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By GEORGE W. SUTTON, JR., ‘
Editor of “Motor Life.” ‘
In spite of war; in spite of tre
mandous increase in taxation, there
| is ‘'more motor touring to Southern
resortg this year than ever before
since the motor car came and en
abled man to seek far distant'de--
lights at his own sweet pleasure as
to time, cost and companions. !
Many millions of dollars have been
spent Improving the highways which
lead from the northern land of bliz
zards, influenza and coal billg to the
balmy land of the Seminole, made
famous by the lamented Ponce De-
Leon.
' But all these dollars will come back
many times multiplied into the pock<
ets of a‘!outhern taxpayers in direct
- ratio with the amouni of progroul‘
they have shown in road building.
The Northern motorist is a gene;
- spender. He will patronize the ho
~ tels, garages and other industries in
the Il6calities where good roads
; abound, and he will shun the terri
tories .where the shortsightedness of
-the inhabitants makes him go bounc-
ing over wretched highways.
Southern roads are not yet all they
~ Bhould be, but several of them are
in such condition that the Northern
‘ motorist who does not vote the trip
- from New York to Chicago a delight
~ ful tour is indeed hard to please. ‘
’ A new volume of the Automobile
~ Blue Books has just appeared and
= contains minute directions for cover
- ing the southern part of our coun-‘i
Jry. It is the new volume 8 which
contains accurate and detailed run
ning directions for over 24,000 mi]es\
of motor roads through Virginia,
Tennessee, Georgia, North and South
Carolina, Alabama, Mbssissippi and
Florida. This is-a particularly oppor
- tune at this time when Uncle Sam‘
has" quartered a large percentage of
~ his fighting men in the,territory be
low the Mason-Dixon line. '
‘While the Automobile Blue Book
people have published this volume
for some years, this ig really the first ‘
~ time.that the Southern roads have.
. been charted. The 1917 volume, the'
most up-to-date volume until now,
had running directlons for only
about 12,000 miles of roads. /The
1918 volume has runping directions
for over 24,000 miles, more than dou
| ble that of last year, and shows the
routes to ‘every camp in the Southern
district. From 380 pages -last yeanr,
the new volume has grown to 1,260 in
the new edition. ‘
Among some of the n€w features of
this newest member of the Blue Book
family is the addition of a descrip
‘tive outline at the head of each,
route, with a brief history of the ter
| ritory; better and more complete
route matter; pointg®of historic and
pcenic interest described at bottom
of the pages; new pilot maps of
. Washington and environments and of
practically all of Florida.
' The only motable North and South
highway project which did not have
Miami for its terminus was the old
National Highway, which aimed to
connect, by a good road, New York
City and ‘Atlanta, Ga. Nearly a
decade has elapsed gince its inclpi
sncy, but while enough paper has
been used in writing stories about it
to cover its=2 100=miles surface, it is
still only partly finished, and motor
travel over its entire length is only
gpasmodic and infrequent. Mfch,
too, has been written about the newer
Dixie Highway from Chicago to
Miami. No small part of the diffi
. sultfes travel on the Dixie Highway
now offers is due to the construction.
work which was begun and delayed
In ‘completion by excessive wet
i‘/ ~ ther. Many countieg in Tennes
pee, Northern Alabama and sections
»f Georgia have newly graded roads
which thiey have not had time to sur
- tace and which are somewhat harder
{o travel than they were before they
were improved. Between Nashville
and Chattanooga, however, it is still
better to go ninety-seven miles out
»f the way through Huntsville, Ala.
The third and best route to Florida
rom the North ig designated as the
~ Atlantic Highway. This route is im
roved for practically the entire dis
' fa.nce from Quebec to Miami; the
1 t remaining stretch.of almost im
sable road in Virginia has been
repaired ‘and is open to travel The
" Chopawamsic Swamp, that section of
. the road between Washington and
" |'redericksburg, whiclt was very poor
it best and impassable at times last
’pring, has been rebuilt and is now
tready for travel. The grade has ‘bee.%
tajsed and the road is now equal t
any along the route. °
After leaving Richmond twenty
miles of rough and worn road is en
pountered, and to save jouncing, it
might be well to make inquiry as to
Fhether the route past Chesterfield
fourthouse is not likely to be better,
‘hough five miles further. From Ra
eigh the new road to Pinehurst via
Sanford has been completed and
. javes some forty-three miles over the
. §la Fayetteville route. At Savannah
. he Northern motorist comes to the
. jea and sets out on the long trip
|0 Jacksonville, crossing the six
[ nile railroad bridge over the Alta
haha on a flat car.
,! There are some who will elect to
to from New York southward via
_ he Shenancdoah Valley, in which case
~ they will come through Kaston, Read
-4 ‘pg and Harrisburg; then throggh
. hettysburg and Hagerstown to Win
. }hester. This point may also be
E teached over splendid roads from
i pither Washington or Baltimore.
. From Roanoke the roads are likely to
be difftcult, whichever way he goes,
put proWably the most practicable
itinerary is through Bristol and
Lnoxville to Chattanooga, there join
‘ng the Dixie Highway. One may
~un direct to Jatksonville from At
. anta. but better roads lead to Au
gusta, there joining the Atlantic
;Highway.
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" The Automobile in 1918
l; More Valuable and Important in War Than"in Peace, an Abso
§ lute Necessity of the Nation. The Right Arm in War.
The development of the automobile
and its marvelous powers in the sav
ing of time, labor, money, energy are
more important to the nation this
year than ever. And this yeat, more
than ever, it is the duty of Govern
ment and of the public to encourage
and uphold the automobile industry.
We need in war the full product of
every man's energy, the complete ef
fort of the able mind. ¢
The automobile, saving time for the
individual, multiplies individual effi
ciency and capacity. .
The valuable worker, moving rapid
ly from place to place, thinking as he
goes with comfort and speed, is made
infinitely more valuable by the auto
mobile’s power.
_The great problem of the day lis
transportation. The automobile helps
to Belve that problem.
The light, powerful gas engine, in
dependent of rails and roads, inex
pensive, swift, adapted to all work,
is the helper of the professions, of
trade, of industry and of the rail
roads. »
What the telephone has done for
the human volce, carrying thought,
the automobile does for the human
body, carrying personality where its
work is needed. It is personality that
solves problems and wins wars.
Our chief lack is of men of the.
higher grade. g
One first-class man, plus an au
tomobile, becomes three first-class
men, for he can do the work of three.
The ?rmy general no longer gallops
for fivé hours, exhausting his body
and brain, killing his horse, to cover
50 miles.
The high-powered automobile car
ries him 50 miles in less than an
hour;’he thinks and plans as he goes,
arrives fresh for his work.
The -war has taken more than halt
of the best doctors. The automobile
works in the place of those absent
men, enabling one doctor to do the
work of two.
The business man, manufacturing,
producing, planning, driving his fac
tories to their utmost capacity, is an
essential part of war, The automobile
for him saves energy, time, health,
and multiplies his power by two.
The farmer is the foundation and
the corner stone of the nation’s pros
perity, more essential to success in
war than the bullets that kill—for he
keeps alive thase that do the fighting.
The automobile of all inventions is
Efficiency of
City Officila
“The use of the automobile by city
officials and in the different municipal
departments in helping to guard the
public's health and property has cre
ated a new standard of municipal ef
ficlency never before attalned,” says
J. Lottridge, of the Kissel Kar.
“Its widespread utility, its ready
adaptability to the requirements of
both large and small communities, has
not only saved hundreds of thousands
of dollams for property owners and
taxpayers, but has enabled officials to
give more attention to their duties
than was possible when the horse
drawn vehicles had to be depended
upon.
“But what is still more important,
he motor car has enabled city em
‘Jloyees to so speed up their work that
commissioners and officials have
been able to devote added time to
needed developments of and improve
ments to their communities.”
tafiooga. the best way is via In
'flianapol)s. Louisville and Mammoth
Cave to” Nashville, where the tourist
joins the route from Paducah and St.
Louis, these being the best western
conections for the trip into Florida.
the farmer's greatest time saver. His
light, swift-running car takes him to
town and back in a few minutes, while
his. horses, saved from exhausting,
fast driving continue their work at
plow or harrow in other hands.
Take the automebile from the farm
er and you take the food of millions
from our ‘national rroduction. Con
stantly you hear of the farmer’'s in
creased prosperity—few®realize what
the engine and the four wheels of the
automobile have #®one to create that
prosperity and the farm’'s productive
ness.
The modern automobile represents
American efficiency most highly de
veloped, and the most valuable asset,
irildustrlal and mechanical, of this na
tion, 4
Thanks to the automobile produc
ers, the Government found ready
made great bodies of highly trained
organized mechanics.
.Thanks to the automobile men the
Government found, generously ready,
magnificent factories equipped for
most important war work-—the mak
ing of flying machines, the production
of the thousands of trucks and high
speed automobilées upon which our
army must travel.
The man is not a statesman who
fails to realize the value of the auto
mobile industry and the duty of Gov
ernment in protecting, encouraging
and building up that industry, now in
war time especially.
Material and transportation should
be supplied to the automobile indus
try as to any other great branch of
war manufacture.
What the automobile has done in
the past to prepare the factories and
the mechanics for the war need of to
day the automobile is doing now to
prepare for this nation the equipment
that will be needed when the wal
ends and international competition
be?lns.
t is the duty of Government to up
hold and encourage the automobile
industry. .
It is the duty of the individual that
can afford it to encourage that in
dustry as an individual, buying the
machine that he can afford—and every
man can afford some machine now.
Only the man whose tirge has no
real value, whose brain amounts to
little, whose energy is not worth
while, can truly say, “I do not need an
automobile.”
Buy your automobile now.
Gates Half-Sole
Tires Gaining in
Motorists’ Favor
The International Rubber Sales Com
pany, of Atlanta, has just received a
large shipment of Gates Half Sole Tires
and the manager 9{ the company states
that they hope to' catch up soon with
the large nnmber of orders that have
been pourin% in on them since the good
weather of the past two weeks started.
The Gates Half Bole is making many
friends of automobile owners, not only
locally, but in practically every state
in the unien. MRspecially since the word
economy has become so popular with
the American people.
The Gates Half Bole Fermits the con
servation of worn casings that were
once scold for junk at a few cents a
pound. They can now be covered with
a non-skid tread that wears like new
and has the same appearance as a new
tire as none of the old casing is left in
view. With machinery for the purpose,
the old hardened rubber is buffed off
the outside of the worn tire, this
roughens and brings out the live and
more resilient rubber so.that when the
speclal vulcanizing cement is applied it
filils up the cuts and breaks. After
drying a sufficient length of time, the
half sole is put on and the tire is in
flated. The old tire is completely cov
ered from bead to bead and is gripped
by the rim. They are held firmly by the
self-vulcanizing ‘cement and will not
separate uunder any service.
Gates Half Sole tireg carry a guaran
tee against punctures and the guarantee
is_cheerfully lived up to.
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ing Auto Industry Success
Overnight.
““Through the unselfish co-operation of
the press, the success of the automo
bile industry was assured practically
overnight,” says J. Lottridge, of the
Kissel-Kar,
““Such co-operation of the newspapers
proves that they too looked into the fu
ture, and saw the possibilitles of the
automobile as applied to business, so
cial and economic life. The result was
the alitomobile sections, with their con
stryctive and educational featwres, that
not only helped the public to appre
clate the possibilities of the automo
bile and motor truck as applied to busi
ness and individual pursuits, but also
helped owners to become ¢ome compe
tent in the handling and care of their
motor cars.
“The automobile sections of the news
papers are looked upon as feature sec:
tions, not only by prospective buyers of
automobiles, who want to hecome ‘mo
tor wise’ before’ investing their money,
but also that ever-widening circle of
people, who are not as yet in a position
to make the investment, but who have
in mind some day owning a car.
“It is due to these automobile sectlons
that the average layman gradually be
comes interested in automobiles, With
the automobile proving of general inter
est to the non-owner, he has familiar
ized himself with the many technicall
ties of chassis construction, power plant
features _and body designs, to a sur
prising degree. This Has been one of the
results of the newspapers presenting
technical points in such a way that they
are understood by the average reader.
““To my mind this is an excellent ex
ample of not only the power and scopt
of the service rendered by newspapers
but also proves how publishers have the
courage of their convictions, and how
when they see ail opportunity to benefit
their readers, they let nothing stand ip
the way of performing such a public
service.” . -
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Watch Car Brakes,
Advice to Drivers
The brakes are next In importanoce
to the steering gear in the matter of
safety. Try the brakes every time you
take out yqi(ur car. Speed up and try
the footbrakeg and then try the em
ergency brake. Note if car ntoßs
within the usual distance. Note if the
car has a tendency to swing to one
side, showing that one wheel is drag
ging and the other wheel Is trying
freely. Oeccasionally have some one
watch the rear wheels to see if they
both turn. If one turns and the other
drags, the tread of the tire will be worn
off in spots and the result will be
dangerous hecause the tight wheel mayv
sometimes be on slippery ground, un
able to hold, but the loose wheel turns
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LIMOUSINE FITTINGS OF
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MODERN TYPE
Weakening Springs
g Spring
Make Faulty Motor
Weakening of the springs wi\lch
close the valves i{s a common cause of
faulty-engine operation. Whenever the
valves are taken out the sprihxs
should be examined to see that they
are all of the same length, or rather
‘that all of the inlet set are of the same
length-and all of the exhaust, as the
exhaust springs will probably be a lit
tle Tonger than the others. If one spring
is shorter thany the others in its set it
should be stretched or else a metal plate
must be put under it to bring its tension
up to equality with its fellows.
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$70,000 Worth of Additional Ma
.
’ chinery Purchased by
‘ Dr. Doss.
Concident with the return last week
of Dr. C. N. Doss, president, and W. B.
Btovall, secretary and treasurer of the
Doss Rubber and fube Company, from
a business trip to New York and New
Jersey, it was announced that more
than $70,000 worth of additional machin
ery had been purchased for the corpor
ation’s factory, whicht 1s being built op
postte Fort McPherson.
Dr. Doss and Mr. Stovall were ac
companied ‘on the trip by G. J. Reuter,
well known rubber expert, Who has been
selected as the superintendent of the
mechanical departments to be installed
at _the Plan!.
Machinery of the most modern type
for use in manufacturing rubber pro
duots was purchased by the Atlanta men
from Willlam R. Throop Sons’' Company
and Joseph E. Throop Sons’ Company,
of Trenton, N. J. It {8 expected that
delivery of the machinery will be made
in ample time to be ready for operation
when the factory opens early in May.
~ Included in the machinery is a Throop
calendar of the latest type, which cost
the company $10,790 and will be oper
ated b electricity. This calendar
weighs é tons and represents the acme
of perfection for this type of machin
ery, .
With the return of favorable weather
conditions 1o Atlanta during last week,
contractors supervising the construction
of the Doss Company’'s factory resumed
work with a large force of mechanics
and laborers.
The work was abandoned a few weeks
ago as a result of the cold weather.
Plans for completing the building be
fore May will be rushed and final pre
parations soon will be” made for the
opening of Atlanta’s new Industry,
which is expected to increase-the city's
{)rentlgo as a great manufacturing cen
er.
The products of the company will in
clude the Doss puncture-proof inner
tube for automobile tires and a guaran
teed 5,0'(,\0-mi|_el casing for automobiles.
Franklin Triple
ples
.
Output in Year
To triple the production rate within
a year's time, has been the task of
the Franklin Automobile Company,
Syracuse, N. Y. Nineteen and seven
teen has been the greatest year in
this company's history. The peak
of production was reached the week
of October 1, when 294 cars were
turned out, an average of almost 54
cars per day for the 51-2 working
days of the week. \
August was the largest month in
the company’'s history, when 1,133
cars were shipped. In spite of this
fast-growing output, it has been im
possible any time during the year
for the Franklin factory to catch up
with orders received. During the
spring season, unfilled orders equal
led ten weeks’ production, and as late
as December 1, in the midst of what
is generally considered the dull sea
son, the orders were still ahead of
production by eight weeks. -
An interesting indication of the po
sition which the Franklin car is hold
ing in the light of war conditions, is
shown by the jump which marked
the period .when the United States
‘entered the war and when the na
tion-wide readjustmeqts were being
made. Shipments dyring April, May,
June, July and August were far ahlead
of the total shipments for the entire
vear of 1916. The company’s cash re
ceipts for this period were over 300
‘.per cent greater than for the same
period last year,
Automobile
News
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Chased for Several Miles by Mud-
Bespattered Engines of
Death.
old Cyrus was telling the story. A
new tragedy, the editor thought, as
he listened with rapt interest. Cyrus’
breath came in jerks and his snorts
must have been audible for a block.
His excitement waxed warm as he re=
lated the details of the chase that re«
sulted in a S4O garage bill
Equal to the grimmest piracy of the
old days was this episode in Cyrus’
life. Up hill and down dale he had
been chased—mlle after mile. And he
in a “slightly used flivver.” For all
that-she was good for 40 on high any
time you cared to step on the throt
tle. And step on her, he did, Cyrus
declared. Yet it seemed that any mo
ment they could have snatched the
lead from him and—well, there was
the fly in the ointment—they didn't.
It happéned one morning when' Cy«
rus was placidly bringing milk to the
creamery. On Old Church curve ne
saw a fleet of super-cars coming to
ward him, and he heard them, too,
for they thundered a resonant o!-f
haust—a thunder that might have
been exemplifying the wrath of the
gods for some misdeed Cyrus had
done. None was supreme. Kach
seemed capable of the &peed of the
other. They appeared to be coming at
a breakneck rate. As the y hove
nearer they bore a weird resemblance
to gypsy wagons minus the horses.
This appearance was accentuated by
canvas strips of some character on
the sides adding to the top just the
curve required. 3
Nearer and nearer they came, Cyrus
sald—mud-bespattered, snorting emn
gines of death possibly; ponderous
tanks, manned with valorous Tommy
Atkinses. His imagination ran wild.
It could not be that titey were bent
upon vengeance of some kind—upon
Cyrus whose only vice was whittling
and swiping an occasional prune from
grocer Jenkins’ barrel. But on they
came. “Why walt untllfthey/aro upon
me?” was Cyrus’ last fleeting thought.
Action was the next vital and only
thing. He stepped on the throttle tiil
she touched the bottom. .And the
chase was on. \ i
Twice his head hit the top with an
fmpact that stunned him. But he was
racing with what, might mean death
if he did not win, so win he must
Hills, valleys, ruts, chickens, cows—
all were no impediment. Speed, speed :
and yet more speed! -Oh, that some
God-fairy might alight in his path
and whisk him from the clutches of
these relentless vultures.
If they did not kill, they might kid«
nap him body and soul and flivver.
Mayhap that was precisely what they
were hent upon—they looked like gyp~
sies, he reminded himaself again. On«
lw:u‘d, onward! But that closed the
next to the last chapter of the chase.
For next thing Cyrus knew he was
flat on his back in the middle of the
road, and his head pained as it had
not done since the night he sat up tiil
the outlandish hour of 11 courtin’ the
Widow Smith.
They picked him up—these tmw
They consoled him instead of stole
him. They were amazed—not crazed,
Who were they, if they were not
Tommy Atkinses or gypsies? Cyrus’
senses restored, he now saw these
four monsters lined up and quaint
evedly observed the men who droye
’thnm. Courage came to him as he
did. He had been disillusioned. Again
[ he had allowed his imagination to run
rampant, This time at a cost of S4O
for repairs on his car. Next time—=
there ain't going to be no next time.
' So sald Cyrus. -
. For Cyrus now knows what tire
}unalysis cars are. He sald he dldn’t
know before that the manufacturer
knew anything about what a tire
‘would do after it left the factory, He
didn't know there was such a thing
as test cars, whose sole duty it was
to ascertain the vitality and endur
ance of the tires. He didn’t know
that each car of the fleet that he saw
averaged 320 miles every 24 houra
That a systematic record was made of
each tire—and if anys weakness de
veloped in the tires it is reported te
the laboratory.
So he learned about tires a lot that
he never knew before. But the whole
experience was one on him, and val
uable, too, Cyrus sald—even if it did
cost him S4O for one round and a sore
head. .
“There is the consarned bunch
now,” he burst out with new enthu
siasm, and sufe enough there they
went up Main street—four big Pierce-
Arrows, mud from radiator to tall
light. But grim and determined and
bearing the scar of many a battls
against roads of every description and
the elements. And our roads were
contributing to the test of these tires.
' Indeed, there they were—the tire
analysis cars of the Miller Rubber
Company, of Akron, Ohio. Each bore
'a banner indicating that it was
‘Geared-to-the-Road” on Miller uni
} form mileage tires. They were bound
thr Atlanta, the point from which
they would next make their tests. For
!thvse tests to be strictly fair they
must be made under averaze road
conditions. So the Miller Rubber
Company all winter has kept this fleat
running constantly over the cold,
hard, irregular roads of the North.
Now, they are to be tested under dia
metrically different conditions.
" Oyrus watched them out of sight,
He took from his vest pocket & tiny
stub of a pencil and marked somes
thing in -a mautilated memorandum
| book . i
l )"\\"hat‘s that yvou're doing, Cy?”
“Charging up S4O to experience.” .
And he seemed satisfled to dQ iy