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THE OREGON .SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY; MORNING, MAY 15, 1921. 5 - . " - .' TOURISTS FINISH STUDENTS present manager with Icar. TOUR OF 32,000 MILES IN YEAR Brooklyn Men Visit All Parts of the United States, Hawaii and Panama; Keep Expenses Low, 'Two sun kissed and husky men drove a mud-covered car into Brook lyn. N. T., the other day bringing with them an unusual story of a motor tour covering the greater part of the' United States, Hawaii and Panama. They were Walter A.' Mc Laren and Thomas J. Ilollingrs worth of 373 Ninth atreet, Brooklyn, who had Just returned from more than 32,000 'miles of touring: and outdoor life covering a year's time. McLaren and Hollingsworth were Jointly conducting: an art studio in Brooklyn when the wanderlust" struck .them. They had been "buddies" in the great war and Mr. McLaren's health was impaired through a wound received ."gassing on the battle front. His phy sician had prescribed "air and lots of it." They bought a model 15 Dort touring car of the Brooklyn Dort dealer on May 4r 1920, and started on their Journey May 8. STOPPED IK PORTLAND They first drove into Connecticut, thence through New Tork state. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and to St. Louis, Mis souri. From Missouri to Iowa, Kansas. Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana and on across the Rocky mountains to Seattle, wasmngton. from Seattle they pro-- cmuw id rgruuM ana menc soum along the Pacific coast, crossing the Sisklyoufl and on to San Francisco, Lbs - Angeles and return to San Francisco. There they took a boat for Hawaii, where two weeks were spent touring the Island. Returning to San Francisco they again shipped, this time to Panama. After "-hitting the high spots" of the Canal Zone, they embarked for New Orleans. Leaving New Orleans they took a side trip to Florida and then started north. Now through the southern and mldweet ern states. they traveled their objective being Duluth, Minn. From Duluth they turned and started for home where they arrived ' on the anniversary of their departure. EXPENSES TTCDER f A DAT The young men kept careful account of their costs: Their expenditures for living, including food and an occasional! night s lodging, amounted to less than $4 a day for both. They purchased 1382 t gallons of gasoline and 25 gallons of lubricating oil. They carried a small tent which pro Tided shelter at night, but very - little other impedimenta. They started out to "rough it" and adhered to that resolu tion throughout, carrying no change of outer clothing. They wore khaki suits, leggings, sweaters and heavy boots Both McLaren and Hollingsworth were enthusiastic about their trip and said they would like to do it again. "There was no condition of climate or road bed that we did not encounter dur ing the trip, yet never once were we helped." said McLaren. "Low and high altitudes, clay, mud, sand, mountain grades they all looked alike.' "McLar en is now feeling ' great and both of us are "hard as nails," said Hollings worth. "A trip of the kind we have taken may Involve hardships but the benefits to body and mind are infinite. It was all distinctly worth while and I would like' to do it again." Big Eock Crusher , Arrives at Eugene j To Pave McKenzie Eugene. Or., April 14. With the ar rival Monday of the big rock crusher from the East, It Is announced, the ma chinery needed In the surfacing of the McKenzie highway is complete and work will start as soon as the crusher can be hauled to the site above Blue river. It weighs 13 tons and has a ca pacity of 200 yards a day. Work will go on rapidly, according to Sims & Carlson, contractors, as everything else Is in readiness for the arrival of the crusher. ' The road will be surfaced with crushed rock of a maximum size of two inchea The gravel Is calculated to make a fill er; and with three heavy rollings, a good hard surface is expected. The road to Belknap springs will not be closed while the work is going on, it Is announced, but is certain to be in bad condition. Motor freight terminals are now estab lished In Cleveland, Cincinnati, Balti more, Grand Rapids, Louisville, Minne apolis, New "Cork and St. Louis. : - - ' : 1 " wswewMMiii ill jmnutiiwmmmmmmmmmmmmmmamdr . ' - -' ' ; r I mmammaamTll!tmmw mi inniin k i nr -aesSSSSSM""aMe I ' a I,,, i t .mil iii ii. i,liuuil . i."' Jl ' ' I a iiii .. m ,. i)I'i.iiijjiM'J",0ii,..ii,- i. r. :::" W" t M " '" X"V" f '" ::' "' . - 1 S i. (' 1 -if" " i . ' ' , ' - ' , I i " : vt v . S J . - : .i : I W-- . ij i -f.rsc-.iv:Cfr:-..::.-:-;:::;; ''f V i'V'V'Xl . " - -N - -V J 1 f- - 4' 1 r 1 --- v ; 5 ;: - . ; . - . j SSWSSSSSSSSSSWBSBSSB 'g JSBBBaBMgSSSHf'IW-! jjames J! GOVERNMENT MAIL PLANES ACHIEVE ENVIABLE RECORDS Many Planes Have Piled Up Enor mous Mileage in Transferring Uncle Sam's Letters. Richardson receiving Olda Four presented by student body of Oregon Agricultural college Undermflated Tire Works Harder Than Well Inflated One Why do the tires on your neighbor's oar run farther than yours? Suppose both of you nave a heavy car of the same make with two five-inch cord tires of the same make on the. rear wheels ot each. If the weight of each car is 5300 pounds, , without passengers, each of these rear tires must carry a weight of 1415 pounds i with passenger weight added. ' To make all conditions equal suppose the Inflation pressures are ex actly the -same and that the tires are shifted from one side to the other from time to time, i In such a case, eliminat ing accidents. . the tires should deliver exactly the same mileage. If two of these tires are compared with a pair which must carry only 900 pounds, it is readily seeji that the last tires carrying the smaller load are do ing less work per mile. It is to' be ex pected then that these two tires will de liver more mileage . through an qual service. Tire service is properly Judged not in terms of miles alone but in miles plus work done. The same condition holds true when pressures vary. When pressure goes down in a tire, it flexes or- bends to a greater extent than when the pressure is up, or In other words, it does more work. A five-inch tire flexes or bends 1096 times per mile or over 1,000,000 times per 1000 miles. Any great move ment of the tire carcass makes a tre mendous difference. Miller tire officials say this difference in pressures also ac counts for the fact that opposite tires carrying the same load and with the same operating conditions may not give the same mileage, though they give the same service. It Is easily proven In factory tests that an underinflated tire is several de grees hotter at the end of a run than a properly inflated tire, owing to the in creased internal friction of the underin flated tire consuming more energy. This cuts down mileage but not the service the tire is giving. Motorcycle Carries Money to Employes ! : ' The Metropolitan district commission of Massachusetts has evolved a time saving method of paying. its help. In stead of employes leaving; their work and going to headquarters, the commission sends their wages out to them. A motor cycle and sidecar Is used for this work with 'a police lieutenant acting as pay master and a patrolman doing .the driv ing. Bach week the outfit makes the rounds of the Metropolitan park district. Not only does this save time for the com mission but it also saves carfares for the workers. The workers can always be easily found and' it takes only a few sec onds to pay each man. ; : Plan Plane Patrol .Calgary, Alta., May 14. Elaborate measures are being taken this year by the dominion ' forestry branch to- deal with outbreaks of fire In the forest re serves of Western Canada. Six air planes will be used in Southern Al berta, two ' main, flights being made dally in ordinary weather, one north and the other south. Extra staff and equipment will be in readiness for more frequent flights when there is fire dan ger. . i .-. E A TQM CORD AND FABRIC NON-SKID Tires ahdReiTiibes ............ ; .... . . REDUqED - MILEAGE GUARANTEE INCREASED! TO 10,000 MILES KEAT0N TIRE & RUBBER CO. Sixth and Main Streets ORE GN CREDITS RESTRICTION OF Fi HITS AUTO MEN Startling Decline lis Shown in Export . Business; . Many Big Orders Lost to Manufacturers. New Tork, May 14.s Big automo bile manufacturers who are now en deavoring, after partial or total shut downs, to resume operations on a large 'scale, are facing k serious prob lem in the startling decline in Ameri can export business in the last few months due to the restriction of for eign credits. ! : The real seriousness of this difficulty may be seen from statistics Just com piled by the National Automobile Cham ber of Commerce for its! 1921 Issue of Pacts and Figures, which show , that, while all previous sales, production and registration figures were smashed by the automotive industry in 1920, exports not only kept pace, but increased from 4 per cent In 1919 to 1 per cent in 1920. Out of a total of 2,205,197 vehicles pro duced in the United States 'last year. In cluding both passenger cars and motor trucks, nearly 171.000 were exported, or twice the number sent to foreign buyers In the preceding year.' - f MA5Y BIO OBDfBS XO$T ! I But with the foreign credit stringency at the critical point to which it has come, buyers from other countries are no longer able to place orders! In the" fame quantities., Instances can jbe found on every hand of losses of bfg orders be cause the American manufacturers can not finance them.- Especially in view of the fact that the big factories are work ing only to meet the daily! demands of their dealers, the effect of ja large cur tailment in a branch of their business that meant- more than 7 per cent of its total last year, Is evident. Export agents and sales managers In the automotive industry I are asking themselves what they are going to do If they are to regain and maintain the record-breaking level of last year's busi ness. Most of them are turning, as the only apparent solution, to the extension of long term credits to American manu facturers and foreign buyers under the plan recently authorized byi congress in the passage of the Edge act. COMMITTEE MAKES SUB VET . A survey of the automotive field made by the committee on organization of the Foreign Trade Financing I corporation, the largest of the corporations being formed under the Edge law to foster foreign trade through the extension of these long term credits, shows that the value of exports In this field in 1920 was $383,676,437, an increase of - more than $175,000,000 over 1919. Included in this total are figures' for passenger cars, trucks, motorcycles, parts, I gas tractor engines and tires.' , I With such widespread markets having taken American motor products in such vast quantities, the export . agents are emphasizing the necessity; , 6f helping foreign buyers through the extension of long term credits so that American cars may lose nothing in prestige during the period of readjustment in the next few years. American motor vehicle manu facturers fear nothing In their home markets from foreign makers, but they realise they must be waryj of competi tion of foreign manufacturers in foreign fields. , ;.,. f i e I ' Ah, Here We Are! Bartenders' Union, Alive 'n' Healthy (By Un!rnal Service) New Haven, Conn., May 14. The now rather antique gag: : Whatj has become of the Bartenders' union V received an answer here today. It is still alive and kicking no, the kick has been taken out of it but it is still alive, j i . New Haven's local of the. Bartenders union held a meeting today. The health inspector disclosed the fact that the bartenders are much more healthy with prohibition than in the "good old day." He said the organiza tion haa . only one member I on the sick list. . I . ; Although the local union has lost many of its members through changes in busi ness many still cling to the bid organisa tion for the sick and death benefits. For mer bartenders who have become soda clerks still retain their union buttons and call themselves bartenders: '. Foreign motorists are opposed to the American practice of constantly chang ing models of passenger automobiles. - Auto ! Shipments Show Spurt During . Month: I of April ! L New Tork, May Jl4. A noticeable up turn in the automobile Industry, pas senger cars and trucks is noted by Auto motive Industries In its current issue, which says: ; j ' : - J. ' "Automobile ' shipments from 50 of the largest factories increased 27 per cent in April over March; i Shipments decreased 23 per cent in April, 1920, under March. Shipments approximated 64,900 cars. "Ford production! for April waa 91,370. This was more than 70 per cent of the business done in April, 1920, one of the best months the Industry, ever had. "Retail sales the last : fortnight have slowed up , somewhat because of , bad weather, but there is no Indication of lack of interest. Truck shipments are steadily Increasing. ; "Leading automotive parts manufac turers are averaging- 50 per cent produc tion add report April collections were the best in many months. Two Mechanics Buy Garage at Eugene Eugene, Or.j May 14. J. W. Michaels and Jj. J. Ogden, mechanics in the em ploy of Vlck Brothers g-arage here, have bought out the firm and will' conduct the business as the Tourist garage." It Is one of Eugene's 'largest garages. Vick Brothers will still retain display room to sell their i line of automobiles and tractors. ; . Italian Seaplane Service The press reports that a seaplane serv ice Is about to be started between Brln disl, Corfu, Crete, Derna and Alexandria. The machines are of Italian manufac-4 ture and will carry both- passengers and matL 4 More than a million and a half miles have been flown by govern ment airplanes carrying United States mail, and 21 of the planes engaged In . the. j work have traveled nearly' 30,000 mjilev over 5000 miles more than the distance around the earth at the eqjuator. the postofflce department announces. The prize plane of these veterans of the air was the DeHaviland plane No. 76, which flew 38,348 miles In 407 hours before ' It went out of service on Octo ber 16 of last year. y The average speed or this plane was 94.4 miles an hour. MAKES GBEAT BECOBD The plane with the next best record was D. H.. plane No. 74, which has flown 38,381 miles in 420 hours and is still making regular flights over-the Sierra Nevada mountains from Reno, Nev to San Francisco. Its average speed has been 89.1 miles an hour. Mechanics of the air mail service expect this plane to maae Detter tnan ou.uuu miles. Next to these in 'the service come the two Curtiss R-4 planes, of which one. No. 31, had a record at the end of 1920 of 33,644 miles In 378 hours in the air. This is an average , speed of 88.8 miles an hour. Another. No. 35, has cov ered 3Q.948 miles In 397 houas, an average speed of 77.9 miles an hour. Both these planes are flying between New York and Washington at present. MABTHT FLAXES CI1JED j Two of the Cleveland built Glenn I. Martin twin motor mail, planes put Into service in the 1 winter ot 1919 have exceeded 25,000 miles of service. Plane No. 201 of this tyie has flown 27,757 miles at an average speed of 75.3 miles an hour. Flane Noj 202 has seen 25,593 miles of service at an average speedy of 89.2 miles an hour, j Both of these two planes are being repaired and over hauled and give promise of getting into the 40,000 to 50,000-mile class, the post office department says. i American Records H Broken atl English Motorcycle Track London, May 14. jTwo international motorcycle records, for - machines of 30.50 cubic inches piston displacement, established by ''Gene"j Walker at Day tona Beach, Fla., on April 15, 1920, have been broken by R. N. Judd at the Brook lands track.; His performance sets the kilometer world's record at 25.9 seconds, which j is .the , average 1 of trials in op posite directions in accordance with the rules., . : j .; . .The mile record now stands at 43.1 seconds. Judd's : fates t kilometer was made in 24.2 seconds, a speed of 92.44 miles per hour, and his fastest mile in 41.2 seconds, a speed of 87.38 miles per hour.. The machine used by Judd was a single cylinder Norton with slde-by-slde valves. American engineers are in- Washington State Officials Inspect " Highway System Pomeroy, Wash, May 14. -The party of state officials inspecting highways' visited Pomeroy Tuesday and was en tertained at dinner by -the Pomeroy Commercial vc1ub. The visitors were E. V. Kuykenhall, director of public works; James Allen, supervisor of highways ; J. W. Hamilton, district engineer; Carl Shdf f, private secretary to ; Governor Hart; C. W. Clauson, state auditor and member of the highway board, and State Senator P. H. Carlyon. s Speeches were invited by W. F." Hull, chairman of the - Commercial club, and all the visitors and a .number of .local road enthusiasts responded. Early completion of the grading and graveling of the Pomeroy-Clarkston link of the Inland Empire highway was predicted. Mr. Kyukendall spoke fav orably of the projected new road to the Grande Ronde district in Garfield county. Supervisor Allen declared - Washing ton la building better roads than any other state in the Union and for less money. i Secretary Shuff defended the poll tax law, predicting that ultimately it would Supply the money now raised by taxes on real property for state purposes. - Senator . Carlyon urged greater Inter est In road building and said another program probably would be presented to the voters. SEAVIEW RUSHES tensely Interested in this; a diminutive machine. Gasoline Is now selling for 27 cents a gallon in Chicago. performance by WORK ON CAMP New Automobile Grounds Will Be Up to Date in Every Department. Seavlew, Hay 14. A splendid new automobile camp ground here Is vir tually finished. This is to be a free camp site for automobile tourists and is equipped with stoves, water, free wood, tables, swings, electric lights, washrooms in fact, every thins possible for the comfort of the tourist. . V v The grounds are nicely located and convenient to the highway, and it is a very pretty spot. With the new $35,000 ferry for carry Ing automobiles across from Astoria to the North Beaches and the new highway leading Into North Beach from Chehalis and South Bend nearly completed. Sea- view and all of North Beach are ex pecting banner crowds this, summer, and are making full preparation to handle the largest crowd North Beach has ever had. The new ferry, which is expected to be In operation tomorrow, will run three trips a day. It has a 'capacity of 15 machines. Now that the free automobile camp site is finished Seavlew will start work on the children's playgrounds and ten nls courts, and other improvements, all of which will be completed by the first of June or sooner. Long Beach and Ocean Park have both completed their free automobile camp sites in addition to tennis courts. Ilwaco expects to start work on their free automobile campsite Immediately and have just finished a first class ball grounds. North Beach Is one of the finest as well as the longest beaches In America, and beach visitors this year will find it greatly Improved from the standpoint of amusements and general improved fa cilities and conveniences. QUALITY TEST IN AUTO PURCHASES "Buyers' Market" Rules, Accord ing to Official of the Haynes Automobile Company. ' According to the Haynes people, change from a seller's to a -buyer's market haa resulted also In a change from a quantity to a quality market. and that In turn, has increased the Haynes production ' until the year bids fair to be the biggest in the company's history, states Alton O. Seiberling, vice president and general manager of the Haynes Automobile company, Kokomo, Ind. , "It Is far exceeding last year and the year, before, when production alone measured the volume of sales. That was a 'sellers market. "Today things are different. People are .scrutinizing their purchases. They Insist that every dollar shall buy Its full value. So great is the demand that today iu our big factories at Kokomo we are em ploying 16 per cent more men than ever before, even In the big rush days of last year and the previous one." Ths total automobile revenue for 1021 In New Tork state is estimated at 811.000.000. ' . THE SENSATION OF THE SEASON SEE IT , THAPS ALL ft I iV'rS to CTona It1 or lhcoimomy Owners of many Federals operating in and around Portland show total repair . costs of less than $2.00 for periods up to nearly three years. Many earlier models-r-some 11 years old are operated at a cost so low as to compare favorably, with their 9th and 10th year brothers. Sine 1903 , 60 N. BROADWAY AT DAVIS BROADWAY 321 A' coastwise organization with branches at San Francisco, Oak land, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Portland. J ''''' ' : ' ' '-''- : ' ' - .-" " , -. I I Lexington's Double Victory at Pikes Peak fife lr- V5 s S tSS ' m WHEN the two Lexington special " cars made a clean sweep i the Pike's Peak hill climb against a field of fifteen. The race was run over the "world's highest highway"-for a distance of over twelve miles, and an average grade of 10 per cent, there being over a mile's difference in altitude between the start and finish. Furthermore, there are 142 hairpin turns to be negotiated. Added to these "natural hazards, a ter rific snow' storm was raging more than half the distance, but in spite of this, Loesche covered the course in 22 minutes and 25 2-5 seconds, while Cline was only 5 seconds slower. This rneans an average speed of nearly 35 miles. - - 0 Clin II WT II Way ) V VLighty ; I V Light J , s i ' Come in and arrange a demonstration in the Thorobored, or phone Mam 3878 DISTRIBUTORS ' OREGON LEXINGTON CO. 632-634! Morrison St. at 21st Tel. Main 5878 "i f I Way ) J l( Way 11 VyLigkt hl L. . .. J i . 1 r i.