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FARMERS USING
MOTORS MORE
UNO NIGRE
AGRICULTITIAL writers have
written a lot at odd times about
the effect the automobile has had
on the "hack to the -oil movement." To
those in the automobile business it ap
pears that it lias had more to do with
bringing tile farmer to the city—and
taking him back again.
For every man who lias been carried
•‘back to tile soil” by the automobile a
thousand -farmers have rendered their
existence tnm<- pleasant, more efficient
and more profitable by the use of the
automobile.
In the last few years the Southern
farmer has taken tv the automobile
like a duck to June bugs. The price
has been brought down to him and he
bus bought. Since then he has used
the car to get about over the country,
to carry his family about and to make
life better worth living. The secretary
of a state board of agriculture said re
cently
"Obviously, there are few, if any, who
have more or better reasons for em
ploying the auto than the farmer. In
stead of the slow, tiresome journey to
town in the jolting, nerve-wrecking
lumber wagon, with a Jaded or over
worked team, or even the spring wagon
or carriage and fresh roadsters, the
automobile makes tho trip wlfli both
speed and comfort, leaving thy .team
available for use at home, extMnely
Important, especially in those eeffsons
of the year when horsepower ipj piost
needed.”
Auto Works Wonders.
That this is true anybody who has
lived in tho country will readily admit.
When farm affairs are pressing, the
necessary trips may be taken with the
auto after the day’s work is done, and
es recreation. In Innumerable ways
the car may add to the pleasure of farm
life. It will carry tho milk to the
creamery, take the women shopping,
haul minor produce to market, bring
home supplies, and on Sundays, while
teams are resting, whisk the family to
church, to neighbors, or to friends more
remote.
During harvest, when there is a
breakdown in the machinery (and
what farmer does not have breakdowns
In the course of a season?), the auto
mobile quickly brings the necessary
extras or repairs, and work goes on,
with little loss from delays. Otherwise
accidents in harvest time might in some
Instances entail hundreds of dollars of
loss, for the utilization of even mo
ment of favorable weather counts when
"bringing In the sheaves."
Demand For Horse Still Good.
The auto does not supplant the
horse; far from it. However incred
ible It may seem, its Increased use lias
in no way detracted from the prosper
ity of the horse industry. The demand
for good horses is stronger than it has
ever been before, prices rule higher
now than for years, and their breeding
and rearing Is full of bright promise.
By making available a large working
force on the farm the auto has a great
er significance than might at first blush
Appear, for it makes possible better cul
tivation. the development of larger
• reas, and hence Increased productions,
the importance of which Is Indicated by
the relation of our diminishing food
•upply to our Increasing population.
The needs of the people are Increasing
faster than they arc being met, as is
shown by the lessening ratio of dif
ference between consumption and pro
duction. and if the auto contributes,
even indirectly, to a solution of the
problem this condition presents, it is
a more impoi tant factor in affairs than
was at first realized.
Also, so far as it saves time, team
•nd man to the farm, just to that ex
tent is it helping to solve another seri
ous rural problem, that of labor.
Farmers Forced Good Roads,
What the farmer has done for road
improvement everybody in Georgia
knows. When the automobile was a
plaything for the very rich there was
little done out of tho ordinary in the
matter of road improvement. When
farmers began to buy cars, pressure
was brought to bear that resulted in
road improvement.
Today Georgia has some roads as
good as any in the world. Despite the
handicap of lack of good road material
in many parts of the state, tin farmers
are having roads built that in dry
weather are as good as the world’s best
and that in we weather are considera-
■ bly better than worst. Around the
cities —Atlanta. Macon. Savannah and
the like —there are city men's roads.
But get down In central and southern
Georgia and you find roads that acre
financed by farmers, laid out by farm
ers. kept up by farmers and that ate a
credit to the farmers and th< state.
Brightens Farm Life.
In contributing so materially to th.
convenience and contentment of the
farmer’s family, the motor ear is over
coming one of th. chief drawbacks
urged against the farm it nak. s farm
life less burdensome, more agre.able
and keeps those in the country in
closer touch with th. rest of mankind.
It encourages visits that make for
more neighborliness, and contribut. s to
culture and refinement that without tie
mental contact and association with
others might not be attained. It h< ps
to dissipate much of the dreary loneli
ness of rm al life, particularly In the
case of the good housewife, whose years
.are in so many instances tilled with the
maximum of strenuous labor yielding,
but a minimum of r< stful pleasures.
If the auto helps to brighten the
paths of the farm women, it serves a
most worthy purpose. Im .dentally, but
Important also, is it- tendency to keep
the boys on the farm, whic h has need
of them and they of It. for uni. -s all
signs fail, agriculture Is . nt. rmg an era
wherein farming will be made mor. at
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SILENT KNIGHT STILL
OBJECT OF INTEREST
* | AST year’s automobile shows
I I throughout America had three
sensations self-starters, elec
irlc lighting and Silent Knight motors.
At last year's Atlanta show, several
sorts of Silent Knights were shown.
This y .-ar there is but one—the Stearns.
This is not, however, because of the
fact that any cars equipped with the
sleeve valv. motors have been taken off
the market, but because of the mere
chance that only one company of those
which exhibited motors made under the
Knight patent hist year has cars In
this show.
List year the Stearns Company dis
pens'd entirely with its poppet valve
motors and made a four-cylinder motor
only. This year the four-cylinder Si
lent Knight type motor has been con
tinued. but the S,earns Company has
added a six to the line.
Tiie general principle of the opera
tion of Silent Knight motors became
reasonably well known to the public
last year. However, for the benefit of
the many not entirely familiar with it
and because all Silent Knight motors 1
are constructed on the same basic prln- !
ciples the following facts, as published
recently in The Automobile, are here I
given: <
The diagram shows the end section
of the motor. There are two concen- ■
trie sleeves. S and SI, which fit within :
the cylinder, between it and the piston
P. These sleeves move up and down,
being actuated by the small connecting
links, L and LI, which are connected to <
the eccentric shaft, ES.
In the upper ends of these sleeves, S
and SI. there are slots cut, which serve
as port openings, admitting or exhaust
ing the gas at the proper time.
When the exhause or inlet openings
in the two concentric sleeves register
with one another and with the opening
in the cylinder wall, there Is a path
from within fhte cylinder into the ex
haust or inlet manifold, as the case
may be.
Os course, as soon as the three open
ings begin to register, there is a par
tial passage between manifold and cyl
inder, but the port is not fully open to
tho gases until all three openings—the
two sleeve slots and the cylinder pas
sage—are In exact register. In its mo
tion up or down, the opening or slot In
one of the sleeves may be opposite the
cylinder opening, but no gas can es
cape or enter because the passage is
barred by the other sleeves.
The movement of the sleeves is so
, timed that only during the exhaust
■ stroke or the suction stroke do the two
sleeve ports come together, at the same I
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MOTOR MAKERS WILL NOT
. BE HIT BY CAR SHORTAGE
NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—Good news
of the industry was contained in the
I optimistic statements issued by nu
. merous representative railway officials
. as to the alleviation of the shortage of
. freight ears and the prospect for an
adequate supply by the time the nio-
• tor car shipping season begins, The
net shortage up to November 2 wit.-
k more than 40,000, but to tke gratifica
tion of the motor industry it is an-
■ nounced that the exceedingly heavy
movement of grain during October pas
brought forward the peak of the rall-
I roads’ load, so that it will probably be
passed before the end of November.
: The total net shortage is 12,881 more
i than reported at the last fortnightly
period. Presidents of the Atchison,
Wabash, Illinois Central. Northwestern
. and Great Northern report full traffic,
■ but little congestion. The New York
1 Central and Erie have more than they
can handle, but both roads are hopeful
about cleaning up in a few days.
A Fully Equipped
Pope-Hartford
f $2250 .
/■/ Gray & Davis Electric Starter. Electric Dynamo Lighting,
/»/ r°P> Windshield. l our Speed Forward Transmission, iBl
/$! Double Drop Frame. Firestone Demountable Rims, Hl
® 1
/f / i'O Horsepower, 4 Cylinder, $3250. bO Horsepower, 6=Cylinder, $4250
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S. Crane
30-32 James Street
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 191a.
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Cross-sectional view of Stearns-
Knight motor, Illustrating sleeve con
struction and design of oiling system,
time being opposite the opening in the
cylinder wall.
It will readily be seen that the timing
of the Knight motor is a difficult propo
sition, and required much experimenta
tion and testing during the period o
its development.
The movement of the sleeves up and
down Is very much less than that of the
piston, hence the problem of oiling is
not a troublesome one. In fact, the
stroke of the sleeves is only about one
tenth that of the pistol. That is, while
the piston stroke is 5.5 inches, the
stroke of either sleeve is only 1.25 inch.
For a crankshaft speed of 1,500 revolu
tions, which means a piston speed of
1,375 feet per minute for 5.5-inch stroke,
the sleeve speed Is approximately 140.5
feet per minute, nearly a tenth, as al
ready stated.
The slots in the upper ends of the
sleeves are not the same width for both
intake and exhaust sides. The lengths
are the same, but the width of the ex
haust opening is slightly wider, as seen
from the following:
Port length.
Inlet 124 degrees (4.5 inches)
Exhaust 124 degrees (4.5 inches)
Port width.
Inlet 5 inch
Exhaust 625 Inch
The exhaust is made slightly larger
than the intake to allow for the com
plete escape of the exhaust gases and
I the thorough scavenging of the cylin
ders.
BECAUSE OF ILL HEALTH
GEO. SCHEBLER RETIRES
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. Nov. 16.
Frank H. VVhei ler, has bought out the
interest of his partner. George M.
Schebler, in the firm of Wheeler &
Schebler, manufacturers of the Scheb
ler carbureter. The business will be
continued In Mr. Wheeler without
change in firm name, Mr. Wheeler to
be the sole owner. The consideration
has not been made public.
The growth of the company, which ‘
has been conducted as a partnership,
lias been almost phenomenal. Mr
Schebler. who was a mechanic in mod
erate circumstances, brought out the
Schebler carbureter and found himself
without sufficient capital to develop
and manufacture his invention. Mr.
Wheeler became associated with him,
and the two started in an extremely
modest way in small quarters.
In a remarkably short length of time!
the business had outgrown its quarters, I
and it was found necessary to erect the I
enormous plant that is now operated
on the south side of the city. This
plant is said to be one of the largest of
its kind in the work!.
AUTD SALESMEN
NOT fflT THEY
ONGEWERE
By a Veteran Salesman.
NOT so many years ago there were
more automobiles sold at 2
o'clock in the morning than at
2 o'clock In the afternopn. That was
the period In the automobile history
when good fellowship counted for more
than any other quality in the sale of a
machine The salesman then, as a
rule, knew a good deal more about how
to gel the signature on the dotted line,
by giving his prospect a good time
through filling him with strong drink
after a lively demonstrating "joy ride,”
than he did about the merits of his ma
chine. He was an expert barroom
salesman rather than an expert autoist.
This spirit in dealing withe custom
ers was not then confined to the sale
of machines, but largely prevailed in
every branch of the automobile busi
ness, including that of auto accessories.
In more recent times a great change
has come about. Customers can no
longer be bribed with champange and
cigars and a good time into buying any
thing connected with the auto trade.
The customer today demands two
things—good service and good value.
Only that salesman can hope to win
who can "make good” on these two es
sential points.
In its early history, fancy profits
was the rule in the sale of everything
connected with the auto. That day has
gone, never to return. No branch of
modern business Is faced with keener,
livelier, more active or more biting
competition than is today found in
every branch of the auto industry.
Some branches of it, more especially
the tire branch, is handled by the trade
all over the country, on a bare broker
age. The dealer’s only hope o's a profit
for himself is in getting a large volume
of sales. The salesman’s only hope of
success is in building up a large per
sonal following. This he can never do
unless he gives good service.
The customer has a right to expect
and, in fact, demands of the salesman:
1. That he shall know his business
from start to finish.
2. That he shall be able to give intel
ligent information.
3. That his statements shal be truth
ful and dependable.
4. That nis promises shall be faithful
ly kept. ;
5. That he will be treated by the
salesman as a gentleman would treat
him.
It’s a good thing for the customer,
the salesman and the trade that the
day of the barroom salesman in the
auto accessory trade is a thing of the
past.
Goods must now be sold on their mer
it and the salesman who hopes to suc
ceed must substitute real knowledge
for bluff and ’ good fellowship. The
salesman of today must begin his day’s
work with a clear hepd instead of with
a muddled brain. He now finds him
self a hard working member of a digni
fied profession rather than one who Is
playing at a game.
All this means better and more Intel,
llgent service to the Customer and more
manhood and higher respect for the
salesman.
Fathers formerly with good
reason, to permit their sons to enter
any selling branch of the automobile
business, through fear of the possible
demoralizing influences surrounding
such occupation. Today, as a rule, a
young man is morally as safe in this
binneh of trade? as he would be in the
hardware, grocery -or other standard
lines of merchandising.
The old-time barroom “auto royster
er” is being replaced by the temperate,
intelligent, capable, efficient salesman,
who wins out by knowing his business
and by giving it his'faithful attention.
He is an all round superior type man
■ ami therefore deservedly commands a
1 greater respect ami a higher degree ot
confidence on the part of the customer
than did the former loose thinking,
loose living and loose acting automo
bile or auto supply salesman.
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