The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1919, Page 15

MITCHELL BOYS DROP PROPAGANDA FROM SKIES ——— A a acne nn ea nan Pe a d car department, Mitchell Motor & Service company ; is A. Stark, manager of the London Tailors, who agreed it was successful; J. B. Beard, Mitchell salesman. in order as they appear in the photograph, the boys are: G. R. Harris, man- C. H. Hickok, Mitchell sales- to buy a car if the airplane Witm that is willing to con-;and that lesson was amply applied that appeared in the brilliant sun the sky the limit for an adver ‘codices rar nd roe ar bs Si campaign surely ts pretty hard) oe instituted and carried out in under. like manner to the propaganda work this time on nothing they at-| of the allied forces, |. ¢., airplanes. to do will surprise us, and we) It was when the NC4, with Licut |Commaunder Read, established his Minute keeping an eagle eve) Loria record of the flight acroas the @omething startling. Mr.) Atiantic, that the House of Mitchel! manager of the used| conceived the idea of distributing it, says this is only 4 | propaganda over Seattle. of things that are going) A meeting was called of the sales | Organization, and by lot two of the) has taught us many les | salesmen were to be selected to make ‘world, now and in the from the skies dodgers telling of the one of the main jautomobiles and trucks t the = the downfall of Germany, Mitchell Motor & Service company | yards had been very thoPougbly gone | to its origin, would not be / are handling Dut the propaganda that| The fortunate ones were Mr. J. B.| over Germany by the Beard and Mr. H. ©. Hickok, beth of light as crystals of snow tomobile row had been bombarded and made aware of the unusual scoop flight continued to shipyards, fyling possibly at an altt tude of 3,000 fect. Avi Hubbard turned and spiraled down to within about 500 feet above the shipyards at which time a goodly quantity of the propaganda literature was thrown’ from the plane, After wait After aw ator ing a minute or two for the dodgers! to arrive in the yard, it was very plain to be seen from the air that there was a great scramble asnong the workers to see what had come from the heavens. After the ship over, the flight continued over the city, flying very low ave, with a continuation of the the over Second) THE SEATTLE STAR—SA’ and Effect F Captain Bullock's Article This Truck Owner, Operator Straight Facts. BY WARREN B. BULLOCK (Formerty ¢ 8. A) be little or litle tronbie 8 big trouble 1 the operation Corps, U Motor troubles may big, and the ordinary in time will and work ha of the machine. There iv a question among auto. mobile men as to the extent to which & driver of a truck should be ex pected to make urs to his ma chine, There ts quaetion, how over, that minor adjustinents to keep the machine running to top effi clency whould be made by the driver who should have enough knowledge of his machine to be able to make minor adjustinents properly, a prevent the little ones from growing up into big troubles First of all, a driver should knc enough about his machine to appre ciate instantly when the motor ix in Need of attention in the shop, It is & dangerous and expensive thing t start out across country with a big load to haul betwwen cities, when the motor is likely to become balky, Th cost the transport company |high, to may nothing of the loss of prestige by falling to make deliveries, ‘There will be enou expected Ad without chances on operation in the threatened difficulty The problem of carbon tn the cyl Inder i# one that should not be al lowed to problem long should be removed at earliest possible moment. In system of shopping a truck jfor Inspection every two weeks is followed for a day of inspection, the carbon can be removed before the machine is sent back to its regular run, It is the little difficalties, how- ever, with which this article is chief ly concerned. One of the difficulties most often become wit to * nite taking face of TURDAY, ‘Motor Troubles: Their Cause ully Explained Week is of Interest to Every and Driver. It, Deals Wit . { Tearinding If too loose, the valve ptain, Motor Transport | « * not 4 loss of compression ive, with exposed, often in ite t neat properly, and there in ‘The exhaust it in burn . the heat to wh! the first nxion to t, and low The lem whieh » grinding of valves ts a prob ould be attended to, not but by an expert me the grinding can be #0 done to enormousty diminigh the power of the engine, by the too ear opening and the delayed closing of the valve, which is timed to a dei leate degree, according to the ty of the engine. The valve should) open sufficiently early to take in a }full cylinder of gus, If the valve! opens too soon, there is a preewure | against the gus charge at the begin instead of the suction, which draw in a full cylinder of mointure The wetting of Assisted marks on the f jand by marks on the cam the crank shaft gears, To set gears, it is best to place the piston ot cylinder No. 1 at the top of its stroke 1 work from that point in the timing of the gears and the oth or cylinders. The valves may be set in correet time with the cam shaft by meshing the cam gears #0 that the points marked on them will co- incide with the marks on the erank shaft gear when the No. 1 piston is at the top of its stroke The pro m of cooling is im portant, and if the fan belt ts loose the fan will not revolve at proper peed, the water in the radiator will not be property cooled, the en gine will become hot, the lubricating ol} will be burned, and trouble thru out the whole engine in certain. The fan belt can be tightened by raising | the fan, higher by an eccentric ad jurtment or by bodily lifting the fan | land tightening the bolt holding it by the driver chante, for we Prest-o-Lite Battery Service 921 EAST PIKE STREET THE OLDEST SERVICE TO AUTOMOBILE OWNERS IN AMERICA WHAT TRUCK TO CHOOSE of Companies Contemplating Motor Equipment. According to Vance I sales manager of ( Truck company, who has pleted a tour of the company's prin cipal distributors the Paelfic € t and through the central West the attitude of business institutions of all sizes toward motor trucks is rapidly changing. The question no longer seems to be “Can we nafely adopt mechani transportation?” but rather, “How can we best equip our business with motor trucks?” general Motors ust com Your Truck al All sizes and all Model Model Model As the president of one of our big “ western distributors points K-14—1,2 plain to us that sition of carefully and cons as investigated in manner, economical and advantageous could mot be expected out Long ago unk tho installation was ered and the pros types and sizes practical clent pr = motor consid to a ffi. service Model D-30—51 “Aa a result of our exper: motor trucks,” says Mr. “and + a Trailer =More Money in Your Pocket We have types of Trailers for your inspection. K-11—1,250-Ib. capacity Commercial Trailer. )-lb. capacity cattle Trailer. 50-M—114-ton 4-wheel Trailer. Model D-10—1%4-ton 2-wheel pipe, timber or pole Trailer, with swivel bolter for truck. Model 51-M—214-ton 4-wheel Trailer. ton 2-wheel logging Trailers with swivel bolster for truck. [developed is with the valves. Re| Compression lcaks are likely to heat The flight was gardieas of type of valves, the ten-| the water, and to repair this is dif-|°Ur study of the entire matter, it| ‘The propaganda in| the used car department of the com. propaganda work | to Wilson's 14 points no pany. On Wednesday at 2 p.m. Mr ; More to disorganize the | Beard and Mr. Hickok, together with Morale than the roar of Aviator Eddy Hubbard, left the| the popping of machine |hangar. The flight was made direct | then continued back to the ha: and the experiences of Mr. Beard and Mr. Hickok were eagerly ited for. It is quite evident why the Mitch NEAr sion of the spring should be kept) ficult for a road job. just strong enough to cause the valve to fit tight In its seat. If the lepring is too strong, the valve closes The rubber hose connections in the cooling sys |tem must be kept water tight, and care be taken that the clamps hold seems to us that any prospective in staller of motor truck equipment will find his problem greatly simplified if he will firwt answer for himself a | |to automobile row, circling. dipping |ell Motor @ Service company are/ with a mnap and noise, which maens|ing the hose to the metal pipes are few fundamental questions. of everything, whether |and spirating, over the Mitchell| preparing to move into their new lan unnecessary wear on both the! not so tight that the rubber is cut. &@ lesson can be learned, ‘plant, dropping down the leaflets | tkenbacker to Set Pace .. ° ° } n Big Liberty Sweepstakes D ‘APOLIS, May 3$1.—Captain E. V. Ricken- _ American “Ace of Aces,” will set the pace today for| “set tional flying start of the international 500-mile rt takes on the Indianapolis speedway in the test thing on wheels, Ralph De Palma’s 150-mile-an-hour ion Packard—if De Palma’s suggestion to this effect | acceptance at the hands of the speedway manage- Lieut. Col. J. G. Vin-|the regular course of his official the principal designers duties, to set the pace—to see that motor, had been all the contestants got away to a Ma to set the pace for the fair and even start. As an induce- , im & specially pre- ment he offered to turn over to hour roadster;|Rickenbacker his world's record- at eleventh hour. he | holding car, something he would Pte Europe for a fovern-/| not think of doing for any other in- on important avia- dividual and wired he would| felting the pace for a® Indianap- fulfill his engagement. |olis [40-mile start in one of the of motoring notables most difficult tasks imaginable, and, for his place, when |inlear it is handled by an expert, is ‘bobbed up with the happy art to bring the entire field to grief elect Rickenbacker, ref- With 33 cars trailing the pacemaker he contest, who, he argued, at lightning speed in densely packed ‘only best fitted for the rows five abreast, the slightest bob- ‘a driver but ought, in|ble is apt to result in a disaster such as has never been equaled in speedway racing. This is why De 2 E FIRM Talma and other drivers are ro NS NEW STORE | vetticutar as to the choice of pace- |maker, and why Rickenbacker, one nt of A. rays the greatest drivers ever pro- in aut bile vr gg 8 ca be their most accept. thru his connection |*~‘ Chole. & Lyon and Ballou have opened) Some drivers prefer to hold down ity at 1207 Pine! one vibrator at a time, noting the conduct @ wholesale | serect on the engine If the engine automobile accessories) siows down, it is @ live cylinder jIt_no effect ts produced, it ts | dead cylinder. This is the same |reasoning as we use when short- circuiting the plugs with a screw- | | | Let's go eat a¢ Boldt’s—aptown, 1414 3rd Av.; downtown, 913 2nd Av. Charles S. Harper Says Use This FREE | and your Dodge e down to | Union St. gy No premiums to pay — instead | you save what you might other- wise pay ont in repairs. Your battery doenn't have te dle f henert— |the average man who quarters across the street. BOOST FOR GOOD ROADS ‘Truck Man Who Sells the Peertons, | Fageol, Jumbo and Grant, Urges More By CARL LIPSKY, Truck Sales Manager, Mitchell Motor and Service Co. Tf there is a good roads program in your locality vote for it. Put your inflwence behind it and hasten the day when good roads shall be the ordinary, commonplace thing in- stead of the unusual condition The good roads movement is see ing a big revival now that business is becoming normal. The most im- portant program that has recently come to our attention is that of the state of Michigan which has just voted in favor of a fifty-million dol lar program that when carried out will place Michigan on the map bis so far as good roads are concerned Everywhere else you see also more interest in good roads than in any period in our history. It is trite to may that the war and ite needs taught us the value of good roads. Perhaps it did. Perhaps it brought home to those dull ears of higher up the supreme importance of an intelligent system of navigable high ways. Hut more and more it comes home to the man who studies the | situation that back of the good roads movement must be the ordinary man. pays taxes and votes and thinks as he votes: And the average man is beginning in larger numbers to realize in his heart that the cost to him in taxes im infinitesimal compared to the benefits to himself and the commun. ity at large. The farmer certain sections, for a long time stood in the way—he wanted the Toads, but he didn’t want to pay f them. He did not reaiize that tn tb long run good roads pay for them selves out of savings made to the community in haulage of people and merchandise, But the farmer today is reckoning in units of time. Yes he realizes the value of minutes thruout the season-—and he is just as keen in conserving time as the city bred man who operates a big factory; if anything, he is a bit kee for seasons do not wait and crops must be sowed and cultivated, and marketed at the right time. has convinced himself that money. And he knows Toads save time and or rural dweller, in ed He time is that good that they save jtime largely because they make it! possfble to get satisfactory service | the $16 and twenty i and drive away h a set of ind more real down-right i comfort than you tht the “old boat” had . “Make Your Own Boulevards” Built to absorb ALL shock ‘and smother the rebound, (Of course, we install) JOHN S. SDEN, Inc. The Tire Experts _ Ninth and Union St. Elliott 2441 | from motor cars and motor trucks. | |And he is not one bit blind to the fact that operating cost is largely influenced by road conditions—that g00d roads make gasoline more elas tic, rubber and steel more du jand bring markets nearer, and that| | 00d roads increase property values | }Out of all proportion to the cost of roads to any one individual. | Therefore, the farmer in now back | of road improvement | Does the city man feel an interest in good ronds? Ask your neighbor. If he doesn’t own an automobile b expects to own one and he knows all about where the good roads are |and what they mean, But white | his influence counts big the great jimpetus has naturally sprung from | the numerous army of motor car |owners to whom motor car owner-| |ahip has made the territory for miles| jaround his neighborhood. To both jeclty man and farmer the good road means re from bondage—bond ago to electric, steam car schedules and discomforts—bondage tance—bondage to time, Counties and states where good roads have | become a steady part of a progres sive program of legislation have seen | Values shoot up in the most surpris jing fashion and this again has |brought home the fact that good |roads pay for themselves. Thus it |{# natural that the year 1919 and }1920 will see the most stupendous | g00d roads programs inaugurated in America that the world has ever | known, This will result in the wider jutility of motor cars and motor | trucks and of course prove a big |aid to the solution of the freight traffic problem 4 4 of longer better health and greater efficiency. Drop in and let us look battery over. your P rnc “*Y arles S Harper! 22 > WE TEST AN BATTER | | | 817 East Pike Street North End Branch, 2222 F ke Ay Down Town Branch, 6% Marion St Your Boy Wants an INDIAN BICYCLE to dis PAY AS HE RIDES Mercer Cycle Co. “THE BICYCLE HOUSE” 1110-12 Pike St. Elliott 1150 Make haste slowly when going around slippery pavement especially orners on a} stem and the seat, requiring early (Copyright, 1919, Warren B. Bullock) | ‘DANIELS ON COAST TRIP Advertising Manager of Dort Motor Car Company Visits Dealers in ‘This Territory. California's wonderful ure much patronized by are utilized also to « for motor cars bent on businems and the idea that the Sun- shine state ie just a national play |eround t# not true to present con- | ditions. So says H. 8. Daniels, advertising manager for the Dort Motor Car company of Flint, who has just re turned from « trip to the Pacific |coast. In a motor tour from Los An |eles to San Francisco, Mr. Daniels |anys that practically every motor car that his party passed on the road gave some outward evidence that its purpose on the highway was not one of pleasure, but was strictly bust nens “This marked use of California's splendid roadways was so noticeable to me that I remarked about it te the rest of the party and all of us watched every car we passed to see whether it was decked out for sport or work. Finally, in one town we stopped and while there saw a car with a family party in it that looked “Although motor roads tourists, they large extent ure touring. “L went over to the lasked him if be were touring. "Well, |not exactly,’ he said, ‘you see, I am nm insurance agent and whenever 1 |make this trip I take the family along, just for the ride.’ | “As further evidence of the prac | ieability of motoring for business, jour own trip was a good example Ww covered the distance from Los Angeles to San Francisco in two days, stoppnig off to see dealerr lin «ix towns along the way. Fig- ured on railroad schedules and al- lowing a stop-over of one train only, the same trip would have three and a half days." Mr. Daniela says that the comet country is very prosperous and mo- tor car sales are increasing every }day. This condition exists all over |the United States, and the season of 1919, from all Indications, is Ko ing to be a mighty successful one. J. R. Van Cleve, service manager lof the Dort Motor Car company, ac companied Mr. Daniels to the coast lphey went to visit the new Dort |distributors for California, Earle C Anthony, Inc, This firm has its headquarters at Low Angeles and “ix branches in other parts of the state. The return trip was made via the northern route and Mr. Dan Dort dealers and distrib. the way, stopping in Portiand Seattle, where manager Hawkineon, of the United Motor Cars company entertained him roy- | owner and fels visited utors along y ally; Spokane, Denver and Minneap- ols. Examine clincher rims oceasion- | for irregularities and rust. For ally QUICK ACTION If you want to sell your car in a hurry, bring it to us, We will buy it for cash sell for you at YOUR without commission or age charges. Auto Bargain House 701 Kast Pine East 340 or price stor. an if they might be out for pleas | taken | ‘CALLS AUTO BEST TONIC |Oxmond Advises Motoriats to Get | Out on the Country Roads to Get Most Henefit From Cars. | “Half the pleasure of the auto- mobile ix completely spotled,” says J. M. Osmond, president of the Mitchell Motor and Service com- pany, “because people have the! habit of riding in circles on city ‘pavements when they should be on lthe country roads accumulating fresh air; getting a new viewpoint on life and calming by untry quiet their tormented nerver.” “Over 60 per cent of us take our automobile constitutionals on the lelty pavements after the day's work, We may move about, but we don't get out of the second hand air sone, We ride in the same old noise and the same old atime and smoke that we work in “Hence automobdiling on city pavements brings little physical change and mighty Nttle relaxation “Your automobile, i directed by | an intelligent and thiking hand, t* a health giver. No, I am not Dr.| Munyon healing the world or any thing like that, but I assert_on my oath, and many will bear me out that ft is easier any time to take 50 barrels of fresh air than 50 bar- rele of cod liver oll into your syr- tem. And you can't get the fresh air that your lungs craze in a city You must get into the country get It and that is what the family automobile is for; to get you and} the kiddies where the unfletcheriz- | ed alr circulates, “Do you suffer from tnsomnia? | Got a poor appetite? Kinda get} the blues and feel sort of restless? | Then take an automobile ride, but for heave sake take it In the |country, Keep off the main drags. | |Get out in the rural highways and byways"faind let the honest air cir- jeulate around thru the cinders in your lungs. Buy gas for country Joyrides, for in buying gas for your | Mitchell you are getting health, by |making your car take the medi-| cine.” GOES AFTER MORE CARS | Manager of United Motors Leaves | for Eastern Factories in Effort to Enlarge Allotments for Seattle. | pe " on usually | tance or only “First: What is the nature of the routes to be covered in the service? Is it all a town service, or all country service, or does it partake of both characters? ond What character of the xtr Are they comparative steep hills numerous “Third: What are the distancer which each vehicle must cover in a day's round? Fourth: What is the general ts and roads y level or are is the character load to be carried? Is it ht but bulky, or heavy com parison with the bulk? Fifth: Are the goods and pack ages of such a nature that they must be protected from dust and rain; or ean they be carried in open wagon: Or so-called express bodies? And What quantity of goods wil! be loaded up for each trip Will the load be carried the full dis half the distance? Dc the vehicles ordinarily return empty or are they partly loaded? Sixth: What ts the most conven. lent body construction to admit easy loading and unloading of the class of goods to be handled? Would it be desirable in the case of heavy goods to enable the power of the motor to be utilized in loading or unloading. “These are some of the principal questions for consideration in deter mining the type and size of motor trucks which will best meet individ. ual requirements. Undoubtedly, there are many others, but those I have mentioned will be sufficient to indi- cate how numerous are the points to be kept in mind. It is quite plain that three points—first, load to be carried: second, distance to be trav. elled, and third, country to be cov-| ered—must all be carefully consid. ered “I feel that the division of research and statistics which is now a part of the sales department, can furn- ish from the funds o: tacts ana ures which it has collected, valuable information to the prospective truck | owner to aid him in solving the question of correct installation.” in also KEEP COOL, SAYS ILES| “There is only one way to drive and that is to handle the car so| that it is always under complete | control,” says C. P. Tes, president} of the Seattle Motor Car Corpora- tion, Elgin and Harroun distrib- utors } “Modern motor cars are so con-| structed’ that they are simple to/ operate and easy to handle, and the braking systems have been so perfected that a car traveling at fair speed can be checked and| brought to a stop within a few feet ELDRIDGE SEATTLE Seattle Direct Factory Service Agents for the U. S. L. Battery Gabriel Snubbers Waltham and Van Sicklen We are in close touch with the engineers of ev factory whose product we distribute, and take advan- tage Ot every See ee SS ee ee their line. Modern Electrical Methods are adopted as ly as they are devised by the fac- tory experts. means that your electrical equip- seit is Adjusted ty own. Sunset Electric Company Automobile Electric Equipment Agents 1507-9-11 Broadway Phone East 160 SACRIFICE 12-25 Your Gar Stop Sundden es “One thing the motorist must re- member when driving along the road is that nothing connected with |a motor car must be done sudden- jly, When ide to turn let the man behind w it by hold- ing your arm at full length Do not decide to turn to the left and put your arm out after you |have begun to turn. Many a driv- jer has done this and then found that the man in the rear could not stop in time and that the other car jammed his and smashed the headlights. “Another to keep your too close to have Ik de kn out you thing to distance. the car may to stop then you can do noth Into him, In driving along such a }road as*the main highway to Ta- oma go slowly, especially on Sun- day. Keep at least 50 feet from the rear of the machine ahead of you, At the speed that cars move along this road this is a safe dis- tance. You then have your under full control at all times and ean stop slowly warning the car in the rear and you will avoid a lot of trouble, Now About Stopping “This first of making haste slowly more than one way motor car driving When you decide . put out your arm. No matter which way you are about to turn or whether you want to stop or not let the vantage, regardless of the amount|driver behind know about it by jof cars secured, as Hawkinson will} extending your arm, When a man |look over the eastern field and pick |in the car behind sees an arm out- as in the way of|stretched he is warned and slows up involuntarily until he finds out remember is Don't crowd in front. suddenly and ng but crash A. F. Hawkinson, With the set purpose of getting enough automobiles into Seattle to satisfy the demand of his customers, | A. F. Hawkinson left last Thursday for a heart to heart session with the jwales managers of the factories whose lines he represents in Seattle. While his efforts may prove fruit- ful, Hawkinson realizes that the | shortage of new cara is bound to affect Seattle as well as other parts {of the country, and only dares to | hope that he can get just a few more cars than his contracts call for, The two weeks will be spent to good ad. principle applies in to to si car | CASE TRACT In Perfect Condition ($1,100 | Thoroughly overhauled and ready for | Write, phone or call. PIONEER AUTO CO. 814 East Olive at Broadway Telephone East 767 what you are going to do. Jif the clutch is jammed in and the “If you decide to stop, slow down|car jerked, 3 gradually and the car behind will| “Remember that an automobile have a chance to turn aside and|is a fine piece of machinery and get out of the way, but if you/requires some consideration if it ie stop suddenly the man behind will|expected to last anytime at all, have to turn sharply to avoid hit-| Sudden jars and jerks will rut any > ting you, |machine on the junk pile in a lot “This same rule applies to the/less time than it would be there if mechanical work of driving, If |it were handled carefully, you let in the clutch slowly and| “Drive carefully — don easily the car will move off with-|about a motor car suddenly and out @ jar, smoothly and with less|keep your distance, These work, He| | strain on the working parts than|rules will make a good driver.” —