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"'' '"' iT1! "r" i T "IT r iiMi ii'jlfj j-rLjjUJtiL ilDQilS IBtf Makes Possible Tremendous Popularity of : Outdoor :; 'Sports: of 'Today f V, (Bjr -Jlalph B. . Kettleton, Sales Manager, Chandler-Cleveland , . Motor Corporation). :V Tha modern country "elub with tt highly developed- social and iporting life Is a striking exam ple of4M..nriQeBee that the aa to- tuobue 'M oyer American habit?. Generally- ipeaklng, if it. wasn't r the' automobile' , there' '.would or pa nol country : clubs, lor few members-would arrange their time o conform with '.railroad sche dules in this hustle-bustla age we fre. llTlng..,. ,. , , ! . , ' ' V; The automobile not only makes t possible to dub out to the club for a few roinds of golf whenever the urge demands, hiu it makes (evening social life brighter by permitting groups to attend danc es, etc, in a comparatively short amount of time,. , ., : Then, top, the. majority of clubs pi toaayj jnsteaq.oi being limited la their location to regions served by rail,' are" purposely laid out, In secluded, picturesque sites. . They are, therefore,, much' more access! fcle by "car than the country clubs pf in , earlier - day which , used '' to lie' alongside the main. line of the railroad, withi town klots encroach ing oiirbotli sMes. ,; ; I It Js In the extension of the field .of greatly, increasing social and sporting.: activity, that the country clubs of today, have been fco' much changed' by the automo- ile. . For, after all,; the country club i no longer a mere rendezvous or., golfers : and ' - a recreation xrouBd for the young. It has, in stead, become a true club trans- erring to its exclusive and invig rating natural, surroundings, the oclat atmosphere, and comfort of the best city clubs. s '. . .. i There are hundreds of country jrlubs-and thousands of members jtoday.- as against - a few score jclubs -and hundreds--of , members vo decades' agoJ , The beneficial effects ofK this great development, lot course, are obvious, and it Is the automobile alone that has made it E Also a' "Telephone, Radio; .Phonograph and rianor . statistics , Reveal ibUBOfe YOUNG President, Hupp Motor Car Cor , : ; poratlon ' , The . average family In America has a felephbtte,.a motor car, phonograph, a piano and a radio. Statistics bear 'this out. ; The, General Federation of WomenV cruba recently canvassed 4.101,381 families, living in every classification, of cities and towns, Land ob farms. - Of the number In terviewed, 56.5 per cent have tele phones. A total of 2, 285,738 of the, families canvassed have motor caa 6,5.7 'Per cent ownership. forty-six and two-tenths per cent liave phonographs, 40.4 pianos and l2fl per cent radios. It la an interesting fact tbat the llargest percentage pf families Sownlqg jars Is in towns of 1;000 sand Jeas. The survey discloses jthat 60.5 per cent of all families so located enjoy motor car pwner jsblp.The lowest ratio was found )fn cities of .100,000 ' and up. but ven here 64.0 per cent have one !orwmore.cars. . I Figures . Just, available reveal that California now has a register jed motpr vehicle for every 3.11 persons. On- the other hand, Alabama hass one for everv 12.75 Itersons'and Georgia one for every Florida last year enjoyed an 3 Defease In new car registrations 5of40.Jr per cent. Oklahoma was aecond , with 17.8 per: cent. Con fversely,' Colorado showed a gain jof,3.5 per cent and South Dakota jO.l per cent.1 - -1. New York continues to have the largest number of registered mo tor vehicles fo' any state 1;815, A 3 4W California follows with 1,-. C00.475. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan and Texas each bow have more than 1.000.000 ' th& last two Joining tbat class dur ing 1926. -f Deleware, with 44, '834, cars and Nevada, with 24, 014, ar on the other end .of the list. : - -v.-.. New .,York added 189.851 cars to;-Jts registration in 192 and California 159,934. - ' ) Registrations " for -the United States at the close of 1926 gained aoTe than 2.000.000 over those kt the. end of 1925. There' are ow more than 22,000.000 motor vehicles registered la this conn fry. The year 192 was the larg est li the history of the automo tive Industry I , There always will to a certain pjtcentag?' of ; the total " sales ' to those who'fcave never owned a. car. Tien there willbe sales to famh 1U 3 alrea J owning one or more warn MY USES AUTO MssBtiLflhSasVisaM I "y " M' : ....... t f ' 1 " ZL J .w: f l 4k lull! 0'V3 mirW JW "BS M M i i 7,', , i ii In tlie'accompanyfnjc: pictures-the 'oval at the top show s the coffee urn left frfiowg the' combination sink and wafer tank. A new and novel piece of fire fighting equipment has just been placed in-service by the Detroit fire' department. It is a combina tion ambulance and mobile hos pital and also is fully equipped to dispense hot coffee and sand wich at the scene of a tire. Fire men say it is the only car of its kind. The special body is mounted on a Packard six chassis of 133 inches wheelbase. A coffee urn is placed on the left at the front of the rear compartment. It is set on a large cabinet in which are kept cups, saucers and silver ware. A drop door makes a small cars. This is becoming an in creasingly important market. Realtors have learned that the average, house, when equipped with a twoar garage, is. easier to sell than one with only a one-car garage. '-Ten per cent of all fami lies already own more than one car. Eighteen peri cent of car owning families have more than one. This country can prepare now for-the1 day when there will be from 30,000,000 to 35,000,0dO cars, trucks and busses on our streets and highways. But the automobile industry's real backbone will always be the replacement business, just as it is the backbone of the clothing in dustry or the shoe business. Imagine what iould happen to the shoe manufacturers were they compelled to depend for sales sole ly on those who have never owned shoes before! The; parallel with the automobile business is a sound one. Motor cars wear out. Cars are being Improved constant ly. They become obsolete. Then, too. It is typical of the American that he wants something better, constantly. The automobile business owes much to this Ameri can spirit. How many persons be come car . owners, dispose of heir cars and neve get another? Once a car owner always ai car owner. How many drop back rrom one price group to another? The aver age man owns the best car he can afford. His constant ambition is to own a better one.1 : The export market is growing rapidly. Foreign countries are coming to realize more and more that America owes much to the automotive, industry. While it is true that the automobile indus try's prosperity reflects good .times In other businesses. It; Is also true that good times in the automobile Industry help make good times in other lines of business. s The automotive industry Is to day a stabilized one There is reason, Indeed, why. manufacturers of motor cars are optimistic. . Crude' Rubber Import Gain Shows Automotive Growth NEW YORK. Gains In impor tations of crude rubber' during; May and for the first" five: months of this year over. the correspond ing periods of last year Indicate the steadily. , growing f rolume of; business in the automobile tire In-: dustry. , ' 1 j ;- . During May crude rubber im portations - amounted J ' to 3 6,569 tons, an increase over the same1 month last year of 6153 tons, ac cording to, the report of the Rub-' ber Association 'of America, , Inc. For the first five months of this year 193,656 tons were imported; as against 178,530 tor the same, months of 1 926,. an. -increase of : 15,126 tons, the report shows.. All figures ; in the report repre sent long tons. ' Remember i the. old rdays when the" duly '"persons . af fectetr by a barbers' strike were' the menfolka? serving counter. At the rear is a polished aluminum .sink with an adjustable shelf where dishes can be washed with water contained in a large tank above. Liquid soap is carried in a container at the side. On the right side of the rear compartment is i long leather up holstered seat beneath whicti are a large number of metal lockers for medicines and complete surgi cal equipment. Two stretchers are carried in brackets above and when in cse are swung on straps from the ceiling. Emergency seats and a surgeon's table fold out of the Forty Planes Expected to Take Part; Leave Detroit Next Monday An entry total of approximate ly 40 planes is expected for the Third National Air Tour, schedul ed to begin at the Ford Airport, une 27. This contrasts with a total of 25 entries for the tour of 1926 and of 14 for that of 1925, and supplies indubitable evidence of the growth of the American com mercial plane industry and the im portance of the event. The program this year calls for an extended itinerary which will include cities in the east and southwest over a route of 3800 miles, twice the distance covered in 1925, and the longest ever scheduled for a competitive reli ability tour. Present plans send the aero car avan from Detroit east to Buffalo and Schenectady, in New York state. Continuing, the ffyers will land at Boston, and hop off from there for New York City. Phila delphia and Pittsburg will be vis ited in the order named. The next scheduled stop' is Tulsa, Ok lahoma; then follow Omaha, Day ton, Grand Rapids, Cleveland and Battle Creek. s It is probable that Chicagb and Kansas City will be included in the itinerary when the schedule is complete. Noon stops for lunch wll be selected from among the largest cities between the princi pal night stops lying in the line of tour. TRANS-CONTINENTAli TRIP'S STORY TOLD (Continned from pa ice 1) seas of mud, ever cutting down the precious driving average, the car and its driver - battled on, crossing the Missouri river at Omaha half an hour ahead of schedule. ' Hour after hour, mile after mile, etate after state, passed. The killing pace o rried the m t'.rough Iowa and' Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. and when, the tireless; driv ers reached the Pennsylvania line at. East Liverpool - they looked proudly at a speedometer that re corded 305 minutes for the. last last 2S2 miles, an average of 55.8 mites an hour. r Across . Pennsylvania, around the .outskirts of ? Pittsburgh, through the - historic Gettysburg battlefield, on to Philadelphia and New Jersey's maze Jof traffic the car kept up its terrific pace to Jtrsey City and the Hudson' river ferry at New York. . .Hero Miller checked in at 8:55 p. m., 79 hours NATIONAL AIR TOUR DRAWS BIB EOT The picture at the way when not in use. A dust and water-proof trunk is carried on each running board as a place to store . blankets. Light is provided with two dome lamps and a movable spot light with a long cord held in the partition at the rear of the 'driv er's seat. Windows are so arrang ed on the sides as to give ample light and ventilation and still re tain privacy for surgeons perform ing possible emergency opera tions. The car was presented to the Detroit fire department by Paxton Mendelssohn, chan-maa of the fire prevention committee of the board of commerce. and 55 minutes elapsed time from San Francisco, breaking the old one-way transcontinental record by three hours and 17 minutes.7 One minute on the New York dock to get stamps on his card, and Miller was back on the ferry headed West, and officially on his way to California. The return trip was a repetition of battling against the elements that were faced going east. From the time the car left the old route to brancri south on the Old Trails at Chambersburg a furious downpour of rain beat up on it. In Kansas three days pre cipitation had swollen rivers out of their banks and made roads more like bogs. All through Colorado and down the picturesque old Santa Fe trail into New Mexico the daunt less drivers fought their way until at 7:30 Monday morning they pulled into Albuquerque 2279 miles from New York, 5664 miles since they had left San Francisco six days before. And the worst was yet to come. Leaving Albuquerque, going south, down along the Rio Grande to Socorro, and then west again up over the Continental Divide and through the petrified forests over roads that would make Daniel Boone's trail through the Kentucky mountains look like Fifth Avenue. Washouts, de tours, almost impassable roads, heart-breaking delays with man and machine making a great fight against time and nature. At Flagstaff at 7:50 Monday night, then across the Colorado river to Needles and out over the Mojav.e desert to Barstow. Then down to San Bernardino and the glorious finish at Los Angeles at 9:59 a. m. and L. B. Miller and John E. WieWter and the Chrysler Imperial '80v had completed the first contiguous trip from the Pa cific to the Atlantic and back to the Pacific in one week a world's record, and a phenomenal exhibi tion of stamina, endurance and de pendability on the part of both men and car. MANY TKL'CKH USED According to the United States Department of Commerce,, the 17,681 bakers in this country use 92,000 trucks. Motor Chat. We have a complete stock of McQUAY-NORRIS - PISTON RINGS PISTONS PINS .. BEARINGS . . , . .' . . Give Us a Call ami interior, C. & L. PARTS STORE INC. Corner Ferry and iLiberty COpTiCAMRll; OtlTFiT ESSEfllL If i ' Special Equipment- Needed for Comfort and Conven ience on Trips The transportation problem should be taken into consideration when camping- equipment is be ing purchased or' assembled. It must be compact enough to fit in a small space and light enough to keep from overloading the car. That is why the household arti cles and furnishings cannot be used to advantage on the camping trip, but does not mean that con venience must be sacrificed for the same comfort giving equip ment used at home may be had in portable form, for the camp. Porcelain dishes used in the house would not fit 5 in with the camping scheme, neither would the bulky pots and pans answer the camping need. The average bedding roll would be much too large to allow ease in handling, so the tourist must provide com pact equipment built especially for camping. If two campers have the entire touring car to themselves, the problem is very simple- pack it all in the tonneau. This applies as well to the motor camper with the roadster or coupe ?-store It all in the rear compartment. But all of us do not drive road sters, neither are we all lucky enough to have an entire tonneau of the touring car for baggage and camping goods, so other places must be found to carry the equip ment. ( The logical place to carry the bulk of the equipment is on the running boards and rear trunk rack. These three places provide enoughspace so that little equip ment is left to be crowded into the tonneau. When most of the apparatus is Parried qn the running boards, it will necessarily mean that the doors on one side of the car will be blocked. On this side, the tent, bed and mattresses may be carried by means of the carry-all luggage carrier. On the same running board the emergency service unit - may be fastened. This consists of a kit containing three canteens, one for gas, ohe for oil and one for wa ter. A combined bumper and trunk rack will accommodate a good share of the outfit. A large box or trunk, bolted to this contriv ance, will hold the blankets, pil lows, clothing and all like arti cles that must be kept out of the dust and dirt. The other running board will bear the heavier equipment and still have room for the doors open above it. Here may be fsfc tened the gasoline stove, folding table, chairs, dishes, aluminum set and box for groceries and sup plies. ' If a large amount of bulky bed ding is to be carried, it is well to leave the back cushion at home and substitute the bedding In its place. Not only does this make a desirable Seat but much addi tional rigging can be carried be neath Jt. I Many of the camping articles can be picked out to fit under the two seats. The folding bucket and basin, Camp axe and shovel and even blankets can be carried there. To insure cleanliness, the run nlngboard outfit should be cover ed with a heavy piece of khaki. The tent usually comes encased n a heavy bag, and the bed may be carried in its original carton. Tjje poncho mattress is fitted with,' a pantasote covering that tucks in at the ends to render ' it dust proof. I To get the best service from all of your equiment keep it covejed", clean and away from the dust and rain as much as possible. j NEW SALES RECORD SET FOR OAUDS Production for May Aver ages 1,000 Cars Dairy ; - Demand Growing , PONTIAC, Mich. "Mayf pro duction of Oakland-Pontiaij sixes smashed all previous npnthly records for the com'pany ajid en abled us to deliver 24,006 :ars to dealers thereby setting up a new record 20 per cent higher than r - . Telephone cGG , last month, which was the biggest monthin the" company's hlstoryV is the statement issued by W. II. Tracy; Vice-President In charge of sales. '"Twice so far this year new records have been set for 'month ly production, the other being for April when 19,926 Oakiands and Pontiacs , - were produced. Yet May's figures topped this by more than 4.000 cars, tne third highest production month being August of 19577 when cars were manufac tured. 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