The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 8, 1917, Page 4

| $985 re: F.O. BL Chicace Elgin Six “The Car of the Hour” Doesn’t Require an Expert instantly i nical The good points of the Elgin Six appeal to the man or woman without tech car knowledge. Just ride in an Elgin touring car or roadster, and you will realiz speed and comfort- and the more you know abo mobiles, the better you'll like the Elgin Six. aut Every detail in its construction meets squarely and satisfactorily every demand you will make upon it. The fashionable center cowl, combined with the true yacht line design, gives the Elgin Sixa distinction that sets it apert from common cars. This double cowl and the "V2type radiator are found in ne other car selling for leas than $1,250. Elgin Engineers have perfected an improved rear spring suspension, found only in the Elgin Six, which Eutisess check and ivibration te a peint net eurpeseed in eny car at any price, and sets a new standard of motoring @ase and comfort at high speeds. The last barrier to the safe and easy handling of a motor car by women is removed by the special con- struction of the Elgin velvet-acting clutch, which enables the driver to start the Elgin Six on high gear, and does away to a large degree with the necessity of gear shifting under ordinary conditions. Let us tell you about the new records made by c Six i ountry touring and how it has stood Elgin Motor Car Corporation, Chicage, U. 8. A. PACIFIC MOTORS, Ine. Immediate Deliveries East 587 $17 EAST PIKE East 587 MR. AND MRS. AUTO BUYER In and around Seattle we have some 2,500 “Metz” use. cars in daily Due to the fact that only six mechanics are required to keep 2,500 Metz cars in A No. 1 condition, proves that the Metz is the sturdiest car on the market. SIMPLICITY IS THE ANSWER NORTHWEST METZ CO. 1016 EAST PIKE ST. USED CAR BARGAINS 1917 STUDEBAKER nder, special price passenger that has on months. Loc 1917 STUDEBAKE Only $900 seven-passenger. near like a new OR POSSIBLY A NEW OAKLAND SIX $1045 F. O. B. SEATTLE uld suit you better WE SELL ON EASY TERMS AND KEEP OPEN NIGHTS AND SUNDAYS FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE Free Adjustment Service for a Year on all Oakland Sixes. EL TE LEE OE ES WASHINGTON QAKLAND Co. East 614 TWELFTH and E. PIKE STAR WANT ADS BRING RESULTS East 614 ssenger Touring 4-Passenger Roadster | * STAR—WEDNESDAY, AUG. 8, 1917. PAGE 4 View of the main garage floor of right, W. A W. A. Wallace, manager of the Central js now «nown as the “Marvel Man” of the row, for in Wallace sin his new hed a rec is seldow Agency, month that has ng bv » has service at {the one th of July 35 skill ed and turned Jobs a s equal to th PACE MAKER T0 RUN TO BORDER The Pacific Coast Defense league sent a “pace maker” car from Blaine, Wash, to the Mexican border, leaving Blaine Wednesday to make the trip without stoos except for meals and necessary repairs. The object of the trip Is to obtain information for the league as to mileage, running time from border to border and other data to be used In advancing the legislation which is now before congress to secure the construction of a military road on th coast. A le will be Mayor A, FE. Tod Governor Cantou, fornia, 1 the car Wallace, mechan service of ervice o! tt y a card bearing his ees and the serial num ar. fentification marks upon metal or wooden parts of the car may be removed or altered, but not so with those upon glass, which must be broken or removed. Hence, a car with a plain or broken giass would excite anuspicion. The glass plays bis part when he is hield giags to a rove ownership of seller asked to sell wi man who cannot e car for which the purchase in| _ HAS NEW PLAN 10 STOP THEFTS | According to Secretary C. C. Kilbury, of the Toledo Automo- bile club, all of the makers, seliers and buyers of motor cars, together with the coun- try'’s chemiste and sellers of windshield glasees, must com bine against the auto thief if motor car thievery is to be abolished. that calls for nat tion on the part of r terested in eliminating the car thief. pury’s idea im to al process, the serial num f the car and the name of the rs home town upon the wind 1 glass, and that each owner Ko nd over the state high between the mountains to From the latter ptace, tt 1 follow the Pacific highway to Mexico. An attempt will be made to se cure a record running time from der to border, and the car will go day and night. Expert drivers will pilot the car all the way, mak different stages place, by ing changes at the route F n, of the league, will acco pany the car all the way TIME ARRIVED FOR NATIONAL SYSTEM By United Press Leased Wire WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. & “Now that all states are equipped with state highway departments and have adopted the policy of b in state systema of matin, thru-line highways—because the Federal Aid Road act is on the tatute books—every condition {s favorable for the next and crown r t, the establishment of a na yutem of ways,” pre Chairman G c Diehl of the Good Roa of the Amer {can Automot sociation Saxon Again Cleans Up Economy Record George Farnsworth, of the Farns worth Motor Co., local distributers for the Saxon cara, Is excited thi week, again the popular little Saxon came to the front and established an average of 25.9 miles to a gallon of gasoline {n a 300-mile run. once Katherine Stinson Is Mitchell Owner Among the more recent people of prominence to join the ranks of Mitchell satisfied owners is Kath. ~lerl jtinson, the “little lady from Te who has thrilled thousands by her daring aerial feats, Wallace, “the marvel man” of the row. taken from | 4 *lfor five men were picked the § the new Central Agency. Extreme |the Ford Assembling plant here. “My long experience as foreman of the Ford Assembling plant here, together with an excellent crew of mechanics, coupled with the fact that in my new plant I have tn stalled everything that any place can have to spell speed end effi fency in service,” sald Wallace | when asked how he was able tol turn out the work He has just tnatalled a big 650- gallon gas tank and has gasoline iped to all parts of the building. Co, while that concern will occupy : the second floor and continue the distribution of the Scripps-Booth and Smith Forma trucks. | ere 3 ~~~ } To Race in Tacoma | The Tacoma Speedway asso: { {ation last week announced its } fon to hold another race on the afternoon of fe 3. The ansociation * good a meet as the Jul 4, and altho no 5 have as yet been do, have settled on two zo ona, one for 100 and the other atter r tawaite of the Pacific Kissel car|{ ‘° ° miles } | agency gets on terra firma he! BeSartntnhccRist Ati eee Sete | can't seem to resist “stepping on| = her,” as it were. BIOH ECU on the row a far and ney Old Judging by the way they got along the row by Uncle auto men will be well with the Sammies tn Farnsworth Motor must be a drafty place in that } establishment —-- | has been good with S for now he I laid up with the gout Rusiness {untoon BARGAINS 1916 Saxon— Only $300 All overhauled tn A No, as to take “Shanks’ mare” to go} 1 shape. to work, | | 1914 Metz Speedster $250 —Just the Iittle car you've been looking for. 1914 Metz Bug— $150 Taylor, of the Northwest if ompany, says he's the man taugh 1 to corn-cob pipe. Taylor ha his office last week #0 stror li he had to do was whist $175 would follow him all over in A No | shop. & cuckoo. 1916 Metz Roadster n't some one please take Jim the race demon and Parsons, Stutz | Harry D. Austin, of the Washing lton-Oakland company, has a car. Harry claims he grabbed a road ster out of the last shipment, as he was tired of walking and didn't need the exercise you want a bug, here's a real bargain. 1914 Metz Bug— | | mm Metz 1 shape—tt's L, R. Pittman, of the Pacific Mo- tors., Inc., aims the Elgin cars are juat good @ seller as the Elgin watch, and the rate they are soing, Pittman is not stringing me any at that equipped, in good Hlectrically all overhauled, condition. 1916 Metz Delivery $615 Slightly used as demon. strator; almost new Ford Factory Closes to Take Inventory The Ford factory in Detroit has been closed since the first of the month and will remain closed for a period of two weeks to take In- ventory and fix up a few new need 1915 Metz Roadster $300 In excellent shape. ed improvements, The Ford Assembling plant here ia also closed until August 13 In Jer to enlarge a couple of de men’ and also a chance » take an inventory of stock NEW AUTO FIRM TO | SELL HUPMOBILES | Last week heralded the birth of a new atitomobile organization in Se attle—the Sunset Motor Co, The ny Will eell Hupmobiles lace in Western Washing- ton The organization will be di rected and headed by G. BE. M Pratt and W. Grifford Jones The new company will occupy the| ground floor of the M. 8. Brigham Good Buys in Used Trucks PHONE EAST 558 for a demonstration of any of the trucks listed below; they are over- hauled and in the best of condition; the attachments are new and guaran- teed for ONE YEAR. 1917 Ford and Western truck attach- ment; complete with body 1914 Ford and Western truck attach- ment; complete with body.....$525 Studebaker, with two-ton attachment; price Maxwell one-ton truck.. Western Motor Sales Co. 904 EAST PIKE STREET Phone East 558 1915 Ford— 5-Passenger $250 Terms on All These Buys NORTHWEST METZ COMPANY Inc. 1016-18 East Pike St. new cor and © A Friendly Statement the 2= eee Fon Lumber Industry to Its Employes _AND THE——— Pacific Northwest People of the Mill operators are not opposed to an 8-hour day if National within the industry—if all producing regions are on the same working hour basis. Employers of mill and logging camp labor recognize the constantly in- creasing living problems of the wage earner. They will advance wages as conditions permit. advanced wages three times since the first of They have voluntarily this year and are today paying the highest wages in the lumber industry of this or any other country. A Regional Eight-Hour Day Would Be Ruinous Alike to Pacific Northwest Industry, Labor and Business IT IS A PROBLEM OF COMPETITION THAT ONLY BECOMES POSSIBLE TO CONSIDER IN CONNECTION WITH A NATIONAL- IZED 8-HOUR DAY FOR THE LUMBER INDUSTRY OF THE EN- TIRE UNITED STATES. Government records (report No. 114, page 8, United States Department of Agriculture) show 913 mills in the Pacific Northwest and 41,108 mills in the other lumber producing regions of the United States. The other 41,108 mills are working from 10 to 11 hours a day. They are paying less wages than the 913 mills of the Pacific Northwest. They are lo ed more advantageously as regards the country’s prin- cipal lumber-consuming markets than are the 913 mills of the Pacific Northwest. On account of the geographical handicap as regards the principal mar- kets, Pacific Northwest common lumber cannot now successfully com- pete east of the Missouri river with the forest products of other re- gions, From sixty to eighty per cent of a tree is common lumber. Why Pacific Northwest Lumber Markets Are Restricted The freight cost of princlpal competing woods to the Chicago market: Douglas fir from the Pacific Northwest......55¢ per 100 Ibs. Yellow pine from the South......... Northern pine.... -..25c per 100 Ibs. -..16c per 100 Ibs. Northern hemlock. ...cccscccccccscocces- 10 per 100 Ibs. The freight cost of competing woods to the Kansas City market: Douglas fir from the Pacific Northwest.....50c per Yellow pine from the South... Northern pine.....ccccee ° Northern hemlock .. freight cost of competing woods to the Douglas fir from the Pacific Northwest.....45c per Yellow pine from the South........ Northern pine..... Northern hemlock An “8-hour day and 10 hours’ pay” would weee25C per ewer erccccccene setae per 100 Ibs. 100 Ibs. 100 Ibs. 100 Ibs. Minneapolis market: 100 Ibs. 100 Ibs. «+-24c per ee e31C per «ee 7¢ per 100 Ibs. «+e 4¢ per 100 Ibs. increase the cost of pro- ducing lumber twenty-five per cent, thereby further restricting mar- kets, and restricted markets mean idle mills. An “8-hour day and 8 hours’ pay” the employer believes would be un- fair to the wage earner in that it would be asking him to accept a lower wage than he is now receiving—less money to live on in the face of fast advancing living costs which we all recognize. In the event of a National eight-hour day, which would equalize funda- mental competitive conditions, a re-adjustment of wages probably would take place, without adding disastrously to the already burdensome han- dicap under which Pacific Northwest mills are laboring in their effort to extend markets and place the industry on a permanently sound and prosperous basis. The Lumber Industry Is Not Prosperous Exclusive of the cost of stumpage and the cost of selling lumber, lum- ber producing costs, which were $10.21 per thousand feet board measure in 1913—the last normal year of the lumber to $14.59 today. be $17.43 per thousand feet board measure. THE AVERAGE SELLING PRICE TODAY industry—have increased On an 8-hour day at 10 hours’ pay these costs would IS FROM $13.50 TO $14.50 PER THOUSAND FEET BOARD MEASURE. Producing costs have advanced more rapidly than the market. Wages have increased 40 per cent since 1913. Other mill and camp costs show an average increase of 85 per cent since 191}. Salaries have advanced 15 per cent since 1913. Forty per cent of the mills which were operating in 1913 are now either in bankruptcy or have been liquidated by the courts. These are the facts concerning the lumber industry of the Pacific North- west. We suggest that every wage earner in the lumber industry and every citizen of the Pacific Northwest interested in knowing the truth about the industry which pays sixty per cent of all wages in Oregon and Washington read the United States government publication entitled, “Some Public and Economic Aspects of the Lumber Industry,” pub- lished by the United States Department of Agriculture January 24, 1917. This is on file in the public libraries or may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Washington, D. C. Printing Office, THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST LUMBER INDUSTRY