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HEAR ST S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA.
SUNDAY. DECEMBER 7, T-01 ;i
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Courtery to Pedestrians and Other
User: of Roads Would Prevent
Bad Legislation.
Bv REED L. PARKER.
Courtesy on the part of owners and
drivers of motor cars will do more
than all the laws on our statute
> ok' to eliminate fhe disagreeable
Altitude of the pedestrian towdrd
the passenger or of one selfish driver
toward another. Courtesy is what
is needed to place motorists on a
more companionable footing, to make
touring more generally popular, and
to make the running of a town car an
asset rather than a drudgery. •
Every one obeys or should obey the
laws because of the penalty attached
lawbreaking. In obeying the
laws the motorist does nothing more
than is necessary. The laws do not
cover every sort of emergency and
they do not by any means allow for
all the varied predicaments that be
set the driver in towft and in the
country.
courtesy is something that can not
be legislated into motoring.
Here are a few rules which should
be unwritten law to every motorist:
Never shout in disappproval to a
pedestrian or the occupants of an
other car that may have offended,
probably unintentionally.
In driving in town refnember that
if you are traveling slowly you
should be near the curb to your
right as possible. Fast moving vehi
cles have the right of wav to your
left.
In passing a car do not cut in im
mediately. Give the driver passed a
chance to fall in behind you without
applying his brakes.
Never Crowd a Car.
Never crowd another car toward
the curb or into traffic.
If you intend to slow down, because
of a delay in traffic or for any other
reason, hold up your right hand so
those in your rear may know’ of the
stop. This will save them scorching
their tires and may save you from a
buckled fender if th*» pursuing driver
hasn’t time or warning enough to ap
ply his brakes in time.
Never reverse against the general
direction of traffic without first
warning those who may be back of
you.
Take your time In making a turn.
Give the freely rolling cars a chance
to slip by without applying their
brakes. If you are prepared to make
the turn, give the drivers passing you
a signal to go on instead of leaving
them doubtful as to your intentions.
Should you see broken glass, pails
or anything else liable to cause a
puncture, stop and pick It up or re
move it from the road. You only lose
a minute’s time, and save others, per
haps, an hour's work and money.
In parking your car against the
curb leave enough room so you can
easily get out. Never wedge another
car In.
If you see anything wrong with the
car of another driver—for instance,
if the tail light is gone—warn him.
The warnings costs you nothing and
may save him a fine.
Horn a Warning Signal.
The horn is a warning signal, not
n plaything or the part of a ‘’Won
derland” entertainment. Use it spar
ingly in town. A quick push of the
button or bulb is enough to warn
pedestrians or other drivers. Never
crawl up to a pedestrian and then
frighten him to death with a terrify
ing blast that could be heard sev
eral blocks. Besides being unneces
sary, it usually leaves the pedestrian
hating every automobile driver that
< v. r lived and prejudices him against
the entire industry.
Never dash through a crossing.
Give the pedestrians a chance. Usu
ally they are as much in a hurry as
you.
In the country, remember that the
automobile and the horse-drawm ve
hicle have equal rights to the road.
Remember that your presence in a
motor car doesn't give you the right
of insulting persons on the road.
Never scream at residents along the
highway.
Slow down when you meet another
vehicle. It often will save yourself
injury. A skid may cau°e injury to
nil concerned.
in tow'n. never cut off a vehicle
vou have passed.
I’?e your horn at curves and to
warn vehicles you are overtaking.
Keep the cut-out closed as much as
possible, especially at night.
Gourtesy is something that has no
limitations. A few definite examples
have been given. They are worth
consideration and certainly a trial.
Electric Shifting
Of Gears Discussed
n*:TROIT, MICH. Dec. 6—The
members of the Detroit Section S.
•V F. turned out in numbers to hear
the advocates of ‘‘shifting gears by
electricity” at the November meeting
of the society held in Detroit.
Three papers were presented. W.
McCarrell, chief engineer of the
Vulcan Motor Devices Company, of
Philadelphia, discussed “A Specific
Type of Electric Gear Shifter;” “Elec-
ro Magnets and Their Application
o Gear Shifting” was the subject of
R. Underhill, chief electrical engi
neer of the Acme Wire Company,
w Haven, and Frank N. Nutt, chief
engineer of the Haynes Automobile
; ’ompany. Kokomo. Ind,. discussed,
The Application of the Electric Gear
Shift on the Haynes Car,”
A prominent automobile engineer
stated that the manufacturers of low-
Pr 11• od cars would be obliged to adopt
the electric gear shifting device in-
id of using the hand shift methods.
Tire Men Outside
As Big Show Opens
The tire men are being sadly miss- j
at the Automobile Show this year.
N ii that they don’t want to be In.
hu: that a new ruling of the Na-
• ‘oral Association of Automobile and
'•■ti'sscry Manufacturers prohibits
activity in this line.
Maxwells Unloaded Direct Into Warerooms H[RF |[j
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Booth Tells How Efficiency Is Gained by Method
L_ ■ s?
Three carloads of Maxwells taken from the sealed freight ears and placed upon the fl oor of the Maxwell Motor Sales
Company on Madison avenue in less time than it would take to drive seven miles.
T HE Maxwell xjotor Corporation
has introduced improvements
over the old method of unload
ing and loading automobiles in a;-
lanta. They have established the'r
big distributing house and warerooms
right on the railroad tracks.
Friday morning three carloads of
Maxwells arrived in Atlanta and were
brought directly to the door. The
crew of workers on the second floor
threw open three iron doors, pulled
the seals from the freight cars and 1n
about fifteen minutes all nine of the
automobiles were standing in their
place In the warehouse, ready for dis
tribution in the South.
“What an Improvement over the
old system," said C. H. Booth, South
ern district manager. “By the old plan
the dealer gets notice that a ship
ment has arrived for him and gets h's
crew of men together, packs gasoline
and skids into his own car and drives
across town to the freight yards. Aft
er waiting around the yards for the
disposal of routine railroad work, lie
finally gets open the freight car.
“When the automobile has been
taken out, gasoline is put in the tank
and each car is driven across town to
his place of business. The same in
convenience is experienced every time
he ships a car away from Atlanta.
"Think of the time wasted and the
gasoline consumed in thin manne".
And too, tires are worn and scratched
and sometimes cut by careless driv
ing. Now the arrangement we have
is Just as convenient and economical
as shipping motor cars from the fac
tory.
“We don’t even use a drop of gaso
line. Simply roll the cars in and out
of the big room, Just like moving
them about the floors. They go to the
dealers and purchasers Just as spick
and span as when they leave ihe
home plants.
"The enormous capacity of the
warehouse enables us to unload or
load an entire trainload In a couple
of hours. I guess that’s getting effi
ciency and service down to a fine
point in the South.
"The big -warehouse fronts on Mad
ison avenue, at No. 141, and runs all
the way through to the railway
tracks in the rear. From here we
will also conduct our offices and re
tail sales departments."
GREAT STRIDES ARE MADE
BY ELECTRIC VEHICLES
At the annual convention of the
Electric Vehicle Association of Amer
ica in Chicago many facts were
brought forth to indicate that the
electric vehicle Is gaining ground at a
very creditable rate, and that the co
operation between vehicle manufac
turers and central stations is per
suading prospective users that the
electric truck has very material ad
vantages over the gasoline truck for
a large portion of the transportation
in and about large cities.
Ford's Fixed Prices
Are Subject of Suit
Dayton Concern Disregards Court
Order and Automobile Officials
Enter Vigorous Protest.
The efforts of the Ford Motor Car
Company to maintain its fixed pri^e
on its car have led to an interesting
legal action in Dayton, Ohio. Some
time ago the company secured a tem
porary injunction against a compajny
for alleged price-cutting, and now it
is claimed the injunction has been
violated, wherefore contempt pro
ceedings have been commenced.
In the petition of the Ford com
pany it was alleged that the defend
ants obtained Ford cars by fraudu
lent means and infringed the patents
on these cars by selling them below
the fixed retail price. The company
set up the surprising plea that any
action in contempt of the court or
der was for the purpose of enabling
agents of the Government to secure
evidence in its investigation of the
business methods of the Ford Motjr
Company. The company also alleged
that agents of the Ford Motor Com
pany sought to induce it to violate
the injunction.
Secretary-Treasurer Couzens. of the
Ford Company, when interviewed re
garding the matter, said that the com
pany welcomed the investigation. He
said that instead of having induced
the defendants to violate the injunc
tion they had caught them at it.
Electric Vehicles
And Their Function
“The Convention of the Electric Ve
hicle Association at Chicago last week
was one of the most satisfactory con
ventions I have attended,” says a letter
to Mr. Yule, New York manager of the
B. F. Goodrich Company, written by
S. V. Norton, sales manager of the truck
tire department of the factory at Akron.
“It was fully up to expectations in
every respect.
“Of course.“ the letter reads, we
were most interested in the discussion
of tires for electric vehicles. The need
of the electric vehicle, In the way of
tire equipment, varies so greatly from
the gas car standard that we listened
with intense interest to what the elec
tric vehicle men had to say in this
connection. , _ __
•The situation is complex F. Iv
Whitney, who spoke on this subject at
the convention, named as tne essential
features in a tire for electric vehicles.
In the order of their importance, the
following: Efficiency, durability, resil
iency, weight and price.”
Dr. Deming Starts
Record Return Trip
Pasadena Man Will Tour South
Through North Carolina and
Tennessee, Missing Atlanta.
Not satisfied with the record he re
cently set by driving: across the con
tinent from his home fn Pasadena,
Cal., to New York, Dr. Lee C. Dem
ing is about to undertake the re
turn trip.
With his wife and daughter Dr.
Deming proposes to drive his Over
land car op a tour through practi
cally all of the eastern and southern
part of the United States, winding the
journey up with another transconti
nental drive.
He left New York on the “Ideal
Tour” through New' Hampshire, Ver
mont and Maine. Coming back down
the coast the party will stop at Bos
ton, cross Connecticut and Rhode Is
land for a short visit in Philadelphia
and then proceed to Washington.
Record Is Hung Up
In Westgard's Tour
Field Representative of A. A. A.
Completes Frisco to New
York Journey.
The recent tour of W.. O. L. West-
gard, field representative of the
American Automobile Association, was
the longest and in some respects the
most important of the five cross
country routes so far logged by the
national organization. Starting from
Los Angeles after the completion
of the Indiana makers’ tour, the
“Trail to Sunset” was followed
through San Diego and Yuma to
Phoenix. Ariz., where, leaving the
Santa Fe trail, a southerly detour
was made along the line of the Bor
derland route through Tucson, Bis-
bee and Douglas to Lordsburg, N.
Mex.
Mr. Westgard touched Texas, Ar
kansas, Tennessee, North Carolina,
Virginia, the District of Columbia.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New
York, ine end of the journey.
Now Jersey Outfit
Sure To Be in Line
Races at Indianapolis Will Draw
Wishart and Entire Crew.
Mercer Cars Fit.
Overland Driver Slackens Pace
and Burns Nose of Canine
on Rear Tire
There is a stretch of road a few
miles beyond the city limits of To
ledo much frequented by mororists
going to and from the city and es
pecially liked by testers from the
Willys-Overland automobile plant.
These men use it for speed trials and
the final tuning up of their motors |
before sending the cars back to thej
paint shop. Broad and level and an
ideal stretch for “tuning up,” the
road has but one drawback. It is
‘‘dog haunted.”
All during the summer a bull ter
rier has stationed himself at a point
on this straight-away Just where the
driver is tempted to open the throttle
to the full limit. At first the brute
attracted little attention, but when he!
put in an appearance day after day
the Overland men grew accustomed
to him ancf his tricks and in the
course of a week nicknamed him
“Snapper.”
His specialty and one ambition is
to chase automobiles going at a fairly
high rate of speed. When he sees one
coming he darts out to meet it, and
if the driver is nt all timid he is liable
to be forced off the road in his en
deavor to escape hitting the dog.
Then, when the car is passing him.
Snapper tacks on to a rear wheel and
tries his best to get a grip on a tire.
Hence the name.
The canine goes through this samo
performance with nine out of every
ten cars that travel the road, but for
reasons best known to himself and
probably one or two of the testers,
he no longer approaches a car driven
by an Overland tester.
They tell the story that early in
the summer one of the men grew tired
of being chased, and by cleverly
changing his pace manged to burn
Snapper’s nose good and proper, on
the rapidly moving tire. Whether the
story is true or not, the fact remains
that the dog can spot an Overland
car a block away and never seeks to
molest it.
When he sees a stripped chassis
coming, he gets off the road entirely,
crouches low and remains quiet, only
to shoot out again a minute later at
the unsuspecting driver who follows.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. —Inquiries
by various members of the Mercer
racing team, particularly Spencer
W ishart, last year's second-place win
ner, seem to indicate that the entire
New Jersey outfit will be on hand
again for the next Indianapolis 500-
mile struggle. DePalma, Bragg and
Wishart are expected to breast the
tape.
The past season did not see the
Mercer crew as lucky as it might,
due to the fact that two of its ma
chines, the biggest, were green. The
third, the 300-cubic-inch “baby,” per
formed brilliantly, as usual, not only
giving Qoux a hard run at Indianap
olis. but winning the Cobe trophy at
Elgin with ease.
Toward the end of the season all
three cars did well. Two cleaned up
dirt tra<’k meets, as at Brighton
Beach. N. Y., while the other took
second at Santa Monica. Next year,
with all the “bugs” out of their sys
tem. they are expected to prove a sur
prise.
INSPECTION OF CLEANERS.
If .t car is in continual use and is
using excessive amounts of oil or
gas, the dirt accumulated in the
strainers will he heavy, and inspec
tions should be made often. If your
car has exhaust gas pressure for the
gasoline feed, It is advisable to make
an examination of the strainers and
others cleaners through which the gas
passes on its wav to the tank.
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Monday
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demand for broadcloths.
One of the interesting phases of the
current season is the growth of the de
mand for broadcloths Of course, the
call for these suitings is not large com
pared with the movement of a few sea- I
sons ago, when broadcloth was the
fashionable fabric. In recent seasons
the interest shown in these goods was
practically dormant, ao that the de
mands at present make broadcloth loom
up as they have not since their pres
tige waned.
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A consistent reduction in the prices of the
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Within the Reach
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You’ve seen them everywhere-—on the city streets, on
the country roads, in quiet neighborhoods and at fashiona
ble places.
The Overland design has become so familiar that you
recognize it at a glance.
DID YOU EVER CONSIDER THE REASON?
It didn’t .just happen that all these people bought
Overlands.
They found out for themselves that the Overland rep
resents the very highest possible automobile value at the
lowest possible cost.
WHY DON'T YOU FEND IT OUT?
Overland Southern Auto Company
232 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga,
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