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i SECTION THREE ':.p- p - '-v-VI j hv . Rages-lto8 V v i I 1 . Better Homes 'J ALL THE NEWS THAT IS FIT TO PRINT SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAB : SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY. MORNING. OCTOBER 9; 1927 PRICE, FIVE CENTS liiMiii: il mw i. w -Nan f m r w w a.. .ii r w ' m , -t f Mr ' ' 0 V. p fids wm HIED. MODS Science Advanced as Neces sity Appears in Producing- Long Waited Car i . Preparation for producing the new Ford car compose ' an, Indus trial task which in -magnitude and complexity surpasses any sim ilar, task the world has yet known. In addition to their Tartness anil-intricacy hese preparations in volve ; something - more Important and. difficult. ; Ford engineering' is making the introduction of the new car the occasion of an ad vance all alone the line In de s!rB.4n materials. In 'Construct ion in production methods and macb lnea. K' Ry . intensive experimentation Ford " engineers have brought about almost revolutionary chan ges tn certain manufacturing proc esses. Working Along ,.llne pursu ed iby ;he company tor the pas tettyears, tbey hafe extended q! most a i hundred-told, the- applicant illty of,' f'oTged. stamped, and wel ded parts. Five years ago the welding de partment worked eighteen months to develop a certain new welding operation and put it on a produc tion basis. During the past ,welve months the department, applying Its cu'mulaire experience, has sol ved at least thirty problems more difficult than that on which it once spent a year and a half. ''Weldlng,M fery years ago, was done by the forging process. At ter electric welding hag been' in vented it was regarded mainly, as a method of repairing broken -objects. aFr different has the mean ing of the term become in. the hands of Ford engineers, whose experimentation has been concen trated in the -field of electrical resistance welding. ... , Heated to a high degree almost in-stantaneously 'by a heavy elec tric current, metallic objects,, sometimes possesing quite - differ ent characteristics tar. f used., nn der pressure Into a single" piece. Allowance Is jnade fofr barned edg--eOknd the metal that Is actually y$ned Is fresh and: unfatigned, njiklng weld'as .tre a "n3 Bdsmetimes lronger.than the met al surrounding it.7 The burned metal appears ,-' ; .a-blackened ridge andis removed by machine. less Dns ( ONLY 5 PERCENT Great Majority of Motonsts Observe Safety Rules, - Pointed Out CHICAGO, While' there are more than a million careless and reckless motorists throughout i the United States this number consti tutes only about; five per cent of the motor vehicle operators, said Charles E. Hill,- Vice. President for Public Safety. National, Safe ty Council, when he addressed -the public safety session of the" Six- Mr. Hill said, in part: teenth Annual Safety Congress "About 96 per cent of the mot orists of this country are reason ably careful. , .'The remaining i per cent, however, represents, a large army of more than & million reckless and Incompetent drivers flitting about, the country Without any regard for the safety for them selves or their f ellowmea. They include drivers - who are deaf. blind, of immature age, enfeebled condition due to old age, those- who are intoxicated, and then there are those that are analogous to the . Jtarmer8 mule. . . j : ' "Contrast the comparative qual ifications of the driver of an auto mobile and driver of a locomotive. The former, as - a rule, needs, no qualifications other than his abll lty to possess a ear4 He is not ' only unfamiliar with its operation and mechanism. buMs wholly lack ing In a -knowledge of oar laws governing its nse on the highways, In many instances his responsibill ties are such that he is weakened In his regard; for the rights of .others, whereas the locomotive en fHper has earned his t right to a eat in s the cab of his' engine by virtue of many years of training He is not only familiar with, Its mechanism and, operation,' but al so with the rales governing , its movement over the road, r Hla re sponsibilities are- si part'f bis tnake-up. . He sits in his cab not only with tbese qualifications bat wtth a steady hand, clear head, a kraln that la nowise affected by anything he may hare drank, and (CobUbdmI os t "') Finding Plkce to Park : DlfltfTlftCIt GIiAIVlR 1 '; ' I' ' omes lieading Sport rjj T g D ETE R 1VI 1 W ED Trying to ffnd a parking place is rapidly become the leading out door sport. It can be be played anywhere, and all you need Is a good vocabulary and a flivver. . A driver spots an open curb space, and makes a dash for it. He may get there it his insurance holds out. Rules are simple: Traffic cop blows whistle and cars go into huddle. Crostown trafifc sneers and slides.-by. Cop blows again and then ducks. v The emergency hospital squad takes over the re mains. . ; - Hitting a pedestrian is consider ed unethical, but often necessary. Parking, near a fire plug is the worst offense. Penalties are quite ON VACATION TOUR 'hiladelphia College Boys Cover 13,000 Miles in Crtryslen Phaeton A notable summer vacation motor trip that took, them trough 30 states and into practically all the natural wonderspots of Wes tern United - States: and Canada was finished . when three son of well known Philadelphia, families returned to their, home, city in time for reopening of their school year. The young men were Audre Con stant Vauclain, Raymond de Shry- ock, and his brother, J. Richard Shryock, all students of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania and ''prom inent in the social life of their city and college. Leaving Philadelphia June 17, the trio covered approximately 13.- 000 miles, without experiencing a single mishap to mar the pleasure of.the, tour.-They drove a. ChryB- er Phaeton equipped with a rnTnTilAtn mmntfir xntflt-... - - uomg, wesi over ine. Tiauonai Old Trails, and returning "through the; northern part 'of the- United States after a detour into the Can adian Rockies; they arranged their Itinerary so as to include practic ally every oint of interest on or near their comprehensive route. Some of the larger cities they visited were St. Louis, Denver, Salt Lake, Los Angeles, San Fran cisco. . Portland; ; Seattle, Victoria, Calgary, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo. In each of these a stay of one to five, days was made. Almost every national park In the west was visited and the tour also -included such natur al spectacles as 9 the Pike's Peak Drive, ;whiehr .the,. Chrysler made with ease, the Grand Canyon, Tia J ua-aa, Catalina i Island;. Crater Lake- in Oregon, Banff and Lake Louise in Canada, the Blck Hills, the Great Lakes and Niagara Palls..:' 'j Roads were astonishingly goed. the tourists report. Gas averaged 21 cents a gallon on- the ' trip, prices running high at: points dis tant from railroad points and reaching a maximum of 65 cents a gallon at the north rim of the Grand Canyon, j The entire distance was covered oa an average of more than 20 miles to the gallon of gasoline The greatest mileage in a day was 555 miles la-1 hours, bat 325 to 375-miles was a fair day's aver age , . I "The trip was full of interest nndVthrilhC said, the boys after reaching r . t Philadelphia, "Our Chrysler certainly stood up and performed like; a thoroughbred One point we learned -by oar ex perience was thatfca good car, as nearly- new as possible - and v care fully conditioned! pays- for itself many timet l on ' such tripe by sav ing repairs and avoiding the wear ing effect of perils and hardships that would otherwise be experienc ed on . terrific; mountain grades, sinuous canyon roads with their dangerous blind turns, and the treacherous black gnmbo i mod which In . som4, tvwj places made the-going almost Impossible. , - "We had no mechanical trouble whatever and the "60' was as all ent at the end of the trip as Von the day we left Philadelphia. Yet we had certainly pat it through its paces. We raced Union Pacific trains across the plains and one morning before traffic was on the roads we : reached a speed of C miles an hour. .: MWe would be; glad to, take the trip all over: again. Aside from the fun we had thf reIs no way, like it for. forming a conception of the marveloas-extent '; an di variety, and beauty of the country.r " f 30 STATES VISITED I serene. Sometimes as high as, .' ' ' ! f- I $25. - ' ----..p-, Any car jumping on sidewalk is ofside. Drivers must not try to hurdle trolley wires. Cars going through plate glass windows- is considered in the rough and drhjfefJs) disqualified: hi'v f jMry rri.; ;," i :xii: f-4 . , Taxla aiming ! ; toff . jaywalkers njust signal for fair, catch. Sac cesstoJt? play.'i nvustN bo , reeordAd : PedeUiaiM pat, .sedan ' to .coupe to tourism car v Benon hit ossoepad bouncordoa't coontii. .-; tvi .. '. 'rr- -I Yesterday 'afternoon's game was exciting.: . Color- Wind busiaesB ma wa,tc&ingi aaklesv triedj end run., from curb; .. Roadster ? ranhih ter fereoeer for bw, . with track leading tlw-attacki- lnal seoYe Flivvers,, lf fPedestrianev O. -1 i m - u": : ; -' 1 -: Motdr Srhakhuris increase; PARIS (A P)' Automobila accidents in France are increasing in almost, the same proportion as the number of cars. In August 70 persons were hi Med and-260 were Injured. The press -has begun a campaign to encourage prudence on the part of drivers. The autonrobiltets themselves are less ' (Inclined to blam the mounting accident list on carelessness and love of speed than upon the hew rules of the road. Under the old regulations the -car on the main road had the right of way over vehicles on, sec ondary routes. The new law- sites priority of passage to the- oar- com ing from the Tight. - When the new. reguJa-tioas were made it was thought they would result In . slower driving on the main- (roads, some . of which . are smooth and straight, as arrows for mile upon- mile. There has been no diminishing: of speed on, the main roads. &nd ther has been a marked increase- on the secon dary roads. " ; ' Oregon Behind Others v In Amount of -Gas Tax "Oregon does not collect nearly so mnch forthe ji8jg.ofan.iaH4omo sue on tne aiate 'Highways at no other states," says tiie-" Oregon State Motor ' Association. . ; "The average- combined' gas tax and 11 cense fee tor; the United States, is $23.89 per car. WhUe Florida col lects $ 4 5v3 2 ' and North Carolina $44.63, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine,. South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia are all above $30.00 'In addition all of the above states except Vermont collect a personal property tax oa the au tomobile which brings the aver age of all the above states above that of Oregon- whose average is $40.03. "Oregon is noted-for the excel lence of its roads, while several of t!he states whose assessment . Is greater than than of Oregon '. are not particularly pointed out- for their road construction." DOWN: THE. ROAD iEN, YOifBB: POSITIVE THE : r ' 1' LADY DmVERNHG oRRKED IN U BEHIND. .YOU. SMASHED' WUR . . American Automobile Asso ciation to Sponsor Event At Detroit Soon WASHINGTON, D, C. The in auguration of a brand new nation al sporting event tor the purpose of determining the official and bona fide dirt track champion of the United States; was announced by the contest board of the Amer ican Automobile association re cently. . ConUst board officials, it Is de clared, have felt for some time that the national dirt track cham pionship should be determined through a competitive event of major I character and to which should b invited the drivers who have made the best showing in the various sections of the country. The championship event, sanc tioned by the board, and which will be conducted under strict rules and regulations, will be held at Detroit, Mich., on October 16. The program will consist of three! heats of fifty miles each: Entries to date indicate that the new sporting event is destined to vie-in national Interest and pub lic approval with the major eveuts held on the; board speed ways, for the determination of the national 6peedway champion ship. - Racing aces who; have already won many laurels on speedways, as well as on dirt tracks, have en tered for' the dirt; trackv crown, these including Ralph DePalma, Frank Lockhart, George Soaders and ' Cliff Woodbury. Senator Chester Howell and the Michigan state fair management have offer ed the facilities of their organiza tion and track for the determining of this championship, and have posted . prize money, warranting the assembling of the leading con tenders throughout . the- country. The announcement - of the- con test boardcontlnued : "This event is a natural devel opment of the : activities of the contest board to put dirt,: traek fuefngron, cruidi Official and dignified . basis and -to eliminate from. It. the. hippodroming, , the danger and the Wild-c4t claims which have characterized " it in some sections in years gone by. "The management of . the-event and the-contest board believe that no championship should pass on a single event and the three heat program was therefore determin ed upon. The practice in base ball,' the national speedway cham pionship and all other sports bear thiB OHt. '4 -;.. Public interest would undoubted ly lag over a meet of longer dura tion than one afternoon, so it was decided to run short events with sufficient time between each one- to allow fori hdrried repairs, should any of the cars break down. The championship- is' of (Continued oa page -.) THe Mst Helpless RECKLESS DRIVERS SHOWN CRIPPLES IN HOSPITAL It 1 v.. V,., I T-i-i , t -- rf- p Judge Allegrettl of Chicago is photographed showing a victim of Teckless driving to a young motor ist. The judge had three youths charged with reckless driving brought to a hospital ward containing rows of child auto victims. In the picture, left to right, are: Warden Zimmer, ' Judge Allegrettl, one of the arrested boys, Jimmie Blad auto victim. Nurse Ruth Knutson and Dr. O. C Nelson. . I ONE WAR VET M FINDS 1 THRILLS It's Dodge Brothers : Car, Used By Troops and Lat-.- er As Paris Taxi Amidst the gladness and merri ment that characterized . the re union of members of the Ameri can Legion in Paris was one bat tle scarred veteran that was little concerned about the eent alt ho in every respect entitled to a place of honor wherever veterans gath ered. ; This "soldier" was one of about 4500 members of the A. E. F. that stayed on in France af ter tfca war ended, finding work there that they were eminently fitted to do and so continuing to serve as in the war. JThese, . "soldiers" are Dodge Brothers cars that were used . -n the western front; daring -191? 1918 and 191 ft, and later demobil ised into civil life. The pttrtieular" 'veteran ' refer red to Is si Dodge Brothers car that hast been-r made over into :e Paris Ctaxicab, probablyv the' dean ;of nil: taxis. : - ; 'f -; . Anyon wb knows the, service demanded f rom a taxicab in Paris will vote to put this car forward as a candidate for the Valhalla of all automates for it, has been on the Paris. streeta..six years. follow ing its war service and a further term in private hands. , The Bennett Motor Co., Port An geles, Wash., has been added to the list of : Star car dealers In the Pacific Northwest, according to E. S. Jones, assistant sales manager of the Pacific Coast Star car fac tory. , Feeling ip. the World ?IJ:jf.f s.i:i!iVj:-i Coast Safety Conference To Be Held at Los Angeles The Fourth Annual Pacific Coast Safety conference will be held the .Hotel Baltimore, Los Angeles, October 24 to 28. Co operating organizations are Sou thern California Society of Safety Engineers, Society of Safety En gineers of California; National Safety CouncilUnited States Bu reau of Mines, and California In dustrial Accident Commission; Features of the conference will include the annual California first aid contest which will be held Thursday and Friday, October '27 and 28. Seme 35 first aid teams from industries located in all parts of the state will participate in the contest. . Each session will be devoted to some particular phase of safety work. The opening will be of a general nature and the topics-for discussion on the afternoon pro gram will cover the safe handling of materials. " The Tuesday morning session will deal, with the safeguarding f men on"elevatBd nd au4er face work, and fire protection will I-be the central theme of the after noon meeting.' Wednesday morning will be de voted to Industrial medicine and surgery. The afternoon session will feature safety in. commer cial transportation. The evening volved in safety work. " meeting will deal with some: of the important human elements in The trophies awarded for., the first aid contests will be presen ted at a banquet to be held Friday evening. , Constant vibration and rubbing of the top against. the bows will wear holes In the material if not remedied. According to informa tion from the Western Auto Sup ply company, special felt pade may be had to fit over the bows and' protect the top against wear. By FRANK BECK v,; . i'"ini n,,,, : S; : y . " 4 CIS '.$:&S: ' Si-; AUTO OF 20 YEARS Purchaser Had to Get Even Windshield and Top as Extra Equipment - Present Paige motor cars strik ingly emphasize the difference be tween the "complete" cars of two decades ago and those of today. Looking at these, modern exam ples of skilled engineering and fine coach making, equipped with every convenience to make motor ing comfortable and pleasant, it is difficult to understand how those pioneer motorists could get along without so many things, j Eighteen years ago, when the first Paige car was built, you bought your complete automobile Then, if you were concerned about details, you- bought a windshield and a top, as neither of these items were Included in the regular equipment. . If you wanted to carry the equipment idea still-further, you purchased a speedometer, de mountable rims and a self starter. You might even have replaced the oil lamps that came with the ear with gas or electric lights. Back In 1912, Paige was one of the first manufacturers to' include the top and windshield of an open model in the regular equipment it was a concession important enough to write advertisements abont.- . j Nowadays,, the motorist expects to find on his new car such Items as these, which are included in the regular equipment of all enclosed models on the four chassis of 'the Paige line: engine air cleaner, en gine oil cleaner, cowl ventilator; snubbersv stop- light,, automatic windshield- wiper, co-Incidental steering and ignition lock, sun t1 son gasoline gauge on the instru ment board, light switch and dim ming control in the center of the steering, wheel, rotary window lifts and remote control inside door handles, c 1 ! . ; , , Rechargingi Only Avails T When-Battery Discharged There Is no substitute for the recharging process necessary when a battery becomes discharged, : is the emphatic assertion of Joe Wil liams, local WHlard battery man. "We are often asked If this or that brand of quick charging bat tery dope will , recharge a. radio battery, and our answer is always the same," says Mr. Williams.; rr "The National .Better Business bnreau last year made a' survey and, study of various : battery pa naceas and care-alls and their con clusion was summed upj asjfol lowsr . "' i.-' ... :'-''-..' . " The tendency of tha i present age is to look for short-cats to bat tery health and battery efficiency. There are no short cuts any more than there are short cuts to human health nd long . litej.. . Just as many chronic 'invalids 'are exploi ted by vendors of worthies medi cal panaceas, so battery owners are - periodically exploited by ven dors of alleged cure-alls for' bat tery Ills. Let your service station ' dealer diagnose and prescribe for, your, battery; Ills;, as -your physi cian does for your bodily Ills. Give your battery a chance to live and perform and render, service. Ion't dope- VLSZ ' 7 :- v ''"- Water-i distilled water-pr4s the only thing that a battery owner should ever putTnto hU battery," ttrni Mr. Williams. ' : , -7 'y GOIT 0MP ETC SPEED OFFICEE t!0T REUSED Controlling Individual. Prin ; cipaV Factor in Safety,. ; Says Henry '.' WASHINGTON D. C. Oct. 9. The foot on the accelerator and the brain behind it and not the speed capacity of the car will al ways j continue the fundamental factor in sane and safe drving, according; to a bulletin , broadcast ' from the national headquarters of (the American Automobile as sociation, r , The A. A. A. bulletin was tesu-: ed under the signature of Thos. P. Henry. Its national president. Mr. Henry warned that the cur rent practice of advertising "top 6 peed and the agitation concern in around this practice may well result in a distorted perspective. "The worst, mistake we could make at the present Juncture Is to 1 lose sight of ' the Importance of insisting on the personal re sponsibility of each and every dri ver for every mile of speed and every mile of travel Mr lien- ry declared: "We camxot edu cate or penalize the car we must stress the human and personal, eq uation." . : ' ' i , - ' . While! stressing the im porta nca of enforcing individual responsi bility, Mr. Henry asserted that it would be well to stress not mere "speed' las such, but, if Btresed, it should be rather as an indica tion of ah operating margin which might well serve the cause of safe ty, as well as of utility, in emer gencies.; Outlining the position of the national motoring body. Mr. Henry continued: . ' -, "The j history of transportation has been a. history, of speeding' up and that the automobile and traf fics should' speed ; tip la' Inevitable and axiomatic. .That; is. exactly hat is happening now. . Obso lete speed limits axe disappearing; recklessness is being, substituted more and more for speed law vio lations, as the standard of indi vidual conduct and accountabili ty, i , ' : .'I - We are. told that the adver tising of high speed tends to en courage fast driving- and -breed! accidents.' 1 This may ,be true, since we have alvtye with us ; a minority of reckless people, many of them headstrong youths; who do not need much encouragement to throw discretion to the -winds. Continued on pse 5.) AT! MILLER FAGTQi 35,000 Feet of Pipe in 20 : Separate Lines Needed or. Heat, ' Power. ' v ; A-vast system of 20 separat: lines of pipe totaling more thar 200 'miles Is one .of the most Important-equipment divisions: at the factory. In, Akron, where Mil ler ; tires are made, f says Jlos Smith! .197 South Commercial street, local Miller dealer. Pit" lines for steam heating vulcaniz ing and power, total 350,000 feet The automatic sprinkler systei or fire protection has the sair birge otal as the tseam system". Nearly two - miles of pip- ar required" to .transport " gasoline, benzol and naptha to various part. of, the factory. These, hlgh.1; com,bustible liquids are; confined to pipes and forced under prea sure as a safety measure, ! , : Another safety factor is th total of more than. 40,000 feet o conduit that houses electric wire for light, power and telephones Danger of damage to the wire and danger' of - short circuits a r eliminated, by thia large divisio of pipes. '. . : Air . lines for Inflating' tuber cleaning tire; molds, and man: other purposes add 'more than ; mile. to. the immense mileac? Drinking water at fountains ovt the factory is supplied by a sma' centrifugal pnmp in" the. ref rig r ration plant. - - In this large plant, there ia total of .more than ' 10 miles r pipe In addition to nearly tv miles in' the drinking - water e j temi The refrigeration p ! a r. said to be the largest of its kl. In; the conntry is maintained fc. keeping rubber stock at pror temperature while being mixed i the mills r rolled la the cal : der..'J .. :- , ' The water' is forced throi! ; theimizlng machines by a batter of centrifugal punipn at the refri eratloa plant.- I'ipe l!nB painted in-different colors so t" one line may be , ditinsu! from the otltr. t WPIESSTE i 3 ' r-t- .if .. t- t 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . r f - . A A W A. . rfk.-.Ai,A,AA . t.tr f i ' ' ' - '