THE ORFCON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1928 8 mm RECORDS STILL OUTSTAIli :uilt Quality and Stamina of Car Proved By High Performance Since the recent announcement , , John N. Willys, president o Wi.iys-Overland, Inc.. placing tht '. i.Vjirt in direct price romp; ,.:cn with the lowest priced cars the light car field, a greatel :j:r rest than ever before is beinj; nutered by motor tar buyers ot New Graham Half -Ton Delivery Car Emphasizes Smartness and Speed Plus Other Qualities J! V1 nation on the notable record- alilished by this car since its y jMr. traduction 19 months ago. t- This unusual attention beingl ted on the Whippet perfor mance is said by automobile au thorities to be based on the fact that the motor car buyer of today i.i. asurcs quality, material, work manship, economy of operation and general serviceability chiefly by performance. Over a period of 18 months the "Whippet has been put through a trtater number of tests than any Mier car in the history of the automobile industry, each test made to definitely establish the inbuilt stamina of the car. Tht-se tests have been staged In t-vt-ry section of the country, many of them by independent owners. Among the tests staged were Meed. power, economy and stam ina performances. It i? pointed out that one of th" notable records established by a Whippet is the fuel economy : :iark of 43.28 mile to the gallon of fv.i I. This was made in a coast i .-, -.-oast trip of 3.559 miles under . i f icial observation of the A. ,V A. m Iii power accomplishments the jiV' 'hi; pet also has set notable r It T . ..: L ... ;::nl) up the almost trackless side of Stone mountain near Atlanta. ;a . a few months ago. Only two otht r cars ever accomplished this !iinl). both of them being much linger and more expensive than the Whippet. In a stamina test a Whippet ran continuously for 30 days and nights In the vicinity of Elmira, N. V., traveling a total of 12.008 ini!-s at an average of 31.10 miles to he gallon of fuel. looted by Joe Lusignan of Ffo kton, a Whippet covered " - i fi " S T" I ls-fV I strument board, you duck, and trust to luck and an all-steel body. If there's no time to duck, you try to relax and use your arms to pro tect your face. . Other than minor scratches and bruises, the prelim inary experiments on the Victory Six have caused no casualties." seek trouble; If they have no trouble they try to make it. Because of the testers hard ships and griefs and , exceeding pains, the American motorist now- a-days drives his car In all wea thers and all seasons; confident that the margin of preventable But yes, there was one casualty; error In construction and design that Kiel admits at his own ex pense. It shows that experts have something in common with duffer motor'sts. has been reduced to the minimum. And the American motor car manufacturers, with enormous capital and valuable good will to "Nineteen miles from a filling Drotect. have equal confidence station, on the Mojave desert, I that their products, having sue near Oatman, California, two ofrcessfnny passed the corps of ex Beauty and smartness in ap pearance are as important in com mercial cars as in fine passenger automobiles. So say engineers and body designers of Graham Broth ers, the truck division of Dodge Brothers, who believe the com mercial car reflects the character of its bwner's business. Thus in the new Vj-ton delivery car of Graham Brothers these qualities are demonstrated their latest adaptation. This addition to the Graham Brothers line is fitted with handsomely finished low panel body with the ultra-smart cadet front and visor. The extra tire is carried at the side in the re cessed fender. Note the single driver's seat in rear view at lower laft. This can be augmented by a folding scat if an errand boy is carried. The extra space provided at the right of the driver by the elimination of the full front seat allows carrying space for extra long bundles. The quick getaway and high speed for which 'Dodge Brothers four - cylinder engine is noted give the new delivery car ability to do its work quickly and eco nomically. The same dependa bility which characterizes the Graham Brothers trucks of larger capacities up to two tons is said to be inherent in the new cars. 429.9 miles in 19 hours, climbing five mountain peaks, one of which was over 9,941 feet high. In a challange race from Casp er, Wyo., to Rawlins and return, a Whippet was an easy victor over another light car. Willys-Overland officials de clare that with nearly 150,000 Whippets in the hands of owners, these cars have traveled a collect ive total of a half billion miles and cite the low service cost of the Whirpet as an indication of its inbuilt quality and stamina. RIGID STANDARDS EXPLAIN SUCCESS (Continued from page I ) dealer in the most remote part of the country. Inflexible standards apply here as they do in the mak ing of the Buick. Attention must be centered on the Buick owner, or prospective Buick owner, who is being served at the moment. By assuring bis complete satisfaction tho sale of future Bulcks Is assur ed. There is no need to set a goal. Untiring attention to the wants and needs of Buick owners assures that" the demand for Buick will increase at an ever faster pace. Tho three million goal will be reached in time. Not because Buick has set out to reach it, but because more and more motorists each day will find in Buick the value, the complete motoring satisfaction! something else. gineers and designers In other di visions of the factory were right or wrong. On the Indianapolis speedway- other testers were tearing around and around like all-possessed; hour after hour and day after day Not until the Victory Six demon strated, over and over again, that it would hold nearly 70 mile-per hour averages for thousand-mile grinds did Department 95 men let nn on Kneed tests and turn to that already has pushed the de mand for Buick to the two million mark. TESTERS OF AUTOS OFTEN VERY STRICT (Continued from page I) level. Then the same car was driven 14,000 feet into the snow clad Rockies, all in an attempt by Department 95 found out. Re- Strangely, perhaps, the occupa tion of experimental tester does not come under the heading of ex tra-hazardous employment. With all their speed, tho spills are few and almost never are the hurt severe. Kiel, who often goes ou on the road himself, looked sur prized that the question of in juries should even be mentioned "When a crash conies," said he "it generally conies quick. there's time to duck under the in us ran out of gasoline one day last summer," said he. "We had to hike it." Department 95 men are habitu ally serious and thoughtful. But they have their fun, and it takes odd quirks. Long before the sales department christened the new car "The Victory Six." the experi mental testers Invented one of heir own. They needed a name to answer the 'constant question hat a sworn-to-secrecy tester gets rom the public as he drives around the nation on his testing work. And so the new Dodge, to enquirers on the road, was known as the "Scoots." Sometimes it was a French Scoots sometimes a Ger man Scoots, occasionally an Ital- an Scoots. We met many a wise-guy." said Kiel, "who was thoroughly familiar with a Scoots car. Some of 'em had driven Scoots machines n Europe!" Down In Mexico is a sad Mexi can with a sadder mule; made sad by an anticipated two dollars they failed to get from one of the test ing crew. They watched a tester try to cross a river. Deeper and dener went the car into the stream. Up oyer the hubs came the water, to the frame, to the floor boards. Finally the car stalled. "Pull out?" called the Mexican from the bank as he pointed to his mule. "Pull out? Two dollars!" "Where do you get that at?" yelled back the" tester. Jumping off his seat and. in water nearly to his waist, wiping off the coils. In a jiffy his motor was running and the car plunged across the stream safely to the opposite bak. It's a life of hardship in Depart ment 0 3. but there's constant in terest and action which attracts the highest type of men. From Detroit to Arizona, 2. .600 miles, is a 5-day cruise for a tester when he's in no particular hurry; to the Rockies, to the Coast, to South and North and West" and East they go; in summer and winter; by night and by. day. Always they penmental engineers, will per form in accordance with expecta tions when placed in the hands of the public. Distributor Says Mexico Faces Era of Prosperity That business condition. 14 Mexico are 1 mproving and that an era of prosperity is ahead for tht republic is the opinion of Janitv G. Shirley, general manager fo Cia. Vnida De Ventas company which distributes Dodge Brothers cars and Graham Broth ers trucks throughout two-th'rds of Mexico. Mr. Shirley has spent the past week conferring with the executives of Dodge Brother--. Inc., at the Detroit factory. Good roads are being built in Mexico and the public is becom ing more familiar with the valu? of automotive transportation, ac cording to Mr. Shirley. In many instances railway and street trans portation companies have sub-, ti tuted Dodge engines for mules or other power. Hus lines are spring ing up In many parts of the coun try and a constantly increasing tonnage- Is beins carried on trucks. Recently a Dodge Brothers car made tho first transcontinental trip across the central part of Mexico in SS hours, a non-stop run and thereby setablished a new accomplishment. The trip wa.; a conditions in Mexico the revival ot prosperous times is foreseen by Mr. Shirley who has been in Mex ico for over ten years. - Prior to this he w as in the automotive j business In Texas and is thorough 1 ly conversant with conditions in the southwest. Pi:RSOX DELEGATE TO ECONOMIC GROUPS test of tho stamina of the Dodge jng factors, cor and the endurance of thci driver. It was heralded through out the country and the perform ance greatly stimulated Interest in this car Oscar P. Pearson, statistician of the National Automobile Cham ber of Commerce, as delegate of that body has been attending the conventions of the American Sta tistical Association and the Ameri can Economic Association. The trend in forecasting business, in the view of these associations. Mr. Peareon reports, is departing from the formula method and favoring the method of analyzing dominat- Records of the reerless Motor Car corporation show the export business of that organization in- With the clearing of political creased 300 per cent in 1927. n FOUR. rflAS ALLS PRtDWtD TT ED.F Six months on the highways of the world have established this car's riht, beyond dispute, to the title "America's Fastest and Finest Four". If mile-a-minute performance, lightning acceleration, custom beauty, and limousine comfort, were all it pos sessed, the story would not be half so impressive. In Dodge Brothers Four these are simply thel. outward expression of exceptional inward fineness. No Dodge Brothers Four in thirteen years of tjuality building has been built so welL Traditional Dodge Brothers standards of inspection and workmanship have been more than adhered to they have been advanced to even higher levels. Materials that go into the building of this car are selected with every advantage of Dodge Brothers vast purchasing resources, and fabricated with minute precision. Every point that sustains excessive stress is fortified by the finest metals that the world's markets afford. The performance, comfort and style you get in Dodge Brothers Four are not therefore the fleeting attributes of newness. They are deep-rooted in the car's structural quality the surest guarantee of long and dependable service at low cost. Now equipped with Steeldraulic 4-wheel brakes at no extra cost. Tune in for Dodge Brothers Radio Program every Thursday night 9 to 9:30 (Pacific Time) National Broadcasting Company Pacific Coast Network BONESTEELE MOTOR CO. . S. A., tl:. J U JOE WILLIAMS V v it-: "The Battery Man" A i See him today-He'll save you money and Irf Nr,h SJrJ five vou sefvice that satisf les U 1 .TOR VVILIAMS I II 111 ff VJ U I Mil HIHIU hI 5a: 474 So. Commercial Telephone 423 IDOOR SEDAN, F.O.B. DETROIT . fULLFACTORY EQUIPMENT. , lDxd dcibe R0TT DH E R. , OfclC ALSO BUILDERS OF-TWO . XINBS OF. SIXES -THB VICTORY AND ! THE SENIOR tnrvonGuarmteed ubbcr-Case WIZARD "X TEVER before have we offered V IN Wizard Storage Batteries at such low prices . . . Never before have we offered such a liberal combination of saving opportunities for car owners . . .reduced prices ... 18 months guarantee . . . traders in allowance . 150 store service . . . Outstanding value made possible only by "Western Autos" huge output, economical' 13U store direct distribution, and low one-pront selling. policyjJ e o c V v . I more oavings rur i ow FREE Installation. Free Loan Battery If your FREE Service at our more Wizard ever needs repairs than 150 Stores. during guarantee period. Our Trade-In Allowance makes these low prices still lower . . . to . . . replace your old, troublesome battery with a new, fully guaranteed Wizard" today . . . give yourself the motoring pleasure thct only a de pendable 'Wizard" can give . . . and let your old battery help pay for it... 1 Deduct Trade-In Allowance from these New Low Prices.., Guaranteed 18 Months Wizard Batteriea are designed right and built right . . . Casea andjara are all one-piece seanv leal rubber, grid are especially designed to prevent buckling; Elates are extra thick and long ved, and separator are of selected close graced cedar Wizard batteries arc well wor thy of "Wtftera Auto's" repu- f- tation for better value givirjfc. Hc oar Uom CVri Cnarr-. 18 Months of Satisf ao tory Service,.. (Wizard Special l year) If amy Wtxpri Batttry deudopj troMMC dut to defects in materi als or workmanship, within the guarantee Period, we will repair it free of cJusrft or replace it on a service basis. 6-11 Special 6-11 Standard 6-13 Special , 6-13 Standard 6-15 Special , $7.85 8.95 8.95 10.85 11.65 6-15 Standard $12.95 6-17 Standard . 1485 6-19 S.M.. . 16.50 6-19 A. M. . 19.20 12-7 Standard . 12.95 Ojxst Smtttrdeeyss Vn3lp.m. -Mm than 150i8&aca in tb&TCst 210 N. Commercial TELEPHONE 796 The Worlafs larf est retailers of Asrto Supplies. ..Servtnf 1 tke tnefrist tine ' l909...CenpteU XiHff fetmnte AccervrUs. Three, CamS-QooaU,' -