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FORTY-SECOND YEAR NO. 70.
' SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1919.
PRICE TWO CENTS
ON TRAINS AND NW
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Boost Your Local Dealers
Play the Game at Home
One of the largest enterprises in this city is the Automobile industry. Just to
show you haw large it is, we are putting out a special section to accommodate their
advertising. As you walk down any street in Salem, in your mind mentally picture
how vacant and desolate the place would look if the dealers in Autos, Tractors, Bicycles
Motorcycles, Accessories and Repair work were to close their doors. It would look,
like No Man's Land after our boys landed in the front line trenches. The Cycle busi-
ness is fast coming into prominence and with Salem's level streets and rolling coun
try, which is so adapted to cycling, will soon be a large industry.
So boost your local dealers to your friends and buy your car or cycle from a
local dealer. Have your repair work done in Salem. Buy your tires in SaleimDon't
be a piker, but patronize Home Dealers.
You all want your city to be up and coming because it increases your property
value, your business interests and elevates the feeling you already have for your
home town. The plan works to benefit every one interested.
Railroads Hake Campaign
To Educate Mo!or Drirers
Now that automobile are becoming
so common and also coasidering the fact
that not one driver out of three takes
aud special precautions in crossing a
railroad track, th railroads are taking:
up a campaign of Sdueation. They hr.ve
taken as a slofrartS the fact taai it the.
driver does not stop, look and listen,'
it may mean death or cripples for the
occttpautg of hia ear. !
A. A. Mickel. Southern Pacific!
freight r.Rent, is in receipt of a "Safety J
First" bulletin, published onder the dij
rection of the United States railroad
adtnuistratiun. I
During the first tw0 months of this'
year, there were $9 automobile acci
dents on the Southern Pacific, 14 of
which consisted of t oliinions with steam'
strains, resiiltin U two deaths, 24 per
sonal injuries ami damage or destruc
tion to 31 automobiles. !
A lurge number of the accident were
lue to automobile runmug Into the
side of a train, in inuny instances where
the tin in was standing still. M;u:v were
due to the fact that the auto was going
at such a speed thnt tt could nottop, '
even after the driver suw tho danger.
M&msi08$$2iy FAULTS ELIMINATED
IN STARTING CRANK
j Starting cranks fastened to nn auto
; mobile cause- much trouble mid an
noynliee by Rwiii.iring, niltiiiig, and
wcurlng the ben ring unuocoKSiiiily. Ky
. the use of nn ordinary hunk-end spiral
spring of proper length to give a me-
(iitiin tension on the crunk, these tnults
. limy be eliminated. To muUe this.
Is Hearing Completion
Will open up to the public April 15 and will give the
patronage first class service both in repair work
and storage. All mechanics will be experts and no
second class work turned out whatever.
Gasoline, Oil and Tires for sale now
Arrange for Storage Now
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e'Spring
Radiator
fit hi ; Tt-Hn-ni.
Crank
Drill
hole te
txtreme movement
of cranK
C. A. Campbell
Manager
2:j:)-2:J9' South Commercial St.
Salem, Ore.
A Coll Spring Hold tho Starting Crank
cf an Automobile to Keep It From
Rattling.
drill a three-slxteonth-lncli hole In the
frsnio, or fasten to a convenient bolt
a four to slx-lncli colled uprlng, which
may be purchased cheaply ut any hurd
v.are store, with end.s bent nut to fit
the bolt and crank. This holds the
crnnk rigid and prevents uolse nnd
wear. A few drops of oil placed nt A
will keep It lubricated. I'opulur Sci
ence Monthly.
Other were caused by reckless dri-;
iug even after the driver hail tieeni
warned bv members of the train crew.'
Meetings will be held at several
places ob the Southern Paefie of the
safety committee to preach the doctrine
of Mop, lok and listen. Although sev
eral points in the valley will be fa
rored by a visit from this ssfety com
mittee, no date has been named as yet ;
for Salem.
Farm Tractors Haul j
Ammunition To Front
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A captain commanding a convoy of
motor trucks carrying ammunition to
the bateries on the front in France said
that the two prime essentials in motor'
trucks for such service were ruggednesa
and acessibility.
Kuggedneaa wtis a first essential be-
cause not only engine power but ability
to tnke an overload were of first nn-i
portance. Sometimes the road was shell
ed and more power was neded. Tho
truck had to stand the service. I nder
i;uih strenuous conditions the ability to
core for an overload was of inestimable
value.
Next came acessibility. If a truck
went wronp it had to be repaired at
the roadside. That was generally not a
healthy place to make a repair. Making
the repair was bad enough in itself, but
it was inexcusably worse if more thau
half the time of the repair was wasted
in removing parts that simply had to be
got oht of the way before the repair
could be made.
This experience can be applied to
tractors. The middle of a plowed field
is not the healthiest place in which to
make a repair job. The shorter the
time needed the better. It is still worse
if part of a field 0f ripe grain is wait
ing to be rut mid e .storm that may beat
the ripened grain into tho earth and
destroy much of it is brewing.
F. O. Delano and A. F. Eoff took
several drivers with them to Portland
on Thursday to drive down another
bunch of Chevrolet cars. Outside of
their regular factory allotment of enrs
they have driven over 73 Chevrolets
out of the Chevrolet branch at Portland.
Mr. Kd Campbell is opening up one of
the fineet and largest garailea in the
country. All first class mechnnics will
bo employed nnd the best of service ex
tended t0 all. Salem certainly is going
on high.
Bicycles Are ScBin
Ra
pily la
Salesi
Harry W. Scott, who recently epenti
a new bicycle and motorcycle store at
147 South Sommercial street, reports the
cycle business booming ia Salem. He is
very enthusiastie over the outlook for
the coming season, as the demands thus
far, for high grade bicycles, have more
than exocded his expectations, havirig
sold more than forty wheels since open
ing his Jtore in February.
People of today regard the bicycle as
: absolute necessity in the daily
rounds of business as it offers a" con
venient, ipiick and inexpensive oienna
cf transportation.
Mr. Hcot considers himself very tor
tunate itt securing the services ot If. T.
Smith (,, take charge of his repair de
partment. Mr. Smith has had several
years exoiionce in repair work, r.nd for
the p!'t 18 months has been first awist
nnt chief instructor in the Meehanie
Training School at Kell Field.
The firm of Hcrschbnck k Son has
ohmiiH'il hands and are now doing
looel repair business under the name ef
lleischlmi k nnd Spinner.
FITTING NEW KEY TO SHAFT
Not Good Practice to Fit Larger Key
to Shaft in Which Key way Is
Badly Worn.
'It Is not always good practice to fit
a Inrger key to a slmft in which tho
key way Is badly worn nnd has been
cut to take the new key. The trouble
Is thnt It Is sometimes necessary ti
remove so much metal thnt the; f-htif t
is seriously weakened. Any woldiusr
concern can fill in the? old slot nnd
then cut a new keywny.
CAUSE
OF RADIATOR LEAKS
Next shipment due soon. We suggest you place
your. order at once.
Republic Trucks-
We have taken on this line of trucks. Complete
line ')-A to 5-ton.
It is quantity production that enables any com
pany to produce quality goods at lowest prices.
This is the reason Republic prices are much low
er than other trucks of equal value.
Samson Tractors-
You should see us before buying. Gv: our rt-
" duced prices.
Second hand automobiles.
We have some good values in touiing cars and
trucks.
Otto J. Wilson
Vent In Filling Cap Overflows and Be.
cornea Choked With Sediment
Steam Forces Opening.
A frequent cnuso of lenks In radin-
I tors Is that the vent In the filling cup
i overflows nnd becomes choked with
j sediment, with the result thnt steam
! oeeurmiltites In the rndlatnr. and the
! rrcsMire seeking an outlet, forces an
' opening at the weakest point. A llttlo
, care of the vent will remedy this trou
; ble.
! Mounting Often Defective.
; It sometimes hnppens ihul while tho
; wheel Itself may run porli ctly true,
i improper mounting of the rim and
: li,e give the Impression f wohhllui?
io the whole assembly.
Oragglnfl Brakes Generate Heat.
Itrncglng brake generate conslder
j able heat, and one can tell what tho
j condition of the system Is by feeling
! the outside of the bands after a run.
Looks like old times it Viik Bros.
Mr. Viek says we unloaded, assembled
and delivered twenty runt this week.
Oh. that Fold i a popular wagon all
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When you use Journal clicj'fl- 4
j H ids get what you mtht item
to they work fart.
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WHICH ,JiO IOU
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IF YOU are one of the many who intend to buy
a car, you will find that you have a choice of
three purchases. You can buy
(1) Abfcfore-the-warmodel,or ,
(2) A hastily designed and hurriedly
constructed car, made ready for tha
market since tha armistice was de
clared, or
(3) Tha New Elgin Six, a car ready
for delivery now, that represents such
a big step forward that it is fully a year
and a half ahead of the times.
' For eighteen months, while tho Elgin fac
tories were building war trucks, the Designing,
Engineering and Executive Staffs of the Elgin
Motor Car Corporation devoted their best tal
ents end energies to the designing, testing and
perfecting of the New Elgin Six.
Slowly and carefully they designed, tested,
refined and perfected an entirely new tutomo
bile new in design from radiator to taiJ-liht
a car that retains the notable Eturdinesu and
light weight which won for the Elk" Six pcn'eci
scores and highest honors in. every ono ox the
many gruelling endurance and economy con
tests it entered during the pact three years.
New Elgin Six cars have received many
thousands of milen of the most strenuous and
exacting trials and havo more than satisfied cur
highest expectations.
Come in and see the New Elgin Six, with tha
36 improvements and' refinements which havo
placed it a full year and a half ahead.
A postcard request from you will bring "Inside
Information" in terms you can readily understand.
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Lee L Gilbert ,
WlicK'suk Distributor, Salem, OreTon.
Phc.v. ::!li...i:jfi S. Conimcrdal St.
Jvft l''-'- '"'-d for Open Territor
I 388 North Commercial St.
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