The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 24, 1923, Page 9

INANE JUUUTQLUUUTOIUUUURGUUUUUNUGUAUGUAUAUAUUUAUGUIUAUOUAUOUUUOUUUUEUUOUOUOUUEOUUOC HNO Fill g* SATURDAY, FEBRUARY Motor Car Development Reads Like Fairy Tale'\—— Frenchman Started the Steamer in 1760; Early Evolution Slow Editor's Note—The following story, by EF T. Strong, general sales manager for the Buick company. is of wousual interest at the ment, because of the startling contrast between the clumsy vehicles of the carly days of automotive history and the beautiful, — lighting-action motor creations on display at the Seatile auto show means re 2 i to x Its . saving t : very long ag W m McK A I SAY OHIO GAS TAX I$ UNJUST Motorists Combat Pro- posed Taxation COLUMBUS, O justice of imposing a gasoline tax on motorists is being proclaimed by | the Ohio State Au i soc la. | tion in its endeavor to p P age of such a law in this st The law, tax of 2 gasoline t Ohio wo which su The ars this form of following, in a Caley of Cleveland, pre Ohio State Automobile association: / “The gasoline tax burdens the} poor and favors the rich. For in- stance, assuming that each of the ber of miles in a year, and that the mileage per gallon ts figured accord fag to the claims of the manufac- | basis of 2 cents per gallon for 10,000 tailes would be as follows: Ford .....-- Packard twin six. “It ts perfectly apparent from this that the Packard twin six, or similar type machine, which costs approxt mately ten times as much as a Ford, uses only twice as much fuel. For tributes $5 “We ca the fact th line in an joaded five-ton in April may do more damage t 6,000 gallons of gasoline in passenger cars of lighter construction.” England has found that a gaso- line tax is uneconomical, says Caley and the 17 sta form of revenue have ed it a success. Besic part of the revenue, he ad cost of admin stead of impr Rolling With o tires were first SEATTLE SA : OF FORDS JUMP e Ford cars a f 1923, sales of thia popu following vehicles run the same num-| lar product \amara, manager nch of the Ford Motor Co., t the resulting’ taxes on the |@mnounced Saturday, iting the month of Ja |number of Fords 4 ity was just two and three quarters as the number de-| he same period of last Itvered In thi bruary already ch will break y far in excess of ae uto Ss how Offerings ent I Lincoln's Landau Sedan, by Ford Motor Co. eet the demand fo; Mr a irrivaniaTT tty TOOT EITY aul Veevapeneiuennet priced cars Ride in Comfort. TESUUUUREGROQORUQODORQUUUQUDILQIUU2200L Amn — |than nine years, ing, noted radio eng tained 6 a ¢ (TY = Tne wien CAR Comfortable Riding {H extraordinary leg-room found in the Star Car together with high acks to seats combined with 4%inch seml-elliptic springs and low center of gravity make the Star the most comfortable riding of all low Skeptical? Mako us prove it. $558:2 Seattle See this car at the Auto Show DULMAGE MOTOR COMPANY TENTH AND EAST PIKE VUAUAPAAODNECAANIAAIANLUNSDLOSCETEOUOUOOSSEREOOOSULEDSHAGOHTODNATINCONINTIATINNNTT : 62 Radio Patents Is Record ot Inventor ment the accomplishment o! eat belt of North Dakota, WATCH RACERS |Kansas City Speedway Has Elaborate System KANSAS CITY, Feb. 24.—The Kansas City automobile speedway, | which Is said to have cost more than $500,000, boasts the most perfect sys- tom ever devised for keeping tabs on automobile racers, A unique telephone Installation | has been mado around the mile and jtest, whother It be tearing around | the great saucor-like course or halted jin the pits, Racing experts who have examined phone engineers of the Western Electric company declare them lutely “fool-proof.” Instead of fol Jlowing the old method of keeping track of the laps completed by the | various drivers, there will be two {n a telephone booth on ono side of the track in front of the grandstand, and the other just opposite, Bach scorer will be equipped with a rogular telephone operator's head sot, which will be connected by an underground cable running between the two timing stands with the ap paratus of his mate ac As thelr particular driver shodts past they will check each other to seo that no error occurs in tho re cording of tho laps ho has covered. In other words, the number ono reorer on ono side will compare notes with the number one man on the other side of the track; the number twou will do the same thing in refer ence to the car they are followin and so it will go all along the tw Jlinew, At the same time spotters, latationed at intervals around the | course, can communicate with a past thelr respective stations, TELEPHONES TO | Heising’s career actually began Ja quarter track that enables the | with his discover in'1914 by a West- scorers to know at all times the ex-|¢rn Electric “scout.” Hoe began to act pouition of each car in the con-| work in New York on telephone re- | telephony, the arrangements made by the tole- | |lantlo telephono tests from Arllng- cookouts for each entry, one seated Rigas Jig being used today in nearly every yay the way, | Jaays that a hon on a neighboring a pick section gang and fina developed into one of the leading {neers and inventors in the radio field | Helsing now is a radio engineer in ® researc 1 West till es of Ho ts 3 terner and | mer mor | Hightoen years ago, Helsing’y aa-| pirationg lay in railroading. On his | graduation from high school he went to work with a section gang for a | northwestern road and later was pro jmoted to towerman There his cu | rlosity about telegraphy was aroused, | | but when he tried to satisfy it by | |tapping a telegraph ine, he was] tired That started Helsing on his course | thru co! ©, working at odd jobs| meantime to earn hig way. North| |Dakéta State University graduated | him In 1912 with the degreo of cleo: | |trical engineer, after which he took | |two more years of physics at Wis- consin, search, In @lx weeks ho had In- vented a dovice for improvement of Ho was transferred to radio telo- phono development, and at that work he started with designing long dis- tance transmitting circuits. In 1915 ho had charge of the first trans-At ton. Holsing’s mast important Inven- tion {s the modulation system which largo broadcasting station, He in- vented this in 1916, and next year turned. to developing a system ef radio communication between alr. plane and land sations, and between flying machines, Now Helsing 1s directing his studies toward development of ehip- to-shore radlophony, short wave com- munteation and other forms of radio progress, Injured Hen Makes Use of Wooden Leg LONDON, Feb, 24—A messago from St, Clears, Carmarthenshire, farm met with an accident which tohboard at the judge's stand | nows of the progress of tho race | a little wooden log, The hen is now ablo to strut around the yard, nocessitated the amputation of its lew. An amateur veterinary surgeon wuccossfully performed the operation | and then replaced the lost limb with ~\ USED CARHAS MOTORMEN OF “ii tt'Men Tuesday | SECURE FUTURE ASTORIA BUILD nea Local Man ays Haphazard |Rapid Recovery From Fire Sales Are Past an ever of the COPS’ DANCE | HUGE SUCCESS mopped nuffied regula most successful p 8 ball ever y and the with ted ty tackle mob of armory drill and Con op of the Victoria, B. C. guests of Jr, son dd the grand march pring =m PAGE ® Amazes Observer ¢ hist ; t t busl4 f the G st t stores, an@ i r t f them occupying? > H they had 1 > eins used here they ¢ started f xcept that these, of course, had been e and dings P 1 fine © ones da n with from s of he went on. \ ra has be jefined ag abso- utness of heart Visit the Auto Show We invite you to inspect our exhibit—Examine the New Five- Bearing Shaft of the “GARD- NER”—See the Famous “JOR- DAN BLUE-BOY,” the New, Powerful “MITCHELL DE LUXE” and the New “COLUM- BIA” LIGHT 6. at the crowd Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co. 1024 E. Pike St. East 1069 of the behind Band. 4,00 DOWN a 149,00 Di Roadster 95.60 5.3.00 DOWN b) ‘ 465.44 105,00 DOWN 50 ‘A MONTH Re, A MONTH. on $18.80 A MONTH t, Insurance, Gas and NTH harges and Interesh many easy pay- ents Include Au a our t one-fifth ments vo YEAR TE! ment plan ee down an have t My hy = Na cAR Down 5% Interest 2A Months - Sedan Coup 5 705.68 OWN ouring oe of er is but on nt over AOA, pay, any AMOUR 5% basis. you ” ay, ance, on 4 ns You: aye Hotns to pay the alan AST 0820 SHONE ©: TRAL,AGEN