The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 28, 1920, Page 7

SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1999, AUTOM ES, TRUCK UTOMOBILE PARK-T0-PARK HIGHWAY * |PRESAGES EVENTUAL ROAD FROM COAST TO COAST! OFFERS 4500-MILE DRIVE You Make Some Trip When You Take This One Map of the National Park to Park Highway, the longest continuous scenic motor way in the world, traversing nine Western states for a distance of 4,500 miles and connecting 12 national parks and Spay ro peange! and forests. The highway was dedicated to the people of America by Stephen T. Mather, director of the National Parks service; governors of eight states, and officials of the National Park to Park Highway association and the Amer- ican Automobile association, at Denver. Other dedicatory meetings are being held in cities on the route, in a 60-day official tour. Congress will be asked to consider appropriations for converting this highway into a hard-surfaced boulevard, and for sufficient appropria- tions to adequately exploit and develop the scenic wonders in the playgrounds of the nation. ‘Twelve major federal playgrounds; The connecting park highway | the tourists and visitors representing oe the West, as well as many na I caehes every main transcontinental | practically every state In the Union. ne gioco Sr ee Including Yellowstone, Yellow | “More than ever before there ex- Pee te easter mater road of|soneGlacier Bee Line, Roosevelt,| ists a real inclination among our the country, known as the National| {%® National Parks and the Pacitic| people to see America first. Where Park-to-Park highway. highways, and the Old Trails road) for years the lure of Europe has ‘This lariat highway was suggested and the Rainbow route, crossing and| caught their fancy, the eyes of all by the national park service: mapped | using them in part to make « con. |these countries are now directed to ext by the Ainertons ‘Astemehiie ‘ag. | UBUOUS thorofare, when considered the most spectacular world aggre Dociation; and brought to fruition. Wy |W", many, Commecting auto roete| gaticn of spenic wonders set apert the National Park-toPark Highway running north and south. for the enjoyment and recreation of association, of which Gus Holm, of| Director Mather, in the dedicatory | free people. ay, Wee. iin ortaioant: ceremonies held at Denver, at the| “The great bulk of travel to our Its defined course not only makes! 1 . history for motordom, as being the = = = = = longest continuous wonder way in) the world, but invites anticipation of the early recognition by the con- grem of the indisputable fact that! ‘within the confines of this encircling ighway is an arboreal fairyland, | with international drawing powers. This connecting park highway 1s 4,500 miles in length, and traverses Mine states. Its dedication recently, @t Denver, to all the people, presaged ‘the day, not far distant, when a federal highway system of hard- surfaced boulevards will extend from |] coast to coast, in the consideration @f which recreational benefits and facilities in reaching open markets twith crops are destined to be im- portant factors. The mapping and opening of the Fees Park-to-Park highway 1s (Delivered in Seattle) 1S ALL YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR A NEW ¢ first concerted step taken toward t great end. Its scope, as to Wrarieties in climate and length of Journey, may be favorably com Pared with continental Europe, in [that a 60-day tour of the route now iis in progress. Stephen T. Mather, idirector of the National Park ser- *vice; A. L. Westgard, who made the Pathfinding trip as the representa- tive of the American Automobile as- Sociation, and officials of the Nation- sal Park-to-Park Highway association, jare among the official party. The (@edicatory ceremony held in Denver jare being continued in meetings held fn the principal cities visited, in-| eluding Cheyenne and Cody, Wyo.; Great Falla, Mont.; Spokane and Se- attle, Wash.; Portland, Or; Sacra- Mento, San Francisco and Los An Beles, Cal, and Pueblo and Colorado 8prings, Colo. In the caravan of 25 automobiles | Dearing the party are cars repre-| fenting every state thru which the highway passes. California, Wy. ©ming and Montana sent cars to Den- ‘ver to begin the journey from the| ‘starting point, on August 25, and| ther cars containing state and/ feounty officials are acting as con- (roy to guide the caravan thru its own commonwealth. The official Party will pass thru here late in September. The master highway begins, lariat fashion, any place, in Maine, Vir- finla, Florida, Ilinoi# or Louisiana, | Wherever the automobile tourist lives. | Other cities on the route may be) sed, but Denver is the logical gate-| Way to those 12 national parks. The | Scenic lariat, officially, is thrown out rom within the department of the| finterior, at Washington, D, C., of| foe John Barton Payne is sccre- SENSIBLE SIX Think of it! The lowest priced six-cylinder car on the market, and there are many changes on the new model 34-C you will like—Longer Springs, Larger Car, Longer Wheelbase, Larger Bearings, etc., and only $650 Cash required as first payment. Balance in 12 months, Austin-Moseley Co. TWELFTH AND EAST PIKE Vote for Good Roads—Referendum No. 1 outset of the official tour, said to parks is in private automobiles, and | THE SE ACCESSORIES SavingOwner $75,000a Year A remarkable argument in favor of the motor truck as compared to the antiquated horsearawn vehicles is that presented by the National | Oxygen company, 14 BE. Harrison st, Chicago, “Three two-horse do the work we're «x with our 2%-ton Garford truck,” said HM. G. Austin, president of the concern. The National company's truck leaves Clearing, Til, a suburb, at 7 o'clock every morning with @ load of 62 oxygen cylinders, which weigh | about 30 pounds each, making a four- ton load. It averages 35 miles a day, covering three sides of Chicago. | | It carries @ full load virtually all the) time because empty tanks are picked | up @n route for return to the plant. SAVES 'EM ABOUT | $7,300 A YEAR | “If we used horses,” Mr, Austin | said recently, “we should need at| | least three two-horse teams, one for | each side of the city. Their opera-| teams couldn't to thea are now being offered still | further opportunities to *see these | | wonderlands by the National Park. toPark highway, connecting 12! major parks in our national parks | system, like a thread of gold con-| necting jewels of the rarest beauty. | “The official park-to-park tour ded- | icating this remarkable route to the | park traveler is an event of inspiring interest, for he can in one complete | tour experience variations In climate vu This Truck Is|Transportation and Its ranging from the frigid to the trop- teal, and oftentimes in one park.” ATTLE STAR EPARTMENT DI TRAILERS AND TRACTORS [73 Effect on Cost of Living In the “Nation's Industrial Prog ress” department, in a recent innue of the “Outlook,” appeared an article by Rolfe C. Spinning, advertising manager of the Service Motor Truck company, Wabash, Ind: in which he told of a conversation with a South Dakota farmer, whom he met on one of the recent motor truck tours, ‘The farmer took the position that the prices that we are having to pay for our foods were occasioned more by faulty distribution than by the actual cost of raising crops. “My friend was right,” declares Mr. Spinning. “The problem we are now facing is one not only of production, but of distribution as well; and distribution, | 4s our population tends to become centered in large cities, aawumes an ever increasing importance, “Civilization is the result of noth Ree ton would cont $15 a team, or $45 a) day. Our Garford does the job at bed | cost of $17.69 per day, an actual maiv- ing of $27 a day, or $7,500 a year. Its original cost was $3,800, so that| means it is paying for itself twice each year, If we had to use horses we should probably have to work more than three teams or else main- tain three refilling plants, centrally located on the three sides of the city. This, of course, would involve prac: tically trebling our present invest ment and operating expense and would make « big difference in our profits, “So far as deliveries are concerned a motor truck is an essential part of our equipment.” THE ing more than distribution; distribu on of ideas, goods and all manner of commodities. “The individyay of today ts not self sustaining. “The population of our clties,could live but a few days, once communi cation with the outside world was stopped. “All the goods mannfactured in this country, all the foodstuffs raised on our farms, must—in some) manner—be distributed to the ulti mate consumer, and the more direct the route, the lower the price; for next to the item of labor, transpor- tation is the biggest factor in the cost of the average manufactured product, be it an automobile or a loaf of bread. “In the case bf the bread, for in stance, consider how transportation affects the price you and I must pay. ‘Transportation enters into considera tion from the time the ripened wheat is cut, It must be hauled to the thresher, hauled to the mill, hauled to the jobber, hauled to the bakery, hauled to the grocery, hauled to the back door, and your wife tells you that the bread is costing 18 cents a loaf and she cannot see why. Trans. portation is why! “The bill we are paying for tneffi clent means of transportation is astounding, and is one of the reasons for the high prices now being asked.” We are approaching the winter of 1920-21 in a condition which is more serious than many of us realize. There in a startling situation that confronts everybody. In May and June, 1919,.9e had a | sway is sufficient Rim Cuts the Tire? How to Avoid It; Motorists are often puzzled at the) reason for thelr tires rim cutting. | Especially are they surprised at this when the rims are in good condition. Ordinarily underinflation is held sole. ly to blame. But there is an impor. tant contributing cause—side sway. Sudden turning of the car throws an abnormal strain on the side walls of the tires, Occasionally this side to rupture the fabric, In the majority of cases the trouble is noticed clone to the bead ee surplus of over 400,000 freight carn. By the fall of 1919 we were short 60,000 cars, Contrast this with 1920, when in May and June we were 75,- 000 cars short of needs, or 475,000 cars short of 1919. What will be the situation this fall? We face a shortage of 650,000 freight cars, which brings the ques- tion immediately to mind as to how food products can be moved at a time when America and her very life is dependent upon somewhat near | adequate transportation. ‘The only way in which it can pos- sibly be met now is thru the exten-| sive use of motor trucks. There are now in use @ million) trucks. Ten million know how to drive them. More than a million | miles of highways and tens of mil- lions of road combinations link every home with every industry. Every business man must look out for him- | self and his own business thru this transportation crisis. or edge of the tire where the fabrie strands are anchored. If the injury im neglected chafing begins. Then strand after strand is weakened. The result is a blowout. 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