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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1926)
SUTOffl LERSSflY 1r, Suddeiv-Activity in Sale of Used Machines,- Better f Sign Than Robins ; Eren more authentic than the first robin as a herald of coming spring, is, the start of. activity In the used car market. On used car lotsjand dealers', garages all over the- country r f prospective owners are inspecting thousands of cars wTifcTl"" will be' seen this summer on highways and boulevards. . Used. .car baying, however. Is on new.imsis;Theld border , of tfargainuig Jii gonefar buyers have , learned,; tbat rbet concern hpse .reputation is tstaked - upon the k&d;oje vice it" renders ,the public, is the most reliable place to buy "unused mileage" : repre sented in a used motor car. ;;. Interesting In that ; connection ft Iheiir anVilvrsaryvof 'the ord' guaranteed ' used ear plan 'which -ha not' Only Jraised',' to a dew height labile vcohfldence .In used I Ford cars, i but i due to - the fact that approximately half -the cars in x use are - Fords, - has .gone a .long ;way to l stabilizing .this ph4se of he automobile industry. The plan Is made, simple' and pos itive. In operation by .the fact that iadh car Is guaranteed .individu ally by one. who is n the best po sition to koftW' its possibilities the Ford dealer, i ) " ' fi V Xi By virtue f . the fact that every community! has ; its authorized Ford service, the - local dealer maintains personal contact with practically J. all the cars' handled through this agency. .Then. the car t eventually turned in, , he frej uently knows Just hoV far if has teen driren.and the kind of drivj .fag to which it has been subjected j if .the car needs reconditioning 'hen turned in,' the dealer Js In a position to .give It the needed m4, ehanical attention at the lowest possible cost and -when heady for service, can definitely determine J ha amount .of -milemge it should leflver, the J price' depending en-; tireTy upon thlsTunused transpor tation; - . ( " I Public accptance of the Ford tsed car plan is 'clearly Indicated In .reports .made ,to . the company general ofQces inltetroit.. X L- Over'- two million 'Cb'evrolets ave been built since 1913. .... i! . -if: R JLd)'MXJ.. " : ' DELIVERED Tax Included Fll Fiye-PasaenEpr Four-lVhecl Brahes,BaIIoonTires IHlEiQiiiiilQiIfi : .triK Si 311 ; GajsiaiJok Printed (--', '4 94 ft ftB . M I I Starting a' few 'years ago, when a 'few hundred ' communities took parti "Belter Homes lln America has spread its educational work throughout the 1 nation to soch an extent that in "the 1925 campaign, which culminated in Better. Homes Week' in May, "2000 cities, town? and rural .cemmu pities 4n America which has Its national headquar ters :fn -Washington, .D. ,C. Prof. James Ford of Harvard university Is executive director and In active charge of the organization. Already .plains ,are well under way at national .headquarters, for the 1926 campaign, more 'than 1000 1 local communities having been ; formed, at the beginning of this year; The new Guidebook,, recently published, sets forth the reasons . 'why f everyO com.munity should take r' part in this educa tional movement, as follows: 1. In your community there are families -who wish ' to set up housekeeping, but who do not know how to , go . about the pur-; chase or construction of a house. There are also, families who are living In apartments or tenements who-would like' to" have honSes of, their ; own.'! The Better Homes Compaign shou 14 provide5 ; them, wlthf help. " - - it . . 2. 'There' may, be premises which, are unkept or poorly planned. ,Your campaign caar encourage- the cleaning up of such premises, ' ; 3. The new buildings In your community Vpiiay r be only ' for 'the' well-to-do", pr. he"; houses c'ou structed;fot other families may be needlessly " " unattractive qr poorly' planned. .Through .Better Homes Demonstrations . .you .can show the best types of house plans. T - S 'm, ,:- .4. There may be families in your.cpmnrunlty jho, heljeve.hat jgood, taste and comfort in' furn ishings are possible only for the wel-to-do." ' ,r 5. :In .your community there are probably many home-makers who are .suffering from needless drudgery4du,e,tolackof knowledge of labor-saving devices or of the best ways of aranging furniture, and ntensis ,td facilitate thousej work. Jn cooperation with the home economics specialists of lo cal schools and nearby colleges, county Home Demonstration agents and: with the extension de partment of the state colleges," It should be possible to- demonstrat ways of reducing such. ' 6. There may be families with in .your community" that 4 are i suff D IF '. t-5 . -4 1 H - M t ' i -.. j I 1 - '-' - 4. , f , i N. Commcrcijd i'i.,:;!; V J i'lfiphone ferlng , from .unsanitary" .housing conditions or tmwholesomejllvlng conditions. .It should , be possible as a part of ' the campaign" to jjhow thef ways' hvwhlch housing" condi tions "can most readily' be .m-; proved." ' '"' . "I "i 'X.There . may be" Inadequate knowledge pf .household .manage ment, ..budgeting. ; and household operations on theart of the .adult population. .The Beter' Homes Campaign , mayj provide special in struction in these subjects. 5. In your community as, in .all others, attention is always needed upon " the problem of N , cfia racier training in the home. DisusiQn of this fundamental problem. may be needed as an essential part of your Better Homes "progratn;? ij i For J the above . reasons; Better, Homes , in America Is organizing local committees In ' each . of the cities, towns. Villages, and rural communities "and 'to develop pro-, grams which "will meet', the most urgent 6f local needs.' The - initial tive and ' responsibility rests "with, the community; for' the citizens of the . community know best 'what their .own problems are and' how, those, problems can . best he met. Importance of 'Jute ' Is 1 ? f, ;jveafefJfby Shprt,Qrpri it remained fipr a short; crop from .the lute" fields of Bengal, India, to impress uponthe' commercial ; world the importance of that' commodity .to "every-day life. ': At ???ent report that the! juie crop of that district was consid erably ! below ' formal Increased I prices at Calcutta nearly .SO per . The shortage will . affect every home, to a small extent The sacks in , whlch 'augar ' are shipped ' are made of the better grades of bur lap and then .there are carpets the foundation of which are frm-r ed from gopd grades of burlap, an4 linoleum in which burlap is used as a.base. . Jute is-jneed. largely in the up holstering industry and, .because of its strength and durability in automobile tops. Burlap has become a' standard wrapper for many products that do not need the protection' of wooden boxes, meats from Austral-, ia'and wheat from, the Argentine are exported in that material. The American potato farmer also uses runnv-sacksl 11 v i CI IFof H3F inrflrlL OH E ;:!A'.suipassiQg car on finelmpiessve appear- ;c-tbi4 JiupmobileSipc. -S 'Qne - bf iiel most comfortable cars to rie in anfj ,to drive -ttiat even ;Hupmobile' has ;Bo beyond that, a( six, cylinder r, which at dast Jbtringvthe finest six cilijidexiKormance within preach of thaveencbjne." "You will find Hunmobile 'Sbc smoothness at laUjspeedicc ilitjr, and long lHeTUiSnly Sn )he j JThe :public i9 eagerly demanding more' and more' Hupmobile Six cars, . The reasons are " ionnd in this car's genuine, great value, and in i)erformance wliich has heretofore been Available Qiily -af-far jBqr. ir.ij t- ' , , - V ..- i - : -. .- . ,' i - r -;. ; '- ... - '' J ! DETllOIT, "1 VIcbu. ,;Feb. 20. Bdsel Ford, - president .of the Ford Jtfotor company has . suggest ed o. authorized 'Ford,4ea)ri;sJl oyer t&s United, States, that ttbey paint on the, toots of ,thtirvj?lac.ea of, business the .name of, their city as. guide . posts for .ajrplane piloSw Inasmuch) as there are .Ford deal ers )n more than .10,0 00 cities and villages .throughout the United States, compliance f with ;thia re quest will constitute, an .Important advancement ,in the .development of facilities" ; for commercial avia tion, l; ; fi ,s ,f. ( ' . ' i Possibilities of such aerial guide posts '.were 'demonstrated at - the time of the Commercial Airplane Reliability tour last fall when thje Ford dealers along the route identified their cities.-- Heports-by pilots of . the seventeen planes ; In the.tour f . the practical value of this Identification are -believed td" have "prompted Mr Ford to inake this service available . to aviators all over the country in. the general Interest of commercial flying ' ' ; 1 1 "We feel' that Jt:is our;dutyftci help develop""-this new ;ino4e.of transportation, "MrC F.6rd ; stated in1 1 his 'communication ; to dealers, "arid ae 'tising ' as many pf ' our facilities as are necessary to .this end. . (i , I tseems , that . one , pf .the .yery great difficulties p? cross country flyjng is .in .trying to distinguish over. what, town or city, the. pilot jts traveling. ; ' The - motorist ' is, usual ly advised .vhen , approaching ,a own'.by appropriate sign boards, but so , far the ' air pilot ; is not so fortunate -I According to Mr. 4 Ford's sug gested plan, the letters of the .name will , be printed .in white ot a size which .will be visible from ordinary flying height. .The name will extend dne east and west with the tops of thejetterstpward te "iiorth' wfth 'an arrow 'pointing dne .north athe en,dof.the word. n thl way the '.lettering and arrqw erve'. as a compass to the" pilot. ' , : -;In Calif ornia 20 years ago there were but -72 women automobile owners. Only. 4 2 of these had the darhg to driveheir vehicles. ..-. V- i-.-. ' -W- - - - : 311.;?,- Ford Companies in-AIhCitles. ! t? to ': Paint Roof to Guide -T vAirtTraveiers , j 1 b.tijiUurfukw Owui v4;v i ; Lw.Id! . --To.rkeep- up jvlth he jtr -4, jCngJishcafeawaiters nd t rooks are ( -gpina ." to pjchool gain-to .learn .therfinepointf ,o' heir; JLobvir)t t jlie iAt : tSeversl '.technical - schools for look, f 'nAksjflkm laveil.bfe.n tinted ,ljy;. the .tond on City Coan lU.swlth Jh,e packing itxllHtte arger Jotelra, f e6ta?qr,ets4 h ,y t IlrtUsh BubJecU'oaly r jimi slblej iajad ion: of the ideas (-ofahe Qterpnsejia ,40 riaproveiJie tart not tof f Ufa io iho gsngnsh cUles, and f 14et tlt the .fir t cltssJ positions JHcUR,ffi;Qr. .nejr. ;cie,T?r- nesa and. jpolte, mssnf P . c V;. f 1 nAtniR Tia.Thi nana of the . night' ; watQhman'jknAW Jts business. , ,Qr4J;n jti ;UlUbt' In X3ailaa.tave.,bQcomiiBC.JprI- 'asnirf era!;,4 hat, an kAttcnAed nose i,a, tprerta,u Isia yfQii ejr 4 w -i ''f f cUs i-liio itftr il , In a brief perjod,, they, ftmelldd pVkndjre.VeedAnnfiHii..n from gaa-stovaa-isrt -naming py carelel "c66ki.i ttoitfe-lrei; burning cigar stubs nd smoulder ing rubbish, t " A woman has been responsible for much of this training. Mrs.1 OeOTge. A.jemith, .who; aide '.her husband.Jn the .management pf an extensive night Watsnman service. Imbued. 4he hundred vnpcturnl guardians, empibyed by the com-. 474 Educated .,c;3rncTJ$rcd J? fjl I' '-..'.";" :V'"': I' (hf!r try3." , - . These " men ; go ' forth". into -the night;- passing like nh a d o w s through -the ? dark "alleys, .peering Into .hidden nooks, Vnsing" about wjier ithief ;or;fre .may rbe Jying CRATIIIG lputhJLieiy Announcement of Pcifl in Dodge Brothers -' Retail sales for theifbiir weeks endmg January 31st .were "14,943, , an increase & Jlt isgri' same peiod of 1925. ! MigL-jsjummsr business in jantiafyj ' j - j - ' - j When the drastic reductions went ino efiGsct podge BrotheInd saidrfranMy Jfee eatest values in their Wstjay. ' How well he jicjees that these ItsollyjEthemtestvMu proved 4n a definite and emphatic -way by xemarkable record fpir January. jtrw .! --lift-;'-ii'rt':' .'We. j-'"' .-. - 1" . t Tpurig ,.var 967 Roadst 3oup e - iDclixered SGNESTEM.E South Commercial rrc-r- rty. ' .Vv'akingintoabulM; ing: froni'the 'ffeshair, Jhe'y ,ar quick to detect smoke. t ' ,,Tne.watchmen keep alert; espe7 oinilv for -restaurant gas stoves lighted , by, thooght'ess coona. rj K - t - 4 T - trennendous priqe greatest January - history. . t - v - -t -$1019 -$1083 MOTOR CO; t,lpft;i.UgnteaipyJtvua"vvga.ww : s. - I III ' I . V I iPhona:!32 : TCtI T : - v jrany,' 4 4 ""'3p.re la partUaUrly ; to catch tie odor tof 1 t-sfaing- ir "ilation vfrom crossed- lres EIecttt' imptoM left 'running in factories . are an other menace. 1 4 f " t-ftr it -4 w 7 - ...-ifc-.-y'.i.f - ; i . - ;;;; - ! 1. 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