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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1927)
Automotive Better Homes Churches SECTION FOUR CLEAN AND VIGOROUS SKVENTY-SEVENTH. YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY -MORNING, MAY 22, 1927 PRICE FIVE CENTS OVER 1,000 AUTO CAMPS READY FOR 1927 SEASON ENGINE EMBODIES RECORDS BROKEN ' TO GET BIG STORY BIG INDUSTRY mm BUIL DIG OF MOTOR America's Scenic Out-of-Doors Calls Motorists 1 FEMES it r ( I 9 Greater Possibilities in Store (or Manufacturers in Near Future Uy I.yiin lcViililft president Cadillac Motor Car Company hi the I nitr.I States the. bnilrt u.. ,,r inn i or arn has developed i.r.i rue country loading indus- ttv Throughout North America Hi.- mnior car itself ha become a l.n tor of rirsi importance In car , vinl' n our every day business. ;.n.i determining our manner of livinu America. which comprises ,,110-tenth of Ufa world's popu lation, i producing and using nine tenth of the world's motor cars. Tin- remainder of the world is only beginning to comprehend its vat possibilities as a moans of pro;; ress. In a general way wo are fami liar wiih the rapid growth in the use of the automobile in Europe. South America and Australia. Yet or, every continent of the globe the. stimulating effect of motor car transportation is being felt, and, with the small number or regis trations outside of North America, the rate of increase is everywhere more rapid than here. This ap plies to the great populations of china. India, Asiatic and Euxo yiean Russia as much as it does to f?.l "itin .mericu, uie.tuiivu '"i loni. France and Germany, lrom 19 24 to 1:'2C. world registrations outside the United States increas ed r7 per cent; and to a lesser de cree we can look for the motor car to add to world prosperity and wrll-being much as it has to that of our own. Here, in 1907, the capital em ployed in the industry was negli gible. Ten years later it was ap proaching a bflljpn dollars, and to day, it is almost two billion. If we include the capital inrestraent in parts, accessories aud tire pro duction, the amount climbs prac tically another billion. For a number of years back jhe amount ' invested in motor" roads here has f amounted to practically one bil jiolars per year. atd motor- istsqj. annually Investing ten biUloiis in the operaUp.Q, of. their cars. This wide use of motor cars is (Continued on . Pag 3.) nun Score of University Gradu ates Given Apprentice Bnsi tions Last Year A new phase jn nutomotive I nierclwndisini; has leen stnrtHl by; Oldsuiobile officials. They are layiiiK tltc foundation for a rou,p f trained men who will have practical and theoretical training in them are important phases of the industry production. service, wholesale and retail selling. At the, conclusion ol th college year, last spring, nearly a score of university graduates were given apprentice positions with the,OIU mobile organization. During the past year they have received prac-' 'ical training and instruction in iiKiaeeclng and production meth ods at the Oldsmobile factories. F.ight of these graduate appre,u- ioes have been selected for fur ther sates training,- mnd at the completion of ther years training n the factory they a,re be'ug giv- n intensive instruction an,d,pra,c tical experience in, the, selling of automobiles. TlUa ,"rH I lowed by a period t of six, months iu tual retail selling experience in Oldsiuobile branches, and aa eaua period as factory, re"prejsen.tatlve in the wholesale field. It Is.e pected that the course winje,com- P'teci: next springs The factory instruction . course now being given covers sales and service methods, rrorn the receipt of cars in the field the actual sale to the consumer. Sales poll cie. the operation of the. General Motors Acceptance corporation and the Oldsmobile six per cent rtincate planl are, taoirOughly ttn this second year o train ing U complete thsei young men ' naye a ctose ; and practical Knowledge of antomoblle merchan uimng. ineir training will haTe. mciuaea a regular, college course, "'a engineering studies; one year of practical factory, woirk in prodnctlon. departments, n OHMfimi F FIRM -f ' . - S NEW SYSTEWI k ' C6nttnn4l; on Pg 2.) . iff f J ' i'Ltoto Courtesy Hupp Motor Csr Corporation . EASE OF OBTAINING LIFTS INCREASING Many Youthful Down-and. Outers Find Way to City by Getting Rides WASHINGTON, D. C (Spe cial.) Motorist who indulge in the habit, of giving automobile lifts to boys and girls along the highwa-s and byways are contrib uting in a very measurable decree to the creation of a serious na tional problem, according to a bul letin issie,d. frqn,i 'he national headquarter t th American Au tomobile Association today. I The American Motorist, which is the official publical ion of the AAA, has jUf t completed a s.urvey Which, HhQWss that more than 70 per cent of the youthful down-and outers, who he,com,e a burden on charitable ort?anial ions in our laree cities, have arrived at des titution via the hitch-hiking" trail, , The national motoring body le- lieves that, if all mqrnrists give a minimum of thought to the ser iousness of the pjohlenv they are helping to create, they will here after abstain from giving lifts to boys and girls encountered on the highways. Nine times put of 10, according to the Amer jean Motorist, these boys and girls simply succumb to the, age-old wanderlust, have left topme without preparation or with equipment and without a definite idea as- to destination or as, to what they want to do to support tberqseives. It continues: "Hitch-hikers are not confined to. boys a)one. Almost as many girls find thHr way to the soup stands.. Xot Only that, but these . ! . . Pige Possesses "It" . Says Queer) of Beauty DETROIT, Mich. (Special) The Paige car has the "IT" of motcrdouA, oppara,ble to the "IT" in human nature made famou.1 by lllnor Glyna, according to Ia Verse Reynolds, the Detroit girl who won the title of "Miss Michi gan." in a beauty nd charm con test conducted by a Chicago news paper. "To me Paige has that almost indefinable spark of personality, which fascinates and enslaves," the beauty winner ; declared. "Yhai ia. U-pr3VJI, I,ani not aure that -1. ca,!!,. say, but 'it' is thews nevertheless, ' ': 'The, ear gives, the ' necessary thrill &s it responds to tny light touch on the,, accelerator. It slips by, a.pd, through i traffic with an ease that. winsony. complete admir atin. An.d:wft. all know that wo man, must admire to bo won. , It completes the eharf with beauty. It there-ii 'IT? in Motor carsr I know that Paige has 'ITV 1 -fjtmuml With the coming of the warm months an ever increasing num ber of motorists will make plans to see more of scenic America. One of the places which will at tract manv is the picturesque Garden of the Gods near Denver, which contains some of the most striking effects of erosion ever found. The Garden covers an area of about 500 acres., within wnicii are sandstone rocks; red and white, in ferms-eT,,Sft&feSfrtte" magnificent columns, "cathedral spires." and giant figures some times appearing almost as if made in human likeness. The road into (Continued on Pag 2.) DOWN THE ROAD 1 . V. 2S22SjS : 'v. 1 V W:v 3 ?t-; -" ..15 -? ; This fleet of 20 Harley-Davklson Motorcycles and side cars j ust purchased from Harry W. Scott by the Oregon State Traffic Department. All machines are special police motorcycles and are equipped with Goodyear tires. . -. ... ,; -;. it... Famous Garden of the Gods, near Denver, Colorado, one of the most picturesque places in all the West. i v- 4 & J 'X' V 4 fcks 2 Directors for General Motors Elected at Meet WILMINGTON. Del. ( Special ) At the annual meeting of the stockholders of General Motors, corporation, held here, the direct ors were reelected for the ensuing year, and a tentative plan for the 4X0rmation of a second Managers' Securities company, designed to interest the men occupying impor tant managerial positions as part ners with the stockholders in the corporation was approved in prin ciple. -Tfet AulomoJbilc FLEET OF MOTORCYCLES SOLD TO STATE Marmon 8 Result of Years of Intensive Research and Experiment Numerous advanced features of automotive design, the result of yeirs of intensive research and ex perimental work, have been com bined tto produce performance characteristics in the Marmon eight that are entirely new in the passenger car field. Such is the statement of H. II. Urooks, general sales director of the Marmon Motor Car company, who reports that Marmon eight sales throughout the entire coun try are more than three fold ahead of the anticipated spring demand. "The performance of the. Mar mon eight may be explained not only in terms of maximum miles per hour, but in the extreme flexi bility of the car and its ability to overcome all kinds of traffic dif ficulties." Mr. Brooks said. "In the first place, the piston dis placement of the Marmon eight engine is only lftO cubic inches, yet the engine develops more power in comparison to its dis placement than any other produc tion engine. Thus, it is apparent that Marmon engineers have fol lowed The trend in modern racing car design- a trend that has brought forth so many new re cords for this year's tiny motors of only !tl Vj cubic inches of pis ton displacement. "One of tlie outstanding fea tures of engine design in the Marmon eight is the method of gasoline distribution, so long a drawback to the development of the straight eight engine for the passenger automobile. The in take manifold of the Marmon is of the down draught type, which makes it possible for cylinders to receive exactly the same amount of fuel in exactly the same degree of vaporization. The gasoliue mixture tfavels the same distance WramMiJe carburetor to each cyl inder, thus preventing the end cylinders from becomingptarved.' "Overhead valve mechanism, similar to that used on the large Marmon series 7 5. was adopted (Continued on pje 6.) A SATISFIED CUSTOMER HO TELLS THE NORLD VHAT A WONDERFUL CAR HE HAS . : : ' Dealers Dream - 4,- " - .it (A typical auto camp by a Pacific Coast roadside offers un usual hospitality to tourists) Photo by Wallace Hutchinson, courtesy U. S. Forest Service. ' " " . SALES FOR NASH Bisaest Month Witnessed at Lkht Six Plant in Produc tion Work C S Si 61 April was the biggest single fornia -alone. This travel has In . ' creased from 800.000 ten vears month ,n point of production and , agQ or oyer shipments in the history of the I This list of camps includes mnn Nash light six plant. With daily i icipal, private and government shipments keeping pace with pro- j auto camps in the state of Call duction. the Nash Racine plant j fornia, t Oregon and Washington, was moving at high speed 'while ! A copy of this 4 0-page-book with both the Kenosha and Wilwaukie i road maps can be obtained for plants were also active. j the asking from service stations" The first Nash light six was i ?nd garages carry Associated Oil shipped from Kacine in June two I years ago, the plant having been bought by the Nash Motors com pany a year previously. Brand new machinery, thoroughly mod ern In design, was installed in the factory and because of heavy de mand for he light six. additional i machinery and new equipment I were installed late last fall to. meet the steadily .increasing de- j maud. ,The light Six series, like ; all Nash cars, is equipped with 1 the seven-bearing motor. Reports from theNash factory show heavy increases in Canadian sales-of Nash advanced six, spe cial and light six models this year over 1926. The increase for April, 1027, was 103 per cent. More (Continued on Pas 2.) By FRANK BECK Zfit - - 3 With the expectation of ''a' ban ner touring season on the pacific coast, over 10Q0 anto camps have opened or are opening their dooYs to motor campers according to the latest list just issued by the "As sociated Oil company. The growth and magnitude of this manner of travel is indicated by figures of the United States forest service which show, that over 6.000.000 registrations were made in 19 2.fi of people entering or leaving national forests in Cali- company products PROVE DISTINCT . , r-rr " . Americans Different Says Local Chandler Dealer and There is something different about the American public, ac cording to Mr. MacDonald, man ager' of the MacDonald Auto com-: pany, local Chandler representa tives, that sets it apart from any other nation in the world. Across the Atlantic, people cling to old customs and ideas',, but iji tlie United States and particularly in Salem whenever anything better comes along something actually, visibly, intrinsically better is Riven a hearty welcome. To prove his statement the local Chandler manager said: "Witness the ureat, spontaneous success of the new Royal eight and the new sixes by Chandler. Eveywhere throughont the country motorists are ordering these cars in such number that the factory must work at top speed in order to produce sufficient automobiles to meet the demand. "Of course, for every such, change there must be a good rea son and in our case there is. Ot for that matter there is more than one. To begin with, the fac tory has glorified the present trend of motor car design in both the eights and sixes. An inspec tion of any of the models on dis play in our showrooms will 'show this. "But Chandler didn't top there by any means. The factory has surpassed many ideas of modern performance with the tremendous amount of reserve power stored up in its Pikes Peak motor. This is the engine that was developed recently to conquer Bikes Peak, the world's highest mountain climb and it did. hence the name. Since that time this pow er plant has further refined apd improved in all models, with h result that its performance is as tonishing. . "Then, too, the cars themselves reflect the fortified stability .back of the machines. And this. stabile ity is important, to bear n mind for everybody wants to be sure the automobile' he buys is backed by , an , organization , of strength and permanence. . As a direct re suit of the leaping increase in sales, more dealers are applying for Chaftdier franchises, not only here bnt throughout the country as wel, than at; any other tiine la the' history or the organization.- ' Ford Sterling, noted screeicom ediaa, stopped at the Oregon State Motor association, 12th and Mor rison ; street, , Portland, 'Oregon, making Inquiry as to road condi tions eonth. Mr. Sterling was en ronte to : Holtywod where he will take np work on his next picture. DRIVING C Tornado Stricken Town Gives Auto Chance to Dem onstrate Powers . i Out ot the wreck and desola tion left in the wake of the tor nadoes which played havoc over the state of Texas this spring comes on of those storiew of ready and courageous response, to tho call of duty which -make up the proud traditions of the newspaper profession but are accepted, by their participants a only part of the day's work and are forgotten in tl absorption of the next 5ay'a assignments. . About-. &: 30 one night in ntld April came to r the San Antbnia newspaper offices a message that thrilled its staff with Hie electrio tingle known to every newspaper man as the breaking of a big story. Away t olhe west, out on the sheep-raisinu plains of the Nueces river's headwaters, a giant twister had - turned the town of Rock Springs into a shambles. The telephone operator, who had stumbled a mile out into the dark ness to find a wire with unbroken connection to the outside world, whispered a tale of dire destruc tion and death. Only four or five buildings were left standing in the town. Of. the population so many were dead, injured or miss ing that no one knew how many survivors there were. Instant aid was imperative. . To notify the civil and military authorities was the work of a moment but. how to reach the stricken town was a problem. Itock Springs was in an isolated region. Its nearest railroad point was 75 miles away, down -at Uvarde Junction. The " closest army post was another 75 miles away. Cavalry would be dis patched, and relief crews would be sent as soon as possible, it was promised, but many hours must elapse before aid could reach th stricken community.- , Me"an while Ihere - remained the newspaper's first duty of getting the news of the .disaster. Oaet more the automobile proved itt right to its foremost place is modern civilisation. A hurried (Continued on pa 6.) RADIO FINDS USE Tried as Sound Detector; Adapted as Novel Plan in Engineering Work - Radio as a sound detector prov ed a boon to seafaring craft oper ating in. submarine infested wa ters. Radio is used today to lo cate approaching aircraft by anti aircraft batteries. One of the most novel nses has now been made of this soutfd detecting abil ity of th modeern science by the Franklin Automobile company of Syracmse, N. Y, Facing the problem, as all auto mobile manufacturers have been forced to face the matter of tear end gears that sometimes become noisy this manufacturer has de veloped a radio noise dectorwhlch operates in a sound-proof room. The assembled gears, housing and. axles are mounted on massive wheels which represe1- the jvr-it of a FrankliiWedan mometer wheels.ar miles per hou-ar presses his mici.-, . rearhnusing. If the--;;sIL... . noise or rumble is present !t is magnified many times through a loud speaker which register the slightest whisper. . i During the' tests of the gears the, device is speeded to 40 miles. several times, is decelerated to a dead stop in four and - one half seconds and again is speeded to 40 mies the hour; This time the machine: decelerates by coasting to a stop and it is claimed by fac tory engineers that this is the most exacting test ol all. A large dial registers to three one-thousandths of an ampere the slightest noise. Should the- mi nutest burr be overlooked la the delicate machining of these rears it will be iscovf red ln this oper ation . Should the test show as much : as three milliamper of sdund the gears are rejected and sent back to the machine shop for repolishlng. -'.VX .Every gear entering a TranTclin automobile f s tested fnthis t;.an-. ner which j Is claimed to be th most' aeenrat and poslf iv tisett by automobile manufacturers. ; 1 PEACE MDWI