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Woman in City of DeKalb Is Dis
tributor for National
Cars,
Tinpan Alley, thoroughfare of syn
copation and lane of the lilting love
lyric, already has sounded a warning
to men in th:se days of super-femin
ism, the chorus of this song of subtle
caution ruaning something like this:
“You better be nice to them now,
You better pe nice to them now;
Russia’s female soldiers made the
Germans run,.
Women knit‘ing sweaters help to lick
the Hun;
So you better be nice to them now,
Or they'll reap all the fields that you
plough.
O'er the sea in England lassies tend
the bars,
Red Cross nurses soothe and heal the
battle scars,
Even the women now sell motor cars,
:o Yyou better be nice to them now.”
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And, what is more, the song is
redolent with veracity.
In the city of DeKalb, 111, only a
half day’s tour from Chicago over the
Lincoln Highway, the distributor of
National Highway sixes and twelves
is a woman, Mrs. G. H. Deane, who
has sold automobiles and operated a
garage there for seven and a half
years.
Mrs. Deane represents automobile
salesmanship and garage efficiency
camouflaged by skirts. In a city of
only 12,000 inhabitants, her annual
sales have averaged fifty cars for the
past four years. At the Chicago au
tomobile show, where she makes the
National booth her headquarters, she
has the distinction of being the only
woman salssman on the floor of the
Coliseumn and . allied buildings. In
bringing her cars from the National
factory at Indianapolis she is the
boss of the driveaway crew.
Not only can Mrs. Deane diagnose
automobile ailments, but she can cure
them. She has donned jumpers and
worked in the repair pit when there
was a shortage of mechanics in her
garage, which is a modern establish
ment, with restroom for women cus
tomers and storage facilities for tak
ing care of 100 cars.
As a driver Mrs. Deane has won
medals, her most notable achieve
ment being a nonmotor-stop run of
351 miles, held in connection with
the Illinois State Fair of 1912. She
was on the road fourteen hours, aver
aging better than 25 miles an hour
in this reliahbility tour from Spring
fleld to Chicago and return.
While Mrs. Deane is following a
man’s vocation, she has the hands
and the patience for a woman’s task.
She now divides her time between
selling National cars and working at
the DeKalb Red Cross shop, where
she acts as an instructor at one of
the surgical dressing tables. She can
knit a sweater' and talk automobile
simultaneously without dreopping a
stitech or losing a customer, which is
the acid test of such versatility as
hevs.
Mpr. Business Man:
A
U. 8. Tire Company
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Buys American
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Locomotive Plant
Pressing need for much greater
space in which to manufacture United
States solid truck tires, which have
had such huge sales that the output
has more than doubled in quantity
in the past two years, is the reason
given by the United States Rubber
Company for its recent purchase of
the large manufacturing plant of the
American Locomotive Company at
Providence, R. 1.
The property immediately adjoins
the Revere plant of the United States
Rubber Company, where the company
has concentrated its solid tire activi
ties. The new plant will be part of
the Revere unit, which thus becomes
a dominant factor in the country for
the manufacture of solid truck tires.
The enlarged organization of the unit
will remain under the direction of H.
W. Waite, the factory manager of
the Revere plant, whose successful
administration in his present position
is thus recognized. In addition to
manufacturing solid truck tiers, the
factory will give considerable space
to the development of its business in
pneumatic cord tires for commercial
vehicles.
“The enforced use of aute trucks in
order to meet the transportation
problems brought on us by the war,”
according to a recent statement by
J. N. Gunn, president of the United
States Rubber Tire Company, “will
give the business men such a taste
of the satisfactory resulis to be ob
tained by the use of these trucks that
I see nothing but a tremendous busi
ness in prospect for our truck tire
manufacturing departments.”
In centering its truck tire produc
tion in Providence, the United States
Rubber Tire Company believes it has
adopted a wise bit of business strat
egem, for as yet the heaviest truck
sales are on the Atlantic seaboard.
Providence is admi ably situated as
a distributing point for this territory
and offers excellent transportation
facilities especially by water routes.
For its output of tires for passenger
cars, the company centers its efforts
at Detroit, the greatest car produc
ing e¢ity in the nation, and at In
dianapolis, with a large Eastern fac
tory at Hartford.
The American Locomotive plant,
with a floor area of 245,848 square
feet, is on a tract of ten acres, with
a river frontage and with a siding
connection with the main line of the
New Haven road. It is equipped
with a large power plant and a mod
ern sprinkler system, has up-to-date
humidifying plant and is generally
considered one of the finest manu
facturing units in New England. It
is in the heart of the city's industrial
district and has such well-known
neighbors as the Nicholson File Com
pany and Browne & Sharp.. The
buildings are in excellent condition
and ready for immediate use.
Colonel Samuel P. Colt, president
of the United States Rubber Com
pany, lives in Rhode Island and is re
ceiving many congratulations from
his fellow citizens for having landed
for Rhode Island a business enter
prise which, when in full operation,
will add at least 3,000 emplovees to
the pay rolls of the Revere plant.
- Although the United States Rubber
Company- has authorized no state
‘ment as to when it expects to begin
operations in the new buildings,
HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN __ A NewsEa,E' er for PeoEle Who Think — SUNDAY, fAPRTL 14, 1918
Aid of Trucks Should Avoid Rail
road Congestion Next
Winter.
Puhlications that are urging Gov
ernment ownership of railroads are
pointing to wuse to which motor
trucks purchased in large numbars
for war purposes can be used when
the war is ended. One of these pa
pers, published in Washington, D. C.,
incists that freight should be deliv
ered in the same manner that mail is
delivered, and that motor trucks
skculd be usad by the Government for
this purpose Inasmuch as Govern
ment ownership of railroads, in a
practical sense, is with us now, Mar
tin L. Pulcher, general manager of
the Federal Motor Truck Company,
is of the opinion that proper super
vision of motor trucks as auxiliaries
of the railroads in assisting the re
construction of industry after the
war will come as a matter of course.
“Kverybody knows that serious dif
ficulties encountered last year in con
nection with the railroad tie-ups were
caused by congastion at the termi
nals,” said Mr. Pulcher. “And it is
to be feared that the serious traffic
tia-ups will again be encountered
next winter, if some positive steps are
not taken to relieve this congestion
at the terminals. One of the papers
points out that delivery of freight
from the depots should be handled
just as delivery of mail and parcel
post is handled—promptly and etfi
ciently. There is no doubt as to the
reasonableness of this view.
“The remedy is something that can
not wait until after the war is over,
however, and motor trucks, which
are the logical means of delivery from
terminals, snould be put into use at
the earlies. possible moment and in
generous numbers. The aid thus
given the railrcads should permit
them to go through next winter with
out anything like as serious a con
gestion problem as that which caused
disaster the latter part of last win
ter.”
It is well understood, according to
Mr. Pulcher, “that the Postoffice De
partment is now endeavoring to work
out a system whereby motor trucks
may be used for delivering parcel
post along the rural route, and in
a manner that will insure the han
aling of much heavier and much more
bulky packages than are now per
mitted for shipment via parcel post.
“So there need he no fear that the
Government will have too many
trucks on its hands,” continued Mr.
Puilcher. “All of the trucks which
will be taken out of war work when
peace is finally attained, and more,
too, can well be used by the Govern
mwent in spee.ling up.” .
Lieutenant W. H. Patton, recently
of the service department of the J.
W. Goldsmith, Jr.-Grant Company
agency, local Hudson and .Dodge
dealers, has been promoted to the
rank of a major, according to advices
just received in Atlanta. He is re
ceiving congratulations from his
many frieads in the automobile in
dustry here.
Nine Atlanta women drove nine
Reo Trucks from Lansing, Mich.,
to Atlanta, Ga., over all kinds of
roads without one iota of trouble.
You furnish the answer——
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(Gentiemen Drivers
- Wanted for War
Work in E
or I Lurope
W. O. Wilson, secretary of the motor
transportation for the National War
Council of the Young Men's Christian
Assoclation, 124 East Twenty-eighth
street, has returned from France to re
cruit in the United States what our
French Allies call ‘‘gentlemen drivers.”
In o)er words, Mr. Wilson appeals par
ticularly to the well-to-do business man
who cwns and drives his own automo
bile. There is work for him to do over
seas. It is hoped that 76 men of this
caliber will sail immediately. Fifty men
wil be sent in April and 50 in June.
Drivers Will Carry Supplies to Soldiers.
“Let is be understood that we can not
say that a man will do nothing but driv
ing if he goes to France,” said Mr. Wil
son yesterday, discussing the qualifica
tions required of drivers. “Tt will find
himself doing whatever piece of work
the emergency necessitates. But the
man who goes as a driver will for the
most part drive and take care of his
own car or truck,
Patriotic Business Men Are Needed in
France.
‘‘We want men of more than ordinary
intelligence, preferably business imen
who are patriotic and who have owned
and driven their own cars for a number
of years. They will go as drivers for
the trucks that carry supplies.”
Mr. Wilson has obtalned the co-opera
tion of the various organizations in the
automobile industry. All the important
clubs of the country have been request
ed to display his appeal prominently
either in their club publication or on
their bulletin boards.
The requirements in other branches of
the service demand men who may be
forced to piece together a truck from
the shell-torn wreckage of two ma
chines, but that is another story.
At the Southeastern Headquarters of
the Army and Navy Y. M. C. A., At
lanta, Ga. Until information can be ob
tained upon application regarding the
Red Tirangle motor transport service in
France.
T
Would Keep Export
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Trade Stimulated
Importance of maintaining trade re
lations in motor vehicles with foreign
dealers was considered at a recent
Jneeting of the export committee of
the National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce. Motor vehicles require lit
tle cargo space in proportion to their
value and serve to maintain the trade
balance and the par value of the gold
dollar in such countries as Chile,
whose nitrates are required for am
munition, and Argentina, whose beef
and wheat are in great demand by
America and her allies.
At its meeting the export committee
decided to ask the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce for fuller re
ports on the motor vehicle trade in
foreign countries; to request the War
Trade Board to walve export restric
tions on automobile parts shipped
abroad for repairs and replacements,
and to clear up the situation re
garding licenses on exports of motor
vehicles to Canada.
It was also decided to investigate
the feasibility of standardizing
straight-side tires as equipment on
cars for export.
The directors of the chamber have
amnointed delegates to represent it at
the fifth annuai foreign trade con
vention to be held in Cincinnati April
18 to 20 and to make an address.
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Two Thousand Miles of All Kinds
of Roads Figured in Hard
Test of Maxwell,
Triumphing over obstacles the equal
of which have never before been seen,
the Maxwell truck and touring car
sent to Texas for a Government test
came through withou: a single ad
justment or broken pari.. The test
course was 2,000 miles in each case.
The Government was frank.
In the letter of instructions cover
ing tests, it was stated that Marfa,
Texas, and the surrounding territory
has been chosen as a test ground be
cause the road conditions there were
the most severe that could be found.
The Government was right.
Sand, inches deep, through which
it was possible to make progress only
on the lower speed; mountain trails,
mere imitations of roads: rocky, mili
tary passages, intended primarly for
pack trains—all these were the rule.
There were no exceptions.
Government orders, covering the
tests, called for at least 2,000 miles
for both truck and touring car. Both
Maxwells exceeded this mileage by
several hundred miles.
Cars in the test were used to carry
men and provisions to the various
military camps on the border. Head
quarters were at Marfa, and from that
sun-scorched town trips were made
day and night to Presidio, Candelaria,
Polvo, Indio and Ruidosa. None of
these garrisons may be reached by
railroad, and the roads are, to make
use of a bromide, in their infancy.
The Maxwell truck, on each of these
trips, carried not less than a ton load
and often even a greater one.
Some of the grades were particu~
larly difficult and dangerous. One,
called by Texans the “Rim Rock,” was
perhaps the worst. Starting from the
top or “Rim” itself, the descent was
startlingly sudden. In less than six
miles there is a descent of 4,000 feet,
and some of the turns are so short
that a mistawe of six inches on the
part of the driver would mean a fall
of ,000 feet or more to the rocks be
low. The Maxwell was the second
truck to ever descend this trail and
the flrst to ever climb it!
Pinto €anyon is another hard one.
Wtile not so abrupt as the Rim Rock,
there is a steady ascent of twenty
miles. This is between Ruidsoa and
Marfa, the difference in level between
the two towns being almost 4,000 feet.
There are but few stretches in this
trail where “high’” can be used.
There was a romantic side to the
test, for the Maxwell touring car was
often used to chase the bands of
Mexican bandits which infest the
country. Thus it was ‘a modern
“tank,” faster than its prototype, but
not so well protected.
Following the test, both truck and
car were driven overland from Marfa
to Dallas, stopping at San Antonio to
give the army men there another test
of its efficiency.
Both truck and car were stock in
every particular, this condition being
"T'was a famous victory!
demanded by the Government.
Apperson Eight
Distinguishes Self
gln California
Out in sunny California, the land
of perpetual summer, the new Ap
person Eight has again distinguished
itself,
For the first time since the fall of
two feet of snow last winter a mot.r
car has been driven to the head of
Miil Creek Canyon road, about three
miles beyond the Ferest Home, near
Lost Angeles, in Southern Californi:.
An eight-cylinder Apperson car, with
Claude Hunter at the wheel, was the
first to make the grade, which rises
atout 2,000 ‘eet in the short dis
tance. Huge boulders, piles of snow,
tree stump asnd the customary debris
of a mountain wash litter tne traii,
which ends in an abrupt ditch im
possible to cross.
The Apperson “Eight with eighty
less parts” weas not the only car to
malXke the attempt, buat it was the only
on= to go through. Several motor
parties .hat had reached the limit of
their cars’' ability were interested
witnesses to the Apperson u'iumg;?
One driver of a high-powered
would not ' submit to defeat until,
lackirg clearance the exhaust pipe
on his car had been smashed, and
}lhen he decided it was no place for
im
Frank Culver, the host at Forest
Home, one of the most popular re
sorts in the San Bernardino Moun
tains, entertained the party of news
paper men, who were transported in
two eight-cylinder Apperson cars
placed at their disposal by the L.os
Angeles Apperson branch. It was
the annual midwinter gathering for
the newspaper men, and Culver main
tained a reputation as a boniface that
is unexelled.
The Mill Creek road, as far as For
est Home, remains in good condition
after the heavy snow of several
weeks ago. There was no snow on
the road up to the Inn. Erosion has
brought down a small quantity of
rocks from the bluffs, but the trip is
an easy one and well worth making
at this season. San Bernardino
peak is covered with a mantle of
snow and the tall pined thrust
through a solid covering on the Yu
caipa ridge. Culver has contrived a
toboggan slide for the entertainment
of his guests, and after each snow
fall the place is a haunt for thu‘se
who enjoy back KEast sports while
only fifteen miles from the orange
groves.
Many Star Tire
Agents Appointed
The Capital City Tire and Supply
Company report that they have been
very successful during the past week in
appointing agents throughout this sec
tion for Star tires. They are distrib
utors for this popular tire and have in
troduced them" to a large number of At
lanta autoists who have since become
Star boosters.
The Star tire is exceptionally well
made and has an extra layer of fabric
and carries more rubber than the ordi
nary tire. Mr. Burke, of the Capital
City Tire Company, stated that he would
like to see every one buy their tires by
the pound, for if that was done he would
get the majority of tire business, due to
the fact that the Star tire has so much
material in it and weighs heavier.
Reo Atlanta Company
Distributors
Reo Passenger Cars and Reo Trucks
380 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga.
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J. W. Goldsmith, Jr.-Grant Co.
Plan New Building for
Truck Business.
The J. W. Goldsmith, Jr.—Grant
Company, local distributors of the
Hudson Surer-Six and Dodge Broth
ers motor cars announce the acqui
sition of the Republic trucks.
This agency will be distributors for
the Republic trucks in North Geor
gia, assuming the agency on last
Wednesday.
The Republic trucks are built by
the Republic Truck Company, of
Alma, Mich., the largest builders of
metor trucks in the world. They
build models from the three-quaricr
truck to the five-ton truck.
To handle this truck business the
new agency announces the erection of
a three-story brick building, fronting
on Ivy street between Harris and
Cain sireets, on the west side of lvy,
directly back of the building now eoc
cupied by the firm. The building will
be ready for occupancy by the middle
of Jure.
For the present the Republic truck
business will be handled in the pres
ent building of the J. W. Goldsmith,
Jr.-Grant Compsny, the new build
ing being devoted exclusively to
trucks,
John L. Folsom will be in charge
of the wholerale truck department
of the agency and Percy C. Schultz
will handle the retail sales. S. C.
Porter, at present Southern agent for
the Old Dominion Steamship Com
pany, will be identified with the line
after May 1.
Exclusive sa:vice on trucks will be
given in the new building, but a com
plete stock of parts for all models
will ba carried in the old building for
the present. When the new building
is comp.eted the complete stock ot
parts will total around $40,000.
Ground already has been broken to
start the erect'on of the new build
ing, which will be the only building
in the South devoted exclusively to
the sale, service and storage of motor
trucks.
Several subagencies already have
been signed up to handle the Republie
trucks in the territory, the following
subagents being announced by the
J. W. Goldsmith, Jr.-Grant Com
pany:
D. P. Butler, at Marietta; J. K
Davis, at Cedartown; <Carrollton
Cyerland Company, at Carrollton;
Morse Summers, at Gainesville; C.
D. Auld, at Elberton, and the Ath
ens Overland Company, at Athens.
J. W. Goldsmith, Jr.,, of the J. W.
Goldsmith, Jr.—Grant Company,
Hudson distributors in this territory,
will leave for Detroit Monday to
pilot twenty Hudson Super-Six cars
back to Atlanta for dealers in his
territory. The dealers who will ac
company Mr. Goldsmith on the trip
are from Macon, Dublin, Swainsboro,
Grilfin, Augusta, Waynesboro and Al
bany.
Puncture-Proof | .
Tires Will Reduce
Fatal Accidents
Numerous Jletters have been re
celved during the past few weeks by
Dr. N. C. Doss, president of the Doss
Rubber and Tube Company of this
city, asking for reports of some of
the tests made on (he puncture
proof inner tube for automobile tires
to be manufactured by the local cor
poration.
Some of _these communications
were from automobile experts, who
expressed the opinion that a pune
ture-proof tube will result in the
elimination of danger of many acei
dents during motor car racing. Sta
tistics show that many of the mog:
serious accidents in the automob
racing world have been caused 'by
punctures. 1 4
Bobby Walthour, world’s champion
bicycle rider, who has been living in
Atlanta since his retirement this year’
from the racfng business, says that-a
puncture-proof tube will have a ten
dency to reduce almost to a minj
mum accidents on the race courses
of the country. 3
“Punctures are greatly feared 1
all speed kings because they i
‘been responsible for so many
accidents and deaths,” said Mr, W,
thour. “I know of many such ag
dents during bicycle races and we
have been waiting for years for
one to solve this serious mfln
o’ %
As a result of the tests lhfl'.:
the efficiency of the Dosg tube, it
probable that most of the racing et~
tomobiles of the future will be equip~-
ped with this Georgia product to min
imize the danger of accidents
punctures and blow-outs,
to well-known experts.
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chacco Company in
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Florida Buys Two:
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Ton Superior Truck
The sandy roads and the still more
sandy fields of a Florida tobacco plan
tation will be the testing ground for.a
two-ton Superior truck this summer,
ind in addition to its ordinary loada
two-‘on trailer will be attached. The
Suncrior and its traller left yesterday
over the country roads for the planta
tion o? the Columbus Tobacco Com
pany at Hardaway, Fla., near Quiney.
B. H. Hardaway, head of the com
pany and the contractor who built-a
large part of several big army éan
torments, has had wide experiénce
with trucks and tractors, and he
bought the Superior after spending
several days in Atlanta investigating
conditions. He said the principal
reason for his choice was that ‘the
location of the home factory in At
lanta, near his home, served as @&
guarantee of prompt and efficient
service, without risking long delay
while waiting for a broken part.
Last week was an everyday drive
away at the Superior plant, trucks
being driven to Valdosta, Birming
ham, Carrollton, Montezuma and Aik
en, S. C., while rail shipments were
made to several more distant poin
The factory is being run to its
capacity in every department. .
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