The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 21, 1919, Page 17

whe Rickenbacker Praises Auto Racing as Spur to Progress Contends That This Sport Plays Indispensable Role in Development of Automotive Designs and En- gineering and Metallurgical Discovery as Ap- plied to Both Automobile and Airplane. INDIANAPOLIS, June 21.—Capt. BE. V. Rickenbacker, rican “ace of ace and one of the world’s premier Facing drivers before he forsook the speed sport for the Tealm of the sky, contradicts the opinion, recently advanced Some quarters, that automobile racing serves no useful gee and that consequently it ought to be abolished, avoid the recurrence of such events as marred the y Sweepstakes race, Sist. deal of re-)an entire family, as has often hap- Rickenbacker, | Pened in touring accidents. “The discoveries of the last @tanapotis race will enable wheel manufacturers to improve their product so that occurrences sneh as those which produced fatalities dur- ing the contest will be impossible on the open road, Who shall then, in view of this fa Liberty sweepstakes race gerve a useful purpose? Anyone who drives an antomo bile has often reflected upon what would happen if steering ap paratus would break, leaving him helpless at the wheel of an uncon troliable car, and great has been the wonder that this delicate con trivance rarely gives any trou As a matter of fact, the perfect f steering hanism is one of th chief contributions of racing to the safety Designs that were engineering practice shown to be subjected to the test speed and consequen before they had opp. work mischief in the day use The other “Tt ts with a good Bret.” says “that I note the adverse sentiment | SErrent in some sections agains: Betomobiic racing, as the result of the three fatalities that happe @uring th- Indianapolis 500-mile MdAberty sweepstakes race at Indian at which | officiated as ref- ‘The death of any man is a thing, with many pathetic con- mores im its wake. and if it ed no other purpose than to je a Roman holiday has P chargd with reference to auto Mmodile racing, it would indeed be Mmexcusa bie. “Now, it so happens that prior to | Setering the U.S. air service I was oe with automobile racing 4 & good many years, and con | Bequently am more familiar than ts Qverage individual with the use nd I may say righ w, in le role played by the the development of auto desten engineering and lurgical discovery, as applied to the avtomodiie and the air- Stop and consider that a much as Indianapolis mile race tests every part of Motor cars mechanism my y than two » and you wi eet an speeded up engt Captain In- say . that the did not automobdile ot motoring thought good were quickly ngerous when extreme discarded rtunity d of every- an same thing parts of an @ wheel spindles, bear proper design and materials theese were arrived at much more Liberty sweepstakes @ckly thru racing and with much @very accident but one was|'@@ les life than would have to defective wheels | P82 possible had automotive prog apparently were sound but | met the assistance of racing the crucial strain of sus “Also, forget that racing high «peed revealed them. | into play the keenest engineer in ing minds in a constant struggle to their true light The wheels would have given | Produce more horse power, more en ergy. with lees weilght—an endless service under ordinary tour- reaching out into new fields for the conditions for one or two years. . and then » purpose of increasing efficiency and out economy in gasoline umption Se the wiping out | To increase engine efficiency new types of valve action have been | vented, different cylinder arrange ments have been tried manifolds built. every piece over with a view to possible improve ment the endeavor to reduce weight has proved a stimulus to the | metallurgical arts, resulting in the | inve a cue et taken oF lightness, combined with surpassing strength. “The new, lightweight | future, combining comfort and room. |inese with low operating cost, both ae regards gasoline and tires, will lowe its existence more to racing than any other factor. of wheels. in « Fone car of the Prix Indiana has bt Every other year, sir » were b sizes pr u and 1 hes f 1912, 450 cuble { And 200 eut end 1919, , ed nize of 183 cubl Here tx written, In wi v6 the new! noun: hes lear that none can 1 ke pose of application eng op new ane off to lo what two en the ne mobile racing constant # ta ineers prinet inere ounce of fuel « to conserve natural ergy and human progress “There are probably more ears ap proximating in engine size the new 183 cuble inch specifications of the Indi olis Motor Speedway com pany than all the other size f care put together, and the utility of the automobiling racing will consequently be fnereased many times as the result of the new pol ley, even more than was the case with previous engine reductions, It cars of this Jocesmors it will sport of ¢ their pre treme for perhaps a year or take that long to perfect them, As soon as they do reach the limit of their effictency, the minute there Is nething further to be learned con 5 the mas erning their vement an be further re point of ter minds cing depended on to make att! ductions, until ¢ engineering deve n the field sf automotive industry has been reached. This is the real alm of au omobile ° using ie ra pliah wt up any ntrary rendered rene racing. The spectacle is na for ar what has beer in an end f jean do anything existing Impression to th I shall consider that It " al service to hum: and to civi on to clear ! Grenades Turned ae} To Savings Banks | * * all kinds of | | “And, jooking back for a moment | to the recent days of war, what do | Fou suppose would have been [Position of allied aircraft manu facturers but for the experience of racing? Every engine that went | into an allied airplane, from the Eng |lish Sunbeam thru the Hispano-Suiza jand Fiat, to the American Liberty, | neorporated principles developed in the fiel4 of automobile racing, and which, without racing, could |have been developed in time to be of |service. True, we are not supposed |to have wars any more, but as long as the ponntt is present, it will |mot do to ignore automobile racing jas a factor in determining the safety of the ation. “Summing up the case of automo- bile racing, I would say that it ts indispensable to modern progress, at least as far as events like the Indian apolis races and the French Grand Prix contests are concerned, where the new ideas and theories of the | most prominent builders of both the new and old continents are tested in actual competition. “For next year, the speedway management sizes—and a large staff of competent tire experts to assist you in your tire ity troubles. SERVICE STATION |) $24 Union St., Corner 9th}! Elliott 2441 TRUCK TIRE PLANT Tenth and E. Union East 770 Indianapolis has) = an | | nounced ite contest will be for cars of 183 cubic Inches piston displace | ment, coinciding with recently form lulated plans for the French Grand | TuI=. MAGIC CIRCLE It answers every call of the motorist. It signifies the service we render as direct factory representa- tives for the firms and products shown in its charmed circumference, “Let it serve you through us. |. Y Sunset Electric Company Automobile Electric Equipment Agents 507-09-11 Broadway Phone East 160 Seattle and Portland U. 8S. L. BATTERY REMY Central Service Station Official Service Station not | the | ‘This is a hand grenade, The kind the Yanks threw at the Huns with | the sureness of aim of a big league pitcher. But 15,000,000 of them are being turned into penny savers, and they're all for the children of America, When school opens the fall one of these grenade banks will be given to each child under 10 who can show one War Savings Stamp bought with money earned this summer, and each child over 10 who earned two stamps. Each will write an essay telling how the stamps were earned. He Loses Star in “Speeder” Chase J. Ht. Jahn, local real estate man, has sworn otf chasing speeders. Fri | day morning Jahn posseaned a spe cial police star, one of the kind {s- sued during the general strike. Sat- urday morning Jahn was starless. He turned it in. Motorcycle Patrol |man W. B. Goodwin, chasing a speeder on Whatcom ave. with a mo toreycle and sidecar attracted Jahn's attention, so he gave chase, thinking odwin, in pl hea, was a cn citizen. Motorcycle Cop Bill ett then horned his way in, chas ing both. Jahn stopped Goodwin. EB | Nott stopped Jahn. Jahn protested that he was @ copper. A few moments later, at the police | station, he deposited $250 beil for his | Appearance in court as a speeder, ‘ERN in} OZONE IS VITAL NEED Miller of Goodyear Gives Tips on Matter of Tire and Its Importance Timety Inflation an to tire branch Tire & Rt nderinflation is always costly either thr i nego ea luxur And uxurjes it in usual r desire to hely © moat miles out of hin tires might mak sales if tir used up as quickly a» possible kind of bust y nervice let It more are believers in t peas built on satiafacte We urge tire to isers our Goodyear service stations help ther get more miles from their tires service stations exist for this pur pose, just ax much as for the sale goods, Get their advice an to tire in Nation rt the mer driving season right “If you have been running your tires under-inflated because you have foared the higher preasure might in jure them, this may We have often inflated t Pressure of several hundred pou per inch in our factory ntal purposes would happen. We have never yet buret Je tire in that way, In eo «ry instance the rim or something clee has given way first. So recom mended pressures are safe pree sures, It ts also true that hot weather effect on tires—the expansion of contained air by summer heat—ts not at all dangerous, We have made careful tests to determine that point exactly, perience also teaches us that the average inflation apparatus rare ly gives the tire air preasure ex pected. There are a number of rea sons for this, one being the air frie tion on the interior of the pipes Therefore we recommend that the table of proper alr pressures which we have prepared be accepted as minimum pressures, if the car user Our € ntereat yo rea to a for experi jurt to see what wants the mileage that is built inte bis tires.” GUE | SSWORK BAD STUFF “Never gueas about your carbur etor,” says C. M. Redpath, of Master Electric company, dintribut- jing the Master carburetor tn the state of Washington, “Our advice to every aytomobile owner is to thor oughly study the carburetor on In fact for dency from hin 4 [time and expense. “But if an o the carburetor he when he is havin the to study all carb greater car ore t will mear otor, a mavir Jengine that ft ma and start to tinker with “Don't let the average repair man investignte the carburetor for trow ble, for it will be found that he Is as |poor a gucmercas the uneducated jowner himeecif “If an owner thinks that the trou ble lies in the carburetion he should look up the service station that has jexperta. These experts know the |mechanism and can at ones locate trouble definitely | “Symptoms of trouble in carture ition differ just as much as there is a difference in design, and what might indicate trouble with one car | buretor will not have any bearing on janother make.” BIG PLANS MADE FOR SMITH WHEEL MILWAUKER 21.—The Briggs & Stratton who during the war operated a mammoth plant for the production of hand grenader, have purchased the Smith motor wheel, a plant attachment for bieycles, from the A. O. Smith |Corporation of the same city | Production has already begun and several extensive additions are being made to the plant in anticipation lof the renewed interest in the once popular sport of bicycling. |SAYS FAIR HEARING | _,WILL CLEAR TROUBLE Thru a fair hearing of all the problems which confront the coun- try, ultimate justice will come and radicalism will disappear, was the opinion volced by Dr, E. Hol- jand, president of Washington 'State college, in speaking at a luncheon of the members neil of the Chamber of Commerce in }the Masonic Club rooms Friday. |. w able to brunt the waP because sound policy,” Dr. id June Co power oO. ance of rural of Ho! her and ST COMPANY GETS MAXOTIRE bear the! The Greatest Truck Value in America $1635 DELIVERED TO YOU . ATTLE, U. § » an ¥e car inaisten behind know was driving when there ca Now knock I bir * t knocks engin: causes have fat develop more ponnible a man's whe and st Name Skip-Stops on Madison Line street 1 The F car line effective Monday ekip ha Madison stop sche been anr md cars will be y Way, 23rd (afety stop N., 36th Lee (mafety stop). N., Laurelshade afet ave (we stop) East ave. N., 42nd ave ave, end of Une. Inbound care will stop at the fol lowing street 40th ave N., 35th . Denny EIGHT RUSSIANS HELD AS BOLSHEVIK AGENTS VICTORIA, B June 21.—Be Meved to be B@shevik emissaries the eight Russian stowaways, dress- in the uniform of Canadian soldiers, who were discovered board the transport Montengtle, which arrived here from Viadivo- stok Thursday, are being heavily guarded and will be deported at) the first opportunity. * | | The men obtained the untforms, |probably off the bodies of some |dead Canadian soldiers, and slipped Aboard the Monteagle at Viadivo stok, They were dotected by of. ficers of the ship on the way across the Pacific. Way on |MEMBERS’ COUNCIL NOW PLANNING TRIP The members’ council of the Chamber of Commerce and Com- mercial Club planning a three trip thru the Olymple penin arty will leave here on is days’ J A friend in need always has a hard story on tap. S BY CARLOAD First Shipment of Maxotires to Arrive in Seattle It would seem that the Maxotire long-felt want in this At least, that would ticated by the fact that company got ot weeks already have her one Westward, And this first vtained over 2,000 Maxo has filled a man's town. neem to be in ' in one ago, an rolling carload cor Hardware ar load » the Maxotire in new to a great of th given by Mr, Ernst is re produced Wére for the benefit of tire une want to know the full details of this latest invention to be announced locally To « the tires er she ers of pull ing up “at the sides,” one edge of the Maxotire is made like @ stright side jeattle motorists, faults of inner aor having a very tough, endless steel hoop in it. This is made of the best of tested steel, It is im for this side to pull up or circumstance, f the Maxtotire has no hoop in it, but it is made very wide #0 a8 to cross between the tube and rim and up the other side of the tre past the hoop side of the Maxotire. Note the Maxotire com. pletely encir the tube. Thin wide flap that passes un der tube, is semi-cured like the body of the Maxotire by a patent proceas | which has withstood a 10-year's test ‘This semi-cure makes the Maxotire soft instead of harsh and forms a non-chafing bed for the inner tube. |The flap prevents tube pinches as { tire, hoop, which just fits the rim nicely. ponsible blow out under an The oposite side | well as | tire The Maxtotire cannot blowout on the flap side for the alr pressure | forces the endless steel hoop into the | semi-cured soft tire flap, preventing | slipping and making the Maxotire a | tightly closed endless tube protection | chafing on rough edges of cover. Service and sales stations have al: | ready been established with the | Dreadnaught Tire company, at 12th | ave. and Pike st.; with English & Co,, at 618 Western ave, and with the Youngstown garage at Youngstown. Other sales and service stations will be added rapidly in order to thoroly | serve every part of Seattle. The Ernest Hardware company | control the states of Washington and Oregon on the Maxotire, and will place the line thruout this territory. It Has the BACKBONE The frame of a truck is its backbone. Upon its strength and rigidity de- pends the holding of all other parts in alignment to assure effective per- formance and long life of its units, The TRAFFIC’S 6-inch, U-channel structural steel backbone is the strongest frame ever put in a truck of the TRAFFIC’ apacity. You cannot afford to buy a Truck without investigating what the Traffic offers you for your money priced 4,000-pounds capacity truck in the world. § SHIELDS-LIVENGOOD MOTOR CoO. THE ALL-AMERICAN HOUS & bit of vivisection which exposed several broken teeth on the trans- ission ring Now while he had the rear end of his bt vated on a pair of jacks © engine chug-chug- yvered one back wheel turn while the other “Queer says he, and he tried it “Why the heck don't beth turn!” He got the whole works out and concluded something was loose. He hammered and pounded around till suddenly it dawned him that if be were aking & short turn, sort of pivot- ing on one back wheel, that wheel had got to almet stand still while the other ran around it. Now the differential is a contri- vance which shifts the power thru & set of bevel gears, to the wheel that offers the least resistance to the engine, the outside wheel in making a turn. nome more | | Built of standardized units, YAKIMA, WASH. LIVE DEALERS Hurry if you want the Traffic Truck. Phone, wire or write. Traffic Motor Truck Corp. St. Louis, Mo, F 30 to 50% on Tires Guaranteed Full Mileage We sell Fisk, Firestone, are the lowest priced tire house in the entire West. — Vitalie, oodyear, Diamond, Ajax, — , Batavia, McGraw, Federal and Savage . HERE ARE OUR PRICES ON TIRES GUARANTEED FROM 3,500 TO 6,000 MILES Size 28x3 30x3 30x: 2 B4x414 85x44 386x414 35x5 87x5 Plain $10.60 11.50 Non-Skid $12.50 12.75 16.50 18.95 22.95 23.95 25.25 26.95 32.50 33.75 34.50 35.50 38.85 Compare these standard makes and prices with other advertised prices of unheard-of makes and you will agree with us that for quality offered we GUARANTEE TIRE COMPANY 819 East Pike East 535 BEEN LOOKING FOR” “Only Slightly Used and Such a Low Price” Many of them but little used. Nearly every make represented. Surely you can find one car to suit you in our sales yard. 1914 FORD $250 1915 $275 HUDSON SUPER-SIX $1,100 PLEASANT TERMS CASH FOR YOUR CAR or we will sell at your price without commission or storage charges 1917 FORD OAKLAND MAXWELL DODGE $850 1918 1916 1917 DODGE $875 $700 $675 1919 CHEVROLET $750 A Little Down— Balance as You Ride Auto Bargain Market 701 East Pine St. East 340 The Quick-Action Corner Is Here Buyer and Seller Meet Direct