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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL; PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. JULY 21. 1918. " IE MAKERS PREACH PhiladelpliiaTuts areges which may receive ears or per mit them to ; leave, but eaa give no other service. This action, decided upon by the local automobile dealers, is to conserve materials artd release man power, for the war industries. ' . - Tests. Lubricants . "' A machine for testing lubricants and their durability when in contact with TRUCKS AID POLK ROAD WORK EN TOUR. IN COMMERCIAL CAR ; In Buy, Early Law Philadelphia. July 10. . N. 8.V-M0- e: . , j ECONOMY TC torists in Philadelphia cannot buy gaso line, oil or tires after f o'clock In the eve nings or 00 Bund ays. The only motor SAYS AKRON FOR PARCEL POST places permitted ' to remain opeM are steam ia an Englishman's invention. 18 IS IDE MOTOR SERVIC PATRONS I r,""'T! " VISITOR lit" -4v r - .; ' i 5 v sv. " ' . v'ii1: DHhq pmroaDDBDe. L L. King, Advertising Man for - Goodyear People, Making His . First Trip to Oregon. ; , Department "Asks Congress; for ' Permission, to Turn. Part of . Fund Toward Road Building, BETTER flOADS NEEDED HERE Postoffic' Department Finds No J- 50-Mile Stretch From City Fit ' for Establishment of Service. The successful operation of the motor parcel pott eervlce by the postal fJepart ment la indicated In a report submitted by the department to congress In sup- " Jrt of -a ' Joint resolution permitting - the postofflce department to expend BO per cent of the gross earnings of the motor parcel post business In the build ':', inr of pout roads throughout the United Y States. -' - - : ' The report rovers the operation of eight route's between December 1, 1917, and Mar 31, 191S. It shows gross earn ings of $304,436 per year or approxlmate ; IyHO.000 per year, for each of the eight routes..- Trucks operating over, the routes traversed 201,811 miles of high- way at an average cost of a little over If cents per mile. : ;.': "'V "Better Hoses Are Reeded The success and efficiency of the sys ; tern , depend on three conditions. The first is the interest and cooperation of j the patrons. The second Is economical : " operation. .The third is proper highways -. tver which to operate. The" first two ; cjondltlons have been met To establish the third and most essential condition it is now proposed to spend half, of , the , gross earnings In road building ' throughout the country. It is owing to 1 highway conditions that the service has .Dot yet been established In Oregon. It was ; proposed once to establish two ;. routes out of Portland, but a survey of the, highway . conditions made by the - United States office of public roads showed that In no direction could a good road be bad for a distance of 50. : miles, the length of the routes. There were stood stretches here and -there, but between them were links which were not adapted for the pro- ; posed use. For this reason the estab lishment of the routes was postponed '. until' Oregon has better roads. Expe- rtence has shown that unless the road can be, used every day In the year the . operation of the service can not be made a financial success. Thonnand Ilontes ITned ia East The resolution now before congress has for Its purpose a system of roads " which will be available for motor truck ; traffio at any time. Inasm.cn as it Is shown 'that there in a profit to the gov ernment from this service, it is re garded as hardly fair , that the various ., states should stand the cost of building and ' maintaining the highways over which it will operate. It is therefore suggested that the service pay for Its .. own roads. The intention is to have the plan carried on in conjunction with the . various states, but it is not Intended in any sense to replace routes which the. Various states are building or to Inter-1 fere with systems already built. -' East of the Mississippi river there are 1000 routes. On the basis of figures compiled by the 'postal department these, would bring In a gross revenue of $40,000,000 annually! Fifty per cent of r this would give $20,000,000 for the con . -' struction and maintenance of national .. highways. The addition of 5000 routes west of the Mississippi would raise the earning power of the entire system to , t40O.000.000 per year, which is more than the total postal revenues at this time. Sew Rowtes Wonld Cat Profits It has been suggested that these new route would cut down present postal revenues to a onslderable extent, but assuming that there are 1000 routes which would not Interfere with the " postal revenues. then the surplus earn . Ings of these 1000 routes would in due time build and 'maintain the system. ; , Such a, system of highways would not only he oft great value to the transpor tation of parcel post, but also would - be a great national asset It would make a valuable addition to the sys tem of national defense' and would furnish means for carrying the in- crfeaalnr motor truck traffic " necessl ." taisd by the lack of other forms of transportation. I , ; To Remove Play In removing play from rod bearings hy reducing shim thickness, great, care should - be exercised to get each rod ,. bearing; as free as every other bearing. . To make one bearing tight and another . rather free in movement is courting .. trouble, for in most cases is will be found that a knock will result. " FORD OWNERS Save Broken Arms Equip Your Car with the fFord ;Anti -Kick Krank" - ' Positively -prevents injury from kicking. Best possible insurance against : broken or strained arms ,and hands. Worth several times its cost Simple but guaranteed to de th work. , . NFer sale. by Ford aeeesserv L' houses. ' , .v y v ' 1 ONLY $7.50 ..' Anybody can attach In a few minutes with a-wrench and punoh. Don't ran chances. Play safe today. . Outside dealers wanted. For in formation write ( ' " C A. CLOYED ; Mil lltk Are. S. E Portia So, Or. 11. w?-;.' ,-, f i HI hifhsftir. y. n (j it - '"1 y&zz i i ill I' L Li " fzr 1 y 5 - 5 , C e , i 4 4 V ? Duplex four wheel drive truck, When Judge E. C. Kirkpatrick and Conrvmissioners Manston and Beckert of Polk county were planning5 this year's war work, they were confronted by a proDiem or nign naming costs. On onei stretch of work 4the cost of hauling gravel by teams was $3- per yard and on another it was J6, in consequence they turned to the motor truck. Gettiner in' tnurti ulih or. nn hauling problems from the Northwest jxuio company, iney made their- first start by purchasing a Duplex four wheel drive truck ,and a month later added a three and a-half ton Indiana truck, and are now hauling the gravel for 40 cents her vard that kkum cost $3 by teams and for 75 cents mat wouia nave cost 6, due to each truck carrying four yards to a load and making four round trips per day. HALF PUT-TO TEST Maxwell Vice President Tells Dealers of Faith in Power of Industry to 'Win the War. "The whole question of war work is a question of speeding up. America has never yet exerted herself industrially, while we have apparently done wonders. It has come easy and there never yet has been a strain on our industrial plants in the east. There have been un certainties. We will Admit hit tual production, by speeding up, theN ui eu-oii atone can build more war work and still produce enough automobiles to take care of the demands of this country than the government can possibly ship out of Detroit or send from New York or Boston harbor to France. This Is the message of T. J. Toner, vice president and director of sales of the Maxwell factory to a keenly inter ested audience of the Maxwell dealers. Mr. Toner told of his indomitable faith " the power of American industrv Bargains in All Standard Mxl Firestone ......... tOxl Bowers Six Tltalie Sext Bendrie SOxS MeGraw 88xJ Congress Skid .... 80xt Tltalie Skid SOxtH Firestone Skid ttxSH Keystone Skid Ssxttt Tltalie Skid SOxSH Congress Skid lxi MeGraw Skid SOxSVi Hnperbar Skid SOxSVfc Bowers Skid SOxtH Brander Skid . . . . , 92x8 Vi Goodyear Q. B..., SSxSH Coagress Skid..:., SSxSVs Tietor Springfield laxlVi Republic Skid SSxSV AJax Plain Q. SlxSVa Coagress Skid .... tlx TItaiic Skid ....... tlx Cosgreis Skid ..... tlx4 Laacaster Skid ... 8x4 Congress Skid .., Sio.eo S13.60 -JR13.50 S11.80 ..$10.50 .911.85 $13.75 $15.95 $13.95 $17.95 $15.75 $14.95 iis.no 19.75 16.90 3.00 17.75 21.25 14.90 .$26.50 $23.55 $23.90 $24.25 INDUSTRIAL FORCE OF AMERICA IS NOT taes TUBES 8xS Red 8xSH Red SixSVi Red 81x4 Red 8ix4 Red 88x4 Red 81x4 Red 86x4 . Red 8x4 Red 86x4H Red Tsbes....... Tabes. , Tsbes....... Tubes....... Tabes Tabes Tabes....... Tsbes..... , Tsbes. Tsbes....... 2.35 .25 $3.35 $3.60 $3.95 S4.00 4.25 4.35 4.40 5.25 KOKOMO TIRES IhWAAS'iJ. Mail orders promptly filled. State 331 ; Burnside St., Portland t u$ed in Polk county road work. as against one yard tb the load and ona trip per day . by tearfl, on one long haul of 17 miles. Every operation of getting the gravel from the bed of Mill creek is so ef ficiently coordinated that their season's work will show a record for low cost Three teams and scrapers dump the gravel on a platform directly over the crusher "which one man - feeds with a shovel. From the crusher the gravel is taken by an endless chain of car riers up to the hoppers, from which the trucks are loaded by drivers. The entire cost of getting the gravel from the creek bed to the Job. three miles away, is 90' cents per yard. From the creek bed to the road there are several long, steep grades, but the Duplex and Indiana trucks have nver faltered In the work and neither one has lost an hour's work for repairs. to win the war by added efforts rather than by dropping peace-time tasks. How TJ. 8. Is Aided "When anyone says that the auto mobile manufacturer or the man in Detroit does not care for the war, does not know we are at war. is not suffici ently interested, the best answer we can give him is that we have sent 42,000 from that city to camps and over to France, and, believe me, we are inter ested. The automobile industry or any business in Detroit interferes in no way witn tne successful prosecution of the war. "Perhaps you cannot understand how the automobile manufacturers can do everything that the government asks of them and still produce automobiles, but' wer' can. As yet there is not an auto mobile factory in Detroit working over eight hours a day, and there are 24 hours a day. The automobile fac tories of Detroit are at work on $780, 000,000 worth of war contracts, and are producing munitions as fast as the gov ernment wants them or can take care of them. "They say the labor question will bother us, we claim it won't We find In Detroit, that there is .plenty -of labor, properly handled. We have Just had 200,000 women in the city of De troit registered for war work. We have 2600 at our own plant earning more money than they ever did, working shorter hours, and I believe healthier and happier than they ever were before. Of course there is a lot of work they cannot do and we do 'not want them to do, but we have not yet begun to use half the labor that is available in this country. . -Fewer Automobiles Made "I do ndt mean to say that we are Makes of Tires and Tubes 88x4 Montford 8kid 8Sx4 Bendrie Plain 88x4 Bendrie Skid 88x4 Tltalie Skid ...... 88x4 Goodyear Plain 88x4 K a per bar Q. D...,, 84x4 Ajax Kon-Skld 84x4 Savage Non-Skid. 84x4 Springfield Bib... 8x4 Congress Skid 84x4 Goodyear Plain .., 84x4 Keystone SkM ... 34x4"4 Baiavla, Skid ..... 34x4 RepBblie Skid ... S6x4Vfa Congress Skid ... 8Sx4H Firestone Skid ... 85x44 Springfield Skid! . 36x4 MeGraw Skid . I. 3x4i Pallmen Skid ... 87x6 MeGraw Skid 87xi Imperial Skid 87x8 Blaekstone 87x8 Firestone Cord .. 87x6 Congress ......... 87x4H Bendrie Skid 86x6 Batavla Bib...... 86x6 Marathon 123.45 24.85 128.50 27.75 21.40 2A.411 2fi.RA $29.50 25.80 28.75' $19.50 .32.95 35.50 S.. $35.95 $34.50 $38.50 39.50 39.50 $39.50 . -$39.50 ..$30.50 ..$49.50 $39.50 142.75 $42.50 $39.85 Grey Tsbes....... Grey Tsbes....... Grey Tsbes....... Grey Tsbes.. Grey Tsbes.. Grey Tsbes Grey Tsbes Grey Tsbes Grey Tsbes Grey .Tabes. ...... 80x8 S0XSV4 82x8 H 84x8V 81x4 88x4 88x4 84x4 88x4 8xl !2.10 13.00 $3.25 53.75 53.50 4.00 M.OO 54. 50 54.35 54.35 - wm allow rise asd style of ris. Portland, Oregon K8 Tire economy and tlrv conservation Is being preached by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company, says l I King of Akron. Ohio, manager 6f the advertising department, who is making a tafi of th Coast agencies in order to become fa miliar with local conditions. "It Is one of the main objects of our advertising campaign this year," he said, "to impress upon the users on automo bile tires the necessity of conserving them. The. value of a, tire is in the laat thousand miles. , At first .thought it might be wondered at that those en gaged In the business of 'making tires would be interested in educating the owner-of an automobile to take better care of his - tires. This view is wrong. We, as manufacturers, are more inter ested in giving our customers satisfac tion than in the amount of sales. - "Another reason apart from this is that conditions attendant upon the war make.lt necessary that the rubber sup ply be conserved as much as possible. Every automobile owner can contribute to this by careful attention to the con dition of his. tires, making timelA re pairs before they get beyond the repair stage." , This is Mr. King's first visit to the Pacific Coast, and, like all-others who see the country for the first time, he is much Impressed with its scenic beau ties, and incidentally its fruits and natu ral resources. "I never tire looking at the mountains,", he observes. "They: certainly are some mountains. Back East we .have what we call mountains, but they are-only hills compared with yours." Another source of wonder to Mr. King is the silver coins in - circulation. I common with others accustomed to the use of small currency, he does not take kindly to it and thinks that in this re spect the East is ahead of the West - golng-to build, or that any of the com panies are . going to build as many au tomobiles as we built last year. But I have had men say to me, "But you have factories thoroughly equipped for quan tity production methods for war work, and it is more Important that we get that out That is very true, and I be lieve today that practically every foot of space and machine tool equipment in the automobile industry that can be suc cessfully used for war work is being used for war work, but in any big plant specializing in quantity production there is a lot of special equipment that has cost millions of dollars and that cannot be used for war work or for anything else-but for what It was designed. Now as those things are explained to our government officials they have too much sense to want to ruin the manufacturer with this sort of equipment to want to cause industrial or labor traiMM V anything else that would be caused by uiscaraing mis equipment Brake Xiaing Hint The use of SDllt rtveta tnutaA n tv. solid type makes the operation of re llnninsr the brakes vafv nn m,,s.t simpler. The rivets are inserted so that the heads are against the metal hands. The split end is opened out and sinks into the lining. A round steel bar in serted into the Jaws of the vise makVs an ideal tool for spreading the split !UllIlll!IHI!!llllllllli!LD B fife 0' c j SSZ : " ' ' ' , CpP The Last Analysis -Performance The best motor truck test of all is performance Bethlehem Motor Trucks have solved thousands of delivery problems. They have solved those problems because from radiator cap to tail lamp each working or sup' porting unit is as near perfection as science and money can bring k. What Bethlehem Motor Trucks are doing for other people they can do for von. equip wiui Dctmenems, ine cominani trucx or a motor I ruck Age., 1 $1295 tTon is Chassis BETHLEHEM DUMP TRUCKS V. W. Torler. Phl Broadway at Coach llBElllllllilllllllllllllBHlllIllllIilllllllllfllll m We Are1 Also Distributors for MARMON DORT INDIANA TRUCKS, MILLER TIRES COLE ; , ROAMER REO TRUCKS REO STEARNS DUPLEX 4-WHEEL DRIVE TRUCKS AUTO CAMP TRAILERS AMES TRUCK ATTACHMENT v f - ' - NORTHWEST AUTO COMPANY 1 VI t ........,U...HIMtlll, S h-v A fx ft INTO. :'! fk 1 vt--y Krl iv' -t' A- -ii.,.;fr9farti. J - - An.i.iinrnMiiii' x " 4 , , A . Frand Dee Marshall-and family, motor from os Angeles to Portland la ' .' ; Dodge -Commercial car.. Frank Dee Marshall, Dodge Bros, agent in Southern California, reached Portland last week in a Dodge commercial car which he has outfitted for touring in such a- manner that two, beds could be made up inside the car, affording sleep ing accommodations for himself, wife and three children. All the baggage and provisions were carried underneath the beds.. In the day time the children and even the old faithful collie dog, "Pal" rode in on top of the beds making a roomy as well as a good safe place for the kiddies The trip was made by easy stages the party having left Los Angeles on July 4 going through Bouquet Canyon instead of via the Ridge route, which Dee Marshall declared to be bad in places The tourists were especially en thusiastic over the splendid free auto camps encountered on the way first of which was situated at Tulare. There they found electric lights, a good stove, run ning water and even firewood already cut and split. An attendant in charge made them feel more than at home. The next camp, which was only fair in ac commodations, was at 'Ceres, CaL, but Sacramento could have easily been made the second day out front Los Angeles had there not been so great a temptation to tarry longer than necessary at-Tulare. At Sacramento they found a wonder ful camp located in Lincoln park. Every conceivable accommodation was fur nished free by the city of Sacramento for tourists. There are tents, stoves, ftre wood. a, swimming pool, shower baths F. Q B. ALLEISTTOWN. PA. NORTHWEST AUTO COMPANY Street' ........ ....,...,..tll I4lt4il..4il I ... w iff. S " i ? I r m f . v.-. so,. -r-w for both men knH Am.n Anil vam wash rack wbere the - industrious mav vash; their cars. If you. happen to be there on Saturday nlrht von .r. ntr alned with a free dance, excellent music ana aii, almost at the camp grounds The next stop of the Marshall party was at Red Bluff, whexe they camped on the banks of the Sacramento river and indulged in a refreshing, swim. The trip from Sacramento to Red Bluff was made through Davis which al though a little longer way round, afforded much beter roads ' Pavement was en countered from Red Bluff to Redding, but from there on to Dunsmulr a bad stretch made traveling difficult and an entire day of it left the travelers mighty weary. At Dunsmulr were a few "just fair" camp grounds. The trip from Duns mulr to Ashland was a pleasant day's run as was the next day from Ashland to Roseburg. Roseburg and Ashland both boast of splendid camp grounds the former having running water and free electric stoves Roseburg to Monroe was the next run and from there an easy day's trip brought them to Portland allowing on the way plenty of time to see our capital city. Mr. Marshall was more than disap pointed in not finding a camp place in Portland. The entire trip was made without a bit of motor trouble, and distillate ' was burned throughout, averaging little bet ter than 21 miles per gallon, and about 500 miles per gallon of olL, 11I1II1I1 BETMGHEIYI Ithwmtf A C.jl JL-'.l. IIOTORMTRUCKS $1915 Chessk BETHLEHEM TKACTOKS CM. Measles. Mssager Portlasd, Oregon :3 m li. It Ml I eiMeeeeall The Comfort Car Riding easo and road Bteadzoees that fcrrfa complete rest and relaxation are ccly the ftyp taste of your comfort in tbe newHQpaxta. 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