The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1919, Page 19

/BIG LUMBER COMPANY ADDS GMC 2-TON bs oiubd a J TRUCK Melntosh-Truman Lumber Company's New Job The MoclIntosh:Truman Lumber Company of Seattle have established reputation for dependable service. SRINGS JOY TO COUNTRY old-fashioned farmer, who in the kitchen on Saturday , shaved by a broken mirror tn _ the kitchen window, and retired each ing immediately after the chores & re done, is becoming extinct. _. He ts rapidly undergoing a trans- _ formation, and in the course of a few 3 ‘The ‘the electric lighting systems and oth _ @r modern conveniences, he has for- _Saken the old drudgery of the farm and is enjoying the luxuries of the In order to strengthen that reputa tion, and to further their individual service, they have recently added a two-ton GMC truck to their delivery RiM PROVES BIG FACTOR The rapid advance of the motor truck into a bigger and broader field of service, following the adap tation of pneumatic tires to this new agent of transportation, has been one of the marvels of this decade. Its great mobility and its adaptability to nearly every kind of service have made for nent place world. From it» former limitations as to it @ perma the transportation speed and cushioning qualities, the pneumatic cord truck tire has brought the motor truck into a class where its capabilities of making quick de liveries of materials in good cond tion are determining factors in com puting its value. But without a suitable rim even | the pneumatic truck tire could not Under this new itive estimates, is doing amount of work with half formerly involved. ith the adoption of these With only limited success, Many who Mould have preferred country life to ahat of the city, except for the incon- ‘wenlences which they were compelled undergo in connection with the wil be solved, at tially, by the installation of | ngs, which make for greater test manufacturer to esti- value of the electric light bis name stamps it as a product of | bigh standard, and the Sander-Pren | thee Corporation, with temporary of- fices at room A. Colman building. fontrolling distribution in Washing ton, Oregon and Idaho, is fast closing Up agents in its territory. have brought the motor truck its present degree of usefulness. “Most of the pneumatic truck tire rims used now are modifications of rims that have been used with au tomobile tires.” states James At kins, rim expert of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company. “Present makes,” he says, “are somewhat similar, but all are modifications of the firet Goodyear detachable rim, which attained widespread favor be cause of its dependability and the ease with which it permitted tire to “With big pneumatic tires tire changes are not so frequent as with other tires for the treads are thick er and therefore withstand puncture more easily. But when changes are necesmary they can be made easily and quickly because of the ‘side ring’ feature of the detachable rim. “With the removal of this ring, which is used to hold the detach able part of the straight side rim in place, the tire can easily be slipped off or on as occasion may require. ‘This is a most important feature and one which has been a deciding factor in this rim's success. ‘e have been specializing on Pneumatic truck tire rims and owe a large part of our success pneumatic truck tires to i a t te f iis F lit f £ i How About This for William? MNO: equipment. This GMC truck can be avon daily on the streets of Seattle, delivering maximum loads at mint mum cont HAYNES TO MEET DEMAND) “The causes Urat have contributed to the present high level of prices are many an varied and #0 are the expe nia put forth indi viduals jand organizations to bring these pri down, declares Mr. A. G | Selberling, vice president and een manager of the Haynes Auto | mobile company, Kokomo, Ind. How ever, In these times of agitation and industrial unrest. it well to revert economics that prices are governed | by the law of supply and demand. |} And in tts fing! analysis it is the inevitable working of the law of sup | ply and demand that has brought | about the present price «ituation | “With this basic truth as a hypo. | themts, the methed of remedying | the present price condition ts a | simple one, but, Ike all simple ex | pedients, extremely effective, It in this; Increase production in all | phases of industry to such an ex eral | tent that there will be more than! | enough to fill the demand. Let every every corporation shoulder their share of the respon sibility and do their full part tn speeding up production to place a sufficient supply of commodities on | the mmrket to meet the demand. Then, and only then, will prices “Federal and state legislation to stop profiteering is a good thing as far as it goes. But legislation can mot change the laws of economics. The upward cycle of prices was originated by a shortage in supply, | and the only permanent way to start }& downward movement is to remove the shortage. “The Haynes Automobile company realized this situation some time ago and immediately inaugurated plans to double the output of the Haynes factory. These plang are being rap | idly rushed to completion and soon |& new factory building, the largest of ita kind in Indiana, will be ready for operation, increasing the foor area 200,000 square feet and bring ing the total production of Haynes care to 15,000 annually. In this positive way the Haynes company te doing its share to bring prices down.” —-— —_ , ] G ! REASE-LESS - _ Kerosene and turpentine, mixed two to one, is the best little solvent for grease around an automobile. If you're @ bit dainty at all, the Gingracefu! state into which a neg- lected engine and chassis will get gives you more grief than a dirty~- faced child tn the street. Washing and polishing the out- He's Death on Grease ward parts of the car till they shine will not make up to you for the inward untidiness known only to you Swab the greasy parte with the turpentine and kerosene and let the car stand over night, Then go after it with a putty knife and any other edged instrument that seems best to fit the corners and crevices, If the grease is of long standing, |you may have to apply several doses of the solvent. Wipe up the loonened grease with coarse cloths | Bagging is good for thin. This sort of treatment will get & car ready for a painting Job bet- ter than anything else. And here's a little formula for that painting of the metal parts Turpentine, 2, linseed of! 1. Mix some white lead with lamp black and add a little at a time to the oil mixture. 30-ACRE BEET FARM PROVES GOLD MINE PECKHAM, Colo, Aug jit ay to grow sugar beets commercial scale? Ask Virgil Timothy farmer of this district. He says it does. Timothy proved such a big success at growing sugar beets that the Country Gentleman, a widely read agricultural paper, made him the subject of an extended write-up. | Timothy raised 20 acres of sugar beets during 1918, for which he re ceived $3,105 from the Great West lern Sugar company He put all of the tops and crowns, which the fac |tory does not buy, in a pit silo, tamping them down hard. He began |feeding thia ensllage to 50 head of range cattle jast December and 16.—Does on a a young when the animals were well round-| ed out, ing a net vent them to market, mak profit of $2,500. ‘Timothy also that he fed a part of \this ensilage a bunch of hogs, on which he a profit of $3,000 SMOOTH LEATHER PULLS BI When the leather fan belt ¢ considerable slippage, tho it is r sonably tight, it is probably because to made _ The British propose to hold William Hohenzollern for trial in the Tower| the rough side of the Landon, pictured here beneath the former kaiser’s portrait; and in the | against r are the gruesome block and ax by which many a noble of olden| smooth side of the leather ? met death. What will be the fate of the er the pulley surfe has much greater friction adherence, to the fundamental truth of! THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1919. Exide Batteryin New Home | | at East Pike and Summit | Setting a record for fa construction, the buil jerected for the exciusive use of the Northern Auto I tric company, at the corner of East Pike and Summit ave., will be ready for 1 on Monday, August 18, and F. G. |Guenther and W. C. Grabau, co-partners, will welcome the| public for an inspection of one of the most complete bat-| jte and electrical establishments on the coast new firm will divtribute the} the | Mxide ty t ling The nder supervision of a battery * of batteries In the great. | expert al novelties have in the been intro. eleetricn part of the state of Washingtor luced way of ar perated counterbalanced ut tank suspended Jand will render service on the Hxide of b ad department for the repair, adjustment and installation of kind of automobile electrical eauipment drill whieh and ad Hitlon to ey make in bores ¢ the terminals; a le their from th the memantine electrolyte the work| an electrical ating tank for th compound, and an electric heating box for} pening batt | The of batteries will be car-| ried on the mezzanine Moor, and an wil lower them to the department | Mr. Guenther will be tn charge of) &nd promotion, and Mr. Grabaa have personal charge of the the service end of the containing in ducted thru lead an which ben The new bullding and ite eaquip-| has been planned to handle work in the shortest length and with the greatent j of efficiency. Lost motion will be missing entirety, and a bat tery passes from one workman to another tn reguiar rotation, Bach man has one certain plece of work te do on the battery, and from ite entry into the repair department to| shop its exit, every phase in the work in] b: TAKES BRIDE |DIE-CASTING | INPORTLAND) SAVES TIME Ordinarily cast mechanical parts which are required to have finish within small) be fin before | ment battery of time, amount ten eleva service \ will accurate inches mact must ished in use. Since rine to an industry felsion machinery |dreamed-of quantity, a new meth |inaking accurate small parts in the |foundry, which require no machin ing, be developed. This | . [method i» called die-casting a ? castings ar hese mo ~ iy the shop to gave} producing pre- | in heretofore un-| made in or metal pattern | shape and slightly the finished There moulds are each casting in made | the piece which ¢ mould is rougr | apt to be porous | be teed ' 4 romet ferent casting ts n up after Furthermore from the inaccurate, is and before it car carefully machin mber of dit involving as many wubsequent and an tions. Die howev thar astings, er, are cant to forming | sheet-metal stampings or rop forgings. The moetal| od into theme dies under| of being merety)| to the perfectly wurface of the casting is of sound thruout and Gordon Prentice Under the impression that he was slipping something over on hin friends of Auto Row, Gordon Pren-jis tntrody tice, president of the Sunset Electric | pressure Company, and of the Sander-Prentice | pour Corporation, quietly left for Portland last Sunday, and was married on ‘Tuesfay, August 12, to Mint Vera Kelso of 457 B. 20rd ave. A honeymoon of 10 days ts now the main event in the lives of Mr. | and Mra F fter which t will return to make their permanent ne Mr. Prentice friends are anxiously waiting a chance to cofgratulate him on the | Most succesyful coup of his entire} for instead and smooth rewulting surface | shag le, the ooth ¢ dimensions with work uminum a practically oye, but to inetals of low | point, such as bronze, ete. Bewides quicker and more production, die-castings, }quantity of parte, are more j|nomical because many expensive machining operations are eliminat ed and becaure wastage in reduced thru greater uniformity and the elimination of most of the chance 1 °f spotlage in the machine shop. day melting me uniform in any career eco- Dering hot weather the truck radi Stor should be filled as full as pom bie and the overflow pipe must not be allowed to get clogged or slip | down in the radiator. In filling the radiator absolutely clean water must | | be uned. Rain water is best. Detween Kent and Thomas for paving.) ‘Thru traffic should wee pared read on Paving werk tn Progress between pointe & to | miles out of Auburn Detour at end of par ment 6 miles from Auburn, ever good eravel roads Now concrete pavement is open at from about 9 mile from Auburn into Roumelaw | ROMANCE IN A ROAMER oon the their . or them. brides as to renpective as ormer return Portugal, r © land N. Mantero is managing director of M Lid larg t importing 1} Lisbon, ntero, one of the in establishment that imum quantities of American made goods, BE. Paeche is a major in aviatior In the service of his engaged in the uipment extended were uNe and an intry, b replacement The tour of visitor an recent Barley Mantero nt of Senor to represent in Portugal. An was placed for a seven-pas © lie which will by them during their tay York City and later the company a contract mpany or: uned New to Lishor While tlemen whipped in ar Kalamazoo itted that bon they w th Automobiles these gen their re 1 be mar ir honeymoon trip Added * statement came in an for their One in a ® car in ¢ in a in ename conventional Kuropean drive is installed in apeedometers read | stead of gnu tres in a on turn to r for two cars per n-passen led white. four-passenger The right-hand The kilometers in while the gaso- each car shows of the American gal- sona wer t The sportster ring other ed carmine both carn m ” lon measure Mante xprensed the opinion that in the future Portugal would become @ valuable market for American-made foods, while his countrymen would make equal ef forta to sell their product the United State TAKE IT EASY ON HILL CLIMBS It's ambition new the of most every auto driver to “make” th hills on high. It's dangerous ambition And, besides that, it is hard on the engine. ‘The newer the driver, the lea the chances he should take of having to ahift gears part way up. It takes k and expert action to shift from to second, or on a very steep to low, at just the right instant to have the gears mesh properly and to avoid killing the engine And if the engine ts killed and the Wrake happens not to hold there's | every chance of a bad pileup in back- wn the hill or to a position cromwways of the road to get a fresh start. Rest shift into second near the bot tom of the hill. Be sure the car ts slowed to the pace at which second =peed would carry you if you already {had shifted In driving up a hill on first or sec ond speed, you must know that your engine has some reserve power, that it is running fast enough #o that it will not wtall. And if you have to shift, do it quickly, so as not to let the car slow down to a point that will kill the engine when you throw the clutch again. FREE OT“; HOLES ‘The car owner who intends to do Any repainting work will do well to see that all exposed ofl holes are stuffed with felt or waste to prevent their being painted over and = choked. The latter condition will re- sult in failure of oll to reach the bearings when the car is agnin being run in} Truck Buyers Are Now More Discriminating Than Ever handles | the | William M. Hartford “In the days of keen competition stiff competition, and is a remark buyers are becoming more discrim.|@ble recommendation ‘for the Traf- fic’s performance. “We have adopted the slogan, ‘Any road with a 4,000-pound load’ for the traffic, and that it lives up to ft» name is evidenced by the sales record we have e. “Arguments that sell trucks for us are solid ones, based on the merits of the traffic itself. In brief, they are as follows: Continental Red Seal motor, high tension magneto ige nition, thermosyphon cooling sys tem, cellular type radiator, enclosed disc clutch, covert transmission, Flussel internal gear axle, Timken roller bearings at the wheels of front axle and all the equipment neces sary to operate a motor truck.” inating, all because the message car ried by the motor truck salesman is full of enthusiasm and informa which is essentia educat | says Wm. M. Hartford, general sales manager of the Shields-Livengood Motor company, distributors of the Traffic truck line | Selling motor trucks a real} merchandising accomplishment,” con tinues Hartford, “and must be pur- | sued with diligence and persever ance. Up to date we have delivered over 100 Traffic trucks in the state |of Washington, and have orders on | file for half # hundred more. This | record has been achieved in the face | on y nal WHAT TO DO TO YOUR CARBURETOR Many cars have no provisions, aside froma a strainer in the tank, for keeping out dirt from the carbu- | - <7 1 | NOVEL USES FOR | WORN-OUT CASINGS | ‘The Popular Science Monthly |conducting @ contest on “What You| Can Do With That Old Automobile) (Or BO°P Oe ow of such vehicles will Tire.” Some of the suggestions! 4o well to fit a trap in the fuel Hines joffered in the June number are as| All the big carburetor makers offi follows: these traps, which are to be placed i lin the line near the carburetor oF 1: Am Sees Snes. Se lim the bottom of the tank. The |eral hooks and liner attached Is said/trap catches all the dirt and water to beat a “trot line™ all hollow for|and showld be cleaned out regularly results in fishing. The motion of| nce a month. | the tube on the water causes the! nig speed your engine up hooks to figgie and attracts the |tinh’s attention to the bait—ca.| Be first 300 miles of its life, Duffy.) | Four auto tires and two tackle |blocks make @ sling that can be/ | used in lifting sick animals to their! \feet or supporting them while help less —{D. EB. Johnson.) Shoes to protect cuts in tire cas ings can be made from sections of old tires —(C. A. Butterworth.) Two old tires will make baby a novel walking chair by the use of spokes which will support the one tire above the other, the lower end of the spokes terminating in free moving casters.-(R. Maginsky.) Cut into uniform sizes and laced in pairs, sections of a pneumatic tire casing will make an efficient fev buffer for a launch or small boat— cw. E. Wylam.) Cut to proper lengths, old tires: make excellent tree guards. Sew the cut ends totgether with waxed thread —(C. L, Meller.) | For basketball practice the re \tired tre makes an improvised bas ket. The supporté shoulé be about — a foot long —(R. Maginsky.) A tire and some wire make an efficient ash sifter.—(R M.) Split open half a tire, hang it un der the old grindstone under the stone. Fill it with water and you have an automatic stone wetter that won't rust—(Whitney Asbridge.) Poets! Rhymesters! Maple Valley-Biack Diamond dood. Sunect Highway Kenton to Summit, via Teraquah, Fail City and North Nend. } Read in good conditiea to cellent lepabare McClelland Pase—In food contition to Green Water-King county line Pieree county 4 8 miles cast of (ireen Water, good. Hollywood Kedmend Oem Woodinville Duvall Good Duvall-Teit— Farr. Tolt-Fall City—Good | Kirkland-Hedievae New concrete rection | now open, giving continuous pavement Kirkiand-Fall Gity—Good over Yellow eo trail. Redmoné-ToltOver Toit hill, condition. New In good Via Lake Sammam Kenton Good. Bellevue-Newport—Pair from Bellevue to | Wiiburton; ood remainder of way New road under contract Seattle Renton —Via Rainier V w under contract feh and county line, south of Bryn alley—City bet wee cloned. Mawr Flovlevard around aseable. Ferry Fortuna, Leschi, making six trips information call regarding roads Main $900, | FOR YOUNG FARMER) »— The Sale fon “A present for your his birthday, eh? A soldier, I presume | The Customer-——"Certainly not. He | wag a constant pacifist all thru the | war." | on mt The Salesman—"Let me show you some nice tatting outfits,” LOOK “I want to old gray HERE! A new Want Ad Rhyme Contest! Write the first line this way: trade my mare”’ Then write three more lines that will rhyme. Don’t forget to mention WANT ADS. Rhyme to consist of four lines only. Your rhyme must reach The Star by next Frid side of the paper only. dres at top of the page. ay noon. Write on one Write your name and ad- If you did not win a prize in the other contests, try again. First prize is $3. Star reserves the right t mitted. Twenty-five tickets to Clemmer Theatre will be given as additional prizes, Note: The 0 print any rhyme sub- Bi yy | See Classified Page for additional particulars.