ms reflects without dimming.
3J&f,S? .1 wlthout - diminishing, Th
Rltelite Dimmer meets all conditions
either In the city or In the country.
We guarantee satisfaction or money
refunded. - .
. -" SITXUTE DDUZB CO.,
with factory'and offices at 543 West
Madison street, comer 17th street, near
Jefferson. Telephone. Main' 9392.
Seventy-One Utile Hour Is Teat of
Harmon Jnst Out of Trelght Car;
Joe Bawion Driver.
Seventy-one miles an hour Is a
lively pace for a stock car, especi
ally so when the car has just come
from a freight car and is as stiff as
an old-fashioned boiled shirt. r That
speed was set by a Marmon last week
and was tnade without preparation of
any kind further than substituting a
75 mile speedometer instead of the
60 mile with which the car is
equipped.
The driver was Joe Dawson, of In
dianapolis fame, winner of second
place in the fifth 50o mile race. Daw.
son is a Marmon racer and it was he
who a year ago slid wff the track and
laid in the hospital for months with
an injured back.
Dawson arrived in town here just
about the time of the first real ship
ment of Marmons which have now
been delivered to a dozen Portlanders
who waited with expectation for more
than a month. Dawson looked them
over, found a few refinements and
declared that he simply had to take
one of them out and see what it could
do. He knew before he started .that
he would break the needle on the
speedometer if he took a 60 mile one
so he went around the corner and
had a larger one substituted.
The machine responded splendidly.
He thinned the mixture a little and
tried it again. The car picked up
over 40 in the first 300 feet. Then
she was ready for the trial. The top
was lowered but the windshield was
left up.
Spare Tires Should
Always Be Covered
Season Why Extra Casings Often rail
to Oive Mileage That Xs JTaturally
Expected ot Them,
Did you ever stop to wonder why a
spare tire that has been carried for
a considerable" time fails, to give the
mileage you expect wheti you finally
place It on the rim? If you have ex
perienced short service from a spare,
you will probably be able to trace
it directly to the lack of care you
give your spare tires at least, this is
the statement made by John A. Wal
ter, local distributor for Savage tires.
Mr. Walter, went on to say that
there are two things that would save
a lot of tire expense for motorists.
These are a proper rack and a proper
covering for spare tires. When a tire
is carried on the running board, un
protected, it soon dries out consider
ably and becomes covered with sur
face cracks. These detract greatly
from its appearance, as well as from
its mileage when put into use. The
jolting to which the tire is subjected
on the running board does not help its
lasting qualities either.
System in Highway
. Building JGssential
rederal Engineer Telia Kosebttrg Com
mercial Club Thar Mnat Be Compe
tent and Trustworthy atan at Head.
In an address before the Rosebnrg
Commercial club, B. J. Finch, a high
way . engineer in. "the United States
forest service, said that it was im
portant that Douglas county should
adopt a aennite system ot roaa Build
ing. -' Tou . must have a - central au
thority." said ha,, "If you' desire to
obtain the best results. - You should
also guard against changes which are
usually the result . f politics. Too
cannot secure results -unless you vest
authority' and confidence in the man
at the head of the road department.
By Ralph J. Staehli.
When C. M. Menzies came out last
week and declared . that Portland's
traffic regulations were "bunk from
beginning to end. he seems to have
started something, judging by the
number of people who have called by
phone or looked up the writer person
ally to tell what they thought of the
entire scheme.
Whether the present system has
any real supporters among those who
drive remains to be seen. If there
are those who support it and think
that it is all right, they have not been
heard from, where at least 20 have
declared that the system today puts
too much of a burden on the police en
forcing restrictions and does not give
them a chance to enforce the cemmon
sense measures.
Subject Xs Considered.
No very definite solutions have been
suggested except by some who pro
posed that the Automobile club and
the dealers get together and meet
with the Safety First commission and
Commissioner Coffin and try to ar
rive at a system which would be sim
pler and more efficient or put more
"pep" into the present one.
One of the dealers who has given
the subject attention and thought Is
A. W. Strowger, of the Covey Motor
Car company. Mr. Strowger declares
that momt ot our regulations are in
the amateur class, which has over
looked the issue as viewed by the
authorities in large eastern cities,
where the issue is how to handle the
traffic with dispatch as well aa safe
ty; where you are not allowed to block
traffic, as can be seen almost every
hour on the bridges.
"We dealers see this and hear more
of it than a great many others," said
Mr. Strowger. "We often hear the
complaint from men of good mature
judgment, when speaking of hind
rances to legitimate speed. We are
glad to have regulations; it helps
everybody enjoy their car the more;
hut don't get the father because you
missed the son. What is wan tea here
like in other places is to hold
everyone strictly accountable for their
own acts and relieve the police from
being required to watch all the petty
safety first fads.
Inconsistencies Are Claimed.
"The enforcement here is inconsist
ent. For three or four- weeks we hear
nothing but parking violators. Then
that is forgotten and some new fad of
the safety propaganda is forced in the
public's eye for a week or two.
"Why do we never hear of an ar
rest for cutting corners? Every day
from my office window I can see hundreds-
of machines swing around on
the comer as close to the curb around
which they are turning as they pos
sibly can get. I have .seen several
accidents because of that, but I have
never seen an arrest.
"Instead of the restrictions on the
bridges, why not put a stop to the
the accidents at such corners as Nine
teenth ar-d Washington and Broadway
and Burnside? I can't remember of
anything ever having happened on the
bridges which can possibly be avoid
ed by the new system, while everyone
can think of a dozen or so cases where
lack of regulation at those corners
has caused smashups.
Plan Xs Antiquated.
"The system of regulation was very
much antiquated before we had auto
mobiles, and for all that I can see, it
gets worse as we progress in years.
" 'Safety first' could be summed up
in about five or ten sentence? and
applied to traffic in Portland. Thero
would be about one-fifth of the pres
ent restrictions, but I wager that more
people would enjoy driving and that
traffic would move faster with less
chance of accident."
It is surprising to find just how
many haye these same convictions,
but were a bit timid about expressing
them until someone else had expressed
theirs.
Strowger also thinks that the near
side stop for all street cars should be
adopted, so that the chances of acci
dent at crossings will just be de
creased by the number of stops that
a car makes in Its run from one end
of the line to the other, and' that traf
fic across the tracks will not be
blocked on the downtown streets.
Such offenses as turning in the
middle of a block can be cured very
easily, according to the sugegstion
from another motorist.
Ho Arrests Had.
In many cities, instead of arresting
the offenders for petty breaches, such
as shooting across crossings and turn
ing where they are not supposed to
turn, they are made to "stay after
school."
The traffic officer is the judge and
jury, and where a man has made such
a break, he is told to go around the
block and do the thing right anywhere
from five to 'a dozen times, a man
can't very well get peevish over a
thing like that, but after he has been
made to waste 15 minutes or so on
two or three occasions, it will have
pretty much the same effect that it
does on the errant school boy.
It is an inpensive cure that has had
a wonderful effect wherever :t has
been tried, and works a hardship on
no one.
Uniform Signals Are
Discussed at Meet
Cincinnati, April 25. -A uniform
system of signs and signals that may
become general throughout the country
for the direction of street traffic was
one of the important subjects consid
ered at a meeting of the street traffic
committee of the Safety First Federa
tion of America, held In Cincinnati
Thursday. v
' Plant Most Shirt Down.
Canton, : April 22. The ; Knight
Tire A Rubber Co. baa announced that
it, will be compelled to shut down, ow
ing to the failure to obtain rubber from
New Tork because of the freight con
gestion. About 125 cars are tied up in
the east. About 500 men are affected. '
rarpoee Xa to Bund a Modem One-Vile
Speedway At or XTear San Francisco
Xn Hear Znture. ' v;H'"f .X .
Articles of incorporation have been
filed at Sacramento by the California
Speedway association, an organisation
that proposes to build and maintain a
modern one-mile speedway in or near
San Francisco for the purpose of hold
ing automobile, motorcycle and other
kinds of races from time to time. The
new speedway, according- to the offi
cials of the association, will be con
structed along the most approved lines
and it is their aim to make the track
one of the fastest as well as safest
motor car speed courses in the United
States. .
The incorporators of the California
Speedway association are amongst the
best known automobile dealers In San
Francisco. The following Is the list:
Norman De Waux. r president of the
Chevrolet company of California; L. H.
Rose, of the L. H. Rose Chalmers Co.;
Frank E. Carroll, of the ' Goodyear
Rubber and Tire Co.; T..H. Wilkinson,
of the United States Rubber Co., of Cali
fornia; Fred. J. Linz, of the F. J. Lina
Motor Co.. National and Hupmobile
dealers; John T. McLaln. of The John
T McLaln Co.. Franklin dealers;. N. T.
Messer. real estate; Ivan R. Gates,
manage California Speedway associa
tion; John J. Doyle, Fireman's Fund
Insurance Co.; T. M. McAuIllffe, attor
ney, and a number of other equally
well known auto dealers and business
men.'
Will Tour United States. !
Mrs. Alice Snitjer Burke and Miss
Nell Richardson, of New York, left
New Tork April 9 in a small yellow
suffrage automobile for a complete
tour of the United States. -
Police to BeTaught
To Identify Cars
Hew , Tork Starts , Hew; School of In
struction to Help Combat Evils
O rowing Out of Use of Stolen Autos.
An automobile school for the train
ing." of policemen - to an accurate
knowledge of - the different makes . of
cars Is the latest New York develop
ment. The courses of instruction, are
given, to- members of . the, force to in
crease their : efficiency. . The " imme
diate objects of the school, as- stated
by Inspector Cornelius F. Cohalane,
who is In , charge of the general po
lice training work, are: , v
First, to recover stolen cars.
K Second, to Identify cars used in the
commission of crime. ;
The automobile tempts the shrewd
est criminals in both these - respects.
It" represents valuable booty when
stolen, and Itself supplies the means
for rapid transfer to a distant point
to be disposed of. :Aa a tool in the
commission of crimes the automobile
gives the perpetrators advantages
that cannot be met by old police meth
ods. Especially is this true in escap
ing from the scene of a crime. .One
quick glance at the car occupied by
them is the best that ' can be hoped
for by the policemen in most cases.
The license plate Is of small value as
a clue, as automobile criminals have
acquired, great deftness in changing
numerals by means of paint.".
Aluminum . tor , AutomoMleay
- Eighteen million pounds of alumi
num Is. annually -used- by -the Willys
Overland company sot . Toledo.,, In the
manufacture of It cars. This is the
largest amount used by any Individual
concern , in the , world. ; Aluminum is
used for crank cases.-parts of motors,
hub caps, quadrants - of steering
wheels, bands of aluminum on ' run
ning boards, etc " sJ'.
Washington County
. Opens Hauling Bids
Officials Szpeet to Orarel 30 Miles
of Hoads la Addition to Heoresslsx
Bearertoa-Torest Oroya Highway, ,
Bids will be opened in Washington
county April 29 for hauling' rock la
IS road districts. It la expected by
the Washington county officials to
gravel SO miles ot road this season
as against 2 S last year. This -will -not
include the redress on the Beaverton
Forest Grove road, but will. Include
the stretch in the Reedville 1 district
which will close the gap and connect
up the road between Gaston and Port
land. Nearly $150,000 will be spent In
the county on the roads and over two
thirds of this amount will go Into
macadamising. By fall the main road
through the county running east, and
west will have been completed. j
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Quality First
This 3400 r. p! m. Chalmers Will Last Any Man 5 Years or More.
She hasn't a weakness. And the sturdiest part
of her anatomy is her 3400 r. p. m. engine.
Now there has been a lot of talk about 3400.
I find some of my prospects come!in here a little bit
doubtful about 3400.
They have been told by my contemporaries that
an engine turning up 3400 r. p. m. is doomed to
short existence.
That's absurd. Why, there are at least three cars
in America that do 3100 r. p. m. of better. Ten
years ago in Europe there were cars that did 4000
r. p. m.
-Take the electric fan. It does around 4000. A
turbine reaches about 4300.
Now, the argument set forth against 3400 is the
wear and tear on bearings."
How ridiculous!
Of course, if we had an old-fashioned engine
with heavy iron pistons and armiand-hammer type
of connecting rods hen, to be sure, I'd have
little to say.
But, to the contrary, this is a very modern engine.
The pistons are aluminum, which cost a whole lot
more, but weigh a whole lot less.
Then the connecting rods are much lighten
That takes a lot of weight off the bearings, and
permits about 500-r. p. m. more engine speed. -
That isn't a very big increase, I know, but it's
.
just enough to make a very foxy, silken affair in
action. y'
And then, too, in traveling 10 miles an hour
her engine speed is only 500 r. p. m. At 20 she
turns up 1000. At30, 1500.
How often do you travel faster than 30?
So unless you want to sink the little button to
the floor board and hold her there all day, you're,
not using 3400 r. p. m. all the time. t
I hope none of my friends will swallow whole
any story deriding 3400.
You know you will always find the largest
number of clubs under the best apple tree in the
orchard.
This car has doubled my sales ..
As Mr. Post says, "There's a reason."
One little ride and you will want to pass up
your old gondola.
Ask me about our service inspection coupons.
They are negotiable with all Chalmers dealers every
wherev This system is an important consideration
in buying your car.
Touring Car or Roadster, $1090 Detroit , ,
Three - Passenger Cabriolet, $1440 Detroit - ,
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nth hoods to match, or Meteor blue with black hood.
H. L. KEATS
H. L. KEATS AUTO
COMPANY
M. A. Rickard, Corvallis, Or.
George Clanfield, Dallas, Or. '
E. R. Feller, Donald, Or.
Pacific Auto Co.; Eugene, Orl
Broadway at Burnside Street, Portland
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S. G. Hughes, Forest Grove, Or. A..W. Walker, Medlord, On
Independent Garage, Heppner, Or. T. E. Hulery, Moro, Or. ;
F, H.Gaulke, Joseph, Or. Virgil Conn, Paisley, Or.
L..C Smith, La Grande; Or.; ; " AE. Kent, Roseburg, Or.
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Halvorsen & Burns, Salem, Or.
M. Scborn, North Yakima, Wash. . . ; . ; J
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