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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1925)
I THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON I.- . 1 - EXTREME CAUTION IS URGED FDR AUTQISTS Oregon State Motor Associa tion Broadcasts Warning.;, ,;.-.. to Drivers ; - Pavement are wet and slippery much of thej time daring the win ter months. ' ' Side curtains are up on1 many autos. reducing; .to a large -degree the possibility of the motorist to observe approaching or passing aatos. orA to give the proper signal? wheif opraUng" a car in traffic; Heavy fogs are frequent additional hazards that shorten a ' driver's range of road vision and create slippery ,; trac tion.' '. '. .. ...; j' "these are outstanding' features in. a great number of. circum stances' and conditions that male driving in winter . considerably more hazardous than at any other time of the year, and the Oregon State Motor association is' broad casting throughout the state safe ty warnings calling the attention of motorists to the necessity "' of exeJsing extreme caution when operating an auto during the winter months. - ' ,. ''Speed is an item to be for- Yes! That's My Auto . 4 . v V - . f. t inn nc n 2L DO MY REPAIRING WOOLEY Located Back of Bicycle Shop "A - ; oh Alley 235 North High Street Phone 368 EIKER'S GUARANTEED USEb FORDS PRICED RIGHT FRONT JED end Ferry, From London to Capetown Flier's' Hope I ' I , - . -s--"-JJU" j : Alan Cobham, British aviator, is attempting a flight Mm London to Capetown, South Africa PAiffT EXPERT WILL BE Will C, C. Ijamesjo Have'Charge of Duco Department With local Company , most the time of the .first Ahorse less carriage was painted. . - He used varnishes made by one company for 16 years, but took up." the application of nitro-cel-lulose of pyroxylin "finishes at their first . appearance believing it to be a. finish the motoring public has waited for. - He is flying a De Haviland photographer. plane. Photo shows him making demonstration flight with motion picture gotten," says George Brandenburg general manager of the State Mo tor association, "and it is up to the motorist to keep in .mind the fact that skidding is a great factor in more automobile accidents than anything else. Good brakes are almost a hazard if they mast be applied with such suddenness that they result in a skidding car that is entirely beyond the control of the driver and transforms a car into a spinning, hurtling hazard that results, in damage and injury to the car and its passengers as well as every other vehicle in the path of the skidding car." Motorists are cautioned to be extremely careful in giving proper and distinct traffic signals in ad vance of their stopping or turning so that other motorists in their immediate vicinity will be given opportunity to apply their brakes gradually or to turn their cars carefully thereby eliminating the hazard of skidding on wet pave ment. "It is alarming to note how the percentage of accidents mount during the first' few weeks of win ter driving conditions," says Mr. Brandenburg, " and I feel it an extremely timely duty to send out caution notices that the motoring public may be cognizant of these facts. If the motorists will only be considerate and cautious in their winter driving, I am sure the ac cident and property damage per centage will be greatly reduced in Oregon." GAS TAX DECLARED TOUTOIST Standard Oil Company Be lieves Tax Is Too Heavy on One Commodity Announcement was made by the O. J. Hull Auto Top , afld f amt company ft last .. week tbat C- C. Iiarues, lacquer expert, will have charge Of the Duco paint depart ment in that shop. Mr. Ijames has made an ex tensive study of this highly tech nical branch of refinishing in Portland and San Francisco. Be fore coming to the coast; Ijames was employed in eastern factories and his experiences in - automo bile finishing 'dates back to al- French Living Cost Takes " Elders Back to Schools PARIS -The high coat of living has made itself 'manifest ia an other French quarter. The French universities all report the enroll ment of an unusual number Of elderly and middle-aged pupils. ' ": Retired officers. merchant, functionaries and others, finding their Incomes, from investments too small for present day needs. are seeking to perfect thraselyes in some subject "with a view to re obtaining employment. The sub ject most' -patronized is law. and after that, the. modern, languages. Transfusion Operations on Sick Trees Are Successful AUBURN, . pit Transfusion operations on sick frees, with ' a solution of ferrous sulphate as suming the character of arboreal blood, are being made successfully in California, - Diseased trees have been: brought Into prolific bearers. Dr.,C. B. Upman, professor of plant physiology at the University of California, said when here that the treatment promised to elimin ate such plant scourges as aphis and the blight. The tree is treated as gently as a human. A hole is bored about three-quarters of the way through the trunk, and a grass tu'je in serted and sealed iu with specially prepared wax. A bottle reservoir Is placed at. the height of the tree top and is connected with the glass tube by a hose. Thus the solu tion flows gently into the tree and' is absorbed. Buy a Want Ad It Pays Big ' Tie New Model 43 Special 4-Door Sedan Nown295 On It s a PovferM v and a Big Buy COMPARE, one by one, all closed cars of equivalent size and quality - with this new Model 43 Special 4-Door Sedanand note the difference in price. People everywhere voice their sur-' . ' prise at such a low price for a six cylinder, 4-door Sedan so big and roomy, so richly built, so powerful. Only four years ago a Cleveland Six of this type sold for $2495! Now at practically half that price this newest, improved Cleveland Six offers the owner many more advantages and stands without a rival in the sheer ' appeal of vahie. " COMPARE beauty of design; width . of seats; lee-room; the quality of uphol ii!fiiii " stery. Compare pick-up, ease of steer ing; compare brakes for quietness and soreness in stopping. In equally big demand are the new Model 3 1 tour-Door Sedan, now $995 ; the new Model 31 Coupe, now $975, . . and the new Model 43 Special Coupe, . now $1175v Prices f. o b. Qevdand. , Cleveland Six is , the car with. the famou s"Ctoe-hotIbrica.tion System. Merely press your heel on a plunger v and "One-Shot" instantly Sashes every moving part in the entire chassis with 'a fresh supply of clean hibricant. You do it as simply as, stepping on the starter button. One-Shot" is licensed ."under Bo wen patents. - MacDbnald Aiito Go: Collage and Ferry Streets; CLSTtLARD MOTOUOBILt COIf part; CLIVIIARB (From Standard Oil Bulletin.! On a number of occasions this company has endeavored to" bring to public attention the evils' of gasoline taxation. From its own point of view, such taxation is un just it puts upon its. principal ar- tide of trade a burden which.no single commodity should be asked to bear. It likewise singles-, out a certain class of people, the! mo torists, to pay for public improve ments practically all gasolihe tax revenues go to' building br maintaining highways which are of benefit to all business and property. Good roads enhance property values, but owners of property benefited by roads built from gasoline tax revenues make no direct payment toward the im provement of their property. "The fir6t gasoline taxes wer adopted only 6ix years ago. Btncfe then this method of taxation has swept the country lfke an epidem ic. In 1919 there were only four states having a gasdlinV tax; to-: day there are 44. Thirteen' have been added this year.. Only Mass achusetts, N?.w .York,. New Jersey, ana Hanoi are gas taxless.- Tin principal reasons for the spread, of this method of taxation; art 1 magnitude of revenue and ease 'of . collection. Legislators . impose' upon oil companies the duty of collecting, the tax. from the motor ists. 'The oil. companies turn' the revenue over to the state," and ffat is all there is to it: ' ' ' The motoring public of the na tion has been apathetic, but the trend of events is such that hence forth there will be greater resist, ance as the motorists realize what is happening'to them. One of the country's business journals has lately compiled interesting- statis tics. These show that six years ago the motorists of the country paid $550,000 in gasoline "taxes', while for 1923 the bill will be. nearly $140,000,000. In other words, revenues have 5 increased 280 times. This is due not only to the increasing number of states adopting the tax, but to the steady increase in the tax itself. Legis. lators have found it very easy to add a cent or two to the levy. The first gasoline tax was one-centTa gallon. Now there is one state, South Carolina, with a five-cent tax. There are two states with a four-cent tax, one with ,a 3 cent tax, 12 with a three-cent tax.. one with a 2 -cent tax., 23 -with a two-cent tax.; and five with a one-cent tax. The average tax is 2.44 cents per gallon. This is equivalent, to about 15 per cent of the average wholesale (price of gasoline throughout the United States. This is indeed a very very heavy tax on the motorist; and? is also a very heavy burden to be placed upon any product. v It is a sales tax of unprecedented size. . Gasoline taxes are not the only ones imposed upon the motorist. There are federal taxes on motor cars, taxes on autombile parts, taxes on vehicles for hire, taxes in1 the form of registration fees and weight fees, personal proper ty taxes, and here and there other forms of taxes. There is no es timate of the total taxation. It runs to hundreds of millions, and, unless the motoring public, and the petroleum industry as well, awaken, the annual bill will be much higher. ; St. Paul's Vicar Preaches as Pal, Not as "Highbrow" KINGSTON-ON-THAMES. If the parishioners of St. Paul's church, Kingston Hill, desire in tellectual stuff in the pastor's sermons, they have been told to go to someone else. But if they want a' pal0 the Rev. A. Wellesley Orr, the Vicar, has asked them to come id him. ! . "The Archbishop of Canterbury advised me that the mistake 1 have been making is that I look upon my people, who have to lihten to :my sermons, as just ordinary men and women," said the vicar. "I was reminded that you are my Intellectual superiors, who need from me far more than I have ever given you. 4Ypu -have learned to play the piano, to knit Jumpers, and by wireless you: have been brought into contact with the most intel lectual subjects. You have a mo tor bike and: side car, and so yon have traveled- Tou visit the movie once or twite a week and see the Intellectual Charlie Chaplin. vYou have made such advances that you can easily spot the winner in the 2:30 horse race almost any after noon. , ;' "I have not ,time for these in tellectual things." The vicar believes men and women go to church seeking ideals Teachers' Institutes in State Call Instructors OREGON NORMAL SCHOOL, Monmouth, Nov. 25. President J. S. Landers is attending institute at Ontario.! He will return to Monmonth thanksgiving day. This is the last of the series of .institute trips made by the president of the normal school for .this school yean Miss; Emma Heckle ot the English department, is attending (institute at Marshfield. DRIVER'S VISIBILITY IMPROVED i i -- -- i i-jli One of the marked improvements in the present Ford coupe and Tudor sedan is the ne-pece w-indshield and narrow roof pillars These changes have materially 'inereased visibility for the driver ; The lower portion of the"wrhdshieldv i3 curved, fitting snugly down along ihe contour of the coSrl and secure against the elements.' ' Exceptional ventilattoiittf permuted by. installation of a channel opening: extending acrttaf -lhe e 1nst back of the windshield This permits a full sweep, of -air dowtfhehind thej instrument board when the windshield, whichTiwings; forward is only slightly open. Lessen ing of the air draft is Effected by swinging the windshield further oat and by closing the windshield the' air current Is cut off 'completely. Y T,h1 "UD VIsor ls ??f?,'c,1 ends givins it a more sub stantlal appearance. . ? - I ; ; , ' Completcfy -concealed under , the cover on the cowl which resem bles a cowl ventilator. Is the gasoline tank intake. ' ( ;' . FOUR CYLINDERS 1 Touring . . SI 195.00 Conpe . . '. 1395.00 Coapt-Sedin . 1395.00 Sedan . . . 1450.0Q Brougham , 1595.00 " f i ' SIX CYLINDERS Touring i' . Roadster - Conpe . . Coupe-Sedan , Sedan . . . Sedan, 7-pass. $175X1.00 .1750.00 2195.00 2095.00 2295.00 2495.00 ALL PRICES F. 0. B. TOLEDO Pm -is an outstanding feature of this car withtiie motor ytm cannot earcut COMPRESSION hermetically sealed in the cyl inders by the sleeve construction gives a "Pep" to the Willys-Knight motor that will surprise , you. There are never any burned, pitted, warped valves to let the "life" of tbe motor runout in unburned gases. - COOLING so efficient that yon can bold the throttle wide open, bout after hour, without 1 the slightest sign of beating, gives you a day in and day out ability that simply does not exist in other cars. ' . i . SILENCE as a result of the entire absence of valve mechanism, lifter rods, rocker arms, valve stems and noisy cams tapping against noisy ma chinery makes this car so quiet in operation that . you scarcely realize that the motor is turning oyety . ECONOMY obtained through proper cooling, the elimination of fuel waste through valve mechanism, the absence of tbe heavy load of valve springs to detract from tbe usable power, gives you a fuel and oil mileage that is a distinct revelation. ABILITY;--beyond that of any other motor ia the world- proved by a Knight motor in tests: conducted by tbe Government of France 240 hours steady running in which the Knight mo tor won hands down over all others demon strated in the gruelling Yosemite cooling tests -; , tbe 1 00 boor Big Bear Lake test and hailed by every Willys-Knight owner who swears that . his individual car is the best one ever made. THESE FEATURES alone -are enough to bring you into the honor roll of 250,000 pres ent users of Willys-Knight cars who represent the most satisfied group of motor enthusiasts in - the world. ADD TO THEM the present low prices, the present beautiful lines, and the acknowledged continued high value of your Willys-Knight car and further search for the motor car perfection in the service features you require, is useless. YOUR PRESENT CAR IN TRADE UNUSUALLY CONVENIENT TERMS WILLYS -KNIGHT Stk Sedan $1795 "l -J. .. J, 1 ''; .:V -' I rill" ill 1 1 iMlTli mi i hit gTMire.-,! , j Built Up To m Standmrd - Pride When a man driveVa Rickenbacker Six he knows that no one can - pass hirri on the Toad unless ne gives consent. i He knows that when he comes to a . hill--rno one can go up faster. Ho knows, that in, traffic he can .get away first. - v. He knows that. In an emergency. by applying his brakes the car will stop absolutely and yet smoothly, without skid or tar. ' It is these qualities the power ful, yet silent motor, the wonder ful Springs and the absence of noise and vibration that make this car first choice of men whoknowmostabout motorcar. F. W. PETTYJOHN COMPANY 303 North Commercial . rimoui "Sn Pkmtm - .. . StsJmm - Dm Lmx Cm I4S ISM ' ' ' 179 - I9t f.m h. ttfy -plum mm tM ' -i VartiuJ "Oflrt" rricw - AWm - .- - -. ' - . $rf Bi amghlm . - . ltS K44tT - - lt$ Sdan - . ItH O Un Campm ' - - - tilt u. B 19) ) ft (?3 lis wm VICK BROTHERS High Street at Trade l!illllllllllH!llilllUIIIIII!llllil!llilllllllll!llllllllil!llllll!!ll!il 7