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HKAKST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JUNE J, 1D13. 7 C USE WIDE TIRE TO SAVE ROAD, URGES G.G.DIERE Official Would Also Lighten Loads and Save Bridges—State Legislation Needed. Leading Autoist George W. Hanson, Stude- baker dealer who is a veteran in local automobile circles. NEW HOMES ON THE AUTO ROW A meeting of leading State high way commissioners and the manufac turers of horse-drawn wagons and motor-driven trucks is the suggestion of Chairman Oeorge C. Diehl of the A. A. A. National Good Roads Board, who contends that the time has ar rived when those interests can advan tageously discuss the drafting of suit able legislation governing the width of tires and the weight of loads. Af ter an interchange of views a com mittee could prepare laws the passage of which would be practically assured when put forward by the chief high way officers of the various States. “Many States have enacted laws which endeavor to regulate the width of tires of vehicles, but unfortunately there has not been strict enforcement of these regulations,” says Chairman Diehl. “The width of tires is one of the important factors in highway con struction and maintenance. Narrow tires, especially during the wet sea son, form ruts in improved roads and in many instances, where the roads are weak, break through the surface with the subsequent rapid destruction of the highway. Danger of Skidding. “One great difficulty in enforcing wide-tire ordinances with horse- drawn vehicles has been that while less traction is required with wide tires, on slippery clay or hilly roads It Is very difficult in wet weather to manage a horse-drawn vehicle with wide tires, owing to its tendency to skid and slide into the ditches. In stances are frequent where in a jour ney a farmer must drive over miles of slippery road and only have a few miles of improved highway, in which case he would naturally jtrefer to use narrow tires for the entire distance, rather than to attempt the use of wide tires over the slippery section of the road. “There is no question that protec tion and economical maintenance of improved highways require that nar row tires sholud be discarded, and or dinances must be enforced which will prevent their use on main traveled highways which have been improved at great expense. If a vehicle owner desires to use narrow-tire wagons on slippery roads, be must be absolute ly prevented from using the same tires on improved roads. Equal, 11 not greater, damage can be done to 1he highway with tires of insufficient ■width on motor trucks. There is no fctate where wide-tire ordinances are drawn which relate to both horse- drawn and motor-driven vehicles, or where a scientific attempt has been made to prepare such ordlnahces or where a strict enforcement is had. To Limit Weight of Load. “It is also entirely practicable and reasonable that the weight of loads should be limited, as the bridges which form an integral part of the highway, are not, in a great majority of cases, sufficiently strong to carry weights which are becoming more and more excessive. It must be recogniz ed that it is impossible, within any reasonable time, to reconstruct thou sands of bridges. There should be legislation in all of the States limit ing the weight of loads and prescrib ing the width of tires, and specifying an adequate and reasonable method of strictly enforcing such regulations. As far as possible, the laws In the various States should be uniform with a view that the manufacturers of wagons and motor trucks may be guided in their construction of vehi cles.” Lights at Night. “Another traffic factor which should be the subject of uniform legislation or regulation, is the carrying of lights on vehicles at night. Nearly all au tomobile laws require front and rear lights on motor-driven vehicles. Irf some of the more populous sections, euch as New York and Connecticut many drivers of horses use lights, without the legal requirement, as a matter 0/ self-protection. That all do not -do so emphasizes the need for laws on the subject. With the travel on the roads constantly increasing there is no reason why lives and property should be endangered by ab sence of lights oa any class of vehi cles.” Mike Murphy’s Luck-. Keeps Car in Garagei I DETROIT, MICH., May 31.—Mika Murphy certainly Is running In hard luck here. Three weeks ago the old guards of the Detroit Athletic Olttb presented the veteran trainer with a Paige but he has not had an opportunity to enjoy his car, having been laid up in bed. Ho says. “I don’t mind taking a rest once in a while if the doctor* prescribe It, but what is worrying mo is when I am going to get a ride in my new Paige I’ll give those doctors two more days to get me well, and If t can’t get out of bed, then they are Just going to place that old cot of mine in the rear of that machine and then I will get a ride. I think a ride in my new car will make mo feel better than all the medicine they have.” I IS GEORGE HANSON Local Studebaker Dealer Organ ized Auto Association and Is Still Active in Its Work. The Cadillac Motor Car Company, Detroit, has sold through its Yoka- hama agents, Andrews & George, five 1913 Cadillac limousines to the Jap anese royal family. Two of these were taken by Prince Sanjo, and one each by Count Hijikata, Count Nijo and Count Kanei. * * • As indicating the increasing popu larity of the wire wheel abroad It Is pointed out that of the 394 cars and chassis displayed at the recent Brus sels Salon no less than 217 were thus equipped. At the 1912 exhibition but 65 of the 308 ‘cars and chassis on display used wire wheels. George W. Hanson believes in At lanta. His Is an active belief—a boosting belief—a belief which helps to make Atlanta the beautiful, pro gressive city of which the South is proud. Mr. Hanson is an automobile man and his particular automobile is the Studebaker. He has been connected with the Studebaker people since the establishment of the factory and has been in charge of the Southern dis tributing center. The first car shipped to him wag No. 9, sent out fi*om the Studebaker factory. This same car won the hill climb a few days ago. Atlanta is a great automobile dis tributing center to-day. But it was apparently a down-and-outer when Mr. Hanson came here. Every auto mobile branch had not prospered and the field seemed most discouraging. “The Atlanta spirit opened up my pores and permeated my system. It was great dope,” said Mr. Hanson. His? enthusiasm was not of a passive kind. He immediately got into touch with the newspapers and asked for co-operation in pulling for the Na tional Automobile Show. He followed this move by a visit to New York and conferred with the National Automo bile Committee. His arguments were convincing—“Atlanta is to the South what New York is to the East and Chicago‘to the West. We are entitled to the show.” He got it. He had not gone to fail. Mr. Hanson’s Enthusiasm. The success was gratifying to the extent of making the dealers lose enthusiasm a few years later. George W. Hanson worked against this lack of interest. He called all the dealers together and gave a barbecue at Cold Springs. There, with the Atlanta spirit revived, the Automobile Asso ciation was organized. This asso ciation puts on automobile show’s and influences the manufacturers to at tend. Atlanta is in its automobile infancy, even if it is one of the best automo bile markets in the United States. Georgia is one of the best automobile States. Mr. Hanson says that prospects are good for this year’s business. A re cent trip through the country around Atlanta show's fine crop conditions, a vast improvement over a few' weeks ago. Farmers are delighted with the cotton situation. There is an intense relief of the tension of ten days ago. “I need more oars,” declared Mr. Hanson, and he left for Detroit Sat urday night. He will get them, too, if the Studebaker factory has to work double time. He gets what he goes out after. New Home of the B. F. Goodrich Co. Australian Automobile Dealer Charms Snake and Throws Boomerang, Attractive personality in selling au tomobiles is just as effective in for eign lands as in the United States, according to W. H. Halley, foreign department manager for the Studeba ker Corporation, who is just back from a tour around the w’orld, during which he touched at Studebaker agencies throughout Asia, Australia and Europe. Mr. Lalley cites the instance of S. M. Joss, manager of the Canada Cy cle & Auto Company, of Brisbane, Australia. Some of the deeds of Mr. Joss would make the most enthusias tic American salesman pause. “Brisbane is a great sheep country, peopled largely by immigrants from Great Britain,” tells Mr. Lalley. “The owners of the sheep ranches make up a large part of the buying class and find motor cars of great value in their work. Few of them are motor wise, however, and Mr. Joss had to study ways of getting a favorable audience for an American made pro duct, forced to compete on unfavora ble tariff terms with the leading cars from the British factories. Cunning of Joss Sticks. “Joss had made a close study of aboriginal Australian life. The idea occurred to him that he might put to a practical use his ability to tame the vicious snakes with which the bush abounds. He found that many a profitable opening followed demon stration of his ability to charm a snake out of his lair or to throw the aboriginal weapon on a course that would take It around a tree and back again to his feet. So, snake charming and boomerang throwing. Joss journeyed through Brisbane, sell ing Studebaker cars.” Now that the cars have gained A motor volunteer corps has re cently been formed in Sofia and is reported to have been in service with the Bulgarian army, transporting of ficers at the front. • • • The Wiltshire County Council In England has decided to utilize a tar preparation for laying dust on the main roads connecting’ between 90 and 100 villages of the county during the coming year. * * ♦ The first Japanese motoring maga zine has made its appearance in The Autocar. It is a monthly organ, published by the Nippon Automobile Club, and is printed both in Japanese and English. • • * Austria has decided to impose a tax of 40 cents a day on all motor tourists in that country. Automo biles are permitted to stay' three months before becoming subject to annual taxation, w'hile a motorcycle may remain but one month. * * • In view of the increasing demand for Warner Auto-Meters in Great Britain, the Donald F. Johnston Com pany', sole European agent, has open ed a branch at 211 Shaftesbury Ave nue, London, W. C., where the prod uct of the Warner Instrument Com pany, Beloit, Wis., will be found in the future. Dad Pays for Motor, But Boy Buys It That Is Philosophical Reflection of Cartercar Official—What Lad Did in Transaction. their opening, Joss finds less need for the exercise of his art. for Bris bane has become fully acquainted with Studebaker quality and value. But the salesman’s friends once in a while ask,and get an exhibition that show's Joss hasn’t forgotten either of hia strange means of eatertainment. Onq of Mj\ LalleV’s’ problems through out the Far ftast nas been the establishment of a fixed selling price. He found that in many places dealers were getting as much as $2,500 for the $1,290 Studebaker *'85,” with its electric starting and lighting equip ment. His trip resulted in a hard, fast rule, prohibiting a greater price than the original list, plus the cost of transportation and duties. Had an odometer been attached to Mr. Lalley it would have shown about 40,000 mile£ as the result of his four- months' trip. Local automobile owners and driv ers are up in arms over accusations of heartlessness and lack of consid eration for pedestrians, according to J. W. Goldsmith, Jr., the Hudson dealer. They assert that it’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways, and that pedestrians are generally su premely reckless that wtre It not for the extraordinary care exercised by motor car drivers accidents would be a hundred times more frequent. It is not denied that there are some unheeding drivers, but the percentage is very’ small. “To take a short trip through the heart of the city' in an automobile is to open one’s eyes to the amazing indifference of the public,” declared Mr. Goldsmith. ‘‘People stroll down the center of the most crow’ded streets, calmly Ignoring the fact that the motor cars have some rights there. Women stop to kiss and gos sip directly In the path of scores of vehicles. In getting on and off street cars not one person in ten pays the least attention to where they Jump, but dash wdldly across the pavement dodging here and there in absolute recklessness. “Mothers allow their two and three- year-old babies to crawl and toddle into the middle of busy thoroughfars. Meanwhile the anxious and harrassed automobile drivers vainly shift gears, and blow horns, and dodge back and forth among the criminally reckless populace, knowing that the slightest scratch on a pedestrian almost ex poses the man in the car to lynching. “Isn’t it about time,” suggests Mr. Goldsmith, ‘‘that the public realized that probably the most careful and anxious man on the street is the thor oughly honest and respectable tax payer who is endeavoring by r every means within his pow'er to avoid evevi the slightest accident. How long w'ill it be before people learn that the one man most anxious to avoid dan ger and trouble is the man who is sitting behind the steering wheel of the motor car they so constantly ac cuse and villify.” “The boys buy the motor cars—the men pay for them,” Is the statement of H. R. Radford, vice president and general manager of the Cartecar Company. Pontiac, Mich. “No one but an experienced motor car salesman can have any idea of the great influence of the boy in the family, when the question of buying a motor car comes up,” says Mr. Rad ford. “Unless the salesman can s*ell the boy he is going to have a very hard time in selling the father. Of course, this is not an infallible rule, but it is true in nine cases out of ten. The boy is naturally interested in motor cars, because his eyes are open to every kind of pleasure, and nothing else offers such enjoyment as a motor car. He gets tiw> catalogs and reads them from cover to cover. He knows Just how the different cars are made, and consequently when the head of the house is ready to make the purchase he looks to the boy be cause that is where he is going to get a large part of his buying knowledge. “Just the other day one of our salesmen went out to call on a pros pect and when lie got there he found the representatives of tw r o other cars on the ground. There was nothing for him to do but wait his turn. Finally the young son came home from school and the Cartercar sales man immediately got him into the car and drove out to a wide boulevard where the young fellow was taught 16 White Trucks Sold in New York To Gimbel Concern The sale of sixteen White delivery trucks to the New York department store of Gimbel Brothers announced by the White Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the largest motor truck installations of the year, and it follows closely upon the announce ment of other large sales to Now York stores, notably the delivery of fif teen trucks to Stern Brothers. The sixteen trucks purchased by Gimbel Brother?. In conjunction w’ith a fleet of 26 White? w'hich have been in the service of the company for a year and a half, gives this well- known department store the largest fleet of standardized gasoline delivery trucks. Gimbel Brothers' delivery depart ment is maintained on progressive lines. The company’s own men han dle all adjustments and simple re pair?. Not one of the White trucks ow r ned by this company lias ever been in a White service station. how to drive. When they returned the boy was still at the wheel, and as he drove up he shouted to his father, ‘Buy this Cartercar for me. dad, be cause I can drive it already.’ This chap w r as only nine years old, yet his request w'as enough to cause the father to buy a Cartercar, even before he had given it a trial himself.” 'TXON’T make your car pay for your tire experiments. Increase your car’s efficiency, and reduce the upkeep ex pense by equipping with I ; Z// fl Car owners of experience have proved the car-protect ing resiliency, the mileage and security value of the Firestone tough, pliable tread. H. 8. Firestone’s book, “What’s What In Tires” tells how and why. THE FIRESTONE TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY “America’s Largest Exclusive Tire and Rim Makers" 253-255 Peachtree St.. Atlanta. Ga. Home Office ami Factory: Akron. Ohio . Branches In all Large Cities 7777/ m SPECIAL SALE!! STANDARD MAKES Of TIRES. THESE TIRES, ALTHOUGH SLIGHTLY IMPERFECT, WILL, IN MOST CASES, W EAR AS WELL AS FIRSTS. In our estimation, the only difference between one of these TIRES and a F4SfST Is the guarantee. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS WORTH. WHILE THIS SHIPMENT LASTS 30x3 Xj. 32x3' 34xS^ . 32 x?”. „ 33x4 . ... .$ 7.43 34x4 . 11.66 36x4 . 12.68 34x4(4 . 16.09 35x414 16.67 36x4(4 Other sizes in proportion. $17.22 18.34 21.81 22.50 23.13 GOODS SHIPPED C. O. D„ W ITH PRIVILEGE OF EXAMINA TION. Money refunded on all goods returned intact within a week. AUTOMOBILE TIRE CO. THE WORLD'S GREATEST TIRE JOBBERS 234 Peachtree. Ivy 4580. Atlanta, Ga. fr DC D C Mighty Michigan “40” n With electric lights. Four forward speeds. Tires 35x4 1-2. Cushions 14 inches deep. To Win This War ol “40’s” Compare this wonderful car with any car on the market sell ing for $2,250.00 and see for yourself if the MICHIGAN does not far surpass any of them as to value. Cut out and mail Please mall your catalogue and comparison sheet $1,710.00 Electric Starter $1,S85.00 FULLY EQUIPPF.D Miehigan-Georgia Motor Co. 219 Peachtree Street L Phone, Ivy 2108 Atlanta j hi—'".'."...■■■ ii =i i li— » ir==J There is nothing in Goodrich Advertising that isn't in Goodrich Goods Goodrich Tires are beat in the long run Not because the makers of practically haIf.l91S’s output of new ears have bought GoodrichTires to equip them— Not because ao many well known car makers have always equipped their output with Goodrich Tires— Not because thousands and thousands of raore-than-satisfied tire users rec ommend them enthusiastically— But— Because the Goodrich principle ot unit molding, which was crysta’ized from our twenty-seven years ol ex perience in rubber manufacturing before we made the first American clincher tire and which we have never changed, demonstrated, Its soundness from the start— And because our long experience In selecting the best crude rubber and compounding It gave us the ability to give It toughness and durability and at the same time keep the buoyant life in it— And because we make Goodrich Tires of the finest fabric that can be woven of Sea Island Cotton —fabric that costs as much as silk—and of pure rubber— And because Goodrich unit jnoldfng makes the whole tire one integral piece—« unit— which wears uniformly and gives long, comfortable service. The thick, tough tread, being of the VJre and not merely on it, naturally cannot strip or peel. Our'single vulcanization makes, all the tire at once—a unit—and fat<s you of the danger from weak, spots or dead places caused by overl vulcanization spoking the life out of the rubber. Tour tire dealer will supply you with whatever style of Goodrich Tire yqji need—but there is only on* kind 4ftd quality. Write for free set of folders telling you how to get the most service from pour tires and how to avoid the com mon tire injuries- And, if you plan a tour, let us send the Qgpdrich Route Book covering it. The B. F. Goodrich Company Atlanta Branca, 25 Houston $t. Factories: Akron, Ohio Branches and 8ervice Stations in All PrlmJusI Cities Dealers Everywhere. Arthur H. Collbran, a wealthy American, engaged in the mining bus iness in Chinnampo, Korea, has pur chased a Hudson car. made by the Hudson Motor Car Company. Detroit. This is said to be the seventh auto mobile in the country and all are of American manufacture. • * * Spain has appropriated $10,000,000 for road improvements, and a well defined movement is on foot to in terest American and other foreign tourists in visiting that country. Within the past year 37,000 miles of road have been put in condition for motor touring. rr 13 a k ,u H •q ,--iM .ml .ii