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THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 28, 1921 7. 1 ' V i v fm" ' I. v4 Ten Million ' Motor Cars ' Use I in United States Causes Agitation In PRACTICAL USE SHOWN National Tragedies Caused by Pcor Rfods, Declares' W. A.f Johnson ii With jmore than 10.000,000 motor ears In use In the United Etatei alone, and with more than . one-halt the population of the country; piolng hiore. or letm rld ing ln these ,. self-propelled ve hicles. It 1b not strange that there should be a nation-wide sentiment for more and better highways. In . the opinion of President George C. Diehlf of the American Auto V mobile I association, who points ' out: ' - . "With! light delivery cars and .giant motor trucks operating in every section of the land where good roads, exist, transporting ' quickly and : economically every human beed.' and carrying every type of I freight from eggs to pig L ' f" 'X,nY drive a car that takes all your strength to work the dutch? 1 1 Buick cars driYe right because they're built rteht as more than a half-mil-lion Buick" owners will testify. Step into our sales room today, ride in the new Buick models and try the j clutch yourself. ! No others compare. : Buick Sixes '22-Six44 Three Passenger Roadster $1792 22-Six-45 Five Passenger Touring.. 1823 22-SiX-46 Three Passenger Coupe.... 2466 22-Six-47 Five Passenger Sedan....... 2778 22-Six48 Four Passenger Coupe--- 2664 22-Six-49 Seven Passenger Touring 2051 22-Six-50 Seven Passenger Sedan 3010 WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD THEM M-t' ; ihafparch i 4 r II . iron,, blind indeed Is the man who can not see' the "value of high ways. Today, however, this type Is a rare specimen. Change Brought About. "Eut what a change from the daya When the American Auto mobile association came into be ing and inaugurated its long, hard struggle to convert 'a pre sumably enlightened people to the roads-building idea! In .those days automobiles were few and generally considered, playthings of the idle rich. Now, with the bulk . of the people, motors are a workday need and a Sunday pastime. And with good roads to travel upon today they serve alike industry and commerce, capital and labor, poor man, rich man, beggar man, thief." I According to President Diehl, first in this country to work in organized form for good roads was the American Automobile associ ation. In the beginning ot its efforts, he says, the A. A. A. stood practlcajly alone, while today it is assisted, supported and- com mended by practically all - big national organizations, both in and out of the automobile indus try. . Johnson Reminiscent. Writing reminiscently of the A. A. A.'s early roads efforts, and how difficult it was in those days to get the people to accept In creased taxation for roads im provements, W. A. Johnson, man ager of the Goodrich auto tire department, In a letter to Presi dent Diehl, points out and dwells most interestingly on a sorrow ful situation created largely by a lack of highways communication. Mr. Johnson said, in part: "Over In China there is an area about the size ' of the state of U A CMd Can Work the. Buick Clutch 22-Four-34 22-Four-35 22-Four-36 22-Four-37 All Dtto.X Wilson Center and Commercial Street attar A r? . BONESTEELE MOTOR CO. Ferry and Commercial Sis., Salem, Oregon Car Cu UUS IctM Cmt r.aa. DDE E B ROTH ERS MOTOR' CAR5 Pennsylvania where fifty million people are. Btarving. Every blade of grass, every green leaf or shrub, every grain, berry or herb has been eaten. The bark has been eaten from all the trees. Millions have died, and despite world-wide relief efforts, millions more will 'die. The great war was a catastrophe, but no such tragedy as this. In all recorded history only two or three pages tell a tale as horrific as China's famine. Contra Striking. 'Yet the very next province Is one of the most frultfnl sections of the world. Grains, vegetables and fruits in abundance. Think of Pennsylvania starving and New York with plenty and you have the right mental perspective. Such a condition could not occur in this country. The specter of fam ine might be seen and felt, but the actual pinch of desperate hun ger would be unknown even on the remotest hilltop. Relief would come over every highway and railway. "In China there is not a single modern highway between the fer tile province where song and laughter are heard and the lean province where the children are too weak to cry for food. When the relief agents went to China they found it would cost far more to bring food from that rich pro vince next door than it would coot to transport it from Europe or America. When China estab lishes, some kind of a transporta tion system more elevated than, the wheelbarrow its period!: gtarvingg will cease. Tragedies Will Ceaa. "When the whole world shall have learned the lesson that the march of civilization demands a 3 Buick Fours " Two Passenger Roadster $1130 Five Passenger Touring 1180 Three Passenger Coupe 1730 Five Passenger Sedan.... 1925 Prices F. O. B. Salem SALE OF FUEL KEEPS I Distribution in Oregon for July Exceeds That of any Previous Month 1 TAX PAYMENT IS HEAVY Tabulation Covers Entire Period from Effective . Date of First Act Gasoline ralea in Oregon tor the moith of July, this year ex ecrded by 53S.12S.3 gallons the argeBt quantity sold in any cthr one month since the first gaso- ine tax law became effective m February, 1919. Figures compiled by Secretary of State Kozer from the regular reports of the oil companies sell- ng fuel in Oregon show that during July total sales amoahted to 5,827,517.3 gallons ct gaso- " and 387.742.5 gallons of dis tillate. August. 1920. made the cosest aproach to this figmre when gprollne sales amounted lo .- 289,389 gallons. The amount ior July, this year, exceeds by 7 7 8,- 460 3 gallons the total for the preceding month of June. Statistics (Jlven Recalculation of a summary prepared by the secretary of stat? shows that from November 26, 1918, the date when the first tax j law became effective to Decern-, ber 31, 1919, sales amounted to 31.835,988.5 gallons of gasoline and 4,680,746.75 gallons of dis tillate and taxes collected totaled $311943.58. From January 1, 1S20, to December 31. 1920. gas oline sales were 44.900,674.5 gal lons and distillate sales 2.721,717 galions, and taxes collected am ounted to $462,615.33. For the period frora January 1, 1921, to July 31, 1921, gasoline sales were 27.412,934.4 gallons and distil late sales 1,331.365.5 gallons wMle taxes collected under the tlx law of 1919 amounted to S280.786.23 and under the tax act of 1921 the sum of 1235,655- 18. Totals for the entirs per iod R'.nce the first tax act became effective are 104, 167. 597. 4 gal lons ot gasoline, 8,733. 829. z& gallons of distillate and tax col lections of 51.085 34&. 14 ana $235,655.18 under the tax acts of 1919 and 1921 respectively. "Provision was made in the law of 1921 for refunding the tax levied under the terms of that measure, or 1 cent per gallon, on all motor vehicle fuels used tor purposes other than In the opr ation of motor vehicles upon the public highways," said secretary Kozer. "The total refund3 up to August 25. 1921, aggregate 798.56. There is no authority In the law of 1919 for making rebates, so that the original tax of 1 cent per gallon on gasolina end other motor vehicle fuels and 4 cent per gallon on di3tillate cannot be refunded for any rea son. "Refunds of taxes paid under the law of 1921 can be secuid hy filing a claim on a regular'y pre scribed form with the secretary of state within 9( days from the data of purchase o- . invoice, but as this provision of the law has Wen held b- strictly manda tory, no claim can bn paid unless it be present d to the secretary r,f state be'ore the statutory per iod has expired." proper expansion or ait agencies of transportation, including water ways, railways and motorized highways, then such tragedies as China's will cease from the eartn. but this will not come and can not come by inaction or retro gression. What every country needs is an overflow spirit in es tablishing quick communication and continuous commerce; satis fied with nothing less than safe and easy travel and transport on earth, water and the air; never resting till the wheelbarrow of this generation is but a memory. like many another rack and ruin of the past. If the people of the earth are to have a vision less than this, then they must also harden their hearts against the relief of the starving hordes, and shut from thenr eyes the spectacle ot millions of children dying from lack of bread." EXTREMELY BIG Total of 5800 'Cars Sent From Factory First Half Of August Five thousand e.clit hundred Pnick cars were shipped irom tte la-tones at Flint. Michigan in the i: full shipning days ot the first l.a" of August, according to an nonr,; eirient by Buick Mt tor company. This figure represents a i cveraea rial! .hinment of 4K3 1-3 cars of nl! models. High point shipping days were August 3, when 635 cars left the factory and August 15, when tJ4 were placed in transit. Of the 634 cars shipped Augnst 1 5. a total of 615 were loaded in box cars, rep resenting 201 box car load9 of Buicka. Following upon the excellent sales results and deliveries ac compllshed in Jane and July, the Buick company regards the ship ment ot 800 ears in the first 12 shipping days of August as a posl- JtiTe indication of the healthy con- union ot wva auwiuuuno luuuswj. BUCK SHIPMENT PLANNING TO RETURN. ix . i I " " "5- 2 . " J Reports are current in Lon don that Bonar Law intends to return to public yte. It is ru mored in political quarters that a suggestion has been made to him to go to the Washington conference, either as the princi pal British representative or as the first lieutenant of Premier Lloyd George. tiificant in that they represent not only a well maintained but a steadily Increasing deni2iwl from the purchasing public. Buick's production schedule for August was set at 12,000 cars and the factory manufacturing records indicate the company id swinging along at a pece whic'i will more than meet this schedule. REPORT ON ROADS (Continued from page 1.) Heppner - Gilliam county line: rough and dusty. McKenzle Highway N Springfield - BeTfcnap springs: Good- to I31ue Rirer; under con struction but open. Blue Kiver Belknaj) Springs. 'McKenzie pass rair. Sisters - Redmond: graveling under way; no deiay to tratne. Redmond - Prineville:' good graveled road. Prineville - Mitchell: Under construction and rough to Forest boundary; rocked to Summit and in good condition; open to auto travel from Summit to Mitchell and fair. ' Sherman lUglmay The Dalles - Madras (Bend and Redmond): through Sherman county via Wasco, Moro, Urass Valley, Shaniko and Antelope; air throughout. Shaniko-Mitohelt nighWay Fair in aeneraf. roueh in n rew places. Baker-l'nity Highway First 10 miles' macadamized and balance in fair condition Ashland-Klamath Falls Highway om topsy grade, via ,Ager, and the Green Springs, mountain The following Tractors only after the most exhaustive practical tests under actual working conditions by the Ford Motor Company. OLIVER PLOWS, No. 7, No. 3 Sulky, Two Way and Orchard Types OLIVER DISCS, Listers, Meddlehreakers, Two Row Ridge Busters. RODERICK LEAN Automatic Tractor Discs, Regular and Orchard RODERICK LEAN Harrows, Spring and Spike Tooth DUNHAM Cultipackers - AMSCO Tractor Grain Drill AMSCO Combined Grain and' Fertilizer Drill AMSCO Broadcase Limer and Fertilizer S WAYNE-ROBINSON & CO. Silage Cutters SWAYNE-R0BINS0N & CO. Hay Presses WOODS BROS. Steel Threshers STOVER Grinders ' V STOVER Comminuters ? STOVER Wood Saws ' BLUE RIDGE Universal Grist Mills WILLIAMS Illuminating System We either our representative to you. 260 North High road are rough and dusty and full of chuck holes. KlamAth Falls. Vel. California Rough and dusty throughout. Klamath I-'nlN-I-ake? fw Highway From Klamath Falh to point 5 miles east of Olene is good ma cadam, thence to a point 2 miles west of Dairy is very rough on account of trucks hauling rock; thence to Dairy is newly macad amized: good from Dairy to Bly; travel is advised to take the river road from Olene to Bonanza and the hill road from Bonanxa to Bly. if it is not desired to pass through Dairy; Bly to Drews val ley rough, Drews valley-Lakevlew good. (Bend) Lapine-Lakeview Highway Bend-Silver Lake Rough and dusty via either Lapine or Milli can. Silver Lake-Paisley good. Pailey-Lakeview On account of construction work, traffic is advised to take the hill road be tween these points; 6 miles very rough. Lakevlew-Burn Highway Best road via Warner Canyon and Plush; Warner Canyon- re cently graded and macadamized. Klamath Falls-Crater Lake- Traver advised to go on east side of lake; good macadam from K. F. to Barclay springs; Barclay Springs-Lamm's Mill. recently graded and rough as no surfacing has yet been done - Lamm's Mill- Williamson river, good dirt road; thence to Fish Hatchery is badly rutted and dusty; Fish Hatchery Crater Lake, excellent condition. In order to reduce our stock of bicycles, we have selected 20 wheels from our stock that we are going to place on special sale. We have got these in three groups These wheels were originally priced from $47.50 to $60 and include' stan dard makes, such as Har ley-Da vidson, Datonia, Miami, and Rami .. . Now is the time to get that new bike for school Better come early and get one of the twenty. Will take your old wheel as part payment " HARRY W. SCOTT 147 South Commercial standard lines have been approved for use in connection with Fordson have them in stock or can get Street Opposite WE SELL USED CARS Buy, sell, or exchange or sell on commujlon. The largest used car dealers out of Portland. See these 1920 Auburn Touring 1920 Chevrolet Touring ... 1920 Bell Touring, 1918 Ford 1916 Chevrolet. 1918 Studebaker Many other cars of Oleson's Auto Exchange 341 North Commercial St I. Phone 666 fcg $42J0 Street Keep Fordson All the Year Round , With Approved Farm Implements them quickly. A phone or City Hall L.L$1200 . .. 500 '5 like new j 900 240 150 275 equally r good value a 14 "Th Cycle Man" 33: .1 Busy VT a card will bring Phone 1995 Your