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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1917)
V irEDFORT) MATT, TRIBUNE rEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1917. PAGE FHis THAT That nfe grease and wash family auto mobiles That you should have your car looked over once a week That we repair all kinds of machinery That we weld broken parts of all kinds, heavy or light That our mechincs are competent to work on all kinds of cars That our business has increased 400 per cent in three months That our best recommendation is, we satisfy our customers That our machine shop is equipped "with all the latest machinery neces sary for first-class workmanship. Crater Lake Garage and Machine Shops Bo. Fir St., near Alain. Phone 100. J. R. Rochon We Make and Repair AUTO TOPS mid Do All Kinds of Auto Trimming Dressing and dyeing old tops. Also Furniture Upholstering and .Mattress Making. W. H. BROWN. 11-2 North Front The Automobile Painter Work Guaranteed at "Walker Auto Co. AUTOMOBILE TAXES V- rA, A C;)OI) TOP AI1S VALVE As well as tone to an auto. For no one will pay much for an incomplete ly and incorrectly equipped car and no car is complete without a top and a good one at that. It your car has no top or a worn-out one, lot us equip it with a tip-top top. Medford Auto Top Factory L. E. ACKI.EY, Proprietor. 118 South Central. V-PLEX Piston Rings Take your car to any garage and they will tell you the merits of this ring V-Plex Ring Co. Medford, Ore. fl-ys- , If you wnnt to see your DOLLAR again spend it at homo for a Mitchell Orchard Ladder If not, send it nway. The Jliti-licll is the best. IN TRADE CIRCLES One of tho leading manufacturers of automobiles says: "The proposed double tax of an additional 5 per cent on the price of automobiles and trucks is meeting with emphatic opposition in trade circles. With hardly one half of the motor car makers break ing even in the matter of profits, with the cost of labor up 25 per cent and materials up anywhere from 30 per cent to 400 per cent, an additional 5 per cent on the selling price would give serious results. "Over 50,000 firms employing from three to 30O0 employes each, depend on the motor car industry for busi ness. Thus millions of men, women and children would bo effected by this proposed tax, not to mention its effect on business as a whole. "Personally I do not see why mo tor car manufacturers should bo addi tionally taxed any more than boat builders, engino or agricultural ma chinery makers or tho steel indus tries. In Europe since the war start ed the automobile has proven indis pensable, more reliable and more flex ible than even the railroads in the transportation of men, guns, supplies or wounded. The more automobiles of every description America has from now on, the more she will bo able to protect herself at home or to speed up the overseas reliefs." (AR TO BE Automobile Notes THE PLACE To get your repairing done. See DAVIES Pacific Highway Garage 29 South Bartlett Pl one 59 W. It. DeLay reports splendid busi ness during tho past two months on the sale of Chevrolet cars. During April ho sold 15 and in May 20. Ho expects a much larger business dur ing the coming three months. Owners of autos are preparing to do nil they possibly can for the bond issue next Monday mid will be out in force to vote for il. This is true, di'spile f lie fact Unit 1 lie unto tux is to be increased anil that Hie owners of ears will pay for the $0,0(10,0110 bond issue. This increase will be mnile, however, whether (he bonds curry or not, but will cause the money to come in over n HO-ycar period, but if (lie bonds carry the money will be available so work ran be done im nieiliately and the bonds paid for as the auto lax is received. Samuel L. Smith, njred 87, tile pio neer of automobile production, passed away at bis Inline in Iletmit, Mich., Monday, May 7. To him more than any other one man is southeastern Michigan indebted for the automobile business. Detroit and Lansing owe him much for establishing them ns the homes of this pinntie industry. I The auto dealers of Medford have already commenced to complain of the extra shortage of cars caused by i the war orders hnviuir been ptieed.' THAT AUTO NOW Win. II. Rankin, president Wm. II. Rankin Co., Chicago, has this to say to those who are withholding their purchases of automobiles. "We Americans have $f0,000,000, 000 fifty billion dollars a year to spend. "Kven should your and my pur chases, of necessity be a wee bit less, the enormous buying which the gov ernment will be doing with the tax money will make up for that. And so our industries will run nt top speed money will keep moving in n circle and proserily will bo ling. Iton't Hold Hack Business. ''Provided that you and I ' don't throw a wrench into the business ma chinery by getting 'cold feet' and holding back on purchases which we have the money to make. "If you and I and all others will buy as much as we can afford, with' out indulging in wasteful extrava gance, business will be good. Iet us all talk 'normal buying and sell ing' wherever we go and because actions speak louder than words, let us practice normal buying. "For if you and I let our buying money remain idle if wo virtually board it instead of spending it the retailers will buy less from the mnmi faclurers, the manufacturers will liny less from producers of raw materials, people will bo laid off and their lessened buying will affect other re tailers, manufacturers and employees and so on along on endless chain until finally the depression, which you and I have helped start, will land back in our midst, like a boomerang. Then you and I won't have the money to buy. ITosiH-rlty Will Win Wnr. "Prosperity in this country will win the war. If you and I interfere with that prosperity by foolish economy, wc not only hurt ourselves but we become enemies of our own flesh und blood. "Wo must windy spend our money or we won't have money to spend. That sounds paradoxical but is is as certain as the rising of the fun. "Decide now to spend the money you can afford to spend and hold up your end in promoting dollar patriot ism which is as essential to our vic tory as enlisting to fight! "Tear out this apeal and rend it to the 'false alarmists,' the 'hys terical boarders,' and to those who are not doing their share or normal buying owing to groundless fears or misconceptions. "If you do not own n cur or had expected to buy one this year, buy it ! It is foolish economy to deprive your family of a car when you have the money lo purchase it. "Arthur Brisbane, the famous thinker, says: " 'Yon pay for running water, ns n matter of course. Just as import ant, just ns valuable to health is the running air that fills your lungs and clears your blood ns your ear rushes through it. " 'The one thing we enjoy and own is this beautiful earth. "'A ear enables you, your family and your friends to know and see this earth and enjoy it fully. To cull a ear luxury, if you arc able to own and enjoy it, is a trivial nonsense. As well call running water and a bathtub in pour house luxury "If you hud intended to trnde in your old ear for a new one, go ahead and do it. If you had decided on the make of the new ear, go and get it. Knjoy yourself doubly by its purchase first, in the pleasure of its ownership second, in the knowledge that by buying it you've helped Uncle Sam to keep the nation in smooth running order." GOOD ROADS 3 Are absolutely necessary and yon will enjoy them all the more if your auto is equipped with . -r V- jPlex Rings ; You will pay as much or more for some gas-saving or so-called power making device as V-PLEX RINGS will cost. Valley Garage $ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? t ? ? t f t T t f f y ? t j f ? ? t ? V ? ? T ? ? V t t Chevrolet Reputation ; "When you buy an automobile what do you really buy? Do you only buy the material and labor? Or do you buy what a car stands for in reputation, in achievement, in excellence or rank? When you buy a car, you believe what the maker says of it. You buy material and labor plus reputation. Reputation in motor car building is most im portant. Without reputation, your metal, rubber and wood would be merely a highly polished mechan ical assembly. With it, you are certain of satis faction, plea'surc, health and efficiency travel. Chevrolet reputation is founded on complete satisfaction. AVe could not have grown without it. W. R. DeLay AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES West Main Street. Phone 73 New Chevrolet Owners FOR APRIL R. H. Ellsworth O. E. Grlbble Bertha L. Holden Wilbur Jacks A. J. Hover D. W. Myers ' Win. Stump W. E. Hammel E. B. Myers H. Reed C. W. Holdrldge D. A. Burrell Mrs. Bessie Anderson Joe Hosklns Mr. Banta FOR MAY MrB. Mary Jones Corning Kinley . Bob Ebol Wm. Klkolaus , Joe Slnnot : P. H. Dressier J. L. MacKechnle W. L. Smith Roy Aahpole George Howard W. B. Jackson J. E. Ensley O. N. Long Fred Staub George Young Guy Conner J. A. Mankee Mrs. L. L. Stover Roy Stancllff D. C. Magerle CHEVROLET Now You Can Have Your f o RD 50 ? f Fords Will Arrive in Medford Before June 10th We have a waiting list of 30. If you want one of the fifty put your order in at once. This may be your only chance to get a Ford C. E. GATES AUTO CO. : i i "
