THE OREGON SUNDAY . JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY- MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1918
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AUTOMOBILE
HAS
PLACE IN RANKS
OF NECESSITIES
Within 25 Years Motor Car Has
Won Recognition as Essential
to Economic Life.
IS WONDERFUL TIME-SAVER
Like Telephone, the Automobile
Has. Demonstrated Ability to
' Minimize Time and Distance.
STRIPPED MAXWELL CHASSIS ON VIEW
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whin th-world's Columbian expo
sition was held at Chicago In 1888, such
a thin as an automobile was unknown
Thars was a wonderful transportation
bull dim. In which the development of
transportation from the earliest times
was shown, ut there were no automo
biles there.
"Today. 25 years later." says W. L.
KuKhson of the Kissel Kar, "the auto
mobile Is so closely Interwoven into the
fabric of our dally lives that it Is hard
to understand how we ever got along
without It. :
Few of us realise the extent to
which the automobile has brought about
changes in our whole system of com-
merclal and industrial aotivtty. Why,
' we could do without the telephone al
most as well as we could go back to
' dependence en the horse and buggy.
Telephone as Example.
"The world is always slow to utilize
a new Idea to its fullest possibilities.
The telephone had been a success for
some years before Its true value to
business was realised. Today a busi
ness man thinks nothing of carrying
on a business conversation over a wire
(90 or 1000 miles long. j
"The development of the automobile j
has been surprisingly rapid, but the
vrtrld has hot yet begun to utilise It
- as It will be utilised In the future.
Every phase of its practical uneful-
- nesa wyi be doubled. It will play an
even more Important part In business
:t Ah an it plays today.,
"You take the cars parked on the
street downtown. They are there be
cause they save a good many hours a
day for their owners, because they
enable them to accomplish more In a
; day Increase their productiveness, t
v Salesman's Faculties Increased
"In one use alone that of enabling
salesmen to get around over their ter
. ritory quickly the automobile la of In
estimable value to business. Kven in
covering large territories It Is a won-
derful time-saver and tncreaser of pro
ductiveness. Borne of the country's
. largest manufacturing concerns furnish
. an automobile for every one of their
salesmen. One big company has bn
tween 500 and 600 cars covering the
country. They have found that the
- automobile greatly increases the sales
man's earning power, and they would
not think of going back to the old
way of covering the territory by train.
."The changes which- the automobile
has brought about In rural life' ara
equally Important. It has brought thei
city to - the country? and thV 'country 1
, to the city. Before Its advent the
farmer hitched up and went to town
once a week. Now he thinks nothing
of running to town at any time. If
hla plow, tractor or binder breaks
.down he can Jump In his car and run
In to the dealers and be quickly back
In the field with the needed repairs."
Care of Rod Bearings
In removing play . from rod bearings
: by reducing shim thickness, great care
should be exercised to get each rod
bearing as free ls every other bearing.
To make one bearing tight and another
rainer tree in movement is courting
irouoie. lor in most cases It will be
. found that a knock will result.
1918 Maxwell chassis with exposed working parts which was seat here from the Los Angeles show.
The. latest in mechanical construction
In the way of a stripped chassis made
Its appearance on automobile- row last
week at the salesrooms 'of C. L. Boss
Automobile company, local Maxwell dis
tributors. The stripped chassis is a
Maxwell of the 1918 model and is fin
ished m white enamel and nickel and
is valued at 13000.
The chassis was sent by express from
Los AngcCes, where It was exhibited at
the Los Angeles Automobile show, and
will be exhibited In Portland at the com
ing automobile show to be announced at
a later date.
'As soon as It was installed in the show
windows of the Boss salesrooms It at
tracted considerable attention. Every
working part can be seen by the cut
away Idea and during the show. It will
be operated by a motor.
WEEK'S MOTOR AND TRUCK RECORD
The following temporary police per- s R. M. Walley.-
t e(-aat riavalai1
i naswa,. -.v vztv
381 K. Forty-ninth
mits were obtained In Portland during : N J Simmon. 318 K. Ivanhoe, Ford
the week by new car owners, pending : delivery.
me arrival oi . TCT ty-second and Oregon. Ford delivery.
to 11. w. vvuKins, iiuDiietici ui luc
mobile Record:
A.- J. Kralmer, 304 East Eighty
fifth street, Oakland.
Gray K. Burrington, 304 Mayner, Se
attle, Studebaker.
L. J. Sendelbach. 334 Grand avenue,
Ford.
Edward C. Olsen, Corvallis, Or., Oak- ,
land.
1. R. Williams, 1889 Sacramento street. ;
Mux well. i
Ladies' Benefit Society. 138 Killings-1
worth avenue. Ford.
Crescent Manufacturing company, 27
North Front street. Ford.
J. Rosenberg. 224 Morrison street.
Hupmoblle. "
T. A. McGrew, 1163 Belmont street,
Ford.
Joseph Flnley, 411 Alder street. Max
well Rudolph Erickson, 4410 Sixty-fourth
street southeast. Maxwell.
Lelah Shields, 54 Taggert street.
Chalmers. , .
E. R. Wllllston, 1651 Gloucester. Oak
land. Peter Seesbauer. 428 East Forty-second
street north. Ford.
Rex Jarrett, 164 ft Union avenue,
Ford. .
O. Vedvel, 284 North Sixteenth street,
Ford.
N. A. Perry, , 517 East Fourteenth
street Premier.
T. M. Ramsdetl, 296 East . Fifteenth
street, Oldsmobile.
H. F. Kimble. Prlnevllle. Or . Dodge.
J. B. Folkenberg. Linnton, Or., Dodge.
F. O. Urter, 663 K. uentn streei:, rora
delivery.
Jachetta & Coliatro, C34 Third street.
Ford. '.
E. E. Archibald,- Tangent. Or., Over
land. W. E. Knowlton. 22 N Twentieth.
1 Hunmoblle
DOUGLAS
COUNTY
TO .
HAVE A NR7 HIGHWAY
AS FOREST PROJECT
Secretar of Agriculture Approves
Cooperative Agreement for the
Agriculture Secretary Approves
Cassidy State Agent
For Federal Tire
The secretary of agriculture has ap
proved the cooperative agreement for
the survey and construction of the Can
yonvllle-Oalesvllle road. In Douglas
county. '.
The CanyonvUle-Galesville road is
forest road project under section of
the federal aid road act. It will replace
a specially difficult stretch of the Pa
cfrlc highway-in the Cow Creek canyon
region, and, because of its value as a
military road, its early construction
Important. The total length of this
project Is 11.1 miles in Douglas county,
8.15 miles being within the Umpqua na.
tional forest.
State Will Help, Too
The state highwsjr commission of Ore
gon and the county commissioners of
Douglas county will cooperate with the
government in the survey and construc
tion of the road. The estimated cost for
the location survey and construction
1167.000.
The government will pay 42.68 per
cent Of the final costs of survey plans,
estimates and construction of the proj
ect, and the state and county officials
67.82 per cent of these costs.
The cost of maintenance, which Is es
tlmated at 11800 annually, will be met
i by the local authorities. Cautionary
Announcement was made last week
by George K. Cassidy. head of the
American Tire as Rubber company 'of
this city, of his appointment as factory
distributor f-r the F'eral tire f-r vp
state of Oregon. Only recently Mr. j anj informative signs will be erected ml
William I Finley, 651 East Madison
street, Franklin. 1
Howard Repair company, Washington
and Lownsdale, dealeiis' tag. -
C. A. Parvin, 943 Beawerton. Chandler.
O. W. Davidson, 817 Board of Trade
building. Chandler.
Miss C. Pfenniger.TSS Marshall street
Ford.
John Helgel. 547 Taylor street. Ford
delivery.
15. Bweet, 263 staric sireei. uvenana.
Russell A Sullivan. 188 West Park
street, Reo.
Portland Taxi company. zti uwreirxn
street. Dodge. .
Karl P. Morgan. 785 East unsan. uk-
land.
A. S. Trew. 804 Wells Fargo building,
Liberty.
Ainrea rn. weaver, no xemn street.
Ford.
Edward C, wagner, zue mui street.
Ford. ,
E. I. BallaghT St. Helens, Or.. Oak
land. The Gould company, 69-75 North
Twelfth, Ford.
H. H. Temple. 835 East Fifty-fourth,
Dodge. .
H. Bruck. 149 Fourth street, Oldsmo
bile. H. J. Wlzer, 146 Royal Court. Olds
mobile. Robinson-Smith company. Sixth and
Madison. Ford dealers.
Autoparts Supply Co.
In Iiarger Quarters
quarters constructed for them at the
southeast corner of Sixth and Oak
streets.
So rapid has been the growth of the
local branch of this firm that larger
quarters had to be sought soon after Its,
appearance in this territory. Fortu
nately the store room on the corner of
Sixth and Oak adjoining the old loca
tion was available, having been discon
tinued as the ticket office for the South
ern Pacific railway.
Through the efforts of E. L. Hawkes,
president of the concern, and R. E. Al
len, local manager, a lease was secured
on both stores and they were converted
into one large store room. The entire
A noticeable- change effected last week
on the auto row was the moving of the
AuYc-pafts' Supply mpMi'y 'trtto rgef4rtafPaccesso?y bwainess In the Jorth
front has been changed and with the
addition of new fixtures and a large
increase in stock, the firm Is presenting
to the local trade one of the largest
automobile tire and accessory concerns
in the state
R. E Allen, who is manager of the
Portland" branch, la well known on the
coast, avlng spent many years In the
Cassidy obtained the state dtsirioutioii j
of the General tire line and will handle
the Federals in conjunction with them.
A large stock of Federals has been
received and additional shipments are
on the way, so that a complete stock
will be on hand. Heretofore the Fed
eral line has been carried on a small
scale and the appointment of the Amer
ican Tire ic Rubber company will be
practically the same as a factory branch.
A vulcanising and repair department is
also operated by Mr. Cassidy in con
Junction with his tire linea as well as
in accessory department.
GASOLINE SUPPLY AMPLE
The followlnr f irures taken from the renorta of the United States bureau of
mines and department of commerce indicate that there la no Immediate danger of
gasoline shortage in the unitea states and that reports to the en ect that gasoline
is iiaeiy to Become pronioiuvo in price in a year or so are uniounaea in fact.
-xear. rroauction. , exports
ISIS ...... 1.09M50.0OO
1814 l.m.JJO.OOO 208.I92.C5I
1115 . 1.84.70.000 2tl.IO9.0tl
.1918 ..... 2.058,3X3.818 85t.21T.125
191T- 2.448.769.800 . 414.8U.OOO
The 1917 flaurea are estimated tioon the basis of six to eight months' returns.
In this connection one must consider the stock of gasoline on hand In the United
a ia tee as reported ey tne Bureau or mines:
xear. stock.
January. 1911 ft...., 279.0t4.St9
April. 1915 S4t.t1.40t
June. 1915 ? 828.918,082
December, 1915 18t.6TT.4tt
January. 191t 203.9tl.S8S
December, 1918 31t.l2t.ll7
June, 1917 . 3t4.971.145
Consumntion by automobiles Is not Increasing In nronortion to numbers, as
almost everyone assumes ; and it Is very far below the generally used figures of
u 10 euv gauons per car. . i di iscis are aoout as roiiows :
Auto Reglstra- Gasoline Consumption. Same, per
Tear. tions. June 80. . Gallons Car.
1915 2.070.908 1.619.S1T.000 492.0
116 2.932.466 1.16T.431.90O 394.T
1317 4.242.139 158.281.900 298.1
Windshield Rattles
On many makes of cars the wind
shield is held In place by steel arms.
Vhlch protrude through the cowl and
are fastened on the under side by a
nut and locknut. Sometimes these nuts
work loose from the vibration present,
with the result that the shield is al
lowed to move slightly. The first evi
dence of this is seen in cracked finish
in the vicinity of the windshield sup
ports. In making the necessary periodic
Inspection for loose nuts and bolts the
windshield supports should not be for
gotten.
maintained along we rigm vi
the government.
District Engineer L. I.-Hewea of the
office of public roads already , has a
party at work making the location sur
vey for this road, which will require
three or four weeks to complete.
Oregon's share in the flO.000.000 al
lotted bv the government ror rorest
roads In the national forest states, under
section 8 of the federal aid road act. is
$128,111 for 1918. and a similar amount
each year until 1928.
0. M. Steves Joins
Scripps-Booth Ranks
Notification of the appointment of C.
M. Steves as secretary treasurer and
general sales manager of the newly or
ganised Scripps-Booth company of Cali
fornia was received here last week by
C. W. Harold of the Chevrolet Motor
Car company wholesale department.
Mr. 8 levee was the northwest manager
of the Chevrolet company and Is well
known In automobile circles of this ter
ritory. Last week he was notified to report
to Oakland by R. C. Durant and upon
his arrival was informed as to the or
ganisation of the new company. R C.
DOrant will be president and Norman
DeVaux vice president. Upon his ac
ceptance of the new position, Mr.
Steves severed his connection with the
Chevrolet company. Mr. Harold will
assume eharge until further plans are
made. The Scripps-Booth organization
under control of the General Motors
company of which Durant Is at the head
Idi dollars in Uckr dollar. Inrart hi War
Savins' PUmpa. Tbcjr paj litterett.
Motor Truck Tax Is
Fixed by Officials
Under the motor vehicle license law
county courta are to fix the fee for mo
tor trucks over five tons and the fee
eoes to the county treasury. Under
this provision the commissioners of
Multnomah county have fixed the sched
ule as follows:
For every truck of slightly more than
five tons' capacity, 88 per month ; for
every other truck of over five tons, a
proportionate fee of $1.80 for each ton
TTT""
west
The firm of which E. L. Hawkes is
president started business in Seattle
some five years ago. steadily increas
ing until It now operates branches In
Portland. Spokane and Tacoma with
headquarters in Seattle.
While here a few weeks ago, Mr.
Hawkes declared his Intention of In
vading other territory in the spring.
Table Salt to Prevent Freezing
When the car owner is caught in a
freese and no regular antl-freese solu
tion for the water system Is available, a
quantity of table salt thrown into the
cooling system will help to prevent f reel
ing. ,
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THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Consider the Ford Sedan, seating five, as first among enclosed motor cars. Not, of
course, as an example of extravagance run blind, but as a modern utility made espe
cially convenient and equipped in comfortable luxuriousness without being wasteful
A roomy body, seating five, deep upholstery with fine thick cloth, silk curtains to plate
glass sliding windows, latest type ventilating windshield, large doors; and underneath
: the matchless, regular Ford chassis. All for $695 f. o. b. Detroit. What more can you
reasonably require iri an enclosed motor car? For all social functions, calling, parties,
the theater, or as a full-service family car, taking the children to school, shopping or
touring, the Ford Sedan is best because of its convenient comforts, easy operation
and extreme economy in maintenance. Women are always pleased with the, Ford
Sedan because of the simplicity and safety of -control; it drives as easy as an electric
and is much more flexible. As a matter of fact the Ford Sedan is the car to satisfy
every day in the year. No waste of days when you own this splendid car.
Any one of the authorized Ford dealers listed below will be glad to tdemonstrate
.the Sedan for you give prompt attention to your order and pledge you the best there
is inv"after service. Why not buy a Sedan today
Francis Motor Car Co. Robinson Smith Co.
- East 13th and Hawtnorn Sixth and Madison Sta.
V Pacific KisseiKar Branch Palace Garage Co.
Broadway at Davis .12th and Stark Sts.
Rushlight I & Penny
Broadway at E. Third St. 4
Talbot & Casey, Inc.
Grand Avo. at E. Ankeny
in Reserve Accounts for Real
Savings in Operation!
America's Greatest Truck Value Has 112 Reserve
Strength.
Tf TC T E WILL put into your hands the day-to-day, mile
V V per-mile cost record of an Indiana Truck working
in yviur une ui nuiinni.
You II see savings
you 11 want.
Pneumatic Tires Are
Used More on Trucks
it pneumatic
i. This ad-
ARMY PRISONERS TO
ASSIST IN BUILDING
BETTER HIGHWAYS
Bill Before Congress Provides
for Employment of Prison
Labor on War Goods.
Prisoners tn the United States army
and navy prisons can be employed tn the
construction of military roads and hlj;ta-
frays upon the paasare In consTess of
ectslatlon sponsored by Senator Hoke
Smith of Georgia.
The purpose of Senator Smith's bill
la to provide for the employment of
prison labor for the production of war
supplies, the details of which the .war
bureau of the National Committee on
Prisons and Prison &abor and the offi
cers of the American Federation of La
bor hare been preparing; sine the United
States entered the war. The bill au
thorise the secretary of war and the
secretary' of the navy to employ mili
tary prisoners In the manufacture of war
supplies and In the construction of mili
tary roads, to make agreements for the
use ef the neoessary machinery and the
finding of available material, and to
supervise the work of county and state
hlshway officials who may be charted
with the development of the proposed
roads. .
Army prisoners already ara smpJoyed
on road work within the cantonments of
the national army. The bill will make
poeslble their employment on roads leaa-
It is a matter of common knowledge
that motor vehicles are capable of
making- greater speed on
tires than on solid tires
vantage Is being seised upon by many
manufacturers of motor trucks, who
state that the proportion of pneumatic
tires to solid tires on trucks is rapidly
Increasing- The possibilities of the
motor truck for quick long distance
delivery were emphasised recently, by
the dispatch with which a rush order
recerVed at the Goodyear Tire k. Rubber
company of Akron. Ohio, was delivered
Ing this company received an order, i fa to the cantonments. In many Instances
certain parts of which were In Cleve
land. An emergency truck brought
these parts from Cleveland while the big
five-ton truck was being loaded. This
truck left Akron at 8 o'clock Tuesday
evening, arriving at Newark at 9
o'clock Friday morning, having trav
eled 475 miles.
pleue tar )o si sd in Tbe Journal.
the cantonment ate without gooa road
connections with the railroads and main
highways, making the transportation of
food and supplies a matter of consider
able difficulty In bad weather. i
A Xew York man Is the Inventor of a
mooden lemon squeeser that works hori
zontally Instead of vertically, aqual
pressure with both hands being; possible.
Tl .
We'll definitely prove
service and savings.l
For immediate de
livery, an Indiana
size for y our pur
pose at a self
sustaining price.
- Factory Dutr&vtors of Um Lia CernpUu '
Broadway at Couch Portland, Oregon
F. W. VOGLER, Prss. "-CM. MENSES, Mgr.
BroaJway 1460 A-4959
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GALITE
LENS
Passes the 42-in. Headlight Law
With Highest .Endorsement
The LEGALITE LENS has been officially O. K.'d
by the Washington and Oregon State Licensing
Boards the highest endorsement that could be given
to any Lens.
New light law went into effect January 1, 1918.
Don't wait for the rush- get yours today.
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Villains . i innDni... J j J
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Sizes.
6 Vs-inch .
7 to 7y4-inch . . .
7a to 86g-inch .
834 to 95t-mch .
934 to HVs-inch
Price Per Pa!r.
..$2.25
2.45
3.25
4.00
Ballou & Wright
, McCalman Co.
Failing
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