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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1921)
Saturday, August 20, 1921 The Capitol Journal, Salem, Oregon . T Automobile, Truck, rractor ana nignwuy ixewsof Condition Blamed on Retailers Financial.. Situation Due to Reluctance of rV createBt stumbling block in the whole ---Vr wrltill: ln says Fran ' v. the re- Ju,y MoTor, - reduce lucunc. ot WUMH their prices J mterialB d the P" " the retail have t,en ' UreBt view :.Tinn last autumn we Sb0aldd:l.o;geroto.eonomlc vanced along me HoWever, recotery than we ar by the buy U9 ln,ta the puun- - 7 ,cea are although they are in a. very ' Automobile Stands Economic Test; Adds To Modern Progress Die results a.m mluK down not coming """..... neigh- ot bualnens form manner and . j -mi lines .now wide vf'aUon.. The SI i thut the damage n inu - j... and cannot OT uajo - z. bs ot .....i millions shut-down factories can made good never be today is The situation - - the law y on nnk not . .7-"' Tl()UteU "'-"1,"::.:.-" nnv LBS miian-j " ?!!.. uav If we violated , . .... it it hard to l -.huso h, .ncuned in SE af much ToZ tarn a. it did a year ago, but the cycle , , event, by which it ha. become necessary is an old and oft-re- neiited world experience. iot that what goes up must some lime come down, and that the eco nomic law is an inexorable affair that rewards man handsomery when he works with It and pun ishes him mercilessly when he of- f ends It , , From now on it is reasonable to expect a slow but steady and sound recovery, and by the mid dle of next autumn a much more satisfactory state of affairs should be witnessed not only in the Unit ed States, but in Europe and in the raw material countries of Buth America and the far east." There Is one supreme test for every product from an economic point of view does it increase the productive power of the man who buys and uses it? Does it en able him to do enough more work to pay for itself and leave him a profit? This test the automobile passes by a margin of several hundred per cent. It has become one of the most valuable tools in our gen eral social economy. It Increase production, it pays Its way and leaves a profit, it Is one of the most important contributors to modern progress. The pleasure it gives, the luxury, comfort, health and better homes it makes possi ble are all "velvet." The cost has been paid many times over ln cash value alone. So it I,, .1... k. ii .... iiui me preaicllons 01 curtailment ln the use of cars are based on false premises. And indeed there is reason to believe that we are only now coming to a realization of the economic uses of the automobile; that the next five years will Bee as great a devel opment In the realization of Its economic value as have the last five. All these things deal only with the dollars and cents value ni sender transportation. There are other values which the passenger car irlves wfifeh . , " , , - mm-mm no meas ured In cash. One of these ft the making of am, Ute tolerable. Another In the sttving 0 h when life i olles have made Dossll.io 11.1. service for rural dUtn,... " ' . . , i.u even for cities many times . .tn. as It was ten years ago. The sav ing ill life and suffering are yond all possible money appraisal. As important in another way in the service which the automobile Is giving in improving city life. It is permitting hundreds of thou sands to reach the country with all fts aids to health and rest, whenever there la an hoar or two to spare. Another factor is shown in such business as the telegraph and tele phone. In the telephone system of Philadelphia alone there are 614 passenger cars used; there are 707 cars used by tbe New York system. Each such car used by a lineman or "troubleshooter," multiplies the amount of line he can keep in or der, and saves the time of many men. Other hundreds of cars are ln constant use for government purposes, especially by the good roads departments and by the wel fare agencies. In the cities the red cars of the fire -chiefs may be mentioned as a single impres sive example. New Yor state owns 128 cars. New Jersey, 125; and Iowa, 345. The United States Department of Agriculture uses above 2000 passenger cars and needs many more. Here are some figures that show in detail the increase ln efficiency which tbe general use of the auto mobile has made ln the lives of men in different occupations: Percent Real rgtate and insurance 113 Doctors 104 Salesmen 103 Clergymen 18 Country school superintend'ts 72 Farmers 68 Contractors f 1 Manufacturers 33 Bankers (Including rural' 33 Merchants 26 Lawyers 23 July MoTor. this safety post, which was In vented by C. C. Veneatan of Chi cago, tbe post bends, allowing the auto to pass ever it without seri ous injury. Then the spring will pull the post back to lu upright posit Ion. Million Bucks Held Cheap for This Hound Huntington, W. Va., Aug. 29, Bernard Staley of this city has a truffle bound upon which con nolssuers here placed a valuation of $1,000,000. The reason for this high valuation Is that he hi a "hqptch hound." Not a rum hound, mind you. The pup's name is William Jen nings Volstead, but he is called "Bone-dry" for short. The other day "Bone-dry" dls-i appeared for a short time. Later tbe din of barking brought hi master to a stump In a neighbor ing field. The dog had unearthed I a quart. Jar filled with a very fine, moonshine "llkker." The next day the pup discovered , several gallons ol moonshine in a creek bed. Staley has had to provfde spe cial safeguards ln order to prevent the theft of the pup. Picnickers Made Brew on Ground West field, Mass., Aug. 20. Pic nickers here do not carry their home brew with them. They make it oa the picnic ground while you wait. Police officials have discovered that some of the picnickers car ried boilers, coils and all the I equipment necessary for tbe man- - ... t . " Irt rhA ufacture ot noma u picnic grounds, and that the "home-made stuff" was made right on the grounds during the course of the picnic. High Pressure Tire Pump. This is a device clamped to the running board and operated by a 1 CHAD The Brunswick Oakland Adds To Equipment Of Closed Car "Our recent announcement ln regard to stock equipment on Oak land Six closed models bas been enthusiastically received by our dealers throughout the country." ays C. J. Nephier, general sules manager of the Oakland Motor Car company, Pontiac, Michigan. "In addition to cord tires and wire wheels which we udoptcd as stock equipment on Today's Oak land Six sedans and coupes, we have now added Gabriel suubbcrs nil a metal visor for the wind shield." "Another recent Innovation ln our manufacturing policy is the 'honing' of cylinders. Every cyl inder is honed by a Bpeclal procesH until It is as smooth as glass. It Is, In reality, the old hand boning process adapted to a machine op eration. A aeries ut honing stones are mounted on the outside of a cylindrical fixture and held against tiie surface of the cyl inder by lMimdu.il springs. This gives a floating ronstructlon in Which the stones are In a flexible position so that they do not force themselves roughly against the cylinder wall. A smooth surface la gained and the cylinder bore Is held within Tery close limits. "Today's Oakland Six cylinders are now receiving five complete operations," concluded Mr. Neph ier, "rough boring, second boring, third boring, finish reaming and hoc lag." 90 Per Cent of Autos Are Used Chiefly In Conducting Business Valuation of Farm Property Up 100 Due to Automobile During like tweuty years before the motor came, that la, up to llitO the population ot the United Slates Increased at the rale ot 1 per cant, while farm values went up 100, . 000 a year. Daring the next sixteen years, which had not yet given the farmer the full ad vantage of motor transportation, that has come since, but wlii li d d mark the arrival of the i car on the farm, tbe p increased only S per cent a year, but the average farm values in creased $1,300,004,000 a year. Tala maans that during twenty years without automobiles the pop ulation Increased 60 per cent and farm values 61 per cent, while during slxtean years with automo biles the population Increased 33 Statistics which have been com piled recently by the N. A. C. C, through a questionnaire sent to thousand or automobile owners scattered throughout the country, show that 90 per cent of the au tomobiles running in the United States are used chiefly for busi ness purposes. That la, of the eight million odd passenger cars In America In 1S20, 7,200,000 were contributing economic value as well as pleasure. The ques tionnaire also showed that ln the United States 64 per cent of the passenger mileage run by automo biles was for business purposes and only 3ti per cent for recreation. Hut there Is a more Important lesson to be learned from these figures than this. U Is that the automobile, entirely aside from convenience, social value or recre ation, actually pays for Itself many times over under the most rigid test of economic production. This came to light when the ques tionnaire showed that the average owner ln America has Increased his enrnlng capacity, which Is practically the same as his pro ductive power, by 56.7 per cent through the use of his car. Let us pause a moment to see what this means. There were In tbe United States ln 1S20 eight million automobiles; this nieanB that these cars Increased the pro ductive capacity of the United States to the same extent that the! addition ot four and a half mil lion men would have done. There were manufactured in 1920 ap proximately two million cars, which will have an average life of more than five or six years. This means that the year's output of automobiles will Increase the productive ability of the country something like 1.100,000 men dur ing each of those years, or give us altogether added resources amounting to well above five and a half million work years. The average price of the auto mobiles manufactured In 1920 was less than one thousand dollars each. The average Income In the United States has recently been figured by the United States bu reau of labor at slightly more than $1300 (or each wags earn er So if we figure that the ln creased capacity produced by au tomobiles had gone only to men of average Income and in fact It wnt mostly to men well above the average It would be clear that during the life of the average car It would produce for its owner something like $5400 increased tn coni. as against the $1006 It orig inally cost. 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