Eugene daily guard., July 21, 1923, Image 17

Automobile Section
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD
EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 21, Will.
NO. 13
65.
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JY HRP YOU UTER
I Too, There Is Certain
Courtroom Etiquette,
Expert Declares. .
Kent Greer College of Automobile
Ihe impertinent to the traffic
Be courteous, even if it is pain
e summons saves you the humil
f being locked; up and wamn
I argue with the traffic officer
Ihe laws or mo f;m" "PS
lies vou with violating. He did
kke toe lawn. --j .
Id that the officer overlooked an-
charge mat luigui. -
P. . , I nna nf thlt thf
tiit to the same school with you.
brag about your puii, urrauw
Llio does never has it when need-
I . 1. ...... .in n Vnnic any nf
I you uo " ........ r-
Ive, keep it to yourself ana slip
Uv When tne Ollicer wuu nrrrrncu
' 1 J ...til n.nll.
not arounu, huh imcj
it for you that you don t have
ie more than six months:
Don't n ipwweni.
h insolent to an officer Jor try
Inidate him. because oftimea in
ie Judge win ass uuout your w
onH I assure you. it will not
La in good stead. , , r
go in witn a lignteo rapir or
In your hand they have no(
m WUIllOTU.. - .. ..
the indie vou voted for him
naat election.
l . . mnlrtt tha tmffll nffipOF
Lr. This is, without a doubt, the
;nous onense you cuu wmiim
wf tried for a traffic violation.
-an ..At... IM I. MlTl't "" f l lit
tsB. juu. ' " " - r."
fflfla taaftfitta tkOflPllRIk VAll Will
rong right from the start. -
nj you were nurrying to catcu
looking peeved. Give the judge
tmilf and he-will immediately
nil take notice.
Tm 'Patient" Exouse. .
t.11 .l.a t,.Ai,a Mil varik BnaaiUnv
tin, MIC JUUSO .JVM . " B
siilance of a sick friend, unless
I a doctor, nnd if bo, be sure to
mr patient into court to corrobo;
r atateinent, 1 - '
I say you wero hurrying to catnu
Hp n IrAln. ThPHA. twn ATA HO old
fee long whiskers.
Vsay your muirief"wa' mnKing a
ha and the officer thoueht vou
lng fast
say that yon didn't know yon
keep your cutout closed during
, It must be closed at all times.
It .1. - T...1 ....v.- ...t. .
e to say to this charge of apeed-
r'er "Nothing," er "I haven't
to say." ,
i out not least, if yon nave never
rested bfore, be sure to tell the
t. - . . i. ; r . i
iab luis jn jrvur unt oiieuaw hum
t time you have been arrested
iting the traffic law.
IT
!ni uiiuuwiiiwui
EW EDICT OF LAW
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Francisco. Imnetus to the care.
miug campaign now being carried
be railroads will be given in Cal
after August 31, when the new
lis motor vehicle act passed by
I legislature becomes effctive.
law provides that operators of
or venicies carrying passengerB
oiooi dusscb and motor trucss
explosives or inflammables
fme to a complete stop before
ioe tracKB ot any atcam rau-
ot any interurban or suburban
railway.-
provisions of the act are Includ-
fion 135 and a penalty of a fine
ezreeHinv t-XiA AK A ;mniinn.
lor not exceeding six months, or
1 praiea tor violation of the seo
tors of the vehicles mentioned
section must hrinsr thplt mnchinefi
fop with not less than ten feet
re than fifty feet from the near
f ot the track being approached,
rn look and listen for Approaching
Road Hog Is Unique Beast
Afoot, in CiarrHasOwn Rules
(From The Accelerator.)
Selfishness makes itself apparent in
all lines of work and play. In business
or in sports there are always some
whose personal desires overtop all feel
ings for the other fellow. The road-hog
came Into existence with the first auto
mobile and has flourished ever since.
Courtesy of the road has been one of
the big factors io building up the pleas
ure of motoring. Road-hogs violate every
rule of .this courtesy ami consequently
are about as popular as a blow-out on
the Sunday morning ride to church.
TJicre are two classes of road-hogs.
The first class is made up of folks wbo
feel the highways have been paved and
kept in condition for their use alone.
They like to drive in -the center of the
road all the time. Turnouts require ex
tra exertion on the steering wheel and
exertion of any kind doesn't appeal to
the dyed in the wool road-hog. -
He buys a car for pleasure and he
doesn't intend to let anything interfere
with that pleasure. lt the fellow be
hind honk his bead off. Who cares?
That's the mental attitude of bis royal
highness, Mr. Hog-the-Road. At least
that'a his attiture when he leads the
procession.
Once in a while brother meets brother
and then a battle royal is on. The R.-H.
finds another of .his kind holding up his
progress and he becomes highly indig
nant. HiB mental attitude changes.
This time he is the fellow behind and
it makes a lot of difference in his view
point. It's then the Irresistible force meets
the immovable object and the strange
part of it all is that as soon as they
chungo positions, they change their line
of thought at the same time. .
The second class of road-hog com
prises those who think pedestrians
should never - cross streetsi That is,
they think so until their car is in the
garage. Then like members of class one.
they see through different kind of glass
es and feel that the man on the street
should always have the right of way.
The queer part of road-hogism is that
many men and women suffering from the
disease are in every other way the fin
est kind of neoule. Their lives are
filled with courteous and self-effacing
actions until control of an automobile
is placed in their hands. Then they
seem to take on a new personality.
Their eyes and ears are closed to the
comfort of others. The disease holds
them in its grip and they seem satisfied
to remain there.
For every sickness, there is a remedy,
bo let'B hope this pestilence will be cHm
inated some day. In the meanwhile,
we can. all do our best to show the Yai' o
of road courtesy. Kxnmple 1b a gre;'
teacher, and if we preach the gospel of
the golden rule long enough, it mny
bring light to those who, willingly or
otherwise, are travelling in the dark.
ARE SCHEDULED FOR
Many Fast Cars Entered for
Events on Dirt Track
at Fair Grounds.
OF
Find Family Goat
In Role of
Automobile Thief
E,
IS LEFT DEHliHI BY
E'
San FranfcaBco. A "rootln", tootin
shootin sonofngun" from Arizona who
UBed to dodge posses on a mustang is
passe. He's but, dead and done a back
number. The modern cattle rustler
rounds up mustangs with au automobile
and eludes sheriffs' posses in the same
up-to-date ' ' conveyance, according to
Deputy Sheriff R. K. Lee of Fallon,
Nev. He tells a thrilling tale in a letter
to the Chester N. Weaver Company, the
Studebaker - dealers in San Francisco.
His' letter follows:
'. VJn looking over the automobile'edition
of rue Ban Francisco. Chronicle, 1 no-
ted. two headlines, one entitled 'Fastest
Tram Bested by Car;' the Latter Starts
at Jiallon, wevada.
Actual Happening.
"Now here' one that actually hap
pened a few days ago: On June 10 the
sheriff of Fallon left on the trail of a
cattle thief and an all-Tound holdup man
finally locating him in the hills west of
Rawhide Peak in company with his
brother. The man we were after wa
using a Studebaker six rounding up the
mustangs, and evidently having good luck
as we witnessed the performance from
a distance of about three miles.
"When they observed our posse one
took the horses and the other the Stude
baker. The posse took after the car at
a forty-mile gait over the desert twenty-
five miles into ochurz, rsev. The last
fifteen miles the man we were after was
driving on a flat tire and never threw
tne casing.
"At Schura the nosse shot off the rest
of his tires, but this didn t stop him.
From there he made his way out over a
territory that those acquainted with the
country said it would be impossible for
him to negotiate. But he did negotiate
it with the Studebaker and with appar
ent ease, for we found no place where
he ever stopped.
uut ot tne anu.
"When he came to the railroad, he
crossed it four times seeking a way nut
of the deep sami it was bo deep that we
could not follow his tracks tne next
morning. He got to the railroad bridge
on Walker river, pulled onto mat and
left no evidence of having any trouble
in making Die crossing. Now.this la
real nerformance and I don't think there
are many cars that could have followed
that Studebaker ix."
VOICE FROM PAST
y
nirster in rrivp
Falma's Winner
V Harlan Fengler, the youngster
r iunmi special into uuru
- v,y, juiy it nas Deen
Med tft Hxitra t.:l.' Tl -II.
f' W'ii the KansaB City meet
P5L tuff Durant for Earl Cooper
- m-wco, wnicn was wrecked oy
t lT 1$ Indianapolis in the 500
P .j '"s'er formerly drove one
1?i-,n('h Durant racers con
Ulto the V ..k: : v. i .
1 vuv.u HILU V1BBB. . .
r lfo racers now under construe
to. nf l- ... . . . .
iv., ue win onve nimseu.
Melv that Talnl. J- T-i- l-
. .i T uc reuiua will ue
I the wheel nf h. !,.. :. ,.
fed events of the year.
-"EVE STRAIN ON EYES
",. "lecnve protection against
Af . a glaring ugnts is a
i or translucent material
luu v . ."'-nana corner of tne
CTY'm. ?l.nd wnKh the bUnded dri-
. m, eyes.
THREMEMBERrNS
. ehain' ' -
rnl. . con","t of d'tfwent Prt.
U-oJ? "V tion-with another
L ,"i '""er. .oiae will result.
I " "en to install all new parts.
Ki.d !n?init hil1 rfose the throt-
. - . oniy safer, but wiU save
Oatiron-Concrete !
Block Held Best
Road Surfacing
A. now kind of road surface is
being experimented with in Man
tneBter, Eniflnnd. Conoreto blocks,
six inches square and three inches
deep, with a ton olate of cast iron
j a quarter of an inch in width, are
being laid. Toe inventor claims
I that thiy are the most durable and
expensive of anything yet tried . for
I road covering.
SOLICITING ALMS OF
The stnte of Connecticut has just
passed a' law that prohibits any person
from signaling or stopping a motorist
on the public highway for the purpose of
soliciting fllmn, a contribution, or sub
scription, or soliciting tne purchase of a
ticket of admission to any game, enter
tainment or public gathering. Any per
son violating this law shall be fined not
more than $50.
One eventful day of automobile racing,
in wlrieh some of the fristest dirt track
drivers in tlie northwest.will participate
and uuder the sanction of the American
Automobile association is liunoiiuccd by
Walter "Tip" Bluiue. president, uuij
George W. Lott, secretary and manager
of the Oregon Washington Auto Huce
association, for this city I the afternoon
of Sunday. Kntrance of nine cars in al
ready assured, and with .the additional
entrances of several' loculjcars the field
will he a fast one. f
The Oregon Washington! Race associa
tion during the past few months has
staged auto racing programs at Van
couver, Wash., Medford, Salem and So
kane and reports from each of these
cities have .stated that the urograms
were the beat ever held. Heal competi
tion is assured and ninoug the drivers
will be a number who are well known to
local fans. I
Lott special entered.
"Tin" Blume will not uilot the Jack
Ross Special which (hiring the races
here Inst year won practically every
event in which it was eptered. W. S.
McDonald, who on the first day of the
Baker races last year 'crashed through
the north fence there in his Fronty Ford
will participate at the wheel of the Ixitt
Special, which he now lowns. "Bill"
Warren, well known raceidriver of Ya
kima will drive a Maxwell Special while
Van Walker, also of Ynkniin, will steer
a Walker Special. ' . : t
Arrangements have been' completed for
the entrance of the Fronty Ford, for
merly driven by McDonald and which
this year has shown greater speed than
ever before. George Smith, of Portland,
will be at the wheel of a Dodge Special
while Lott will drive the Rickenbiicker
Special, a straight eight Duesenberg mo
tor. Gus Duray, known in .the west for
his daring on dirt tracks will strive for
honors in theRomana Special, having sn
eight cylinder V type Curtlss motor and
the winner of the l'tke s reek (-limb. '
The events will be classified for cars
of 220 cubic inches ' or under and cars
of 220 cubic inches or over. Frank Wat
kins, three, A official, of Portland, will
be In charge of the program. An en
trance tee of fiz.ou per car will pe
fThft grand Vace' wlU' bd TnTTl"!!
frec-for-nll event. Participation will be
open to cars from any -flection and es
necially ore local cars urged to parti
cipate. Purses will be given ,on a per-.
centage basis.
PROPER USE OF SPOT LIGHT
A spot light, although against the law
in . some 'States, has its good points in
night driving in the country. Its beams
can be thrown 1 ahead of the Tegular
headlight beams, giving yust the addi
tional distance of illumination on the
road to permit driving -safely at a fair
rate of speed. When meeting a car. the
headlight can be dimmed and the spot
light thrown to the right to illuminate
the ditch on that side. '
Proporly inflated tires will always
give kmger service than those not prop
erly Inflated. , ,
Automatic Sijarnals
. Warn at Crossings
To eliminate the frightful toll of
deaths, the State of '.Pennsylvania and
the railroads propose to mark the ap
proach bf all grade crossings with illumi
nated flash signals automatically showing
red light day and night.
EXTRAS
The extra equipment for nn automo
bile should include the following:
Two extra tires, two extra tubes, cxt
troi bulbs, high nnd low tension wire, set
of fuses, assortment of gaskets, extra
fan belt, rim lugs, exlra tire valves,
pair of cotton gloves, a two-quart can of
oil, cans of grease, hydroraetre, four
spnrk plugs, radiator hose, bundle of
waste, insulating tape, bottle of shellac.
Records Will Be Broken This
Year, Beliof; Many Cars
. Are Heading West.
Yellowstone I'nrk, Wyoming, July 21.
' Kvery section of tlw country is repre
sented among the automobile ptirtit's
jiow entering Yellowstone national park.
Although the uurk was not opened of
ficially until June 20 and travel prior to
Unit date was liglit, the records for the
month sili'ptissYd previous June marks,
and cars arrived from every state except
Maine. Delawure aud Georgia. There
were also cars from Canada, Hawaii and
the Philippine Islands. The total auto
mobile traffic for June was aOOl curs
carrying OoOH passenger.
Westward, Ho!"
In the early days of July the travel
continued to inonuit rapidly, and the in
creasing totals at the eastern entrance
indicate the great volume of traffic now
flowing from cnsiern stntrs twoard the
Pacific coast. Most of these ' parties
will return eustwnru In the full, so the
touring season seems likely to be a long
one. .' .
The totals in June by entrance were:
northern, 12011 cars, carrying 111M7 pas
sengers; western, 7ri . curs, carrying
L'.i.i4 passengers: eastern, run cars car
rying 2S1I7 imsscngcrs; southern, 07 curs.
carrying 22- passengers. .
In June Montunu stood first among
slatoa iu voltimo of automobile truvei
to the park, with 425 cars uud l.'ISO pas
sengers; but was closely pressed by Cut
ifornia, with .'177 cars and 1S02 passim
gers. In view nf the fuct that a con
siderabe proportion lot the Montana
travel originate at points close enough
for week-end trips, tut- stgmticance oi
iue l anrornia statislios . is the mure
apparent. ' '
, Washington was third in .volume of
travel, wilh 20K cars carrying 704 pas
sengers; nnd Wyoming fourth with -172
cars and &10 passengers. - However, the
Wyoming truvei increused rapidly during
early days in July, when the nunuul
.stampede was in progress at Cody.
uregon senas 73 ears.
From Minnesolu in June came 1111
cars, with 474 people; from Colorado
128 cars with 410 people; .froui - Idaho,
.114 cars wilh 400 people; from Oregon,
73 curs with 207 people; from Wiscon
sin, 84 cars with 108 people, '
Among statin enst of the Mississinoi.
Illinois' travel was heavy, with JOO-ars
and 828 pnsseuHei's. . Ohio scut 83 curs
ami 244 passengers,
i . During June, 2!1 enrs with 07 possen
gers came from Cnnada. A party con
sisting of B. O. Miller, Klisabeth Miller
nnd Robert Miller, all of Manila, passed
through the park enrnute from Sun
Francisco to New York Into in June, in
a car bearing a Philippine Island license,
The Canal Zone was first represented
.by Mr. and SIVs. Charles Stevenson, of
Balboa, whose tour from San Francisco
to British Columbia will include most of
tlK national parks.
Most camp along way.
The majority of the cars passing
through Yellowstone park are occupied
by campers, who are taking advantage
of the facilities provided here. There
Bedding, Calif. When Mrs.
Iouis Xelsou, who resides at the
toll house oil the French Gulch
rood, awoke shortly after mid
night and saw the lights of Ihe
family automobile shining through
the window sho suspecled auto
mobile -thieves. She so advised
her husband' uud he, armed with
n shotgun, slipped out f( the
house "wilh blood iu his eye."
Nelson was ou the point of firing
at. the white outline sitting iu the
front scat, when a plaiutivu bleat
came lo bis ears. Further inves
tigation, showed one of his flock
of goals Itad pictured a soft rest
' lug place on the front seat of thn
car 'and in arranging itself com
fortably for -.the night inadver
tently had -kicked ou the liglit .
switch. Nelson turned out Hie
lights and withdrew from tho
goal's bedchamber.
LI
Armored Cars Used
In Shipping Money
Fourteen nrmored motor cura each
ktumUul by six men and equipped with a
mnoiiiiitt Kim iiipahlu if hurling twenty
hitllt'tH a second, wore used rei-endy in
New York city iu transporting $''tHltHK
(HMI in sofwitipri mid cnh from tun
vaiiltH of one bunk to another.
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Makers Would Not Return
to Metals of Early days,
Expert Says.
By J. V. Mnhoney .',
.. Service Kngineer, Vacuum Oil Co....
Often -nllogctJier too often we hear
the reiniirk that some wellkuown auto
mobile nuiker isn't putting iuto his cars
tho materials or the workmanship that
he used to employ in the "good old days',
when he wuh laying the foundation of his
present prestige.
No maker from Ttolls-Koyce to Ford
seems immune from damaging testimony
of this sort, uud in some cases, in some
localities such loose talk becomes, on
occasion, . epidemic.
If iu your daily work you wero thrown
into com iluiotm contact with the facto
ries both largo and smull which produce
autoiriohilcs am! their components If
your line of endeavor forced you to
study each move made by the factory in
tho production of its cur with exacting
precision us our engineers must do in
order to determine what's right -and
proper for its lubrication, you would
have an altogether differcut impression.
unite regardless of what people may say.
Folks niitiiriilly wonder when a mnnu-
lacturer cuts .iu to JJIK) irom tbo seil-
ROAO CONSTRUCTION
The avcrttjre cost per mile for road t
construction in Hie United. Slates ac-!
cording to statistics from the. Bureau of lug price iimt. liow Ihe saviug has been
Public Bonds, since 1010 ' Juts been J elTeotcd. I')very price cut opens Ihe
$UMi7r, not including the cost of right 1 ' '
of way, or of bridges. (Continued on page 4)
"Automobile manufacturers in the
United States in the year ending June
30, exported 2862 automobiles worth
$4,800,800 and $011,355 worth of auto
mobile parts."
This R-nt.ence is extracted from i
consular report ' on "motor machinea"
issued by tbe 1 nepnrtmeni or Lommerre
and labor in low.
It takes a voice from the past like
this to remind us of the short space of
time in which the automobile industry
has risen to occupy a leading position
among the great exporting enterprises
of America.
In the calendar year 1022 exports ot
complete automobiles and chassis num
bered 78.500, or practically thirty times
the number shipped abroad in 1007, fif
teen years before, and 18,000 more than
the total production of automobiles in
the United States in that year. The
value of complete cars and chassis ex
ported In 11(22 was $5.770,7I1. Of
parts, except engines and tires, the ex
ports in 1022 were valued at I.I8.308.000.
compared with less than 11,000.000 in
1017, and besides thse parts $5,i:t2.000
worth of engines went abroad in 1022.
LONDON LEADS WORLD
London leads all other cities in the
world in motor bus transportation. There
are 150 routes, covering 002 mrles of
streets. No fewer than 800 busses pj'
through Trafalgar Square or Picadilly
Circus every hours.
A leak around the spark plug will
cause missing in the cylinders.
Has won tbe three national champion
ships that have been run off during tho
1923 season, the 5, 10 and 200 mile. A1-'
so the National Hill' Climb at Roches
ter, N. Y., on July 4th. '.
First in every event.
Paul Eemalie on an Indian scout regained the Canada
to Mexico record. Time 43 hours and 21 minutes. Dis
tance 1681 miles. . ( . '
: These Are the Races That Count r
ORDER YOUR INDIAN NOW
We wish to announce that we
agency for the
hare secured the
' " Four Cylinder Motorcycle
A demonstrator will arrive in three weeks.
SMITH
CYCLE CO.
936 Oak Street
Telephone 299
(Continued from t-age 2t
MASON CORDS
30x3i oversize heavy Duty
Cords, $12.95.
. GUSS L. NEELY CO. .
9th and Oak
Equip Your Car ..With Pennsylvania
Vacuum Cup Tires
Jit New Low Prices ;
GREAT MILEAGE . , ' ; '
Positive Non-Skid Tread (
' , We'll Put Them on While You Wait ' ' ;
No Extra Charge for Installing , , ,'
EUGENE GUN STORE
Arthur Hendershott, Prop.
770 Willamette , i ; Telephone 151
Ai.to. Maces
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Fair Grounds July 29
: y; '' . . ' 3 o'clock ' ; V- v-"
Admission $1.10; Grandstand 25c
Fastest Dirt Track Drivers
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