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
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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."
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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.
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- 215 Washington street
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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
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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
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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.
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They employ no lure of delusive discounts, definite mileage guar
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Every one of these fictitious inducements has to be paid for we
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And the money you pay a Goodyear Service Station for tire value
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If you are not a Goodyear Tire user, you owe it to yourself to learn
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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.
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Goodyear Tim r, Heavy Tourist Tubes and
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v onTNORTHvVTSTA-s
Motorcycle & Supply Co,
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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
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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
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HOLDS MOST RECORDS
IS
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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
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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.
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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-'
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