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THIRTY NINTH YEAR No. 271
SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1916
PRICE TWO CENTS
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Capital Journal Ad Man
Visits Willy's Auto Plant
The t rip to the Willys-Ovrrlandplant . in ready to send these raw to the const
of the Capital Jour..:.l : mat "'y '' experience a uhhui i
tuyaivia n IUOHU IU1 !
Ho MM sajem
ts eeu by
force.
Xothieg was ever so impressive as our
tour of Ike great plant that turns out
Willys-Overland cars.
Oiir Pullmans were parked in the
company 'b yards, where they have seven
nnd three fourths miles of track within
the plant. Mr. John ft. Willys welcom
ed u on the steps of the administration
building and gave us to unders'nnd
that we were welcome to anything there
and could take it with us if we could
got by the gnteman.
Kue.u man cot a card containing
What Happened to
the American Boxeador
In Rio De Janeiro
LEAGUE MAGNATES
ALL WANT 10 TRADE
By H. B. Robertson
(United Press staff correspondent)
Kio dc Janeiro, Nor. 20. (By mail)
A wandering American athlete buru-
n . . . , i i i n lino i s c iv 10 con si i mic
Returning to the trip-to factory and m ,, : , . ' . ,
i return we must not overlook the (. .,. ',:,,
B. & N. m the way they handled 0 ir Jj, , H I
specia train-we had no delays and tl.ehin!lel(. Ift, j( ,n th(1 ,.,, ,,,.
special service men aboard certainly did,. ,lflVrr( tw0 hundred dollars gold,
their utmost in making us all enjoy the t() wl0aMver wolll(, stav ten rounds!
trip. The dining car service could nothjn)
have lieen improved anu ror a nam oi : Nothing doing. The '
U Pullmans everything was nanmea ,n!fon-isn to Krsiy.il. Well
Some Leave for Home While
Others Wail Trying to Get
a Pick Up
tit 4 t t 1 1
a masterlv manner. So far as I know
everyone from Oregon who made this
trip was more than pleased with the ex
cei)tion of Dwight r'isncr, the local deal-
By H. C. Hamilton.
i I'nited Press stuff cot respondent )
New York, Dee. Hi.- -National league
magnates with an animal meeting cae
picture of Mr. Willys and an autograph jer for Willys-Overland company, and'he
message of welcome from him we we'd was pleased with one exception he con
afterwards photographed for the motion I 8iJercd this trip au opportunity to boost
pictures that will be shown all over thefot Oregon, Salem and Willamette pro
world. We then started on our tour of !(icta so he prepared banners that set
the plant. Our guides were carefully ; out (salem as the prune and loganberry
any style of fighting whit-h-the Hrazil
ian athletes would be pleased to name.
Then there was something doing.
In a nncked theatre the boxer-wrest-
picked men; they knew the phint from I center, but when he arrived at the far- lor stepped out to meet the "come-on'
end to end and the parties were, small, J tory everyone was busy boosting Over- They shook hands, backed away and
10 that the guide could, give each more! land cars, so he abandoned hfs plan af- closed. The boxer's right shot to where
uttention. j ter the California delegation passed a j the. Brazilian's jaw should have been.
N one should try to sell Overland i bill to prohibit Misner and his band i It was not there. The other's open left
cars without knowing their plant even from wearing banners through the fnc-lhand came back to the beater's face and
to a newspaperman the revelation of the tory. But he says he. certainly put Sn
immensity of this wonderful place made ,,! jn Oregon and Oregon da the maps
box " is a game
he could wrestle
He offered the same prize to whosoever i
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on the mat. Again nothing doing. The oil away under men oeus. ncgs.u nui
full nelson, huinmorlock and toe holds to. do things, Part of them boartlcd
m mvthi.-at nnvnnsitinns in BAdl. Tint trains for home end the rest hung
third challenge offered the purae for
ut the convention
All Were Busy.
Ben Olcott, while he admits he en
joyed the trip and was busy watching
the methods employed by -the Willys
Overland company, found time to make
inquiries regarding and investigating
conditions that would benefit the state
of Oregon if they were adopted.
.T. P. Alexander, a salesman of
him feel as if he wanted to sell the
Willys-Overland product in preference
to space.
It certainly isn't a small business
Twenty-five million dollars are tied up
in land, buildings and machinery, not
to say anything about the stock of parts
end new materials. From the roof of
the administration building, which
stands out like a state capital, you get
a panorama of the plant. You can read
ily believe that it occupies 103 acres,
with 4,486,080 square feet of floor space
in daily use, with a production capacity
of 1000 cars per day.
A Wonderful Growth.
Vcoin Mr. Willys figures yon can ap
preciate the growth of this organization
from '250 employes in IPOS to 17,:!00 in
1916, with 1,000 persons working in the
mbninishtration building alone. This
building has six floors and is 375 feet
long, and is as modern as science can
make it, being equipped with dicta
phones, its own telegraph and telephone
system aud I.. mail-handling department
that does almost everything, but write
the letters.
This building also has a fully equip
ped restaurant, barber shop, etc.. for the! with the farms in Iowa and Nebraska, j tm, i,0,y ig
swuntr him a traction ot an men on
his balance. The Brazilian dropped onto
his hands with the agility of a cat. His
right fool swept under the boxer and
as he fell the left foot caught him full
on the neck and jaw.
About a month later the American
athlete was discharged from the hos
pital. The lump on Ms jaw where u j aeer of the Chicago
compound tiai turc Jicaico was put lucre ! were trviiicr to get
j around in New York waiting anil oppor
tunity to put across trades. ISo one
suspects that they will progress far
enough to announce the completion of
dicker, hut they are here trying.
Miller Muggins, inventor of the sys
tem of trading a spavin for an eye,
left the city some time ago. Plainly he
had become overwhelmed by the tactics
of other magnates in wanting to hoW
on to their good bull players and de
cided there was no use of sticking
around'. He' tried hard to trade .lack
Miller to some one. but none would of
fer enough, so Jack is sentenced to St.
Louis for anither summer, on the face
of present returns.
Charles H. Welshman, president of
the Cubs, and Fred Mitchell, new man-
lub, admitted they
some one to turn
by "j-apoeiragem," the "manly art ot ,,. ,, fin..k A rdnveisjlmi on to a lalo
thp (self defense" as the Brazilian under-. fcour evel.yone had' been warned and
Salem branch, was called upon in Siilt,l! "u5 , . . Mitchell was having very little success.
Lake to make a speech to a large gath-! Capoeiragem originated with the no Three Phillies were sougnt by the Cubs
ering but confessed that speech-making ' S'o the H.azH oi the old days, . MthfcBg, for a hatful of Bruins, but
was a side line while his regular busi
ness was selling Overland cars.
C. Van Patten after investigating the
Overland factory at Toledo, decided
that Saleiin was a more logical point,
as all the leading .dealers in the K. S
worked out of Salem. He advised the
. pii'.m. lieu
company to move the plant and offered!. t
land it i..the only game played in this
j country that is of truly national orig
i in. Plsiyed or fought as the runaway'
slaves, cornered by their pursurers
'fought it, capoeiragem was bloody and
'often fatal to both opponents.
I When in deadly earnest, the "capo-
hehl a knife or razor between his
',.. oa1v manaopd hv those
plans and specifications, with a low bi. who ran 1)nrp a JjjJir BvM an(1
to begin the construction of a plant ntjwh praticed the game from infancy.
Salem at once. However, it was hard Tot)iiy tfc0 g.(me has developed into
lu iiiaAC v an give tip tin- iuca.
J. L. Hanna, the dealer of Independ
ence, Ore:, banker, farmer and auto
dealer but prefers to sell Overland cars
a science, is taugnt in tne gymnasium,
and is one of the school boy 's chief
amusement during' play hours. There
iare no touts. -No part oi tne uotiy is
convenience of the employes. It would
be an injustice for patrons making a
short tour through the plant to begin to
describt the magnitude of the propor
tion aud so I will say that the aver
age persou cannot begin to picture in
his mind 's eye the size of an automo
bile plant that has the apacity of that
of the Willys-Overland.
the antomoliMe show at the com
pa try 'a garage was enjoyed by
there we could see the 1st
parts as shown in chassis exhibitions. ger of the Saxon Motor Sales Co., of
The new models certainly were rcvela-1 Salem. Mr. Sellars is a very enthusias
ts one and you could hear murmurs of I tic autoist. Lloyd L. Kyan will still
surprise all about you and I would say, remain with the company in the capa
that when the Willys-Overland company city of sales-manager.
to any other line, was much taken UpifMe f,om attics, and every
in full plav. As
but admitted finally that his Rhodes ;0) g-gjf defense, its supporters claim it
farm was plenty good enough for hiin. jj m0re efficient thun boxing.
If there is a reader of this article ' m
that doubts if we enjoyed the trip and! East Oregonian: A black bear was
whether we are real live boosters oT the billed this morning about noon by Wil
Willys -Overland cars just ask us. : )iam MeCommach a short distance above
I Havana station, eight miles from town-
The bear had evidently Ijcen driven out
of the mountains on account of lack of
fOOl), II uas noted nt thcMcCorminacli
ranch by one of the men, nnd the dogs
treed the bruin whileMr. MeCoimniach
was notified. Mr. McCormmach, W. K.
Witheo and j, W, McCormmflBE went to
the farm and the bear was brought to
earth by a shot tired by Will McCorm
mach. The animal Was brought to town.
G. H. Sellars in the Auto Game.
Mr. G. H. Sellars who has been con
nected with the Watkins Remedy Co.,
ill I for the past seven years, has broken in-
models and to the automobile field and is now mans-
there was nothine doing, l'at JUoran
said the trade was impossible and
Mitchell was forced to admit it after
lie had gone through a long over-the-tcacups
session with the leader of the
Phillies.
Mrs. Helen Britton, president, of the
Cardinals, and the only woman magnate
in the world, gave Kobert Lee Hedges a
"piece of her miud" in a discussion of
a probable sale of the Cardinals to the
former owner of the Browns. She said
Hedges knew where her office was lo
cated and that he could get terms there.
Barnev Dreyfuss almost fainted when
part of ; he heard that someone nsui laiiveu wiini
a means force, tor lie had made a sorry auempi
of his assault on Harry Herrmann-
The National league accomplished
something when it decided to meel more
than once a year hereafter nnd there
were loud cries of regret. The time of
assembly was not noted in John Heyd
ler's note book, but it was the unanim
ous opinion that it. would come soon
enough maybe too soon.
Enlarged New Quarters.
Halvorsen & Burns local distributors
for trie Maxwell car have remodelled
and enlarged their show rooms and
make extensive improvements in their
garage and have now a perfect service
Station for Maxwell owners.
A Merry Christmas
From Father
Make It a Real Gift
for the Whole Family
A Maxwell Christmas means a happy time for every mem
ber of the family. A Maxwell is an ideal gift, because it
is an ideal car for the average family. Good looking,
comfortablecomplete and extremely economical. Let
us show you.
HALVORSEN & BURNS
Ferry and High Sts., Salem Phone 959
MAXWELL $685 F. O. B. SALEM
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Milage Can Be Doubled
by Proper Attention to
Tire Repairs and Inflation
Model 85-4 f . o. b. Toledo
Model 85-4 f. o. b. Toledo
s795 Jm $795
sunlight is one of the worst cneini.
oi runner. n rota anu uesiroys 1 1 r . -
very iapidly.jrit often happens that
spare tire -which has been carried rix
si rear tire rack for Several months u -urotcotcd
will blow our alter it lu -been
used for several hundred mid'.
This tire goes buck to the nianufn
turer as defective, A couple of dollai!
spent for a tire cover would Vnvo elir
ina ted all this trouble.
Rubber Is Poms
Very oflen motorists who i-nrrv '
If time,
be at ail
Important
expens
onside
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no
more
the
lid
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ill trouble
tlx
pieslinn relative to
running of si motor car thsin tin
of the tire casing, and it may bi
light sit the start that sis a gc
thing there is no part of the machine
which roceivet ns little proportionate
attention, says -Motor Age. It has been
estimatafl that the expense of upkeep
6f the machine is divided into throe
equfil parts, namely, fuel, including
gasoline and oil, tires and general wear
of .,! the other I. silts Ot t he
put together. By this is meant ,h' HW well as the tire maker,
h of these three divisions, if alignment usually occurs in tin
v so be termed, is responsible whWl, nnd may be caused by a
third of the actual expi-uscs ofJjmnip of the wheels against the
Ihe ear ring or other obstacle, lus'ancef
Cost One Third of Upkeep
si bo remembered thai tin
third the total expense, on
eadtna or
thin it is
i-s pumped
il by the
Ills
cut.
mil teai
maehiue
that ea
they nisi
for one
j running
I. Tires
h nni
; cost Oat
to I tread bumps against
inn tlic sntt Inner tunc
bound to suffer. Keep the
to the pressure recomnu
manufacturer.
Misalignment
: Another common trouble Which
(up perfectly good tires is misalian
I where the w heels are not correctly lined
I up. In a case of this kind the tiies are
I Continually shidding, and it is this .on
istant grinding away of the tread that
Icauscs the fabric to show through nnd
for the motorist, as a rule, to condemn
r. Paul-
front
sharp
curb-
(Continued mi pi
Make Your Family Happy on Christmas Morning
This Overland will do it.
It will be appreciated more and more every day long after other Christmas presents are forgotten.
It's a car your family will be proud of Overland Model 85-Four is a beautiful car, finished in rich
Brewster green.
It is a powerful car. It fears no hills; no sand or mud, for it has a motor of proved dependability.
It is a roomy car, with wide, deep cushioned seats, and it has the added comfort that cantilever
springs provide and a 112-inch wheelbase.
Electric switches on the steering column, and an easy-working clutch make driving real pleasure.
It is the greatest value of any car in its price class.
To be sure of Christmas morning delivery, enter your order Joday.
S
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i V id in g they are given proper cure
! they are neglected their cost will
I above this one third figure. The
jtorist as it rule worries a great
jas to how many miles he can gel
'of u gallon of gasoline, but when
figures here presented are eonsii
lit would seem that the owner of
machine would be money in if
i would, in addition to collating
miles per gallon, give the care
repair of the easing a. little inori
lention.
Mftny motorists purihuse
with the feeling that If tin
not run out the full guaranti
presented themselves where, on accouul
of faulty alignment, u tire has been
worn so badly as to be ruined within
rf IS distance of fifty miles.
run Neglect to properly repair cuts in
mo-!""' Wising will eventually lead to
,, .,1 ! blowouts. When the driver finds, after
ol)r 'a trip, that one of his casings has been
the j cut through the tnsid by a piece of
fedgiats. or other sharp article be should
()ie I immediately repair the injury with
he I some piasiic compound, it tins is nog-
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leu oni, witter, on, cic, wmu ineir
and i
ith the
nnd w
ited
result
il Ileus,
Inter.
lo
way into the fabrie,
aore in- 'hiit this becomes rotte
ending in u blowout I
naainas I Very often a tire so t
tiles dO bach til the seller its defective.
of 3500 1 pair a cut it is not necessary
null mi cs. i-eimrc ess of t he t rent - i ' lire, prvilc. ot course Unit
incut giv en them replacements or mile-1 the cut is not too large. Simply .-lean
in lie secured fiom the lire com-j "" murouguy wiia gaauuira
opening :i
4 provided
purpose. If ihe motorist neg
rciisiir his tire cuts he must
age
s
s
the tin..
ut is not
out
pany. inoy no not cigure lnsn wiiu""" " mw m
rii'rniier tn.'nl nt those name csisiims one of the re I
will us n rule make from 8000 to lo,-
H900 miles and sometimes more, thereby
giving the motorist several thousand
inure miles than he would receive other
wise, even with renluceents. not to men
tion the assurance of hsiving a set of
good tires under the ear.
Overloading ;ind Under Inflation
Of the many ways in which the cas-
is siihiectn lo anii-e iiossiniv me
pier
for
it
thi
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DWIGHT MISNER
OPPOSITE MARION HOTEL
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two mosi,oOntmon are overloading and
under inflation, the results of Which
are Identical. Thai these misuses have
been given a lire is indicated either by
a wavy condition of the tread, show
ing that the ''adhesive friction" be
tween the layers of the fabric has be
come nvorhesitod through this cause,
or by bud cuts along the side walls or
along the rim.
A rim cut tire is an easy -vietitu to
blowouts. l7uquestionabiy there are
more tires ruined on account of on
derinfliition than from any other o;ie
cause. This particular cause nf trouble
will not only result in n ruined casing,
but is also responsible Ipf tube trou
bles. Common sense win tell one t list
if the tire which is run soft is in
dented by a curbing or stoiu! until the
der il hlowouts occur.
Another source of trouble is running
in car trucks or ruts, sis well as run
ning the tires against the sides of
curbs. The remit of this carelessness
is the wearing of the'Tllbber from the
wall of the tire, thereby exposing the
fabric
Taking Comers Too Fast
Taking the corner too fast so that
the rear tires skid during the turn is
another common ami costly error of
the average motorist. Skidding around
one corner inuy do the lire more harm
than running for miles straight ahead
on the improved roads. There is really
no call for rounding the corner on the
jump, and the fellow who docs It gen
erally pays for his sport in lost mile
age. The same is true about locking
the brakes and sliding the rear wheels
There have been times, when the ma
chine has been carrying a good load
at a pretty good speed, that the lock
ing of the brakes has resulted in a
whole section of the tread being torn
from the tiros.
The motorist should remember that
FOR CHRISTMAS GIVE
YOUR BOY SOMETfilNG
FOR HIS BICYCLE
He will appreciate a
New TIRE, LAMP.
SADDLE or some
BICYCLE ACCES
SORY, more than any
thing you can give him.
Or better still buy him
a new
FLYER - BICYCLE
A bicycle gift will bring
joy to the boy every day
in the year.
You will find our prices
the lowest.
SCOTT & PIPER,
252 State Street
The largest exclusive
Bicycle and Motorcycle
Store in Salem.
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