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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1912)
DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1912. PAGZ 3TCT3 H mm y ji lie m Michigan- The organization back of every automobile means as much to tbe buyer as the automobile itself. And should be as carefully considered. You want to buy your car from a concern with an already established reputation. One of large capital that will always be right there to back up your car and take care of you. You want to buy your car of a concern that has a reputation for fairness. Not one that will take advantage of you, and af ter your car is purchased refuse to give you the service to which you justly feel entitled. The Michigan Buggy Company has been in existence 30 years. It will be In existence 30 years from now. It has built up a reputation that is world wide a reputation for honest, fair, square treat ment of its customers. . A Life Guarantee The Michigan Buggy Company guarantee iB for life. If at any time there develops a flaw in the material or workmanship, we will be there to niRke it right every time. And that guarantee, made by the Michigan Buggy Company means something. 12MV iwcnigan Agency S. F. ANDERSON, Agent at Great Western Garage DEFENDS AUTOMOBILE RACING. George SI. Dickson Answers Attacks on Benjamin Briscoe Two Giants of Motor far Industrj Clash on Prominent Issues. Millions of people last season wit nessed the automobile races held In various sections of the country. Thou sands of devotees of the motor car are dyed-in-the-wool followers of this, the greatest of modern sports, so when one of the leading automobile manu facturers publicly attacked racing and suggested that the American Automo bile association wash its hands of its control, the country naturally looks to some able champion of the cause to make reply. George M. Dlcksdn, gen eral manager of the company that builds the National 40 car, is In a po sition to answer Benjamin Brlsco,who makes the attacks. Dickson's com pany last season was a prominent contender in races of all sorts, hav ing won 84 first places, captured the world's stock championship, the world's road race championship, the world's fastest stock straight away mile record, etc. Briscoe urges that the A. A. A. should let go Us control of automobile racing, and casts Insin uations upon, this sport, belittling Its importance. Dickson replies: "The A. A. A. Is an amateur sport governing body. The Manufacturers' Contest association an organization composed of the man ufacturers themselves, makes the ruleB that govern races, and then places these regulations In the hands of this unbiased sport governing body, the A. A. A., for enforcement. ''By this method automobile racing is kept clean, honest, and the public is assured of true sportsmanlike con trol of the events.' If the A. A. A. should surrender its control it would then leave racing at the mercy of the car builders. I shudder to think what might then happen; wild-cat races, manufacturers hippodromes, and, In fact, commercial exhibitions purely, and not genuine sporting events. "In short, Mr. Briscoe's recommen dation seems to me to be the best way of robbing racing of Its merit and de stroying the public's confidence In the sport. "I do not agree with Mr. Briscoe about the value of races. This value, both to the builder and buyer, cannot be estimated. The race tracks are the laboratories where our own carB have for years been put through the white heat of analytical tests; where !very ounce of power and every fiber of strength has received abnormal, brutal tests. Racing has aided us In design ing and building our cars, in assuring quality. The public can judge value by watching our car perform in the open against competition, and If our car goes 300 miles at terrific speed, not only wins, but comes through without a weakness shown, then I be lieve this is one of the most honest means of modern business of allowing the public to Judge our product. Ev ery time we race we rlBk, to an extent, our reputation. I can see, however, why some builders shrink from risk ing their reputation In such battles. A 300-mile race at terrific speed will 'tell more' on a car than three years of ordinary Bervlce will in the hands of private owners. Must to Bhow how sincere we are with our National stock car, we invite the A. A. A. to schedule a race of cars the same as our customers buy. Let the A. A. A. drop in on any one of our MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM f The FORD The Universal Car From "here'' to "there" and back again one-third of the motoring world will go this year In Ford Cars. Seventy-five thousand new Fords all alike put Into service In a twelvemonth It's telling testimony to their unequalled servlceableness and economy. There Is no other car like the Ford Model T. It's lightest, rlghest, most economical. The two passenger car costs but $590 fob Detroit, complete with all equipment the five passenger but $690. Today get cata logue 101 from The Ford Company, Madison and Eleventh or from our Detroit factory. II. 8. BELLE & CO, Agents E. y. WHITESIDE, Mgr. MMMM MMMMMMMMMMMM dealers anywhere In the world, select a car from off the salesroom floor, and without our knowledge of what car they get or from what dealer they get It, enter It In a contest against all comers selected In a similar manner. ThiB, I believe, is certainly a fojr and truly sportsmanlike proposition. To date we have heard of no other manu facturer who is willing to risk his reputation thus. We take this means simply of guaranteeing to the public the quality of our cars and the sin cerity of our methods of doing busi- Snlcin Auto S'otes. H. 8. Belle & Co. report the sale of two Fords the past week. Frank Cary, formerly of Salem and now sales manager for the Michigan AutomobileMotor Cycle mi Accessory Dealers of Salem 4 ' IP ' 1 ' 1 r i I l 4 ' 1 1, (. N &VVVU f i ;8-'-'Sf V i Am , V f. 1 1 7 The Ford While Spider, Famous Utile Riicer of the Portland Agency. APPEPSON 1,80 AgetFfotNRDeoI.ndIMlchlga M T Great Western Garage 147 N. JUlgk AFIRTIBN W. S. FITTS, Agent VJ ll V 418 Court Street Phone 2H 1 11 If OTTO WILSON 3 171 CIV Also Agent for the Chalmers Phone 220 Cor. Comerclul and Ceater " A nFF f A JOHN MACREtt JlJlL,Li L Machine Shop Chemeketa St, just east of Commercial EJlf FT E-M-F MOTOR SALES CO. -Ivl-r E. M. F. "30" Flanders 20 C. L. Rose, Mgr. 246 S. Com'l St T?n T FORD AGENCY, E. II. Whiteside, aTgr. P jtlJ Also Agents for It. C. II. and JUiler 124 N. Liberty St Phone 867 ti I IflSlOnl Also Agents forE?mo?eand Hnpmeblle A Capital Garage Phone 7SJ lATrtIA AT MOTOR . wattshipp 11LJI1M rvn ITC Ammunition, Fishing Tackle, Etc ClX,a North Commercial Street Phone SOt MAXWELL Efifc" aOTJ7D J A A7n SIM0NT0N MOTOR CO. li V rj,lLiJlX U Also Agent for Mitchell Phone 189 161 North High Street HARLEY-DA VIDSON hauser bros. KinTHQ rVfl rc n' Motorcycle Supplies m4 MUIUK IJXLfca Minneapolis Motorcycle TJJf O MOTOR FRANK moorb I il 1lV rvn re Bicycles, Sundries, Etc llLLb Conrt street Phone MS jT fry ff SELF 1L W MAS0N, Distributor. lJlS.li cTAD-rrn Sce t,,ls Self-starter on Hudson Car. atAKILK Capital Garage, Salem, Ore. All II4AVII7IM, 8n,em Wn Co. V U LVr l I Z. I lJ dreading, Section Work, Patching. 1XJi Satisfaction Guaranteed. 819 Center. AUTOMOBILES JK nndlOWl.G Telephone Main ft. rlllf I'0(,("m1,l,l,e Embry nnd Company U'U V11n"l u Cars for lllro' Kelly Truck. Phone Main Ssfl. 846 State St Auto Co., of Portland, visited their local representative, S. F. Anderson today. During the past week 8. F. Ander son reports the sale of Michigan cars to Mr. W. H. Ramp, of Brooks, and Mrs. Kile, of Salem; an Apperson to Mr. Hoover, of Salem, and a Iteo to Chns. Cannon, of Turner, Tho E-M-F Motor Sales company will receive another carload of E-M-F "30" and Flnnders "20, Monday. This will make six carloads, 36 cars, this company has disposed of In this territory thlB season. ed Journal "Want .is" Bring Result, o Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTOR I A MM 4 H MMMM MMMMMMMMMM-MMMMMM--fO E'M-F "30" ForeJore Touring Car, $1325 The Economy of the E-M-F "30" ith Ms Low Price TV U um y laegms Wi T'HE E-M-E "30" t -or e-dore, 5 -passenger touring car costs but $1325. At that price it is the best automobile value in the world. And its economy does not end with its price; it only begins there. How often have you heard an owner say, "It Isn't the cost of the car It's the cost of running It, that counta." But have you ever heard an E-M-F owner make such a complaint? There are more than 40,000 such owners and If any single one of them has found the car costly to maintain, he has kept that fact from the E-M-F makers. Their complaint file Is as thin as their testimonial file Is fat There are three great factors In the cost of running a motor car. These are; The cost of tires, the cost of gasoline and oil, and tho cost of repairs. The E-M-F Is easy on tires, partly because It Is a light car, 2S70 LI1 partly because Jts light weight Is properly distributed and balanced by skillful designing. Most owners of higher-priced cars consider 6,000 miles a pretty good performance, the average is much less. But a 6000 mileage Is nothing remarkable for the tires on the E-M-F "30". There Is no tellln what the actual average Is, because It Is Impossible to get reports from more than 40,000 owners, but at the E-M-F factories they have many letters from owners who have driven .6000 and 7000 miles without replacing a tire. One man wrltoa that he has driven 6700 miles without so much as touching a tire or making an adjustment. And these are not park-road records either. The 6700-mile man wrote from a town In the White Mountains, One of the 6000-mllo men wrote from Ore gon, and another one from Washington state. Same economical story as to gasoline, Ask all the owners of other cars you know how far they can go ona gallon of gasoline. You'll find the averagn somewhere around 14 or 15 miles. But tho E-M-F owner who didn't average 18 miles per gallon would have his carburetor looked after. A icnson ncrnge of 20 miles per gallon Is frequent with the E-M-F "80." And finally, as to repairs. The E-M-F "30" Is guaranteed for one year against the necesulty for making repairs, so that Item Is eliminated for your first season anyway unless you have an accident. If the acci dent happens, you may have to buy parts, AND E-M-F "30" PART 8 COST 25 PER CENT I,KSH THAN THOSE OF ANY OTHER CAR. The "cost of running" does not worry the E-M-F "30" owner. As one of them tersely expresses his ex perience: "No trouble nothing but pleasure not one cont for repairs, and astonishingly little for gns and oil." Come in and see the 1912 Models of E-M-F "30" and that other splendid car, the Flanders "20 E-M-F MOTOR SALES COMPANY C. L. ROSE, Manager flH.f 4.4. M MMIMMmHtMHHHmi 246 SOUTH COMMERCIAL ST.