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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 k ■ 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 i 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 /»/ - i||| /M/ Luces and Motorcycles. till ZeS- MEET ME AT THE SHOW tdFw, T OTS 0F /SERVICE S. Crane 30-32 James Street THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 191a. ZZZ i Oq Rh w I nil r — m few [ 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. □ ir=ii ir=ii— :?Jimr===ir=ir==r- nr= ATLANTA’S ||GORGEOUS| AUTOMOBILE || SHOW J TODAY AND ALL NEXT WEEK AUDITORIUM- ARMORY FIRST SHOWING OF 1913 MODELS Reduced Rates on All Railroads Account of Southern Appalachian Goods Conven tion November 19th Decorations 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 on 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 =ll=-:'.. - 11=