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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1925)
Summer Enjoyment Should Not Be IS Uy Harry J. Marx A cabinet can be constructed to fit or if desired a convenient; port able case can be built. If tbe lat ter is done,, the loud speaker horn . hi with a unit can be incorporated in the case. Space should be pro BY F. S. BARTON l " . t ' : The "Loud Speaker""in Radio cast Weekly waxes somewhat sar castic. . f'j;. ; . Speaking of various noises that are irritatingly familiar to music, loveig during the usual concerts and recitals," he says: r "These are the little; touches tho delicatessen,, as it w4re of radio production. You miss them 'all, and that is why a radio con cert seems so. dead and lifeless. You are accustomed to getting your music" through a barrage of chokes, gasps, wheezes-, snorts, .whoops and bellows. In the; tomb like silence of your own home the music sounds hollow j and. un natural. It is because1 radio has no asthma, no colds or coughs, no racket familiar to a musical car. .that it fails to completely satisfy." Are any Salem fans picking up tbe half hour concert given Tuesr day at midnight from WGBS, Xew York City, 313.6 meters? - John Hammnod gives an organ Recital from the Piccadilly theater at that hour which is an accommo dating one for west coast fins.; fA new card game has been in ,ji jrented;uslng the call letters of broadcasting stations for; card "'"identification. This wouldiappear a very pleasant dose to be taken tby those Who want to rattle oft !, call - letters as nonchalantly ? as ffheir neighbors do. jj , : " : ' KARTHQVAKE llECORDED f V j ! . :-rl! ' Here is one Tor the scientists to ti figure out. . If v radio; ; waves gravel in the so-called ether why .Vlid the recent earthquake felt in Iihe eastern portion of tbcj . United States and Canada interupt radio boncerts? , - I ; . WT AM, broadcasting station of pim Williafd Storagei Battery com Vpany at Cleveland was broad cast- . liig at. .the) .-time of the tremors RADIO PHiN :;- . : .Talks'H-itti I i In i. i Clcvtjlad newspapers asked the t station's aid in collecting data for " , their morning edition.;; Replies in dicated that for a period ibf three . to five minutes during the major 4 Now is the Time to Begin Aire t.curiumv McCLAREN CORD i A Perfect NONSK1D Smith Cz Vatliina exatpy F.nnvica rilOMJ 41 ! ; - ' : -' ,1 A I WJ I V tS- THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OUEGOtf Limited, Harry J. vided for all the batteries requir ed for operation of the seV I The loop aerial can easily be made of the collapsible type and carried around; in a compartment in the case. A portable tmit of this type need ! not measure more than about 16 ix 24 inches. This shock, all radio reception was Btopped, not only from WTAMi but from-other broadcasters that were on the air at the time. j I The lesser shocks were recorded as causing distinct fading of the radio signals. Reports of absolute silence came frfom distance of 100 mileso'r more. vLocal recep tion 1 was 'jninterupted.' One in terested fan telegraphed to.WTAM that he missed the earthquake by attending a picture show and asked Chief Announcer A. R. Herske to.arrahge for another. I E F Accessory Man Believes that Motorist ! Should J Uet Ready for Summer There's nothing that will relieve thef motorist in trouble' "of both perspiration and profanity, as readily as a good.tooLbox .equip ped with a'select number of tools, is the opinion of W. P. Watson, local manager of the Western Auto Supply company. "Speaking in the language of the average car owner," says Mr. Watson," the; tool box is a small compartment i either' under the seat or in the tear compartment. given over principally to the stor age of old rags, broken chains, In ner tubes of the past tense, and the rema-ins of last' summers pic nics. Scattered among these ar ticles lie safety the remains of the tools that have not been borrowed by' the neighbor-or appropriated by the wife jfor opening cans." "But as we are talking about a good tool box, let us jump into oar coveralls and straighten it up right J before the touring season begins-unless you are-in need of personal lubrication, don't, forgej. the coveralls."- 5 . 2 ' "These suggestions are "not to much for the individual who steps on the' starter and lets th check book do the! rest, as for the hap pier i fellow, who gets a lot of relaxation, and knowledge as well. out of tinkering around doing th simpler problems of car main tenance. Hence the tool box." "Sot let's ; clean out the junk, get everything together and look It over. Here's the kit that came with the car; or rather wat's left of it. 1 Special tools are provided by manufacturers for nearly every individual make of car. If these tools have been lost, they can be replaced at a smalt cost. Tools that are never needed should not be carried for they are an Invest ment that hiring no returns. , "Two or more pairs of pliers should be included in the kit the regular type and a heavy pair of side cuttersi ; Screw drivers you should have at least three;, a small electricians,! a four inch and a large ten inch size. Two other tools - that Will be needed are a cold chisel and punch. . "When itj comes to tires, every motorist needs a handy vulcanizcr Why ! T You do not need to paint shop for weeks. . Our baked enamel jobs 6000 DOS IV n ra , surface, fine lustre, nu extreme durability. ' RELIANCE AUTO PAINTING CO. Phone ,937 Salem, Ore. 219 State Marx Declares 3 makes a very convenient size for carrying around on any trip for the summer. " f Many have had real pleasure out of their radio receivers this winter why not enjoy them in the summertime too. .. ' f for emergency use. The type that uses heat units an.d rubber patches makes a very satisfactory vulcan izing job. The cost is small but the comfort and assurance is great.?' : f "A smooth rnnntng motor calls for an adequate supply of wrench es. Here especially, only the best will suffice. The kit should con tain "a number; of double end wrenches of the proper size for your car. And speaking of wrenches, you will bless the day that you secure one of. the handy socket sets ' which ; Includes a match, handle with extension bar and sockets to fit practically every "hex" nut or bolt on the car." "The tool should also contain a heavy duty jack, good pump, tow rope, tire chains, tire gauge and an interrupterfjle for emer gency use. Such a list of tools will be fully capable ' of making any minor repair that may be needejd while on the road." , "Even though the tools never come; in to play, there is a certain amount of mental satisfaction in knowing that they are there and may be brought into operation should they be; needed. Good tools are insurance against costly delays and $$jwide selection of them for the car will provide everything that lis at all likely to be needed in every day motoring."- ELL CLIMBS TO TOP TICE HILL First Car to' Accomplish Feat Carried Three Pasengers F!or the first time an automo bile! has climbed to the summit of Tice Hill, the famous testing ground for army motorcycles near Bakersfield. Cal. The car which made the successful ascent was a Maxwell stock touring car carry ing! five passengers. J "Tice hill has always been reg arded as an insurmountable wall to any motor car," says Oscar Grlngrich. local Maxwell ; dealer. "It! has been a proving ground for motoncycles-a-and " only motoncy cles of the greatest power, piloted by the most skillful and darin drivers. No one ever dreamed that any automobile would ever b able , to turn the summit. This Maxwell accomplishment is added evidence of. the increased power and many Improvements made in the good Maxwell by Chrysler en gineers in the past year." The difficulty of the stunt suc cessfully undertaken by the Max well may well be imagined when more is known concerning Tice Hill. The average grade is about 50 per cent almost Ht wall. It is 860 feet long. It has no roadway not even wheel tracks to follow. No chains were used and the car carried its - standard tire equip ment of 5.25-inch balloons. " The climb js regarded ad the most dif ficult erer attempted by an auto mobile, f . ; Wait? have your car tied up in the MXW ' Get a BakallJob 1 TO G DAYS " have a hard, easily-cleaned KELLY I K I DS MAKE RADld DEBUT i TP V 3 Verona Oakley THE Kelly Kib From Springfield. m the Kelly Springfield Tire. Com pany's radio entertainers are known. mad thwij rlebtit ov-r station WMCAat Xew York in an inlerwt- ag mod uaual propram. The "Kirij" Are Miss Verona Oakley. S. Wyman Steele and Austin C Ring. r ! SET NEW PRODUCTION AND SALES RECORD DURING MARCH Willys-Overlar d Builds 24,300 Cars, Establishing New Out put teak ; Expect Demand To Continue With a production record of 24.300 i Overland and Willys Knight cars during the month of March, Willys-bverland has just established a. new production peak surpassing its! previous record achieved a yea ago in March. Coincidentally .the sales de partment announced that field re ports show a gain in retail sales for the same month of 3 8 per cent compared with! last yi;ar. I "Never before has the Outlook for' Willys-Overland appeared bet ter." is Mr. Willys comment sup plementing the announcement of these facts. ")uring j March . we built 5200 Wiljys-Knight cars. We have : now reached a production of 250 Overland Sixes.. per day. Our output of Overland-jfmr-eyl- inder' models has been nearly 600 per day, the 'majority "being en- SES QUICK SELECTION Shortage of Cars Now Ex- ists Says Local Dealer "One of the big motor car man ufacturers predicts hat we are going to have a spring shortage of motor cars. I can beat that pre- r j diction, there is now a shortage." said Fred M. Poweljl," dealer for 1 Hudson, Essex and Packard autos.jFrom his dodr the road has h "All the uncertainties about motor taxes and registrations all the handicaps of bad weather are now past .and for those lines of cars. which deserve public patronage the spring rush la on. Motorists who want ivcries of popular cat- prompt del ta should tuke notice. , ' ' "Now there" are various causes of motor car shortages. One of the ways to bring about a" short age is to shut down the factories and let the demand pile up. Some concerns have done that. Prob ably the busiest spot in Detroit right now is the Hudson-Essex plant, with many of Its depart ments running two : shifts a day and still others three shifts. "This night-and-day activity follows a winter program of the largest business the plant has ever known. "It is general all-around , use fulness which the public demands In motor, cars today. .Nothing freakish is desired in body or chassis. ' The public asks for re liable transportation at the right standard of prices. ! When motor ists are offered this combination they can be depended upon to buy. Month aftr month, it is this type of buying which has kept Hudson- asses' in a position of uninterupt- ea saies leaciersnip and public de mand. ; " - "March was the largest month we ever have had.; The sales bo ,far have been sufficient" to prove ,that. and: the last few days has I shown a sharp upward trend in J demand. This is the first sign of tfte spring ; rush The greatest number of inquiries is for coache and this M true. I understand, with all lines of cars. Cut for a long time to come the roan think coaches, will think of Hudson and Essex." I' - ", V.. ' v,;r WHIT XOT FEDEKALIZK ; J ROAD niPItOVE3IETSJ ; -,- - -: Public j Improvements . serving all the people should be paid for by all the people, and being so purchased the control and main tenance should remain with the people. - ' 't : ' ' ' The entire nation pays to build up our coast defenses. The in- v 1 f m - v - Abort Si Wyman Steele Billow Austin C. Rinz J: Of closed types, particularly the All Steel sedan, which seems to have met with generous I approval by the motoring public. : L ""Unlike the) situation a year ago which began to show dimin ution in business with the begin ning of the second i quarter, all evidence indicates that there is a . steadily increasing demand for automobiles this ' spring and we expect to maintain'oUr production gait of the paist month jfor some time to come ! Our dealers are al ready beginning to feel a brisk de- J mand that presages a car short age. We are employing nearly 20,000 men at our; three plants in Toledo, Pontiacf and Elinira. with 14,000 men on bur pay roll at Toledo and 3000 each at the other . two points." ! I of jnt habitants of interior states may never see a ffrt or; battlesip, yet they have noj valid objection to the expenditure, wisely 'applied. . The money that goes to buili t up our rivers! and harbors i ob tained by thefederal governr.jtut through general j taxation. ijvut compared with the, traffic on our improved hf?bjways.; and the bene fits derived herefrom, that cur rivers is very small indeed. Hard road's afford the i-'i'v dweller an avenue on which lo drive his car to the source of food supply, thus servirfg a di;; I purpose reatjhing the open spac es and reducing the cost of livin To good roads, in a large mea ore. i due he emancipation the farmer from the tradit'on which he had long i been ,-bovnM! opened to better scbools. . c markets and better adve.;.lr v" r a larger social system. The standard of-Hvir- -t the urban ahd ruril e beenmaterially raised thiou.ih the development J of good roads. If other public utilities such as i . the postal service; the armyand navy are developed and control led by the federal government, why should he initial and main tenance cost of road development be left to thi different states? Earn , as You Ride i - i Become, a "business man" , get a bicycle today ar.d then make it pay for itself. You'll be surprised how many chances you heve to make money after . school and o& holidays. And you'll have the rime of your, life while doing i i ' -it a lot of riding and i . i ' exercise and a feeling' of Independence. r See your model at our store today, ' Slide a &!czjce Lloyd E. Ramsdcn HS7 COL'KT STREET Daytou and Columbia I IWcjt1h , .... -tei;.mj hdnii of nmo INDUSTRY LARGE President of Hupp Motor Corporation Says Growth -is i Tremendous The value of the motor car as a daily necessity has been strongly emphasized i by the automotive in dustry lor ; some years. Within recent weeks ." several authorities i have declared that approximately half tlfe distance covered by auto mobiles ja now for business , pur poses. ! ; , Many comparisons have been made between the motor car and the telephone to show the in fluence each has tended to exert on our daily lives. ' It is generally agreed that these two inventions and, more recently, the radio, are the outstanding contributions of the Twentieth Century. The tremendous growth of the automobile Iifdutry is Btrikingly illustrated j in telephone statistics just released by the Western Elec tric company. They disclose that there are : now 2,000,000 more cars in ; use in the United States than telephones 17,740,236 automobiles and 15,369,454 tele phones.! i In other-words, there are today 100 motor cars for e,very 86 telephones in this country. Surprisingly, France has an even greater proportion than the United States. Latest figures show 573. 967 motorcars in opera tion there, against 524,592 tele phones,! or 100 motor cars to each '81 telephones. No , other country has et as many motor cars in use as tele- j phones," though in Australia and Great Brita n, among the larger countries, the raton is nearly equal. : Australia, with 258477 telephones, 203,000 motor ., cars Great1 .Britain has jl, 045,928 phones and 778,211 automobiles. Each will probably have more motor cars than telephones within two years. The telephone has been of coi- siderable assistance to the auto motive i , industry in determining markets and prospective markets for motor cars. In some quarters the idea has been advanced that the two. should go hand in hand in their development. Each has become! a necessity in life, though only a few years ago each was looked !on as a luxury. The tele phone, ;of course, is relatively in expensive as compared to a motor car. Yet no country has greater need for telephones than for trans portation. .Business houses and - I ' 7 r - ; . 77 - . . Announcinp the The Engineering Surprise Arresting Beauty - Startling Power - a Six Without a Rival Near the Price! The fine new Overland with Six Cylinders had its pre liminary showing at the ' National Automobile Shows and f there in comparison With all motor cars won immediate recognition as the greatest six-cylinder : closed car value of 1925. STANDARD CTDAN $933; DE W I L L Y S.OVERIAND individuals Require the former In the daily conduct oi their affair and their life; so also do they need motor cars, andj in this res pect the two are strikingly similar. Because 61 the greater number of motor cars in the United States, the. total number of jautombbiles In the leading countries the wcrld over Is today in c'oe proximity to the number of j telephones. Latest figures show there are now 20.5S6.S40 j motor cars in the world's leading countries as against 22,63,347 telephones. Japan. Poland and Hungary are the only great countries where there are more. than 10 telephones to each motor car. J Japan has almost no good roadsi which larg ely accounts for her! exceedingly low ratio. J Foland and Hungary are still stuttering neaviiyr iruui the ravages of the war. So are Germany. Austria and C2echo- It is away ahead of all other cars of its class in beauty . . . Away ahead in power, pick-up and getaway . . . a car beautifully designed . . wonderfullyj balanced . . . staunchly built ... Don't fail to see it. Small down payment; long, easy terms. LUXE SEDAN $1 150 f. o. b. Toledo ISA.lt JKA.V Je 5 '; " VICK BROTHERS Trade Street at High FINE Slovakia other countries . where the rati is at greater variance than it would be under normal economic and political conditions. - rhis Is a Nutty One A man was being questioned asto his fitness for a job as mechanic. , "Vqs," said the applicant, ' for six years I had experience in the Ford works." "And what did you do there all the time?" I "Well," said- the man. screwed on nut number 467." I 'Would you mind driving as little slower, old man?" 'Getting scared, are you?" "Oh, not at all;1 ut I'd hata to take -an unfair; advantage of my life Insurance company." Lions Weekly Bulletin. FOR years, the bead of the tire was built by all manufactur ers as a separate unit. Then Kelly tried looping the bead into the cords of the tire fabric itself. i Even Kelly was Surprised at the result. It made the whole tire more flexible. It made possible the new flexible Kelly tread a real non-skid tread that engages the road with the ease and silence of well oiled gears and delivers even more mileage than the tires that i made the Kelly-Springfield name famous. i Here is the best the Kelly has ever built. Come in and 'let us show you one. I KEL'iLY Flexible CORD I MARION AUTOMOBILE CO. I OPEN' DAY AND XIGHT " 233 S. Commercial j Phone 30'Z NEW of the Yean Another Sensation at World's Lowest Priced Sedan with Sliding Qear Tranrmitsie Tout Doon ' Four Cr!ia4 A3 Ste! Bodv MOTOR CARS V- f