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I'M FACTORS THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON PflPMITY Gardner Enclosed Car Is So Made As to Appeal to - the Average Man . In , connection with the an nouncement of a new business coupe, the Gardner Motor comp any of St. . Louis. Is pointing out to its entire sales organization the factors that hare contributed to the popularity, of this type of car. according to F. W Pettyjohn local distributor ..'.! "A very few years ago," , says Russell E. Gardner, Sr., president of the Gardner; Motor company, "Automobiles were considered ex clusively pleasure vehicles. This condition is changed however, for nearly 90 per cent of all passen ger cars are used for business; and 60 per cent of all automobile mileage Is for business purposes. For , this reason the term "busi ness coupe has been coined and is applied to a type of car peculi arly fitted to business use. - 'A general utility car; .the busl- nesa - coupe is enclosed, and as sures the owner comfortable tran sportation no matter wSiat the weather conditions. ;' The car is easily parked and can be handled without difficulty in heavy traf fic. The business coupe's econ omy of operation appeals to the business man or woman. Because of Its economy and convenience a great many men maintain .a SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1923 ' ji- ' . -. ' tlx :.N. .IV- 7 L I v?- 5 ; The seven little girfe called "The Pepper Pots" making a "Ch el" a really interesting person is one ot the high jinks In "The Spice of 1922." the big New .York Winter Garden company which comes to the Grand theatre August 13. ..: ; Reading from left to right they are Lorrain Lee, Corine Wallace, Thelma Seymour. Gertrude Mackay, Billy Walker,"1 Gunda Thomp son,' and Alice Harris. -J" . - ; ' !';' i '.".;..". '. i . ' " ! , . is provided for those , desiring the comforts of open car driving. "Then too, it ' is powered, like all other Gardner, models, with the five-bearing : crankshaft ! motor which accelerates from 5 to 25 miles an hour in 7.7 seconds, and it has In hill climbing teats, mas- large car for family use and drive t& some jot the most famous a business coupe to work. It is also interesting to note the num ber , of : business women who) are driving business coupes." J ' hTe new Gardner business coupe, we feel. Is exceptionally fit ted to fulfill the need for this type rof car. Its 12 inch wheel,' base and turning radius of only IS feet ' make parking, and street- turning ery easy.. Its', brakes, of espec ially Inverted design will stop the ear In 28 feet from a speed jot 20 miles an hour. Its clutch requir ing but 5 pounds of pressure to disengage it, assures easy handl ing traffic. There Is a. luggage space In the rear deck and a handy compartment behind the seat. -FulI Coupe Body with, storm proof windshield assures j j com fortable driving in the most ;incle- ment weather; yet ample ventila tion secured through ventilating windshield, cowl ventilators and windows in doors and rear of body, all of wnich lower and; raise, hills in the country in high gear. Bi MAKES C Local Agency Has Big Run on Closed Models That Swamps Salesmen - - j , The Chevrolet closed models are gaining; In popularity in this district according to G. L. New ton of the 'Newton-Chevrolet ag ency.. -The report as tpf f July , 31 shows in stock for tlie present, no roadsters,1; no coupes.! . and no going were completely sold out. All "trade-ins", were sold too, and the following' people, are cre dited with having made the sen sational run on the Chevrolet "closed car' models. f Coupes were sold to R. W. Wil son, Salem; W. H. Blair, Mar lon; t T. A. Carette, Portland; G. R. Glover, Salem; I. B. William son, Salem. " ' . Sedans', were purchased by J. E. Brophy, Salem; E. T. Yocom, Salem; Rev. W. W. Long Salem; E. M. Turner, Airlie ; L. Bechtel, Salem and Charles Eppley Salem. Eleven closed car sales from the one agency is an envious record and it has been stated by several persons that without doubt repre sents the. largest single month ot closed car business ever done in Salem byany agency. j Aside from making the above record the Newton agency were out of cars for the first two weeks of July, thereby really making the listed deliveries in less than one month. u ? R. C. Morrison M salesman for the Newton house, was winner of the local salesmanship campaign sedans, this meaning in other j prize offered for the largest num words that during-the month ofber of sales made. There were July all closed models of the "fore- three other salesmen in the race against him, but he was an easy winner. " - During this phenominal stam pede of closed Chevrolet buying, several unusual events transpired as in one case where a tourist en route with regulation camping equipment pulled up to the ag ency drive way, and asked If they had any new Chevrolet's In stock He was told there were a few mo dels on the floor, and promptly the tourist ordered a closed car driven out, and tendered " his check, the whole deal taking less than 30 minutes of time. A lady rode up from a nearby valley town on the street car, and rode back home in a new Chevro let touring car, after spending less than four hours in town. The car wa3 purchased from the Newton agency. . : v:. v ; Chevrolet In satisfying the buy ers of cars who seek comfort. beauty and economy in a machine that is priced within the reach of everyone. PLANTS OPERATE FULL CAPACITY The report that the North Pole ha melted seems to be Blightly exasperated. The North Pole, you will recall, is where Doc Cook did not go at the time he said he was there. . DID YOU EVER JL nl mm '':' ' I : : ' ; ' - &)jD(ls aaD1V7 And need it badly we buy our used Fords from people who need some ready cash and are willingl to sacriiice to get We get the cream oi the market and buy only practically new machines. You will find thai our stock resembles that of a new car dealer rather than a used car department. D Before yon buy a Ford that has been "turned in" on a new car, for after all, there is only one reason for turning a car in on a new one. ' r Here are a few of the cars that we have on hand : Studebaker Corporation Is ; Making Cars as Plentiful in U, S. as Mosquitos 1 1923 Coape, $100 worth of extras, for. :...$550 i 1921 Coupe, cord tires, Hasslers, for..... r $400 1923 Touring, $50 worth of extras, for. ....$450 1922 (late) Touring, 1 man top, Rockstole 2 speed rear! axle,'lots of other extras; this car is just like new - ;.-.- .-..$4o0 ; '--- ' t ' 1923 Sedan, cost $850, our price r.. $625 il922 Touring (late) one man top, special price.......$350 i 1920 Essex Roadster, repainted, a real good car ...$550 I 1921 Ford Touring, just overhauled, good tires.. ..$250 Reo Touring in good condition; make us an offer and ....watch us take it. Buick light Six, late model, best buy in Salem...:.... .....$295 1921 Ford Roadster, cord tires, ; just overahuled... $250 1921 Ford Roadster, a real good buy ati..... $225 New Bethleham Truck at just one-half . what its worth. One-ton Sampson Truck, in good condition.; ' - r BED. CAM. CORNEB. FERRY AND COMMERCIAL STREET A 1923 LICENSE ON EVERY CAR ' ' TERMS TRADES CASH We are open every evening and all day Sunday . e plants of the corporation op erated at capacity in the Becond quarter. 43,680 cars were sold, against 3752 last year, be net profits after taxes were $7,200. 202.98 (9.4 per' cent on common stock) against $7,086,552.33 last year.,. The higher prices which prevailed up to the time reduc tions were made , August 1st last year explain the, relatively small er net profits of this yeaf. 81, 891 cars wers sold in the first six months of this year, against 60.- 053 last year, with net profits of $13,371,174.12 against $11,156.- 401.07, ; j . Manufacturing operations of all plants are at capacity, with 41.- 00Q cars scheduled for production in ,tne tnira quarter. . Tne re markable interest ' and sales de mand resulting from the nation.- wid.e announcement' on the 22nd iinaL, of the 1924 Model Studeba ker cars Insures the absorption ot capacity output indefinitely. De spite the lugubrious predictions of , a prominent' chart reader and prophet widely , circulated quite recently, the. automobile business is the livest prospect in the United States today. There is no over production1 of automobiles, bat there is an over-production in this country of fearful" opinions and impressions ; by professional pro phets, pessimists and critics. Thess destructive forces. worklns against the productive forces. of the country, undermine confidence In business. and scare some people into inaction or undue caution. which leads to unemployment. Facts - and' not opinions and im pressions are what ; we need, but unfortunately, there is an aucte shortage of facts. Concerning the motor vehicle industry, the facts are that the value of its 1923 pro duction to date puts it in second if not first rank in American in dustry, and it will hold this posi tion for , the rdst of the year and probably I f indefinitely. $1,500 000,000 of capital is invested in the automotive Industry, and over 300,000 people are directly em ployed by it. It is also one of the bigest consumers of raw material and one of general industry's bet customers!? ;: Business generally, therefore, cannot be prosperous in this country unless the automobile business is prosperous, and this fact might j well be appreciated once for all With the railroads. It provides transportation and dis tribution, which next to produce tion, are j our greatest economic necessities. ' Payments : under the plant ex pansion program and current bet terments of the corporation to the extent of $3,022,967.87 were made out of profits during the six months ending June ' 30th. and $ 6 5 0,0 0 0 of preferred stock was also retired. The cash position ot the corporation was increased, and Inventoried decreased, ' des pite the increased volume of oper atlons. ' ' ltH A. R. ERSKINE. President. Plan New Investigations To Abate Smoke Nuisance' ; PITTSBURGH,- Aug. ' 4. The smoke investigation begun hyUhe Mellon Institute of Industrial Re search, of. the University of Pitts burgh 1 in' 1912 and temporarily concluded Jn 1914, will be re sumed immediately under the di rection of ;Dr. Harry B. Meller, who has resigned as dean of the school of mines, to take up the work. - - . Systematic surreys of smoke conditions In Pittsburgh. Chicago. Cleveland and other- industrial cities will be carried on. They will be made up of comparative analysis, mokjdst,; and soot contaminations; research 1 Into the. manufacture "of "smokeless" fuel by especially - low tempera ture carbonization of bituminous coal, and investigation of physi cal means of abating the smoke nuisance, with particular refer ence to electrostatic precipitation of smoke. " : The survey work has been star led wjth the Installation and op eration of apparatus for the de termination of the smoke con tent' of the air. This phase of the investigation will be. continued for : a considerable period in a number of cities at the same time. Bulletins will be issued in order that the public may be in formed. ' Sugar Will Bring Many Millions' to Hawaiians HONOLULU, Aug. 4. "King Sugar."- monarch ' of Hawaiian products.' will pour approximately 970.000,000 into the territory this year, an increase of almost 40 per cent over the gross return from this product last year, ac cording to the estimates of prom inent planters. All except a few mills in the territory have completed their grinding for the season, and the combined outut is certain to ex ceed ,500,000 tons, a decreaso of approximately 100,000 tons, from the production of last year; which is laid to the plantation laborers' strike of 1920, when most of the 1923 crop was planted. The average price for last year's crop, however, was $92.96 a ton, as compared with this peaWs estimated average price of between $ 1 3 0 and. $140 a ton. . ' Planters hero have pointed out that , the value of the Hawaiian sugar crop approximately equals the' production of silver in the United States, which usually aver ages between $50,000,000 and $60,000,000 annually, although it rose In 1915 to $77,036,170. With the large Increase In the sugar income, it is estimated that Hawaii's exports to the mainland United States this year will ag gregate $100,000,000 as the pine apple pack will bring $25,000,000 and other miscellaneous products aproxim'ately $5,000,000. .. . Gipsies are supposed to be of Egyptian origin, but now, sine they are equipped with Fords they can come from . anywhere. - ; STRIPPED GEARS IE CAN AVOIDED No Novelty to Hear Grinding When Careless Driver Starts His Engine (by ERWLV GREER, President of Greer College of Automotive ' ' , Engineering. Chicago.) There is nothing more exasper ating to the motorist that that horrible sound which tells a story of stripped gears. , 1 i It is not In the permanent mesh gears, where shaft motion , is turned Into axle motion that the trouble comes.' If the rear axle gears; are properly , set and pack ed, they should never make any trouble. But it is in the shift ing gears - of -the transmission, where gears come' into mesh ' at varying rates of speed and with the number of revolutions, load and several other things to com plicate the situation ; that there is wear and tear. It would not be so bad if there were only wear. The tear is what raises havoc ' ' It is no novelty to hear a grind ing or clashing within a' car when a carefully driver starts or when he changes from one speed to an- other. If such a driver knew what was going on inside of it when this, unseemly noise occurs, he would hire a chauffeur or else take a few lessons in automotive me chanics to learn how not to abuse his machine in this way. If the driver were a chauffeur and the owner knew what such a nols meant It is likely the' chauffeur would be sent to school or be out ot a job. - , : ' ' When the car is standing, the engine Is running in neutral and no gear on the transmission shaft is engaged. To start, It Is cus tomary to disconnect the ; engine by disengaging the clutch and to move' the lever: so that the gears that give the slowest speed , will engager h Once the car is under way and: U J desired to Increase the speed, the lever Is shoved tor ward, moving the transmission gears forward until the gears that give second speed, are engaged. The wise' driver. Just at the In stant of shifting the gear, would throttle down bis engine one Is alf and bring the number of revolu tions of the gear shaft to approx imately that of the transmission shaft, which Is kept in motion by the momentum of the car. H will also stop for an- instant' in neutral before, completing" th shift te, allow, for, adjustmeht. When both gears are revolving at about the same-speed, the shiit is practically noiseless lu -f.-.c-tlonleas. - i. i , j . .. In shifting to high, speed- the engine should be throttled mora closely and the shift lever should hesitate again .if one would avoid the thump and Jerk commonly felt when high gear is thruwnln. Con stant jerking and, lumping, thus caused, rack the mechanism, chas sis and body and shorten the life of each,1 Economy as well as com fort is involved in shifting ..tears properly. In reversing, to back the car. the gear operation intensities tba problem. In addition, to -the .dif ference In speed and varlonce of teeth revolutions there is,' added the contrary direction of the two gears whichfaVe to engager4To throw back on reverse, even r. at moderate.speed, menaces the gears and shakes things up uncomforta bly. Fortunately It la almost' In variably necessary to fully stop the car before rsTerslng, , and. ; the necessity ot caution In backing prompts yery .low speed thrqujh out the operation.1 , England Won't Keep Herv . i f Art, Say Joynscn Hicks --4' h; .; 4 '-?.. i-- LONIX)NAug. t:It Is Jidt'ln tended to take any legisiailve mea sures 'to keep wbrksorart'Sfim ous books and. pictnres 'in . this country. Sir ' W. Toy nsoa r Iflc'ks, financial secretary to the trea sury,' told, a questioner In the House of Commons recently. The r.Qniestione referred ta measures he thought . should ba introduced r whereby such trea sures, which might otherwise be sold to America, 'might 'cdne in pstead to national . or 4nuc!pal collections at fair valuation.'' The secretary said the ' Question! ' had been considered by the- trustees ot the National Gallery, who advised the government against asyucu legislation. t A NNO UN CEMENT i v- v THE .NEW, HALMEB HAS AM And is Noyr on Display in ihe Show Room of the Gingrich Motor Co., at 371 Court Street The Improved Chalmers Six (Brief) Specifications Engine Six-cylinder cast In block; , t 3Un. x,4Vs. in.;, 52 H.P. actual block test. . Crankshaft Drop-forged, statically and dynamically balanced. r Bronze beai-' : ings, babbit lined. Camshaft Special steel. - drop-forged. . hardened and heat treated. Five bearings. Broad cams, chain driven. Platens Light weight alloy; slotted skirt type. Valves Extra steel. Lubrication Combination ' . splash. large; special alloy force and circulation., fan. - Cooling Water. Pump Very large radiator and Carburetor Stromberg model O. Pre heating manifold of improved de- . sign. -.. :.,.-.':. 5". Electrical System Ignition; Autb-Llte- (distributor). Starting and Lighting;- Auto-LUe two-unit,-, . six-volt jf; single-wire system. 106 ampere hour storage battery. Generator chain driven. -' . . - : . ' Fuel System Vacuum system operated from oil pump. Seventeen gallon tank. ' , V ; ' '''' .''' Steering Clear Worm and wheel type, adjustable. 18 in. steering wheel. ' Front Axle Heat treated, drop-forged. I beam. , f t.-.(i: ,..-7 c- i -:, Rear Axle Semi-floating type, spiral bevel gear. Pressed steel housing with removable inspection plate. Clutch- Multiple disc, dry plate type. Transmission Selective sliding gear type. Three speeds forward and one ' reverse. Chrome nickel steel gears. Universal Joints Two, running In' oil. Latest leak-proof design. Propellor Shaft Strong seamless steel tubing. .-' Brakes Service, contracting on rear, wheels, equalized. Emergency, in ternal expanding on rear wheels. Springs Semi-elliptic; unusually wide and long; number of leaves Increased.,- Frame Improved design, deep and', rigid. Six , cross members Including . . two motor "supports. 'Chassis Lubrication High pressure oil . gun system. , Wheels and Tires Steel disc " wheels' demountable at hub. 32 in. x 4 In., straight side, non-skid cord tires.- 33 in. x 4 in. over size, optional at4 , slight additlbnal cost. , Instrument Board Speedometer, driven off transmission;: ammeter; oil pres-I sure gauge; choke; lighting and lg nition. switches. . . Windshield - Large ' size, one-piece' ; windshield on open models. Special Chalmers type, double-ventilating type on closed cars. -Equipment AH models: motor driven' horn; windshield cleaner; spare wheel; full set of tools. Touring cars: f Tonneau lights, operating with door. Side curtains opening wlth -doors. i . Sport touring: Spare cord tire; nickel trimmings; cowl lights; motometer; trunk; long grain, bright leather fin-! " ish; two bar bumpers, front and rear. Sedan-Coach : Windshield' visor; cowl lights; dome light; heat--- er; trunk; Tale door locks. Seven-, passenger Sedan: pame as Sedan-' Coach; in addition, reading lamps; two-bar bumpers front : and rear;V motometer; spare wheel. . , . ' DON'T FAIL TO SEE THIS BEAUTIFUL CAR O. D. GINGRICH MOTOR ZO. Maxwell and Clialmero