LOUIS MEYER TO
HAVE SWIFT CAR
Wheel Drive and Be
Driven by Spur Gear.
There has been a good deal of gos-
sip the car Louis Meyer
will drive In the 1930 Indianapolis
H00-mile but the facts
were not disclosed until days
ago when Alden Sampson, head of the
Sampson-Mever-Brett racing combina-
tion came into Indi: is to arrange
for be
concerning
race, actual
a few
ww pol
quarters where the car will
ar will
Its 16-cylinder motor wil
be named the Sampson
| be
up of two banks of eight cylin.
The car, a rear-wheel
will be driven by a
driv e,
gear off the
spur
rear end of a separate crankshaft for
each of the banks,
be of 25/16 bore by
the motor will
201 cubic
he cylinders will
inch stroke and
have displacement of
inches,
Conforms to Specifications.
Otherwise ‘the will conform to
all the of the Indian.
apolis Motor Speedway corporation for
the 1030 race, which this
year at 10 o'clock a. m. on May 30, as
usual,
car
specifications
will start
weeks
for
motor
“The three of us worked
on the design and the
have already heen made and machine
about finished”
rett Is coming
from then on
go at top speed to finish the
blocks
work on them Is
Sampson said. “Riley
on from
will
Car."
the coast and
we
Asked who would be the riding
chaniec w Meyer, Sampson
did not know. There will be a thou-
sand requests pour into the workshop
without doubt, but Sampson Inti
mated that considered the me.
chanic's seat highly important and that
he might ride Louis in the first
for two-man cars since 1922 on
the greatest automobile race course It
the world.
me-
ith said he
he
with
race
Sampson {is the pleturesque
figure in racing In He
an automobile dealer in Ohio two years
ago when he met Louis Meyer,
both were men of few words, of about
the same height and general build.
Louis was a mechanic for Frank El-
Hott, Two weeks the 1928
race Lonis wired his friend In Ohlo
that he had a good buy in a race ear
if Alden had the money, Alden had
it and came to Indianapolis, where the
car bought, So well did Louis
the that he von
first place that year. The same year
Sampson bought a car from the Frank
Lockhart estate and Meyer drove it
into second place in the 1029 race.
Work of Trio Divided,
of this
Sampson
most
America. was
They
before
wis
Justify investment
The work
well divided,
money end. Louls Meyer does the
driving, and does it so well that he
won the A. A. A. driving champion-
ship in 1028 and 1929: Brett who has
worked on more winners than any
other racing car specialist, has the re-
gpongibility of secing that the car is
always in tip-top shape mechanically.
This rare combination has made a
trio to conjure with where seconds
mean thousands of dollars,
The public will he much interested
to see how the 16-cylinder car-—the
first one of its kind for track In
America-—will perform. With its
background It can almost be written
for a place well up at the finish,
winning trio is
watches the
E:-haust Clears Fog in
Front of an Automobile
Hot alr sprayed out in front of an
automobile by an attachment on the
exhaust of the car has been found ef-
fective In clearing away London's
time-honored fog, the American Auto-
mobile association reports,
The rising current of heated alr
created by the device, a recent inven
tion, literally lifts the fog about ten
feet In front of the front wheels and
does It quickly enough to permit a
forward speed of about fifteen miles
an hour In the densest fog,
The fog lifter can be attached to
any car's exhaust and is much simpler
than the average windshield wiper, It
has been tried out in London and is
being adopted by motorists there,
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THE MOTOR QUIZ
(How Many Can You Answer?)
#
Q. What portion of the motor
vehicles of the world were reg-
istered In the United States?
Ans, Approximately
cent,
Q. How many are
employed In the motor car and
industries in the United
States?
0 per
persons
allied
Ans, One In about every
persons,
Q. How many American made
motor vehicles were sold outside
of the United States last year?
Ans. 1,015,000,
Q. How
cles were imported in 19209
Ans, 710,
many motor vehl-
FREE LL EEF LE LLLP PIL SILI
Effective Motor Cut-Out
Is Easily Constructed
and effective
An
cut-out can be constructed from an old
easily built tor
tin can and a few discarded parts,
shown in Fig. 3. Remove the
pipe and cut a
holes lg the ends of
that it will slip over the
bolt a stop and another for
as
exhaust
large hol it. Cut
RO
Fit one
as the
— CUT-OUT
v4 MANDLE
El
be ECTION A-A
DAD —
”
1 MoLg © MUFFLER
Tin CAN
i
- Out, Using an Old Tin Can and a
Few Discarded Parts.
the back
the valve stem
spring that
the hole when
pulls ean over
on the
end of the cord Is allowed to slide in.
to the the dash. The hole In
the exhaust pipe can be cut most eas-
fly by sawing a V-shaped notch in the
pipe with a Notch area
should equal pipe cross section.—Pop-
ular Science Magazine.
hole in
RAW,
hack
Watch Motor Car Brakes
Most
work
weather,
everything works
greater must
winter, when roads are slippery and
brake bands and Joints are
with mud and Have the
looked after frequently to be sure that
will
dry
any brake
reasonably
when
adjustment
well in warm
roads are dry
freely: but
care be
ice,
with
sible
from
them,
In
covered to prevent mud and ice
freezing them and
on
driving, one should use
application of the brakes is
pressure may produce the
sults if the brakes are badly off in
adjustment.
Peer ee rere ere eee EID
AUTOMOBILE HINTS
LeeLee Peer Let PPI LILLY
I? the car has a backing light, re
verse never should be used as a brake
when the car is left parked. It drains
the battery.
. * .
Another part the motorist must re.
member not to tighten too much ig the
water pump shaft-packing gland, The
shaft must run free,
* . &
“The shoe manufacturers say we
do not walk enough.” This Is im-
portant, we think, Whereabouts down-
town do the shoe manufacturers park
their cars?
» * =»
Beginners are apt to overchoke the
engine when starting. It is often un-
necessary to use the choke at all, es.
pecially in warm weather or shortly
after you have been runfing the ear.
. . »
Motorists long have been warned
not to touch the head of the speed.
ometer and not even to let the aver
age mechanic work on it. Speed.
ometers are delicate Indiruments, like
fine watches,
ABOUT WISE POLLY
“W ELL,” sald Polly, the parrot,
“this Is the greatest fun in the
world.”
“What are you talking
asked Larry, the monkey,
“Yes, tell us,” sald
monkey.
“I'm talking about you and all of
your friends,” said Polly. “You seq,
I lived in a private house before I
came to the zoo, Before that I lived
in a bird shop, and before that I can't
remember,
“Maybe 1
grandparents
about?"
Jimmie, the
came
came,
from where my
but I'm sure 1
don’t know. 1 never took much stock
in family history. But at any rate
the bird shop was my first home, my
second was the home where a mother
“That May Be So, but You're All So
Amusing,” Said Polly,
some children
Hved,
ne is here in the zoo.
vig, as 1 sald before, is the great
st fun in the world.”
“Pray tell
sald la
and
me why you think so”
ATTY, AS ig by his tail
}
i
on is bar 50 he
the
went bach
look next cage
fun.
“One moment they're
because monkeys
said Polly.
are so
ny,”
gay, the next sad, and the next sleepy
the pext hungry.”
“Well,
and :
well, well,” chuckled Jimmie,
that that makes
from most creatures,
“People, and when 1 say people, 1
1
i
p
mean grownups and children, are gay,
800 us any
or sieeny *
or sad, or ht
‘
IRrY, or some
or another,
Hy, "but
ne
ngs one tim
“That may be s0," sal
you're all so amusing.
knows what you are golng to do next
“Nelther do you know what people
never
“Why don't are
funny
you say they
“Maybe they are,” sald Polly, “but
they don't hang by their tails and
squeal and make faces In the way you
do, and I am having the greatest fun
because I'm trying to copy you.
“Yes, that is why I'm having the
greatest fun. 1 have grown tired of
copying people who say morn-
ing, Polly,’ and ‘Polly want a cracker.
“Now I have a whole monkey house
to copy and how glad I am the keeper
has me for a pet and puts me In the
monkey house where he Is in charge.
“I'm having the time of my parrot
“"
‘Good
ife.
Just then a whistle was heard. A
long, funny sort of whistle,
The children who were visiting the
monkey house looked this way and
that, and the keeper laughed to
them. Oh, how the keeper laughed,
A big policeman had come into the
monkey and had sald “hello”
to but the children had
not thought there was anything funny
in that,
“Still
Ed
house
the keeper,
knows eh?" the
gald to the policeman. “The children
“
you, keeper
don't know what to make Hf it
“Yen,
voted ™
Jimmie Is very loyal and de
the children had not been al
understand
keeper turned to th
said :
“Did you see the policeman?”
“We did”
“And just
heard
“That
ald the
an came
Still
to the whistlin
answered,
iistied
the children
before we
another
was Jimmi
keeper,
into thi
long whistle.
CEs
»UL YO
even
yer
“Yon
two weeks,
see, Jimmie never
hildren watched
pol
and
was hi gpe ial pe
the keeper
t
waiched and sald to herself:
knowing
“Ome can't help bu
Higence when
around one,
“Why, I'm ashamed 1 ever sald any.
thing so silly as ‘Polly wants a crack:
er,” though 1 suppose
parrots.”
Dear Editor:
HIS
tunity
alr mall
to the
gives a new oppor
office statistician,
know the kind. They can tell
what time train No. 8 gets to
Bloomington, what time the air mail
reaches Louisville, and when is the
last minute to get a letter started for
You
you
We need this sort of help because
most of us are in the dark as to
where air mall routes go and where
they don't. A friend spent a quarter
to send me a letter by air mail, and it
came on the train after all. Oh well,
the government needs the cash.
If the post office really wants to
help the airplanes, they might have
made those alr stamps smaller, You
get a lot of paper for your nickel
Fred Barto
(Copyright)
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GABBY GERTIE
“No girl cares to vamp an artistic
soul unless it's well heeled”
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Boats of Grass and Straw
Boats of grass and straw have been
used for centuries by natives of the
Peruvian Andes,
CTHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
’
THE LIGHTS BURN BLUE
“ HE lights burn blue—it
dead midnight,” says King Rich.
ard, starting awake from his dream
peopled with the ghosts of his mur
dered dead. This superstition of the
last Plantagenet with regard to the
connection between a blue-burning
flame and the of inimical
spirits is a very old and universal one
has not yet entirely vanished
from our modern folk-lore. There are
many people still who, when the lights
burn blue, fancy that it is an indica
tion that “spirits are about.”
is now
presence
which
On the New England coast when a
fire burns with a blue flame they say
that a storm is coming, It is an omen
of evil—the powers the prince of
the air are abroad! In the South
when the fire burns blue the colored
folks and some of the white ones, too,
say that it is a sign that “the devil
wants to speak to you.” and handfuls
of salt are thrown on the fire to keep
him away. The ancient Greeks, when
their funeral pyres burned blue, used
to throw oil upon them to induce a
clearer flame, Sir Thomas Browne
(1646) says “That candles and lights
burn blue and dim at the apparition
of spirits may be true if the ambient
air is filled with a sulphurous spirits,
as happens often in the mines.”
This blue-light superstition is clearly
a survival of sun-worship. The flame
represented the sun and like the sun
should burn with a clear light, When
it doesn't something is wrong. The
perfect sympathy between the sun.
god and his earthly symbol, fire. cre
ated by man in his honor to induce
his beneficient protection, is destroyed,
Evil spirits intervene between the god
and his votaries,
(& by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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Famous University
Washington and Lee university was
given this time In 1871. The school
was established as Augnsta academy
in 1749 and chartered in 1782, George
Washington rendered financial assist
ance and the name was changed in
1708 to Washington academy. In 1813
the name was changed to Washington
college. Gen, Robert BE. Lee was made
president In 1565, and after his death
the name became Washington and Lee
university.
of
Betty Compson
erfeorerieel ¥
Charming Betty Compson, the popu.
lar screen star, was born in Beaver,
Utah. Her early experience was in
two.reel comedies which was followed
by her first big success in drama with
“The Miracle Man™ With the coming
of Vitaphone Miss Compson was given
prominent parts and has already ap-
peared in a number of popular produc.
tions.
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BODO OODOOUONNLLOOLOLODOLLG
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: For Meditation | :
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8 By LEONARD A. BARRETT
COO ODOO0
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
anity. Lin
wed the
he nn
i iddue
have
HOVE in
se 80
$
lems
of
wer to
his px
problem and see
point
place in the
of view,
ing
He was able
well as the
No
3
the
i
side
10 see
ROeTIOUSR
man since
IE power more
}
His
dott
golien
earty laugh will
by any person who eve
it. It is not surprising tt
cheer even in
died with
ut
P38 nie
ated gickroom,
and he
his
The
Mr.
capacity
a smile upon
face,
greatest honor which
Taft was the Presidency.
came to
In this
he served from 1900 to 1913,
having been elected by a m
150 in
The second highest honor was his ap-
pointment as Chief Justice of the Su.
court, he had
the appointment associate
which offer came to him through
President Roosevelt: but later
in life, the appointment came as chief
he accepted it with his
heart and strength,
Mr. Taft the only man who
ever held both of the highest offices
within the gift of American
ernment
votes the electorial college,
preme Twice declined
ns iustice,
when,
Justice, all
was
the £OV-
Justice,
When William the Silent, prince of
Orange, died, it was said that little
children cried in the streets, Thies was
doubtless true of one of America's
greatest statesmen—Willlam Howard
Taft.
(©. 1230, Western Newspaper Union.)
mesma
(@ by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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Team Work Needed
Love will never “make the world go
round,” as the old song says, without
liberal doses of common sense, and
your matrimonial ship will go on the
rocks unless common sense sits at the
steering wheel, The “star dust” days
of courtship, and early days after the
marriage cannot last.—Milan Standard
.
IR WALTER RALEIGH had a hunch
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The 1
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WORMS—A CHILD'S
GREATEST ENEMY
Look for these Symptoms in
dgritt t
ow Aopen the nos, Soot
ered stomach. These signs
may mean worms, And worms
left in the body mean broken
health.
Don't delay one hour, Frey's Vere
ride a child of worms
or 78 years it rp nei.
Frey’s Vermifuge
Expels Worms
N. U, BALTIMORE, NO. 16-1930.