Morning register., December 13, 1925, Image 28

MORNING REGISTER, EUGENE, ORE., SUNDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1925
FOUR
USE CARE IN SELECTING
AIR-CLEANER FDR AUTO
Be Sure Factory Approves
of Such Device
SOME KINDS DETRIMENT
A rinmcr Tluit VU1 Function
' EfrMoiitly on Olio ' Engtna
Hold I'solCKa on Another.
Proper Attention to the Auto's
Elements Means Safe Driving
It you nrs the rlitlit kind of iin traffic. A motor that Is not prop-
An offwtlve nlr-clrnnrr l nn
excellent thing for nn ainomobllr.
but a word of caution seems to bo
necessary for lnllvldunl owners
who are having cleaners Installed
on cara not so equipped by the
makers. Tho manufacturers of
l'alite and Jewett cars are send
ing such a warning to all owners,
advising them strongy not to use
any air-cleaner- that has hot been
approved by the factory, and the
mi me advice, la good for owners of
other makes as well.
A little thought will chow why
this ndvlco Is good, yet' there are
Indications that may owners are
purchasing nlr-eleonero without
conolderlng their adaptability to
' their particular engines.
A cleaner that will function ef
ficiently on one engine may he
either useless or actually detri
mental when Installed on an en
gine of different characteristics.
There are two general typea of
Ir-cleaners. Ono filters foreign
particles from the air by means of
Ilne-meshed screens the other
separates the solid particles from
the air by centrifugal action or by
inducing high air-velocity that
causes the solid particles to shoot
past the Inlet because of their
momentum.
. For any engine, the filter type
must have sufficient area of
screen to permit enough air to be
readily drawn through It- for all
engine opeeds, and this area must
not be reduced by the collection
of dust and dirt on tho screen.
. Tho problem with tho centri
fugal or'voloclty type of cleaners
la more complex. Their efficiency
dependson tho speed at whleb, the
air passes through the cleaner, and
unless the cleaner Is designed for
uro with the particular engine on
which It Is installed, mere is
danger that It either will fall to
remove the dust particles, or else
so restrict the air passages that
It will act as a drag on the motor.
Better Without Cleaner
Rather than Incur the latter
danger, it' would be better" to do
without the cleaner. If the clean-
cr drags on the air Intake, the re
sult is just the same as if you run
tho engine with the choke partly
closed' That is, excess fuel will be
druwn through the carburetor jet.
and raw gasoline will enter the
cylinders. This 1 not only waste
ful of fuel, but causes- crankease
-oil' dilution, faulty lubrication, ex
cess carbon formation, and other
troubles.
It will be readily seen, therefore, i
that a cleaner must be designed to j
take into account the displacement
and the speed of the engine, as
these are the factors that de
termine the quantity of air drawn
through the carburetor.
- Besides the engine Itself, the
carburetor must be ' considered
also. A cleaner - designed, for a
carburetor that draws In --th air
roin the renr cannot be attached
to a carburetor whose Intake faces
the front, or vice versa: in either
case, the cleaner would be collect
ing an excess of dust because its
intake would be facing the - air
coming in through the radiator.
Furthermore, some carburetors
have several air Inlets or- ports,
and on these an air-cleaner at
tached to the main inlet would
clean only a part of the air taken
in. .
Before buying an- air-cleaner,
consult the makers of your car.
, Every factory should willingly ad
vise an owner who asks for recom
mendations as to the proper type !
of cleaner to use with any par-1
tlcular model. In writing, give the
engine number so that the factory
may know Just what type your
engine Is. .
automobllo driver, you should Rive
the proper attention to the ele
ments of the motor car that con
tribute the most to your safety and
to the safety. of, others. , ,
The headllRlii Inn- has been long
enough- In force for the average
motorist to become familiar with
Its provisions and In eplto of its
nifnny technicalities the . funda
mental principle of the whole
thing Is the avohlanco of glare and
enough, but not too much, light
on the road. This Is a matter that
may easily: be chocked by any
driver of ordinary Intelligence
without being versed In tho tech
nicalities of lights and reflection.
The horn Is another Important
part of the vehicle which plays a
big part In safety. The proper use
of the horn Is one of the principle
of good driving. The brakes on
your car should be properly ad
justed at all times. A car be
comes a menace In traffic when
the driver cannot depend upon his
brakes. At the first sign of poor
adjustment . nn the part of the.
brakes, be sure to adjust them
yourself or drive Into a garage and
have them put into proper work
ing order. ' -
it Is a good plan to see that the
engine Is functioning properly be
fore you pull out Into the lanes of
erly warmed uu may stall ut a
critical moment and become the
cause of accident.
Apart from tho motor car Itself,
Indtcaijiuia uf your Intentions to
slop or turn art. neccatmry to your
own safety timt to the mifrty of
others. Appeal from tho press
and through pamphlets sent out by
the 'motor vehicle department fur
motorists to give the proper sig
nals nt nil times tuny have resulted
In Improved condition on the
road, but there are still hundreds
of motorists who Invariably give
the signal to turn to tho right
when they expert to turn left, and
give the slgnnl to stop when they
expect to swing to the right. The
signals are so simple. That Is con
siderable refleetlun upon the In
telligence of the motorist who does
not signal properly. You are not ;
entitled to be nt the wheel of a
motor car unless you know nnd
employ the proper signals In the
proper place. When you read of
a motor accident, remember thnt
a great proportion of such acci
dents are avoidable and the fatali
ties reported dally throughout the
country are due too frequently to a
cureless d'sregard for the simple
rules of safety.
Hemember that the A HO of safe
ty is "Always lie Careful."
!
Forest Road Appropriations for Oregon 1 1
Oreon -will get th benefit of
nearly a million and a quarter dol
lars of federal money for forest
roads and trails during the fiscal
year 1926, according to word just
received by district forester C. M.
Granger, Portland, Oregon.
The total road nnd trail appor
tionment amounting to $1,243,
805.68 la divided between four
separate, funds. This is direct ap
propriation by congress for Ore
gon, which with the addition of
$168,802.60 from the 25 per cent
road and school - fund. makes a
grand total in -these funds alone of
$1,413,609.88. to be spent in Ore
gon by the federal forest service.
and other sources from all of the
14 national forects In the state.
Two of these funds, tho so-called
section 8 and forest highway funds,
amounting this year to $718,555,
are direct appropriations In the
nature of compensation for taxes
on national forests. The money Is
used on roads of primary Import
ance to the state, county or local
community.
The 10 per cent fund which this
year amounts to $67,521.68 for
Oregon, is also In llej of taxes. It
Is made up of one-tenth of all the
national forest receipts In the state
from sale of timber and other re
sources.. The 10 per cent fund Is
used for smaller projects of bene
fit to local forest communities.
This is in adULion to the 35 per
es compared with $675,216.80 the I cent fund which returns one-quar
total amount which the federal ter of the national forest receipts
government took in last year from I directly to the elate for, roads and
the sales" of timber, grazing fees, schools.
Dealers Restrict Used Car Trades
By the end of 1921 used-ear
stocks of the majority of automo
bile 'dealers will Include less than
fifteen different makes of auto
mobiles. This Is a brief voiced by
officials 6f the National Automo
bile Dealers association, which
arises from surveys conducted this
year, in which It was found that
many dealers already are restrict
ing their purchases of used cars to
a very few lines of cars. Dealers
generally will not go outside of
their own and popular and
handled lines.
Careful restriction of the makes
of cars that will be accented bv an
t automobile dealer's used-car stock
Is one of the prime essentials of
building a successful used-car
business, according to the national
association authorities. -. It will
which he would deliver a new car.
but It also will enable the dealer
thereby to refuse new-car busi
ness that he would obtain only at
the expense of a large loss on the
used car accepted. -
One reason for the enormous re
duction In used car- losses from
$126,000,000 in 1922 to less than
$40,000,000 in 1924 was the de
termination on the part of dealers
generiAly to refuse to take un
profitable deals. One big reason
why stocks are lower sales great
er and losses more largely reduced
In 1925 Is that the dealer has re
stricted his used-car deals to a
certain list of makes which he
knows have a resale popularity In
his particular territory. The trend
toward applying good business
principles to used cars has been
have the effect of causing ' the aided by the public acceptance of
dealer to refuse soma deals . in the principles.
FLIVVER
SAN
VICTORY FOR THE JEWETT
AMERICAN CARS WIV
. TR.VLI.VJf EVEJ.T8
AUS-
Another victory -or rather a
triple victory for the Jewett In
Australia has been reported to the
Paige-Detroit Motor Car company
by the distributors at Melbourne.
Not only did a Jewett win the
Boidelberg, . Victoria, hlll-c 1 1 m b,
but two other Jewetts won second
and third places, making a clean
eweep of the event, which was held
under the auspices of the Royal
Automobile club of - Victoria. -
The course measures six-tenths
of a mile, with a grade of .15.4
per cent. The start was from a
standstill, and the winning Jewett
did the distance in 62 2-6 seconds.
The next two Jewetts were timed
at ST 2-6 and 5!. -5 seconds. The
next fastest car over the line, an
American car of "anothtr make,
finished In 61 1-5 seconds; -' :
A Jewett also was victor In the
.hill-climb at National' Park, New
South Wales, winning the annual
event on Artillery hill.
Don't Abuse Your Brake
'' Careful drivers learn to use the
brakes, of their cars judiciously.
Ono of the first things a good
'driver will learn about his car Is
the ease with which It may be
stopped and the distance required.
This depends on the momentum,
which is a combination of weight
.and speed, and each car has a
"feel" of its own. -The careful
driver will learn this "feel" and
know exactly what his car will do
bofore he attempts to drive either
In heavy traffic or on - dangerous
roads. . .-..(
' Brake bands burn out mien ap
plied too continuously a.' too hard.
It Is much better to discontinue
feeding gas a little aooacr and let
the car decelerate of its own ac
cord than to apply brakes sudden
ly. When a driver has learned
how rapidly his car will stop at
most speeds when gns is shut off,
he will find it Is often unnecessary
to apply the brakes at all.
In city traffic It Is if ton neces
sary to use brakes, with grent fro-
quoncy. That is why clty,drlven
cars should have more frequent
Inspection of brakes than cars
driven mainly In the country.
But even In the country there la
much unnecessary braking.
If
Then a a five hundred dollar fliv
ver five years old lacks a hundred
and twenty five dollars of being
worth anything.
Nowadays a man la never sure
of the right of way. In Chicago
last week a woman ran into an
ambulance, breaking the leg of a
man who had already been seri
ously injured In a previous auto
mobile accident.
. "Well, air," said old Ragson Tat
ters, "I'm more Impressed than
ever by the selfishness of folk
with cars."
Are, eh?" returned Windy
Wolf. "What d'ye want me to do
about it?"
. . "Nothing In the world. I was
just telling you, is all. But a spell
ago I saw a Ford go past entirely
empty except ' for seven grown
folks In It and three or four children.
Every road-hog has his way.
"Didn't you say this car weuld
do seventy-five miles an hour
without any trouble?" asked the
recent purchaser of the agent.
"Yes," was the reply. "Didn't
she?"
"She did seventy-five all right
but the trouble I got into cost me
twenty dollars and coats.'
Poor Bfary ' ' '
Our Mary in the churchyard lies,
Beneath green trees and aunny
skies
Her Ford refused to climb a pole.
That's why shea now la such a
- bole.
The Automobllo Dodger
Judge: What's this man charged
with?
Officer: Crossing the street
without a license.
Many a driver has let go of the
wheel to see if he had a flat tire.
...
Time and tide wait for no man.
Ditto a Ford or a sneeze.
rolls
It's a long way between
and coffee and Rolls-Royce,
Coprrigbt 1921. Mom F..tur. srndlc&u
Henry Ford having achieved
quantity production of cars should
now try his hand on quantity pro
duction of parking space.
The auto horn has now taken
the place of the parlor door bell
wnen ne cans on her.
i
How To Ijlvo To Bo A Hundred
When you turn a corner, slow
down. Blow your horn. Don't
make Gabriel blow his for you. ,,
But, after all, "asleep at the
switch" at its worst, was not su
bad as drunk at the wheel.
One small Jack can lift a car
but it takes a lot of jack to keep
it up.
My Bonny jumped out, and he left
me,
My Bonny lies under the car
Won't somebody phone to the
garage.
'Cause It's lonesome up here
t whore I are!-
Motor Congestion Now I
Very Costly
In Major Cities It Coat Not Less
than Two Billion Dollars a
- Tear In Loss of Time to
Travelers.
The thing needed at grade cross,
lngs, is a life-like statue of
Bpeed cop.
'' Moro automobiles are stolen In
the United Htntes In one year than
are owned In all of Spain, Russia,
China, Bulgaria and Turkey com
bined. The annual average of car
thefts now Is about 100,000 New
York City leads with 10,000 a year.
Diogenes was wandering nlm-
lessly around town with his lantern.
"Still looking for
man?" sarcastically
cop.
"No," he snapped,
mg piace." j , ,
Tcrrlflo ItespoiiMMlltr ' '
Wife: "Horaco, darling, drlvo
carefully, won't you? Remember,
we have Fido with us!"
an honest
inquired a
"for a park-
It- Is said an automobile depred
ates In villus- 26 per cent a-year.
Experts from the United States
department of commerce have fig
urea out that traffic congestion In
the major cities of the United
State alone costs not less than
two billion dollars a year In lus
of I'n-t to travelers. Thli does
not Include the smaller cltl f. or
towns and Is very likely a con
servatlve estimate.
Anyone familiar with tho traffic
conditions In New York city knows
that It Is, much quicker to walk
anywhere in the theater district at
night than It Is to attempt to make
a Journey by motor car, even If
one must travel as much as night
or ten blocks. In other words,
our streets have reached the
saturation point.
It is time to consider seriously
forbidding all parking of any kind,
except that of commercial vehicles
lending and unloading. We have
come to tho point where we must'
decldo whether our streets are to
be used for traffio or for storago
space for automobiles.
There can bo but one answer. If
every person working In a largo
office building should go to work
In his Individual motor car and at
tempt to park It at the curb, think
what would happen; American
cities will soon have to prevent
parking on busy streets altogether.
When they do that, owners of
property In business sections will
find It profitable to build garnges
where machines can be parked for
short periods of time for a small
tee. Any motorist would prefer to
pay ten or fifteen cents to park
his car In tho vicinity of the place
he is visiting on business than to
look about for an hour or two for
a place to park on the street and
then walk blocks to get to his
destination,
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six sales
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Is the new record of sales and deliveries established by the
OLDSMOBILE SIX in Lane County the past week. Motor
wise folks and the most critical buyers are demonstrating a decided
preference for OLDSMOBILE.
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New Car Buyers feel that they have made a rare discovery when
they investigate th OLDSMOBILE SIX and actually ride in it
and drive it. They find in this car, beauty, quality, smoothness and
quietness of perf ormance that they did not dare hope to find in
cars selling under $2000. You are cordially invited to see these
cars how on display in our showrooms. Ask for a demonstration.
You are entitled to know for yourself, these superior qualities of
the late OLDSMOBILE SIX that are responsible for
OLDSMOBILE'S OUSTAND'TNG LEADERSHIP.
Arrange Now for Your Delivery
Christmas Morning
You can buy your OLDSMOBILE on the new low
G. M. A. C. finance plan if you like.
New Low Prices at Eugene
TOURING ... . . . $1060.00 ' ' SPORT TOURING "... . . .$1175.00
COUPE $1120.00 DELUXE COUPE $1220.00
COACH $1145.00 DELUXE COACH .... $1245.00
SEDAN $1235.00 DELUXE SEDAN $1335.uu
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