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d t as "' $ j£' GOOD ROMS H MEET IN MARCH Second Federal Aid Convention Planned Immediately After Inauguration. Two days after the inauguration ot the next president of the Cnfted States the second Federal aid good roads con vention, under the auspices of the American Automobile association, will be held in Washington. D. C„ the dates being March 6 and 7. The success of the initial Federal aid gathering in Washington in January last was so pronounced that the Alner iean Automobile Association National Good Roads board decided to make it an annual feature, until Federal aid shall have become an accomplished fact hrough congressional action. If results follow future conventions as rapidly as they did the- first, it should be a matter of only a few years before ;i comprehensive system of national highways, constructed bj Federal ap propriation. is in existence. First One a Success. The assembly in Washington last winter, attended by d* legates from two thirds of the states, wit- the first con vention devoted to the subject of Fed eral aid in highway construction. The action taken memorialized the congress for the appointment of a joint commit tee of the senate and house to inves tigate the subject of r -der.nl aid and founulatc a .urogram for national par ticipation. The joint committee appointment under this resolution consists of Sena tors Jonathan Bourne of Oregon. Boles Penrose of Pennsylvania. A. I. Gronna of North Dakota. I. < S. Overman of North t'arollna and t’lnude A. Swanson of Virginia and Representatives Shack leford of Missouri. Gordon Lee of Geor gia, Daniel .1 McGillicuddy of Maine, Martin B. Madden of Illinois and Rich, ard W. Austin of T< nm-: see. Fund Not Sufficient. This committee Is now collecting in formation on the subject and preparing to report at the coming session of con gress. Its appropriation of $25,000, however, is hardly sufficient for a thor ough study of the subject, and it is an ticipated that further appropriations for this purpose must bo made before any scheme of national highways can be intelligently adopted. Incidental to laying tin- groundwork for large scale participation by the Fed eral government, the present congress also appropriated .$500,000 for use by the department of agrieulturo and post office department In the experimental Improvement of rural free delivery highwaj routes. Hope Congress Will Act. There Is every reason to believe that Federal aid will be one of the great est questions for the new congress, which will take office In March, to d< - liberate and decide upon. Whatever action the concluding session of the present congress may take, it is certain that it will not he the final word on the subject, and for this reason the American Automobile association will hold its convention at a time when the new congress will just be beginning its labors. A large attendance Is assured, since many will take advantage of ther e duced railroad rates for the Inaugura tion anil their desire to witness the in augural ceremonies, to go al that time to a convention which they might not otherwise be able to attend Anyone who has friends has a friend who has a Ford. There are now more than a hundred and sixty thousand Fords in service—and thou sands more in transit. Its friends have created for it the unprecedented Ford demand. Ever} third ear a Ford and every Ford user a Ford “booster.” New prices runabout ss2s—touring ear S6OO---deliv er} ear s62s—town ear SBOO- with all equipment, f. o. b. Detroit. Get particu lars from Ford Motor Company. 311 Peachtree street. Atlanta, or direct from Detroit factory. < ■ Simple Engine * Accessible * Economicnl for J) £ nianrtratioo .’*** » 4 The * ’ ’ ’ ENGLAND AND AMERICAN CARS The British market only began to feel the importation of the American cheap car about the time of the. an nual Olympia show, November. 1911, when there was an extraordinary scramble of dealers desirous of taking up agencies for the cheap American car. It was then felt that the British public was at last beginning to fee confidence in low-priced American goods, as previously there had been a good deal of skepticism among the, general public with regard to Ameri can-made articles, principally caused by the impression left of American bi cycles and boots. Engineers, of course, have long been aware of the excellence of tin Ameri can machine tools, but the automobfh at SI,OOO or less was an entirely new proposition. The Britisher Is naturally slow to tale- up a m w thing, particularly such as this, wiiere solidity of construction does not exist, and appearance is so di verse from that which lias been his custom. We will now consider a few figures showing the development of the busi ness in the importation of Great Brit ain of American automobiles. Automobiles and Parts Imported From America Into England. ■ Value Year. t 'ars. Value. of Parts. 1907 555 $879,135 $135,410 1908 348 481,456 91,665 1909 427 (107,100 121,000 19101,101 1,086,485 427,035 1911 3,734 2,961,320 1,332,890 1912 (6 months) .3,327 2,792,935 It will thus be seen that the total number of ears imported during the first six months of 1912 was nearly as many as the total importation dur ing the whole of 1911, and the average value of these ears Is about SI,OOO. The tendency has been in England particularly toward the development of a small bore and very efficient engine, and this is due to the high rates of taxation. Such an engine is expensive to construct and it can not compete in price with the less efficient American engine. Furthermore, the high finish which is usually demanded in Europe can not be given at a low price. The American ear has taught the buyer to be satisfied with an automobile that will run with very little attention and nt the same time will be reliable, and if he does not pay the price of a highly finished car lie must be. satisfied with utility, which, by the way, is the first consideration. It bus been rumored from time to time that renewed efforts are being made by those American concerns hav ing a very large output to land their surplus production on the open British market at prices showing the minimum mat gin of profit. Such a dumping of gocos Is apparently a satisfactory state of affairs to the so-called free-trader, but the far-thinking Britisher sees English capital going abroad which could well be spent at home, giving Increased employment to the work peo ple of his country. Tin keen American business man Is fully alive to the political state of Britain, and is raking in the dollars while hy- has this-glorious opportunity of so doing. The foothold he Is now gaining he will not be prepared to lose without a struggle, and whatever may be done by the Britisher in th, way of a large local production of cheap cars w ill undoubtedly he met by retaliation from the other side. The $2,000 car and upward of \mor lean make can not. at the present time, obtain any substantial footing in the British market, as that is a type of ear The Atlanta Georgian Automobile Department From The Automobile. upon which British manufacturers have specialized and can produce at vary good value for the money. It may be. however, that th< importation of the cheap car is merely the thin end of the wetlgand among some British au thorities this is considered to be the ease. The effect, however, on the Brit ish market is that the manufacturers of the $2,000 type of car ate being ham pered In their sales by reason of the decreasing demand for used cars. This is how the situation has arisen: Many owners of automobiles are in the habit of arranging with dealers to take over their used cars in part payment for new ones. The dealers now find that the market for used cars is rapidly fall ing oft, buyers of cars at the old figure of i $2,000 used car have now >h< al ternative of purchasing a completely equipped new American ear at the same figure. The other side of the question is that the low-prie?d American ear has made motoring possible tor a large population who would otherwise be unable to af ford it, and has incidentally developed a motor feeling and way of thinking that blings into line a large number of people whose interests arc allied. These beginners circulate money In the automobile industry ami the majority will eventually become purchasers of mote expensive cars.—R. W. A. Brewer, London, England. in a make-and-break Ignition sys tem. the spark of the cylinder is made by actually’ closing and opening the circuit at the point of the spark, so that on the break of the circuit, as the ter minals move away from each other, the current is drawn across the increasing gap. Since the current does not have to break through the resistenee of the spark gap all at once, as is the case w ith the more familiar jump-spark sys tem, the tension or voltage need not be so high. Consequently, a current of low tension is used instead of the high tension current employed in the latter. ■HlKpq mThrWu w wTwiMI j-'' I /pJ|| A Bulldog Grip Now the Favorite Winter Tire Here is the tread which has come to outsell every other form of non-skid. It comes on a tire which also outsells every other tire in existence. Think what a combination No-Rim-Cut tires with this Goodyear Non-Skid tread. Any man who sees them is bound to say, “That’s the winter tire for me.” All Objections Ended Early non-skid treads were made of road or pavement with a bulldog grip, soft rubber. The projections were Each of these blocks widens out at too short-lived, the base, so the strain is distributed Others involved both metal and rub- over the fabric just as with smooth ber—materials that never combine. tread tires. And all, until this one, put too much So we offer you now an enduring, strain on the fabric, because the efficient, an ideal non-skid tread, strain wasn t distributed. One glance will show you that no That’s why men have used the in- other device compares with it. convenient,costly and ruinous chains. Nnur 14Tkf. Motor-car owners have tested out NOW we Have ihis over 200.000 of these treads. As a re- Now we have this thick extra tread, suit, the demand today is enormous, vulcanized on to the regular. So you And this winter will treble it, prob get the endurance of a double-thick ably. tread. Come see what it means to have This extra tread is of very tough oversize tires, tires that can’t rim rubber, so the non-skid feature lasts. cut anc * tires that can’t skid. Tlie blocks are deep-cut. They The Goodyear Tire Book-h~ed on 13 present to the road surface countless yeß „ of tire HUed with f.cto edges and angles. They grasp the you should know. A*k u« to mail it to you. Goodyear X taX AKRON. OHIO No-Rim-Cut Tires U'it/i or Without Non-Skid Treada THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO., Akron, Ohio Thia Company has no connection whatever with any other rubber concern which uses the Goodyear name Atlanta Branch, 223 Preachtree St. Telephone Bei! Ivy 915 and 797 ■ “30" Touring Car ” “40” Touring Car* two sizes “GO" Touring Car~sixcylinder T*. The ▼ ▼ 120-23 Mur ftrt tn, St. C A DILLAC STEINHAUER & WIGHT 228-230 Peachtree St. Ivy 2233 FEDERAL TRUCK ■DES Mi ■4. ... Product of Detroit Concern in Service in Many Lands Throughout World. As an indication of the all-round ability of the Federal truck, made by the Fed eral Motor Truck Company, Detroit, it may be cited that within the past few weeks orders have boon filled from sec tions of the globe widely differing in their climatic and geographical conditions. The Federal company claims to be the first to invade Alaska. The Consolidated Development Com pany of Nome, said to be the largest ore mining corporation in Alaska, sent two representatives to the States in quest of a one-ton truck that would overcome 1 the difficulties encountered in these regions. After making a thorough investigation of what the market had to offer, they placed an order with the Standard Motor Car Company, Federal agent in San Fran cisco, calling for three one-ton vehicles which will be utilized in hauling ore from the mines among the mountains to the export stations along the coast. \ About tiie same time a representative of Futubaya & Company, Toklo, Japan, conducted a similar investigation of the American one-ton vehicles, with the re sult that an order was placed for a Fed eral in this capacity. The concern is a large exporter and Importer, and decided in favor of the Detroit product because of its simplicity jind “ever-readiness.” Tiie American Motor Truck and Auto Company, Melbourne, Australia, sent three men tp this country to look over the one-ton vehicles with’a view of establish ing an agency in Melbourne. All three decided in favor of the Federal and the contract was signed. ATLANTA INVITES YOU TO THE f . AUTOMOBILE l[ SHOW j November 16 to 23 AUDITORIUM-ARMORY FIRST SHOWING OF 1913 MODELS Reduced Rates on All Railroads DECORA TIONS Valued at $16,000.00 will form a setting of lavish splendor for the display of magnificent 1913 Automobiles and Accessories—the result of the master minds of the greatest mechanical geniuses of the world. All the Recent Metropolitan fads, fancies and novelties in Motor Apparel. Accessories and Supplies bn display. Fascinating Music Every afternoon and night by the famous Fifth Regiment Band of thirty pieces, featuring leo McConville Twelve-Year-Old Boy Cornet Soloist From Baltimore Wistaria Tea Garden Under the Auspices of the Daughters of the American Revolution ONE ADMISSION, 50c 1 J| > \ uij 1 1,1 — 11 k-v v-7. ~ /