The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 3, 1919, Page 11

comRENER IT: Faciaeteaneren merece sd 9 Use Ise of 1 rucks sin Farm Regions A NEW KLEIBER JOB THAT'S A HEAVY “HAULER H ‘ed Food Probl as Solved Food Problems ; | Good Roads and Motor Equipment Have Proved That the} Farmer Can Get His Crops to Market With Avoidance of Loss, and Aid Him in Securing Necessary Supplies. ’ (How to Develop a Highway Transport Business Will Appear in Next | Saturday's Automobile Section) (Spe ul to The Star) 7 BY WARREN B BULLOCK Unele Sam, thru the department of (Formerly Captain, Motor Transport (agriculture, haw gone into this prob: Corps, U. 8 AD em in @ special pamphiot recently | % t o. | inmued, nad has taken u arious | 7 oblem of me wy a v t 2 Up variow i lay vellaves tee farm pre collec: | Phases of this problem in an extend. tion and transport to the and, | ©d form. on the o hand, for t fon} It must be recog «l, however, | of city shipments fe armer, | the start, that the congentration of and their distr is one whieh | collections [ys vital to a successful | fa still in its ney, With a com-|rural freight traffic, The vatue of | paratively small v of specific | the truck is too great to allow of its cost information as tos | time to be wasted by frequent stops methods of ™ ng the problem of en route, and farmers along the line | how best to ge o re tesired of such a com must co-operate | The first exvential In @ rural trans. | to simplify th etion and distri | : to gain time over the | bUtion system, or the value of a mo-| . to port system ie to fa t det ‘ F, 8 Batenburg of the ¥ « company recently turned this sy Bhipment by the old route by wagon, | (orlwed a 0 at voted ia npalred | tne Bekina Moving and Storag and it's been busy ever since, bauling the household goods of Seattle ee ih ebientral @ » the slow point involved in the op: [the Be Stine pete by wagon, and f eration of the rural mails, where ane | Peer! ing by rail 1e elemer carrier takes a day to make his | GEA Te tee wetution of this 5 ne even with a Hight, fast ma-| ing thetr own sh the vil MEET ROVES RUINS Ges the reset exprees, cam: (chin i tar wong ond over (UNITED STATES HAS |) ‘ iE t Tv t 7 > nish the vanies which have tried the system) The value of the hishway trans-|to (he transport trucks to finish t A UC CESS et stopping at every farme port method to the farmer, however, | Job || ONE AUTO TO EVERY Suu » What he has and t ore Size of Packages | — i Ho co tes city have falted t ‘oa phietee OE dks Menadienios Sebeer |: Gide, ae aocrén apeiee chuetiy| EIGHTEEN PERSONS |} veactor i:xhinition at Walla Walla| on to the city have failed to ne NuMber of suc panies be : uurse, applies chic “ agentes the best kind of a finan «i, and which are operating suc:|to the shipment of produce when T latest automobile sow | al : Com pie and Rither they have not saved t essfully, Iti perhaps significant in small packai and in mince! shears that there ts on motor Many Models Are on Exhibition desired, or the profit to the oper: that the greatest increase is shdWn | laneous shipments, like a few cases | Vehicle for every ypobpesy cape e we iihas pat come up to expectations, along the routes where there are of eggs, or the shipment of a part United States, the registra- 1) “The chap that named Walla Wal or the cost of service to the farmer many villages and small towns, Here | joad of milk cans, The truck serv tion figures r the Bi pring la either had @ bad spell of stuttering has not been as low as he expected. the problem is reduced to thatot the ice to handle large loads may states totaling some 945.0 Jor else he thBught so well of it that | buying for them, making the ship cont [ments to the farmers, and charg ing @ small commission for doing | m this purchasing, in addition to the (Copyright, Joost of transporting the purchases THE GENERAL tonnage, and thus balance the it delays en route when this bust is not handled as a specialty. | 1919, by Warren B Buttock.) NATION-WIDE reputation for qual- ity—quality measured by your speed- ometer, that enables the General Tire to sur- pass by far the average of tire service. LIGHT-SIX The remarkable ease with which it holds the road and travels mile after mile without vibration of effort, is only one among the big features of the New Studebaker Light-Six. 4 You can drive it all day without fatigae, And so can your wife | 3 or daughter. Its sure starter, the responsiveness of fle motor, | the convenient controls, the short turning radius, the irreversible steering gear and the quick-acting brakes all contribute to make this a delightful car to drive. 4 Its mechanism is simple, accessible, practically trouble-proof, easily cared-for. It’s a beautiful car to look at; a most saus- The ability of the General Tire to stand up and deliver unusual mileage does not mean one or two instances only of excep- tional service, but unusual mileage from every General Tire, consistently, / ALLEN GENERAL TIRE & RUBBER CO. 1427 Broadway East 1660 We retread tires—and guarantee our work All tire repairs by real tire men. ly Built Tire; ap Su Bik of Best Materials Guaranteed in Writing Large Sizes—6,000 Miles Small Sizes—7,500 Miles UNITED MOTORS COMPANY 407 East Pine St. Distributors———A.. F. Hawkinson, Mgr. t 9 rm NN Ea EL SE aa i A and wheel types, painted in all colors |p the rainbow, cavorted over the hillsides, Like mammoth prehistoric janimals of old, they roamed the fielda, The Cleveland ran away like a jack rabbit and the Beeman resem jbled a field mouse alongside the | giant Holt caterpillar, Three Samson tractors, | which was driven by Sam Robinson, |won considerable recognition from | the farmers for their splendid work jin discing and harrowing over the | plowed ground. This ts conceded | |menerally to be the hardest kind of work for the wheel type of tractor, Equipped with giant pneumatic tires, the G. M. C. truck maneuvered | up the hills and over the plowed j fields: ‘The weather was ideal, Acicdents there were none, The only stunt |Was pulled by the Avery thresh ling machine, the “Yellow Fellow,” which chewed up 2x6-foot boards | and spit them out tn shreds, The Eldridge Buick Co., of Seatt'e and Spokane, was well represented at the tractor meet, and many deal- |ers from all parts of the state were there to harvest new ideas in farm motorization, | At sundown on the tast day of the show one of the officials stood look |ing over ‘the village of tents which jwas being rapidly dismantled and| folded away. As he looked whimsi cally at the ground, strewn with leaf lets, booklets, catalogs and farm magazines, he said: “Well, it's all | over, and the gophers will have a lot of literature to read.” And so they one of WEEK ENDING MAY 3, 1919 Seattio-Tacome Paved Valley Road—Good Seattle-Tacoma High Line Read—Dhru Des Moines—In good condition to Pierce county line, From Pierce county line to Tacoma is passable, tho rough in pluces Renton-Kent—Oravel valley, good, road on east of stand up, and do not hesi \HE’'SDADDY | OF ’EM ALL Allen Has Record of Being Oldest Tire Man in the City, and Had the First Tire Shop on Broadway He'n, direct factory distributer of the ¢ Tire and Rubber Co. now, but once he was th mem ber of the tire repairing fraternity in Beattle His full name tn A. K. Ab len, and the name of his firm is the! Alien General Tire and Mubber Co, Speaking of the old days when the | Auto was generally recognized as an invention of th devil, Allen recalla the stunts of the ners between tween here and Tacom: when they u nailstudded boards in| that the unsuspecting | in hin “one would puneture hin pesky avoid the Tacoma highway « after, He Alto insisted that thin practice never had been indulged in b ny Beattie Ure men, tho he could not say defi nitely to whether thi oye in oma had had recourse to it or not Talking wbout tires,” but few i to bury road, orint, so lunger tires, and er said Allen. wle who real | ize that a good tire retreaded in| worth as much, in a great many | non, a8 A NeW caning. Of course, it depends on the way the work ix done and the condition of the tire whe it is brought in. I never accept a tire for retreading unless I ¢an guar: antee that it will stand up. My spe- celal and individual proces was worked out only after long study and many years of actual experience, I know one of my retr jobs will | to b T has run there are up ™y statement. Dr, J. W who is @ customer of mine, In any of these events, the hy ¥ niyo old wey freight ot the seem roads. |again come under a different head pene etallbgey. va Pn gc bre the thasbed 10 SOs” oni an Maalion bre Bon pe Maley oat mae ota | yok service to the far. The trucks make their routes regu g. that of © wtilixati of the . on " } | ” gy homage Aor z Lsappointment | larly, and in each village hy a pe poi wth : hw ina’ farmer in bi ars and trucks now aa there or at the recent tractor meet It in | canes of Dig mileage . thre no fault of the theory, but thru tral meeting point, where freight is | individual pl Instead of the || Were seven years ago nd, |) interesting to know that Walla Wal fallury to economize on the time ele- ‘loaded and unloaded. The farmers| horse drawn vehicle, ‘This, there-|[ king the | comparison finer 1/ia means Water Water in the lan AUTO MEN'S ment. on these lines make @ point of haul-| fore, is without the scope of high- |] the fimures for the close of 19 guage of the Indjan. way transport, ax a general rule, |f FePFesens an increase of 20 per 1] six million bushels of wheat that Ne | | Highway transport for rural de-4] Cent over those of 1917, the net I grow annually at the gates of Walla HO OR ROLL liveries must follow along the gen- |] #8! during the last year being Walla have Mung its name around bie eg j Fl f th Le ib aria Me Se es || nliahtly over 1,000,000—and this |) the globe | ag ror the ague } [eral lines of the old standards sa wantihe yertont At an altitude of about 1,000 feet |Over One Hundred Thousand Men railroad operation The shipments ’ an altitude of about 1,' “ ~ ~~ ~ —~—% among the Blue mountains, Walla| From All Parts of the Automobile Nate must be sys 4, hauls #0 ar — i 5 | Industry Ser “th the Colors. | ranged as to @ maximum of EVE FRANCE! Walla is the home of over 25,000 t : } ton mileage minimum of French dealers of Ford cars| People, the majority of whom are/ " pe ad empty truck mileage have a grievance against the gov-|Pfosperoue farmers. That a high, .onorable record Here the work of the dispatcher|ernment. There are at the present}. The Mammoth tractor mect held|was made by the automobile in- at headquarters comes into play,/time about 00 cars ready for| four and a half miles out of Walla |dustry in the war ageinet for to inaugurate @ successful ay®-|aanembly at the Ford factory at| Walla during the past week wns con-|is evidenced by the statement tem be must first m @ survey! Bordeaux. As tho F » govern. |@ueted circusfashion, in tents, big|Provost Marshal General Crowder of the region to be covered, and|imont no longer requires thene for| Nd little, with the Stars and Stripes |in his history of the draft that the determine how much business! military purposes, it was requested |¥ing from the ridge-polen. ‘The |automotive industry gave to the there in to be hauled into and out/|that the Ford company should be|/4FKest individual exhibit was that) war 104,765 men from the central marketing potnts. | q ed to repurchase them and | 0f G. M. C. trucks and Samson trac-] Thin figure does not take into| If there is a minimum of outward) sell them privately, The French | ‘™ . Account executives and other offi-| shipments to the farm, he must in|government would not permit this,|, Almost 75,000 visitors attended the |cials of motor vehicle manufactur- | making heavy collections inbound, | but inglsted on the cara being come|tTSctor show. Farmers, brown asling concerns who voluntarily | figure his cost on the basis of the| pleted and delivered according to|*h* summer fallow flelda, hailed | gave their services to the govern- | round trip mileage, not merely the | contract. | from 15 different states. They all/ ment | one way haul It thus becomes) — — — jowned tracts of jand ranging from Twelve per cent of the mechanics the province of the highway trans-\tq the purchaser, This, however, |2¥® ‘© 7,000 gcres. Ninety-nine per |and other kers drafted from | port company to operate conjoint-| requires a specially trained truck | °t"t °f them drove up in automobiles | the automotive indust for na-| jly with the city or small town| headquarters «taf, or tho settie- | * be from Fords bong Arjtional service and called with! jmerchants and shippers, and aF-| ment of disagreements will be ot | Tome. Pe wey hf mey other 1 per|Clasn 1 were rejected for vartous| range to develop a volume of out-| moro trouble than the value of the! t drove up in me famous “one | seasons, says n, Enoch H. Crow- | going busine commensurate |haut thus developed, There are|[O™® Shay. that lived one hundred ider in his history of the draft.| | with the shipments which the farm-|few highway transport compantes | posed anda o xh contrast was|Theso reductions left 91,627 men ers wish to make into towrt erating now, however, which do|famiting thei wie nave 2auntily connected with the motor industry § Seven stripes—the colors of the rainbow—on a field of blue. That It may in many cases, and often | not make @ specialty of picking up! ate ancy padi oe oan peg allege Hs were drafted into the army. Fepresents the races of mankind. A band of white across the globe, typl-lin the case, be profitable for the| when convenient, small shipments | Drone galloped in on their wiry ittle "nice ha enlistments, howeve fying the bond of unton thru the League of Nations, A star in the blue!truck company to operate a pur-jalong the route from farmera, The mauetange. em yew total in active gervice up field for each treaty-making power in the league. The whole conception! chasing agency for: the farmers| short hauls of small packages bring Praiterd et Wh tha” Shcklavine above 100,000. isa santa of Nations, proposed by J. W. Van Kirk of/ giong its route, and do their city/a higher price than the ordinary ne Among the interesting and vali- able table of statiatics compiled in the “industrial Index” is that| showing the occupations profes- sions and trades of all men of | military age who registered in tei three stages of the draft, The compilation shows that the first draft men between agen of 21 and 31, as classified in 1918, the following from the auto- | mobile industry or automotfve in- dustries are lsthd Automobile and gas engine me- chanics, 95.466 registered; placed in Clase 1, 36,895. in Reo “Speed Wagon” $1,585 f. o. b Seattle Pine at Bellevue Kent-Aubure—Gravel road, good. Kent-Dee Moines Good Auburn - Enumelaw — Paving worl tn progress between points seven and ten miles out of Auburn, Di pavement, five miles from Auburn, ur | tore about weven-mile point. Good | plenio grounds strict—Ronds Keneralty good of Groen river, Black Diamond—Good. “Black Diamand—Good _from aixemile pont to | soft bs aire Sunset Uighway. via Issaquah: end fine to the barricade at 19-mii riste reqterted not to pa Road will be thrown © ible. Good to alx-mile port from six-mile post to Slippery cree! ft, Snow all gone as far as Green Water river, Road closer from Slippery creek east, Wiil be open ag soon am it Rent Go to North Rend, | beyond North Woodinville- Davall— bridge over Snoqualn Duyall-Tolt—Fair Falls City: stone trall Redmond-Tolt condition, Newport tah Newport-Renton— Bellew wp Much loose from Bellevue to Wilburton; mainder of way. Seattle-Renton Via Rainier Vatley— Good except that planked section from Rainier Beach to elty limits, pretty rough. For further information rding King county roads call, Main 6900, local 38. jo at Duvall, Good over Yo'low- Over Tolt Hill—In good Use-eaution on curves a Lake Sammem- 100d, gravel 00d ro- (aes our at end of4| —in addition to BRISCOE REO “F” TRUCK MOST ECONOMICAL LIGHT TRUCK SOLD UNITED MOTORS co. Foremost among the exclusive features shown the new LEXINGTON Models are the Moore Multi- © ple Exhaust System—giving an increase of 22 per cent in horse power and a reduction of fuel consumption models brought out this season. o AUTOMOBILE SLOGAN “ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE” That’s What We Say About the “The Car With the Half Million Dollar Motor” MITCHELL . MOTOR: and Service Company, Inc. East Pine St. at Summit Avenue. Phone East 8413 for Demonstration “THE LINE COMPLETE” being one of the most attractive teres THE ALL =a=a=as NATIONAL - ace a -LEXINGTON caus Seattle STAND