The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 21, 1920, Page 7

7 Pacemaker of the 20th | — Century “It was with the advent of the wutomobile that the business world * struck a pace that has become char # Roteristic of the 20th century and ~ & necessity of the present time, en » Sbling owners to do big things at & saving not only in time and money but of physic tal exer , tien,” says C Williams, sales *)} manager of the Frank Waterhouse @ Co., local Kissel distributors. “The dependability of the automo. Die in meeting the transportation »\Fequirements of owners in all lines business and social activities has used a dependen. ng placed on * “it, which cannot be duplicated in any © other labor and time-saving machine r appliance. This dependability ables owners to practically up on their time, which in turn in © creases the * ties. LAWYER DOUBLED | IN TWO CASES “The story of a lawyer Who conducted two court cases on the same day by using his car to { whisk him back and forth between «' the two court buildings where the cases were being held, is an apt il lustration of the automobile’s ability » to increase the owner's activities by doubling his time. } ~ “The big mercantile houses, and Manufacturers who equip their sales men with automobiles, is another in stance. Their salesmen cover more territory in faster time and less ex pense, without depreciating their Physical or mental energy. | “The doctor, with his horse and| buggy. was better than walking, but even at that, he was many times too late, due to the limitations of | horse flesh, but with the advent of automobile, the doctor not only Makes more calls in the same time, Dut he is better able physically to cope with additional cases and em- ergency calls. TOWN PROGRESSIVE; CAR TO EVERY SIX PERSONS “There is a certain town that is) Feported to have a car to every six People. Without a doubt, this town Will soon outstrip its neighbors, be ause its people are equipped to ac-| complish more in less time and are| Mot depending on the old-fashioned transportation methods nor are their | Bctivities bounded by a railroad time | table. “Harriman made his executive | ability a vital force many hundreds | of miles from where he was @itting by the use of the tele phone. Business executives of to- day are able to personally oversee ) the different business interests of their institutions by employing the Automobile as a means of individual transportation, thereby increasing their personal efficiency by doubling ) their time. “And in just the same way that the automobile has increased man’s eff. | * ciency and economy of time during his business hours—so it is accom-| Plishing the same fesults in the home. While heretofore the week-end was usually spent in staying indoors, oday the family, with an automobile, @rives out in the open, giving their bodies and minds compflete rest from the week's work and activities. WHOLE FAMILY, IN FACT, 1S BENEFITED - “All the week the wife and mother has been spending her time in the home or attending to social duties, | “the children have been going to school, while the head of the house | has been working hard at the office | or factory, as the case may be. Thru| the unlimited utility of automobile «and its ability to give uninterrupted service every member of the family fs benefited and gets a complets rest’ results of their act ploneer Pesove Fee ee es he, Bee ” - nila ; go that when the new weeks starw , they have fully recuperated from the | j activities of the past week and are in| fine condition to tackle the duties and | work of the new week. “This adaptability of the automo- UTOMO AUTOMOBILES, TRUCKS, A HAND IN TIME SAVES NINE How California Autoists Signal to te Man Behind A California auto driver's “hand-out” to the man behind, indicating turns or stop. State officials have reckoned that this signal system, enforced by law, has saved innumerable | accidents. Certainly it has done much to quiet the driver's jumping nerves and to increase the pleasures of the roads SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21.—Look; dents materially, as well as to re- out for the man behind! |move much of the nervous tenaion a of driving pe keep your eyes on the M&N| “srere's how it's done: To signal te Shemt Ja turn to the left the driver's left California auto drivers belleve tn | hand is extended straight out; to the letting the other fellow know which way they’re going t turn and thus avold accident. They talk with their The California system of auto sig naling, established by law, provides that each driver must indicate with hands, according to an explicit code. | right, the band is extended out and the forearm up; to slow down or stop, the hand is held downward. On right-hand drive cars the sys tem is just the opposite Since no driver liken to feel an other car smash into him from be arm motions just what he is going to do. Automobile officials and police say that the growing use of this signal | system has served to cut down acei- | hind when he halts suddenty tn an-| swer to a signal from the traffic cop, the systern is most rigidly ob- served by all. A nignal in time often saves nine! Ah! Here Is Latest Wrinkle in the Whale Hunting Game A new wrinkle is out in the | whale hunting game ‘The mammoth of the sen ts all set for combat with the mam- moth of ‘the air, and if the Pa- cific coast whales only knew the | “Blimp whaling” plans that are | on foot among the old-time whale fishermen, it is safe to wager | they would apply for passports | to mid-Pacific waters, Captain John Loop, a Long Beach skipper, famed as a hunter of leviathans, veteran though he is, keeps step with the | aeronautic sales manager for | the fyear Tire & Rubber company of California, using the Goodyear pony Blimp as a whal- ing craft, The scheme ts to harpoon the sportive ocean giant from the air. The Blimp pilot releases a trigger and the harpoon seeks out its target. A long rope is fastened to the end of the har poon and on the other end of the rope is a buoy which serves “as a marker for the boatemen who hover nearby to captura the whale when he comes up for times, and has worked out a whaling with P. K. Coe, | trip OULD MAKE OWNER ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR AUTO OPERATION Placing responsibility for the bile to the transportation require | ments in business, home and social | activities, has done more to create | &@ newestandard of personal efficien- | cy than any qther one cause, “With the business or professional man it has made him see that he| can increase bis activities without a corresponding increase in money or time, or effort. The comfort which the automobile gives to owners, the rapidity with which it enables him | to get about, the ease of handling and taking care of the car, have had @ naturally stimulating effect on his activities. It has made him desire to do more and better work. INCREASES PATRIOTIC | AND PHILANTHBOPIC WORK “Perhaps no better example of the increasing interest in life which the automobile induces, is that of speed. ing up the individual's activities in Patriotic and philanthropic work. From President Wilson down to practically every member of the cab inet, congress and the house of rep resentatives, officials and executives in the military and state depart ments, practically every branch of government work, the automobile | has been brought into use to speed up the individual's activities, so that the nation, as a whole, can maintain A preparedness pace that will leave no doubt in the eyes of the world | that if the race is to the swift as! ) well as to the strong, Uncle Sam Will be in the lead at the finish, | “The automobile has fitted in so | A omaturally to the individual's trans » portation requirements that we hard ly realize how valuable it has be ing the inestimable help the auto mobile is rendering every branch and twig of the nation, are continually making their product as nearly 100 per cent efficient as human ingenu ty and manufacturing skill can pro- duce.” More than 3,600,000 horses were @iyplaced by motor trucks last year. Don't give up the ship, if your starter won't work and you have “4 misiaid your crank. Try this: | Redmond-Fall City—-Good. Put on the, ignition and throw Fentee ese aw eatenten Tesi". | your clutch into high. Then jack come. That it will prove more of | fa necessity as time goes on, Is cer. | tain, because manufacturers, realiz- | Low proper operation of motor vehicles on the owner as well as the op. erator was one of the changes in the auto laws of the state recom: || mended to the Western Washing ton Automobile club at a luncheon Saturday by J. Grant Hinkle, sec retary of state, and L. D. Connor, head af the motor vehicle division |IF YOUR STARTER FAILS, TRY THESE GRAVEL _ ROADS | Kent-Des Moines —Good. Des Moines-Tacoma Mighiine—Roogh to King county lina } Renton-Renton Junctioa—Good Kenton-Maple Valley—Ciosed at regrading. or by way of Swan Lake, via up your rear wheels and spin them. Off you will go. lie west of Co Nt City-Neth Bend—Gooa w steel bridge over Raging river att OF if you're on @ grade, facing ity now open. | Seve hill, put on your ignition and| inh-Redmond—Via Lake Sammam-|stast the car rolling. ‘Then throw Fair acing ¥ Wonrpuaacnamit dines! in the clute If facing uphill, roll few road be-| Your car backwards and throw the now open. | clutch into. reverse. mi at - Kenton- Bellevue pol Sunset Highway MeCletian J’ane Green Water t of North Rend). and pointe east (Bnumelaw ¥ KOADS IN Seattle-Renton Vashon Island—The ferry trom Des Moines to Portage, also the Beattie: | Vashon Helghts-Harper ferry, now run. ning. Roads on isand. Renton-Kent sid ow ron crate pavement open for travel, Con tinw Au BKIDGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION Novelty Bridge, Over Snoqualmie—Closed Use Duvall bridge «concrete road from itenton to | White river-—Clowed w bridge bullding. ation regarding King | , Call Main 5900, local 38. | county rom MH=<PBa eezoocxzzes E i Stewart Product Station 910 Kast Pike St. = Service Women automobile arivers in the! Argentine are practically unknown| on account of the severe examina tion tuey are subjected to before a| license is issued BILE ACCESSORIES, YI AUTOMOBILE IS A NATIONAL ‘Busts Seattle ito Aberdeen Motor Record Ray K, Smith, riding a 1920 stock Iexcelsior motoreyele, broke the Se | attle-toAberdeen road record, The distance from Seattle to Aberdeen ts 135 miles, with seven detours to make at this time, ‘This distance was covered by Smith in just 2 hours and 41 minutes, making an average speed of 60.4 miles per hour, the fastest time ever recorded in the northwest, In order to average this time it was necessary for Smith to ride bis} Excelsior at 80 and &5 miles per hour wherever possible, and some idea of the terrific speed on this) run can be had by the time made | between Seattle and Tacoma, which | was covered in 33 minutes flat, and) Seattle to Olympia tf 63 minutes. ‘This record is official under the M. A. and T. A. ruling, and will prob- ably hold for a long tme. Smith is a wellknown road rider in the northwest, having ridden in numerous enaurance runs and estab Wished the Seattle-to-Yakima road! tniy peason with 992 points record last summer, which atill th a inaale stands, Riding a 1920 Henderson,| Smith will try for the Spokaneto he captured second place in the| Seattle road record, within the very northwest sectional endurance run! near future. pa Mr. Take Lessons, To keep your automobile in |] Rood condition, the following |) . things should be attended to reg KF ] Bl From Trucks| is. uel blessin 1. Storage battery inspected It's an ill wind that blows One of the most despised types of |! every two weeks any good, and prohibition may prove diseourteous drivers im the one termed 2, Grease cups turned up Inelegantly but quite accurately the “road hog.” insists on taking two-thirds of the road and crowding your car off the paved road when you meet him, his tactics he not only takes joy out of the lives of other motorists but nafety. Passenger car drivers might well follow the example motor trucks on this point of giving the other fellow roi Every motorist who spends to passenger car use bids fale to much time on highways frequented || miles. solve the fuel problem for all thme. by motor trucks knows that there 11. New piston rings every 18 || very crop of potatoes contains ste neoms to be a feeling of pride among || months. potential force of alcohol; sawdust the truck driving fraternity in hav-| 12, Wheels alined once 4 || and shavings have it, and as forme ing trucks shown every possible con. || month ‘ lanses—from every ton of molasses 65 sideratio to other cars, says the 13. Wheel bearings inspected || pounds powder alcoholare produced. United States Tire company, monthly | During the war expertments were In searching for a reason for the} 14, Brakes tested and equal | made by the London Omnibus com almost uniform courtesy shown by | truck drivers, it is not necessary to look far. Nearly every motor truck | foal conspicuously the name of the|cents a gallon before the end of firm whic touring advertisement of the com ny. also actually NECESSITY D...ATT...1|{ WILSON HAD 14 Road Hog ! POINTS; SO HAS THE AUTO DRIVER |— Prohibition Is ‘Apt to Prove ‘a blessing in disguise vo the motorist, as it makes available huge surpluses of alcohol—aleohol which can | be readily converted into motor fuel te the confusion of gasoline extortion= iste and the gratification of passen ger car users. | Already in Great Britain en -m pire motor fuels committee has beem formed for the purpose of familiar \izing motorists with alcohol and ite use a8 a gasoline substitute. We should have such a committee here, There are so many ways of ob taining alcohol and so many thigge —79 to obtain it from that its every 1,000 miles, 3. Springs oiled weekly. 4. Oil and gasoline connections inspected weekly. 5. Crank case “drained washed out every 500 miles. 6. Universal jointa™ packed with grease every 1,000 miles. 7. Differential and transmis. sion packed with grease or oll every 1,000 miles, &. Spark plugs cleaned every 1,000 miles. 9. Carbon removed from cylin ders twice a year. 10. Valves ground every 5,000 He ts the fellow who} and By! endangers their of drivers of his share of the ized monthly, | pany, who were provided by the Zing» lish government with a supply of power alcohol to enable them to work a fleet of motor omnibuses on that fuel mixed with benzole, to the utter exclusion of gasoline, and the results: were entirely satisfactory. With the advance of from’4 to 9 summer, it is predicted that gaso- line may go to 40 cents by the end of 1920, owns it. That truck ix “I j WY Nee Nas ~ SS SSSQqy0Yx° wi | S SS SS Z| A N NY SOS SS Te WiMass ST ASSET | PRECKELS “SAVAGE aD AGENTS EVERYWHERE THE SPRECKLES “SAVAGE” TIRE COMPANY Factory Branch, 918 East Pike St., Seattle. 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