10 Tggga, AUTOMOBILE SECTION Mliw AUTOMOBILE NEWS AND ADVERTISING | NEW METHODS OF TESTING CARS DEVELOPED Willys-Overland MakesTrans- Continental Trip, Demon strating Dependability The Willys-'Owrland Company of Toledo has this reason introduced new methods for testing automobiles which are a direct. development of war experience. Realizing that the modern mo torcar must successfully meet the most extreme riding conditions, the Willys-Overland Company planned and carried out the idea of subject ing the new lightweight car the company has been developing for two years, and Vhich, it is under stood, will soon be on the market to tests which would parallel the rough and ready use motorcars in the war zone daily received. For these tests unusual "break ing machines" have been rigged up and used in the factory, and the cars have then been sent into rough, un traveled country for most guelling road performance. In the preliminary tests, the new Overland car showed stamina and riding qualities so remarkable that the car was selected as the official scout car in the first transcontinen tal test trip of the United States Mo tor Transport Corps, which started at Washington, D. C., on July 7, and arrived September 7 in San Fran cisco. The route being followed by the Motor Transport Corps is that of the Lincoln Highway. This transcontinental trip has been undertaken to establish and demonstrate the possibilities of the motor vehicle as a factqr in coast to-coast transportation. It is to serve as a supreme test of the utility and dependability of the modern motor vehicle. With the Army trucks participat ing in this convoy are three of the new light Overland cars, which will be put on the market this season by Willys-Overland Company. The cars on this tour, according to re port, are making a record for com- Ii C. A. FAIR ! Quality Bodies I Will give, you "better" service; they will help to in i crease the efficiency of your truck. We build them to your individual specifications in I any quantity—and our exceptional facilities enable us | to give you prompt service. Ij A One man top" for your old car will improve, its |! appearance 100 per cent. Let us install one on yours now. We will also repaint it, making it look like new, I at very reasonable cost. These two things will neatly I enhance its value. I Think it over, your sense of pride, pleasure in riding in a good looking car, and the knowledge of its being I worth more, should decide for you to have it done. Phone Bell 2674 and let us quote you prices. C. A. FAIR Carriage and Auto Works 1135 MULBERRY STREET EAST E\n MtT.BERRY STREET BRIDGE SPEED WAGONS You Can Do It With a Reo U Tell You Why Harrisburg Auto Co. Fourth & Kelker St., Harrisburg ffi'l lII'hfc—IHHIiBIIMII I——l—lllillllP'l MUM—II ____________ " > SATURDAY EVENING, FIRESTONE FLYING SQUADRON HERE FOR SURVEY OF FIELD fortable riding qualities, readability and all-aound utility. The Overland Company makes no disclosure as to price or date of the public announcement of the new car, except to say the car will be mode rate in price and will soon be de livered to dealers. CROMDED FOR TIME "How nicely you have ironed these things, Jane," said the mistress, ad miringly, to her maid. Then, glanc ing at the glossy linen, she continued in a tone of surprise. "Oh, but I see they are all your own." "Yes." replied Jane, "and I'd do all yours just like that if I had time."—Central Methodist Advocate. USED TO IT 'The language you use to that mule is p-.rtectlv shock'r.g." "Yes," replied the driver, "It seems to trouble everybody but the mule."—Stray Stories. An experiment in the psychology of salesmanship which is being watched with interest throughout the country, is being conducted by J. H. Dutch, branch manager of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., 210 North Second street, who expects to announce the result of the expeti ment on its conclusion. Plans for the experiment were ex plained to the operators this week at the Penn-Harrls Hotel by H. P. Harding, Akron, 0., former colonel in the Motor Transport Corps, A. E. F., who came to Harrisburg to . assist Mr. Dutch In the new idea of I salesmanship. j Beginning this morning the squad i ron of operators, occupying ten au ! tomoboiles will leave Harrisburg I from 210 North Second street on the first lap of the two weeks' inten sive drive, calling in a body on a territory of eighteen counties in the vicinity of Harrisburg. During the drive the operators will cover ap proximately 500 miles daily and will visit approximately thirty towns daily. "I was earnestly impressed while in the service with the psychological effect which a group of squad men exercised upon an individual," said Colonel Harding, "and I am con vinced the principle holds good in the commercial world. The results ) of our experiment will determine j whether I am correct in this belief or not." I The outlook for the success of j the experiment is very bright on ; account of the wide experience of the men conducting it. Mr. Dutch, is quite a salesman himself and has i organized many campaigns. Mr. j Harding has had a wide training in j the automotive industry, and while ! commissioned as a colonel in the j Army was commanding officer of a | contingent in training at Chicago j and New York for service with the I Motor Transport Corps and the Red j Cross. Army Issues Call For Young Women | There is urgent need at present for more young women trained in occupational therapy for service in army hospitals as reconstruction aids, and the Surgeon General has sent out a call to all hospitals to help obtain, if possible, more help in this vital part of reconstruction work. Reconstruction aids, who are teachers of crafts and also those , trained in academic and commer | cial subjects are needed. Chiefs of t educational services of army hospi ; tals have been asked to make pub lic announcement of this need, and | request the aids and others con | versant with the nature of the work | to suggest to qualified women among their acquaintances that they make application. Application blanks will be avail able at army hospitals and the office of the Surgeon General. BXRRXSBTJRG TELEGKXFH INTRA-STATE MOTOR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED AT READING; LOCAL MEN THERE Comprised of Motor Dealers' Associations From Central and Eastern Pennsylvania Cities i In the clubrooms of the Iris Club |of Wyomissing, Reading, yesterday, [an association of automobile dealers to be known as the lntra-State ilu- I tor Dealers' Association was formed, | with George G. McFanand, president ct the Harrisburg Motor Dealers' | Association, receiving the honor of j being the hi st president of the new | association. Units from Harrisburg, Reading, Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Lan caster and York were represented in the first meeting and assisted in the forming of the association and the election of a president and vice president A secretary and treasurer will be appointed by a board of directors that will be comprised of the ollicers already elected and two delegates from each dealers' associa tion from the various cities repre sented. The object of this new association is the same as that of the National .Motor Dealers' Association. Protec tion of the dealers in all trade transactions, as well as securing fa vorable legislation and the co-operat ing of the various cities, in move t rnents that mean the betterment of the automobile business as a whole, stand paramount. All together, there was a very en- I thusiastic meeting. About sixty dealers from the various cities were present, and the presidents, of the different associations gave a short talk previous to the organizing of the new association on the work now being done or contemplated in their respective cities. After the work of organizing was completed, Harry G. Mooch, secretary and business man ager of the National Automobile Dealers' Association, with headquar ters in St. Louis, addressed the mem bers present on the work of the na tional organization. His talk was very interesting and educational. He dwelt at length on the used car sit uation and the work of the associa tion in securing favorable national legislation, etc. He was preceded in a short address by J. H. Pile, associ ate editor of Motor World. The various association members met in Penn Square, at Reading, and proceeded to. the Iris Club, where a very welcome lunch —welcome, we say, because every one was about starved when they arrived there by the way they pitched into the lunch —was served by the club chef. Fol lowing the business meeting, ath letic sports were enjoyed on the fieid TEACH FARMERS TRUCK UTILITY Motor Truck Distributors of St. Louis Start the Movement A recent tour conducted by the Motor Truck Distributors of St. Louis. Mo., made a scheduled run of 370 miles in the interest of good roads and to teach the farmers truck utility. The expedition included practi cally all* the better known trucks, totalling thirty-three; fifteen worm drive, sixteen internal gear drive and two bevel double reduction. For carrying officials, newspapermen and photographers, five touj-ing cars were drafted into service, a motor cycle sidecar was used by the train master and scout, a Curtiss plane, owned by the Service Motor Truck Company, of Wabash, Ind., also participated. Position in line was decided daily by drawing made by the com mander-in-chief. The Republic distributor at St. Louis entered three Republic trucks —two model 10's on pneumatic tires with express bodies and closed cabs, and one model 11 on solid tires with stake body and closed cab. The Republics drew first position on the opening day of the run and led the tour on exact schedule through out the day. On Tuesday, the second day of the expedition, before reaching Hanni bal, Mo., news was received that Oscar Bricker, driving the Curtiss plane, had attempted a tail spin over Hannibal, which had resulted fatally. This situation was well han dled hy the communder-in-chief, and the wrecked plane was carried for the remainder of the tour on a two ton truck. The concluding day was spent in a leisurely manner, stopping at Al ton, 111., for lunch and then back the Mississippi river to St. j GEORGE G. McFARLAND adjoining the clubhouse, particu larly a baseball game between stars from Allentown and Reading. The writer doesn't know who won the game, as there were so many runs crossed the plate that they couldn't be counted. A shower cut short these stunts, and the crowd ad journed to the clubrooms again, where a drawing was made for the many prizes that were to have been awarded for the athletic stunts. The gathering, which, after the business was discussed, resembled a picnic of kids who were bent on a good time, broke up about 5 o'clock, when members started for home. Harrisburg was represented at this meeting by George G. McFar land; other dealers from here in cluding Ted Deeter, W. H. Gerkart, F. C. Seiber, Andrew Redmond. Ephraim Brenner, D. A. Williams, Charles Federick, Louis Monn, W. P. Grove, Charles Bogar, Pat Dris coll, C. A. Fair and W. R. Hoffman. Guests of the Harrisburg associa tion included Harry G. Mook, J. H. Pile. J. J. Garvin and Alfred P. Davies. Louis, completing the tour at 3 p. m. The tour was made to justify motor trucks, not any particular make, but as a whole, to farmers and others in rural districts and small tewms, which it accomplished beyond all expectations. At all stops where speeches were made in the in terest of good reads and motor trucks, large crowds assembled and keen interest was manifest. The two model 10 Republics and the model 11 ton-and-one-half Re- j public finished with perfect scores, j The model 10's averaged fourteen! miles to a gallon and the model 111 averaged twelve miles to the gallon I of gasoline for the total trip. BRAZIL'S GRAZING LANDS [From the American, New York.] The State of Minas Geraes, Bra zil, promises to become the greatest live stock raising section in the world. Natural conditions are ideal, proximity to the packing houses and j large markets is satisfactory, the na- j tives are progressive and willing to embrace modern methods as oppor-i tunity offers and the character of; the soil and grasses assures a good ! quality of animal. No other part of the world holds. 1 forth such promises of reasonably! priced meat as the plains of Brazil, j Both in Europe and the United ! States population has reached a j point where land is too valuable to | allow largo tracts to lie idle for; grazing purposes, but the develop- i ment of Brazil along line of any j such intensity as are now seen m j the United States will require so' many years that a great develop ment of the cattle raising industry is certain to appear in the interim. Brazil is the world's greatest lum ber storehouses. The Amazon Val ley is an endless mass of forests, and while the forests of America were once so great as to he thought inexhaustible, those of Brazil are really so vast that the thought ,of the work necessary to cut them into lumber almost staggers the imagina tion. A great part of this forest I wealth lies in the State of Para.! along the Amazon, and in another! state of similar name but located | far to the south, the State of Parana. : In the latter state are tremendous j forests of pine suitable for working j up into the best grades of lumber like the timber of our own Pacific | Coast country. NEW PRINCIPLES ARE EMBODIED IN U.S. TRUCK TIRE Solid Truck Tires Now on thei Market Receiving Consid erable Attention (By C. K. WliUUlcn, Manager Solid Truck Tire Dept., United States Tire Company.) After a long period of experimen tation a new solid truck tire em bodying two entirely new principles of construction is now being plaeed on the market by the United States Tire Company. N The two new principles involved in the manufacture of this tire are 1 so radically different from all other, existing methods of manufacture! that they are attracting close atten tion from tire engineers. Many im provements in solid tire manufac ture have been made since the ad vent of the motor truck, but for none of them have the broad claims been made which are made for this new tire. j One of the claims made is that a method has been discovered of elimi nating the "grain" in the rubber and 'thus greatly reducing splitting and cracking, one of the chief causes of trouble in solid tires. The other is that a long step forward has been made in solving the problem of pre venting tires from separating from the tire bands. With regard to this second claim, it is pointed out that, it has been the custom until now to fasten the rub ber tire to the steel base by means of dove-tailed grooves in the steel band. This union was mechanical ' a " d served the purpose of holding ' the rubber on the band with a vary j ing degree of success, j The United States Tire Comoany's I laboratories have discovered a new process which enables them to foirn a chemical union between the steel and rubber and at last are able to announce that rubber can be vul canized to steel, provided the steel is treated in the peculiar manner developd by thir chemists. This fea ture will practically eliminate base separation, one of the most bother some of all solid tire troubles^ The other important improvement I embodied in the new tire relates to the rubber itself and is the result of long study of rubber and rubber I compounds. I Everyone is familiar with the fact J that many materials possess a I marked grain. This has been noticed particularly in wood and in some | rock formations, but it has not been j generally known that it is also a characteristic of rubber. Rubber has a grain of spiral formation which, while invisible, Is neverthe less present. When the rubber tire with this grain Us affected by over loading or rough usage, it will chip or crack in the sides or wearing* SUP faces. The cavities formed as a re sult of this condition are usually rounded in contour and follow the grain of the stock just as wood will always split along the grain and as rock formations split on the exposed surface along the various strata. The stratification in solid tires is almost uni\ersally of double spiral form and is caused by the mechanical working to which the rubber stock is sub jected in the process of manufae tu re. The development of this tire is I another important contribution by I the United States Tire Company Jo' the progress of the motor truck in-1 diistry. During the past decade this industry has gone forward with giant! strides, but its success has depended | to a large extent upon the ability I of tire manufacturers to meet the demands due to changed conditions. ! Tn the early days of the motor truck these vehicles were built to carry' light loads and it was a compara-i tively easy matter for tire manufae- i turers to furnish adequate tires, but! the size of trucks and the weight of! loads has increased rapidly, until to-! day tire manufacturers are required ! to furnish tires capable of standing up under loads of seven or eight tons. The laboratories of the United States! Tire Company have, in perfecting l this new tire again co-operated with ! truck manufacturers to bring the! whole industry to a new level of ef-i ficiency. The new tire has been thoroughly! tested by the company in accord-! ance with its fixed plan to place! nothing new on the market until if! has met the most rigid tests. r You Can Prove They Are "Miles Cheaper" QUAKER TIRES Quaker Multi-Tubes 1 It is unnecessary to tell car owners about their construction, for use will I again prove they give satisfaction in 1 KB Jj| everyway. We carry the most com & -JrL m plete stock of QUAKER CASINGS and Q UAKER MULTI-TUBES and UH Alexander & Scott 315 Chestnut Street, Harrisburg i j Joseph Alexander BELL 278W ' DIAL asSa j SEPTEMBER 13,1919. This Battery Pointer May Save You Trouble . "Don't be too generous with the distilled water when, you're putting it in batteries, says Mr. Kent, local Willard expert. If you are you're, likely to do just as much harm as if you neglected to put any water at all in. Of course water Is necessary, but the idea is to put in just enough to replace the amount that has evaporated. If you put in more you're getting into trouble In two ways; you're weakening the battery and worse than that you're taking the first step toward ruining your battery box. "If the water remained in the | battery as water, there would be no ' Special Tire Sale 8000 Mile Adjustment | 130x3 at $16.35 I 30X31/ 2 at $20.55 We Also Have a Full Line of High Class | 1 Auto Accessories Key stone Sales Co. 108 Market Street ANOTHER BIG SPECIAL SALE OF I CORD TiRES FIRST QUALITY Also ESSEX INNER TUBE at 50% Of! List 1 Price With Purchase of Any Tire GUARANTEED 8000 MILES 34x4 Royal Cords, non-skid, at $46.00 i ■ 34x4 Goodrich Cords, non-skid, at H 34x4 Ajax Cord, non-skid, at $46.00 '■ 35x4*4 Lee Cord, non-skid, at $55.00 g Lee Cord, ribbed, at $53.50 ■ I NO WAR TAX ADDED MASON CORD TIRES 32x3*4 $34.90 32x4 $46.35 36x4*4 $56.60 g 33x4 $46.70 r37x5 $69.90 g . • NO WAR TAX ADDED OTHER SIZES OF TIRES REDUCED IN PROPORTION We Also Carry Slightly Blemished Tires at Specially Low Prices MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY SHIPPED ON RECEIPT OF ORDER C. O. D., Subject to Inspection IF CHECK ACCOMPANIES ORDER, WE PREPAY EXPRESS NEW YORK CUT RATE TIRE CO. 1737 NORTH THIRD STREET—CORNER KELKER STREET Both Stores Open Evenings Dial Phone 6261 Branch Store at Harrisburg Storage Battery Company, Fourth and Chestnut Streets 1 PATRONS OF HUMMELSTOWN & VICINITY MAY SEE Ol'K DISTRIBUTOR AT HUMMELSTOWN chance of damage—but It doesn't. It mixes right in with the acid. "Consequently if your battery la too full the acid begins to slop out at the top with the first hard Jolt and keeps spilling little by little until the damage is done. This acid is strong enough to eat through wood or iron, and will take the wooden bottom right out of the bat tery box. "You'll sidestep a lot of trouble if you remember, when you add dis tilled water, to stop as soon a3 the solution rises to half an inch over the tops of the battery plates." RIGHT OFF THE BAT Chase (growing bald rapidly) "Old man, what's a good thing to keep the hair in?" Ilrase (bright young man) "Cigar box."—Fort Bayard News.
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