PNEUMATIC TIRE OLD INVENTION First One Was Used and Tested 72 Years Ago in London Were Robert William Thomson, builder of the first pneumatic tire for carriages, to return to earth to day and view the modern successor of his Invention, the Cord tire, he would hardly believe his eyes. Robert Thomson was an English civil engineer and undoubtedly was the first man to conceive the idea of a pneumatic tire. His first tires, which appeared on the streets of London 72 years ago, were strapped to the wheels of a brougham, A hip pie passed from the rubber inner j tube through the soft leather casing and projected on the inside of the I felloe where it was closed and made airUght by means of a brass cap r 5-Passenger Touring $865 S-Passenger Clover-Leaf &<2£E Roadster tDOOO Ensminger Motor Co. THIRD and CUMBERLAND STS. Bell Phone 3615 ' Dep en d a ble Service Cadillac Dependable Service under all conditions is the ultimate in the motor car of today. Isn't it advis able to start now with a new car of known and permanent value (like the Cadillac); as your absolute need of such a car may arise at a time when prices and deliveries arc not as favorable as at the present time. "Cadillac" means "reliability". CRISPEN MOTOR CAR CO. 311-315 S. Cameron Street HARRISBUEG. PA. CHANDLER SIX Famous For Its Marvelous Motor Chandler Leads All Sixes THE Chandler leads all Sixes—indeed all medium priced high-grade cars—because it offers so much more for so much less. The powerful and flexible Chandler gears, for motor shafts. (Used by Pack motor, brought to a point approximat- ard, Win ton, Mercer, Cadillac.) ing perfection by five years of refinement Annular light-running ball bearings without radical changes. in transmission. (Used by Packard, Bosch high tension magneto ignition, ce "^ rrow V, Loco "?obi , e, Win ton, the world s finest system. (Used by White, Stutz, Mercer, Cadillac, Marmon.) Pierce- Arrow, Locomobile, Winton, Annular light-running ball bearings White, Stutz, Marmon, Mercer.) differential. (Used by Packard, Pierce „ . , . Arrow, Locomobile, White, Stutz, Mar- Solid cast aluminum motor base, mon ) p Si ?"?i r Annular light-running ball bearings design and construction used by Packard, in rear wheel# (Used b * Packardt Loc _ Mercer°) ( ) ' Winton > Stutz > mobile, White, Stutz, Mercer, Marmon.) 1 And scores of other features of design Silent chain drive, instead of noisy and equipment of equal excellence. SIX SPLENDID BODY TYPES Seven-Passenger Touring Car, $1595 Four-Passenger Roadster, $1595 Four-Pass. Dispatch Car, Sl67s;Five White Wire Wheels, SI 10 Extra Convertible Sedan, 52295 Convertible Coupe, S2I9S Limousine, 52895 (All prices 1. o. b. Cleveland) Come Choose Your Chandler Now ANDREW REDMOND, Distributor Phones S Third and Reily Streets CHANDLER MOTOR CAR COMPANY, CLEVELAND, OHIO . \ A SATURDAY EVENING, RARRISBURG TELEGRAPH and leather washer. For inflating the leather-incased tube, a "condenser" was used. This condenser no doubt was the beginning of the present day tire pump. Thomson's theory was that a vehicle equipped with pneumatic | tries would move over the road much j more easily than a vehicle riding on i the usual steel rims. To prove his j case he put his tires on & carriage weighing approximately 1,000 pounds. That its riding qualities were greatly improved was to be expected, but its lack of "resistance to the road" was remarkable to engineers of that time. The draft or "pull" of the pneumatic-equipped carriage was 28 pounds, while the carriage with the ordinary iron tires registered 45 pounds draft. This meant a saving in power of 40 per cent. The first test was on a paved road. Subse quent tests on rougher roads in dicated a saving in power of 310 per cent. It was the following year, 1847, that the first pneumatic tires ap peared in New York on a horse j drawn vehicle. It is a far, far cry i from that early pneumatic tire to the modern Royal Cord tire of today. Instead of the clumsy leather outer casing there is a neat black tread of notched rubber, on a carefully con structed, well balanced casing of rub ber and cotton cords. The Royal Cord Tire, made by the United States Tire Company, is built up of layer on layer of parallel fishcords running diagonally across the tire, the threads of adjacent lay ers, running in the opposite direc tion. Each individual cord is com pletely permeated with rubber and entirely surrounded by rubber, mak ing friction by the rubing together of contiguous cords impossible. It is this small-cord, multiple con struction that makes the Royal Cord a leader among cord tires of today—• a tire of superior resiliency and ability to absorb shock, a tire that does not blow out and a tire that gives increased gasoline mileage. REO SALES MGR. TALKS ON WAR Tells of Relationship of Auto Industry to Present Conflict "Very properly the efforts of the entire automobile industry for the past twelve months have been con centrated on winning the war. Pro duction of automobiles—even auto mobile trucks—for ordinary com mercial and domestic purposes has ceased to be the paramount con cern of automobile manufacturers: >for the makers of motor cars have been too busy converting to govern ment uses the energy, the ingenuity, the resourcefulness and the efficiency which in the past two decades have enabled the automobile industry to revolutionize manufacturing methods and to develop quantity production to a point never before dreamed of," stated F. H. Akers, Sales Manager of the Reo Motor Car Company, in a recent interview. "This conversion of energy has taken many and divergent forms. Xot of the automobile factories are actually producing munitions of war; although the production of trucks for military service, of air plane engines, of anti-submarine craft, of artillery tractors and a thousand and one other things which the United States and her Allies need most urgently for direct use in winning the war is eiigaging a surprisingly large part of the pro ductive capacity of many of the big gest automobile factories in the country. ] "In view of the assistance which J the automobile industry* already has rendered the government in prepar ing to prosecute the war most effect ively—-particularly since this activity is being constantly increased—we shall not be acctised of sordid com mercialism or of a lack of patriot ism if, even at this time, we digress for the purpose of attempting to diagnose the future of this mam moth industry itself. For, while our present duty is to give ourselves whole-heartedly to the winning of the war the injunction 'ln time of I war prepare for peace' was never more clearly applicable than to-day. j "At the best, there is certain to ; be a period of sharp industrial and j commercial readjustment as soon as i hostilities shall cease; and it is equal jly certain that the necessity for i liquidating the enormous war debts i that are now being piled up will re ! suit in an international race for I comaieroial supremacy which will completely eclipse Germany's former j efforts to secure a 'place in the sun'. ! Consequently it behooves those of j us who are unwilling to see America I left at the barrier in this great race ' to see to it that as nearly as possible her commercial and industrial equil ibrium be maintained even at this time. j CI.E.IIEXCKAU VVISITS FRONT By Associated Press. Pari*, April 13.—Premier Clemen ceau spent Thursday and Friday on the battlefront, returning to Paris last night. He visited General Foch and Geenral Petain and the British trcops. MONUMENT FOR AVIATORS Fort Worth, Tex., April 13.—The ! British . government will erect a mon | ument here to the memory of the aviator cadets who were killed in 1 training. REPUTATION OF TIRES ESSENTIAL "What Is Back of the Name" Is Question Often Asked by Buyers "The reputation of an automobile tire is often times its best salesman" says V. W. Marker, the local dealer for Sterling tires and tubes, "take for instance, John Smith buys a tire, and it runs 10,000 miles. This is considered a good mileage and naturally John Smith tells Henry Jones #bout the wonderful perfor mance of the tire he is using. Henry Jones becomes Interested and.tells some one else what John Smith says and so on. The reputation of the tire in its best backing. If the tire should not haVq given Smith the mileage he was Expecting he would have had a different story to tell." "Sterling Tires have bany such promoters of their reputation. From all communities where Sterling tires are used comes stories of the large number of miles they have run. This mileage is what makes the low average cost of Sterling tires. Any tire that can give a good sized mileage, makes a reputation for itself. But it's the tire that can stand up to that reputation." "Not only are Sterling Tires back ed by their reputation but they are backed by one of the largest tire concerns of the country. Free repairs to all tires during their life is one of the guarantees of this company besides the regular 5,000 miles. These tires are so well made that the percentage of adjustments is so small that they are hardly notice able from a percentage standpoint." Cumberland Will Be Lively County Carlisle, Pa.. April 13.—Political interests in Cumberland county is booming with the near approach of the primary election, and unless some unforsecn contingency arises it is forecasted that Cumberland county will go Republican. This is shown by registration figures for three comparative years just com piled. The registration for 1915 showed 6,931 registered as Republicans. 6,570 Democrats. 24 7 Washington; 152 Socialist and 151 Prohibition, with a Republican majority of 361. in 1917 the registration was: Repub lican 6862; Democratic 6391; Wash ington 127: Socialist 112; Prohibi tion 132. This year the Republicans have jumped to 7230; Democrats have 6437; Washingtons 79; Social ists 124 and Prohibition 141. The majority on these figures for this year is 793, double what it was three years ago and 200 more than in 1917, when the majority was 571. Sproul and Beidlemen will prob ably be backed by the majority of Republicans although O'Xeil peti tions have been circulated by state employees. The Democratic organ ization will support Joseph E. Guf fey for the governorship and Con gressman J. Washington Logue, of Philadelphia, for lieutenant gover nor. In the Congressional fight Aaron S. Kreider, of Annville, will poll a big vote. William H. Goodyear, a prominent local shoe manufacturer, will prob ably be selected to succeed Edwin E. Barnitz, of Carlisle, who practices law in Harrisburg, as Democratic State Committeeman. Caleb S. Brin ton, former Carlisle postmaster, will be elected to the Republican stand ing committee. There are four Re publican legislative candidates. Rev. A. P. Stover, Carlisle; Walter X. Gemmil, Carlisle; William Bowman, Demoyne and Ross L. Beckley, Lower Allen. 200 Germans Attack U. S. Line; 20 Go Back Sen York, April 13.—A raid by a party of 200 Germans on a portion of American-held line, in which all but twenty of the attacking force were accounted for by the defending Americans, was described by Ray mond Starbard, an adjutant In the war work organization of the Salva tion Army, who arrived here yester day after having been within range of German artillery on the western front for seven months. In making a report to his head- Quarters here, Adjutant Starbard, whose home is at Worcester, Mass., said: "The raid occurred March 7. One German of the attacking party Uaped to an exposed position and in excellent English shouted, "Come on out, you American dogs, and fight!" Before he could leap back to safety, one of our men had thrown a hand grenade, which took off both his legs. Then ensued a fierce encounter, in which the Americans accounted for jSO of the Germans out of an origi nal 200 in the raiding group." Gradually the German fighting fcrces are becoming disabused of '.heir idea that the Americans are not 'scrappers," Adjutant Starbard de clared. Men of the Allied forces on the battlelines are conflfent of vic tory, he added. Lansing Tells Netherlands Ship Seizure Was Necessary Washington. April 13.—America's reply to the recent statement of the Netherlands government, bitterly protesting against and denouncing the action of the United States in taking over Dutch ships in its ports, was made public last night in the form of a memorandum by Secre tary Dansing .a copy of which has been sent to the Netherlands lega tion. Pointirug out that the Netherlands government itself does nqt question thelegality of the act, Mr. devotes himself to a demonstration that it was an act of necessity, re sulting from Germany's menacing attitude, which prevented Holland from fulfilling her engagements, and that instead of an injustice the step results in rleal benefit to the Dutch shipowners and people. Paducah, Ky., Told That Talk Must Be Loyal Paducah. Ky., April 13. —Notices promising to take summary action against persons who by word or act are guilty of disloyalty to the United States were found posted virtually all over Paducah yesterday morning. "Say what you want to," the no tices recite, "but unless it is pure United Slates your career will end miserably." The police say the notices were posted in such fashion as to indicate the wprk was the result of an or ganized effort. Kxcpet in one appar ently unimportant instance, no dis loyal utterances have been brought to the attention of the authorities. I Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator —Ad. MEN IN THE ARMY PREFER CADILLAC American Writes of Drivers' 1 Preference For This Make in Army Work In a letter to E. C. Howard, sales | manager of the Cadillac Motor Car I Company, W. G. Austin of Savannah, i Ga., who is in service in France, • comments at length on the popularity i of the Cadillac among the Army men \ who drive and use motor cars. "Wherever I go, to whatever j motor control," the letter says, "it! is the same story. Drivers who have; other cars assigned to them arc | envious of the fellow who has a | Cadillac. The drivers all ask for the j Cadillac. One driver who had one I informed me that it had gone 4 6.200 | miles since June, and in all that j time he hadn't touched it with any tool except his oil can and tire- i change tools. I investigated and found everywhere—among officers I and soldiers, French officers and j others—a preference for the Cad illac. "Don't imagine it is easy going over here because you used to hear that the French roads were perfect. They are £ar from good—and some ark even worse than that —due, of course, to heavy hauling and ex treme lack of labor for repair work." Brakes Form Important Part of Every Automobile Washington, April 13, —Uncle Sam I Is not overlooking the importance of efficiency from every angle in the J motor transport and ambulance di vision of the army. These machines \ must stand a wear and tear prob ably never given to motor driven i vehicles since their birth as an estab lished necessity in every day and international life. One of the most important factors entering into the final analysis of a motor truck ambulance, which will eventually see service "Some where in France," is in the esti mation of motor war officers, the efficiency of the brakes. The motors, especially the trucks, must travel a matter of hundreds of miles back and forth from the front amid the i most difficult surroundings. It has been stated on authority that for three hundred miles up and down the fighting front there is an al most continual stream of trucks, ambulances, couriers and motor cycles running in such close prox imity that unless the brakes are in perfect running order, hundreds of casualties would result almost daily. Brakes form only a background for their more important sister upon whom the real burden rests; that of the brake-lining itself. Thousands of miles of brake-lining are being used daily by the government and -I owing to this fact. Uncle Sam has j ordered tests to be made of the vari- ! ous makes. These tests are now going on in Washington. Lining made under the thermoid hydraulic-compressed process is said to be regarded as best adopted to military use in France, on account of its moisture and dust-resisting qualities. Ridding Tires of Gambling Element, Says F. C. Millhoff "By the gambling element in tires" | said F. C. Millhoff, Sales Manager of the Miller Rubber Company, Akron, t Ohio, before a, convention of lead ing dealers, "I, of course, mean tile j failure of two tires of the same I brand, for example, to render equal mileage. To make even more lucid. You buy two tires of the same kind. You put them on at the same time and subject them to equal wear and tear. What normally Is the result? There is a variance in mileage of possibly hundreds of miles. "Now mind you this difference in tires reputed to be good tires is not because of shoddy material. Good rubber and good fabric are procur able by all manufacturers. True not all manufacturers compound alike the rubber and moreover it is a fact that all do not pursue the same avenue in vulcanizing. But the fun damentals of tire making are gen erally pretty much the same. "Then what is it that brings about these variations of mileage in tires built side by side? It is simply this: The manufacturer may have driven out the mechanical variations but he has not eliminated the human variables. And as much of tiro building is handwork, variations in vital operations inevitably result in that much of a variance in mileage. And the less skilled the men doing the work, the wider the variance. Hence If uniformity in mileage must come, manifestly there must be uni formity in building. | What Is theaverage storekeeper's I I TT ib to five bit trade as much in the way of fair prices, quality, courtesy and delivery as he thinks he can afford. H d oe^?t C j™^^ V^t U t i a himaelf aa/torfyjt9Ss. foyfgsn'stonrfarrffypai Kvflf K3 I Special Deferred Payment Plan enables yoa to pay for U the Vim gradually out of lta airing! Andrew Kodmond, Distributor Sfe Both Phones HVIMI CONSERVING R. R. CAR EQUIPMENT Loading Two Oldsmobiles Where but One Was i Loaded Before I "One of the marvels of the auto- j mobile industry is the manner in j which it has solved knotty prob-1 i ! lems and found solutions to so many > seemingly unsurmountable diffi culties, says Mr. Barker of the Miller ; 'Auto Co., local distributors of Olds- i mobiles. "It has always had to! wrestle with new and unknown con- ! I ditions and has always found a way ■ out. "Being a new industry, there oft- ! times were no precedents for it to I j follow and it has been repeatedly j I obliged to devise ways and means ; Ito meet new conditions. Moreover, j | the demand for its product thrust' the industry at once into quantity j production and made necessary quick j decision. That is one of the reasons I why everybody has taken such an j Interest in the automobile business — ! they like to watch the fellows that ' do things. "The transportation problem has 1 always been lull of vexatious situ- ; ations and there seems to be no end j to them. But at no time have they ' been as serious as at present and j traffic managers of automobile con- | cerns are straining every resource , to move their product. "The rarest visitor to automobile j plants these days is the automobile j freight car that was built especially j to handle automobiles. They have, been diverted to move government I i supplies and the country's food pro-1 | ducts. Small boxcars, liat cars and , | similar equipment are being used, j j but there is not enough of them. "Who would ever think of loading J automobiles with their front ends j j sticKing up in the air? Vet that is i just what the Oidsmobile traffic de- l partment is doing. They take a Hat I car and build a heavy frame work around" it about 6 ft. high of 6x6 j timbers. There are heavy cross members at the top of this frame into which the front wheels of the automobile rest while the hind wheels rest on the lioor and carry most of the weight. "The Oidsmobile is then loaded under its own power, being drivou t up on skids at almost a 40 degree grade. When the front wheels drop into place, the car rests at an angle of about 33 degrees. It is then securely anchored and covered with heavy canvas. When the loading is completed, it looks something like four circus elephants standing with tlrfeir forelegs on one another's backs. "Obviously, a car must have power and stamina, and brakes must be absolutely dependable to load them in this manner. Labor is scarce and this operation takes four times as long .to load a machine as . ordinary loading. The material and ; lumber expense is considerable, but !it enables four machines to be shipped in the space formerly occupied by two. Certainly no in dustry is doing more to conserve railroad equipment." AIR MCEXSK BOARD NAMED WiixlilnKtoii, April 13.—The person nel of the joint Army and Navy board on aeronautic cognizance, to which private aviators must apply for license to fly over the United | States, in territorial waters, insular 1 possessions and the Panama Canal j Zone, was announced yesterdday. j Major-General George O. Squier, chief i signal officer of the Army, was des i ignated chairman. Don't envy your friends who , | have such bright, new looking brass beds, chandeliers, etc., in | their homes. At small cost we can replate and refinlsh your old pieces so they will defy the most critical examination —they will look like new. We replate gold and silver ware, also repair and refinlsh auto lamps, radiators, band in struments, etc. Ilarrisburg, Pa. , POTATC BCTTEK Potato butter is recommended by i | the British Ministry of Pood as a' cheap substitute for butter, beingi ' made in England at a cost of IASSI ! than 10 cents per pound, as follows; | | "Peel the potatoes and boil until; ! they fall to pieces and become lloury. | Then rub through a fine sieve into a' AMERICAN Six An "American" For Americans Designed, built and O. 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