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FARMER EXILED
FOR LOVE OF GAR
Unique Case of a Wealthy|
Canadian From Prince Ed
ward Island.
That there exists a thickly populated,
wealthy, civilized and otherwise pro
gressive part of the western hemis
phere, rigidly closed to automobiles, is
a fact of which the average motorist is
ptobably unaware. Such is the case,
however. In the rich agricultural pro
vince of Prince Edward Island motor
cars remain legally listed with wild
animals of destructive tastes, riots,
revolutions and similar disturbances.
Should one appear on the street the
peaceful islanders would probably call
out the militia.
This strange condition is recalled
each year to the attention of the Stude
baker Corporation, by the appearance
at it's Canadian factory in Walkerville
of a Prince Edward Islander, Donald
McDonald.
Each fall after Mr. McDonald’s crops
have been harvested he puts his family
on Hu- Montreal boat an<f starts for
Walkerville, where he buys a new
Studebaker "20" touring car. Mother
McDonald and the little McDonalds
pile in; Father McDonald takes the
wheel, and they roll away, first for a
trip through- Ontario and New York:
later for a. longer run into the Sunnv
South.
On bis return in the spring. Mr. Mc-
Donald sells his car and takes the boat
for home, ready for the season's work.
The Walkerville factory annually
looks forward to Mr. McDonald’s ad
vent. which is always within a week of
the first frost.
Mr. McDonald deeply regrets the fact
that his love for motoring implies an
annual exile from home and native
land. He says that the present condi
tion is due. to two factors —the con
servatism of the islanders and the
presence in the early history of motoi -
ing of a number of reckless drivers
who visited the island during- the sum
mer touring season.
NEW YORK FIRE DEPT.
PURCHASE R-C-H CARS
FOR USE OF OFFICERS
Three R-H-C cars are the latest pur
chase of the New York fire department,
a deal having been consummated between
ihe metropolitan authorities and the New
York branch of the company within the
laslt week.
The model chosen is the new long
wheelbase two-passenger roadster, the
choice centering on this as the most suit
able, economical ear that could be select
ed for the use intended—that of carrying
battalion chiefs. Before the selection was
made the ear was put io exhaustive tests
tinder ail conditions by the fire depart
ment authorities. In traffic it showed its
ability to travel along at as low a speed
as four or five miles an hour on high anti
pick up again to the maximum.
The choice of the car by the officials
of the metropolitan force is mute testi
mony to the Detroit-made car and the
model selected is the very latest, having
been placed on the market but a month
ago. during which time it has achieved
widespread popularity.
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Atlanta folks appreciate hav- truck covers an area of territory five
ing their goods delivered to their times that of the horse vehicle; goes
homes on time. over ground in one-third the time
Some of them get their day’s pur- and finally because motor delivery is
chases anywhere from 9 p.m. to 11 wnentj/fc delivery.
p.il.-—the result of tired horses; over- Alco motor trucks hold three non
worked men; too much territory to stop records, which classify the Alco
Cover. It goes back for the most as America’s greatest endurance motor
part to horse delivery. vehicle. They deliver the goods safely;
Others get their purchases before on time.
dinner. The goods usually arrive by The business man who believes in
motor truck, driven by an alert enthu- service to his customers must be wise
siasticyoung man —a good living testi- enough to look into the facts in the
menial to the progressiveness of a case of the Alco truck.
business house. r A letter or a ’phone call Ivy
The reasonfthese families gel their 799 will bring an Alco expert to
goods on time is because the motor your place of business.
Alco Trucks are built by the American Locomotive Company
COLE MOTOR COMPANY OF GEORGIA
Distributors also of Alco 6-cylinder and 4-cylindor Motor Cars.
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ELEGTRIG TO BE
SHOWFEATORE
Motor Trucks Will Also Prove
To Be an Interesting Special
Attraction.
Os many changes in body design it is
scarcely necessary to speak. Art has
been made the handmaid of utility in
motor car construction, and for every
possible use, in every possible weather,
there is the proper kind of vehicle.
At the show at Atlanta this year
electric cars will receive a greater
amount of attention than ever before.
Every woman, secretly, hopes to own
one. Their elegance, quietness, free
dom from dirt, ease of operation and
convenience for shopping, calling or
pleasure spins make them ideal for the
gentler sex. The makers of electrics
have been no less tireless than their
comrades in the gasoline car lines in
seeking to improve their output—to in
crease mileage, certainty of operation
and to make such added improvements
as man’s ingenuity might suggest. The
show will have a variety of models,
ranging up to the inclosed brougham,
capable of carrying five persons.
Not the least—and indeed the most —
important feature of the show from a
purely commercial standpoint xvill be
the display of motor trucks. Here, ex
perts are agreed, lies the great future
of the automobile business. In the
United States now there are probably
35,000' self-propelled vehicles used in
business. Two years from noxv the
number is likely, to be increased ten
fold. The horse is being rapidly sup
planted. not only in cities, but in cer
tain agricultural regions, in Michigafi,
for instance, there are truck farmers
and fruit growers, who take their yields
to market from fields and orchards 30
miles away.
The actual economy of the motor
truck, compared with - the horse-drawn
vehicle, has been proven in dozens of
varied industries. It is used by the
florist afid the makers of pig iron. It
is used to deliver coal and dainty milli
nery. It hauls tremendous loads of
barreled beer and it brings, a box of
fancy.cakes from the caterer's. It can
keep on the go 24 hours a day. if nec
essary; extreme summer heat or win
ter blizzard affect not at all its gen
eral efficiency.
Many makes of trucks, from a .00-
pound light delivery wagon to a ver
itable giant that will carry tons, will
be at the Atlanta show in November.
They w*ill be viewed by thousands of
business men. many of whom are
ready considering their use in tin
own lines of industry.
The Atlanta Georgian
Dipartmint
"When you are out with very learned
people, if you don’t know what to talk
about, just talk about electricity." he
says. "You will never shock anybody.
If you are out to a dinner party and
there comes a little lull in the conver
sation. here is what you will say:
"Electricity, speaking of electricity—
of course it is not really what you
are talking about. Speaking of elec
tricity: that is the great mystery. No
body knows what it is. All we see is its
manifestation!' You are perfectly safe
in saying that. If you don't know any
thing about electricity you will have
to back up and sidetrack and start
something else, but usually it goes all
right."
And in the presence of that man,
casting around in the v acuum which
1 am pleased to call my mind, seeking
something to say, It came to me all at
once: "Electricity, the great mystery,
nobody knows what it is; all we see
is its manifestations," and was just
going to say it. when he said it him
self! He beat me to it. “Good-bye,”
I said, and I ran down the steps, caught
a trolley car, jumped on the front end
and over the head of the motorman I
read a sign. “Don’t talk to the motor
man." That suggested an interview,
and so I said: "Partner, what is elec
tricity?" "It is the juice,” he said. He
knew. I said: “Where do you get it?”
“Everywhere," he says; “it always was,
Edison didn’t invent it: it is God's best
gift to man.” I said: “I thought wom
an was God’s best gift to man.” “Same
thing"—a great mystery. Nobody knows
what it is. It is very dangerous if you
don’t know how to handle it.” I said:
“Does electricity make this car go?”
“Sure,” lie said. I said: “Tell me
how.” He told me. I had not known
before and Ido not know now. I said:
“How do you know so much about this
subject ?" He said: "J have been taking
an International Correspondence school
course. I get $65 a month for holding
down this Job. I am going to have
charge of the electric light station
month at $125 a month.” I says: “I
get off there at the corner," and the
car stopped within a foot of where 1
wanted to get off, and as I stepped off
the car I said; “Good-bye. my friend.”
He said: "Good-bye. old man." but he
never looked up at me. He was just
intent on carrying that car through in
perfect time, at proper speed and get
ting me off on terra firma. And as the
car moved away 1 said to myself:
“There goes an educated man. He is
onto ids job and he is getting ready
for a better job.”
If xou don't like that definition of
education, then you take the definition
of President Eliot, of Harvard, who
says that that man is best educated
who is most useful.
Can you imagine a better man than
a man who has a good job. who holds
it down, and who is getting, ready for
a. better job? You get your business
.rganizations going and the office runs
: i momentum. Al! you have got to do
to go along and look in once in a
rli'. scare the boys a little, cut them
ELBERT HUBBARD ON AUTO SALESMANSHIP
down, fire a few and put In a few more,
and the thing goes.
Not so with salesmanship. You deal
with humanity. Humanity is a strange
thing. Nobody ever got beyond the
sky. You don’t know what it is. Man
is an electrical manifestation. That
man. that motorman. was right. Man
is an electrical phenomenon, a gener
ator. He takes up energy into his sys
tem and gives It off again. He is only
here for a day. Life is motion. We
are doing things, making things, in
teresting humanity.
Ten years ago it ' would have been
impossible to have got this number of
men together—men in competition with
each other. We were all afraid of each
other a few years ago. Ah! we had
trade secrets. Now, here we are all
together. 1 look into your hearts: I
look into your happy, smiling faces,
and 1 feel this afternoon here that
there is but one atmosphere, there is
but one feeling—brotherhood.
We come into life without our
permission. We are being sent
out of it against our will,
and over the vision of our
dreams there steals a thought that we
have been used by an unseen power for
an unknown purpose. We guess what
that purpose is. We are here for a mutual
benefit. We will not be here so vet}’
long. You help me and I will help you,
and soon Death will come and rock us
all to sleep. In the world where Death
is there is no time for hate.
We are business fnen. We grow by
elimination, by discarding things, and
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we know now us sensible men. leaving
the question of ethics and morality ab
solutely out of the proposition, we
know tlie only way we can Help our
selves is to help humanity. When you
sell a man an automobile you do him a
benefit.
If you want to make money don’t cut
down expenses, but increase your in
come: increase your efficiency. And
any man who owns an automobile is a
better man than the one who does not.
I say plunge; yes. mortgage if neces
sary to get the machine, and you will
work out all right.
The other day 1 went into Tiffany’s
trying to sell them space in a maga
zine. Says the advertising man away
down deep: “We are not selling any
jewelry now. People are not buying
any shiners." You remember how our
old friend Hinky Connors, of Buffalo,
launched upon the world an immortal
epigram, to wit: “Them as has shiners
wears them.”
Now. the question is whether you
will spend your money for shiners or
automobiles. You are going to blow it
in some way, anyway. So then I went
to Sherry’s and tackled their advertis
ing man. and when I did he said: “The
people are going out in the country.”
And I find it is so. I own a hotel. I
feed the automobilists at a dollar a
meal. We have them t'roqj one week
end to the other at East Aurora, and
every Saturday and throughout the
week. They don’t go to the lobster
palaces in the cities; they go to towns
like East Aurora, where they can get a
single meal for 75 cents—and the auto-
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man.
Most of us go through life on one
cylinder. We overeat. We under- l
breathe. We are full of hate and doubt
and fear and apprehension, and the re- I
suit is that we are about 33 per cent
sick 33 per cent of the time. Anything ,
that takes people out in the country, !
out away from the gases and noises ,
and smells of the city, out through the
green fields—that thing is a benefit;
and so 1 repeat, when you sell an auto- ’
mobile you do him a benefit.
The man who buys the automobile
and runs it gets his money’s worth, and ,
the man who makes one gets a profit on
it always and forever, and the fellow
who writes advertisements insists on
getting his pay, but the dealer is up
against it a good deal of the time, and
I think one reason is this: The dealer is
isolated. He lives by himself. He is
not in communication with other peo
ple. He does not get together with
people in conventions like this.
A convention like this enlarges your
view. You get the perspective from
both ends. Yob get acquainted with
people. You get rid of your fears, you
doubts, your grouch—and I want to see
the dealers get together. I want to see
a combination of dealers that will put
the makers on their knees. 1 want to
see you salesmen get what you are
worth, and only a few of you do.
Everybody profits by good roads. I
was delighted to hear the plea made
for this road to run from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. Why not? Do you
know that in America we have only
one railroad that runs from tidewater
to tidewater? That is the Panama I
railroad. 46 miles long. It has one en- ,a
gine. I want to see an automobile road fl
from tidewater to tidewater, and Law-*
pect to see It. . a,'.;
The proposition is a good one. that
every automobile manufacturer shquM
pax - one per cent of his gross income
for a year into this project, and if they ?
will do that this project will go through.
I don't think there is an automobile
manufacturer in America who can af
ford to* stand out on that question. He
xvill have to come in to save his face.
This thing will go through.—From The
Automobile.
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EXAMINE VALVE SPINDLES.
In searching for trouble of any kind,
the motorist generally examines the
face of his valves, either inlet of ex
haust, and if they are found to fit tight
and to be apparently in good order, his »•
examination seldom goes further. But
It is very possible that the cause of the :
trouble may be the valve spindles and
guides. Os course, every motorist real -* ’
izes that the mixture is the all impor
tant matter as regards the carbureter
The proportions of vapor and air max
easily be upset, if from wear the valve
stems are reduced or the space between
the guides becomes enlarged, as a small
amount of air at this point is enough to
destroy the proper proportions of the .
mixture. When this occurs the action
of the throttle is rendered uneven. One
minute tin: engine speeds up and the ‘
next it drags.