WAR WILL BRING
BUSINESS BOOM
H. M. Jcwett, Paige President,
Makes Optimistic Pre
dictions
Increased instead of restricted pur
rliaslng power, an extraordinary
boom in general business and conse
quent country-wide prosperity are the
optimistic prophecies of businessmen
who are analyzing the situation
brought about by the entrance of the
United States into the war.
® One of these prophets of optimism
is Harry M. Jewett, president of the
Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company.
His comment was the result of cer-
tain pertinent questions that had been
put up to him to answer. He was
asked, for example, what effect the
war would have on business in gen
eral. He was also asked If there
would be a hold-up in the production
of automobiles and other commercial
products, whether the equipment by
the United States of an army of two
million men and the financing of five
billions of dollars would not seriously
affect the financial condition of the
country. Finally, he was asked the
significant question whether the pur
chasing power of the people would
be contracted to a certain degree. His
answers were not only a flat denial
of any harmful results, but an en
thusiastic and confident declaration
of optimism based on convincing
facts and logic.
"The financing of five billions of
dollars by the government Is some
thing that should have been started
years ago," said Mr. Jewett. "The
government should have continued to
spend for our army, navy and coast
defense until this country was in a
position of absolute impregnability.
"The spending of wo billions for
our won defense, which seems to be
the present plan, is not a matter of ?l
day or a month. It takes time to
equip an army of two million men,
but our factories are equal to the
emergency. The money used is only
released for circulation, as it comes
back to the people in "wages and
through the purchase of raw and fin
ished nroducts. As for the proposed
loan of three billions of dollars to the
Allies, the financing of this operation
will not be felt in the United States.
"If one will only take a glimpse
at the banking situation in this coun
try one will be convinced of this fact:
It Is estimated that the capital, sur
plus and deposits of our banks total
approximately 35 billion dollars at
the present time. Therefore, the
banks alone could loan the national
government at least six billion dollars
and at the same time carry on the
loans they are now making in the
regular course of business to finance
the industries of this country.
"If this is the banking condition
of the country at the present time,
how can anyone think that the fi
nancing of five billions of dollars by
the people of the United States is go
ing to make a disastrous impression?
"The United States government can
raise five billion dollars and keep on
with several billion more without
contracting the purchasing power of
the people to the extent that general
business will feel the sting, for It
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takes time to spend these billions and
In the meantime the people of the
United States will be Retting that
much more economic wealth. Instead
of contracting business, the war" Is
going to increase business. It will
give the people of the United States
that much more purchasing power.
"What is making good times?
Every factory In the country running
to full capacity, every laboring man
getting top-notch wages, and every
factory selling Its product at a fair
profit; every farmer getting top-notch
prices for his grain and cattle. Why
should anyone think under these con
ditions. that there is going to be any
contraction in the purchasing power
of the people? The people have the
money and they want manufactured
materials of all kinds.
"The government is not going to
Interfere with general business in this
country or commandeer the manufac
turing institutions. Have we not sup
plied more than two million troops of
the Allies with munitions, clothes,
arms, motor trucks and other articles
used in war without taxing our man
ufacturing resources beyond the
limit?
"The allied nations have caught up
now and the factories of America are
no wopen to the task or supplying
the T'nited States government with its
requirements for equipping an army
of two million men. They are ready
to turn their attention to supplying
our own troops with everything they
need for the defense of our own
country. We have the Allies to thank
for this important factor in prepared
ness. It means now simply speed
ing up on production instead of de
creasing and America will come out
within the next two years with a
magnificent army. It is more than
possible that our army will not go
into the fighting trenches of Europe,
but nevertheless we will have one of
the greatest scientifically equipped
armies in the world and America can
take her place among the nations of
the world In a fitting position.
"Universal military service has got
•to come. The really pitiable position
which America is in to-day with prac
tically no trained fighting force has
proven that and it will be one of the
greatest boons this country has ever
had. It has taken a crisis Such as
this to prove it to the American peo
ple. Ayear's military training serv
ple. A year's military training serv
try will fit him to be a real man and
give •us a sense of security that
America has never yet felt. And
American institutions are worth
fighting for."
Cadillac Production Up
to 100 Cars Per Day
According to the statement of Sales
Manager E. C. Howard, the produc
tion of eight-cylinder Cadillacs for
the month of March reached a total
of 2.032 cars, and April Is expected
to show a substantial increase to
reach an average of one hundred cars
per day.
During the winter minths, numer
ous handicaps have been experienced,
caused by delays in obtaining ma
terials In spite of foresight In placing
contracts long ago, and on account
of railroad congestion both in and
out of Detroit.
The railroad situation, however, is
reported somewhat easier, and the
material situation is now so well In
hand that production sa far as the
Cadillac factories are concerned can
be pushed to the limit.
Soldiers Made Hurried
Trip to Repel "Invasion"
Eighty-five men of the Tenth com
pany, coast artiHery corps, under
Lieutenant Frederick Price, early tho
morning of March 18, made a record
run from San Francisco to Half Moon
Bay to repel an imaginary Invasion
from the sea. The run was made In
one hour and fifteen minutes In twenty
cars and two trucks of the Chester N.
Weaver Company, San Francisco, dis
tributor of Studebaker automobiles.
Major S. F. Bottoms was in com
mand of the trip, which was made in
accordance with an offer to the mtli
tla authorities at the Presidio by the
Studebaker men at the time of this
government's severing of diplomatic
relations with Germany. Although the
offer was accepted at that time, the
Studebaker organization was not no
tified in advance when they would be
called on.
At 3.30 o'clock the morning of
March 18, the call came to be ready
by 7.30 at the Presidio. At the hour
appointed the caravan, each car In
charge of a Studebaker driver and
carrying its quota of soldiers, pro
ceeded via the San Mateo road.
Not a halt or a "mishap delayed tho
run, and at 8.45 the force was landed
on the bay shore, the two machine
guns unloaded from the truck and
hurry-up preparations made to pre
vent the imaginary hostile fleet from
landing men. Considering that the
distance Is thirty-nine and one-half
miles, it will be readily appreciated
what the time means.
Swinging, sliding almost, down the
mountains, around the curves it was a
miracle that they escaped without ac
cident, tire, engine, brake, motor or
any other trouble. The fact that every
car and every man arrived at the
same time, clearly demonstrated the
efficiency and "durability of the Stude
baker.
Major Bottom, military observer on
the test run, said: "It was one of the
most satisfactory demonstrations I
have ever witnessed, and forcibly dem
onstrates what can be expected of
motor vehicles over any other method
of transportation. Without large con
crete placements of big guns along the
coast for protection against the raid
of any enemy, the short time to move
troops from one point to another by
auto, is convincingly evident that we
can protect our coast at any point
without fear of the enemy successfully
taking any one point. I can't say too
much in praise of the actions of the
Studebaker cars on the run to Half
Moon Bay."
Break in Automobile
Motor Gradually
■ "To insure that the working parts
of the motor adjust themselves prop
erly this car should not be driven
in excess of twenty-five miles per
hour during the first five hundred
miles."
This notice appears on the wind
shield of every car shipped by the
Willys-Overland Company, of Toledo,
Ohio, and according to distributors
and dealers, is doing a great deal of
good.
All engineers and most good me
chanics know that nothing is so in
jurious to a new mechanism as high
speed, yet probably a vast majority
of new cars are driven at high speed
ihslde of twenty-four hours from the
time they are delivered to the retail
purchaser.
It is this tendency on the part of
inexperienced drivers which the
Willys-Overland Company is trying
to combat.
In no other line of manufacturing,
possibly, is the product so quickly
turned over to the mercies of a man
who knows little of its mechanical
construction and still 'ess of the way
to take care of it.
"A high speed passenger locomo
tive offers an excellent comparison,"
said the local Willys-Overland dealer.
In discussing this topic.
"The locomotive is built to" run
easily and pull a tremendous load at
seventy miles an hour. But is that
locomotive put at oncq into such serv
ice? Hardly. The superintendent or
master mechanic who would permit
such a thing is not St to hold his
position.
"The locomotive is run 'dead' in a
freight train to its point of delivery.
Then it is easily and carefully "broken
in by being given slow freight serv
ice before it is turned over to the
passenger crews.
"It is a good deal the same in the
case of a steamship. She is built un
der a contract guaranteeing so many
miles per hour, but no shipbuilding
concern would think of submitting a
new boat to a trial run until after
her engines had ample time to 'wear
in.'
"It should be the same with motor
cars. The better a car is built, the
more care should be exercised when
the motor Is new.
"Careful handling of a car when
new means a better and smoother en
gine and fewer repair bills."
College Men Want to
Drive Trucks in Circus
To become a member of a circus
troupe has always been one of boy
hood's greatest ambitions. Many per
sons outgrow this attraction for cir
cus life but with some the lure always
remains. No better evidence of this
universal appeal of the outdoor show
could be found than in the list of ap
plicants for the position of truck driv
ers with the new motorized circus,
which opens in May.
There are more than 1.000 of them
on file in the office of the United
States Circus Corporation and most
of them are from college men. Grad
uates and undergraduates from the
leading universities of thfe country—
Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Colum
bia, Princeton, Dartsmouth, Cornell—
want Jobs in the circus parade as
pilots of the 100 Firestone-equipped
Kelly-Springfield trucks and Troy
trailers.
> There hasn't been much to offer the
young college man in circus work
HABRISBtJBG TELEGRAPH
heretofore. But the new enterprise
with It* motorized features presents
a different aspect. Almost every young
man, nowadays, can operate a motor
car. Some of the circus applicants tell
of their experience with father's ma
chine, while others tell of their own
personal attractions, such as the young
man who described his social posi
tion and suggested that the use of his
name would bring out the social elect
In every town visited.
Roominess of Velie Six
Instrumental in Sale
Gale Henry, comedy star of Uni
versal productions, wanted a car. She
is a favorite among her film com
panions and in addltlort to power and
riding comfort, she wanted "room,"
so she might take as many of her
r he Studebaker
—As to Quality
For sixty-five years the name Studebaker Compare the quality of its genuine
has stood for honorable dealing with the leather upholstery with that of cars
public. costing S2OOO or over.
Studebaker has put into its product the Note the high grade, leather bound crim
most careful and experienced workman- son carpet in the tonneau, the genuine,
ship and the best materials that money pin tumbler Yale ignition lock.
can buy. Note the heavy gauge crown fenders, the
These combined with time honored beautiful head lamp mountings,
honesty are the things that make These are outward evidences of quality,
quality. but the real quality in Studebaker cars
In the Studebaker Six, quality is present is that which meets emergencies, the life
in the material, deep in the vital parts giving "factor of safety" which is
where it is revealed by years of dura- splendid insurance for you to buy.
bility and by silent, smooth running Come in and let us show you point by
efficiency. point the evidences of Studebaker quality.
There is further evidence of Studebaker Let us convince you that to equal the
quality which you can plainly see. Studebaker in quality you have to pay
Compare its beautiful paint and varnish man y hundreds of dollars more,
work with that of anv car on the market It is well worth your while to investigate.
F,r.C,lMerM.deU nRKfOI I AIITfi frt s,x .m.
FOUR Roadster . . . . $985 UlVluvV/LL AU IV/ VV/ SIX Touring Car . . . 12M
FOUR Touring Car ... 985 SIX Landau Roadater . . 13M
FOUR Landau Roadster .115# -a atm Q r* p SIX Coupe** * * 17M
FOUR Every-Weathar Car 1185 14/ 5. L dt. SIX LimouslAe ! \ \ \ MM
All trUn /.. t. Dtlrtll All trlctl /..*, DftriM
friends with her as conld be com
fortably seated.
Invariably there are a great many
cars parked around Film City watch
ing the Interesting procedures, so
Miss Henry and six other, girls start
ed out to look them over. It was
agreed that a car wns not to be given
a second look If it failed to seat three
in the front scat, and four in the
rear seat, comfortably.
After trying about a dozen the
girls decided to give it up as a bad
job, when Eileen Sedgwick drove up
■ in her Velie Blltwel Six. The girls
climbed in unceremoniously and with
one accord exclaimed, "Here It Is!"
The fact that it was a "Velie"
capped the climax and caused a sale.
Now, Miss Henry devotes all her
spare time in the company of a car
full of girl friends enjoying her new
Velie to the fullest extent.
Housewarming at Home
of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Seward
West Fairvlew, April 14.—Mr. and
Mrs. George Seward were given a
"housewarming" Thursday evening
in their newly-furnishei home. Music
was furnished by Frank Handshule,
of Harrlsburg, and Haymond Kauf
man, of Camp Hill; also a vocal solo
by William Davis. Games were en
joyed, after which refreshments were
served to: Miss Mary Weltz, Miss El
sie Watts, Mrs. A. W. Emrick, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Handshue. Mr. and
Mrs. "William Davis, Miss Anna
Brown and Russell Kelly, all of Har
rlsburg; Mrs. Ashby, of Steelton; Miss
Irene Ashenfelter, of Marysvllle; Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Kaufman, of
Camp Hill; Mr. and Mrs. H. Wolbert.,
Miss Nora Shultz, Mr. and Mrs. W.
McCurdy, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Curry,
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Haubaker, Mr.
and Mrs. L. B. Baker, Mr. and Mrs.
W. A. Cripple, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Miller, Mrs. T. J. Eshenbaugh, Miss
Sophia Curry, Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
Miller, Mrs. W. Foulk, Mrs. R. Rapp,
Mr. and Mrs. Ceorge Keefer, Mr. and
Mrs. J. Kooper, Mrs. F. Bretz, Mrs.
E. Walsh, Miss Thura Baker, Jo®
Miller, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Smeltrer, ,
Charles Smeltzer, Mr. and Mrs.
George Seward and Vaughn Cripples.
SENIOR CLASS ENTERTAINED
New Cumberland, Pa., April 14.
Last evening the senior class of the
high school was delightfully enter
tained at the- home of Mr. and Mrs.
John Hoyer on Market Square. The
rooms were decorated with the na
tional colors. Music r.nd games were
played, after which refreshments
were served to the class, composed
of twenty members.
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