The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 29, 1919, Page 23

br FRIDAY, AUGUST 29,. 1919. Major E. M. Lat iy: Joins: Caravan’... ——— The National Motor .Truck Develop- scent Tour has attracted so large a sharé of attention of the motor trick world, and has now. become ‘so. much’ Bigger than at first anticipat- ed'that'the United Sates army mot transportation corps has. taken of cial ‘eognizance of the affair by de- tailing Major E. M. Lubeck to of- fieally join the caravan. ti ‘Major Lubeck joined: the, party this ‘morning at/; Jamestown, where he‘was met by A. R. Kroh, who is in charge of the tour. In the motor trans- port’ service of the government :the operation of motor trucks has in’many izstances been very difficult ‘because @# thei Hmitations that the solid tire equipment have placed on their. move- ment: “Phe success of the present motor trvckt:tour on pneumatics through the great. gtain raising northwest has led Major ‘Lubeck to.comé here to offi- elalig” observe the: many advantages that: wotor trucks.so equipped have aver the slow moving trucks that have greatly: (predominated in numbers in army ‘transport. a 1 HMe‘'stated this morning that it was his‘intention to stay with the caravan untfh ittireaches Minneapolis on Sept. 24, and@that personally he was very muth pleased to join the party, antic- ipating: a pleasurable and profitable dt ig expected that Major Lubeck wily spéak at the big truck demon- strhtion which has been arranged by the local committee for Saturday. Motor Trucks to Play Prominent Part:in Reduction of H.C. of L. by: Cutting Transportation Cost Vy (Continued from page 17) “There is an advantage in this ‘road- side marketing’ quite apart from its economy. It builds up social. tinter- cdtirsd between the city: and the farm whichhKelps to break. down: the -old barrier that separates them. The farm- @r would. get. more for his wares; the doustmier would: get them for less. +:“Jbabor. unions, chambers of .com- ragree,. churches, community _ centers, ‘women‘s‘clubs, and many other similar organisations could take advantage of titis pin most: successfully to reduce tigi edst: of living’ immediately.” t The Highways Transport committee is\now?making a complete’ survey; of the'jmotor. truck: service distriet; officers of-the .Council;of Na- tfotial‘Defense have béen’ asked: to“put the. committee ‘in touch’ wit ations in the United’ States, where ade- Guiite facilities“ are lacking .for the transporting: of farm. products. -« Franeportation” Lack Cavees Loss of ‘Food. Many‘ communities which, have been Wving ‘ini hopes of getting rail” trans- ts now. find that the railroads atewmable ‘to extend: their’ lines, the eommittee finds, - and thousands of tons.6f foodstuffs are going to waste Because’ they: cannot reach a market, ‘Leads which have been formerly cul- thrated-have been abandoned because of the‘difficulty in marketing produce. Tw Union county, Ark., for example, Aundreds of bales of cotton are lying da’ -the “ground ‘without protection be- e@uuse the community is without trans- portation. Each congressman is being asked to wiake a survey of the transportation needs of his own district, either thru & committee or through the press. ‘When the surveys are..completed the comatittee will try to help there djs- tribts. to get motor truck service. “Phe ‘entire transportation problem,” says’ the committee, in. its letter to members of congress, “is of such a seriousmature that it is the belief of this committee that instead: of dupli- cating: transportation and taking ton- mage’ away from the railroads and efectric ‘lines, the: motor truck must be utilied . greatly to increase. tonnage amd to assist the railroads and water- ways in making complete - delivery.” ‘he ‘time of year has arrived, Sec- retary Reid pointed’ out, when great wastages of fall crops may be expected wiiless) Means are found of getting tiem: to market. MOTOR TRUCK IS _ QOUNTED ON TO CUT FOOD COSTS (Continued’ from page 17) °° * “ There have been many instances of farmeva selling. tomatoes at sixty ddntw: a:bushel, while the storekeeper ig selling them jo you and me for $3. The:same general inflation of values ‘between producer and consumer throughout |; tie eountry.: Members of congress: and |' & oe | MALDEN, MASS.—Elmer G. Sweezey lost his legs 11 years ago in_an accident. But he drives an automobile with the ease of a man ‘who has those members. _ Sweezey’s limbs were cut off -between the hips and the knees. Artificial feet with extension heels controlled by muscular action haye been, fitted and. special plates on brakes, clutch and reverses ‘pedals enable him to handle his car without trouble. IT HAPPENED: THIS WAY |. AN. OBJECT LESSON TO. CARELESS AUTO DRIVERS The driver may have “spotted a peach,” but that fact didn’t excuse him for taking his eyes off the-road and running down the small boy on. the.wheel. Commonsense driving would have avoided this accident. : IT HAPPENED THIS WAY AN OBJECT LESSON TO CARELESS AUTO DRIVERS et Some drivers think the streets-are made solely for them. They seem wholly ignorant of the fact that the man on foot has the right of: way at street crossings. This time the pedestrian has jumped back just in time to save himself—and to save the motorist déems.to apply in most items that go. make up our daily meals, * Sit. was not very long ago that the mayor of Indianapolis bought pota- toés! from a jobber in a town abaut 100 oriles from his city for fifty cents and sdld them to the people of Indian- apdlisi at seventy-five cents. At the same: time potatoes were selling through regular channels for $2. The mayor handled the sale at a cost of twemty-five cents a bushel. The farm- er:tiad received forty. In other-words, the jobber, the commission hous¢.and the. retailer were receiving $1.60.0n eaeh.:dushel of potatoes for transpor- tatiom and their share of the profit. o1 Motor Truck The Solution “It, looks to (he Firestone Ship by Truc bureau as if the solution of thigévery: vital problem lies in the matoy truck and ‘the development of good roads. If the farmer could put hig::bushel of tomatoes, or potatoes or-ether products of bis labor and his. fields.on.a motor truck, which would @rive. upto, his door every morning, fend: this motor, truck..were, to deliver direet to the consumers, the, farmer would. beable, without serious danger fo his eanscience, to charge us one oF two dollars, for hauling that. bushel of feod:to our: doors. , Doesn't. this sound ifPke <railvoads handle::their .ship- ments. in just about the same manner, setae. as..pesnits are: concerned, as from a damage suit. It’s such drivers that make the man who must walk hate the motorist. a handles our food. They have a lot of| they have plenty of lubrication. Be short and -expensive branch lines|'sure that the pistons can be removed which it costs them considerable} and put back in place without trouble money to operate, since there is not{and without unnecessary liability of enough business to keep them busy | fracturing the rings. 3 continuously and since there is a ne-| If the valves are contained in the cessity of transfering the shipments| head, the. valve chambers or eylin- from. one line to. another and from| der head must be so that they can be one car to another. examined and the. valves “If the motor trucks operating on| without trouble. the route Ihave already mentioned| the valves must be such that they were to haul shipments over good| will freely turn on their stems for re- roads to the main—and paying—lines | grinding without having to tear the of the railroads, the branch line busi-| whole machine apart. The valve-op- ness could be done away with. The] erating mechanism must not be com- loss it represents would go toward| plicated and ust be strong and easy decreasing freight rates on the main|to examine. It must be so construct- lines. The ultimate consumer should| ed and arranged that it can be taken benefit. apart and put back together without “Ship by truck as advocated by the| difcfiulty by any good machinist, al- Firestone Ship by Truck bureau would| though he may never have viewed the remedy a lot of things that are caus-| engine before. ing a great deal of. worrk and argu-| The governor and valve mechanism ment today.” must be durable and well shaped, —— with plenty of bearing surface. The ENGINES SHOULD steel parts must be hardened wher- BE STUDIED WITH ever wear-is to be resisted. Avoid a VIEW TO ABILITY governor which is very cheap and simple in principle for it is apt to cause trouble and get out of order in —— practice. When selecting an engine (Continued from page 17) shun rods and shafts which are se . BISMARCK: DAILY. TRIBUNE Wi phe Ces | Wee simttar, parts ought to be hardened to Tho mechanism: ot}: at withstand ‘wear. -and. tear. “Springs should “be manufactured of: steel’ of ‘the right size ‘and should be -well: de- signed. - Springs which are weak, or made of very thin steel. or, fine wire, brass springs and springs .which are not well faatened, ta the. parts, which they, govern should not be employed. A gas or gasoline engine which: is well designed, made of good materials and ‘by, first-class workmen will (run for .& long, ‘time without .causing trouble. . The \importance of, owning a standardized engine is. fully appre- ‘elated -when repairs. are needed. De- laya.in waiting for repair’ parts gen- erally. prove ‘costly, so that, repair parts should, be obtained. at’ conyen- fent points and within a few, hours of the place where the engine Js loeated. It shoutd: be, borne in-mind that the. actual power that the engine will pro- duce is ‘not: always ‘correctly based on its vated ‘horsepower. There are said to be nunterows gas engines for sale with a, five. horsepower rating which | will pearcely produce five horsepower | under normal working conditions. On tho other hand, there dre engines con- structed. by,.dependable manufactur- ers, Which. will: ,, constantly. deliver fully {20 nercent., more than: tlteir given rating... The safets method of procedure for the purchaser. to fol- tow if he ig uncertain of the maximum power to be secured from an engine is to. secure,, proofs of the actual brakehorsepower of,.the engine. FRAZIER FEARS WATERS WANTS ARE T00 LARGE Governor Lets It Be Known That State Is Hesitating About Raising Jim Governor Frazier today admitted that the state is debating as to whether it can'-afford ‘to give James R. Waters, manager of the Bank of | North Dakota, as much. money as it is paying F. W. Cathro, director gen- eral of that institution, Cathro;. former Bottineaw banker, is getting $12,000 per amum. Waters, whe resigned. the post of state examiner to become, manager of tie. bank, gets $5,000, Waters ts. the nominal, head of the institution and Cathro is presumably a subordinate, but he gets. $7,000 per annum more than his boss, His boss has ‘kicked for a raise, and Governor Frasier.says the state is “thinking about it.”” Townley: press during the absence of Mr. Waters, who'’has, for some days in_ Towa. Handed, Major Jima jolt ‘in resolutions expressing. disapproval. of a “Sisal Trust” proposition in which. Waters has. tied up with Job Brinton, and déclaring that he should either give up his job as manager. of the Bank sideline. [ASSESSED ABOUT $886,304,62.00 Probability Is That Soil Will Be >, Boosted Over Billion Mark . by Wallace, The assessed: valuation of North Da- kota farm lands as returned by the county boards to the state board of equalization is $886,304,622, . as com- pared with $221,459,525 last year. The average acre assessment is $21.05 as compared with $5.48'a year ago. Farm lands generally have been boosted al- most, 400 percent. Tax. Commissioner Wallace insists they ,haye, not. been booste enough. He would have a. still further, increase of 20 percent, which would place North Dakota farm land yelues. well over the. billion mark. Personal property, goods, .merchan- dise, jewelry, bank . stock, ete. is valued at $136,290,908, City lots and improvements on city’ lots and farm lands one year ago,.were valued for assessment nt $257,377,813. The same Froperty is held this year to be worth $982,616,379. Everything in the state except the railways has been kited from 400 to 500. percent; Railways have been let off with a.less than 300 percent increase in their assessed val- uation. As things now stand, they will be taxed on $218,967,438, The total value of the three classes of property named wiil be, for taxation purposes, $1,337,874,’ A flour-mill levy would produce $5,551.498, which is more than three times as much as North Da- kota required Jast year. DICKINSON LAUDS -BISMARCK PAVING PROJECTS HIGHLY Secretary Keniston of Commer- _¢iat Club Says Citizens There , Praise Improvements George N. Keniston, secretary of the Commercial club, returned last night from Dickinson where he went on mat- ters connected with the Roosevelt Memorial association of which he is state campaign director. Mr. Keniston said that the citzens ot the western city are praising Bis- marck for the large amount of civic improvement now being dene here. They hope to follow Bismarck’s lead in the matter of street paving and home and business buitding. The horse sale at Dickinson, which is. completed. today, has been a great stecess and was Well attended, accord- ing .to Mr. .Keniston. More than 100 buyers from all over the country, the “Frazier tipped off this fact to the} past. been visiing his boyhood home| ~ Likewise, : the.. state banking . board} of North Dakota os cut out the sisal} FARM LANDS NOW ONE-ARMED MAN PROVING TO BE H. .C. Luckett Pilots Master . Truck Over, 3,000 Miles. of Country Highways ‘A man with only one arm is turn- ing. out to be one of the ‘best truck drivers in the motor truck develop- ment tour which is stopping here to draw its breath before completing the remaining half of its 2,000-mile tour. H.-C. Luckett ig the. man and he drives. 9, Master truck fitted up with |a@ great number of exclusive features particularly helpful, to the farmer. | There was some doubt when the tour started from Chicago a month, ago whether Luckett would be, able to keép up with the schedule..inasmuch as he had only one-half the arm abil- ity.of the other drivers, and arm abil- ity is of great importance in driving a truek on this tour, The Master. truck that Luckett} drives hag a power takeoff running directly frem the moter by a belt geared through sprockets and chain which enables the farmer to hitch any, of tye farm machinery that re- quire outside. power and perform its duties.; The rear wheel is equipped with nigger heads, the only truck in the tour so fitted which enables the driver to hitch a rope to it when stuck and pull it out of almost any kind of a hole where traction is poor. A spring draw bar is fitted to the rear part of the truck by which trail- ers and other wheel wagons can ‘be pulled ‘without any difficulty. Luckett is the admiration of the entire truck touring party and every- body is positive that he will finish the tour just as easily as those driv- capped. FIRST MORTGAGE ISSUED BY STATE BANK FILED The first mortgage deed ever regis- tered in Burleigh county by the bank o* North Dakota was. filed yesterday in the office of register of deeds G. J, Keenan. ‘Fhe mortgage was made by Mr. and Mrs.- James Wiley Pauley to the man- ers. who are not so seriously, handi- | rhip 140, range 77, for the sum of $6,000, It is said that the state bank’s mortgage resembles very closely the form. followed by the federal land bank, It bears 6 per cent Interest and another one percent is applied to the prinelpal making a total. of 7 percent on. the loan, The principal is reduced by the payment of $420 annually un- th 1940 when the mortgagees agree to pay $1676.51, It is interesting to note that the mortgages are all made payaby to the manager of the bank and not to the bank itself. Sctentists have found that the eye- sight of savages is not superior to that of civitized white men, AMERICAN DENTISTS .ABE POPULAR Cetinje—American dentists are the most popular men in Montenegro, For- merly: blacksmiths did the dental op- erations and getting the troublesome tooth by pulling two or three was considered a good: score, GIRL SWIMMER IS CHAMP Spokane, Wesh,, Aug. 29.—Bertha Keller, girl swimmer, has been declar- ed an amateur by the Pacifie North- west association of the Amateur Ath- letic union. The young woman had been employed as a life guard at the University club tank in this. city, for which eived a compensation. The Best Wyoming Coal, All Large Lump or Egg For Sale by All Leading Dealers in North Dakota ASK YOUR DEALER FOR IT R.J. JOHANNES & CO. General Sa BILLINGS, © i ager of tlie Bank of North Dakota and covers 640 acres in section 15, town- les Agents MONTANA majority from Southern . states, have been bidding on the 500 and more sesses removable liners, which may|cured by blind taper pins or by set be easily replaced and manufactured | screws. of the right kind of materials and that Cams, cam rolls, roller ping and|paid for the stock, horses that. have been offered: for-sale. It is understood that good prices were Do You Know Your Own Business ? If you own shares ina business do ‘you want a Government employe to tell your executives how to run your business? If you are a loyal employe, do you want a political appointee to have the power to injure your. concern by hamper- ing its operations or by interfering with its efficiency? Perhaps you have noticed the effect of Government control on the railroads, telegraph, and telephone. Bills have been introduced to license and regulate the. packing industry— perhaps your business wil! be next. You would probably dislike to have this happen to your: business even more than you would dislike to have your daily supply of meat interfered with. THIS SHOWS ‘J RECEIVED BY ‘AND BY PRODUCTS LIVE ANIMAL, EXPENSES AND FREIGI AS PROFIT Se Ft WHAT BECOMES OF S\ fF THE AVERAGE DOLLAR \ ‘SWIFT & COMPANY FROM THE SALE OF MEAT 85 CENTS 1S PAID FOR THE 12,96 CENTS FOR LABOR 2.06 CENTS REMAINS WITH j SWIFT & COMPANY 7 President, MT