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2 THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 21,. 1826. IE lid 117 11 AUTOMOTIVE SECTlOiVI UJ?SCM M BRCVBEEO EDI TOR r f d TO ,11 ant SILLS MID STEVES , " , How About a Real Club?. ' " ' , Welocallr hesitate to say that Seattle hae any advantage over Portland in any particular whatsoever, hut there are cases where this is true. The ' one thins; that strikes us forcibly at "this moment is the camaraderie exist ing" on automobile row, there, due solely. to one thing; Their Automobile ( ,v Dealers' club. ' -' . On the local row too often the social- and less businesslike side of. distributing- automobiles in this territory Is lost Sight 'of, and dealers live in their own little bailiwicks, by themselves as much as possible, and seldom run across the street to the other fellow's joint for a little nonsense now and then; The st-tocetber spirit that' would foster better ifiethodaof ; v competition here is woefully lacking. f ;. ;-.. -"' ,. " wst Anm oaitia tn? The dealers chin In and buy a house. '- fitted up like any Other club. Meals are.serred 'there and every day. for . lunch the men In the automobile business make it a point to-drop In for a midday bite and a moment or two of rag chewing.. They figure it's cood for business and good for Seattle. Then, too, new men have a chance to know the fellows, along the row. 'Factory representatives from firms, in ' - y the Bast have a chance to see what they are dome in the Sound City to held the automobile Industry along. The club helps the industry at the same time helping; the dealer and his salesmen. It keeps them all out Of " - V ruts and destroys the little germs of petty partisanship that are wont to V - spring up where men in competion are so closely associated in every other way than ha a social way. What can Portland do to bring about a similar state of affairs? What move canthe dealers here make to cause business life to be more pleas - ant? Isn't there some place where the men ean meet, both dealers and salesmen and forget for an hour the calls of salesmanship, except in anec ; dote and story, and lose sight of the impelling force of the dollar sign?! - V Wouldn't such a club as now exists In Seattle be a good thing for the row herer Won't it be a good thing for Tom Jones 'to know Bill Smith? ' Perhaps each can help the other in a good many ways without ady wounds to bank accounts being inflicted by the association. Both are fine fellows, but they have, never taken the trouBle to find it out. - No man can stand up or sit down and tell what is going to happen ' during the coming year in the automobile world. He simply cannot do it, ; even though he has been following eyery move of the industry. with a ml-.-'' croscope. Men have tried time, and time again to do it. and have failed. What has that to do with a club? There may be days and weeks during V the coming season when a close harmony among the dealers and salesmen here may have an important bearing on the health and life of the industry. In times of great prosperity, they can help each other enjoy it. In other times they will be able to sense the difficulties besetting the man across the table or on the other side of the club room, and there may be help in many ways to give him. V ' S tor a club, to foster a spirit of fair play, of clean competition, of . social Intercourse that will help the row here to fight for the Portland industry as the men Of Seattle, of San Francisco, of Los Angeles, are - fla-htlnor for their automobile affairs in those cities. An atmosphere of good fellowship, as brought about by such an association, will, perhaps, do away with the little bickerings and thoughtless actions that help neither . - - knocker nor the one knocked. i - . 1 Reed College Interest The Interest Reed college students of the chemistry and physics depart ments are taking in the gasoline situation, both as to Its supply and its s chemical properties, is highly gratifying to those interested in the further. "Ing of the interests of the automobile Industry. Whether the gasoline we are getting today is the best we can get for . ' the money is a question, something to be answered by an industrial com mittee of the legislature Itself. What the man owning an automobile . wants is the best gasoline he can get "for efficient performance and at a minimum cost. The quickening of this Interest among the students of the local college . means that a movement for better gasoline is taking definite shape. , ' One thing about the raise in the price of tires that manufacturers Of other products do not seem able to equal, is the rather satisfying explana tion of Just why the raise occurred. ' And we may also say: "The saddest words on sign of fence, doggone the gas. it's up two cents." . Gasoline is not as highly volatile as It used to be, and yet it keeps . . en going up. ' . ' . i And last week Seattle got the automobile show off her mind. Nobody says It beat Portland's display. ' "There, but for the grace of lubrication goes my car," said the philoso pher, pointing to the worst wreck In sight. " From all accounts the Ad club tourney and jaunt to the confines of Stockton will be the big affair of the late spring. Don't miss it. One' might say that that racing driver whose wheel .rim was cast off while speeding at a rate of 104 miles an hour escaped by sheer luck. a - What Portland dealers need is some place where they can get together - for a few moments each day and forget the bickerings of competition Seattle has it with excellent results. Numbers of people are asking their ouija boards when their new cars Will be delivered. One good use for the thing if it can tell. PORTLAND VISITORS Sales Heads of Chevrolet Are on Annual Jnspectioir Tour - of Country. W. C.' Bills,'- general salesmanager of tho Chevrolet Motor company of California, and C M. Steves, assist- salesmanager for the Pacific const territory, arrived in town this morning f from San - Francisco on their annual inspection tour of the Pacific eoasU - They are here in Portland to look, over the work be ing done by the Fields Motor "Car company in their distribution of Chevrolet motor cars throughout Orejon. . W. C. Sills, whose visit was predicted by LeRoy Fields upon his return from an Eastern trip last wasek, la probably one of the ablest executives now with a motor car manufacturing concern in this country, according to Fields, who was given the opportunity of seeing the workings ef. that organization while on his recent trip to the center of things. It Is to this man that the Chevrolet company owes its wide and efficient corps of dealers and executives through out the great field catered to by the manufacturing concern. It is said that he has, built a force that is famous for the quality of the men forming it and for the detailed system now being fol lowed' by the company in the manufac ture and marketing AT its product. C. M. Steves, who has assisted him in the work In this part of the country, is said by the local dealer to be in close touch with the national situation now obtaining in the Industry, and that the activity of the coast forces is due chiefly to Ais leadership. The two factory officials will make an extended stay here, as they are do ing in other parts of the country on their tour, and it is probable that all dealers and branch managers in the Northwest will be accorded similar at tentions from the men who are out to get the local situation at their finger tips. The men are of the young progressive type found so widely these days through- ON ANNUAL INSPECTION ' ' ' i ' """" N ' f x f ' y t " I wC i : J, , i. , i ::. -.y' ....?..:? ' K , I v . 1 . gl Kmsssisji is i W. C. Sills, general sales manager of tbe Chevrolet Motor company, and C. M. Steves, sales manager for the Pacific coast, who are here on an Inspection tour of coast territory, "visiting In Portland with the Fields Motor Car company, local Chevrolet distributors. out the motor car world, and Fields thinks that their visit will go far toward Instilling a greatly Increased amount of pep into the .distribution of Chevrolet cars throughout this part of the country. It la probable that they will go on to Seattle from here to give, the field there tbeir scrutiny. LIFE OF IF. HADE LONGER CHANGE 10 ANOTHER WHEEL Right Side Tires Are Subjected to Greater Wear Than Those on Left. . There are many little .schemes known to those familiar with ' the- habits of tires - that serve ; almost as well for those necessities of motor travel as does the wiles of the wife to make her husband's ' shirts last a while longer. She mar r reverse the cuffs, may rearrange the , whole structure of certain garments with care and subtle effect. -But there is no art that is already known Jut that'ean be put to other uses. ' Whoever believed that chantrlng; tires ...' from one wheel to another made any . material difference in the life of the i tires? .Yet it remained for a tire en j glneer to apply the principle probably , : used on some of his own clothes when : he was young, or which iray still be - used without hia knowledge. , . Inland J, Sparks, local representative - of th Firestone Tire and Rubber com -,y pany. mentions the ' fact that the fac tory at hron has gone t- conUlerabir . . trouble to establish . this principle, 'Seemingly - unimportant. says Mr. Sparks, :but one which , nevertheless . saves many a motorist many a dollar. ZHGIKXSRS IHYKSTIGATK . ' . Engineers," r he v continued, "have made exhaustive tests relative to com- parative wear on tires la various po sttona . They have learned that those . on the 'right wheels are . subjected to s srreaUr wear then those on ih. left. n9 hH "ti rear wheels t m-.re .an those on jront. . , 1, ' , "Thus, it trkdlly 'can Y scn that - oocaslnnal charges will effect mem ..equal dlftribtaion. of wear, with a cn .MHiuent tnrrfase In n ilea .;.. . -. "Kecordr . he , Nn kcr": at the me- tory on a larfre number of tires, which have run In th afri,-regat more than ,000,0)0 miles. Some -)f these tires have beeo run cr.ntlniinualv In the uatn.t positions. The records "More that the average tics en the leU front wheel will Kiv.t nearly twice at, much mileage as uie.on on me rignt rear whee!. DCEABIL1TT IKCRRAoKO "The mileage in the various po si tons. IhAMAM .u i I 1 WA I . I . .-. ... M)JiU41IIMiei7 UK following proportions: lo cne mlie ef service on the right rear wheel, tnres will average 1 1-10 milen on th ift rear, 1 on the right front and 1 on the left front. In other words the average tire that would run eo0 miles on th rhrht rear hu4 wtn IH m.m 7000 on the left rear. 9000 on the right num. biih u.wj on uie ten irent wneeL -lire experts explain that the rea sons for these conditions are. apparent Drivers turn tn tha rto-hf mM hui..i. - ...w.v iitnwii. ly than they do to the left, they state, because thev mora franuaatl tn re quired to pass vehicles coming towards mem man uiey awe tnose going tn the same direction. Thus the tires on the right side are mora frMiiantiv ranuira to travel la the ough portion of the road and an additional strain Is thrown on them in turning, . causing a grinding niouon tnai is detrimental to tread and fabric. ."The wear on rear tires to heavier Jian on those in front because all the traction is secured on them and because there Ja,. additional atraln thrown n them by the action of the brakes In topping and the transmission of the vw nuw iwninf ins car er truca. "Spooks Oil Well" Looks, Like Duster Kane. Pa., March 20. I. N. S.) The - spooa ou weir which is being- drilled near here is not going down r't Many difficulties are being encountered wuh are rapiaiy mounting. Why the "snirita" AirttA lwu of believers to seek In such an inao ceasible spot for oil is one of the tays- ' cornering tnose unlearned In the psychic. With the hole only about SOo feet deep the operations have been sus- HUil a A k. m . ..... Ky.ivm wevause ot inaoiuiy to nave rutl aeiivered. 1 While the "apoek" theory of locaungr mi is booed by the rard boiled drillara Hiw .w- impulse to take a Quick look around whenever sound is - heard. The Job- Of louowing, uie ghosts' , directions is not altogether a pleasant one for tbemia fact, they are willing to admit it is auite uncanny,':. ..,..,...,. a. ..,... . . . EUOtTGH "But," said the ..ieutij.nlc at the stor age garage, "there's a knock in the en gine, the eluteh sounds loose, the springs rattle and the hood fits badly. It makes an awful noise. Don't you want the car tuned upf' ' - ."Not for a week or so." answered the composer, "until I get my nefc series or jazz music out of the way." STBAJTGE "I wish 1 had a sift ef cab Use Ilcanr Bank O'Fmwimai He stlls a wed ear ersry ear. When I cut sell a BeV one.". to have a man do it ' But now father insists upon doinar aH th aaraae work himself.'' - .-. . . " . 8AYEO "The day I learn to. drive." said the new owner, , "Hi give you $J5." instructor i (who ' has been sweating away all afternoon, with no . apparent ground gained) "Thanks ever so much. My insurance premium cornea due in three' -months;'"'".""' '' . ' ' ' COERECT' "Deafness In a pedestrian is unpardon able,' said the motorist who had vainly blown the horn of warning. "Blindness in a motorist Is onthink ablev..when it isn't something, else," said the pedestrian who had been grated by a hair. r . -V: --. : ;.'',..'. '.: A -' KETIBSOBE :S ." Baertrard. tors backwaid, 0 Hat ia thy flltht Oire ss eftsap cu saaia, hut for tonight 1 "Is thai engine too far gone for re palrr ' i v,-.;. "Not at all," said the mechanic. "A new set of bearings, a connecting rod or so, a. few new pistons, another cam shaft and bearings, and a set of new valves will fix it up in good shape. The cylinder block seems yto be la pretty good shape." - -. . TTAH! Half the time," saya Silas Backfire, "tha knock in tha engtn' ain't thar. Hit's Jist tha echo of tha knoekln' tha salesman who; couldn't make you buy did when he heard you bought one of t'other feller's models." raws , "This car gets better every day." impossible l" "Well, every other day, then." LOOK "I am heartily in favor of freedom of speech, said Judge Cam, with profound conviction. l That .may have been my attitude "But I thourht -you held that letting I ence. but Just see what the curtailment everybody talk flooded the country with of the rights of hot air artiste baa don a surplus of useless oplnloosr to the 'gas eltuatloh ' : ; ; BEST "A correspondent wants the , best book on wiring systems en the market." Editor Give the name of any good political essay. "TAHHS -"Who cleans your car?" "Before . the state went dry, we used DON'T HAVE T1RETR0UBLE NON-PUNCTURABLE TIRE INSOLE WITH AIR ABSOLCTEIT OUABAKTEED MORE MILAGE NO WORRY AGEKTS 'WAITTED 'for Oragea Lovett & Waddell Ui Stark HU PerUaas, Or ; TO PROSPECTIVE TIRE PURCHASERS Get MORE MILEAGE out of your tires. You CAN SAVE more than they have advanced by ha vine UNK VERSAL TIRE FILLER installed. ALL TIRES-we, sell are-GUARANTEED on filler. We. handle ALL MAKES OF STANDARD TIRES. It will PAY YOU ta CALL US before purchasing new tires. ' '. . : , Call East 6810 UNIVERSAL TIRE FILLER COMPANY 7TH AND HAWTHORNE t JOURNAL'S AUTO DIRECTORY rwnisMiniir- DETHLEHEM TRUCKS . Northwest Auto Co. Electric LighU and Starter Distributors, Alder at 18th JACKSON SIX TOURING FOUR WHEEL DRIVE TRUCK Denis Motors Co. Twenty-first and Washington Stofe Dittributora - J Kiiig a-: i 1VA would because Hest in the Long Run not biiv a tire it Was cheat will buv an inner tube simply because it costs a dollar or two less. "Vet the performance of the tire is often dependent upon the service rendered by. the tube. It is a wise economy to equip with intne nrsc place. Goodrich Red inner xuoes pla Td TOTES 1 ,He 3. E Grith Ruther Certpiny Akron. Ohio . CMaIuts of the Silvertown Cord Tire . ! "Q RUBIN MOTOR CAR CO.; '-. Oragoo, Waaalagten, Uah Distributors ' Broadway and Hrt. Pkena Broadwav First Csr ia the'U. S. Sold Complete, including liceaea and S2 weeka of free - '. sorrico. SIXES v BROADWAY AT OAK! Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co. FIRST AND EAST MORRISON We are Authortsad raetory Rspresentatlvea for, UNITED MOTOR! SERVICE. INC. Sunset Electric Co. Eighth and Davis Strssts. Broadway 12 RAINIER Worm Drive TRUCKS SALES AND SERVICE SERVICE GARAGE. 3S1 Firtt St. Phone Main 2417 Savers Six SAYERS ut? Funf ' Equipment Denis Motors Co, Twenty-first and - Washington Stat Distributor ACCESSORIES AND REPAIRING ARCHER & W I G G IN 1 Distributor of AUTOMOTIVE ACCESSORIES BUta Btrt at Oak - ifYew-V STORAGE Broadway and Glisan Phone Bdwy. 843 The only battery with a definite euarantie. All make. of batteries charged and repaired. David Hodes Co. N. Broaihray aad tlaaaWa AUTOMOBILE GEARS IBTt IMn lATftmsin "- ENGINES A SPECIALTY EDISON STORAGE BATTERIES Gibson Storage Battery Co. SJatribiWrs 12th and Aider Sts. Float Brosiws ttif Electric Service Broadway 1764 A Large Stack ef Fartt fer AO Claatrlaml Systaasa. A SXTKKTS Auto Co. - : SpecialiiU on Electrical , Troubles Free Inspection . Northwest Auto . Co. Jlstrttiatara Miller Tires. Tubes and Repair Materials, Miller Ad-On-A Tirea Aider at 16th St Portland, Or. Stewart SPEEDOMETERSH mod "BIG TEN NECESSITIES-. Th$?r Mon Than Aeetutriu -', :,' ' 01. Lji . 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