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Tire Repairing and Vulcanizing We Carry a Full Line of Accessories TIRE RENEW TIRE TALC ELASTIC DOUGH AIR GAUGES BLOW-OUT SHOES PREST-O-LITE TUBING TUBE PATCHES PATCHING CEMENT The Best and Most Up-to-Date Tire Repair Shop AGENTS. Goodyear Tires. Diamond Tires. Firestone Tires. United States Tires. Republic Tires. Michelin Tires. Goodrich Tires. All Work Absolutely Guaranteed If your wheels are not running true, you are re ducing your tire mileage. Let us examine yours. lobbs Tire Repair Co. 22S Peachtree Street Tires Retreaded. Made as Good as New With Gray & Davis Electric Starter and Generator—$1075 A Greater Car for Less Money t While the price has gone down the value has gone up. The motor is larger; the wheel base is longer; the tires are larger; the tonneau is larger; the equipment is better-includ ing such additions as electric lights; the body is more hand somely finished, in rich, dark Brewster green, with heavy nickel and aluminum trimmings; m fact, m every single and individual respect it is an improved car at a reduced price. Live, active dealers can earn good money handling the .Overland Agency A request to our office will bring the car and an expert to your door Overland Southern Automobile Co. 232 Peachtree Street, Atlanta “What It Takes to Repair or Retread Your Tire y We've Got It TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA , SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1913. SAYS GEO. DIEHL Official Stresses Importance of Highways in Life of People. Foreign Instances Cited. "National road* are a natural re sult of the modem use of the high ways brought about by the coming of the motor-driven vehicle, which has advanced road travel from Its former comparatively local charac ter." declared Chairman George C. Diehl, of the A. A. A. National Good Roads Board "In the consideration of the coun try-wide work carried on by the A. A. A. for the million and more motorists we have given consclerrtlous attention to every\phase of the subject, and repeatedly our deductions have taken us to the gipsr.eral propoFttion that the United Staten must he provided with a national roads system connecting all the States. This subject will be one of the most Important discussed at the American Bar Congress In De troit during the week of September 29 In the apportionment of days the »mes devoted to national legislation and the needs of the road users fell to the A. A. A. as a matter of course, while the American Highway Associ ation, of which Director I^ogan Wal ler Page, of the United States office of public roads, is president, assumed the burden of the program concern ing construction and Inter-related matters. The body correlates the ef forts of the general roads organiza tions of the whole country'. Lesson to England. "Marked confirmation of our con tention that national roads are now demanded is found In the progress of events In Great Britain, which now realizes that it must do what Prance learned long ago had to be done to insure roads communication in all parts of the country. "A measure was recently Introduced In the British Parliament by Lord Helmsley which provides for the tak ing over as national roads by the British road board of such roads to « onnact the different countries with each other It Is expected that the bill will become a law at the next session of Parliament. At present the roads of Great Britain are divided Into three classes main road, by roads and private roads. The new law will add to these a fourth road, hitherto unknown in British highway nomenclature—national roads. These will be constructed, repaired and maintained solely at the expense of the central government. MAXWELL "25” PLEASES DEALERS IT Tire Inflation By L. GREF.NWALD, Manager Service Department of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. Inflate slowly flt first. There are a great many views as to the proper pressure, but it is rulable to inflate the front tires to a pressure equiva lent to seventeen or eighteen times their cross-section and the rear tires to a pressure equivalent to twenty times their cross-section; for exam ple, 34 by 4 tires on front w’heels should have from 68 to 72 pounds pressure, while on the rear wheels the pressure should be about 80 pounds. The tire should round out pretty well end not flatten under the weight of car and passengers. Reinflate the tire occasionally, as the Inner tubes are permeable. When the rubber is heated to 80 degree* or more, 15 or 20 per cent of the pres sure then is lost. It is not advisable to innate fne tires with the exhaust from engine. OH and certain gashes are destructive to the rubber. Remember that your pressure gauge on pump may not show an accurate pressure in the tire ow ing to the trio* tion of the valve inside or plunger. As the first shipments of fhe new Maxwell “25” be^in coming into the South, groups of in terested spectators center around the car in every town. Both dealers and buyers are enthusias tic over the little modeL W.C.MahoneyMarvels At Modern Motor Car Fifteen Years of Manufacture Has Only Started Industry, Accord ing to Branch Manager. "The manufacture of automobiles is by far the mom progressive Industry the world has ever known,’’ remarked W C. Mahoney, Atlanta branch man ager of the Cartercar Company, to • group of friends the other day “Just think of the strides that the business is and has been making right from the first car built. There Has never been any hesitation on the part of the manufacturers of motor cars. They have been on the rush every minute, such a rush us has never been seen in any other line of business. When the demand has not been as groat as the supply the manufacturers have created a demand—then when the de mand was greater than the supply they built new plants and the efficiency that is found in nine tenths of the mo tor ear production plants is really mar velous You will not And such pro- gressivenesa. such real push In uny other line of business. Firestone Is Ahead In Important Races Victory came again to Firestone tires at Corona, Cal., September 9, when Earl Cooper, In a Stutz, won this contest at a speed of 74 1-2 miles per hour for 2oft miles. This is the fifth victory for Firestones since May 80, and Includes all the Important racing events of the season, namely, Indianapolis Sweepstakes, May 30; Paanma-Pacific, road race, July 4; Montamara Festo races, July f> and 7; Santa Monica race, August 9, and Corona race, September 9. Never before in the history of tlre- dom has one make of tire captured such a string of races. Firestone makes no racing tires, every event being won on the regular tires that any motorist gets. Unique Contest on In Suspender Firm Most Successful Salesmen Will Re ceive Overland Touring Cars—Six Cars Purchased as Prizes. Automatic Governor on Willys Utility Truck Prevents Careless Drivers Going Too Fast. If you want speed, invest in a rac ing car, but if you are in need of everyday delivery service; do not get a truck that a careless driver can rack to pieces in a few weeks. This is the advice given prospective pur- chnsers of commercial vehicles by George W. Bennett, vice president of the Willys-Overland Company. Mr. Bennett's firm is manufacturing the Willys utility three-quarter-ton truck, which has been designed expressly for rapid delivery of medium-weight merchandise. Careless Drivers a Liability. The Toledo manufacturer maintains that overspeeding has been a big fac tor In promoting a prejudice against motor vehicles among business men. He points out the fact that a careless driver who will speed his truck on rough streets is a more costly liabil ity to a merchant than a whole sta bleful of sick horses. Such a driver, he claims, will In flict more wear and tear on a truck in a week than would ordinarily be experienced In a month of careful operation. Limit of Eighteen Miles. “We have successfully overcome the objection of speeding In the Wil lys utility truck.’ Mr Bennett said. “We have provided wUh this product an automatic governor, set and sealed In the intake pipe. This governor precludes the possibility of running the truck at more than eighteen miles an hour, which our engineers have shown Is the highest speed such a ve hicle can be operated at without in jury over the ordinary city streets and country roads. “We are thus assuring our patrons that, no matter how r careless or ig norant their drivers may be, their trucks can not be worn out through overspeeding.’’ POPE 3-TON TRUCK 6-Cylinder, 7-Passenger 4-Passenger Phaeton Car Six jobbers of men’s furnishings In va rious parts of the United States are to experience a pleasant variation from everyday business returns within the next few weeks. Each of the six who have yet to he chosen is to be presented with ari Overland touring car by the C. A. Mdgerton Manufacturing Com pany, of Shirley, Mass., makers of a well-known brand of suspenders. The Edgerton Company purchased the six Overlands last . week from the C. T. Silver Motor Company, metropolitan dis tributor of that line. The cars ure to be given as prizes to the jobber who dispose of the largest number of the Massachusetts concern’s suspenders during a given period In order that all jobbers may have an equal chance to win, they have di vided into six classes and an Overland touring car will be the first prize in each ( lass. The above are 1913 demonstrators which we are going to dispose of at unheard of prices. We also have three used Pope-Hartford cars for immediate delivery at attractive prices. L. S. CRANE 328 Peachtree St. Ivy 5717 Don’t Forget We Sell Pope Motorcycles