Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 25, 1915, Page 11

y # cared to join the pafty. | of the opportunity of seeing a Hupmobile 300 HUPPS USED BY ALLIES Armored Motor Cars Given Rough Usage in Reconnoitering Work by the Warriors TRIP MADE TO OPPOSING LINES The Hupp Motor Car company is just in receipt of a letter from John L. Poole, Hupmobile export manager at Parls, in which he tells of some of the terrible con- ditions under which' motor cars are ‘ forced to travel during war time Mr. Poole arrived In France shortly after the outbreak of the war. e im- mediately received a commission from the nu French government to construct a wer of special cquipped to carry a fourteen-millimeter mitrailleuse battery for rapid firework. The success of the Hupmobiles was so great that the military authorities placed an‘order for n large quantity. According to Poole there are now enarly 300 an-‘ mobfies In use with the allled arn “These armored Hupmobiles,” Puole from Paris, “are used prin for reconnoltering work. When a detach- ment wishea to find out just the exact position of the enemy on thelr front, one of the Hupmobile armored scout cars is put into commission. This car with a complement of three men officers in eharge, gunner and driver, make a hur- ried trip to the frort and reports condi- tione, ‘Again when it fe learned enemy has commenced forward movement, a number of Hup- mobiles are rushed out to cover the encmy's front and impede their advance until the treops ean be sent to the battle lines. Tt is In this last phase of the work that the stamina and speed of\ the Hup mobiles has proved to great advantage. “Not long ago when at Calais inspect- ing a squadgon of Hupmobilea, the com- that an aggressive mandant in charge notified me that one | of the cars was about to ‘make m trip to the cnemV's lines, and asked me if T 1 was very glad in action and we started out, The car, which was one of the special armored Hups, had its full complement of men, tofether with' a big supply of am- mution and extra petrol and oll, enough to 1ast the entire journey. Traverses Former Battlefleld. “The journey to Dunkirk was unevents ful for the rouds all along the way wero guarded hy' the Fremeh. . . Uppu-ledying Dunkirk we were forcéd te abandon the highW%ay and Rad: to cut across a field which. had lately been the scene of a big battle. To make matters worse a rain had set in which made the field well nigh impassable. “Deep ruts had been cut In the ground by the heavy artillery, the driver follow- ing thele as best he could. I thought we would' hever reach the end of this ter- rible figld, but the Hupmobile plowed through and at last reached good roads. “Earthworks were thrown up on efther side of the road that made driving very difficult. -But the driver paid no more attention than if they were not there. We sped-along ‘at forty miles an hour over ruts, railroad crossings, flonndered in mud up to the axles. “The drive back was made at night, with ‘onfy ‘the side lamps burning. It s impostible to describe the return trip. During the timé we were in the enemy’s torr'fofy’, we. hbd to go full speed mhead givd the enemy a chance to ugdder to think what would d%had an earthwork bsen W' Im front of us.” armored Flupmobiles | the | fAdvice on How to Get Automobile Out of Mudhole Tn the April fssue of the Packard mag eyposition tourists on how to get out of deep mud holes. It has been used by the Packard engineers in their cross |ccuntry testing trips. The method is a modification of the | Spanish windlass and may be fllustrated {by using some of the equipment found on |an-office desk |attach the other end to any fixed object In the real emergency the fixed onject is a ““dead man," consisting of a stick of timber buried in a trench dug at |right angles to the direction of the pull- ing effort. At a point half way between the paperweight and the ‘‘dead man' hold hold & pencil upright. Take a second pencil and loop your rope around ‘t and |turn on the first pencil as a windlass. At long > |once you'll find the paperweight moving aleng Just as your car will. You have a long lever and a short bight and the pull is territic. In actual usage two pieces of five-foot pips are substituted for the pencils. One may ‘be smaller than the other, so the pair will telescope when not in use. A length of strong line completes the outfit. Caution should be taken when using the pipés to see that the one which is stood |upright is not shoVed into the ground. It smust be free to move along with the winding up of the rope. {ILLITERACY IN ITALY IS | GREATEST AMONG FEMALES (Correspondence | of Associated Press.) ROME, April 17-Those who are try- ing to reduce illiteracy In Italy report | steady” progress. Since 1901 the propor- |tion of those who can neither read or write, out of every 100 population, has fallen from fifty-six to forty-three. The smallest proportion of illiterates by regional division is found in Piedmont, with 1.9 per cent, and the largest in Calabria and the islands, with 69 per cent. In Reggio Calabria province the percentage runs as higih as 70.6, The male illiterates are In all districts few than those of the other sex. En- couraging as the progress is, fears are expressed that the Kuropean war will detract somewhat from this important movement. BUICK PULLMAN IS THE LATEST WORD IN AUTOS The Bulck Pullman car is the achiévement of the Nebraska Buick Auto company. F. H. Barber of North Platte purchased a Buick six in which to make a trip to California this summer. Mr. Barber says he would much rather sleep in the car than in some of the hotels_he would encounter on the way, 50, by hinging the back of the ffont seat it can be dropped to the level of the seat and with an extra cushion he made to fit bet.wwn the back and front seats, which Tests on the two folding seats you have a Led which rivals that of the best hostelry between Omaha and the coast. After investigating all makes of cars My~ Barber found the Bulek six o be the best suited car for this purpose. — The Bee Want Ads Ave Best Business Boosters. azipe there appeared a bit of advice to| Take a paperweight and | visualize it as your car engulfed in a mud hole, Tie a plece of string to it and latest | 'WAR FOUGHT SAME OLD WAY :DExpens Declared Wars of Future | Would Be Different, but Present One is Much the Same. JBUT ONE POINT OF DIFFERENCE (Correspondence of the RERLIN, April 2. Assoclated Press.) The complete revi en experts did not in the least antie- ipate, are discussed by Major E. Moraht. retired, in a recently published article entitle The Length of Battles No longer ago than 1912, Major Moraht points out, General von Bernhardi, in “Time and Its Strategical and Tactical | Importance.” declared that “the battles lof the future need not be longer than | those of other European wars” and that one-day battles will be the rule, longer ones the exception General von Bernhardi's conclusions were based on studies of the Boer and Russo-Japanese wars, among others, and yet, within three years of thelr publica tion, Major Moraht shows, the predictions of the general have proved to be Wrong ‘We certalnly will not defend ourselves behind walls and trenches,” wrote Gen eral von Bernhardi, and yet “we have months,” says Major Moraht friends of the offensive—and what soldler is not its friend—it surely is painful that we no longer can ‘believe in a war of movement and operation befors we think of one of inaction.' “Wo must unlearn part of what we had been taught, and we must cling to the good old theories only in case it shall be proven that mistaken leadership led us to adopt the method of long-continued fighting in one position. The verdict is yot to come. It is not the duty of the present to render it, but of the future.” In declaring that the battle of the future would be only of a day's duration, Gen- eral von Bernhardl declared that the un- usual physical characteristics of the bat- tles in the Russo-Japanese war, taking place in difficult country and around for- tified places, made it no criterion for fu- ture conflicts. And yet, Major Moraht points out, trenches and the long-drawn- out battle have been the rule from the dunes of Flanders to the hills of the Champagne and the mountains In Car- pathia. As differentiated from former wars, Major Moraht declares, huge losses have not necessarily led to decisive victories or |defeats. Some ‘new impelling foree" seems to have entered all the conflicting | forces. The general, commenting on the methods of the Japanese in retreating when fire became too accurate and return- Ing to the attack later, predicted the same in the next future war. Yet, Major Moraht, the French have not lost nerve in the face of terrible losses, the | Germans do not lack it in bloody of. fensive and defensive movements and heavy sacrifices have not hindered the Russians nor stopped them from return- ing to the attack again and again. { INSURES AGAINST DAMAGE RESULTING FROM THE WAR (Correspondence of Assoclated Press.) BERLIN, April 17.—A company offer- ing Insurance against damage caused by the armies at war, in Luxemburg, is the newest outcome of the war.. Such organization, backed by Berlin capltal, of Luxemburg. It insures against fire and other destruction incident to the A 11UDSON $1550 F.O.B For ride of Light g In this latest ix type. 12,000 owners have proved +*'in motoring—that depends on fine engineerinig on free- dom from trouble, on lightness, economy and beauty. A New High Mark Hudson, Coffin has set a mew high mark The Light Six 7-Passenger Phaeton 3-Passenger Roadster For Pride’s Sake : Drive a Hudson This Year ownership, for this is the class car in the de in your judgment, because this car right. And for joy For pri Howard E. Last spring, in No Shortage Now to wait weeks for this Hudson HUDSON $1550 FORB thousands of men had There [ slon of many methods of warfare, which | been doing just that for more than six | “To all | says | has established headquarters in the eity | DAY BEE WAr, an pprising or g T |company will operate exclusively In Lux |emburg and will dissoive six months at [ter the war has ceased Hero Colony is the | Latest Suggestion | (Correspondence of the Associate | BERLIN, A Dr. ve | Hollweg, | Press) il 18 n Bethmann tmperial chancellor, is consider ng the feasibility of a suggestion for the | establishment of a “hero colony ' near the | famous old Pforta school In South Prus #la, of which he Is an alumnus, where | those maim ! crippled in the war | may take up t r life after it Is over | The originator of the tdea s Pau | Kersten, head of a big factory in Bad | Koesen. He be that there will be | { thousands of nobt and patriotic girle and widows of soldiers who, when peace is concluded, will be glad to marry the men who have been injured and who other | Wise would gravitate into soldiers’ homes. ) To prevent this is one of the principal {objects of the proposed plan. Kersten | feels that soldiers in such a situation £oon come to feel that they are uscless | land in the way, whereas they can con- | tinue a useful and happy existence if | they have their own homes and wives to | care for them Kersten belleves that the loss of an eye or a leg 1s not a defect that in any way |affects future generations. It injured ol |Ufers can marry and live in colonles in- |#tead of In homes by themselves, he | thinks that the birthrate will have some | of the increase that is to be necessary after the war. % {FUNERAL ABOUT TO BE HELD FOR A SON WHO IS ALIVE (Correspondence of Assoclated Press.) ESSEN, April ust as a family in the town of Werdohl was about to be. gin a funeral service for the son, who had been reported as killed in a battle in France, the postman arrived with a letter from the boy, written In a hospi tal In Toulan. His sight and hearing |had been partly destroyed by a bullet wound in the head, but otherwise he was well | The son’s estate had been paid to his | parents as final and uneauivocable proof of his death, whereupon they had made | preparations for a service to mourn him. WOMEN UNDER FORTY JOIN AUXILIARY GIRL SCOUTS (Correspondence of the Associated Prees.) LONDON, April 10.—Spinsters * grown | uneasy over the flight of time may tech nically remain girls by joining the auxil lary force of girl scouts now organizing, | which takes in women up to 40 years The hew contingent went into camp in | Essex during Easter week, with its own bugler to blow revellle, Lady Frederick, Mrs. H. B. Irving and other well. known women are patrons of the grown-up scouts, Simple drilling and | ritie some marching are compulsory, and mem- | are encouraged to learn the use of and revolver, signaling, scouting and map drawing. Drills are held twice weokly Other work In which the members spe- clalize are cooking, sewing and mending and foreign languages. There are no luss distinctions Read The Ree's “Rusiness Chances” and get into your own business MARAETHON “If a man builds a better mouse trap or writes a better book than his neighbor, though he makes his home in the wilder- ness the world will make a beaten track to his fl:l)or"—':tilx)ne worn osophy but hue.P We have proven it to our en- tire satisfaction—for the sales of Mara- thon Tires steadily increase, And This is Why They are built by han! of the finest ma- terials obtainable and by men who know how. You really should investigate. Akron-Marathon Rubber Co., o’-fih'fi%ofif‘n“fic MARASTHON | | | | | | 13—A Be Proud of the Car You Buy The Jeffery Light Four is your first oppor- tunity to buy a car for $1150 that you will always be proud of —a car that measures up to the standards set by the highest priced cars. Where other Light Fours leave off, Jeffery begins. Compared with any car in the same price class, using materials and equipment that are “good enouglx.." Jeffery pays the additional cost for the best. Motor Starter—$90 more than on other Light Fours, Ignition—$§15 more for Bosch. T ransmission—$35 more for four speeds. T $10 more for finish and materiala. U —$25 more for quality, leather and real curled bair. These are only a few points. They apply in equal proportion throughout Jeffery construc- tion. gn quality, beauty, workmanship, com- fort and economy Jeffery leads. gt Ay i 4 ?\ Priae ) P2 o Jeffery Jeffery Omaha Company 2056-58 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska | l | 4 designing. In this car he created the Light Six type—the dominant type of today. In this car he has brought out the final refinements, after four years of work. Here is the lightest 7T-passenger Six. Here is the car that stands out among all in its class for beauty, luxury, fin- ish and equipment. The Years at Stake Remember the years at stake the vears you will drive your new car, Any extra weight means a constant tax Any mistake in designing, any weakness or shortcoming means constant trouble and expense You know the Hudson is right. Any owner can tell you. And 12,000 own- ers have driven this Light Six some 30 million miles. This is the only model of this new-day type which has had time to prove itself faultless 2563-67 Farnam St., Guy L. Smith. will be delays this spring for late com- ers. They cannot be avoided. But our winter output and trebled capacity enable prompt delivery now. You can get the car you want without waiting. Come while this condition lasts This year there are many Light Sixes. Few are attempting to sell any- thing else above $1,100. But the de- mand for the Hudson is greater than when it stood alone. For Hudson was first. It has proved itself out. It s a Howard E. Coffin model. And our vears of start have given us time to bring out perfection in this type. You will prefer it for a hundred rea- sons which you can see yourself. We urge you to prove this now 7-Passenger Phaeton or 3-Passenger Roadster, $1550, f. 0. b. Detroit. HUDSON MOTOR CAR CO., Detroit, Mich, Hudson service adds another joy to motoring. It means constant satisfac- tion. We'll explain it when you come. Hall the Chalmers molded oval fenders conform- ing with exquisite harmony to the clean- cut sweep of the body lines. The doors are wide and flush-fitting, the running boards are clear. The tires are carried in the rear. THE lines of beauty are unmistakable whether in statue, painting, typography or a motor car. “Those things are beautiful which are completely adequate,” says John Ruskin. Its the complete adequacy of the Chalmers that makes it a beauty. The lines of the Chalmers car are such as to make them noteworthy even when con- trasted with finest foreign models. Their streamline bodies possess a dis- tinctive grace. There are no fenders built—whether flat or merely crown—that are as handsome as It is a woman’s car in beauty, a man’s in performance, a child’s in safety. But there is only one way to observe beauty and that is to observe it. We invite you here to observe: The Chalmers New Six-40, $1,400; Light Six-48, $1,650; Master Six-54, $2,400. IOWA John AM Fet Asl f . L o Willlam W. A . The Farra o1 plement Co. Putnam alyers & ety R c hek Mashe Fred Echt + Best . Andrews Auto Co. : Powers—Powers Garage all Seh: Rat! Tke Tiaden. Chauncey. . Automobile Co. ,Charles Monson. kle lex . . Bros. 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