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SECTION SIX AUTOMOBILES -- - SIX PAGES GOOD ROADS k ' v I I '''' "' jj '"j ii ' - i - ; i t - - 1 ' ." "- : - "" i . ... MANY OPINIONS EXPRESSED FAVORING ONE WAY TRAFFIC Dealers and Motorists Ask Relief From Present Congestion Many Say City Council Should Have Nerve Enough to Stand by Its DecisionsQuestion Now Being Considered. ; That some of the radical steps are necessary to relieve the congestion of motor traffic in the down town section of jthe city are badly needed is the (consensus of opinion of both auto mobile dealers and drivers. With the narrow streets and the In creased use of the motor car traffic in .'the evening from 4:30 to 6 o'clock as sumes such proportions that delays and jams are unavoidable. The city council is now considering adoption of the one way traffic principle on the roost heavily traveled streets. This is point ed out by. many as th only solution unless some scheme is evolved : that ' will provide for widening the streets. The chief objectors to the one-way traffics plan are the merchants perat i ing shops along the main streets. They are of the opinion that one-way iraffie will take business from their door. "Silly," Is the way one dealer termed this objection. "Moat of these merchants figure that the number of machines passing their store is , the criterion of business. It makes no difference how many cus tomers come in or how many are forced to. go somewhere else because they cant drive to the store of any particular merchant but it is the num ber of passing machines that count "These objectors fail to realise that by adopting one-way traffic more ma chines can get to Uteir store directly. Instead of having to keep right on go ing wheBN a driver reaches . a point where he wishes ; to stop he will be able to, drive up to the entrance of the store and 'go In. Of course if the mer chant dont handle a line of goods that is reliable that is different. , I am as- (Coaeteded ea Pate Tatea, Cahuaa roar) Ervin Tells of Experiences Chasing Cars Traffic Hawk Has Long Record Without Any Wrecks or Accidents. Seven years of riding after speed ers without having a wreck is the rec ord of Lieutenant Prank Krvin, head of the speed division of the .Portland police force. Ervin "entered the police ' work in 1915 and followed closely on the heels of his father. M. J. Ervin. who served as a bicycle patrolman in the early days. Shortly after joining the force, Ervin was placed on special detail in rounding up speeders. "They were wild days, too." he said. "It was the day5 when roadhonses were open and the- chief sport of drunken fools was to violate all of the speed laws is the city. I came on Jthe force shortly after a series of particularly gruesome and bloody accidents from motor speeding. ' "It was bo ctoch, for the drivers would try to get away and made the motorcycle officer catch them. I have chased many of them for two hours but I got every one I started out for." Many of these "trying; to escape Er- . (Ceadaded em Paf Two. Cohoaa Toox) PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNPAY Autumnal Colors Charming k n m, k s at Side Roads Source of Fun By Wallace 8. Whartoa Despite the rain squalls that have so recently been in evidence the Ore gon out-of-doors season Is by no means over. TVe motorist need not settle down to the staid routine of driving from the garage to the office and then back asain Picnics and jaunts into the woods are still in order. The woods havje taken on the glorious colors of autumn and are really in their most attractive season of the year. The roads lined by the trees and shrubs appear as did Aladdin's garden, a flood of chro matic brilliancy that charms jthe eye and more than repays the motorist for getting out to see the new har mony. There are many drives out of the city that take one into this new world. Drives that are short and over good roads but strange to sky they are roads that are not heavily trav eled. -It seems to be a fault of the motor ist to take the beaten road j and be content with a repetition of scenery and never start exploring the side roads. These side roads often hold more attractions than the main road. STEW VISTAS AFFORDED j Winding hither nd thither in the bills each turn of these side roads opens up a nsw vista that more than MORNING, SEPTEMBER satisfies the craving for beauty and something different. Now that the shrubs and trees are in their autumnal colors the attractiveness of the roads are enhanced 'one hundred -foW. I One of the roadw that leads through a -country Strang. ta " the .'average motorist is the Taylor Kerry-. road. This road branches from the" Capitol Hill highway elzht-tenths of a mile south of the railroad crossing' at Mult nomaJi station. Front there it wind in a general easterly direction to the Boone Ferry road. " At the junctior. of the two roads' the motorist turns to the right and fol lows the Boone Ferry - road south. Three-tenth- or a mile-' south of the intersection the road branches again and the motorist has the option of two routes, one going east on the Palatine Hill road, the othr continuing oa the Boone Ferry road to Oswego Lake. OTEJtt PA L ATI A E ' HILL ' ' By. turning to the left and following the Palatine HSU . road - the motorist comes to the west side Pacific high way just north of Oonthorpe. The drive south on the -highway to the end of the pavement, a . mile or so north of West Linn is very attractive and easy running. - The road from then on is very-rough., .:.." ' By following along the Boons -Fer- (CoDchided'oa'Ptc Feur. "Column Two) 10, 1922. Rail Strike and Car Shortage Is Cause of Delays Automotive Dealers Unable to Get Cars. From East on Regular Schedule. Two factors are responsible for the delay of shipments of motor cars from the Eastern - factories, according to automotive dealers. The greatest difficulty is in getting an adequate supply of ' freight cars. The output of tbe factories is at such a load that available cars, that is cars designed for transportation of motor vehicles, are' at a premium. At . present shipments bound for the West are still made in . the 40-foot 'cars to Eastern points. 'Ths 36-foot cars are scarce.. "Why they are even using refrigera tor cars in the East," C. A. Triphagen. assistant sales manager -for - the " Reo in Los Angeles and Saa Francisco, said while visiting In Portland. ; ' "Any old thing is .used gondolas.' fiats or any sort of a car that, will roll and hold an automobile. The. car situation, a far as automobile manufacturers are con cerned, is very acute in the East-" Shipments Into Portland have suf fered maay:, delays recently.. -This is dwe. partially to the car shortage and partially to the rail strike. Dealers are iCanelmiad.ast Fafe Fear, Call Tbsm) V E RNONIA H AS f GElEBRATION; MOTOR TRIP Entrance of Railroad Is Big Event; Development of City ' and Country of the' Nehalem: Predicted;' Journal Scout Finds Roads Fair; Loop Trip Excellent for Recreation. Saturday was a big . day for Vernonia, '' . . ( Kestiing In the midst of, the . virgin timber of 1 the Nehalem valley, this amall but promising town held a. two fold celebration. First of all the first train to be officially run by the Port land, " Astoria A pacific railroad en fered the city.,. - w , - ; - This' Itself was a momentous ?yent. but coupled with -the preparation: for the construction of a J 1,250,000 -sawmill - the Importance of- the- day was. greatly increased. . Vernonia, now ' a. town- with some 750 people,' is plan ning to reach, a population- of several thousand and that in 'no great . length of time. . The Vemonla, Chamber of Commerce, which acted as host to the Portland- Chamber of Commerce . Sat urday, . has -already , Jaid campaign plans to Increase , the importance of IS DE the town as a center .of the Peninsula district. ; . . Special effort is being mads by that body of ;men,"to have dairy farms, fruit orchards, berry yards, truck and produce farms, lumbering and mining activities started about the town. PROGRAM OF . FKOGBESS ' ' Propitious Indeed is the program of the Oregon' American Lumber com pany," a subsidiary of the Central Coal &. Coke company of Kansas City.: This . firm Us wecting the huge -sawmill to . take care of the timber on the J0.0OO acres of land -recently purchased. Be sides .this the Inman-Poulsen company has holdings consisting - of j 24.000 acres V ' - To get road data for those : wishing to make the Journey to Vernonia over the week end The Journal scout mads (Coach-deft ca Page Taw. Cisaam Tate,