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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND,; SUNDAY. MORNING, MAY 20, 1917.
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RUTH ST. DENIS IS
TOED BY THE
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COLUMBIA
HIGHWAY
Classic Dancer and Traveling
Companion, Ted Shawn,
Praise Beauty of Road,
MOTOR ENTHUSIAST TO DRIVE SEDAN
SUNSET PICTURE LURES
Variety of Tints of Mountain and
Gorg-s Charm Visitors Who Blow
Their Unstinted Pleasure.
New enthusiasts over the Columbia
river highway were created last wcjk
in Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, In
terpreters of classic dancing, who ap
peared at the Orphewm. They viewed
the highway for the first time from
the decks of a Marmon.
To both of them this road was Just
a aeries of wonderful pictures, each
one of which lent something to their
art.
"The picture of that sunset, as we
stood on Crown Point Is going to be
with me forever." said Miss St. Denis
"That intense coloring in the sky, on
the river and the mountains on both
sides, is something that I am sure
would l doubted even by many who
know Oregon and especially the Colum
bia river.
"Just the name, I have a picture of
It all so vivid that when I next fee
the artists who prepare the settings
for our pageants I am going to paint
a picture for him ajid am going to
have him blend into the sky and the
water the colors that we aaw that
night.
"The stories of the Columbia are
inost Interesting. I know that when
ever I think of this road I will plctme
each rock and each waterfall just as
J saw it. 1 wonder-if Portland will
know the stories of our new dancs
and will recognize in them the in
spiration of this road when next we
visit? I do hope it will."
Mr. Shawn was just as Interested.
"Anywhere in the country, where
there is not half the attraction," he
taJil, "one would expect to find a great
hotel and filled to overflowing with
.people who are looking for Just such
'places as the mountains and rivers
and woods which skirt this highway.
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MORE ROADS WANT IS
VIEW OF MR. FRASER
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Demand for 15 Per Cent In
crease Will Be Blow to In
dustry, -He Points Out,
MILLIONS ARE PILING UP
Batlroads Hevtr Had So Mscn Bnal-
nees Tt Tbey Aak tie Pub
lic to Pay Xore.
Pierce Mays presented his daughter, Mrs. Genevieve Dodds, who is a devoted motorist, with a new Xjy.
tional touring sedan. The picture shows Mrs. Dodds at the wheel of her new car and K. C. Gabel,
salesmanager of the Manley Auto Co.
Napoleon Insisted
On Good Eoads
Xapoleon 'Bonaparte, 100 years agt.
Baw the great necessity for permanent
roads not made of dirt, but broad,
well built and made of stone. As Boon
as he conquered a country he started
his road-building forces to work. He
carried his road-building proclivities
Into the countries he conquered, and
when Holland was temporarily con
trolled by him he put men to work
building a stone road in the far away
Island of Java, where good stone roads
today exist as a monument to his con
ception of th civilized influence of
roads.
Company Forms for
Making Steam Cars
Dobl -Detroit Steam Motor Company
Organizes in Michigan With Capital
of $10,000,000 to Develop Industry.
The Doble-Detroit Steam Motors
company is the name of the ntw cor
poration that will manufacture Doble
Detroit steam cars, according to word
just received by A. S Robinson, man
ager of the Pacific Kissel-Kar branch.
The organization Is being perfected
under Michigan laws and the capitali
zation is placed at 110,000,000.
The names tof the men at the head
of the company has tjot yet been dis
closed, but it is understood that they
will be men of very considerable prom,
lnence In the motor car Industry, and
that every department jOf the organi
zation will be manned by thoroughly
experienced executives.
The development of the Doble steam
car has been one rt the sensations of
j the motor car industry.
The first car was displayed at the
New York show In January. The In
terest created at that time was so tre
mendous that it resulted in an aval
anche of inquiries from all over the
country. The better class of dealers
everywhere showed a peculiarly keen
Interest in the new car, and there was
Immediately such a demand for terri
tory that the sales organization cover
ing the entire country was organized
in an Incredibly short time.
Plans for manufacturing are already
well under way. Contracts for parts
and materials have been entered into;
options have been secured on thoiWgh
lq equipped plants that are now in
operation and that can begin turning
out finished cars in a very short
period of time and all the other details
of the successful and aggressive entre
into the motor car field have been at
tended to.
The car to be produced first will be
a thoroughly high class and some
what luxurious seven-passenger model.
Later on other models .will unquestion
ably be added to the line.
A little later the new company will
also devote Its attention to the adapt
ation of steam to motor trucks, trac
tors, motor boats', airplanes, interurb&n
cars, etc. In fact, a good deal of engi
neering work has already been done
along these lines and some rather
startling developments may be looked
for within a short time.
Pleasure Car' ,Held
To Be Obsolete Term
The question has arisen as to wheth
er the term "pleasure car" is not obso-
the motor car Industry. Manufactur- I cnty surveyors; junior members, who
ers point out the wide and erroneous ! may become active members after ex-
Highway Engineers .
Form Association
Object of Society Is to Promote Sci
no of Soad Building' and Mainte
nanceOfficers Axe Elected.
A new factor In highway develop
ment In Oregon is the organization of
the Northwestern Society of Highway
Kngineers. The object of the society
Is to promote the science of road build
ing and to establish a high standard of
road engineers.
The membership of the society la di
vided Into four classes active mem
bers, who shall be graduated civil en
gineers and of a certain number of
years practical experience In road
work; associate members, to be com
posed of those who have nt technical
training, but have practical experience
such as roadmasters, supervisors.
volvlng an increase of about ISO, 000.000 1
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pre me court has now affirmed th
granting tne increasea pay to
brotherhoods from January 1.
This is now the chief reason for the
railroad's demand for further Increase
in freight rates of 15 per cent. The
railroads also, like everybody, else, are
suffering from the high cost Of living.
The railroads are now glutted with
traffic. Thev have unsufficient freight
cars or terminals to handle It. Their
gross earnings are not only larger
than before, but their profits are
larger than ever.
On top of the increase of profits of
$211,663,900 in the fiscal year 1915
the railroads last year made the as
toundtng increase of 1547, 647.83 In
gross earnings and an increase of
JI36.6I3.427 tn net earnings, or profits,
over the previous year.
Mors Money. Mors Clamor.
So that in the past two years the
see why the railroads should expect j railroads of the country have Increased
to escape entirely a deplorable tern- i their net prolits alone more than
that a rurther increase in rates at
this time is not Justified and that the
persistent . and perpetual demands of
the railroads for rate increases have
become one of the very strongest ar
guments for government ownership.
Five years ago. in 1812. after the
most prosperous fiscal year the rail
roads of the United States iiad ever
known, they all applied for an in
crease In rates. It was refused.
Two years later, in 1914. when busi
ness conditions were panicky all over
the country, when literally millions
of American workmen were out of em
ployment, when more than 250,000 idle
freight cars were standing unused on
side tracks, the- railroads again ap
plied for an increase of rates. They
were then really suffering from hard
times, like almost every other Indus
try in the country. But in an edi
torial at that time Mr. Hearst said:
"The railroads are temporarily suf
fering some hardships. But I do not j
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BY
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DIVIDED
use of the words "pleasure car," even
among some motor car makers. They
declare that the motor car is no longer
a vehicle bought or operated solely in
the pursuit of pleasure.
Progress Is Reported
On Highway Survey
The survey of the Roseburg-Myrtla
Point highway Is progressing favor
ably. About 16 men are employed on
the survey under C. C. Kelly of the
state highway department. The party
has reached a point near Brockway.
The indications are that the heaviest
grade on the highway will not exceed 5
per cent.
Only One Point
But it points to vital principles on the
Count grease cups on comparable cars you'll find as
many as forty to sixty and if these ara neglected it means
wear loss of power trouble.
The Marmon system of oiling and oilless bearings is a lesson in sim
plicity that newer autos are inclined to follow. There are, on the
entire car, but four grease cups.
perience is obtained, and honorary
members. This latter class will con
sist of those who, although not associ
ated with actual road work, have a
great Interest in it.
The society already has a member
ship list of 70, including several from
the state of Washington.
The officers of the society are: O.
Laurgaard, Portland, president; R. B.
Murdock of the state highway depart
ment, first vice president; R. M. Gillis
of the Washington state highway de
partment, second vice president; S. H.
Graf, Oregon Agricultural college,
third vice president; C J. Keiter, sur
veyor of Washington county, secretary
and J. J. Brooks, treasurer.
The board of directors consists of
H. E. Abry, roadmaster of Columbia
county; C. H. Whitmore, highway en
glneer of Multnomah county; J. A. El
liott, roadmaster of Wasco county;
George McGee, roadmaster of Washing- '
ton county, and C M. Thomas.
Desire for Mastery
Makes Us Buy Autos
Motor Zealer Points to XTietsohe's Phil
osophy In Seeking to Explain Psy
chology of Craving to Own a Car.
The psychology of the desire of every
person to own an automobile has never
been fathomed to any great extent, as
the heads of the great automobile fac
tories have been too busy turning out
all the motors that the public would
buy to make any search into what
makes the human being eager to own
an automobile.
"The desire to travel swiftly, the
thrill of speed. Is no doubt largely re
sponsible for the popularity of the au
tomobile, but I think this is only one
phase of a universal trait, the desire
for mastery and control," said F. W.
Vogler, of the Northwest Auto company.
he philosopher Nletzche pointed
out that the 'will to power Is the
mainspring of all human action.
Everything that Increases the feeling
of -power over nature, circumstances or
our fellow men is intensely pleasur
able. The automobile has contributed
new opportunity and wide scope for
the exercise of this sense of power or
mastery, not only In making the car
owner Independent of other forms of
locomotion, but in placing in his hands
mechanism which he can command
and direct at will.
This explains the popularity of the
Cole eight, for almost every owner
wants a car that will pass the other
fellow's car, that will get away first
out of a bunch of cars that have been
halted at street crossings, or that
will speed up a hill without straining
when other car are having- a hard time
of it. But even when there are no spec
tators the desire to experience the feel
ing of mastery still operates. This is
why there is nothing so exasperating
as a balky or unresponsive car."
That the 15 per cent Increase in
freight rates asked by the railroads
will, if granted, be an immediate blow
to all industries and labor, but that
its adoption would result in a step
nearer towards government ownership
of the roads is the expressed convic
tion of Grover Fraser, formerly of
Portland and now of Chicago.
Mr. Frarser has actively identified
himself with railroad questions for
years, and !n Portland, in 1911. was
instrumental in securing the passage
of three legislative bills affecting rail
road employes. The most notable of
these was the 14-hour law for train
crews and 9-hour bill for operators,
bridgetefders, etc. The other bills af
fected the employment of flagmen and
the blocking of switches for the safe
ty of employes.
Tax Would Be $400,000,000.
Expressing himself regarding the in
crease in freight rates asked by the
transcontinental lines, Mr. Fraser
said:
The railroads of the United States
have asked the government to permit
them to increase all their freight
rates about 15 per cent.
As the gross earnings of the rail
roads last year were $3,702,940,241, a
15 pr cent increase would mean an
increased tax upon the public on
freight traffic alone of nearly
Mon.ooo.ooo.
They count on the aid of President
Wilson, who promised them his as
sistance with the government In rais
ing their rates if they would only
grant the eight-hour day to trainmen.
They already have the assistance of
many editorials on their side in those
newspapers that are always on the
si.ie of private monopoly and vested
interest, no mutter how greedy or un
reasonable th-? demands.
Previous Appeals Denied.
We shall show in a very few words,
nnd prove by the evidence of the rail
road's own reports to the governmen
porary Condition that affects all busi
ness, ii seem lu me uiai nic guv em
inent has no moral right in these de
pressed times further -to tax the trans
portation of the country and to lay
added burdens upon the business of
the .country to relieve a single indus
try of a situation which is chiefly due
to the general depression, but it is in
part dse in the case of some of the
railroads, to extravagance and mis
management. Credit of moads Still Good.
""What the railroads now need is
more traffic, not higher rates. Rail
road managers complain that they are
unable to sell stocks and bonds to
make necessary Improvements. On the
contrary, it seems to me that the
stocks and bonds of well managed
American . railroads are recognized as
among the best securities in tile world.
"There has never been better evi
dence of their excellence than at the
present time, when foreign securities,
ordinarily accepted as sound, are
shown to be subject to disastrous con
ditions which have not seriously af
fected the credit of a single well man
aged American railroad."
The Interstate Commerce commis
sion granted the railroads, upon their
second application, permission to raise
lreight rates five per cent. Business
was at- that time in a deplorable con
dition. Governor Whitman of New
York sent a special message to the
legislature urging public work by the
state on a large scale to relieve the
unemployment.
The increase in freight rates in the
midst of all this poverty and hard
ship was granted to the railroads by
the government December 19. 1914.
The railroad managers themselves
estimated the increase as equivalent
to about $40,000,000, only about three
per cent of all freight riates, as some
of the increases, on commodities like
coal and flour. Were refused.
BIT Increase In Earnings.
But "good times" returned before
the railroads could put the new and
lncrased rates into effect. Railroad
traffic began to increase rapidly. On
June 30. 1915. only six month after
the freight rates had been advanced,
the railroads reported an increase of
$12.539,765 in their gross earnings.
This was accompanied by a still great
er increase, namely, S211.fi53.9oo in
their net preffits. This was only the
betrinnin of the "war boom."
In September last the railroad train
men demanded the eig-ht-hour day. in-
S44R.OOO.OOO.
ffney are
now more Insistent
MOTOR
FIRMS
LAST CALENDAR YEAR
Twenty Millions More Given
to Stockholders Than Was
Earned by U. S. Steel.
their demand for a atiU larser increase
In rates in good times than they were
three years ago in bad times for a
small Increase in rates.
Well managed railroads are now able
to secure new capital by the sale of
bonds on the basis of V per cent.
while the strongest industrial com
Profits in the motor car-industry ars
one of the outstanding features of ths
in j prevailing prosperity. The total dlvl-;
dend distribution by the leading con
cerns in this industry during the past
calendar year reached approximately
S75.0OO.000.
The real significance of this will b
more thoroughly appreciated by a com-
TtJLRlann rt f th arn1n- nf t h M mAtflf
FTP JLittnJl9vSmt vr industry with those of the United
theatrongest foreign governments six ....- a. i .m ,k- k..i.
and seven per cent.
This prove that the securities of
well managed American railroads are
now the best investments in the world
as they ought to be.
The only persons who are decrying
them are the railroad executive them
selves, with their persistent pleas of
poverty and their everlasting proph
ecies of coming bankruptcy unless
they get everything they want.
The trouble with the railroads is
States 8teel Corporation, on the basis -
of the capital invested In each. i-
The present earnings of ths United
States 8teel corporation are properly
regarded as phenomenal, yet the Stock
holders In the motor car corporations
received last year some $20,000,000
more in dividends than the stockhold
ers tn United States Steel.
One of the recognised authorities la
Wall at root haa atlmata4 that t h a an.
!amf"y ffthaeV.w rhLdH-1.r.,.tt t,r capitalisation of the motor-car ln
protection of the law. Thev desire to ' , .. v..nii
make the law for their own private dutry- deluding not only the builders
profit and bene.it. r Plsure cars and trucks, but ths
If they have their way. the cost of makers of tires and other accessories,
railroad transportation will steadily ' Is approximately only one half that of
increase under private ownership b- . the Ignited States 8teel Comoration.
ranse there is no limit to private greed
and apparently no limit to the com
plaisance of politicians whom the rail
roads control.
Economy Urged in
Use of Gasoline
That the gasoline production of 1917
will not last through the year unless
radical conservation measures ar
taken, was fh warning of Dr. Burton
of the Standard Oil company to the
council of the Society of Automotive
Engineers in Chicago.
He estimated the 1917 production at
2.600.000,000 gallons, of which Ameri
can automobiles would use 2.000,000,
000 gallons, leaving but 600,000.000 gal
lons for use by military trucks and
for export to the allies.
"The conservation. of our gasoline
supply is rnost Important," said he.
"The -uppfy of oil cannot be In
creased. Either strict measures must
be taken or greater value extracted
from the oil."
yet the shareholders In the motor com- ?
panies received In dividends $20,000,04 -f
more than the holders of stock In
United StatOM Steel.
Even the earnings of the greatest :
and most successful railroads Mtm :
small in comparison with those of ths
automobile industry, made on ths basis
of the capital Invested in each. For
example, take 12 of the greatest rail
roads in America, Including tas Ptnn
sylvania. the New York Central, the
Erie, the Baltimore & Ohio, ths St, 1
Paul and the Union, Northern aad
Southern Pacific roads, which was .
about the best in their history, only;
$369,382.85 on a capitalization f
$7,80S.558.:$. while 12 of the leading
manufacturers of motor cars. In ths'.
same period, earned $45,110,(32 on a
capitalization of $35. EDO, 000. That U
to say. roughly speaking, on the basis
of capital Invested, the earnings of ths
motor car manufacturers were dollar
for dollar of capital invested about :,f
four times ss large as those of ths
greatest and most successful railroads;
Whan writing to or rilling oo advertisers,
pleaae mention n Jnarnal. A.
And the stability of the makers of
this scientific light weight car as
sures the owners of a Marmon that
this name will never be added to
list of the sixty odd "orphan" cars
makes that are no longer produced
and for which no service can be
secured.
We have consistently refused to dis
tribute a car without this ability to
render the service to which every
owner is entitled for the life of that
car.
Northwest Auto Go.
Factory Distributor.
Broadway at Couch Street PORTLAND, ORE.
F. W. VOGLER, Pres. . CM. MENZIES, Mgr.
Speeder's Excuse
Brings Him $30 Fine
"Is there nothing new under th
sun?" asks a writer In the current
Issue of American Motorist. He then
goes on to answer the Question: "Of
course there is. If you only recognize
It. Were this not so. how could you
explain the excuse a speeding automo-
billst offered the Judge : upon being
haled to court by a motorcycle police
man who only succeeded in overhaul
ing the speedomaniac after a long ana
exciting chase? The prisoner said that
he hit her up on the high because when
he saw the policeman in pursuit he
thought the pursuer must be a nigh
wayman. seeking to overtake and rob
the hignly Intelligent hifchgearer. Th
judge so appreciated the prisoner's In
genuity that he fined him only $30 In
place of the usual $10 assessment."
I HUDSON SUPER-SIX
Famous
THE INTAKE
O. M. Harxlsoa 1b Business. C. M
Harrison has taken the vulcanizing
and tire business of the Western Hard
ware & Supply Co., and is conducting
it at the old location under the name
of tha C. M. Harrison company. "
oclsr Seturns Horn. F. W. Vor
ler, president of the Northwest Auto
company, tiiu just, niurum iron
I trip covering Taootna. Seattle. Ever-
ett. North Yakima and Spokane,
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Phaeton, 7-passenger
Cabriolet, 3-pasenger .
Tourinj Sedan
Speedster, 4-passenf;er .
Limous;r c ;
Limonsine Landaulet. . .
Town Car
Town Car Landaulet . . .
$1650
1950
2175
1750
2925
3025
2925
3025
(All Prices f . o. b. Detroit)
In a hundred cities, Hudson
dealers have won the local rec
ords with the Super-Six.
Not in America only. In sev
eral countries Super-Sixes have
won the hill-climbing records.
But the Pike's Peak climb last
September was the world's su
preme test. There twenty great
cars, all specially built, met for a
race to the top of the world.
The Hudson Super-Six Special
made the best time of alL
What They Drove
The SuperSix, remember, is a
small, light Six. It doesn't win by
size. It won these tests just as it
won all other worth-while records
by endurance.
This invention. patented by
Hudson has minimized motor
-friction. It thus added 80 per cent
to the motor's efficiency. It nearly
doubled the motor's endurance.
You don't care to climb Pike's
Peak at the speed the Super-Six
showed it could do. You don't
care to go 102 miles per hour, as a
Super-Six stock chassis has done.
Or 1819 miles in 24 hours, also
with a stock chassis.
But you want the car which
holds those records, if you buy a
great car. Not because they prove
capacity, but because they prove
endurance prove that no service
you will ever demand will equal
its capacity.
All-Round Ruler
But t he Hudson is now more
than monarch in performance. It
is fully as distinctive in style and
beauty this year, in finish, in
equipment and in luxury. 1 1 has a
new gasoline saver, in the form of
radiator shutters, which, through
controlling the heat of the motor
in part, overcomes the disadvan
tages and waste of the present
poor grade of gasoline. It has a
patent pneumatic carburetor, ex
clusively Hudson, self-adjusting
to every engine speed.
In whatever you prize most
performance, style, beauty or
economy you will find the Hud
son leader. That's why it leads
all other front-rank cars in sales.
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The New Speedster is here
Boss & Peake Automobile
615-17 Washington Street
Co.
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