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TOE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1925 UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW llllll ITUOIMHU ' " V VIW L CttA VIEW J Every doted motor ear hould have an unobstructed view from the interior, not alone. for the driver, but for passenger as well. - Driving through beautiful America has no pleasure for anyone shut in from the outer world, h f f ; ; i A one-piece . windshield, standard on most better cars nowadays, has BUS-RAIL MEET PLANNED TRANSPORTATIOX OFFICIALS TO ATTEMPT SETTLE3IEXT Hoping to find a way out of the conflicts which have arisen from . rail, bus and truck compe tition, transportation i chiefs are to meet at the Mid-West Motor transport conference at the Hotel LaSalle, Chicago, May 27-28. The battle at this gathering will be a. three-cornered one,, with the farming element acting as referee. The rail and electric lines hare been claiming that they are suf fering from cot-throat ) competition,-while companies! operating , motor vehicles have charged that extension of their operations is being blocked j In sections where they could give better service at lower . prices, r ' Meanwhile, the farming associations want to know when transportation is going to he improved and ' distribution costs lowered. . J,i J The mid-west region is the hot bed for these issues at the present time. Interstate commerce com mission representatives are to at tend the session on "la Regula tion of Interstate Motor; Vehicles Necessary?" . With many lines crossing between Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, this question is a major issue. Charles W. i Chase, j vice-president of the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railway, is going .to .state the situation of the elec tric lines, and John A. Ritchie of the Chicago Motor Coach company, will present the position of the bus in the transportation picture. Hon. Wm. M. Jardlne, secretary of agriculture,! will address the conference.' W. H. Lyford. vice- president of the Chicago and East ern Illinois Railroad company, and T. C. Powell, vice-president of the Erie Railroad! will be the opening spokesmen for the steam roads, to be followed on the second day by E. C. Woodruff ', general freight .WHERE TRAFFIC IS f Fifth Avenue. Hew h York, is one of the world's great avenues. It is one of the world's busiest streets. ; :, y .',: "i .,- The picture above was taken on the corner of 38th Street and Fifth Avenue. It shows two lines f parked motor cars land four additional lines of traffic, two running north and two south. Buses which - operate - more slowly than passenger motor cars. Buy the Boy WALTER P. CHRYSLER'S fgSh TRAFFIC TALKS-;" W j U t: ' j taken away that rubber gasket thai formerly cut right into the view ahead. : Great, j wide side window now give as open a view to the pas senger as to the driver : :-i .-.' These are the things of benetl to the. car owner and user -to which modern motor car builders have had to give attention. They should b insisted upon. " I agent 'of the New York Central, and R.j C. Morse, general superln. tendent of transportation,! north western district, ; Pennsylvania railroad. FORD TOX TRUCK GAINS DETROIT. Mich., May 30. Use of the j one-ton truck .in delivery and hauling system appears to be greater this year than ever before and ' buying : which reflects in healthy business condition gener ally, is likewise increasing. : This condition in the commer cial car field is indicated by sales of Ford trucks which during the first months of the present year have established a new record. The preference shown all along for the one-ton truck Is growing. Retail sales reports of the Ford Motor company for January,' Feb ruary, March' and April this year show that 71,352 Ford trucks were delivered to: customers in the United i States during these four months, as compared with 65,111 for the! samt period a year ago, an increase of 6,241. PRODUCTION RECORD SET DETROIT, Mich., May 30. The Ford Motor company set a new record j for j production Tuesday, May 19, when Its assembly plants turned out 7,858 Ford cars and trucks in th eight-hour working day. This rec6rd Is for the United States planti alone and does not Include i foreign plants and asso ciated companies or the Ford Motor company of Canada, Ltd. ; An Interesting thing in connec tion with this remarkable produc tion is that the company is exceed ing its most careful estimates for May. Current Ford billboards, which were (prepared sixty days ago, carry the message "7,000 more since yesterday." But in actual output the company ex ceeded this by 850. - M A REAL PROBLEM complicate the handling of traffic on this street. From this picture it will be seen how difficult xt ' would be to cut around a bus. . Heavy vehicles are not per- , mitted on this street except dur ing certain hours. Cruising taxi- cabs .are not allowed at any hours. ' . The handling of traffic on this great street is expertly done and .the credit must go to New York's finest the frame officer. a Columbia i BICYCLE $53.50 $5 Cash 51i50 Week He Has Always Wanted a Bicycle Get a "Col umbia" : While These Easy Terms Prevail, W1LLIARD COMPANY IS PROOF AGAINST CROOK SERVICE STATION ?TETWOItKS OPERATE HARMONIOUSLY Organization' Rringn About Down Fall of Bogus Cbrck Men And Others , " ' . i ;. ' : ' ! The network of wore than 5000 Willard battery service .; stations throughout the United States be sides being a selling and servicing organization has proved a valuable adjunct in the detection 'of crimes as one man has found to h!s sor row. :.j -. )-", ? i;j -1 ; The sorrowful i man is known under five aliases as a passer of bogus checks, supposedly issued by the Willard Storage Battery company. With them he has vic-j timized hotels, leaving a trail from Georgia to Keokuk, la., where he was apprehended. t r '.. !:;$' j That's where ihe service station cornea in for the glory. The .Wll-i lard battery men .tipped off the hotels in their own localities to watch for the check passer.: I A. H; and T. J. Conradt, Broth ers,, operating a Willard service station at Keokuk posted the hotel' there and when J. B. Watson presented a Willard' check for payment he was detained for ln4 vestigation. He Is still heing de-j talned and the nnderwold tele-f graph system is buzzing with the advice to "lay off the Willard company-if check passing is your "racket because the service stat tion organization of the company provides too clever an intelligence bureau and Bertillon system. j Underworld telegraph systems are spreading the advice to bogus check passers to keep away from using the WiUard Storage Battery company's name, j This is because one of the . fraternity reckoned without the network of more than 5000 service stations representing Willard throughout the country. ) . A trail of fraudulent! checks ended at Keokukj la., after cross ing half the United States when he Willard battery men, operati ing service stations, stepped. Into the picture and asked hotel own ers to keep their eyes open fof the man who had been victimizing hotels with bogus Willard papert CARS PAY HIGHWAY; BILL : ! i COST OP FEDERAL AND STATE ROADS COVEfeED BY TAX 'Answering the current question1 -"Who pays foil the highways?" Alfred Reeves, general manager of the national automobile cham ber of . commerce, ; stated at the Portland Cement association in an address at the Iotel Biltmore, New York, tonight, that taxes paid by the automobile are greater than the entire cost of construction and maintenance of all the federal and state highways, j ir M 1 "Government figures now avail able for 192V said Mr. Reeves, "give $550,000,000 as the total for motor transportation taxes paid during the year. The cost of the . federal and state highway programs during the same time was $512.000.000J I ""These , roads constitute the main highways of the nation and serve about 80 j per cent of the total vehicular mileage. 4 The total highway bill, includ ing county roads, amounted to about $1,000,000,000. It will be seen that the special motor taxes now equal even more than one half of this amount. The remain der is paid for out of general tax es, federal aid, and bond issues, the interest and amortization charges of which are borne even tually, in part : at least, by the motor tehicle user." i i The Statesman cover ' county news more thoroughly than any other paper in Marion county. Our special correspondents do It. : ' 1- - iini t. ii: Champ. fori Spark Plugs are guaranteed to give aBMSolute satisfaction to the user, or full repair or replacement will be madfi, . J '.. tkmm 9S.OOO AuknwU Ckm : piom. Vm uuJ know th r mm by tha drntiUtibbad f. ' S , .- . j i . . .v fc - , I ' Champion Spark Plug Co. ToUdoObio . WiwW, OM, totubw. Pari 7 i MOTORCYCLE CLIMB : -TO BE HELD TODAY The annual' hill climb of the Eugene Motorcycle association on Mt. David, Cottage Grove, Oregon, will take place today, under the auspices of the Lyons club of Cot -it: Cody Evans, who' rides Soott, Salem cycle LAMENTS LACK OF GOOD MANNERS IN MOTORING I CODE OF ETHICS SHOULD BE J ADOPTED. EXPERT SAYS Common Decency Ought to Rar Many Habits of AntolMts, It lit' Stated : That the present lack of good manners in motoring calls for a code of ethics to be observed by automobile drivers, Is the belief of Robbins B. Stoeckel, commis sioner of the Connecticut state de partment of motor vehicles, whoee views on this subject are being sent to the country-wide member ship of the national safety coun cil. Mr. Stoeckel's suggestions are intended to impress motorists with the Importance of courtesy to fel low drivers and pedestrians alike. His advice should not only help to prevent accidents but, should keep some motor operators out of trouble. : , , . l- . "To be a good driver. In the terms of applied ethics, is to be a person of good manners, truly' an altruist, ready to see and appre-' ciate the problems of others, to make proper allowances for them and to exercise even a little more patience, care and consideration than is actually called for by the letter of the law," declares Com raiEsioner Stoeckel's bulletin. Pointing out that there are cer tain actions which are so obvious ly bad manners that it becomes a source of wonder how any person can bring himself to commit ne of them. Mr. Stoeckel cites exam ples, such as: Driving an automobile through water or mud so as to splash same upon pedestrians, a common pas time with some motorists who have peculiar ideas of what con stitutes a Joke.; Failing to give proper warning to a pedestrian or other user of a highway. Even animals should re ceive reasonable notice. " Using the horn to signal a per son Inside a house or to attract the attention of people passing. Instead of reserving the horn for safety purposes only: . Neglecting to give proper atten tion to headlights, thus often caus " -7r 7 rs l; ' (it ATTENTION RfJrm WaBtooin Tare QJGeux DO YOU KNOW that we are equipped to repair Any Size Tirev-Palloon or High-Pressure We have made a careful study of Balloons and a can repair them, leaving them just as flexible ; as before. and guarantee the repair to outwear i the tire. ; f ZOSEL TIRE' SHOP DAY & ZOSEL tage Grove. About 75 motorcycle riders from Salem will attend the hill climb. The Salem riders enter ed are: Frank -Hoover. George Caster. Cody Evans, all riding Har ley-Davidson machines.: Cody Evans, who, last year won the two main events, will again ride in the 1 cubic inch and also the SO inch 1 1 ' 'mm mi ( "rf . ..: for (Harry . man. ing inconvenience and danger to others. ' ". ' . ' .Disobeying the instructions re ceived from traffic officers and trying to steal a few feet of space, instead of remaining in the proper spot, a practice that, not only an noys pedestrians and other mo torists but which is dangerous. . Starting an argument, with the traffic officer is not only bad eti quette but is courting trouble with the law. j "Keep In the middle of the road" is a tip .that has been con strued literally by the road-hog. Drivers of heavy vehicles should keep to the right side of the high way where they belong. " ' The. expert ; driver must tone down his skill by not swiftly weav ing in and out of a moderately moving stream of traffic, i A common offense against road etiquette is com mitted, when a mo t tor car operator places his car at a crossing so as to obstruct pe destrian traffic, thus compelling pedestrians to walk around his machine. Drivers who wish to bevconsid erate of other people will concen trate on what they are doing, look where they are going, not attempt to gaze at passersby and stay In line. ' " " ' "In conclusion. Commissioner Stoeckel says: f'The exercise' of kindness to others," consideration and true courtesy will prevent any operator from getting a wrong attitude of mind fori driving in1 traffic. .Any operator who loses his temper, who becomes sulkyf or is abnormal from any one of many different causes is unfit to drive because hia ajutomobile provides a medium of expression for his personality. If that personality is upset, he is bound to make trouble for himself or! for others, generally for both." KIElCAXAh TRAFFIC GROWS BERLIN.- Traffic through the Kiel -Canal last year had more than tripled since the close of the World War and the total tonnage surpassed that of 1913. In the latter year 53,382 vessels with a total tonnage of 10,349,929, pass ed through the canal. The num ber of vessels in 1918 was 15.929 aggregating 4,720.000 tons, j j 'Last year's traffic showed 2, 373 -ressels with a total tonnage of 13.434462. open events Cody rides tor Harry Scott. , Salem cycle man. George Caster and Frank Hoover will ride in the novice events. Mt. Dav.id has a grade at ; the place where the hill climb id to be held of about 65 to 78. Several of the ma chines have been able to go over the top. 1. Mt. David, Cottage Grove, Ore. HUDSON SETS? RECORD rRODrcTiox op six cylixd- ER CARS' SAID LARGEST ! The biggest month'e production of six cylinder cars in the history of the industry was scared in April by the Hudson-Essex organ ization, according to officials, who announced that 24,000 Hudson and Efeex cars were made and shipped. - ; j Even this" production, according to word received by Fred M. Pow ell, distributor for Hudson and Essex Un this city, was far from sufficient to meet the enormous demand which has developed all over the country. Mr. Powell said that he could' uee 50 per cent more cars than are coming to him. and that be is doing everything in his power to obtain cars for imme diate delivery. ' ! j "Our business has been most active all spring," he said, "but it was still further increased when the price on Hudson super-six cars was reduced to the lowest point in the history of these cars. The pub lie knows of the Hudson 'super six as one of the world's fine cars, and this price reduction made It also a car with a moderate price. The super-six coach now sells at les-a than half as much as the Hud son open cars of only a few years ago, and yet the present Hudson car is superior In every detail to (be. products of former years. "This betterment In every de tail and this reduction of price have been made possible simul taneously because of the vastly in creased Hudson-Essex business. 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