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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1917. MILITARY HIGHWAY : PLAN IS REVIVED BY PREPAREDNESS IDEA Army OfficersPoint to Strat egic Value of Such High- ,'way ,'Along: Pacific Coasti i. . .- iii SHOULD AN ENEMY COME Xtaodiag Can Be Xff acted at Severe! Places Along- Oregon Coast Alone That Art la Complete Isolation, The national preparedness movement Jitis revived interest In the long dis cussed miWtary highway along the Pa cific coast from British Columbia to Mexico. - . - ', A meeting". -wtlL- be held at Seattle ' April 1010 consider the matter and to Urge upon congress .the need of an im mediate appropriation to undertake the work.' The amount of t lie appropria tion suggested i 150.000.000. Stress ili to be laid on the fact that the pro " posed high-Way tuld nt .only be a military road, bu ould serve a grea- j commercial purpose. v. j ' Tn 1910 T. V. Harris of Kenton.! AVash.. p. civil engineer, published an 1 "article Advocating a miUtary highway dloDfr the Psfcific coast, but he urouseO no interest t the matter. Interest in the project ita s revived at the begin- ; jiing of the", present European wi'i 'when it wa $iotnpnnt rated that roads ; -"W-cre an Important factor ' lti f.-irilitat- ; ing the movement of troops an-J heavy " ;gun. V tfE At the Pan-American rongioss, held at Oakland, Cal.. in 1915. a resolution . was adopted recommending to congress 't he advisability of investigating th" 'necessity of building a hard surfaced ."highway alonp the Pacific eoatt from .Mexico to British Columbia and other , national highwajN, to be used as miU tary b4. commercial highways. ' A number of Individuals have from time to ttriie ported out the impor ' tance of such a highway as a national defense, but untlj lately, with the or Kanization of th Coast Uefense league, no i concerted, effort has been made to agltat the matt-ei. 7 . Colonel Park Makes Beport. n -"paring on this "-subject; an mteres-t-iiig report was made to 'the Portland Cli.mber of Commerce last summer y i Colonel J. S. Parke, a retired army of ficer. He railed atention to the fol lowing conditions:. , ' 'First.' there are a hundred planes .along the Pacific coast at which an on enry could 'make a successful .landing?. In Oregon libera are at least' IS that ate absolutely undefended in any man ' tier whatever. Second, in fwrldltlon to our navy, 1 ; . which must' -cohstltute the first line of ' Mlcfense, t'here must be suitable land defenses of some kind. I -Thirdv'to fortify all or any of these1 .hundred, 'vulnerable ;olnts suitably i would cost such an enormous sum as to he prohibitive. - Fourth. Ju addition to being prohib- 1 j.Hlve, it would take to long a time. It ' takes' years to build a fort that can f withstand modern artillery. ! . ,' fifth, landings are never made in . 5th face ofstrong fortifications. ,-, Slxth, hts'torically speaking, landings . e.re always successful. As an obvious corollary to all this, some other meth od of defense must be devised. The only possible substitute, said 'Colonel s Parke, is a suitable highway parallel- Ing the coast line,' connecting all ex , j jjoesed harbors or other landing places ? along which 'heavy " artillery may be moved qulckfy, as well as mobile in- fan try, to delay the landing as iong as posible, or until heavy guns can be brought to bear bn the whips or trsfts ' ports aiding in the landing. Not only '.would such a highway serve for the transport Of heavy artillery, but. siiffl cierit automobiles could be mobilize to -put a force of sufficient size nt ;,glven point in a few hours to prevent 4 4k. I "Assuming!" irke. "that O' continued Colonel 'Parke, "that our naVy constituting our first line of 'defense had been placed . hors de combat, and it became neces sary to prevent a landing, or, at least, a foothold, on our coast; let us bsq what would be necessary: s "In order 16 butter understand how "to meet thin condition, let me give you 'briefly a description of a landing of a - division of the Japanese army in the ;'narbor of Ohlnnampo in March, 1904. Bt War 5 of Eiimnlt. ' tflat-botterried sampans, each tampan, closely packed, carried 50 mentor, a -"corresponding amount of horses or war ' material " When filled they were towed rapidly by a, fleet of steam launches .np to four land ing stages about IffO yards long, to which they were at- taohed by the skillful maneuvers of two trained boatmen, wbo lived in the ' covered stern of each sampan. On th ; possession of our coast, and then de t arrival of each sampan the men dlsem- ' feat them after they have left the barked in an orderly and expeditious omannner and marched off at once. The i cavalry led their horses ashore and 'V: Picketed -them, then returned for their equipments. The guns were landed ',vry cleverly and were at once dragged by hand out of the way. The pontoons were similarly treated. They arrived v in three sections, and. when put togeth - er, fitted into trollies which were, each ..of them, pulded by one horse. Under fhe excellent arrangements in force, about 20 transports were enabled to , land men and material simultaneously. i "Each vessel carried . number of lit - tie two-wheeled carts, which were put .together at once on landing, loaded up 'With sacks of rice and wheeled off by .three or four men to the depots. a "By this means, nothing was allowed' rto accumulate on or near the piers,. or i - to diock the gangways or exits for a moment. The infantry came ashore in ' - Jieavy marching , order. Blue cloth , overcoat, thick brown coat, with sheep-' , skin collar; red blanket, knapsack, hav- V ftPiaelc. water bottle tntrAnchln w1 , , 1 - ..-..Q WWW., shelter tent, spare boots, straw san- dais, email rice basket, cooking pot Jas Wftll M his HflA Kalta nnim'iu., .nt . I well as his rifle, belts, pouches ani bayonet. This landing was made tn a j 'Jew hours. ryV The Japanese division consists of (J-S.bout 20,000, mn with 6000 horses." An Emaglmuy T.andiiig. - A a concrete example of what might 1 be accomplished by an enemy, Colonel ''Parke assumed that & landing should be made at Tillamook bay, only 90 t miles by rail from Portland. -v 'There is onlyZ-one means of rapid communication: wifi .Tillamook, and 1 .that is by rail, and takes seven hours, 'he said. "The nearest troops are at Vanoonver. Before they could be en ' ' trained and reach there, the enemy " would have possession of all the passes in the Coast range of mountains, which would give them control of the coast . iv. from Astoria to Newport, , - , "Another landing at Coos bay would s riye them control of the remainder of t i Or-on i crt--fr,' . f-'o-fTwrt i tn THEAUTOPED 1 a &f& Mmc r - -' A SaiaiBafflMw " 1 . r. orsen, strolling about on ' uted in this city by the -Have you heard of the new means 1 of transportation-called -"Autopedirig?" it. has a peculiar .fkseinatlon about U that is commending- interest from peo ple in all walks of life. The autoped derives its name from automobile pedestrian, and is a com pact little two-wheeled- gasoline-driven machine. ' The autoped is equiped with pneu matic tires, manufactured especially for it While riding there is practical j ly nothing- to watch but the handle bar. Crescent City, with troops still farther away. "The first thing they would do would be to take possession of every pass in the Coast range and defy i'nele Sam to dislodge them, They would live in th rich country between tbis ranpe and the sea. Of course, It might be pos sible to dislodge them in time but. even that would be doubtful, and would cost more in men and money than to keep them out." Colonel Potter's Tlews. Active army officers have called at tention to our defenseless situation. Lieutenant-Colonel .Charles I. Potter of the corps of engineers, writing of th proposed military highway, said: "Such a road would be a great addi tion, particularly on the coast of Ore gon. I speak wit'h some knowledge on this part of the'subject, because 1 have recently had to consider the defense of Oregoh and. Washington coasts against a foreign enemy. The lack of facilities 'for moving troops and, guns along the shore from harbor to harbor made the problem of proper defense much more difficult. j cfniw 1 1 r 'i ti i r rY f Via email Vi-ri rKrTa , whn ,h ,.,,. I.omnilini,.,uion with the outside world w:ls by sr. As a result, t ho lol Aral cnmmiiniciil inn nlnncr thp .. - Mvt.- hB nv mnr thfin i to connect the various harbors, to a ' railroad, when built over the moun ' tains.- As a result, there are fair roads j connecting certain barbers into group. I which groups now get an outlet by. rail I at Coos bay, at Yaquina bay and at j Tillamook bay. I "The roads connecting the harbors j in each group are poor from a military standpoint, and between the three groups there are no practical communi cations. As a result, there would be no way, assuming the enemy controlled the sea, as he must to attempt a land ing, to move troops or. artillery from one of these groups to another without bringing them back into the Willam ette. This w6uld add greatly to the difficulty of preventing a landing, and would probably mean that we would have to allow them to land and tak 1 coast and started over the mountains, Then we would have the advantage. since they must march in separate nawow columns with no lateral roads Yor mutual support, wihfie we Would be guarding the passes by an army hav ing all the roads and railroads of the L.Willamette valley for lateral oommunl fcation in its rear, Requirements of War. ! "A good - road, on which could bs 1 rapidly moved the heaviest mobile guns , and large bodies of troops, would prob- , aoiy save us the humiliation of aban- Jdonin our coast to a foreign enemy, .Such a road would have to be of the best, as to width and surfacing, since . heavy gxuni formerly considered of a size to require permanent fixed em- placements are now made mobile, car ried on or hauled by motor trucks. estimate or tne cost or s,ucn a road could be mad without a thorough survey and location, and a study of the available points where proper road torn i terial could be found." I TH-ll m riTl J R F gPilM fiT J, 01,1116 O Plant Trebles Output TJie Ajax Rubber company has Just completed the remodeling' of the Tren ton plant and the erection of a number of new factory buildings which treble the former tire production capacity of the company. 1 The changes' were necessary, on account of the wide spread and Increasing demand , for Ajax tires. - .T- - ' ' . 4 . Th . increased production that will follow the plant enlargement will en able distributors all over the country to take care of deliveries in response to dealers' orders. New branches have been f opened ap in : Cincinnati . and Omaha. Another branch will be opened in Portland, Me In the near future. - Hughson & Merton, the. coast dis tributers,1, announce a bigger business than ever, and are preparing for a big 1 0S4 C People May Chip In To Construct Span San Francisco, March 31. Plan to inaugurate a campaign for the con struction of a general highway bridge across the lower end of San Francisco bay are being made by the Dumbarton State Highway Bridge association) whlch was recently organized for that purpose. Publicity work will' be started on 2 large scale, juet as soon as members of the association decide upon the quick est and easiest way to create senti ment in favor of the project. One of the plana is to devise a dollar member ship for residents of the bay cities to be affected by the proposed improve ment. . the Autoped, which will be distrib- Stubbs Electric company. which supports the rider, steers and controls the operation and speed of the .machine. One gallon of gasoline is sufficient tor 100 miles and the little machine is capable of doing from 20 to 25 miles an hour. The Stubbs Klectric company of this city with offices at Sixth and Pino streets will be the local distributors of the autoped. While other distribu tors will be placed throughout the state by R. H. Corsen, wholesale dis tributor. New Ice and Snow Tractor Is Invented Machine Designed for Breaking- of Koads Daring the Winter Months; Speed of 35 Miles an Soar Possible. A new idea in. an ice and snow trae--tor has been Invented by two Michi gan men. Through the use of this they hope to see the road traffic in this country revolutionized during the winter months, .j Instead of wheels, the tractor has four metal drums turning parallel to the body of the machine, and these drums are provided with spiral flanges, which grip the snow and ice. The drums are pointed at the forward ends, in order to enable them to mount drifts and obstacles.., The device is steered by means; of a runner, which runs ahead of the; machine, and is op erated by an automobile steering de vice. The machine Is especially adapted for the breaking of roads, and it is claimed that a speed of 25 miles an hour is possible. : Truck Sales Sign Of Good Business More than $4,000,000 worth of Pack ard motor trucks were sold to business men 'of the United States in January, Kdhruary and March. Almost every line of business, large and small, is represented among the buyers. Nearly all these trucks were sold into the Industries of peaee A very few orders from the United Statea army are Included in the total, but none from foreign military ; establish ments. 1 "The-, prosperous . condition of the nation's business probably cannot be indicated more effectively than by this record sale of motor trucks," said . W. B. Proud, manager of the truck sales department of the 'Packard company. "I think the value or truck sales is almost as faithful a barometer of gen eral business as is the price of steel. For trucks are used to -transport goods, and. when more trucks are bought, it means more goods are moving. San Francicso Will Have Auto Exhibit The Commercial Motor Show at San Francisco is to be held this- week at the Exposition auditorium, April 3 to 7. ih addition to the 'exhibit "of com mercial trucks, there will be an Inter esting exhibit of motor-drawn -fire ap-, paratus 'from the light chemical ex tinguisher mounted on a motorcycle to a heavy ladder truck, weighing many tons. MONTAVILLA SERVICE STATION rcu.Kx a. xnxrvL, Mgr. East 82d and Base Line Road Montavilla St. Johns Hardware Co. EXCLUSIVE GOODYEAR DEALERS FOR THE PENINSULA Automobile Accessories 102 NORTH JERSEY ST., ST.. JOHNS . Columbia 35 Inter-State Vulcanizing Works - 215 Washington street ." Vancouver, Washing ton ?"V - - -1A4 GOODYEAR COMPANY S MAKING DIRIGIBLES THE UJ. NAVY Gas Bags Propelled by 1 00 H. P. Engines for Use on Land and Sea, " EACH TO CARRY TWO MEN Sped of 35 Mile aa Hoar for 16 Con. ecutlT Hoars Deemad Possible In Cruislaff Opvratio&s. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber com pany has "been commlslsoned by the navy department to construct and demonsVate nine of the 16 dirigibles which have beejtt authorized for use In coast and harbor patrol. The contract to make the other sev w E FOR Are i.r It will pay you advertised here. MUD Vr:41i Th Sign of tht Coodyar Scrvic Station Dealer t : PHONE BROADWAY 31 . - Exclusive Goodyear Dealers THE STORE OF PERSONAL SERVICE - Northeast Corner ' Broadway at Dumside Rainey & Schiffer en has been split up among three oth er concerns. In order that in cas of war there may be other concerns fa miliar with manufacture of dirigibles. For a number of years the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company bas taken an active part in aeronautics, and has co operated with both the war and navy departments in developing means of national defense. In these several years a number of spherical balloons for training purposes have been fur nished; likewise a number of kite bal loons for military observations, both on land and at sea. ' For a long time some people were under - the impression that, foreign countries had developed better talent for making lighter-than-alr craft than we have here at home. This theory was severely jolted when the 80,000 cubic feet balloon "Goodyear," manned by. aeronautic engineers, won the in ternational balloon races out of Paris, France, in 1913. Since that time Good year ' has been foremost among the great rubber companies of this coun try in the development of aeronautics. The coast patrol dirigibles which are now being built are of the non rigid type that Is without . interior framework, and' are designed to op erate from shore bases. They are also designed so they can light upon and arise from the surface of the water in reasonably good weather. The dirigible envelopes or gas bags, 12 of which are "being constructed at the Goodyear factory at Akron, are 160 GOODYEAR TIRE SERVICE STATIONS ( jg. Goodyear Tires Boiuimcl have the friendship of a We want to hold it and add new friends, wherever We think the best place old, is in our part of the exchange between us in the tires we build. For that reason, Goodyear Tires in themselves express the policy of our whole institution: value given for value received. They have always expressed that, and they always will, so long as sincere purpose and able effort can accomplish it. Goodyear Service Station Dealers seU tires on the basis of the good that is in them, and on nothing else. - They employ no lure of delusive discounts, definite mileage guar antees, so-called ""free" service. Every one of these fictitious inducements has to be paid for we lump the saving and put it back into the tire. And the money you pay a Goodyear Service Station for tire value buys tire value, and that alone. If you are a Goodyear Tire user, you know already what the Goodyear Service Station method means to you your tires Have computed it for you in extra miles delivered, in extra months of service, in consistent freedom from trouble. . j- ' . If you are not a Goodyear Tire user, you owe it to yourself to learn what it. can mean to you in temper time and dollars saved. . ' Any Goodyear Service Station Dealer wfll be glad to furnish the equipment for your instruction a set of Goodyear Tires. And he will take pains to help you get out of those tires all the good that's in them. to deal with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Akron, Ohio Goodyear Tim r, Heavy Tourist Tubes and ''Tire Saver Accessories are easy to get from Goodyear Service Station Dealers everywhere. Harley-Daridscn Service Center v onTNORTHvVTSTA-s Motorcycle & Supply Co, 2C9 4th St. 4S3 Union Ave. N. f feet In length and 31 feet mail mum diameter. They have a gross buoy ancy or gross lift of 5275 pounds when inflated with Hydrogen of good com mercial purity, and under normal con ditions of barometric perssure and temperature. The motors are to be of 100 horse power, and those used will be of the Curtiss type. The dirigibles are designed to carry two men eacb the pilot and one ob server, and will be equipped with ra dio communication. It is expected that a speed of 45 miles per hour may be maintained for total of 10 hours. For ordinary cruising, the dirigibles are designed to operate at approx imately 3a miles per hour, and at such speeds will carry sufficient fuel and ballast to operate continuously for 16 hours, at heights varying from a few feet from the .ground up to a maxi mum altitude of 7500 feet. The dirigibles are to be ready for delivery, complete and demonstrated, within about four months, or, in other words, approximately the 1st of August.. ' Troublesome Valves Discussed. Some relief valves have the handles set the wrong way, so that the valve shakes open. If one becomes trouble some, replace with one set properly. If this is not desired, the hole may be plugged with a piece of brass rod and a new hole drilled at right angles to the old one. to plurality of American for our appeal to friends, the Goodyear Service SERYICE Garage & Repairing Vt at z . -Park and Couch V SERVICE CAR - EP.OADVAY CO ' Be TirpWI(M v niv HOLDS MOST RECORDS IS T OF ILL KNOWN CAR Endurance Run, Mountain Climbing, Long Distance Drive and Economy, That the Maxwell car holds more records than any other stock car fin the world was the big statement made by W. J. LaCasse, northwest manager f the Maxwell Motor Car company. Mr. LaCasse went on to explain that speed records made by specially built racing cars do hot interest the aver age prospective buyer, except as per haps an item of sporting news. - "Maxwell cars were never intended for race courses,'" continued Mr. La Casse. They are built for that great body of conservative people who want a car that will run every day, all day, as fast as they care to drive, and will MANAGER'S BOAS Gooo motorists. we can. new and Stations y O'Brien VhOa Zast 323 Repairing and , Machine Work atorare, Washlaff. yollshlug . Tires. Sundries. Oas and Ott J ' Union Ave. and Veidler St, Union Avenue uarage dp this at a low operating cost. ' V t Any -stock tar that' can run tor ,44- days and nights without a motor stop, covering 32,033 miles of all sorts of city streets and country roads -with-, out any repairs or adjustments is worthy of a place in the Hall of Fame. The Maxwell is well merited the title of the world's endurance champion." "Besides thai record, we have doxens of others", a few of which I "will citei "The ascent of Mt. Wilson and Mt. Hamilton, Portland to Spokane, Pitts burg to Philadelphia, Detroit to Indianapolis,- Jacksonville to Tamp and many other speed records are held by stock cars. Then there are many econ omy performances, including the 4 mile run In and around Detroit on one gallon of gasoline. In addition, . the -test made by Professor Gallup of Worcester Polytechnic .Institute prove surpassing economy, endurance and all-around efficiency, - i j,."' "It is well known that the Maxwell racing cars driven by Rlckenbacher during the past year are the very fast est American cars ever built." -f Beginners' Mistakes Pror Costly. One of the many mistakes wnlchjbe glnners frequently commit "is to rest the feet on tb- clutch and brake ped als, it wWrs out the clutch collar, making it noisy, and -may cause the brake to drag, wearing It also. The best position is to have both feet near the pedals ready for instant use. Oregon Sales Company TIRE S, TUBES and ! . .- ACCESSORIES J Alder at Twelfth - 'Everything Electrical lor the; Automobile' t The LENTS GOODYEAR TIRES AND ACCESSORIES Mptor Car Repairing Axel KUIdahl 8919 Foster Road Used Cats Bought for Cash SOLD ON TERMS 1916 BrPass. -Overland, like new; $550. ' Ford, with new 1917 body, hood and radiator, $275. Many other equally rood barjralns Eleven years' experience auto re-' , pairing. . East Side Auto Repair Co. East X300. 717 Hawthorne at. And Us 1 ' '...". PEERLESS TIRE & RUBBER CO. , STARK 13TH-BURN3 IDE Real Tire Repairs Tabor, 3003. rred T. Oltn, rrop. Rose City Park "Service First"' GENERAL AUTO ' REPAIRING oxxs. oasouvs. auitfx ! Tires and B applies , 5 2d St. and Sandy Road ' Broadway 1034 A-1188 EDWARDS' tire; shop j. , 331 ANKENY STREET Between Siztb aud' Broadway " . Crf Tiro" Repairinc ? Goodyear ; Tires and , Accessories C: A. Norwood e ' ("V 5907 Foster Road Goodyear; ";-v.Tires-S$ and Accessories; cotillion Garag