The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 14, 1920, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT SER INCREASE IN AUTOMOBILE USE IN FUTURE Increases in Railroad Rates Will Have Marked Effect Dealers Believe EFFICIENCY PARAMOUNT Both Motor Truck for Shipments | and Passenger Cars for Pleasure Affected The automobile and motor truck is growing in importance every day all over the Missouri slope country. Instances of how much the gasoline) machine is being relied upon for the conduct of business is daily being evidenced. Salesmen are making tours by au- to, farmers are coming to town for hurry-up repair parts for harvest machinery, business men sre using the motor truck to make deliveries. The automobile is no longer a lux- ury—it is a vital part of the state's transportation system, in the opinion of dealers. The increase in railroad rates will greatly help the automobile business, in the opinion of business men. Many tests made in , the state to prove the practicability of using the motor truck for short hauls has been proved and the advance in freight rates will increase passenger auto- mobile use, A writer ‘in the New York Tribune sums up. the situation as follows: ; _ » Sees Big Boom. “Increases: in railroad rates ought to have a favorable effect on the sales of motor cars and motor trucks perhaps greater in the case of the latter. Where. formerly there was keen enough interest in the commer- cial vehicle for what it might be able to accomplish under conditions of labor strikes and shortage of equipment on the railroads, it is safe to say this interest will be redoubled with freight rates increased an aver- age of 35 per cent. “It will not be as a temporary substitute that the trucks will be called upon, but as.a regular unit of haulage for runs of greater or less length. ‘Long haul’ is going to be expeditiously solved in the fu- ture by means of the motor truck, as ‘short haul’ long since has been handled. “This will be the harvest season for those sellers of motor trucks who really know their job. If they can demonstrate costs of operation on a basis of real competition with the railroads they will win out. It will be an era of what some are fond of calling “brass tacks” salesman- ship. Taking the cost of the truck and the operating charges and stack- ing them up against the job when the railroad is asking 40 per cent more for the work than’ before ough: to make a simple set-up for the mo- tor truck. Goods Carried Direct The advantage, as a pure handling proposition, has always been with the truck. The goods being loaded direct to the vehicle and then carried to destination, for a single unloading. go through with less handling than if carried to the railroad, unloaded, loaded onto railway train, carried to the terminal, there unloaded into 4 warehouse and later packed onto some sort of vehicle and carried to destination. If ever anything was “inefficient” this repetition of handling is it. For Passenger Use . As for passenger cars, they should now, if ever, come into their own. An increase to 3.6 cents a mile, plus war tax and a surcharge of 50 per cent on Pullman. fares makes it cheaper for’a party to travel by motor. car to desti nation, if the object be tripping. But more than that, salesmen making a territory will now be better than ever able to allow economies in do- ing the job by motor car, if the prop- er type of automobile be used. The advantage has always been with the Corwin Motor Co., Bismarck, N. D., Gentlemen: good car yet. drive this car to the has an old car that ha owns an International. of spending it. PHONE 490. CO OO OO OOOO TT ’ MOTOR TRUCKS GIVE SERVICE THE NAME ON THE HOOD OF THE INTERNATIONAL Motor Truck means a lot of genuine satisfaction to the man who It means plenty of power, endurance, reserve strength, econ- , omy in operation, the kind of service a motor truck user wants and appreciates. It means that the man who buys an International Motor Truck invests his money instead LAHR MOTOR SALES CO. DISTRIBUTORS’ Bismarck, N. D. BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE 3442 Miles 25 Men fl 27.2 Miles Per Gallon : STOCK OVERLAND crossed the U.S. A. in 179 ° 300 4th St. automobile “for salesman anyway. They are made independent of rai!- road schedules, they save taxi hire ir the towns and cities (if they make their calls ‘by streetcar or trolley they waste time hugely, and they can manage more calls in a day. There is an awful lot of time that is frittered away waiting for trains, and, more than that, salesmen are left marooned by “accommodation schedules” who could be on their way to the next place if they were motor- ing. The sort of weather that stops a car from going on its way is very apt to have the same effect on trains. It has often been a source of sur- prise to the writer: how completely a train can be pnt off schedule by ex- treme cold, high winds and rain storms, not to mention, snow storms or blizzard sweather. ‘There“isn’t any overwhelming advantage in favor of the vehicle .on: rails, and, in fact, very often an adtomobile will pull through where trains are blocked. : But, as has been said, it is not alone for the strict commercial pur- poses that the automobile is to have anew birth. The man who wants to make a trip with his family will find the motor car is far cheaper than the trains, with the high charges that have just been approved. He will see the country and see it better by automobile. He will learn more about his fellow citizens and he will get to know more about his'car and its equipment. He will have a more enjoyable trip and it won’t cost him any more—if as much.” | MRS. BENSON'IS , GETTING BETTER Mrs. Ben Benson is making good progress at St. Alexius hospital. The doctors in charge of the case stated this afternoon that she was getting along fine, although it is yet too early to set any date for her complete recovery. In the City. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dahlgren, chiet of police at Fargo, was in the city a motor trip to Warm Springs, Mont. Old Resident Back. Mrs. Mathew Baker, of St. Paul, an old resident of Bismarck, was in the city yesterday visiting friends. NO DANCE tonight at Schebler’s Farm on account road work. ONE OF MANY SUCH LETTERS McKenzie, N. D., I see by the Bismarck Tribune where a gentleman has run a new car he bought up there from another dealer a bit over two thousand miles, and is bragging about its wonderful record. You might be interested in hearing about the record made by our Oakland Six. We bought this car in 1916, sec- ond-hand. Today the speedometer shows 89,551 miles, We have always averaged around 22 miles to a gallon of gas around home, and on a trip we will get as high as 26 miles. Pacific coast this fall. s a better record or repu Yours very truly, 1921 MODEL OAKLANDS ARE HERE CORWIN AGTGR Ca. If anybody in North Dakota ‘ tation than our Oakland Six, we would like to hear from them, as the Belk family drive their cars hard and certainly know how much service. to expect. ~ OAUEOAUSOSUUUAKUGENGAAU annuus cece atennecasno secant = ee : Overwhelming proof of Overland nimble stamina and = : ' extraordinary economy due to light weight alloy steels PROVES :.HIS OWN | Half-hose to Be dT; 3 s BY Ss = : 'GERM THEORY BUT || Style, Makers Say an riplex’oprings. LOSES HIS LIFE Nene cane itm Touring, $985; Roadster, $985; Coupe, $1525; Sedan, $1575: a | Philadelphia," Atig. 14—Dr. George Sei aaa an blue fo chan spone yy Paiges;£. 0. b. Toledo, subject to change without, notice \f . Heist of Germantown, who died Sunday night in the Jewish Hospital, proved his theory of germ culture at the cost of his life, according to Dr. Myer Solis-Cohen. ! Dr. Solis-Cohen was with Dr. Heis!j two hours before his death. At that time Dr. Heist was weak from ill-| ness, but, still retaining possessioa of his faculties, he said to his asso- ciate: | “My condition proves my conten- | tion: I am highly susceptible to epi- demia cerebro-spinal meningitis, as my early experiments led me to -be- lieve. I\am unable to throw off.the disease.” INDEPENDENTS TO RUN AGAIN Independent candidates for legisla- tive nomination in the 26th distric —McKee, Baumgartner and Gal breath—will be | pitted against the league candidates again in the fall, it. is stated in word received here. Petitions are now being circulated to make them. candidates as indepen- dents. The petitions require. but 13 Percent of. the vote for congressman at the last election. Emmans and Kidder counties are in the 26th leg-! islative district. Service If your starting battery is beyond repair we tell you so. Tf, on the other-hand, an exami- nation shows that it would pa you to have it repaired, we mall give you a first-class job and the ‘same ‘attention that you would re- ceive if you were buving a new battery: if ELECTRIC SERVICE & TIRE COMPANY / a ae Aug. 10, 1920. and she is a mighty We are going to W. P. BELK. hours. Averaged 27.2 miles per gallon. It was driven night and day over every kind of road by 25 different drivers who never before saw the car. was announced today that owing to the high. price of materials half hose for women will be fea- tured on the market instead of the regulation silk stockings. WOMEN ENDORSE BONUS PLATFORM St. Lawrence tidewater project were | nual convention of the organization Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 14—Res-| adopted by the women of the North] which closed here Thursday night. olutions favoring the Great Lakes- | Dakota Service Star legion at the an-,; The women also endorsed the four- Lahr Motor Sales Co. 300 4th St. North point plan for service men’s compen- sation favored by the American Le- gion. oon The Fordson Tractor was made to meet the demands and necessities of the every-day American farmer. It was made with the thought that it was the necessity of the man of forty acres as well as the man with one thousand acres. It was made not only for plowing, harrrowing, dicing, drilling, seeding, mowing, reaping, and all afher work on. the farm where power is necessary, but it was made to bring conveniences to the farmer's home as well as for the cultivation of his fields. It was made to furnish power for the cream separator, silo filling, cutting feed, saw- ing wood, furnishing power for milking, washing, supplying the house with running water, electric lights, and the hundred and one things on the farm. It was made to do all this economically and in a reliable way. It was made to be the servant on the farm. And it has hot failed in any of the expectations had for.it. It has been tested as,no other Tractor has been tested. It has been proven reliable and can furnish proofs impossible to any other Tractor. Therefore, the’'Fordson Tractor can meet al] the conditions of your farm. When you buy a Fordson, you are not buy- ing any. experiment—your are buying a ‘servant ahd a:mioneymaker that you can depend upon, absolutely. from the first day you put it to work. It is easy to.understand, It possesses all the power you want. It is simple in control. It is more flexible than you imagine. It will help you till every foot of ground you have, and every day in the year you will find use for it-in doing the hundred and one things on the farm. It is renowned for its dependable service and the wide variety of-work it can do. |! : : We'd like every farmer who reads this, if he hasn’t a Fordson Tractor already, to come to us and let us sell him one. Let ‘us demonstrate its powers, its values, on your own farm. Let’s get into details—power, reliability, economy. While the sale of a Tractor gives us a small profit, the purchase of a Tractor to the farmer means a money-making servant every day for years. So the sale ; E £ -of a Fordson means more to the purchaser than it does to us. We are arguing for your good, Mr. Farmer. Come in and talk it over. Your time against ours. It is worth it. ag And remember, when you buy a Fordson Tractor, we are right here to keep that Tractor in reliable running condition every day. You won’t have to wait if anything should get out of order. We are right here to keep it right, because one of the conditions of the Fordson dealer is that he must keep on hand always a complete supply of parts. This is a guarantee we don’t believe you can get with any other farm Tractor. Come in. Let’s talk it THE DAKOTA MOTOR COMPANY Ok: