the Oregon statesman, saii: Oregon; SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1024 D! OIL HELPS STJ HIE RECORD Ayorage of Over FortyMiles to the Gallon. Made in - California by Star That the combination of Union Gasoline and Aristo Motor oi! on one side and the Star automobile onvfhc other, la a winning' one, was established conclusively In the recent Star economy runs con ducted in two coast cities. At I GUARANTEED ; ost less per mile, than any tire, resardlcss of the make or price. ialu. -x- i I: : v st f -v .... v lryy LIcCLAREN CORD "Jim" ! 'Bill" Smith & Watkins . : '-"'r- Snappy Service. I'HOXE 44 Oakland and San Diego, cars, operating on the producets of the Union Oil company of California, set up remarkable mileage records for light-class cars. At San Diego a Star was driven 100 consecutive hours, traversing 2013.6 miles. hi During this time 50 1-8 gallons of Union Gasoiine were used,' ; the average being 40.17 miles to the gallon,. .This was affected materially by three punctures which cut down the mileage, inasmuch as the motor was kept j running while repairs were being made, and by a severe rainstorm encountered during the ruu. One and . five-eighths gallons of Aristo Medium were consumed during the journey, the oil mile age being 1239.14 miles to the gallon of oil. i - ' At the same time the San Diego Star wai ! making its remarkable showing, a Star in Oakland was outstanding all other competitors in a similar 100-hour economy run in that city, j The Oaklond Star, using Union Gasoline, set up a mark of 38.47 miles to the gallon for the long i test. The Aristo used was even- more exceptional in this case, the mileage being 1796 miles per gallon of oil. Dur ing the progress of the contest, drivers and observers were com pelled to drive a portion of one night and one entire day through a heavy downpour of rain and against a high wind. Had it not been for this particular phase of the weather higher averages would have resulted. The win ning Star car, on the night previ ous to the start of the contest, tested the course they were to follow and averaged better than 42 miles to the gallon. The performances of the Oak land and San Diego Star cars are hailed as a real tribute to the quality of Union. Non-detonating Gasoline and Aristo Motor oil. STIEBIER MAN MIES COMPARISON American Made Cars Super ior to European Claim of Manufacturer ; Silver Platters of Duke Tipped Scales at Ten Tons LONDON', Nov. 18 (AP) Hun dreds of pieces of solid silver plate, part of the vast treasure of silver and feilver-gilt from the cas-, tie in Gmunden, Austria, of the late Duke of Cumberland, have been placed on show In a London i salesroom. It is eaid that the cas tle was at one time equipped with enough silver to serve 1,000 guests without duplication of pieces, and that the collection included 9,600 solid , silver dinner plates. The total weight of the silver was es timated at 10 tons. Winter Storage! Cor Your Battery ytng Are you planning on your car up this winter? " Let us take, care of the bat tery. Wet and dry storage at the lowest rates. - "Mow. juwt bet. tome a nifty way to art new reinso- lation in your wood insulated -battery at low coat," 9yt Little Ampere. . : . I ; ... : -:. .:. - . , j . ;?; " - JOE WILLIAMS "The Battery Man" " AUTOMOBILE ELECTHIC WORK OP ALI KINDS 531 COUKT ST. - 'f" T PHONE 198 - r r-vZ T! n storajge n ) fO BATTERIES .j ' -1 -t, .i. SANTA SAYS 4 ' '" ' '"! ... " r-f. " i: .i for Christmas A Gift That the Whole Family May Enjoy Combine your gifts ami have .sonietliinjr uscTul as well as something tJuvt ivill..ffor.l .you . and all the family great -pleasure., " ; . ! - Sold on Easy Terms .. Newton-Chevrolet Co. Opposite City Hall Corner Chemckcta and High . By A, Ii. Erskine : President, The Studebaker Corpo - ration. Two of the world's greatest automobile shows were held in October at the Grand Palais. Paris and Olympla, London. The num ber of firms exhibiting at both shows exceeded considerably the number which exhibit at our an nual shows in Chicago and New York, but the character and qual ity of their automobiles, bodies, parts, and accessories were cer tainly not superior to ours. Different conditions in Europe and the United States explain the numerical superiority of the foreign shows. 1 With the exception of two or three manufacturers in both Fran ce and England, alt producers of motor cars are assemblers who purchase their bodies and parts from different makers of such things, and consequently.' there are a host' of such makers compet ing for this business. The owner ship and operation of foundries, forge shops, stamping plants, and body factories by car producers Is quite limited. Numerous manufacturers sell more chassis than they do com plete cars, and retail buyers of chassis purchase their bodies from the body makers direct. ,'Then again, ' the . Paris and London shows, -contain many cars of fore ign n&ke, whereas our New York and Chjcaso shows , house - only ears " prdduced in the United States. - More Exhibition At the Grand Palais, a com modious,1 beautiful building, 122 different makes of motor cars were on exhibition, including 87 French, 10 Italian, 12 American, 8 Belgian, and 5 British makes. Olympian had 134, including 75 English. 22 American, 22 French, 10 Italian, and 5 Belgian makes. At Paris, 53 makers of commer cial vehicles and trucks, 78 dif ferent makers of bodies, 128 motorcycle and bicycle manufac turers, and over 3,000 makers of parts and accessories exhibited their products. About the same number of similar manufacturers were present at London. The number of body, motor cycle, bicycle and parts and ac cessory manufacturers in the Uni ted States is much smaller than in either France or England, and of these, only parts and accessory manufacturers are permitted to exhibit at our national shows. Our motor car companies are, fur thermore, real manufacturers to a greater degree than in any other country. . The attendance at both Paris and London was enormous. Peo ple from all over the world at tended the Paris show, and Lon don had numerous foreign visit ors. It was estimated that over 100,000 people visited the Grand Palais on each of the two Sun days upon which the show was open, and 700,000 during the eleven days It continued. The same interest pievailed in Eng land. Such attendance proves public Interest In motor cars is as keen in Europe as it is with us. Both shows were an unqua lified success from every stand point. " Most" Cars Tiny Another marked difference be tween the automobile Industry in Europe and America is in the size of cars produced. Perhaps ' three-fourths of all European makers produce small cars. Many of these cars are of. snort wheel base and of treads as narrow, a3, 46 inches, against the American standard of 56 inches. WALTER P. CHRYSLER'S rmm talks W ' WMMW . I I I PARIS DRIVER 13 FAST EVEN IN TRAFFIC Parisians think that traffic in Paris Is handlrd pretty well because they can remember how badly it wu regulated but a few years ago and they can appreciate, too, the way in which the number of motor cars has increased. But to the American it suggests a chance for improvement. The French driver Is a fast driver, even on the crowded streets of Paris. And if the French were not such a quick people there would be many more accidents. The American notes with amaze ment the speed of taxi drivers, par ticularly, on boulevards and avenues and streets. And he is also amazed to learn that the number of acci dents in proportion to population and in proportion to the number of registered cars is surprisingly small. To change traffic conditions mate rially in Paris a first step would le to synchronise traffic, that is to move traffic in the same direction for blocks rather than for a single block. Not only is this not done now but drivers on the busiest streets like the Champs-Elrsees are, permitted to run counter to traffic in turning. In American cities cars are required to go to a corner to turn and then turns are permitted in conformity with the movement of traffic. But not so in Paris. Another simple 6tep would be to hare cars stop at two crossings like motor cars do stop in America and In England. But in Paris cars will he stopped on one side of the boule vard and permitted to move on the other all going east and west, for example. Traffic erVditions in Paris, as in all other large cities of the world, are having their influence upon the kind of car demanded by the mo torist. It is necessary to have a car which picks up quickly, because when one has an open space one wants to cover that space in as lit tle time as one can safely and com fortably do so. A car must stop ?uickly, hence the popularity of our-wheel brakes on the continent. A car must have a small wheel base. CMtrnd forSktr MoropVchiclM t I I klanAB V"3rFa4wtnu V v, f .1 I . 1 . ror rut I For rut, ! laavugVehjcki! i I f f ( IUaXA " MovuiqYrfaiO j t for Ft44ttrua high speed, high compression mot ors. Slow speed, numerate com pression American motor cars af ford them in high degree. ! Our curs are likewise unsurpassed in the world in desgin, quality and appearance. I : f In highway planning, failure to look ahead not only handicaps the development of the community, but invariably proves most costly in the end. ' Experience shows the necessity for the immediate wid ening of roads near large centers of population, and of now laying definite plants and securing rights of way for much greater widths In the future. ; ; shown. A comparison has been worked out by the statistical department of the Company which shows that it required 1,576 bushels of corn in 1913 to purchase a Chevrolet touring car compared with 436 bushels today. It ,- took 1,075 bushels of wheat in 1913 against 395 and 1,601 bushels of potatoes against 676. Fourteen hundred pounds of butter could be ex changed for the present Chevrclct touring, while in 1913, 3,177 pounds were required for sane car. Eleven years ago a tobacco grower would have to raise 7,460 pounds of tobacco, but now he has to exchange only 1,820 pounds for this car. P curb P The way in which traffic is handled on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, the I usi est street in the world. Sloto-motin tekicUs are required to hug the curb. Police officers will slop the traffic to allow pedestrians to o from curb to Island A but rarely do they stop traffic on both sides of the avenue to permit the movement of pedestrian traffic from one curb to the other. ' which is flexible and easily adapt able to existing traffic conditions. A car must give a mileage around 20 miles to the' gallon. Americans can learn much from the French about highways and highway construction. The French line their highways with tree". Kveri where the trees were felled -hy shells they have been replaced. It is an example which we in America should follow. j , , f . - mall tires and low road clearance are common, as are open cars seating two and three people, with quite flimsy tops. Small bore motors' with high compression, under speeds of from 3,000 to 4,000 r.p.m. prevail. Owners are accustomed to clim bing hills in second gear which American cars breeze over on high. ' Andre Citroen, the Ford of France, has five plants in Pari3 which are now producing 30 0 cars per day are being enlarged to produce, uOOkper day. He is pro ducing over half the cars sold in France.. His product consists of a 5 H.P. car, the three-seater of which sells for 11,800 francs, and a 10 H. P. priced at 16,500 francs. He will sell perhaps 50,000 cars this year. Renault ranks next, with an output of about 35,000. The total French output Will ap proximate 100,000 car.. , Morris-Cowley is the Ford of England. Their small car, 11.9 H.P., four-seater, sells for 195 pound sterling, and his 14 II. P. for -285 pound sterlings. This concern is probaly producing, one., half of the cars made in England. Numerous other concerns in Fran ce, England, Belgium, Italy and Germany are producing small cars. America produces nothing com parable to these European small cars, as the reasons which com pelled European manufacturers to make them do not exist in Amer ica.' , Taxes Govern Size Europe was forced i to build tbem because of the basis of tax ation, which generally is a high tax on horsepower. The French tax is 36 francs per H. P. on cars of 10 H.P. and less. 44 francs per H.P. for those from 10 to 20 H.P. and 52 francs per H.P. for those above 20 H.P. The Bel gian tax is 30 francs per H. P. and the English 1 pound sterling flat. France has also a 10 per cent luxury tax on the retail price These taxes compare with something like 2oc per H.P. in the United States. , The mathematical formula used by, practically all countries to de termine horsepower rating is ad mitted by. all engineers to be grossly inaccurate, and yet the government use it as a tax basis. Without attempting to describe the formula, it can be said that the actual horsepower of an en gine can be determined only by test, and cannot be arrived at by formula, because . it involves not only bore, stroke and speed, but the additional factors of com pression ratio, valve size, valve lift, timing, weight of reciprocat ing parts, and the nature of igni tion; also : manifold design, den sity of gas, and frictional resist- ace. Citroen advertises 20 H.P. as the effective power of his 5 H.P. car. Morris-Cowley." advertise , 30 H.P. as the effective power of their 11.9 H.P. car. High Speed Motors They actually get the higher power from these small engines by running them fast under high compression, but buyers pay tax on the formula rating. American cars like the Fo'rd, Chevrolet and Overland have much bigger, slow -speed, normal compression motors whose buyers tnust pay much higher taxes. " Consequently the European small cars have a big advantage. , " Large European cars with slow speed, normal compression motors comparable to American made motors, come within the luxury class, and buyers pay about the same- taxes as American cars of the same kind carry. These cars, like Buick, Stude baker, Nash and others, are mar ketable in Europe In competition with the local product, while our small cars which appeal to buyers of limited i means suffer by com parison. All European countries except England haye a tariff on motor cars, which is 45 per cent in France and Italy, and American manufacturers have this disadvan tage. ' Gasoline is from 50 per cent to 100 per cent higher in Europe than it is in our country. Quietness, durability, comfort and performance are vjital factors in motor car satisfaction. They are Impossible of attainment by UNTIL CHRISTMAS ONLY $OI500MPLETE SET OF EUREKA 0 ATTACHMENTS v FREE L--' VACUUM CUANiaH. With Each Purchase of a Grand Prize 1 From Dec. 1st until Christmas we make this free offer to help you learn of the marvelous efficiency of the Kureka attachments. A saving of $8.50 if you buy now and an opportunity to end house clcsniug drudgery forever, ' , 1 FREE TRIAL IN YOUR OWN HOME You cau try thc Eureka before you buy. Phone, write or callat our store and we will gladly send you a Grand Prize Eureka with a complete set of attachments on a free cleaning trial. Try it in your own home for three days and if you wish to buy pay only r Gift Sha Will Appreciate M--2- DOWN BALANCE ON EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS And No Charge for the Attachments 1 Our special terms make it easy to own tbe Eureka. ' After this free trial if you wish to keep it, pay ony ? S.75 down and the balance on easy monthly payments. . We Urge You to Act Now So That Wc Can Make Prompt Delivery Portland Electric Power Co. 237 No. Liberty. 1 Phone 85 Free Trial Coupon (Set Tonr Kama and Addresa Iter) Send ana detail of your rree Attachment offer tfAME V.J ...1.. ADDRESS J CAR COSTS DROP AS FOOD RISES Prices of the popular makes of automobiles have decreased 50 per cent since 1913, -while In the same period food costs have risen 45 per cent; it was declared this week by the Chevrolet Motor Co. Almost, every make of car sold in 1913 is now selling at a lower list price than at that time, it is vj JZL"?. ia V ; . Glass Closures Xeatest You Have Seen Aluminum Frame No Fabric to Wear Out Lower Price Than Most W. R. ' " J. II. McALVIN . . 515 North Church Street J USE!) R w I 7 7 With Every V t U i, mm on Dd D 0 i ! SELLING PRICES HAVE NOT BEEN ALTERED Extra) Special Bargain 1923 Superior Chevrolet Tourinff, overhauled and guaranteed.- : CQfC Owner needs money cfuck i.. .y... ... ....... ... Qo0o We have dozens of cars which!', look as good asnew and are guaranteed ta be as serviceable as ner machines. Where else can you buy a used car with a new car guararftee? ' 1 ! I ; .- ..... I X . t . Certified Public Motor Car illariiGf 255 NORTH CHURCH STREET PHONE 8S5 STU BE BAKER Special Six Sedan 2150 V w f STANDARD SIX 113 in. W.B. 50 H.P. S-Pass. Dnplex-Pharton . $1385 S-fui. Paplex-Koadater .. 1360 S-Fui. Coape-Eodstr 1645 S-Pasa. Coupa , 1760 5-Pa. Sedan , . 1665 5-Pass. Berlins 1925 4-wbeel brake. 4 disc wheels. 60 extra SPECIAL SIX 120 in. W.B. 65 II.P. 5-Pisa. Bnplex-Phaeton S1785 3-Pasx. Ouplex Eoadtter . 1715 4 Pmi. Victoria . 2375 5-Pass. Sedan . 2135 5 Pais. Berlin 2565 i-wheel brakes, 5 disc wheeli. 175 extr BIG SIX 127 in. W.B. 75 H.P. nHHERE is no finer live-passenger closed A car than the Studebaker Special Six Sedan. J It's a brand new car not only in body lines, beauty and mechanical excellence, but it also represents entirely new standards by which closed cars will now be judged, Don't buy in the dark. In fairness to yourself, see the Special Six Sedan before you decide. . . 7- ?asa. Dnplex-Fhaeton 8- Pf as. . Coop 7-Fasa. Sedan 7-Pais. Berlin -J2185 3025 3175 3250 4-wheel trakei, 5 disc wheels. 975 extra, . FJLlj-sized balloon tire, for which steering mechanism, body lines, and even the fender were specially designed. Natural wood wheels. Light controlled from switch on steering! wheel. Automatic (park control eliminates spark lever. Pome and rear corner light. Upholstered in genuine mohairj One-piece windshield, glare-proof visor, automatic windshield cleaner, rear -view mirror. Inspection lamp. Moto meter, beater, vanity case, smoking set. Instruments, including clock and gasoline gauge, In single grouping. Step pad and kick plate. ; c , ' (All prices f.e.b Salem, and subject to change without notice.) MARION AUTOMOBILE COMPANY I Open Day and Night 235 South Commercial Street, j Opposite Hotel Marion. Phone 362 i . i i Ear and Ilia litUa Cberrolot" T H I S I S S T U D E B A K E R YEAH 3