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Good Roads Situation Is Like the
Railroad Problem Was
Fifty Years Ago.
“Along with the great national
rnovement for better highways comes
the question of weight of loads, speed
and many other factors,” says James
Brignian distributor for Federal
trucks “In the solution of the mat
ter, plain, ordinary common sense
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There Is this significance in our being Originators of Free Road
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We are always pyshing forward to find some new way of serv
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Our Free Road Service, first in tima, 's also first In quality. Our
service facilities, at our store as well as on tne road, are the best
In the field both in equipment and operation,
Repairing—Free Road Service—Vulcanizing
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should prevail. Unimproved roads, in
good weather when they ure dry and
sound, can stand a great deal of traf
fic with little or no damage. They
can even bear tremendous loads if
the width of the tire is sufficient.
When these roads are solid big steam
traction engines, with thrashing ma
chines or corn shellers, run over them
with no damage; in fact, with benefit
as they act like rollers, .
“Moderately improved roads like
wise can stand much traffic in good
weather. The big trouble with these
roadg is that they are not what cah
be eelled all-year-'round roads. They
ghould be improved to meet the nor
mal requirements of traffic so that
full benefit may be derived from them
at all times,
LARGE LOADS LOWER PRICES,
“The weight of the load should be
determined on the basis of width of
tires. Routes between large cities or
important commercial and industrial
centers serve for enormous tonnage
and the larger the units in which this
tonnage Is ha‘uled the greater the
economy of hauling. These routes
are main arteries of traffic and any*®
thing which increases the cost of
trapsportation on them is paid for by
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HEARSTS SUNDAY AMERICAN — A Wawspaper for People Who Think — UNDAY, JUNE 15, 1919.
Title to Motor Car ]
Must Be Flawless
There has been iftroduced in the
linois Legislature a bill which may
have a tendency to reduce the num
ber of thefts of motor cars. The
measure provides that no motor car
may be sold in Illinofs without a bill
of sale containing the name and ad
dress of the purchaser and a minute
identification of the car as to factory
and engine numbers, etc.. The bill
of sale must be recorded with the Sec
retary of State and will he placed on
record. - Fach garage 18 required to
make a public record of every car
handled, giving the engine number
and other details as shown in the
bill of sale. All engines found with
out thelr original number, must be
junked.
A A A A AP IAIINNL:
all the people, regardiess of how far
they may be from these main arteries,
When it is taken into consideration
that a 50 per cent increase in the size
of the unit hauled makes a 15 per
cent decrease in the cost of trans
portation the matter becomes one of
great economic importance with ton.
nage running up into the millions.
LIKENS ROADS TO RAILROADS,
“On these roads the weight is fully
taken care of by the 800-pound limit
per inch width of tire, For every
800 pounds an inch is added to the
bearing surface of the tires. With
the addition of a trafler the weight of
the load can be doubled without
doubling the strain on the road. You
simjly add to the wheel base. - The
load, while greater, is distributed
over more wheels of proportionate
tiré width., A striking lillustration of
this is given by our roads. While
heavy rolling stock, such as the big
compound engines which are now
used on our railroads, are very much
heavier than the rolling stock of
years ago, the weight per inch of
bearing surface has not been greatly
increased. This has been meét by
putting extra bearing surface under
the weight. For instance, the big
engires now have sixteen driving
wheels, whereas the early engines had
only four,
“It would have been as sensible 50
years ago to have prohibited the use
of locomotives larger than the littie
four-wheel drivers, as it would be to
day to limit the weight of the motor
truck on any other basis than tire
width, and the number of wheels un
der the weight, which in the case of
our large locomotives gives several
hundred per cent greates hauling ca
pacity with probably only 100 per cent
greater weight of rail. Without the
development of the large locomotive
and the increased size of railroad
cars, freight rates would prohably be
double what they are now. If we set
an artificial limit on motor trucks, we
are handicapping what is fast becom
ing an lmdyomnt means of transpor
tation, and adding to the cost of every
article of food or clothing we use,
and placing a generally greater eco
nomic burden on the country. We
must build the road to carry the
Ilold.'
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A new and bigger demand for mo
tor cars is prophesied for the United
States as the returning legions from
the fighting front again take their
place in the industrial and social life
of the nation., This prophecy is made
by John Lottridge, distributor for
Marmon and Jordan cars, and it is
' based not on the wonderful exploits
of automotive vehicles in the war
| zone, but on the change in habits of
the personnel of the armies a 8 a re
qulv of their military experiences.
| ““T'he habit of punctuality and of
getting to a given place in the short
| est time and with the most ecoonmy,”
' says Mr, lottridge, “is one that will
I be firmly stamped upon the character
|of the rteurned goldiers, War is based
qumr. timeliness of movement; upon
‘Hpef-d and accuracy in carrying out
| any plan of action, and the boys who
| come back are going to apply this to
| their dally business and social ljfe.
| ‘““There can be one result only, and
‘that to make them see the motor car
'in the light of service. Couple this
| habit of propmtness with the per
formance that motor ears have made
| in earrying out the vital maenuvers of
the war and the ex-soldirs will be
Iqui('k to recognize the value of the
automobile in their everyday exist-
I ence, When you £top to consider that
every motioen in a soldier's routine is
Ihuswl upon doing the task in the
. shortest, yet most thorough way, vou
| can understand the way in which
these fighters will sweep aside the
' older, clumsier methods of their civil
lizm days and adapt the new-found
methods to them.
I “I belive that the motor car has to
day arrived on a new plane in the
Inuhliv mind, It has been an experi
ment, it has been a novelty and a
craze, too. Now it is a sound, sub-
Ifituntml product—with a definite place
in our daily life, which can not be
taken by another.”
Each Tire Has Its
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Own Particular Woes
“We hear a lot about the ills the
body is heir to,” saild the Michelin
repair man, “but I forget them when
I consider the ills that are forced on
automobile tires by careless or indif
ferent owners. You ought to hear
the tires tell their troubles when they
are brought in here with all kinds of
things the matter with them. Their
appearance tells the story all right.
And when 1 have a busy day, ‘The
Tires’ Lament' is the very saddest of
choruses to me. There isn't much
harmony, but there is a lot of pathos
in it all
“‘He overloaded me,’ eries one.
- “'He underinflated me,’ moans an
other.
t“Thca 1 get a long-drawn-out wail
of—
““He ran me on the car tracks and
against the curbing.’ |
“‘He stopped me suddenly and skid- |
ded around corners.’
fl"'}{e kept me going when I was
at.’
“‘He left gasoline and grease onl
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“ ‘He nsed me on a wheel that was
out of line'
“l 1 have been in the tire business
for many years, but I can not get
used Lo tire abuse. It's all so unneces
sary and expensive for the owner.”
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Resilvered Reflectors
Protect the Motorist
For safe night driving a motorist
should have a legal, safe and effi
cient light, one that will concentrate
all the light where needed. To do
this the reflectors must reflect. There
is s 0 much difference between a high
ly plated reflector and a dull, dingy
one, that one of the best investments |
an autoist can make is to have his
reflectors re-silvered.
According to H. C. Simmons, of
the Simmons Plating Works, motor
ists are fast learning this fact, al
though many of them wait too late
or until they have had some accident,
or broken a spring by running into
a rut, which could have been avolded
it they would have had the proper
light for driving. ‘
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Street is Diagramed ;
For Drivers of Motors
To avoid congestion at busy street
crossings in Washington, D, C,, a new
system of “rotary traffig” has been
adopted. The purpose of it is to pre
vent any “left turns,” and automobiles
must go around the circle marked on
the pavement when they want to
shunt off in that direction,
The entire crossing is plainly mark
ed out with this rotary scheme, eir
cles and Tralghl lines being laid out
in geomelrical fashion to indicate
where motor cars and pedestrians are
to move. Small arrows are part of
the scheme, and no driver has any
excuse for not knowing the rules. All
he has to do is to keep his eyes on
the ground,
More Attention Paid
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To Springs on Autos
Automobile manufacturers are pay
ing more attention this vear than
ever before to the easy riding quali
ties of their cars. In the new Essex
180 inches of springs are used, al
though the wheel base is only 108 1-2
inches long.
Whistles, Bells and
Gongs Before Horns
The use of the automobile horn was
fnaugurated iln France, and was
adopted by automobile manufacturers
in this country in 1800 to substitute
whistles, bells, gongs and the many
other devices used theretofore on ail*
tom.« biles to the confusion of pedes
trians and drivers alike,
Nickel Plating
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Automobile
Parts
BUMPERS
LAMDPS
REFLECTORS
FORD RADIATOR SHELLS
And Every Other Part That
Requires This Work
Also Refinighing Silverware,
Surgical Instruments aud
Brass Beds
Plating Works
125 8. Pryor 8t Atlanta, Ga.
Main 1147
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According to loeal Standard Oil offi
cials there is no immediate danger
of a serious shortage in the gasoline
supply. This despite the fact that
there is a real”shortage of crude oil,
considering the refining capacities of
the country.
The shortage of crude is estimated
to be as high as 50,000 barrels a day
in the Mid-Continent alone. There
are at present and in process of con
struction, refining capacities in the
Mid-Continent and Texas areas for
825,000 barrels of crude daily. The
production of erude from all section
available for this maximum of ca
pacity admittedly is short, and if the
country were dependent upon the
daily ontput of the refineries for its
gasoline there would be some cause
for alarm,
This is not the case at the present
time, however. According to Stand
ard there are considerable stocks of
gasoline in store, sufficient to meet
the demand which will come imme
diately the weather warms up and
cars begin to be used to their maxi
mum. The saving factor in the situ
ation has been -the weather, which
has continued cold and Jinclement,
and which has prevented the con
sumption of gasoline normal to this
time of year. With the present stocks
on hand and the production of the
refineries, irrespective of the admit
ted shortage of erude, there is no rea
son to be apprehensive about a short
age.
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California May Vote
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40 Millions for Roads
The State of California will submit
to its voters on July 1, 1919, a pro
posal for a new bond issue of $40,-
000,006 to provide funds for the ex
tension of the pavements on the State
highway system. In 1910 the State
authorized an issue of $15000,000 and
a second issue of $18,000,000 in 1515.
The paved roads which have Hyen
completed under these Issues have
inspired a desire for more—and have
created a need for more, by reason of
the development of new areas which
are reached by tligse highways.
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Metal Strip Will Hold
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I Vibrator Box in Place
In case the screws that hold the
small brass jackets to the vibrator
box become worn so that they do not
grip any more, do not try to remedy
the trouble by nsing longer screws, as
this will probably injure the windings
of the coil and ruin the vibrator. The
better plan is to put a metal band
arourd the box and attach it to the
dash with small bolts.
Warm Up Your Motor -
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Without Racing It
A cold motor should be warmed up
slowly, as it Is dangerous and detri
mental to race or accelerate a cold
motor, This does more harm than con
stant service under full load at correct
motor speed. Never race a cold en
gine. Where this instruction is dis
regarded and the engine is speeded up
beyond the speeds which we indicate
as the safe running speeds, you are
inviting trouble, repairs and expense.
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‘REPUBLIC'
More than twice as many Republic Trucks are
sold yearly than are sold by their next largest com
: petitor. Over 100 Republic Trucks are in operation
in Atlanta and the list is growing daily.
J. W. Goldsmith, Jr.-Grant Co.
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FENDERS AND BULBS, I
In case where the headlamps Arel
fastened to the fenders, looseness in
these latter results in excessive vibra
tion, which will account for rapid ruln
of bulbs.
No other proof is needed to win you to it.
Thousands have placed their orders upon
the demonstration revealed in a short ride.
Its performance is so convincing that one
is not left with indeecision as to its value.
Consider What
Thousands Say
On every hand you hear praise for the
Essex.
Its newness created an interest that sent
hundreds of thousands to Essex stofes to see
it. On the first day more than 5,000 rode
and were won by its performance
Every day of the past four months has
seen a swelling tide of admiration until now
all are saying the finest things for it.
What Is It
That They Admire?
Is it performance or appearance—low cost
or economy of operation?
One speaks of one quality, another of
some other feature.
That is accounted for by the experience
those persons have had with other cars.
The man who has owned a good light
J.W.GOLDSMITH,JR.-GRANT CO,, Inc.
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| SHAH WAS BRAVE POTENTATE.
| The Shah or\Porsla introduced au
tomobiles in his country in I§oo, pur
chasing the finest specimen of a *‘horse
less carriage” that'the market then
afforded,
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Just You Ride
More Than Half a Million Motor
ists Now Praise Their High Quality
Light Weight Car— $1395 (Fervon)
In An Essex
BEGINNING AUTO DELIVERY.,
The first motorized parcel deliverp
service in the Middle West was inau
gurated in Detroit, Mich., organized un
der the name of the Automobile Rapid
Service Delivery Company, in 1900, with
six motor cars.
weight car recognizes in the Essex a wider
power range. He sees a complete car. It
has features he had never hoped to obtain in
any car selling within lis price range.
The man experienced with fine cars sees °
in the Essex an equal quality to that with
which he is accustomed but at an immense
saving in operating and maintenance cost.
It Has Appealed
To All Motorists
Interest in the Essex has come from all
elasses of motorists,
That proves the fulfillment of the aim of
its builders. They intended it should be the
car that wonld embody all the advantages of
the two aceepted types of cars.
Tt should have lightness as well as dura
bility—performance as well as low first cost}
—easy riding qualities as well as economy of
operation.
They did not sacrifice the advantages of
either—they eombined them. .
That is what all have recognized. 5
It is what we want you to know and thus
our statement ‘‘Just you ride in an Essex.”’
A FEW ATLANTA
USERS OF
REPUBLIC
TRUCKS
Continental Gin Co.
Western Electric Co,
Moarris Packing Co.
The J. W. Clarke Co.
Pennsylvania Rubber Co.
Atlanta Baggage and Cab Co.
Frank E. Block Co.
H. M. Patterson & Son.
Georgia Creamery.
C. J. Baisden,
Marett, Streater & Co.
Stein & Co.
Gramling, Spalding & Collins
worth,
E. B. Stuart & Cot
Rice & Hutchins,
Sam H. Saltzman,
Globe Coal Co.
A. McD. Wilson,
J. E. Raley & Bro.
Capital City Club,
Hightcwer Hardware Co.
Ecdgerton Salt Brick Co.
Parfay Bottling Co.
Mitchell Bros. 4
Meinert Coal Co.
C. J. McWithams.
Scéathorn Aute and Equipment
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Walker Electric Co.
T. H. McKinney.
Belment Farm and Dairy Co.
H. C. Bagley. |
Williams-Thompsen Co.
Wynne Plumbing Co, -
American Red Cross. A
Socuthorn Marble and Granite
o,
Norris, Inc.
Hogue Electric Co.
M. M, Stanaland.
Bndlo; & Woertz,
R. O. Flanagan,
Nng:onnl War Workers' Coun
eil.
Walker loofln’ Co.
Morrow Transfer Co.
Arthur Wrigley.
Phenix Supply Co.
J. A, Kelley, |
Conley & Enns.
Atlanta Journal.
Atlanta Constitution,
At(l:lnta Pioneer Motor Exp.
o.
Frederick Disirfecting Co.
William George.
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