The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 28, 1922, Page 7

Old Builds Autos'BRANCH STORE 2.8 “+ |” FOR EVERETT | Western Auto Supply Co.| Enlarges Chain ROBERTS LANDS |1 PORTLAND DEAL Northwest Oakland Distrib- Heads Own Factory Force utor in Oregon City | a | Announcement of more than ordin @ry interest on auto row was made by R. K. Roberta, Northwest Oak to be opened in the Northwest terri land distributor, from Portland a few |tory in 1922 by the Western Auto days ago. Roberts advised of haying , | Supply Co, is now being fitted up in SHORT-TURN AUTO BUS | 7 -Year * * j First of a number of chain stores in 28.— for S19E.PineSt. Phone E. 1055 or crease PROHIBITION NOTE GASOLINE HAS BEEN FOUND GOOD FOR SNAKE BITES IN SOUTH AFRICA. see Ralph R. Wheaton, Dist. In conjunction with Works the largest and cylinder grinder in the Northwest - let us estimate your work. Automobile or Marine. General Machine Work. East 1176 705%, E. Pike} New aeroplanes have every con- venience except a place to get out and crank when the engine stops. as SOCIETY NOTE: A man ts known among flappers by the auto he keeps. ‘ee Suggestion made to lock up autos violating traffic rules in municipal | garages. Some contractor musta’! broke into print. ve cee BEING DRIVEN “I saw you out driving yeater- a o, my wife was driving.” “But she was in the back seat.” “Just the same, my wife was I wil clean out the crank case in my car regularly. I will do it at FERGUSONS AUTO DRY DOCK, where ser- vice is FREE—Where I can get the best of oils on the market. FERGUSON'S East Union St, bet. 22d and Original Auto Dry Dock in Seattle te frost. \ tinent. )otticiais of the Indianapolis sweep: stakes expect to receive applica for entry from French and Italian amallcar drivers, They will] driving.” not be surprised to hear from a ° German racer. Ford says he will make autos out of cotton. Then you might look for your car and find that the boll-wevil Ihad eaten it ee OVERLAND PARK, tn Denver, Colo., is equipped for 30,000 campers | and motor tourists, The camp has an actual movement in and out of |approximately 150 cars a day. ser palace lerand ane RUN THE engine a while before starting off. RETAIL SALES | *°C. PS" Endurance | Car of Endur uf what most automdbile owners seek in @ car. Other considerations im Ford Products Show Gain) order ot preference are: Koonomy, in Sales for 1921 hillclimbing ability, flexibility, en dorsement of others, specifications, DETROIT, Jan. 28.—Retall sales| speed ang appointmenta, tractors exceeded the million mark! WOMEN ARE found to use more — for the year 1921, according to &| care and have fewer accidents while — closed a €ontract with Howard M. Everett by James Shaulia Shaulis statement given out by the Ford | operating motor vehicles than mem. — Covey of the Covey Motor Car Co. lim employed by the company to have | of Portland, whereby that organiza. |nole charae of opening new branch | The Ford factory and assembly | more courtesy on the highways. plant production figures reached n| franchise of Oakland automobiles for | | Southern ate total of 1,060,740 cars, trucks and| Portland and Multnomah county, ‘The new Kverett atore ts located at Oregon. 2824 Colby at, and will be under the by dealers was approximately 1,092, t 000 cars, which surpassed the 192) Wie mee in the Northwest. He en-| _ | salou manager of the Seattle store, on | retail sales record in the United| the automobile field 17 years! Westlake ave. February 10 has been > ‘ pi ‘i ‘ ‘ ago in Portland and as the Cadillac | Jeet as the date forthe opening of the| This auto bus is 37 feet long, but it — turn in a radius of trucks. 30 feet. It is the invention of Glenn Curtiss, the aeronautic| “Comparison of production figures viable, and, incidentally, perhaps, the j |_ Another important deal of the engineer. He is experimenting with it at Miami, Fla for the past two years shows that| largest organization in the industry | | Western Auto Supply Co. in this ter-| in the city of Portland. |ritary haw recently been consummat popularity, as 23 per cent of the 1921 production were sedans and/| to the Oakland factory. where he coupes as made a thoro investigation of all the! P against a total of 18 per. Bow methods now peing employe: In) _ Bob Booker, 17-year-old youth, at the wheel of a “Stearn’s| city. and which will be fitted up and] Recent reductions in Ford car farm, the now labratories that have |Special,” @ miniature automobile built under his direction in| i" *° ee Saeneerey. oom and truck prices brought them to| heen established for every manner of |@ section of the B. F. Stearn’s automobile plant in Cleveland,|” ,ccoraing to 0. H. Pounds, district = new low level. The touring car} testing materials to be used in Oak- | |$219, the cou | } ; « . the coupe for $580, the nedan| ‘uhinn dent of the company. Bob's factory force consists of two nae eg asea iy the company | Preparations Made for 500 GET A NEW TAG OR YOU'RE |for $645, the chassis for $285, and mense , , 6 opel of umber of p plant ie con oe boon Motors | workmen, Last year they built 10 cars. Young Booker says) ri cores tn the Northwent during Mile Race IT. the truck for $435, all F. O. B. eu i build 25 in 1922. : | tion are preparing to place| he is going to build 25 i $3. pS. | Sie. veer ewe - et egg di Very few married men try to drive| This is the fourth price cut st tne | anseet one in the history of the com RK INDIANAPOLIS, Iné., Ja an auto with one arm—Auto notes|the past 16 months. During th: Volume of production. ° [Pavene | Preparations have Geen Segua in wife's dairy. time the price of the touring car! Im addition to the CadiNac, Covey | In order to carry out @ policy of the first real test of the enfill: i Be has been handling the Dodgefor the) Uu (@) rm TlvV | Uniformity In their many stores, the $348, 0 ie j employs | mile international sweepstakes ruce| . Age sagen epdrse pe the Cadillac. traveling auditors, window trimmers| here Memorial day, deat @ train to the crossing DO IT. Reductions @n some of the other and les promotion expert 0 | ho onditio ‘ pes have been even greater. sales promotion experts, who! Although conditions of the race LIZZIE IS HONORED Outlook for 1922 ts decidedly op- the West and Middle West, introdue:| 1921, in which maximum piston die] ,Society of Automotive En-|timistic. Car and truck retail sales Garage D Trous| “Tt ts hard to realize that the/the streets were narrow and the ing uniform business methods and| placement of competing engines was : ~ o ange! name ‘limousine’ comes from the /twittings and turnings many. A !@*a# of successful selling. set at three liters, 183 cuble| for touring car type of auto-| per, 1920, sales by almost 25 per ‘The danger in running an engine|head-covering of a French peasant horse and carriage simply could not - °f | mobile jeent, and Fordson tractor retail fm a small closed garage equals that | woman, yet this is the absolute case.” get thru. Instead of calling « tax several cars with two-liter and even , a age jaales for the same periods show an Yandell Henderson of Yale. A car) Handiey-Knight company, Kalama-|helpers soon came along, and you . Already three French drivorn havel au “) December, 1921, as well as an in Produces one cuble foot or more of roo, Mich. were quickly whisked away to/ Metallurgical Men ,.’ jared their intention to enter the| OF WAY. . & © over the total tractor sales the deadly carbon monoxide gas 4) «Ir appears that the limousine was Wherever you wanted to go. | Blwood Haynes, president of the) race with two-liter—122 cuble inch—| ORANKS stil! cause most auto ac-|{%,th* month of November. Prof. Henderson calculates, the of the region about Limoges, France, !axurious and comfortable that they!mo, Indiana, and widely known inj It is thin class of small car that not only are the farmers buying hhaust from a car can contaminate which was the capital of the old prov. Deeame the favorites of royalty, and!automotive and metallurgical fields! will take the test to prove its real jmore freely, but that the general/ the alr to a deadly concentration |ince of Limousine. The peasant wom. |"©0n the name ‘wedan’ was used to as the inventor of stellite, was) value to the automobile public, Just public in becoming more responsive {with @ cape attached. This became |& new type of closed car wan devel. the American Society of Stee! Treat-| self equal the motor of larger Ford is giving employment at) jknown as a limousine, because the Open, and a fitting name was de-|ing at the recent Indianapofia con-! piston displacement in the Jast two [Present to approximately 40.000 women of Limoges wore it. sired for it, sedan was choren, as a/vention, Haynes is best known! years, go it is expected the smaller men in bis main plant at Detroit. called Limousines, and when the | losed car luxury.” j}Sutomobile, although he has won! effectively. population is employed by the Fort) French brought out @ sort of cum considerable prominence thru bis| Automotive engineers my the Motor company. | jpaign wagon for their armies, much inventians of steliite nd stainions mmaiier car, havirig lose weight and named a limousine because, like the | . B of aluminum and nickel steel into| tues equal the larger engine in ists’ eds women of Limousine, it was covered | Ruin Your tEELY Loromabite design. power, eniuianen and speed. Tourists’ Ne & with hood. When the French be} So-called battery “rejuvenators”| In addition to the American So-| Kuropean progress in the manu or... with a hood they were quickly|a while, But at the expense of| member of the Iron and Steel Iinati-| reached the point where the amail/ Growth In popularity of simmer r ei xing, County Pearce . named ‘limousines’ after the ngasant-| the battery They shorten the life|tute of Great Firitain, Ameriean| car has become an accepted ac! page a pom’ a pega be WEEK ENDING JANUARY 28, 1993 | woman's coif. |of the battery plates. The best way| Chemical society, International Con-| ment. vita of automobile eapestaly an automobile have equally interest. ae Automotive Engineers end the! have been tested in ri ‘ the kind of car that will make | mors on the com oot me je antecedents. Sedan is see THE PRESENT average whote| American Institute of Metaln, . flees mde Mts Me dla Des Melncs-Tacoma iighline — Pair; |after the village in northeast France main price of gasoline in 20 promi-| - = Lea, Se Danes ee See: ~ jthe debacle of Napoleon IIT. in 1870.) 20 cents a gallon, as compared with history the traditional horse-drawn nee The factories in this town were fam-| 29.3 cents January 1. victoria gave way to the motor car jous for the chairs which they turned | — when Gen. Pershing was received at Frit mall gmc of the beeen taxicab. la cents on gasoline tn now imposed M The Amertean party ar-| cine [Chairs were necessary because in the|on motor vehicles in 14 states in the | rived at the palace entrance in an| cent ores ancient parts of London and Parie Union lautomobite | A census conducted by the Na tional Automobile Chamber of Com merce shows that. endurance * is comfort, price, appearance, services, of Vora cars, trucks and Fordson — Motor company. They, too, are credited with showing: tion takes over the retail selling | atores on a uniform basis with their) tractors for the year. Retail sales Covey ts one of the oldest automo- ldirection of Roy Feimley, former | States by 104,213 Ford cars and| distributor Ras built up a most en new store = Ford tnclosed cars are gaining in| He has just returned from a visit led in Portland by the purchase of the | |three-story building, 100x50, from! Mallow & Wright, in the rt of the ‘ Jcent for the year previous. the manufacture of the new Oakland 4 . > " now wel 0 turned over to him by his father, George H. Booker, presi-| manager, these two moves toward sells for $348, the runabout for land car construction and the im-/ eee corpora’ | 192. This year promises to be the dahon Detroit. Oukland at the top of the ladder in | ——————————— That will be at the enntiel 66) shear aus irienernes you try t0 alone has been cut from $575 to past six years. He will continue with Western Auto Supply Co. eB e Exhaust in Closed gineers adopt term of phaeton | for December, 1921, exceeded Decem- _ aera inches, officials expect entry of blowing out the gas, says Prof./says J. I. Handley, president of the you called a chair, which with it Haynes Honored by one and one-half liter capacity. GIVE THE KIDS THE RIGHT. increase of over 100 per cent for) Minute. In a small closed #arage,|the headcovering of the womenfolk ‘The chairs built at Sedan were s0/| Haynes Automobile company Koko| cars as their vehictes. ‘ibehin ond dbverein These facts seem to indicate that) e- | Within three or four minutes, sjen there wear a sort of coif, or hood, /denote all highclaas chaira, When |ciected to honorary membership in|as the threetiter engine showed It and receptive | Later, the women themeecives were name denoting the highest type of perhaps for his building of the first! engine will be able to work as Nearly 20 per cent of this city’s) . like our prairie schooner, this was| Rejuvenators Soon steel, as well as the introduction| greater flexibility, will by theee vir ° Bring Out N fan to build automobiles covered | do restore a battery's strength—for| ciety of Steel Treating, Haynes is a| facture of this +class of car has s t New Auto “Other names tn the voeabulary of | is recharging by electricity | eres of Applied Science, Society of| ‘The miniature engines already segees oy See Sees | Se ee a GSES aa Sey the same name, where occurred |nent cities of the United States ix| FOR THE first time in French ment and all other necessaries of a Diamond ood. jout. The chairs of those days were) AN ADDED tax of from 1 cent to FE in Paris, by President orth Rend a 300d | is prohibited ir Green river Diamond Toad two miles beyond Auburn Gravel beyond. Also via Boom creek. “ ” - pat . | Rens eben to Camp Masea. New con Own Your Home Suggestions hea fo the weary workers who feed! ‘They have forgotten that many of /Orlental officials for permit to hoist R"4 Teak, Menten to Teongead, open Béitor The Star. - Ry on | these never intended to become citi-| the Stars and Stripes on July 4. | lh EF | To encourage and improve moral! Let Uncle Sam say citizen | zens, Why should they? Thru the| In my opinion, here are the reme- In the hope of hetping along the |and social itions, no one thing oe to build a ! who will | courts they are getting the same pro-| dies: Reverse the present situation d do more than to find a practical | put up bi may get the other half| tection as we, and besides that, they and settle the matter right You . whereby thrift could be advined | needed 00, On 30 years’ | managed to escape the draft employers and business men live in than in ¢ America and claim to be Americans. “Every creck | home. Al |“Own Your Home” campaign, I am | cov | writing a few suggestions. wa Every citizen should have the hope | and practiced. river) up to time 5 per cent and no other pay-| In «pite of all this, that element ie | of owning a home, with family love | }to soften the heart and make sacred with a home.owning fund t be doubled when half e was Many would plicants for loar at ones D-| permitted to bold positions and let Construction of | our veterans, men with families, cit! Now show us you are Americans, and give our own citizens a chance 1 all over the| zens and taxpayers alike, go idle and rations would | tramp along, day after day, looking and labor, The in-| for a job nery would then move} ht direction the privileges of citizenship in the|saved up for the desired home. The, homes would be United States. A good home and an/|necessary encouragement could be untry. Building o acre or more of land owned by the| provided by authorizing a federal re-| call for material father and mother of the family will| volving home loan fund, like the dustrial mac make self-support a possibility and| farm land joan fund. Congress could |in the r loyalty to country a certainty. Peo-| provide that future and further is ple should mate and marry while | sues of currency be in treasury notes | young and raise families while in the |for this fund. Also replace the pres | prime of life, but the difficulty and|ent bank note circulation with treas uncertainty of procuring homes, puts| ary notes, and add the railroad sub-| ‘The money loaned in the manner joff this momentous event in life and|sidies and guarantees for the home and for the purpose indicated would w. via Kent and Auburn. jeads to much mating without mar- | loan fund. | bac eines tatermatioa call Main’ 1900, | TIAE®. to the moral degradation of| ‘The banks will still have all the ‘loca! 88. American society. It {» not neces-|money in the country with which to The public will think that much | more of you and your business wouldn't suffer any loss.in the long I. O. GASSLAND, American Can Co. For Old Home Town First Editor The Star: |help bear the burden of taxation? Thrift week has just impressed the! In addition, these men would buy good people of Seattle again with the | from the r er Hinoleum for the for judicious handling of kitchen, shingles for the roof, bricks | : ag int | their earnings and savings, the ad-/for the chimney, furniture for his joaned, while money furs! vice coming from successful business | reception room, to say nothing of the Rp eR ‘ Sr ature and men Leena business, ol deponits siving| banks by tye government|men, bankers and others, Sugges |thousand and one other things that | TRY warm. jthem operating funds ten times ax thing. tions from various sources are inter-|@0 into the average home. Thus the — — great ax their invested capital. That dy for the question, want] exting, but not always practical, retailer would immediately be bene would atill leave the banks In a much work for it, go after it! One writer suggests the formation | fited, to say nothing of the butcher, favored class for certain profitable | ar The pec need andlot a large corporation to finance | the grocer, the shoe man and cloth. | business. | must it It is necessary and} legitimate industrial and other enter. | ing merchant Tho retail business | It is high time to commence wean! right, and where thore i# a will there| prises which will relieve unemploy-|thus increased would Jmemdiately ing the banks and throw out the life is a way PROGRESSIVE. | ment. This writer does not know | make its influence felt on the whole. | there are several organizations of Sale establishments, which, with the | Ur es Board Be Not Su rted |this kind in Seattle, which, sad to| banks, are generally admitted to be g' IPpo | nay, are not in all cases supported as| the bone and sinew of any prosper | Editor The Star |odleais, weekly, monthly and daily,| they should be if the amount of good , Ous community. As @ close reader of the evidence | tht main object being to prevent the| they can do were better understood. Do you think it is the custom of during the Christian Science trial In| members from reading the reports of The banks and the merchants are|those people in Seattle, who have Boston, which is before the courts at/the trial, which ar® giving the true | exhibiting cards advising, people to/ put aside a little of their earnings, thig time, I would that the ¥ |wtate of affairs in Boston and branch | make wills, to spend wisely, to in-|to deposit the same in the banks of ation of this organization rests|churhes, under fear of ex-communt-| vestigate investments, and in vari-|Portiand, Tacoma, Spokane and/ at present with the members them- cation from church membership. ous ways suggesting how they may | other cities? Not exactly. Yet those selves by refusing any longer to in-| In this century the condition that] best conserve their funds for future | banks pay the same interest on sav- ext the present board of the Mother almost unthinkable; I know | needs and generations to come ings paid by the Seattle banks. Funds Church with power, It is both cor: |p Lake Forest Park tlea-— One mile ps Loose grave! beyond. Bellevue Retmond count washout pear Belt eaution on account of slide two miles fant of Bellevue ALL FAVED ROADS IN GooD CONDITION Richmond Beach Hoed—Now pavement Rentoa-Eaumciaw (East Side) Concrete Pavement open for travel. Continuous comerets road from Renton to Eoum- If this condition continues, we may promptly, in the near future have to ask our’ a favorabl The bh ~ age would soon be a question of the past, Also the problem of unemploy. ment. pace 6 short Buick Values With All Others No one receives anything gratuitously in this world—don’t be misled by false allow- ances. return to the treasury in 30 years 50 more money than the : necessity per cen! amount We believe that any sales policy which en- courages the giving of fictitious values for used cars is an injustice to the public. We wish to establish definitely the fact that the Eldridge Buick Company has never fol- lowed this policy. sal existe i - Balance in 18 Months Will make you the owner of a good Used Car! Here are a few of the Bargains: M-34—Oakland 5-passenger, with nearly new tires, front and rear bumper; rear vision mir- ror on front fender; rubber running board mats; extra tire, tube and rim; tire cover; top and curtains in very good shape; $485 car newly painted blue.......... M-34B—Oakland 5-passenger, rebuilt in our own shop; front and rear bumper, special head- n light lenses; newly painted, and $6 75 an ae with thie deplorable is a car you will be proud to own.. wasion upon the rights of our. Amert 1918 Buick 5-passenger, just painted and is in Pedceuas” stain retetar ot eae fine running condition; spare cord tire and contractors persist in employing Japs tube; front bumper; headlight lens; wind de- or other non-citizens. lly of several patients who| Why is {t that no loyal citizen has| thus deposited in other cities bring rupt and autocratic were refused treatment when sick | Cried out from the housetops against | interest back to Seattle, but at the Christian jentixts need to get because they were reading their own | the present unwise habit, which has | same time finance the industries of busy housecleaning, before it 1s periodicals, pectfully yours, [sprung up in Seattle, of sending | thore other cities which are com. and eliminate this board, who are MARY FE. SELLEN, |&WAy each month thousands upon |peting with our own city to be the ing destroy thelr own peri-l 603 Peoples Bank Bldg | thousands of dollars earned and | biggest and most prosperous city in ait owned in Seattle, King county and|the Northwest. Doesn't that illus: ’ ie | Washington, to finance other cities | trate the point? The Japs’ Encroachments Jana towns snd provinces and enter-|" T‘have no grievance against. the | prises pitted against this community|banks and the bond houses which Japs as em-|in the struggle for financial and| last year sent millions of Seattle “ of them:! commercial supremacy? Why does | earned money out of the state. If a They work for leas wages; they @re/tne man with small funds, or the|carcless individual falls into a river more polite than the ave Amerl-| pig financier for that matter, send|nobody but a dunce would think of can; they can always be trusted and/ ni money to the provinces of Can-|cutting boughs trom trees ana depended upon, etc ada, to such places as Paraguay, the| thrashing the river into a fury as a Well, dear folke, that ts Argentine Republic, or to the Dutch | punishment. Rather, he would show | Mam on us poor boobs Indies, to earn a return for|the man a safer path a little further I know that some of our employer! eit of between and 6 per cent, | distant from the river and Ite danger, | shouted good-bye and good luck to 1 by the investment of the same|In this way I feel that the remedy, | our young men as loud as any one! funds he can buy absolutely sound | without which no criticism however else when they left for the battle |and safe mortgages on Seattle prop-| constructive, is valuable, lies in edu- | fields of France. They utterly | erty which yield 7 per cent or better, | cating the mass of the people with forgotten the golden promises in giv-land when by #0 doing he ts allowing | small funds to invest those funds in | ing them back the jobs they left,| his funds to work for his own com: | legitimate, profitable investments at when they returned Instead, in many ¢ mer places were permanently Buick—A Safe Future Investment JEL ee SESALES © East Pike and Harvard East 0842 too te, to ness men prefer the ployes. Here are som Editor The Star Much has been written and said Jabout the strong foothold the Japs ng on the Pacific coast and ttle given their 8 SAE NERS suggestions When Better Automobiles Are Built Buick Will Build Them Lake Electrical & Machine Co. 1255 West! ie N. Awl fe Electricians. Garfield 4303, Western Electric Company —Pistributere—Whelesale Only quite a restau thelr for: filled cheaper; your flectors on windshield, $695 At the stalls in the city markets; “* munity and for the upbuilding of its|or near home. If it be heresay to any Instead, they are with Japs and others, They have Nights: t ar let the Jape fight their Phone East 0222 cs Hf £ we find a regular Jap army. You bet rain swipe, etc |institutions? Does the man who | criticise banks, bond houses or other adding a few cents more if they can forgotten that our boys were risking | neighboring states of California and|the most wonderful states in the en. | oes among themsely | the miserly ali n of about $30 a| but worthy industrial institutions in| the most of it.” I am for Seattle, wome of the reasons why certaln busi-!day, and more, in the shipyards, in turn buy lots, build houses, and JOHN J, CONWAY. they are doing a land office business! | NORTHWEST OAKLAND Co buys bonds with security in Arizona | institutions sending millions of dot es get it. Quit buying from, them, & their live and limba on the battle-| Oregon, realize that the same money | tire Union, I say, as some illustrious Some time ago an article appeared | month, while foreigners and non-citi-| Seattle, which would employ men|King county and Washington, first, | They aren't selling a of their prod: | or Bastern Canada, or even our lars away annually from this, one of | East Pike Street at 12th Ave. our produce from American fields to secure pe and liberty for| would aid in financing many small] person said many years ago, “ fake | in one of the newspapers, giving us| zens were earning from $10 to $12 a| now walking the streets, who ua and all the time,