The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 6, 1921, Page 7

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6 THE SEATTLE STAR STAR EDSEL. FORD Stewart, Warner & Van Sicklen SPEEDOMETER SERVICE CITY ORDINANCE “Section 36—It shall be unlawful to operate such Motor Vehicles as are fully equipped with pneumatic | tires, without having attached to such vehicles in a ' conspicuous place, a speedometer that will accurately | indicate at all times thé speed at which such vehicles are being operated.” "Keep Your SPEEDOMETER in Repair DRIVE IN FOR SERVICE Stewart Products Service. Station 910 East Pike Street Announcement of A New Sport Car The Lark ie the finest interpretation of the sport motif ever Presented. It introduces next year's style vogue many months in advance. It is a refreshing advance over unchanged, re-priced cars. : It is offered in a variety of unusually clever color schemes, with upholstery to harmonize. le For the first time the famous Ansted mage formerly offered only in Lexing- ele ranging up to $4250, is now svailable i in « car of moderate cost. The reasons that this is possible are the reasons why you can get greater value for your investment in a Lexington today! MINUTE MAN S Shields-Livengood Motor Co.' 11TH AND PIKE STREET East 0100 Lexington Motor Co., Connersville, Indiana, U. S. A. ‘Tells Star Writer He Will! Reduce Cost of Produc-| tion; Lower Prices. Not to Come Yet, However. By Edward Thierry Special Dispatch to The Be Star DETROIT, Mich., July 6.—‘"Do it yourself—don't depend! on others.” That is the business creed of Edsel Ford, son of Henry | Ford and the world's youngest man-with-the-biggest-job. | This is the first intimate interview Edsel Ford ever has ‘given. Edsel, not Henry, is president of the Ford Motor} company. You have read much about Henry, the builder, | ‘but little about Edsel—the man at the wheel. | “Edsel is the boss,” Henry Ford had told me while he|* | was camping with President Harding, Thomas Edison and} H. S. Firestone. “No, I'm not even chairman of the com- pany, I haven't got a job at all.” | Edsel is a quiet, serious-faced, serious-voiced ydung man. He is only 28,. He looks like his father, with the same} sharply chiseled face, quite thin, with dark complexion, ‘smooth face, brown eyes and |hair brushed straight back. | He walks with a slight stoop jand long strides, like his | father. | “Father put me thr the mill,” Edsel told me. “Now I'm at the wheel. I have been |president two and a_ half) |years. It isn’t an easy job. “I realize my responsibilitices— | pow, and In the future. The hard jest part is finished. It is easter to run something that has been joranked and started and is running in high gear. | “The Fora interests have always been a one-man proposition, And always will be. “That's why father stepped out ond let me steer, I'm playing his |Sort cem things myself when I want them done right. | WANTS FORD PLANT | SELF-SUFFICIENT “I will not be satisfied anti) our jplant is self-sufficient. We make nearly everything that goers into our cars and tractors. except Tronton railroad was a step in that direction. The railroad was an ad- venture—and it's beginning to be a profitable adventure. “To get maximum efficiency we wil make our own steel. We have our ore mines and «blast furnaces and coal mines. And we are going into cotten.” i i tL AR if cars! And right now production is ahead of all records. I'm proud of that—as president of the com- And we are doing it with 15,000 fewer men than it re- quired to turn out 3,800 cars a day last year. Then we had 55,000 men. | “When we made out our schedule | Star. of what we wanted to produce we — had that many men to draw on. And| H..G. Stevenson, widely known we found—by close application of | tire man, is now district tire sales | economy and system—that we could|manager with the Hood Rubber! do the work with 40,000 men. Products company, headquarters at “No, we are not speeding up the|314 Second ave. 8., Seattle, Steven men. I think “the secret in that! son is in charge of the territory em Edsel Ford, who has just |given his first intimate inter- Reatea-Newpert Good . ‘Aubers- Gravel beyond; also v: Buncet Mighws: Renton-Fawmetaw — (Kast | view on his job to The Seattle} , Boum 20, GRADUATES ORGANIZE FIRM during foyr consecutive months early FPP Sige ts | this year G. H. Dickson and W. be) erect ’thone of any other make: tn cluding cars which sell at a lower | price, Doxy Have Fine Records Gordon H Dickson and William) | 1. Doxy, both graduates of the Uni. of Washington and clos® trom theft, personal friends since boyhood, have | .—_ vernity organized the Northwest Automobile Equipment Co. at 906 1K. Pike at. Seattle, The firm will be distributors tor | Simplex lines, the Universal wrench, | Benson radio meter and B, & B. earl caps. Dickson {s a former captain in lanl regular army, He served three and one-half years overseas and was chief firing instructor for French for the American Expeditionary for He is a graduate of the arts jand law departments of the univer nity Doxy has been connected with several well established business houses since bis graduation, includ ing the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., in Seattle, Butte, Mont. Mammoth Hot Springs. Both Dickson many friends here, ay yuomas ty BEEMAN Pagincer were BMbinG ALOUST 6, 1971 GRAVEL BOADS and at | and Doxy have } new gravel | Diamond Good. ‘Maple Valley—New road open trom Kent east; fair shape; bal three miles above Skykomish, jowpert-lesaqual Good. Closed tm Ren- tom Use detour via Kennydale Jow port -Retleves Good. -Framhlin--New concrete read two miles from Enumclaw; good gravel beyond. Parking is prohibited on Franklin bridge over Green river gorge lestopers, New concrete ‘by order of county comm: road two miles Beyond Aubarn; good Boos creek. | —Ahoquaimie pans open. | Goad in King county In excellent con- dition, New concrete pavement $14 | Assert Cadillacs | Stativticn tumued 1 By removing the distributor arm, ee the auto owner keeps his car safe ‘. miles from Renton to Coalfield open. | | Gravel section closed for paving, De- | tour via road running east at en@ of jement for five miles, (hence porth Issaquah. jachee Pase—(Yormerty McClellan Pass Highway)—Excelient condition, Open | Rational park. lam 16) fair (Boumectaw-Green Water AU roads around Boumciaw Brave!, road is rough int six miles bexond jsalmie River Near Load limit five tone. Forest Park-Nerth Cennee- tlem—One mile pavement excellent. Gravel beyond fair ‘ALL bad ~~ F i Good Read—New pavement | Side) — Con- crete pavement open for t - Linuous concrete road from open from Coster t Heights Detour to dock, Open August 12, Other roads good po fair |What Did the Sign Man Know About It? An evangelist bad tacked to a tree AUTOMOTIVE SECTIO SAYS HE’LL BUILD AUTOS AT LOWER PRIC )|Pessimiom a Lic in in Face of Auto Sales “The fact that the last two monthe were the biggest this year for the sutomobile industry has given the te to the pessimist,” says Walter G. Davis, secretary, and salesmanagep ot the Davis motor car. “Business in the automobile indus try ip actually better than most peo ple in the industry and out of it really believe. Production is increas ing and the demand for cars if isteadily increasing.” WELL, SIR, DID YOU EVER? WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT IT, EH? PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 6 (Special)—Giass cut tires are rare in these parts this season, Thoughtful motorists carry brooms in their autos, When they see glass on the street they sweep it into the gutter, Best N. Y. Sellers the Caait © Car company show that lacs were sold in New York city This number is said to Seattle motorists please copy Lp oear PIL eee LD FOUR-CYLINDER MODEL NOW ON DISPLAY at Our Showrooms HARVARD and EAST PIKE i in ; PRICES 22-34—Two-Passenger Roadster .....$ 935 22-35—Five-Passenger Touring ...... 975 22-36—Three-Passenger Coupe ...... 1,475 22-37—Five-Passenger Sedan ........ 1,650 All Prices F. 0. B, Flint, Mich. Cord Tires Standard Equipment on All Models s@ The House That Co-operation Built Seattle Spokane our hearts in our work. “We are on a sounder basis now. Everybody is. That's why we weathered what many people thought was a storm. We got along without Wall Street's money—and i¢ Wall Street thinks we put one over on them I'm giad of it. BUILDING SPEED BOAT WITH NEW METAL “The motor car isnt the only thing that keeps me busy. There is the tractor. And the gasoline trol- ley. “And a new speed boast we are building. We are using deralumi- num, the German metal, in the speed . which will have 1,000 horse It will be 32 feet long and miles an hour. “We are experimenting a lot with deraluminum now that we can make it in this country under an arrange- ment with thé alien property custo. dian, It is lighter, and it has the good qualities of steel and tron, though aluminum is the baste. Eventually it may solve motor car problema. “Father hasn't given up the gaso- line trolley car. It has been dor. mant some time, but recently we ran one down the D., T. & L. to Springfield. We believe it will solve many traction problems.” (Copyright, 1921) Road Is Memorial to Martyrs of War ‘The first step toward a national monument to martyrs of the world war has been taken by the California | State Automobile association, which has sent a specially designed motor | truck to sign a new transcontinental! | route to be known as the Victory Highway. The route, which will stretch from San Francisco to New York, will be laid out by the federal department of public roads over a consolidation of present integral highways. The association plans to complete signing the highway to Jefferson City, Mo., this year and by the fall of 1922 the entire road to New York will be marked, everybody is over the hysteria of, ahpormal prosperity. We all have cing Washington, Idaho and ‘ontana. The Hood company is the successor ef the West Coast Rubber jcompany. { For French Pastry look up Boldt's. —Advertisement. GREATLY IMPROVED KANT SKORE PISTONS at the intersection of two roads a ign bearing this advice: “Prepare to meet thy God.” And then along came a man from { the Auto club who placed a sign | right below it with the single word: WATCH YOUR STEP Motorcycle officers have been pressed into service at Port Angeles and Auburn. Autoists should keep within. speed limits passing thru these towns, for violations will re- jsult in arrest, WHOLE PISTON 200 mo 1 STRICTLY FIRST W. J. Ryan Jno. E. O'Brien of Men's Clothes 506 Union St. Suit to Order $40 to $65 kind you want at either price. The best Business Suit for Seat tle is a Bankers’ gray—$50 for @ good one. The cterizes our methods in transaction, and our cus- tomers are accorded every cour- tesy consistent with sound busi- ness judgment. 4% Paid en Savings Accounts Accdunts Subject to Check Are Cordially Invited Peoples Savings Bank SECOND AVE, AND PIKE ST, PISTON CUT IN HALF JOHNSTON PISTON & RING AGENCY | Inningham Payase 514 RAST PIKE ST.—Phone JOHNSTON PISTON & RING CO., Manufacturers, 1214 TO 1220 EAST MADISON ST, A true check valve piston her, : is lighter in weight, increases power, decreases fuel and fric- tion. It facilitates cylinder lu- brication and prevents over- heating for all kinds of en- gines. The finest steel and pure gray iron are amalgamated in this piston to produce the best results obtainable. It is accu- rately ground and finished. TO PROVE That JOHNSTON PISTONS do all that is said about a few sets for Fords will be sold at— >25 Per Set Installed at $45 Per Set DO NOT DELAY As these pistons will cut the cost of operation atleast 50%. & East 0335