The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 16, 1924, Page 13

Avs Parties Find Spring, Winter Here| Crocus Blooms and Glacier Crests Call Outers BY LELAND HANNUM HERE'S no Itmit to the variety of scenery or surroundings for Seattle motorists at this time of year or any time of year, That fact was demonstrated thts week by the Rainier National Park company and Charlie Tyson, of the| Oldsmobile agency In Seattle, in a set of photographs of what auto- mobile holiday parties can find with: in a few hours’ ride'from the ctty— not more than four hours at the reatest. Here in Seattle, spring fever ts Fampant, and the automobile owner can pack the wife and kids into the back seat with an assortment of sal- | ads, sandwiches, a coffee pot and some matches and hie away to some roadside spot where Nature's at her greatest. And from the outpouring on the highways of Northwestern Washington the past several Sun-| days, there are hundreds who are Soing it. it may be that you got enough o° sylvan dales and highway greenery and signboard scenery last summer and autumn, Then there is Rainier park and a midweek outing await- ing you. There's 20 feet of snow on the level up there in the higher reaches of the doubly named mount—there are skils, snowshoes, toboggans and alides—there are epics in crystaled scenery, drooping firs and pines, icy waterfalls and snow-covered glacier crevasses. And, oh, what & relief to be able to come back to the lowlands of Seat- tle and King county! To find the pussy willows In bloom, er, in “fur” —the crocuses pushing their way out to the sunshine—bdarefoot kids play- ing along the pike— murmuring streams whispering of spring—and roads actually beginning to be dusty | ‘under the tread of hundreds of cord tires. @EALERS TALK’ AUTO DISPLAY BE. G. Hoffman, chairman in peharge, has called a meeting for | Monday, when the Seattle Automo- “pile amociation will consider some anethods of staging a New-Car Model | Show week, soon. Dealers, meeting Thursday, decid- yed that there is no available struc- “ture to house an automobile show, and decided on the alternative of having all dealers, during some week to be selected, decorate dis- play reoms and feature the new mod- pls of their lines. Don Tressider, of Camp Curry, and ‘his Cadillac coupe received permit No. 1 for the Sequoia National park.’ ditional Dopse BROTHERS TYPE-B SEDAN Awoman will usually admire one thing about 4 car and a man another, but there is one feature of the new Type-B Sedan which both _ / admire equally and emphatically—its/ This is due to a combination of several im- portant improvements—a roomier front compartment; a readier clutch response; a new steering wheel that offers a trim, firm grip; and control levers that are ideally accessible, yet conveniently out of the way of robes and luggage. The price is $1,250 f. 0. b. Detroit—§1,475 delivered i al ry, ” : s The “Red Gods” of the Highway Beckon Motorists! _ Spring Greets Roadside Picnickers in Valley; Hoary-Headed, Old Mt. Rainier Gives Promises of Mid-Winter Sports for Auto Parties; No Restrictions on Outing Locales WIND RESISTANCE Riding at 30 miles an hour, a tour | ings car with the top up meets an ad-}the riding qualities of a car with the| pounds, even with the alr calm. En./ gineers discovered this on 57 top up and the top down, OKEHS PROBE OF GAS Asks Government Control of Fuel Sales Here price 108. P, president of the American Automobile association, ex- Henry pressed in a letter of commendation |to President Coolidge for his prompt action in ordering ar of the recent ad gasoline. Henry called the att of the president to the fact th increases in gasoline price the Jast six months, if mal mean @n approximat crease of $800,000,000 4 operating the motor country It is the firm conviction ft the fon that t United States b cilities for ar porta nding inc is interstate pi control wrote “WHY THE DISCRIMINATION?” The people want to know the real reasons, if any exist, for the price tes is Obvious, Henry APPARENT | being from two to six cents higher in one section than the price quoted in an adjoining territory and why the price can be arbitrarily increased in certain sections overnight, said | Henry. The fullest co-operation of the as- | sociation and all {ts affiliations was | pledged to the president, the United States department of justice and the federal trade commission. The letter to the president follows: “Your prompt action in ordering an investigation of the recent ad- |Vances in the price of gasoline is |highly gratifying to the motorists of the nation, As president of the American Automobile association, which for 22 years has represented |the motorists of the country, I de- |sire to extend to your our apprecia- tion for this manifestation of your interest in protecting the motor ve- jhicle users from any unwarranted | increases in the price of motor fuel. “It is our strong conviction that in you rest the power and facilities for arriving at the facts, whiclt are |not only of interstate importance, | but which affect interstate and in- dividual transportation as welk |\OKEHS GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF SALES Me “We believe the suggestion of plac- |ing the sale of off under some gov. jernment regulation which would pre- | vent without a moment’s warning an |increase in the pripe of a commodity 80 universally used is worthy of con- sideration, The increase in the price of gasoline during the’ last three months, if maintained, means an ap- proximate annual increase of. $200,- 000,000 in the cost of operating mo. tor vehicles of the country. This un- questionably affects the cost of liv- ing. There are 15,000,000 automobiles in the United States today, or one car to every two fumilies. “Advances in gusoline prices are 80 often made simultancously at fill- ing stations in given territory as to seem to indicate an agreement or concerned action. If it is due to the cost of production gasoline is unique in its relation to natural’ economic laws. There is often a djfferential of from one to two cents in crossing state lines, There is a dominating influence somewhere ‘that, seeming- fy, is not related to the law of supply and demand, “We want the people to know the real reasons, if any exist, for the price being from two to six cents higher in one sectidn than the price quoted in an adjoining territory and why the price can arbitrarily be in- creased in certain sections over night. “I offer to you and to the United States department of justice and to the federal trade comnmission the fullest co-operation gf this associa- tion and of all its affiliations in prosecuting your investigation.” SL CATT TT NEW PRICES!" EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 11, 1924 Seattle motorists can get any.sort of scenery they like nearly all the year round, but right now is the best time to get variety. Manager Charles Tyson of the Oldsmobile Motor Co., took a new Oldsmobile sport model (top, left) out into the Lak Washington boulevard this week and garlanded the hoo with pussy willows gathered at the roadside. The road was dusty and the trees in full leaf. E A jump up to Mount Rainier, but four hours away, dis- closed an entirely different scene. f y party at the Narada checking station (top, right), while the snowshoe brigade crossing the bridge over Paradise river walked on eight feet of snow on top of the bridge floor. —Oldamobile photo by Price & Cart —Mt. Ratnler photos by Mt, Rainier WL.Eaton Real snow fell on the Star Btaff Photographers Road Bulletin SY DING FRURUARY | tesnquah-Newport—rxcettent Auburn-Biack Diamond (via Sos Creek) ~Open to Bky- Renton-Mapie Valley | Des Moines ‘Trestle No, 926-A, on Brick of Des Moines—Closed to eight miles per hour. Due to recent floods, care should driving on vailey expecially at night. MODEL 30 OLDSMOBILE SIX Roadster ....$ 785 Touring Car. 795 Sport Touring 915 CABDsicciele 6 se 985 Coupe ...... 1,075 Sedan ...... 1,135 ALL PRICES F. 0. B. LANSING OLDS MOTOR WORKS, LANSING, MICHIGAN OLDSMOBILE MOTOR CO. 1000 EAST PIKE STREET PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOTORS EA st-0128 OLDSMOBILE*~ SIX