Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-10

! troit to points outside OF the United States
according to figures recently compiled by
the Detroit Board Of Commerce OF these,
5o2, or over % per cent, were RICH cars
going 10 all parts Of the world
National roads are coming in for repeat
ed reference in the Senate debates reIat-
ing TO the Post Office Appropriations bill
1t is evident that there is a constantly
growing belief that the Federal govern
ment before long should concern itself
with the construction of trunk line roads,
thus encouraging and making more con-
venient the great floor of interstate travel,
which, according to the American Auto
mobile association touring board. is
greater at the present time than IT has
ever been since the coming Of the motor
driven vehicle
BY the shipment of a Federal One-ton
truck to Japan last week leads NJ L.
Pulcher, general manager Of the Federal
Motor Truck Company, to believe that in
the near future American made trucks
will be az popular in foreign countries as
our pleasure cars are.
Unnoticed in Chicago's endlesss array
Of taXicabs and livery vehicles Is a Silent
Knight touring car which was built by
Charles Y. Knight in 1906 and has since
covered the remarkable distance Of 200, 900
miles. p. c. Kohler, taxicab operator
and liveryman, has used the car for rental
work for six years and he says he has
never made a replacement. Of any part of
the motor
Novel methods OF awarding prizes and
the Henking- Bowie Company, wholesale
grocers, of Gallipolis, Ohio. who will
make their sixtieth annual prize award
some time during August. Two Maxwell
automobiles are the chief prizes The
grocery company adds up six months
purchases by each customer and invites
each one to submit to the judges one
business motto for each 5000 worth of
goods purchased.
Job e Hedges. the well known New
York lawyer and after dinner speaker,
who recently LAUGHED his boom for the
Republican nomination for governor of
New York. has completed a twelve day
tour of 1850 miles in the Empire State
in a high powered Columbia knight mo-
tor car, meeting prominent Republicans
and gathering material 20 be used in his
campaign during the fall and winter,
In marked contrast to the common Gus
tom of transcontinental tourists is the
trip now being made by d. L. Fallin, of
Los Angeles, who, with Mrs. Fallin and
their dog Ketchel, is on his way from
his home to New York city. Mr. Fallin's
Studebaker go" carries absolutely no re-
serve equipment Not even an extra in
ner tube for the tires is included in the
Fallin kit. The run to Salt Lake City
was made without incident, and Mr. Fal-
lin has supreme confidence that he will be
able to cove the entire route without
requirements of any sort.
Numbers /, 2 and 3 in the Gldden
tour, which will start early in October,
and for which the Flanders Electric is
New Orleans, have been assigned to the
three Evertt entries. Advertising Man
ager Pelletier, alert to secure the path
finding privilege for the electric, also took
time by the forelock and entered the first
three cars in the contest itself, a much
coveted distinction in all Glidden tours
Remarkable as has been the develop
ment of the idea of state roads during the
past few years the new state road sys-
tenn of Pennsylvania surpasses any other
yet signed, not even excepting that of
California, which is spending SIS, 900 900 on
a state road system.
BY state roads" iss meant those