The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 13, 1920, Page 7

+ St SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, TP, AUTOMOB AUTOM of the Fittest Begins in the Auto Industry Smallest Auto Makes Its Appearance on Broadway Following the nation-wide in prices of automobiles, halt and now, with the easing of the money market, a rise ts begin ning to loom before the prospective decline Motor owner. Tho, Stuts and the Locomobile are the first to set a @ate for this increase, and more manufacturers are low . The cause of this reaction, it Generally agreed, is the loosening of credit during the period of croj Movement. The which bene fited so many motor owne recently is at to the Of the federal reserve board stricting credits to bring Gradual currency deflation. for expansion of automobile tories had been proce ly that, it was rea would have to expected to fol drop new ributed act ir about 1 ding so rapid zed, break come. The actior of the board averted this break and eliminated the speculative Ments in the automobile industry At the same t however, effect of the price decline, Tecently only talked about, ts Deginning to bf felt in the mobile industry. That Is evitable struggle for the of the fittest. ONLY 1: “POPULAR CARS” Passenger automobiles Were built by 140 different facturers. Of these, only be classified as makers of termed “popular” cars. The number of automobiles built during 1919 amounted to 1,657,652 Of these, the 12 constructed 80 per cent—-1,340,000! Of the 140 many facturers only 35 have an output of 5,000 or more cars annually, ‘The tightening of credit by the federal reserve board did not hurt the larger manufacturers to any great extent, but it did cause con- siderable apprehension among the 100 or more who could not weil afford to reduce their prices and go along on the same plane as their bigger competitors. ‘Already the battle of the strong against the weak has resulted in casualties, Chalmers and Maxwell have had to combine to save them- ogelves, while some of the weakest have found themselves in the hands of receivers. SAME IN ‘TRUCK INDUSTRY A similar situation exists in the Manufacture of trucks. Last year, manufacturers bailt 216,364 2 Of these, the 15 leading truck 13 produced 215,800, or 48 per tt ‘The truck manufacturers plan to fmcrease their output this year to about 375,000, an avernge of 18 ‘per cent for the whole Industry. But this will be centered in a 20 per cent to 25 per cent increase of ne, ah unti now auto the ir surviva’ last year manu 12 what car the larger firms, while the 150 smaller builders will fall below their 1919 mark. ‘This, in spite of the fact that the potential market for trucks was never better. It has been estimated that farmers alone will Fequire 800,000 trucks in the next few years as against the 100,000 now on the farms. To the automobile owner, or prow pective owner, the outlook seems ewruraging, in spite of the reaction ot higher prices. This counter move seems to be confined to the manufacturers of the more exclusive cars, but there ts no sign of any change in the prices of the popular. priced automobiles. Can aBeetle Diet a Month on Oil? Ask Naturalists All the way from Buenos-Aires comes an automobile mystery that * for @ month occupied the attention not only of motor experts and re- pairmen, but puzzied tho brains of plumbers and even naturalists. The Jatter are still In a daze over the whole affair and are trying to figure out the why and wherefore of what happened. The mystery began when the oll guage of the car in question re- fused to register more than eight pounds of pressure, and sometimes only five, when it should have been showing @ pressure of 15 pounds. The owner had a garage man ex ‘amine and test the machine. It was foo much for him, so he referred it to an expert. Even the expert could not find the cause of the trouble, but he/ hhad a hunch {t was somewhere in the oi! pipe system. So he called fn a fitter, who took out the pipe running from the oil pump to the register and blew into it. Out flopped a biob of of. As the men looked at the black encum- ! prance their eyes bulged out as they | saw the thing move along the, ground! | On closer examination the re- pairmen saw it was a beetle weil! ofled though it was, the Insect moved about and got liveller hour by hour. Six hours after it was taken out, it was as lively as any other beetle, | The car, like the beetle, was run-| ping again in perfect condition. To the motor experts the whole is solved, but naturalists gtill are wondering how that beetle Iived a whole month drowned in a bath of oil! NEW YORK.—The smallest can scoot between their knees. a misfit. the L Fordbuilt Liberty motors carried | the four army airplanes, which on | October 20 completed the 9,000 mile) journey from Mitchell field, Long Island, to Nome, Alaska, and return. ‘The feet was greeted over New! York city by a flotilia of 40 army! planes, which escorted it to Mineola. | ‘The returning planes touched their wheels to earth at 3:15 in the after: noon. | The Alaskan flying expedition, | commanded by Captain St. Clair | Street, undertook the journey to demonstrate the durability of mod- ern airplanes and motors and to ef. “fect the establishment of an aerial | route to the northwestern corner of | | the American continent and Asia. Such a route would bring mail from | Alaska to the States in two or three | days, whereas the present method of transmission requires 30 days. “Talk about service,” said Captain | Street. “Those planes and motors |sure stood up. Why, the only | trouble we had on the entire trip| | was caused by the worst bit of! weather I've ever flown thru or TIRE Careful attention should be given to wheel alignment. | | Many miles of service are lost! | thru improper alignment. A) | toe-in of a quarter of an inch | should be allowed on the front wheels. This is to neutralize their tendency to spread while in motion. The true running qualities of each wheel can be | determined by placing a sta-| tionary point close to the! | wood felloe of the wheel. The distance between the point) and the felloe should be uni- form when the wheel is re- volving. Otherwise it is out | of alignment. When a wheel | is out of alignment, the tread is simply ground off, instead of being worn off. Usually) this can be detected, as it causes the tread to wear on! one side and shows a sharp shoulder. NO NEED EXPLAINING CUT IN TIRE PRICES Announcement of a decided reduc tion In the prices of United States and Goodyear tires, taking effect No- vernber 1, reealla the repeated aver. tions of tire manufacturers that their products would positively not be re- duced tn price, This in face of the general reduction of automobile! prices. Their explanation had been that tire costs had not advanced in con- formity with the rise of other things. In fact, they showed figures which “proved” that tires were one-third cheaper than 10 years ago, despite a 41 per cent rise in the price since 1914 Neverthelenm, the 10 to 17% per cent reductions just announced are conveyance is a whole lot shorter than its scientific appella- tion. Furthermore, it is shorter than its fair chauffeur, Miss Ula Sharon. When she pilots her diminutive automobile| tense neat of thatpart of the en- | down Broadway she has no fear of traffic cops because she| gine. ‘Another Triumph for (OOM A SpEES OF AETICLES OM ‘THE CARE OF TIRES 4 D.H.FLEISCH electrically-operated vehicular Her license plate looks like iberty Motor want to My thru. We had everything rain, snow, hail and sleet, clouds, fog and mist. But we kept right on fying. “The 230 miles of glaciers we traversed was a wonderful sight, but there would have been little hope for reacue had we cracked up in that wilderness. Altogether, I was a rough trip) I never want to fly ———— TLES, TRUCKS, ACCESSORE ruggle for Survival | socket oF loose TH Prepared by Samuel J, /umen Kent Dee Moines: Des Meines-Tacoma | King eownty line | Kewton-Kenton Janetion: Kenton Maple Valley) ‘hgpt Fair to pod * aauan and part or ve Line go via t Swan Lake via Maple Valley-Mlack Diagged: Pale Kent-Maple Valley: I Dkr err Fond Kent new \ etour beyond ~ Auburn-Diach Diamenay New concrete road open miles beyond bara, Good Beyond; also good |® Boos Creek. Sunect Highway: (ast ¢ North Bend) A to Bumenit SEATTLE STAR E DE PARTME BY TRAILERS 3 : More Ghost Have You Written Yours | | | A the Traveler With Storm Some dintance from here we have a home situated on the Sound. The | house in built near the edge of a| bluff while the surrounding grounds are dotted with numerous trees, On Account of its peculiar location, wind |storms from all directions have beat Against ite walls as if trying to push it from ita foundation and over the bluff. I awoke one night when the storm was raging at its height. One could hear the wind's low moan coming thru the trees, then suddenly burst against the house with such a terri. fying crash ‘that a person's voice could scarcely be heard in the ad joining room, 1 wan lying on my side facing the window. A light at the end of a pathway shown thru the trees as they bent and swayed, making shadows like long black arma fall McClellan Pane Highwe (Bnametaw Green Water River.) Grgt srotion yond Boumclaw good 4 feeds around Knumciaw excetient All Paved Roads in Gg Condition Richmond Beach Hondg Closed weet of N. Trunk road (paving Mer way) | south © taland, good for paving ow Kewt egen 200 | eontine road fromenton to Aw Bridges Under Ceptruction Novelty thridee over 1 Chowed Use Duve brides. Overmeen Tt Auburn, Use care in poring Oriiiia Betdge: New For turther informatie ™ . call Masgeree AUTO TALK Warped Vale Stems If there in a lackot comprension and on examinatiogthe valve heads seem clean and pafeet, Inspect the | or near open ding King Local 39. | vaive stems carefulk to see if they have not become @rped by the in- — Why Ligh Fale Failure of the @ole lighting sys tem of a machinenay be due to a rundown battery, fa leaky battery cell, Running thegenerator ff it burn out the light unless the # erator field fuse #removed. If the contact fingers in he lighting switch do not make foper contact the lights will not Yrn. If one lsht fails to burn, t cause may be traceable to tht light alone—a burned out bulb, contact in U mnection at the lamp. —— Ovepeating ‘Watch ovt forsteam at the radi- ator vent, as ifindicates that the thru such weather again, but the planes stood it magnificently. In- stead of battered hulks, flopping to| earth after winded Might, they look-| ed brand new. Even the turn-| Buckles were polished and the| motors looked an if they had just come off the testing block. “We never changed a spark plog. Never « cylinder mised on ua the entire trip. The motors are in as good condition today as when we set out.” This ts the second notable event in which Ford Liberty motors have figured prominently, the first being the transatlantic jump of the Ford Liberty-equipped N-C 4, a feat which commanded world-wide interest. TIPS WHEEL IRREGULARITIES | | } | | Result of Wheel Being Out of Alignment gladly acceptable by the motoriat, no matter what the reason may be, Motor trucks have been widely em- ployed in European countries for in- dustrial, commercial and agricultural purposes since the signing of the; armistice, (season stands engine is overh@ting, This may re sult in serious lamage to the en gine if it is notcured immediately. Overheating bups up the oll, caw ing friction, lop of power, scored cylinders, broke parts and possibly a bent crank shaft and broken crank case. Old Roman Roads Shov Best Wear Some of tharoads built by the Romans 2,000 pars ago are still in active use. Tie roads have lasted thru the centufes simply because of thelr maasive onstruction. An earth subgrade, carefully pre pared and drahed, was the founda- tion of four lgers of material, each 80 carefully ld that it contributed greatly to thelong life of the road. First came he statumen, on foun dation, then de roduc, next the no cleus, and fimily the pavement or wearing surfue, The statumen and payimentum ronsisted of large flat stones, while the two intervening courses were built of smaller stones laid in lime mortar. For the tarot and packhorse traffic of Foman times, such roads seem ridiculpesly heavy, but the wis dom of the builders was amply dem- onstrated by the $00 years during which the Haman road system form- ed the backbone of the transporta- tion systemef the ancient empire, GOODYEAR TIRE CO. ARE CALIFORNIA CHAMPIONS In basebill the team of the Good. year Tire 4 Rubber Company ts now the unofftial Southern California champion. By decisively defeating the Dyas Al Stars in the first came to be played on the new Goodyear athletic fidd, the rubber men estab- lished themwelves as the undisputed masters {1 amateur and industrial baseball {2 the southern end of the state, as both Goodyear and the All Stare had previously vanquished all aspirants for the title. The team's performance for the 24 won and 5 lost, with a percentage of 827. Present plans provide for all-year-round base- ball. ENGLAND PUTS OUT “POOR MAN’S” CAR ‘There will soon be no excuse at all for not owning an automobile, for one has ¢ome out in England that is within the “poor ma: range. Re. ports fram the island say the Carden company of Ascot have produced a two-seated machine for £100, which | at the present rate of exchange ts about $450, It is said the machine can go 45 miles an hour and can climb any hill. To avold complication of belt, chain of friction transmission Capt. Carden, its designer, has placed the 8-horaepower, two-stroke, twin engine at the back with the main shaft serv- ing the double purpose of being shaft and axle in one. Nearly all Buropean-made auto- mobiles are now fitted with electric lighting and. starting systems and in the great majority of cases the two units are emoloved disconnected fromthe battery will) across my bed, Kor a féw seconds I watched the flittering designs, then thought I would change my position in hopes of aghin going to sleep. Imagine my surprise when I could not move my body back, In order to |turn on my aide, Someone was in| |bed behind me! 1 could feel the body jand limbs against mine, My first thought was that it was my aunt, who usually spent the week-ends at our home, and with whom I shared my bed, but as it was the beginning |of the week that was imponsible. My next thought, I will confess, was one of terror, 1 was at the point of ex erting all my lung power, to awaken my mother, who slept in the next | room, when the body moved. I felt breath against my cheek, a voice running its words together, said in| my ear, “Never mind, never mind,” ) and was gone. Some time afterwards, during an- other storm, I was awakened with a feeling that someone had mt down on the edge of the bed. Then a body slowly rolled close behind me, I had no doubt about it not being my aunt this time, and was going to call! when it mumbled twice, “I'll come again,” and left. rather angered me and I thought “Yeu will not come again”; neverthelems, it soon did. At this time I was both provoked and annoyed, no aaid, decidedly, “Go away.” The body moved, the voice started to say “I—~I—," lps touched my ears and it was gone. Again, for the fourth time, on a stormy night, I was awakened by tt hind me. Determinedly I sald “Go| away from here”; the weight of it} rene from the bed, a hand moved acrom my cheek and over my hair, | For the firnt time I gethered all my | courage to look, and rising toward the head of my bed was “something” like a trailing white cloud which dis appeared as thru the wall. Many have mid it was a dream, but it was not. Then I am a person who seldom dreama. A friend of the family who is @ spiritualist, sald “it was someone who had something beneficial to tell me, and that I should not have repulsed it.” Never | again have I bad a similar expert enor, and to me it remains a mystery who it was that came with the storm! G. M. F. Editor The Star: Some years aro in the city of Washington, D.C, my then family physician expressed the desire to investigate the phenomena known as sptritualistic or paychical, of which I had been « greatly in- terested Investigator for some years; and, as he was one of the most stal- wart and positive types of his pro feasion to be found m any commun. ity, my surprise at his manifested in- terest can well be imagined. So it was that the physician and Stewart Ford Speedometers City ordinance requires all automobiles have speedom- eters. Your Ford dealer |] sells them, Stewart Products Service Station 910 East Pike Street Thoroughness metheds tn | || Charactertses our every transaction, and eur cus- tomers are accorded every cour- tesy consistent with seund buai- ness Judgment. 4% Yatd om Savings Accounts Accounts Bubfect te Check Are Csr laity Invited | |invariably replying that It was suf. Stories in Star’s Contest myself, together with a mutual parlor of my renidence, under the friend, who wan a pharmacist, start-(same strictly scientific conditions ¢d @ series of sittings in the pharma: | and all in all were beyond any of us cist's apartment, under strictly |to understand or explain scientific conditions, during which| Strange to relate, these experiences my friend, the physican, developed | ceased almost as mud a they most marvelous psychical gifts, the | started, as one night “J * simply phenomena ranging from those dumped everything overboard with the following mene “Thy norry to way, is our last succe meeting. We must drop the curta Good bye. Jarvis.” And fr Inight until the present ume known as physical, such as material jzavion of handa, playing of musica! instruments, to those of a character, much as claira clairvoyance, as well as a eombir n th tion of both, such as Independent | has communicated but once, an writing. |then thru another prychic The principal actor upon the un-| Since that time my friend, th seen stage gave the name of Jarvis Jamea, but’ to all inquiries an to bis earthly history he was nonce ttal | physician, has never permitted hin self to engage in further experimen: along these lines, due largely to th lfact that they Involved a seriou |drain upon his nervous system, an | the additional fact (and this needs ficient to know that HE WAS and COULD COMMUNICATE with us in the manner he did In other record of the phenomena produced, | known influences great and but one illustration will serve to| dangers confront the neophyte. potnt the moral which adorns this CHAS, 0. PIERSON, tale: Auditor, Wash.-Alaska On a table, behind a curtain drawn M. C. & T, Bystem. across the corner of the room, the aves walls of which were solid, were placed two clothes pins—one of the Unes of which was missing — a guitar and a bell, together with a| marked pad and a black lead pencil. The clothes pina would be used as drum sticks, the top of the table be ing used as a drum, and all the various rolls would be sounded mont expertly; the guitar would be atrummed, the bell rung and hands would be exposed to view, while mes. sages would be thrown over written in RED and BLUE as well as black, altho but one colored pencil was on the table behind the curtain, and that black in see Une evening, while we were await. ing the arrival of the physican, a dis doing fr ncisco. pree years ago 1 |lance writing in San F | stuff was selling and I was happ: | Mut then, J usually am. |my best pal. He was with an a vertining concern and was writing play on the side, He used to read to me. I was keen about it. I’ aure It would have been a wondert play. Fut it will never be finished. ald’s a4 copy was awful ] this man or that. nomena,” which had recently been | over cur satheh dk 404 teas oD published. Upon the arrival of the physician he took his accustomed place in front of the curtain, a seo- ond curtain being placed over him, and both of his hands controlled, and almost immediately after he had taken hin neat, & message was thrown over the curtain which read as follows: “I use the professor's ub- Jective brain as well as his subjective arm and hand.—James Jarvis.” This was so much to the point that I sug gested to “Jarvis” that he write us a book, to which he replied in another mesmage: “Wait for the book”; and then, almost instantly, there was thrown over the curtain a sheet, torn fromm the tablet I had marked and placed on the table behind the curtain, numbered 1, on which was written 76 words, and before I could finish reading this to those as setbled, five other sheets numbered from 2 to 6, inclusive, came over the curtain together, This message, an intelligent argument, contained over 600 words, and the original is still in my possession, . . . To the above could be added a very great number weight. In March, 1918, he tri again and they took him, | I would miss him, but of course, was glad to have him go. One evening early in September was having dinner at Techau's wi! 4 doctor friend of mine. there was a long distance call f came down the room toward me. casualness amused me and ! grinn back at him. He said, “I'm going away.” “Be gone long?” I asked. “Rather long,” he answered. I said gaily, “We'll drink to yo trip, whatever it 1s.” of flowers at a weance given in the|them down Ronald rose and said. but mighty important tomorrow will be the small amounts you could so easily save if you would. Five or ten dollars put to work here every pay day will soon amount to something worth while, and while it’s mounting it will earn you real divi- dends at regular in- tervals. 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We'd linger overdue, but let's have another cup.” Ronald had tried to enlist when we first went into the war, but he was rejected because he was under- I knew Just as the waiter served our Martinis the head. waiter came over and told Doc that him. Doc asked me to excuse him, and left A tall man in a uniform was Ronald, and he dropped into the | chair opposite me and smiled. His We raised our glasses, and I re- member thinking that {t was an un- of experiences, such as the bringing | usually good cocktail. When we set TEKMS OF CONTEST Today lant which you may enter your “ghost” story in the $100 prize contest offered by The Star, The st is in aspired by Basil King’s novel, ‘Parthbound,” which is now bee ing shown at the Strand theatre the in | is con in pletures First prize ts $50. in $ third, $10; fourth, and the next 10 prizes are $1 each, Stories must be no longer than They must be real of the writer; no Second prize 500 words exper fiets Wr only; ences » 6 on one side of the paper use typewriter if possible; otherwise, pen and ink Herewith are some of the stories submitted; in aut nd “I'm overdue, Pal, but I had to eay bye to you.” jood luck, Old Dear,” I answered. Just as he was going out of the room he turned and smiled at me over the heads of the diners. When Doe got back, I said: “I treated an old frend of mine to e n- | #0 ts | ne us nd to words, that his personality did not|the minds of ail investigators of | your Martini.” figure... . these phenomena), that in opening| And then ¥ noticed for the first Space will not permit a detailed |the door to these unseen, and un-|time that while my little glass was empty Doe's was still full “Oh,” I said, “I guess he dian't; ywant to drink to his own trip—tow |much Uke drinking to his own |bealth. Or, perhaps, it was because |he was in uniform I didn’t think of that.” It was several weeks afterward that I received a little note from @ | buddy of Ronald's telling me that ee y.| 1 saw him. His letter ended: o) “He met the greatest adventure am |he met all lesser ones—with @ a | smile.” VELMA POMEROY, it m | ‘ul hy od 1 I th lor It ed This is a good time to consider how much a used Buic! 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