Morning register. (Eugene, Or.) 1905-1929, February 18, 1923, Image 21

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Newspaper Page TextSIX MORNING. REGISTER, EUGENE, ORE., SUNDAY, FEB. 18, 1923 SUES UD of sum 40,206 Duranfs Sofd In First ' Twelve Months STAR'S POPULARITY BIG OfAcirn 'Tilulhl(f A05.000 Itrcolml Bwron Mat And Octutior mill ' IS 1,000 of Three "ActvptciA Th rise of the Durant nnd Stnr cam in, falna and popularity hn mcwi humi'im ic. i iieno cnrs ore mnritiiarturrd ' by V. O. Durant, who hits been connected with th automobile business tn nuiny .ca pacities for over 30 years. In the flint, 12 umntliB that the Durant cnr wn8 manufactured there were 40.108 Durum sold nnd delivered ani) the trrou bitslncr for tho first year lotaled 136,600,000, ncconl Inir to Clyde Flak, salos nmimrcr for; the lornl Durnnt and Star mte'ney. , Durin(r the first year of the Durnnt existence the concern wan occupied with building and buying six factories. At the Drca- ent tlmo Durant has nine factories. while two more are under construe- iton. In aales and production Dur ant now stands third in the auto Industry, according to Mr. Kink. The Eugene agency for the Star and Durant cars is located at S3? J'earl street and Is operated by Earl Kondn and Clyde Flsk. These men have been in business in Kugene ror a number or years. Fonda with the Goodpasture garage, while Flsk was connected . with tha motorcycle game prior to the time the, partners were awarded the Durnnt and Star agency in Juno. 192J. The original location of the Durant Alstrlbutors was at 44 Scv . enth avenue east, but on the first of December the Lane County Auto 'company moved to their new location.. (. : 'Aniplo Room Available Amplo room for the present at least 4s assured1 the Durant and Star distributors for their new lo cation covers a,rioor space of SOx 160 feet.' Two driveways lead Into the garajre and between these drives is located the salesroom covering a space 60x26. In the rear of the sales room are located the private offices of the .members of the firm. The sales room of the Lane County Auto company is one of the most up-to-date In the city. At present a Star chassis occupies the foreground of the sales floor with a Durant sedan on one side and a Star touring on the other. On small tables at either side of the room the Important parts of the Durant and star are open zor lnspection and,, handling. .Tasty lighting arrangements and decor ations add to the attractiveness of the show room. .. Four men at present constitute the sales force of the company. Clyde Flsk. sales manager, is out side salesman in charge of both county and city sales. His partner. Earl Fonda, general manager of the concern, is floor salesman. Jim Lawson and George Melson constitute the remainder of the selling force . and work the city territory. ', Cter Proves Popular According to Earl Fonda, gen eral manager of the Lane '.Auto company, the Star has. proved .irnr-' mensely popular since its first .aiW nouncements were put '-out ..last' May. By the 15th or October or ders for 605,000 Star-cars were re- ceived and 231,000 of these orders were accepted with a, deposit, rep resenting wnen delivered a, grand total of $91,000,000 worth of busi ness, stars for coast distribution are manufactured In Oakland M.-r.ufacture in the Oakland plant commenced In the middle of Octo ber and 68 days later 1600 cars had been manufactured, sold and delivered. The high day was Jan. uary 23, when a record of 128 cars was established, these cars being old and delivered on that day. The local agency started selling stars January IS and since that time have sold and delivered four carloads and have five more on the way. The first Star was deliv ered to Mr. Bouge, manager of the state game farm and the first se dan was delivered to Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Hovey, of Eugene The Lane Auto company has the exclusive Lane county agency for the Star and Durant. A . sub agency Is maintained at . Cottage Grove and the rest of the territory la covered by the Eugene agency. places In a truck, all windows In which are protected by iron bars and an aluriu system. In some cases the truck merely carries pay masters and money irom one car barn .to another, while In others It oes into the country to pay otf linemen, trackmen . and workers ilk-aged In special construtltlon. Thu jumcinnnti Traction company also uepentfH upon a truck for too sate tranter of payroll nioney to oui lying caroarna. In the collection of money from Its many ' telephono pay stations the Hell Telephone company of Philadelphia uses nn armored truck. ., Other users of armored trucks are the federal reserve banks of Host on, Chlcngo'Dnd Cleveland, the Cleveland Trust comimny, the Cltliens Siivinim Trust company and the Garfield savings Hank company or Cleve land, the First National bank, atid tho. National shuwnut bunk in.' Boston. . ... llrlofty. the work which hese trucks do is the same formerly done, only less efficiently, lea promptly, nnd with lvs danger to hunuui-life, by truauid messengers. They transport money between main banks and the4r--bronrh.es. banks and railroad stations, post- offices and express offices, distri bute payrolls, collect deposits from stores winch do a daily cash bust ness. collect nioney from scattered pay stations of public utilities, call for, jewels, silverware and other valuables to be placed In satety deposit vaults, and In general fur nish a swift nnd sure specie ser vice. . con on nolo is Marty Opportunities 'foYGooi " Manners Come Up i HORN CAUSE OF TR0BLE COST OF TIRES SMALL AMOfNTS TO BUT FOTO FKR CENT OF CAR MAINTENANCE-, Figures Siinw That Set of i0xt Fabrics Cnn Be Itnn on Average or Four' Cents' Per 100 Miles Figures have been unearthed that show tire equipment to be but 4 percent pf the total maintenance of a motor car, from the standpoint oi expense. These gratifying sta tistics have been released unnn the local automobile . world in such a manner as to completely silence tne pessimist's arguments about lire costs. , ( It is said that, considering a, cer tain 80x3 Vx tire on the market to day and assuming that It fclyes it no more mileage than thai denoted in its 6000-mile guarantee, the cost Is only $.001083 per mile, while for a cord of the same size, with a 10,-000-mlle guarantee, the cost la but 1.00115 per mile.. ...... By those1 figures the HOra u. Vim fabric tiro costs approximately one cent per tire for every 100 miles run, or four cents per set of iour ' nui.il a. journey, tub aopesters, by the same process, ; have calcu lated that a certain 32x4tt fabric, at present prices, costs only 2 mills per mile, or 2 cents per 100 miles; and a 85x5 size of fabric the same make. Just the same, and a cord that large less than 8 mills per mile, or 2 3-6 cents per 100 miles. WHOM: CAR HAS lUERCriiEAX TASK CXDER roWKR Engine, Radiator, Springs and All Other Farts Perform Duties of Amazing Proportions In a 200-mlle Journey alone the amount oi work done by the six ex haust cams of a six-cvllnder en. gine. is not unlike that of raising a iwo-siory nouse is reet In the alrr-admltfedly no easy task.. in tne operation or any car much heat Is naiurallv last. The oi worx mat me radiator has to do In this connection, however, is not appreciated until It is realized mat uie neat put Into it during the course ot a 200-mile run would certainly boil teakettles in 450 dif- xerent nomea. ..... bo it goes throughout the entire catalogue of the. parts of a car. Each performs Under stresses 'and strains that make one marvel hnw wey can endure them all. . . far example, each spring of a car will move up and down at least 100.000 times over averse roads of 50 miles. Or, to consider, the hraktnz mecaanism. wnen a rair-sizeri nix- cylinder car, weighted with pas sengers, 4000 pounds, is brought to a stop from 50 miles an hour, the energy dissipated would comfort. aoiy nit a locomotive several Inch es in, tne air. ......,. So simple an accessory as the starting and lighting generator wil. on a four hour run put five am peres into', the batterv at six vnlr and this in energy ..would lift up an. Atianuc uner to everyone s satls- lacuon tor nulla one minute. Cars, dissipate power in many ways that are .not even suspected by those who use them. They even .generate electricity by their pass age through the air,, .'Considering woai tney nave to. go tnrough. ev ery aay, unaer average conditions, it 1s a wonder any of them stand up so loyally to their duty. . Nothing in the world appreciates good treatment so much as metaL If drivers, would consider what happens when they ..drive ..thev u not retrain irom tneir aym- painy. fUtolinc Giggle BANks CAllKV Kmv iv Alt.MOHEI) AUTOMOBILES Continued from Page Two) ton, drop'' steel curtains over all H windows. The windows are fur- l ther protected by steel bars. The lj door hns.a, double combination A lock. Tampering with locks on -1 either poor or windows would set I in operation a standard burglar ! niarm system, connected with it gong In the roof of, the truck. . If., ucciaont glioma Derail , tne driver I the cashier could cut off the gnso j j line supply, nnd stop the truck hy pressing a button Insldo the body. I Truek Takes) Pay KiiveJofHS In Chicago the surface lines car .i rv tho pay envelopes of their thou- -nd ot employes to 'carbarns .ime i,1 ether widely scattered pny-off -a Not Worth Menttomng i-nnip -My man, I think yon are one or the most seir-controlled men I have ever seen." , Morris -"Howcum ?" "You seem to have an awful lot of trouble with your fllwer. You get angry with it, and yet you never swear at It" "Well, yon see. It's this way. I don't think the flivver Is worth a damn." Princeton Tiger. 1 The Kbocklrm Sex Flappers In their knickerbockers. Women frown on them as shock ers. ... But men, both, large and small, They are shock absorbers, all. , Signal for Departure Mistress When you leave 1 shall want a week's warning. unaget it s me custom, ma am. to announce mo departure with three blasts on me auto horn. Boston Transcript. Tho Pawiing of the Iltn-so I'd hate to be a horse fly And with the horse flies buzz, xne picking for the horse fly Aint like It, used to wuzz. . . No Swh ': Animal A prospective buyer walked Into a garage and said to the proprie tor: i would like to see a flrst olass second-hand car." The, proprietor looked at him and smiled. as h replied: "8o would I, brother.1' The Automo bile Journal. , , . . .. . ., . ' -. . Tho Empty Load , . , . ' The state produced a witness Who testified that . near the mid night, (iour of August , Zi, he saw an empty automobile loaded with masked men .coming from the di rection of Lake La Fourche. A rjews Kent in the Tampa (Fla.) Morning Tribune. Innocent Judge "You are charged with running down a policeman. What have you to say for yourself?" Motorist "I didn't know he u-p a an officer,;. your . honor; I thoitght no nm just a pedestrian. New York Sun. .V..i .. .,'. As it llcnlly Occurred "Well, old top, you. drove a nice i race," said a bystander after Ben Hur had finished the last lap. "I think I could have made a little better time," said B. Hur, modestly,' "it 1 had been equipped either with chain or staggered tread tires. On two or three of the turns I skidded badly." De troit Motor News., see... "i Cheaii liHtinniw .. The ...chcaposu. engine 'insurance il" tb,. world Is .clean oil In t,lie,m0. ii. niivura u cniingea everv 1000 miles at the most nnd 'the motor thoroughly flushed by run ning the, motor, with kerosene . fill ing the orankcase. One quart of clean oil added to four (marts of dlny oil makes five quarts ot dirty oil. ' DHvrr Who la llUiim-U Stlflslt X'in nnlly Ftrxt to CtWcId, Wheu ' ' IHliom Won't tilvo Way As the number of automobiles increase so does the opportunity tor kouu manners in motoring. ACter ull, the streets anil highways be long to everybody and no one who is at all considerate will foniet this. Most lapses from the golden rule of courtesy are due to thoughtlessness rather than delib erate, seirhnvss but thoughtless ness and automobile driving are a bud comliiniiilon. Tho man whose car waits for five minutes at an un policed Intersec tion for a chance to cut across the tratfie. wonders why none of the score or hundreds tit cars will "hes itate enough to make a gap for him but this same, mun, were he In the stream ot traffic himself, probably would not slop. . Moke li F-iu li-r fur Otlurs, 'ilea Those who expect . courtesy should themselves be courteous. Every day even- motorist has at least one occasion uoon which he could slow down and allow a fel low motorist, to turn his car or could steer to the right or left a. little to make It easier for the- other man to turn Into the main highway from an intersection. , In almost every city there are some streets so frequented during tne morning nnd evening rush hours that the people who live on the streets und own cars can hard ly get into or out of their own driveways because tho passing motorists are supremely Indifferent. Tho courteous motorist will not weave in nnd out of traffic on nar row, roads and force other motor ists to give ground to avoid colli sion, or alio, tn between, two .cars so as to compel the man behind tb use his . brakes for safety. - i it isn t courteous to take the cor.- ners. swiftly and swing .wide so that, apraachlng drivers, especially wo-; men, are forced to slow down or even be momentarily alarmed.- . .. nnere cars are narked and space is limited, the considerate uivivnai mm giv iiivuifni iu inom wno come after him and win not park carelessly so as to waste space. . . . . . Horn la Safety StarhsX ... 4 A special chapter might be writ ten on the courtesy of the horn. The horn is a safety signal not a medium for .the expression of im patience when traffic ic delayed by stalled motor a rew cars ahead. The horn is not a door bell to sum mon mends whom one Is picking up to go out to dinner or tor a drive. .lit every block there are sensitive, nervous and sick people who have a right to more consider ation than is shown by repeated, full-strength, prolonged sounding of .the horn. -The. merit, of. the modern automobile horn Is Its car rying power and distinct, tone. A very gentle touch on the horn but-q ton will warn pedestrians quite as effective, as a blast that, paralyzes tnem , wan . rright. pedestrians have rights, 'too, the right to cross tha intersection without waiting live or ten minutes, the right to bo- warned courteously, If warning Is needed at all. , '. ,., ; There are some people who con tend that automobile horns should be prohibited and the burden of caution placed on the motorist. This is an extreme view but the rea sons that lead to It are plain enough, the abuse of the horn. It is the Inconsiderate, discourt eous motorist who brings down the wrath or the public upon all mo torists. Men and women who are fortunate enough to own cars, but who have no motoring manners, are to blame for all the oppobrlum nich at times breaks forth and threatens to enact Itself Into speed laws of ten miles an hour and higher automobile license fees. Even the habitually discourteous motorist suffers and resents, the selfishness of . others who InOlot annoyances, upon - him to get courtesy, courtesy must be given, a square deuj all around. .. RUG OF TIDE PIES ES CAREFUL BUYERS "End of .the Limit". Held Reached in Low Prices "The end of tho limit" In low rriees for tires has be?n rc.ichei:, and like "Dusty Rhodes," they have bounced back to what manu facturers assert is only a llvo and let live plane. It Is apparent, from the steady price advances in rub ber, cotton, and other raw mater ials to tha tire moru'.ic :i or, Uir.t further Incre.-iscs ot.lfrii "tit I- cs to the public nay he ;inl.'lli ie,I. 1' . "Under - these circumstances,' J said Mr. Wells of the Welia' Tire. "i'p, K.pcessor. to O :n I,. . X?-;! lire to., aistrmutori ot mason True Value cords.Vthe tire usor who has not learned thai, real .value : fjund nost ..urely in tires currylne th.t 1 te mtmufiicturi.-r'H vlanlurii warranty.. Is liable to loso . . out, when purchasing tires. The, rc-J son for the necessity of dlscrlmlnw-. tion now lies In the. fact that dur ing tho era of abnormally low prices for all makes of tires the un scrupulous dealer In low grade. long guarantee casings, was vir tually forced out. of business be cause his margin of profit was cut to the vanishing point by the com petition, of atundard. niu.ke...WIth. tho return ot .prices of, high, grade tires to normal levels, the old halt ing, of low price. and the old song of "Just as. good", may be expected from familiar i quarters. "This period or dentition nas been an eye-opener to thousands of tiro users who have discovered that even at much higher prices for the well-known, standard mnkes, their ftnnual tire cost per mile would he lar lower than when tney shopped around for so-called "seconds" no name, no wnrrnnty, nnd other al luring lpng-milengn delusions, Mr. Wells added that the tires that havo Icome Khrough1 this ordmil of low. prlco with unimpaired, pubpJ ic commence, nrn tne ones ror tirer buyers tq tie to for. keeps,. . , MUKINOH OI'' A MOTOR COP I signaled to Hortensc to pause, ..J nne nia so witn n nont. Anil tu) lil, "I hnd to stop because my gas nas just gavo out!" Washington Star. ' I'fcdXDSjPER 'MfcdttPE . SEftAN ill9S $1710 $1735 " 1 cdWirifty Six3uiltbyPaigc special toiIrInc . $,V7S SPECIAL COUPE , . SPECIAL SfebAN , ; lilso Prices Delivered in Eugene - B r ' Jewett Special Six Sedan Picture It at Your Otdn Door A car to be proud of! Beautiful frorri bumper to bumper. Artistic, appealing, impressive! Sit at the wheel and command a full Fifty horsepower tdr, wuh six smooth, well-lubricated cylinders. Shift the gears as you have always been told not to fast as the hand can "move No pause, no clash. You simply cannot "jerk" this Jewett car! A new-type clutch does it. Drop from "high" to "second" at 30 miles per hour. Crawl at 2 miles; shoot along at 60 Jewett's everyday high-gear range. Accelerate from 5 to 25 miles per hour in seven seconds. Equaling Jewett's fascinating case of han dling is its smooth riding at whatever speed. Rugged six-inch frame and Paige-Timkcn axles of finest workmanship combine with long, flat springs and scientifically distributed weight to ride you restfully. Everything heart could wish Is included in the appointments: Full -nickeled double bar spring bumpers front and rear. Trunk rack and trunk at rear, with graceful body rails to protect finish. Full-nickeled radiator. Nickeled motometer. Nickeled barrel-type head lamps and side lighu. Extra cord tire, tube, rim and drum-style cover in front at left. Ventilator in cowL Adjustable sun and storm visor. Auto matic windshield wiper.Combination tail-light and automatic stop-light. Disc-type wheels shown arc optional, at slight extra cost. Picture such a car as this always at the dis posal of yourself and your family! Rolling over city streets or summer-bordered highroads, tak ing the mountain tour or cross-country spin, weather-frcc and storm-protcctcdln all seasons! . Lazying on softest cushions with all accessories of comfort near: Taffeta shades, window regu lators, arm-rests robe-rail, hearer, rear-view mirror, etched dome light. Isn't that your ideal of fino-f ashioned motor- ing? And this Jewett Special Six Sedan its ideal medium? Please conic in and look at it. BRINGLE & CALKINS Gohdth Agents for Jewett and Paige Cars HOWARD AUTO CO. Telephone knd Olive " -'- t The -Most beautiful Car in. America, 7-Passenger Paige, 4-Passenger Paige, fr vrfX , , n L- . 1 i 1 Kfcn market. That is a brtiad and Sweeping fa Hr ,the n'ew P'Se 6"70 a3 a ue- rna8terp - """" "- "ileal inutur cars or tne t desfen. because Eu'rrn t tr' Wv-.m -c Li.:i.: , ?5:e . Pm? thls car we have made a thorou r l-St" ee,nng- And into it has gone, ivithou best or workmanshih anrl rVni kof Af i U ...... , " r- ui uui lUIlg will offer a wealth oT refinements and comf price. We ask you to see it ride in it and ju f. o. b. Eugene $2795 t. o. b. Eugene $2795 est and mn.ot- fii'r .L- a mbitionrbut we fiaVeWrked W'that end and l'ece bFrhechamcs. vo continents are Sixes. It is.offAire European O'dv Creations hnrl omn'vr inio'f.'Ui:?.- :nn,.n . " - ...ui if UUIUIUIIVC CtjUlJJll"-"" gn study of only the best practices -in automo t compr6rnisebr'stiht;Vhtbe8t 6f materials, the manufacturing experience, orts that cannot be surpassed by any car at any "li umi UUS13.