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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1925)
THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1925 G ODD ROAD SIKG TO CARS Improved Roads Prove Sav " ing to Motorist, Says f Ai At Ai , American motorists' cash " in " a yearly diridend of 10 per cent on the capital inrested through fed eral aid in the improved highways of the country, according to a statement issued ;today from the national . headquarters ' of tho American Automobile association. This dividend .actually goes in 'Jto the pockets- of the , motorists "and represents'; the difference be iftween the cost of motor vehicle operation over unimproved and im proved highways. The different ial, which' is conservative, is based on extensive engineering tests of motor vehicle operation costs made in different sections of the country, and for different types of roads. r It has been ' estimated many times that the average car runs approximately 6000 miles a year. A saving of two and a half cents a mile for 6000 miles amounts to $150 a year. For 17,000,000 auto mobiles, this would mean a sav ing of $2,500,000,000 a year on gasoline, tires, parts, upkeep, re newals and all phases of opera tion. j This would be the total saving if every mile over which an auto mobile traveled was improved. But of course only 60,000 miles of highway have been improved by federal aid. This 60,000 milesJ represents slightly more than two per cent of the total highway sys tem which amounts to approxima tely two and a half million miles. Two per cent of $5,550,000,000 gives $51,000,000 which can be legitimately credited to .federal aid. The total capital expenditure for federal aid was $500,000,000 which yields $51,000,000 a year or 10 per cent in saving to the user of improved highways. , The study made by the Iowa State College, the Iowa highway commission and, the bureau of public roads showed that the gas oline consumed on a paved road was only approximately one-half the gasoline ' consumed on a dirt road per unit of traffic. Inciden tally the Investigation developed that the gasoline consumed per unit of traffic can be taken as an index of the other costs of motor vehicle operation. It showed in fact that there is a definite relation existing be tween the gasoline consumption per unit of traffic and other items of cost in vehicle operation. F. R. White, chief engineer of the Iowa highway commission, estima ted that through improvement of a road surface the gasoline con sumption is cut in two, the cost of tires is cut in two, the same ap- Postmaster General with Gun Sent to Him by., . Jailed Mail Bandit as It's Now Useless to Him ; -v n iiir - $ ! jl is A IfO y ' e if i : 1 4 " 4Xjf I ii ... .Postmaster General Harry New was photographed In his Washing ton office while holding the gun of Brent Glasscock, the bandit sen tenced to twelve years in the pen itentiary for his part in the grat mail robbery but June at Round oul 111. The bandit asked that the gun be given to the Postmaster General with the compliments of his wife and himself since n would be unable to 'use In the near future. Chief Post-Ofiice Insepctor Rush 1)7 Simiiionds i. hoMinr the gun case. , fFrvr?nr" iiiii 1 HULL MMJtrSir w a ., plying to other items' including depreciation and repairs. For the first time these studies make it possible to present in terms of dollars and cents the dif ference in cost to the motorist and the public in general between im proved and unimproved roads. According; to the Iowa study, traffic equalling 500 vehicles per day over earth roads requires an annual expenditure from both pri vate and public funds of $25,600 per mile, while a similar amount of transportation over a concrete surface costs J 20,6 50 per mile. This means that for a light traf fic earth road carrying 500 vehic les a day there would be saved $4,950 per mile, per year, if the same traffic: went over a paved road surface. Assuming the cost of paving a dirt road to be $25, 000 per mile, the saving in trans portation cost would actually pay for the capital outlay in from four to six years, The difference be tween the cost of operation on 'a gravel road and a paved road would pay for the difference in the cost of construction in three years. HOLD BUFFALO DEALER MEETING One hundred, and f If tJLWQTe. pres ent at the annual dealer meeting of the, Oldsmobile Company of Buffalo, held at the Hotel Buffa lo durIng,Ahe week of the automo bile show in that city. Every deal er in the Buffalo' territory was represented . This 100 per cent record ' is : the first reported this year. Louis Engel.rJr., president of the Oldsmobile Company r of Buffalo, presided at the meeting following the annual dinner. Talks were made; by AT B.-. ' Hardy, president of Oldsr Motor Works; L. G .Dodge .assistant sales man ager of Olds Motor Works; R. M. Hatfield, service manager of Olds Motor Works, and George Carroll of ' General ; Motors Acceptance Corporation. Optimism prevailed at the meeting and many orders for ears were taken. ; REASON'S FOR OUR SALES IX USED CARS . We Rave the BEST TERMS in.totra and wo bad the BEST BUYS In town. Result; only 4 used cars left now. Come in and see these bargains. - , ESSEX COACH HUPMOBILE TOURING FRANKLIN ROADSTER FORD TOURING R, N; MacDONALD TeL 793. 256 State St. Freaks of Human Conduct J Revealed to Dry Cleaner .; ; t ;i SAN PRANCISOO. Cal., Feb 28. The old saying- that no man is a hero to his' valet might be trans posed to say that no man or wo man either Is entirely a mystery to his or her dry cleaner, If one accepts the views of Miss Eliza beth Santry, receiver at a loca cleaning establishment. Miss Santry sums up her reac tions severely as follows: "The men are ; unfaithful and careless, The women are stupjd an indif ferent." She explains that men are prone to leave love letters in their clothes, and that women make! a" habit sending garments with Jewelry adhering. "Life in a dry cleaning office is Just one piece of jewelry after another and one love letter on the heels of another. When we send the letters home In the cleaned clothes, wives always get them and trouble follows. ' ! "I called one woman up at a hotel and told her we had her hotel and told her we had her dia mond sunburst, worth a fortune, dearie, I'll send , a bell hop over some time today'. Australia Cares Little For Titled Personages MELBOURNE, Feb. 28 Aus tralia Is emphasizing its ; democ rary; the list of New Year honors was the shortest on record. : Knighthood and other imperial istic decorations ' have lost much of their, significance and dignity here because of the scandals at tached to their bestowal.' s Certain wealthy political workers are still prepared to pay the price to be come knights, and British govern ment is quite willing to grant the appointments, hut the Austra lian state governments, wisely gauging public feeling, has prac tically vetoed the wholesale dis tribution of these gifts. 1 The Labor governments in Tas mania, Western Australia, Queens land and South Australia have legislated against , these awards, and even the Liberal governments are going slowly in recommending the granting of British honors. . Dignified ' reward 1 for meri torious service to 'the state is still understood, but many public men who have rendered signal service have insisted on remaining plain Mister. " ive peer, the late Lord Forrest who peer, the late Lord Forrest, who did so much work In exploring unknown Western Australia that the country forgave him his title. AUTHORIZED ELECTRICAL SERVICE H Q w cv cn w g Authorized Factory Electrical Service On Nineteen Different Makes Cars r Battery Or Electrical . Repair Work 0 Done By The Hour Or By Factory . ' Schedule Battery and Electrical Servico w z w H O w cn H BITS OF REAL LIFE i By Esther L. Williams KEEP GOIXG "The real reason why a lot of folks never get anywhere," said Aunt Charlotte the other day as she settled herself -down in - the breakfast nook: for a -chat while I made a birthday cake for Jamie, "is that they don't really know where they want to gq. It's just Ike as if I'd start from my home here la Kansas thinkin' I'd go to New York, then when I got half way there I'd decide I wanted to go to San Francisco." Then afterl I'd gone a ways towards San Fran cisco I'd take a notion I wanted to to Winnipeg. So I'd start off for go to Winnipeg. So I'd start off for a third of the way there' that the real place. I wanted to go was Gal veston, some other - place, would catch 'my attention and the result would be that I wouldn't go any where in particular just go me andering around, and getting nowhere.- " : '. -. ' ' "I can't see for the life of me why folks don't use as much com mon sense in their affairs as they do when they start on a trip. First thing they do is to decide where they want to go, then- start out and just keep a going and they're sure to; get : there. They j may come to some mighty steep hills and find some ' miserable roads, but if they just keep on going they'll get there sometime. The main thing Is to know where you tre going and then keep your face set towards your goal. "I know it's a hard prescription for I've tried it. Anybody knows this if they've honestly tried to get somewhere or do something worthwhile. Many a time I've started out to do some certain thing every day a definite task, that would leave me each day a little nearer the goal I'd set for myslf than it found me,-and it seemed as if every time there would be something turn up that would make it impossible to keep going. That's why I'm not any fur ther along than I am.' Tisn't hu man ' to - just "drive yourself every minute of the day and that's about what one has to do to accomplish much in this world. Working while other folks take their sleep, that's the way, most of the folks who have s climbed to success , have made the grade. Ifs a lot easier to roll into bed at night when you're dead tired than It is to buckle on your Darness and work some more. I guess that's why there ate so few who reach the top. ' :- r.: .-: ; -.- "I never see anybody who has done something worthwhile but I think I see the traces of toil, writ ten upon . them. That's the way they got there. There just isn't any other way, but just to keep on going." Noted Doctor's Own Land Last to Know His Fame GLASGOW, Feb. 28 The fame of Sir James Mackenzie, heart specialist.-who died last ' week, had "spread to the United Stafes, and to, other parts of the world, long' before fie" became a figure In the medical1: world of Great Britain.. Jn connection with his passing the story is told of the visit of Dr. Simon Flexner," direc tor of the Rockefeller Laborato ries ' of Medical . Research, who came to London in 1911 and was entertained .at the London Hos pital. At. a distinguished assem blage of surgeons and physicians, Dr. Flexner inquired why James Mackenzie was not there. "Mackenzie?" every one queried and answer all round was: "Why, we have never heard of a doctor by that name who has accomplish ed anything of note." "Well," Dr. Flexner replied, "Mackenzie is mighty well known In America, and so are all his work on, the heart. , London, then sat; up and took notice.- Not long ffterward Dr. Mackenzie had become the chief consulting ' physician for heart diseases-at -London : Hospital and a special department was'created for him so that . he could cary on his : work. ; - , -f - ' FLAGSII1P IS FJX?ATED MANILA, Feb. 26- (By Asso ciated Press.) The USS Huron, flagship of the American fleet. in Asiatic . waters, which went aground yesterday off Malampaya sound island of Palawan. 200 miles southeast of Manila,-was floated at midnight. " Silver City Man Wins Honors la the' National Egg Laying Contest. --Santa'Fe" (New Mexico.) NOT ICE Our Bakall enamel finish is in demand. :. We are getting more and more orders daily. - - ." : . ir: 1 Soon the Waiting List Will Go Up 7 v 7 " i v We Advise You;to -t : - -7-:- -Get Your Bakall Job Now! -It you wait until the last minute you' may be obliged to see a hundred other names ahead of yours ' ' RELIANCE AUTO PAINTING CO, PIIOXK 937 210 STATK STREET (up stairs) ': . i i I 3 I . y ; U2J VJ. UW 3 i iiJ . Ai?30 5imtlQGnGet!; By as Kfco. -Beats Former Acto Hccorxl Dy 30 Hro. lO Mte. o GO Consider what this means! Starting from the Atlantic Coast in the worst month in the year, - and just after the worst snow and sleet storm of the season j first day between canyons cut through snow banks then Ice sheeted roads for hundreds of miles; Wallowing through Nebraska gumbo in February; Slithering over the greasy red clay of Naw Mexico and the shifting sands of the Arizona Desert; - Orer mountains that are snow capped even in summer j Through passes almost impassable; An automobile, makes this trip hours faster than the three fastest '. railroad trains that cross the continent! Seventeen locomotives each costing tens of thousands of doll At one stage "Cannon Ball Baker drove 75 miles In low arv! secaod : gears for hour after hour at 45 miles per hour in seemd. At that speed, in "second'', the motor was turtiictj OT.r 4Zl revolutions per minute. . " There's a lubricating system for you! ' , ; 1. - Try that feat with any other car. Rickenbacker "Six" averajred 46.7 miles per hear from fWr York to . Indianapolis and E7.6 f rom there to St. Louis- thus beating Ct Louisian crack Pennsylvania Flyer try ever two hours. . To do that. Baker had to go over 73 whenever; ba cculd scs. f-r. enough aWL' ; , , : . ; ; . He says Rickenbacker mechanical 4-wheel brakes did it for be could drive faster, with safety, than ever befoee ca cosssjy reeda. make it in relays. Yet this Rickenbacker She selling at $1,395 made the entire trip, a total cf 3106.5 m&e In 71 hours 33 minutes actual driving time. ' Driven by one man a very bercules in strength, else he could not have withstood the terrinc strain cd a long drive ell the Baker insists that no driver no car can hope to equal this record; with any other than Rickenbacker 4-wheel brakes-, and a meter with 7-bearing crankshaft properly lubricated. On its flight from Atlantic to Pacific this Rlrkenbadr 2 cT - J mter-city record after another all of tneml No relief for car or man. Avet?aje for entire distance was 4X4 miles per hour! Did it in the worst season worst weather worst roads of 1&3 ' year, wivl- former arfbants carafully chose their time." There's stamina for you ! .There's speed long sustained speed for youl s power plum for this car Luw no grades nor mocmtaJnsJ Beat running time three fastest Ualus Pennsyfessla; Hz?? Yctlz . to St. Louis Missouri Pacific, St. Louis to Kntn City Tonta m Fe, Kansas City to Los Angela by IS hoars 2 minutes. Train ' time is 8S hoajrs' $3 minutes R Irkmbaciagr Six sgtxsal rcazir; time, 71 hours 33 minutes. C there has been any doubt In your .mind that this Hew Hlrir : is tne greatest car ta the world, here is rrocx. And any Rickenbacker Six wd duplicate this performano fe? I" j was a stock car. - We will deliver you -an exact duplicate tzx $1.-1 1 . -j- r f F. tW. Pettyjohn Co. o 253 NOTH niGII STREET, PBONC 233. i A&.rrzrl.'.