Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1926)
THE OREGOKXATESMANSALiat OREGON ; BEAU tihs KMST DRIVERS ' 4 la. pleasure drt ring smost beautiful routes tully sought. Public Bodies Urged to Take Up Improvement of Road Appearance r ' . Suitable tree planting along the public highways, which greatly en hances their appearance and com fort, is most satisfactorily done by the community as a whole rath er than by individuals, says the United States department of agri cH7rT Interet in country high. i the United States has in creased rapidly during the last few years. The greater interest in rural roads Is due largely to the growing automobile traffic, a large part Of rMclg nleasnrA 4rtvifir vin3 Or.. a few states bavA rnnA laTprovlding for such planting, the remainder hare either indif ferent ones or none at all accord ing to Farmers bulletin 148 i-F, "Planting the Roadside, Just is sued. ' The trarellng public has as Interest in the appearance toad as a whole as the ad-Home property holder. Fnrther- ls usually difficult to get each property holder to approve and act on a given plan. For these reasons, says the department it is best to place the planting and subsequent care of roadside trees in the hands of a public body rep resenting some such division as the state, county,, town, township, or parish, rather than smaller units. Because of the intimate rela tionship between road construc tion and maintenance and the up keei&of the roadside, the closest cooperation between the highway department and those having the trees in charge is mutual. Substations relative to plan ito! the . trees, planting and bX "Viem, kinds to plant, prun intMingement of shrubs and lyejDHa. and other phases of tne work are given. A copy of the new publication may be obtained free, as long as the supply lasts, upon application to the . United States department of agriculture, Washington, D. C; tin and the Continent of joint rail and motor operations which may bo pertinent to Mxe situation here. Participation of. the United States in this gathering was of ficially authorized by act of con gress this year and the president was directed to name the delegation- The international road congress, which was founded in 1908, has never met in the United States, but it is expected that invitation will be extended to the body to meet here next year, and the dele gates are bearing messages from high officials expressing the. hope that this can be brought about. f The United States delegation comprises T. H. MacDonald, chief U. S. bureau of public roads, chair man; Paul D. Sargent, chief high way engineer, Maine; John N. Mackall, chairman, Maryland road commission; Herbert H. Rice and Pyke Johnson, national automo bile chamber of commerce; H. C. McLean and H. H. Kelly, depart ment of commerce, stationed at Rome and Parish respectively. Walter H. Zoael, automobile tires, tubes and accessories' Vul canizing 4hat holds. High quality, superior service. A trial makes a customer, 198 S. Com'l. () m 11 if" of fthl i mofo.Kt White House Restaurant, 362 State St., where hundreds 'of peo ple prefer to eat. All you want to eat for less than you can eat at Quality and service. () HUPDBIl FINISHES LONG til Two Hundred Fifty Miles Per Day for 12 Days Reveals Reliability Sctor's Department Store Is ig up a reputation for guar merchandise; conducting department store; making steady progress, too. () Chas. K. Sftulding Logging Co., lumber and ibullding materials. The best costno more than , in ferior grades, tlo to the big Sa lem factory and save m6nqf,sM) RID CHIEFS SAIL isnuis Jnternatiofeal Road Congress fsin Milan, Italy, September 6 x a Seeking the latest facts on the union of rail and motor transpor tation in European countries to present before the interstate corn commission hearings in ;ton this fall, the first U. al delegation. to the inter-. OL road, congress sailed on 25 for the meeting in Mi September 6-13. irily, the purpose of the con;res8 is the interchange of in- f o Lion on the development of engineering, and highway Irt on the part of the 40 r . . coCK tries represented. Since the meeting comes during the same period as the various in terstate commerce commission hearings on rail and motor trans port which are being held through out the United States, the 4fepart- of agriculture and com- have asked the delegates to facts which may develop at the congress and to make for th e; investigations in Great Brit Averaging better than 250 mile3 per day for 12 days is not a bad record for a single driver. This was the feat recorded by B. E. Lawton of Long Beach, Cal., who with his wife recently set out in their Hupmobile six sedan bent on seeing the country. Leaving Long Beach they traveled via St. Louis and Kansas City and reach ed Washington, D. C. a distance of 3193 miles just 12 days later. To read the account of their trip so far is like turning the pages of a geograpny rapidly. When you note that despite their extensive travels they are still far, far from home you will agree that this couple are somewhat success ful in their efforts to see new sights. From Washington they contin ued ftheir pfirlgTinations with- re newed effort. ; They ; . went , jto Richmond, Va., through thethen- endoah valley, thence ' to Balti more 'Atlantic City,; New York, through the New ttngiana states as far as Bangor and. Bar Har bor, back .JoPrdvincetown, New York and Philadelphia.' From there , they directed their way to Canada going via Montreal. Que bec City and Ottawa and are pro ceeding homeward by a northern route. That is an itinerary to conjure with.' ' To date they have traveled 7715 miles over all kinds of roads with the unique record of having made the journey without trouble of any .kind save for the fact that a couple vagrant tacks got in the way. "The car has not cost me a cent since I left California, save for gas and oil declared Mr. Lawton who is a Hupmobile en thusiast. "Furthermore," he add ed, "1 expect to complete 17,000 miles before we arrive home with out spending a nickle on it." outthe oVtSW r-1- S3tart the School Year 8 with a NEW BICYCLE WeJrry a com- plete stock of new - Bicycles also a line of Rebuilts. Sold on Weekly Payments I T v nvr r 3 KAMSDEN FIRE PROTECTION In the building of Missouri's new hard-surfaced high ways probably little thought was given to the increased protection that they would extend against fire. None the less, this is one of the numerous advantages that have ac crued from the program fchat lifted the state out of the mud. When a blaze wis discovered in De Soto at 3 a, m., yesterday emergency calls were sent to the fire depart ments at Festus and at St.' Louis, and soon fire apparatus from these cities combined with that at De Soto in fight ing the flames. Without this aid, the damage, estimated at $1X5,000, would doubtless have been much greater. The distance from St. Louis to De Soto is about 45 miles. The two St. Louis fire trucks that responded to the call for aid traveled at high speed, making the run, it is reported, in 90 minutes. It was a splendid demonstra tion of the ability of local fire fighters to meet an emer gency of this kind, but ft was an equally fine demonstration of how distance is wiped put by good roads and different parts of a state brought into close touch with each other. Concrete roads, extending over most of their route, and affording a roadbed as level as a floor and considerably smoother than the average city street, made it possible for local fire fighting equipment, to get there in ample time to render service. By enlarging to such an extent the radius within which metropolitan fire departments pan render assistance to outlying towns imperiled by flames, improved roads may tend, as they do in other ways, to remove feelings of natur al antagonism that still exist in some degree between people of the fcountry and people of the cities. Nothing is so like ly to supplant such feelings with a sense of unity and good fellowship as assistance, efficiently rendered in a" time of danger. Says City Streets Belong To 1890 Era, After Check Cleveland, Boston, Washington, Oncjtnnatr Imnrova Safely Record, Though Six Months total Equals Entire List During 1925 "Protect' the' inan on foot and' you will stop two-thirds of the jrabtor accjdentsV.is the keynote of the demand made by Edward S. Jordan in his special report on street traffic condi tions during the first half of 1926, .filed with the directors of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce in " lew York today.; . , ; . Sixtjghi per cent of the fatal motor accidents this year were due to a vehcile striking a pedestrian Mr. Jordan, as a member of the Traffic Planning and Safety Committee of the mm DEBS I GIVE MORE SPEED New W h i p p e t Embodies Deep Walls and Long ' Connecting Rods O. J. Hull Auto Top & Paint Co. Radiator, fender and body repairing. Artistic painting adds 100 to the appearance of your auto. 267 S. Commercial. () A conspicuous feature in the design of the motor used in the new Whippet, is the depth of the cylinder-walls and the length of the connecting rods. The rods are nine and one-half inches from the center of the wrist pin bear ing to the center of the main bear ing. The usual practice in mo tors of this general size is to have the connecting rod not far over six inches in length. With the use of connecting rods 50 per cent longer than the usual practice, the cylinder walls have been deepened. A feature of the cylinder walls in relation to the length of the "coh&eTOng rods and the operation of thei pistons & . that tlje .walls, in the Whippet motor are so deep that th bottom of the piston nev er passes down below the bottom of the cylinder walls even at the end of the down stroke. Other motors are so designed that the lower edge of the skirt of thn niston droDS below tne doi- tom , edge of the cylinder walls anywhere from one-hall an incn to an inch at the end of the down stroke of the piston. An advantage of the type of construction as utilized In tne Whippet Is the elimination of pis ton slaps. -At high motor speeds, there is a tendency for a slight whip in the piston as it changes from the down stroke to the up stroke. Where the skirt of the piston drops be low the cylinder walls the whip makes itself manifest in a rapid tapping or slapping noise. With the piston never dropping below the cylinder walls, as is the case with the Whippet motor, this piston slap is done away with. This Is one of the features of advanced engineering, along Euro pean lines, which has been set up as a standard of mechanical ex cellence in the Whippet motor. Tl E H TO S EPORT MA T Annual Financial Statement Expected to Show High est Profits Automobile Chamber, in his analy sis of the figures for six months, points out that it is only ' logical to bring remedies to bear on that part of the situation which is most acute. Among other facts revealed in the six months .figures which cov er the cities of over 100,000 popu lation are the following: iune fatalities were 4 greater than June a year ago. Fatalities for six months of 1926 are a fraction of a per cent higher than in 1925, The record had shown a slight improvement this year until the June figures came in. Cleveland, St. Louis, Boston, Pittsburgh, Washington, D. C, Cincinnati Seattle. Wash., and Jersey City are among the larger cities which have, made very con siderable progress this year Six cities having more than 100,000 population had no fatal accidents in June. These are Ft. Worth, Texas; Kansas City, Kan.; Bridgeport, Conn.; Trenton, N. J.; Norfolk, Va., and Reading, Pa. Thirty-six cities had no fatali iest occurring within city limits during June. f The statement of operations of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., for the half year ended June 30, 192 6, is expected to establish new records according to forecasts made in Wall Street. The official report to be issued within the next few days Is expected to show net profits of approximately $4,000, 000 after all expenses, charges and depreciation reserves. This, after allowing for dividends on the prior preference stock and the 7 cumulative preferred. Dividends would be equal to about $1.35 a share on the 831,585 shares of no par value common stock outstanding. Goodyear for some time has been the largest tire manufactur er in the country but gross sales for the first half of 1926 were the largest in the entire Rubber in dustry. Sales in units and dollars equaled the first half of 1925. while in dollars alone they ex ceeded any half year in the com pany's history. This is considered especially interesting in view of the slow sales in the spring months. Profits for the first half of 1926 were smaller than in the same period last year due to price adjustments. Out of profits reported for 1925 a total of $7,500,000 was set aside as a special raw material reserve. Employment of this reserve will not be reflected in the report for the six months ended June 30, 1926. Inventories on June 30, it is stated, were in excess of mar ket value due to the decline "in crude rubber prices. The total. Tyler's Corn Remedy takes the soreness out of thosa corns you've been trying to rid yourself of lor months. Sold only by Tyler's Drug Store. () Parker & Co., 444 S. Commer cial. Don't fail to see Parker about repairing your car. Expert mechanics at your service. All work guaranteed. () SAFER MOTOR CIS ADVOCATED 1EW Board of Safety Control Re quested by Citizens' Council A "Board of Safety Control" to urge the manufacture of safer motor cars was advocated by Fred W. Johnson, director of the Cit izens' Safety Council of Philadel phia, at the recent National Con ference on Street and Highway Safety in Washington. Mr. Johnson ' who is known, among safety authorities as "the father of safety-first." is the first expert who has made a definite suggestion that manufacturers owe a responsibility to their mo toring public. "Cars," he said, "must be made however, has been written down to market value as of June 30, 1926, by applying about $5,100, 00 of the special raw material re serve fund. A " This Is the .Time to Order Your HAMPTOWWClSl Take advantage of freight and water shipment prices . t , much lower; if ordered now J ' - ' ; V Top Recovers For All Cars A new shipment of fine material just in, which we . invite you to inspect Ford Recover As Low As $10.00 ' Fine Material and Workmanship Guaranteed Half the Usual Cost O.I.HuEAuto lop & Faint Co. "WB PAINT 'EM FOR LESS" '267 South Commercial Phone 578 ANNOUNCING a 1WO TOJST l&tf GK And now a Two ipn Truck bear ing Graham Brothers name-" At a price made exceptionally low by huge production. A truck that will contribute a new chapter to the history of commercial hauling. ' A truck you will want to see! Qraham Brothers TrwpLc vitk Dodge Brothers -Ton Commercial Cars, I meet 90 of all haulage requirements. J Tun Ton Truck Chassis, Ton Chassis $1622 Delivered in Salem BONESTEELE MOTOR CO. 474 South Commercial Telephone 423 SAFETY HOSOIVRGL1. For- Jpne, 102O (No Fataltles During the month) Tubcoo, Arizona. Ft Smith, Arkansas , " Lone Beach. California, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Norwich, Connecticut. Tallahassee, Florida. Boise, Idaho. Boise. Idaho. Aurora, Illinois. Aurora, Illinois. Decatur, Illinois. Decatur, Illiapls. East St Louis, Illinois. Peoria. Illinois. Peoria, Illinois. Kansas City, Kansas. Wichita, Kansas. Augusta, Maine. Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Bangor, Maine. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Port Huron, Michigan. Grand Island, Nebraska. Reno, Nevada. Reno, Nevada. Concord, New Hampshire. Concord, New Hampshire. Trenton, .New Jersey. Auburn, New York. Utlca, New York. Utiea, New York. Hamilton, Ohio. Newark, Ohio. Reading, Pennsylvania. .York, -Pennsylvania. York, Pennsylvania. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Ft. Worth, Texas. Galveston, Texas. Wichita Falls, Texas. Salt Lake City, Utah. Salt Lake City, Utah Kenosha, Wisconsin. Norfolk, Va. i 3 ? S must take a leaf from.tho exper ience of the railroad and-adopt entirely ateet pgnstoyicXXcn for au tomobiles, just '-aa t his '.typo ot con struction has been adopted for railway eoaches." Dodge Brothers., Inc., have been making cars along the lines sug gested by Mr. Johnson for'inaay years. Dodge Brothers was the first car to have an all steel body, twelva jrears ago. ' Dodge Brothers realized In the early days" that an all steel body Is the finest Insurance against per sonal Injury that a motorist could have. ; Most ?mptorIsts, realize this, al thougVsorae do tqt realize that all bodies TwUn buter covering of metal are not necessarily all steel bodies.- '..Most other bodies are buiit around a framework of wood which 1? Orered with a sheath of metal.,,But ;the Dodge " Brothers bodjf is steel through and through. The frame and the outer parte are electrically : weIdedTtpgsAhr 4t?. v n. 1 II u m juitb. mere aru uu wuoutlw ctwitJ pans to spimiar in case ox an c-,, . cideat; nothing to warp m imC weather, and no joints to squeak. 41. ' "7" 111 .- . . . v j F. E. Shafer'a Harness indF Leather .Goods store; 170 8. Com'L ( , , Suit eases, rallses, portfolios, brief easesygloves ana mittens. Large4' '- - stock. The pioneer store. H. L. Stiff Furniture Co., lead ers in complete home furnishiass, priced to make you the owner. The store that studies your every need. I and Is ready to meet it, absolutely. . ' For students going away to school we are showing a' large se-' lection of traveling bags,- trunks j hat boxes ' and fitted cases. ' Dls- -copnt prices to students this, moatb.' Hamaton's." ' - In 1925 . automobile ' exports ' ' from the" United States" amounted.' to ieo,obMeo. ' . ' "if nilt J. I as nearly fool-proof as possible." He particularly stressed the Im portance of constructing motor cars with the view of making them proof against impact. In this re gard he said: "The All Steel Body is one of the most important considerations in making automobiles safer. ' We DON'T DRIVE AN OIL HOG , . Install Perfect .Circle Rrig:s Youll note at once a difference in your oil consumption W. E. BURNS DAN BURNS (NOT BROTfiEIlS THE SAME MAN) ' ' ffigh St. at Ferry Salem, Ore. ,.1 , Zj L'tV ., ...a (3 Sucks! will go farther and seldom'er if you invest 'em in SEIBERLING Att-TKEADS and my kin of tire service! Pass" your tire trouble bucks to me! I'll ride 'em cbwboy! 1 SEIBERLING ALL-TREADS Tike SHOP Walter H. Zosel, Prop. ,Vr. 198 S. CQmmercial TelepHone 47 1 1 Aiili,lliiniBllllM1IW'Btl'PIH'flWlll1H'iMiH'l'il i:WIIWMiniini jiiiiiiiiiijii -yTiWiaiiiijiiiq.'i niilMitnii.iHiii'iiin run i, irt, " ii 'Tim Pay WE HOLD A Used Cair Sale Every WE BACK THIS PLEDGE Studebaker Dealers for Salem and Marion , County Good merchandise, honestly priced in plain figures, protected by good repu tation and exchangeable if not satisfactory, is always a' bargain5 to the'niah who needs it. That's what we mean when we say we hold a USED .CAtl SALE EVERY DAY! . H 1 1922 STUDEBAKER SPECIAL -CLUB Touring. Finished in rich light gray. Wind shield wings, visor, rear view mirror, swipe Petry" cut-out, motormeter and bar cap, stop light, front bumper, srtubbers front and rear, toe and step plates, transmission lock, almost new tires and a good spare. 1926 license plates. Worth $8CK)' oaji or more. We ask only VPT- eS 1922 DODGE ROADSTER New pafnt, 5 good tires, swipe. djOrTCj Front and rear bumpers wy 1925 HUPMOBILE "4" TOURINGDuco paint, 5 disc wheels and new balloon tires and spare. Tire cover. $fU)f) Windshield swipe vOaU 1923 STUPEIB AK5R COUPE Good paint visor, spot, double', swipe, motormeter and ; bar cap, j5top light, good tires , with fmare tire and tire cover. 'JL A Pledge ,tp the1 tOjiJUsedCprs Sales 1 ALL USED CARS offered to the public shall be hon- . estly represented. 2 ALL STUDEBAKER auto- mobiles which are as CER TIFIED CARS have been ' properly reconditioned and;, carry a 30-day guarantee' for replacement of defect- . iye parts and free; service on adjustments.! v . . 3 EVERY USED CAR is conspicuously marked, with . ; its price in. plain , figures, ; 5 and, that price, just stf the price of our new c$ts, is rigidly maintained.1 - - r. 4VERT ,PURCHERi of 1 a used car may drive it for five days and .then, if not satisf ied Jot any reason, .turn it, back and apply the ; money paid as a credit on s the purchase of any other - car in ktock NEW OH -J i i i3 I'll i 1 Will take a sudl ear and small down payment on any car in stock with monthly pay mem on oaiance. r uiv oauk yj mc ; it SCtD BY DODGE CXOTHT 0AtERSVflY,WL Csrtifia i Public 'tlctcrviOarlafetl 255 North CHurch St. ' ; . t PKone 885 and 682 i f If; .iHl fell MI u U4 lea n iilll 'ill . v A; of tttr 'liU f,. r. , - - ' "" -. ' - I:'--- ' ; . -r ! I