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Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-14
AUTO GAME HAS
BRILLIANT FUTURE
IN LOS ANGELES
VALVELESS BOWLER MEETS
TW0-CYCLE COREY
PIONEER MOTOR CAR DEALER
ENTERS FIELD
Firm Strengthened by Addition Of
Man Who Has Had Wide Expert
ence in Business-Outlook
Is Brightest

Aa4Veless Bowler and Two-Cycle
Corey have been busy men this week.
MI. Bowler whose real name is vii
liam, came up from San Diego to get
a line on a shipment of Atlas cars.
The cars arrived the day the San Diego
agent arrived. Two of the cars have
been sent south, and already the Bekins-
Corey Motor Car company is tantaliz-
ing the telegraph wires in hope of
urging the factory to come through
with other shipments
w. o. Williams, formerly of Ia
coma and a pioneer automobile man
of the west, has entered the firm of
Bekins- Corey Motor Car company and
will devote his entire time to pushing
sales of the American Simplex and the
Atlas cars.
These two magnificent two-cycle
cars are fast forging to the front in
Southern California and hundreds of
prospective buyers are investigating
the merits of the two-Cycle principle.
Mr.. Williams has had wide eX-
perience in handling automobiles and
has handled as western agent half a
America. He is most enthusiastic
over the two-cycle engine and declares
it as his firm belief that all manu-
facturers will be driven to adopt the
principle as soon as they can find a
way to get around the patents. AT
present he declares no two factories
in the world are turning out such re-
markable engines at that of the Ameri-
can Simplex and the Atlas.
Speaks Highly of Cars
az have had much experience with
engines and / have explained the work
ings of four-cycle machines to thou
sands of persons" said Mr.. Williams
yesterday. "I have but one regret and
that is that I did not long ago be-
come connected with the sale of this
type of engine.
1T is not always what we have that
makes the best impression" the auto
mobile man continued. "It is in this
case what we do not have. As for the
cars themselves, the workmanship,
material. finish and appearance cannot
be beaten. The American Simplex is
a superb example of what American
manufacturers and uphOlsterers have
achieved in their art A palace car
without a blemish. without a fault. IT
is the acme of luxury and refinement.
Better taste could not be displayed in
selection of material and finishing. The
Atlas is uneXcelled In fact there is
a machine with no competitor at any
price. But, after all the real point
with all automobile owners is what
they can get out of the engine in the
way of speed, power, endurance and
reliability. 1t is the simplicity COM
bined with the above qualities that
makes the two-cycle engine most at
tractive.
Let one take the average owner Of
a four-cycle automobfle-and there are
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-14
ANOTHER OLD RELIABLE
WILL BE SEEN ON TRACK
Frank Siefert Returns to Los Angeles
Takes Charge of PaImer-Singer
and Will Be Its Pilot

When the next series of races is
called at Ascot park there will be an
other face added to the srack, known
to many who like the sport and new to
many others, for he has been absent
from Los Angeles for some time in
Salt Lake
This man is Frank Siefert, one of the
nerviest and wisest drivers of fast
automobiles on the Pacific coast. Fol
a long time Siefert has handled cars
on the circle track, and been uniformly
successful and without accident of a
serious nature. No man on the track
knows the tricks of the trade better
than Siefert, and none ever took the
wheel Of a car who was fairer and
squarer than "Old Horse" Frank
Sefert
Siefert was engaged by a we'll known
automobile firm for a lengthy period
as their driver of racing cars, but the
discontinuance Of their entry on the
racing tracks made Siefert, through
the disappearance also of any regular
events on the tracks, seek new fields
and he went TO the capital of Utah
until recently he was solicited to re-
turn and take up the sport where he
had left off.
Frank Siefert has been engaged by
the owners of the Palmer-Singer auto
mobiles to take charge of their racing
car, and when the time for starting
is called at Ascot park next Sunday
Siefert will be seen at the wheel of the
Palmer-Singer ready to do combat with
the other speedsters af the track.
Siefert may be watched and will b.
found delivering all that is in the car
for though ready always to take
chances fearlessly, his uncommon
judgment will stand him we'll in hand
He has a good car to operate, one that
is in keeping with his own class, and
she is now in his own hands being
carefully and scientifically groomed foI
her encounter with her competitors.
With Frank Free, Al Livingstone
and Frank Siefert making the wheels
go round. it is a certainty that the
spectators who will be present viii
receive full value for their money. Ant
then. should Leon T. Shelter enter his
"Jackrabbit" or "TobascO H." with the
old reliable Harris Hanshue driving
either one Of them, look out for some
| coast records being obliterated and
new ones made.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-14

It's as easy to secure a bargain in a used
automobile. through want advertising. |.
used to be-and still is-to secure q horss
and earrinPe
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-14

but few in this vicinity that are not
four-cycle Cars-the average owner
looks at the Atlas engine in wonder
ment.
"rThen one tells him that there is an
engine with three cylinders and only
seven moving parts and each part a
big strong piece of hardened steel.
THAT is received with incredulous looks
and an injured air. You see this engine
has no valves. The autoist is looking
for the usual series of valves rods,
cams, rockers, pins, springs, all of them
with concOmitant pins, bolts, nuts
screws, Oiling places and an minute
variety of complex, diitlcult parts. Inc
tWo-cycle engine has none of these.
1t has no valves. 1t can't get out OF
repair in any of the hundreds of ways
the old style four-cycle engines can.
But it is not only this superiority
that makes it a winner. Our tWo-cycle
engine has a continuity Of power that
none of these other machines can ap-
proach. one can readily see that an
engine that gets an explosion from each
cvlinder on every revolution will have
a more even flow of power than an en-
gine that only gets an explosion on
every other revolution. The smooth,
steady flow of power from these cars
was a revelation to me when l gave
them a test.
Delighted with Los Angeles
"The American simplex has a con-
tinuity of power that stands uneXcelled
i'm the automobile world. 1t is Of course
equal to an eight cylinder car with the
weight and parts of only four cylinders.
1t has the smoothness and power of a
monster electric motor. 1t purrs along
over difficult roads and up over hills
that would stall the ordinary car. \
cooling charge is instantly exploded.
1t is a regular and even charge, mixed
and compressed TO a nicely. 1t is the
science of engine building developed to
the highest degree
Asked about what he thought of the
outlook for the coming automobile sea-
son in Los Angeles and the future of
motoring in Southern California Mir.
Williams said in a tone and manner of
deep conviction:
1T is wonderful, wonderful! This
California country is destined to be
come the center Of the motoring world.
am astOnished that there are not
more automobile manufactures here.
This superb climate, this all-the-year-
around automobiling country will at
tract hundreds of thousands Of persons
to this locality. The growth Of this
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-14
Rnildinn to Cost S2n.ono

SANGER, Nov. 13,-John Manning has re-
celyed the contract for the erection of two
story and basement brick store and hotel
building in Sanger. 1t will cost $4,000 ana
will be modern in every respect
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-14
Accepts Proposition

LONG BEACH, Nov 13.--The Long Beach
chamber of commerce has been officially noti-
fed that the Los Angeles Swith and Signal
company had formlly accepted its proposition
the establishment Of a factory near the inner
harbor for manufacturing patent switch sig
1a1
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-14
Ekoavates for RulIdlna

r. j. Douglas 7oi Grant budnf, is having
excavation made at Third and San Pedro
streets preparatory TO the erection Of a four
story and basement brick huildng.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY ls, 1908.
rHr wIsooNsrN MuppLE.

The nuddle over the senatorship in Wisconsin may be settled very easily when the case reaches the United States Senate. It is seriously contend. ed that Mir. stevenson was duly elected on the 2eth of January. the day when the two houses of the Legislature bal loted separately. A majority of the members of each house was present and voted, and MT. Stevenson received a majority of that majority but not a majority of those elected to each body. For instance, say there were twenty senators out of thfrty-three present and say eighty out of 100 rep resentatives. He received a majority of the vote cast in each house and he was duly and constitutionally elect ed. The opposition contend that he must have received a majority of the whole number elected and failing to do that failed of election. It Is a very nice point but we are willing to go on record as believing that the Senate will seat Mfr. Stevenson on his claim of election on the day of separ- ate balloting. The senatorial election was submitted to the vote of the peo- pie in a primary election under a law of Senator La Follette's creation and at that election Stevenson. after the expenditure of a vast sum of money was elected. That election was to be regarded ss binding on Republican members of the Legislature. but as La Toilette does not want Stevenson to continue as his colleague he got up opposition on the score of corruption in the primary. He ought to take his own medicine and not plead the baby act.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16
WE SOON FORGET.

One singular feature connected with the proposed appointment of Senator Knox to a Cabinet position is the fact that lawyers like himself, Taft and Root, to say nothing of others. were apparently or actually ignorant of the existence of a bar to his acceptance of the position. Taft and Root hav- Ing occupied positions in the Cabinet ought to have known of any law or other inhibition that would prevent a Senator from holding such a posi- tion, and thus have avoided the tangle that has resulted from Mir. Taft's pro- posed selection of Mir. Knox.
 The method adopted for getting around the law may prove successful, although there are good lawyers who are in doubt about it. If the plan succeeds the reduction of the salary so far as 1t applies to the Secretary of State will be no hindrance to MT. Knox's acceptance of the position. IL is a place of very high honor and one which any statesman might be proud to accept. Mir. Knox is we'll able to hold the place at reduced salary, fl that is all that is in the way, and there Is little doubE that he will gel
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16


 The Advertiser has no disposition to criticise Mir. Taft, but cannot refrain from saying that he has said some things which had better been left un- said. He impliedly impugnec the good sense and good faith Of those who do not regard everything in con nection with the Panama canal situa- tion as altogether lovely" In view of the fact that the most powerful ,objectors are members of the United States Senate. and of the committee which has to consider Panama canal matters Mir. Taft's remarks on the subject last Saturday unpleasantly re- vived thoughts of the "big stick" pol icy. The country has had enough of that and Mir. Taft would do well Co steer just as far away frornl 1t as pos- sible. The canal ought to be built and just as quickly as possible. but there is no reason for the President or anybody else setting up one stand ard for building and casting into outer darkness those who may have different and perhaps better ideas.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16

Radium as the Earthis Heat Supply It is probable that the presence of heat-producing radium in the earth will prolong that cooling process from which scientists predict the ultimate death of our planet Prof. John Joly, of the University of Dublin writes In and the Earths Internal Heat" ex- plaining the latest calculations of the earth's gale with respect to the quan- tity or radium still existing within It.
 There are, says Prof. Joly. 10000 tons of radium contained in the sediments which are deposited over the floor of the ocean" Scientists calculate that the earth Is already about hundred million years old, and with this amount of radium still in existence 1t would not seem necessary to apprehend a near fulhlment of Mother shipts9's famous prophecy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16
Parls Unaersreuaa sy.t.m.

A I I'd -
 Although the underground railways of the Parisian metropolitan system are Indispensable as a relief to the over-crowded streets of the city. this mode of locomotion is accompanied by some serious drawbacks when viewed from the hygienic standpoint. The complete absence of sunlight. the great disinfectant. tends partiularly to fa- vor the developfpent Of pathogeBfo mi- crobeg in the tunnels and trains. and the dense thronEa that crowd the sfa- tions and carriages at certain hours of the day greatly increase the dar- ger of the spread of contagious dis eases The passengers remain only q short while underground. but 1t is quite e different matter with the efh. ployes. who stay below eight or nine hours a day. The ventilation effected by the motion of the trains Is quite inadequate. The vittated air is sim- ply stirred and mixed a little. and the currents noticeable at the exits precisble effect on the composition and the temperature on the air in the tunnels. It is considered that some system of artificial ventilation is ab- nolutely necessary, and 1t is suggested that during the time the service Of trains is suspended eletric spraying apparatus should be run, along the lines for the purpose of precipitating the dust in the atmosphere and low.
 ering the temperature of the afr in
 khe tunnels. It ig. believed that it would also be an advantage if the bal. last on the track could be dispensed with, and the track asphalted so that is could be washed daily
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16
A woman's tongue may be ] enough to cut her throat.
Very Good JObs.

Birmingham Ledger.
 A few days since a man who has The Birmingham Ledger asking why Southern young men will not go into the postal service in greater numbers. held exanInations in all Southern States many times: he has seen the drift of white men out of the service and the increasing number of negroes going into the service and now that he is out of the service himself. he feels free to discuss the situation.
 The plain facts are not creditable to us. In fifteen examinations the aver age of the examination papers Of the negroes were above those of the white applicants. In forty examinations the average of the white applicant was very. slightly above that of the negro
 The Examinations are not difficult and any man who has passed the seventh grade In public school men scorn the postal service and do not take the examination, yet the places pay from $500 to S1,4o0, and men who could pass these little exam than this as salesmen, bookkeepers and other employments. The civil ser vice places are practically permanent, the pay is sure and regular as the sun. The hours are short, just eight every day. The work is not harder than any clerical work.
 The letter carriers, clerks and rural mail carriers have good hours and earn in this city and county. $500. $500 and $1.000 to- s1.40o. It does seem that a young man would like those places in preference to many kinds of day labor.
 The service 10 drifting into the hands of the negroes. because negroes Otudy for the examinations. They want the places and prepare for them. White men will not study for them except a few.
 is the postal service to be given over to the negroes? It looks like it. They are preparing for 1t, the whites are not.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16
Tanmany,s History.

New York Realty Journal.
 This organization was formed in 17Ss. being. the effect of popular movement in New York. having pri- marlly in view counterweight to the so-called "aristocratics Society of the Cincinnati. It was essentially anti Federalist or Democratic. in it's char acter, and its chief founder was Will Ham Mooney. an upholsterer and a native-born American of Irish extrac- tion. It took it's first title from a noted ancient, wise and friendly chief of the Delaware tribe, of IndianR named Tammany, who had. for tlte want of a better subject, been canon ized by the soldiers of the revolution as the American patron saint. The first meeting was held May 12, 17s9. The act of incorporation was passed in 1905. The grand sachem and thir- teen sachems were designed to typify the thirteen original States. William Mooney was the first grand sache em. The society Is aominalIy a charitable and social organization, and is distinct from the general committee of the Tammany democracy, which is a polit ical organization, and cannot use Tam many Hall without the consent of the societV, t4s
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16

The highest legal ability should be possessed by the Attorney General of the United States. Yet we find The New York Evening Post asserting that the present Attorney General had a legal training. but nobody thinks of him as a lawyer" By way of con- trasting him with the man generally slated as his successor The Post says: "of Mir. Tafts prospective Attorney General. nobody thinks as anything but a lawyer"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16
MORNING THOUGHT
BY ,. MARVIN NICHOLS

Ineasnate Nan Patterson. charg- FassfoM ed with the awful crime
 of murder, disowned by her friends and disgraced before the court helpless and alone--yet not alone for her faithful father was by her side Nan Patterson. in those dark days found In him the same father that thousand whispsrings have been tiung to the winds yet men still wor- Thaw 50 near the gate of ihe Toonbs, brought Senator Burton out of Lea venworth with . faded rose htill cling Ing to his coat lapel: It was the very rose his wife pinned on him the day prison. The truest affection is never swayed. It clings the closer when the storms are raging. Love. if never blind. at least knows the art Of for getting.
 Content yourself with the common course of things. You'll be no excep- ton to the rule. Sombody will sing your virtues when you are dead Rosetta Niday said that love for the one marries will make a home oi an attic or change the weather side oi hedse-row into palace.
 H IuSEd are JuAL three SOCl6l CldSSeBi those who are misunderstood, those who have never lived their real self and those who have missed their affi- nitiss--and still on the search. X -t +
 As Phil Armstrong says, the line oi least resistance is the wRistline. And that's modern society.
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 A mans will can be his fortress Make formidable-be the unconquer. able in the tower.
 It is always wrong to lie but mol always right to utter the truth.
 + + A woman's tongue may be long enough to cut her throat.
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 The world will immortalize the ton to the rule. Somebody's will sing will lift us above our troubles.
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 One advantage about modern slang is that a person does not have to use hiS brains.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16

The only sort of patriotism that will touch the sensibilities of William Nell son Cromwell is spelled with the let ter ''Y" as part of the first syllable. It is laughable to read his protestation of love of country impelling to the course he has pursued in Panama cA- nal matters. When all the facts are uncovered MT. Cromwell Is likely to be exposed to full view as anything else than the pure minded man he professes to be.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16
Where Dante May Have Studded.

Westminster Gazette.
 St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford. the inde- pendence of which seems threatened by neighbortng Queens College is now the sole survivor of the original ''halls'' from which university life arose at Oxford. It bears the name not of the martyred Saxon monarch. but of Arch bishop Edmund Rich, who, possibly about 121S delivered near this spot the first Oxford lecturers on Aristotle. This legend once enabled the present prin- cipal to retort that if Dante really vls- tied Oxford he might conceivably have studied at St. Edmund's Hall, but not at Queens College, which dld not then exist .J.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16

maj rega1ia of evening, the condemned claw-hammer stfll fingers in the rnsm- ory. We believe that time has some- what the bitternsss of his rancor. and that he is himself the proprietor of one of these obnoxious garments. But the grand old spirit of democracy remains. unfettersd and untsmea. The s'full dress suit.- if 1t exists, e only . good humored concession to the weakness Bailey would never wear It in waco, Texas. It would cost him so.ooo votes if he did. Against all 1effeteness. all fripperies and furbelows, all soft seduc- tions and Persian pomp. against all that might be described as the glad rags of fife whether material or spirf- tual. he sets as of yore an adamantipe visage. This, we trust is all made sufficiently plain in that one splendid sentence of defiance: T have notr
 Senator Bailey. friend of the plata peepui, has not nor win he ever. The black disgrace of a tour of Europe will never blot that record. Every school child knows the enormtty of degeneracy summed up in that sinister phrase, 'go- ing to Europe" Europe meaas Paris and the Moulin Rouge And deeollete ladies and champagne popping like an artillery engagement. It means pad ded chairs and plush carpets and obs sequious garcons and. quite conceiv- ably. breakfast in bed. It means au- tomobiles in the Tyrol and yachting in the Mediterranean. It means Russian countesses and Montengrin princes and baccarat. It means 25-cent cigars and arrogant and purse-proud black coffee. It means in short. everything that Is most, and most properly. detest- able to the blacklots of Texas. Was 1t not superfiuous for honest Joe Bailey. most renownedsof sham-haters, to say that he had not visited this sink -hole of sybaritism?
 As for the soft folk who were born in Europe and have the blight of its odious luxuries in their blood. it goes without saying that none of themcouid ever be elected dog-catcher in the region southwest of the Red River.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16
A Whitn Hnnne Nnmher.

The March Century is to be a White House Number" having, in addition to Calvin Dill Wilson's story of "Our Presidents Out of Doors" and William H. Crooks "reminiscences of "Ruther- three sk etches of President eject Tatt. James A. Le Roy. has written of Taft as Administrator" picturing his traits and methods as revealed by his wo1k an anonymous study of "The Person allty of the New President" Under the title of Turning Points In Mr. Tatt's Career will be published for which MT Taft sets forth reasons for declining to be considered for the presidency of Yale. and in the other iDDines Commission.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-16
Wemen 5 Dive PreAlen..

New York AmerIcan.
 '1t is possible for learned person to lack culture, just as 1t Is for one who Is unlearned to be cultured" said Prof. Charles Zublin, of Chicago, in his lecture on "CuItnre." the last of a series, in the Berkeley Culture League in the Berkeley. Lyceum.
 The great human problems which Prof zueblin says one must realize as going on at the present time, if one would be cultured are the labor, the political. and the woman questions.
 There are now 6.000,000 women earning their bread" he said. "who can dictate the time and terms of mar riage. It is exceedingly stupid in the light of that fact alone for people to contend there is no woman move ment."