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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-28
s'Whoopin9 Things
In Seattle Today

Tacoma motorists are whoop-
Ing things up in Seattle today.
Starting at / o'clock, a half
mile line of machines, decorated
In brilliant colors of the Monta-
mara Festo, began the annual run
to Tacoma's sister city, prepared
to advertise the Festo with I'M
excelled vigor.
Several race drivers who are
already In Tacoma joined the
professions, adding their clouds
OF blue oil-smoke to the dust and
smoke of the excursion cars.
Today's run was destined to
boost the Festo races and inter-
est Seattle in the coming weeks
festivities In the home city. Horns.
megaphones and cowbells formed
part of the noise-making devices
of the trip.
At Georgetown the Tacomans
were scheduled to meet a delega-
tion from the Seattle Automobile
club, who were to welcome them
In the name Of the Seattle Pot
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-28

Automobile enthusiasts, deal
ers and agents are showing keen
enthusiasm over the coming
Montamara races in Tacoma
Without a doubt, the '13 races
will be the most sensational and
spectacular ever held in the west.
This fact, added to the names of
some of the most noted race driv-
ers in the world, who will be
seen here, insure success for the
big event.
The course has been shortened
from five miles to 3 " miles in
length, giving spectators in the
grandstand view of all but a
half-mile of the entire course.
There will be eight curves, most
of them very broad, and racing
cars will pass the grandstand on
an average of once each minute in
every race.
Although it is not expected that
the same speed can be maintain
ed as was developed last year, the
races will be more spectacular
because of the curves and the
complete view of the course.
Teddy Tetzlaff, the idol of
spectators at last seasons races,
will drive twice this year. He
will appear in the Potlatch race
in his 90-horsepower Fiat and in
the Montamarathon in his 800
horse Fiat.
Other daring drivers whose
cars will roar around the Mon
tamara treadmill will be Hughie
Hughes, Bob Burman, Earl Coop
er, Harry Endicott, Dave Lewis,
Bill Taafe, Tauscher, Hooper,
Latta, Carlson, Barnes and Welch.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-28
GERMAN AUTO MAKERS
LACK CONCENTRATION

Concentration is the secret of
the success OF the American au-
tomobile. and until European
manufacturers realize this and
put their discovery to work they
can never hope to compete with
the United States in the produc-
ton OF low-priced, high-grade
cars. =
The above is the statement of
Kurt IRserstedt distributor of
Overland motor cars in the Ger
man empire. when in Toledo re-
Gently. attending the annual con-
sention of Overland factory rep
resentatiyes. Mr.. Isserstedt. who
speaks English fluently and is
regarded as one OF the Industrial
leaders OF his native country, gave
an interesting illustration of how
kls countrymen have fallen be-
lind progressive America in in
dnatfial methods.
I'VE have many factories ia
Germany as large or larger than
the Overland plant he said. but
the lack Of Concentration is what
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-28
EXACT LENGTH
OF NEW COURSE

The Montamara course is not
exactly three and one-half miles
in length, although it is as near
to that measurement as it could
be constructed. The course, as
measured in the very middle, is
1868 feet in diameter, or 1923
miles.
The Inter-City Century race,
scheduled for 100 miles, will
mean 20 laps around the course,
or distance of 102.167 miles.
The Potlatch Trophy race will
be 81 laps, or 200.S11 miles.
The Montamarathon, which
will be the longest and most SEN
sational race of all, will be Il
laps around the course, for a dis
lance of exactly 250.133 miles.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-28

A powerful, 1.-THE racing auto
mobile, completely built and as
sembled in Tacoma by one of the
best mechanicians in the city.
will be a star attraction in next
weeks Montamara races. The
car, Ballard" was built at the
Union Motor Car company's gar
age by Harry A. Ballard, one of
the youngest mechanical foremen
in the city, and is predicted to
smash all records in the small
displacement class.
Every bolt, bar, wire and spoke
of the racer was constructed by
Ballard He began the construc-
ton of his car several months ago
without intention of entering ii
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-28

keeps our products high-priced.
Such an organization as the Over
land, which employs nearly 5000
people in making automobiles
alone. is unheard of, and almost
unbelievable to the majority of
Germans. In our big factories,
we waste efficiency by manu-
featuring variety OF products,
and 1t is thus impossible to adapt
the principle Of quantity produc.
ton such as you have here. to
any one of them"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-28

No more striking instance of a
motor truck operating in direct
competition with a railroad could
be found than that Of e. J. Fos-
ter, who is operating two five-ton
Kissel Kar trucks in hauling lum-
Der from the yards Of the Kanahl
Lumber company in Redondo.
CAL. to Los AngelesA
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-28
ubli city From
Manufacturers

Automobile companies whose
cars are entered in the Monta-
mara races next week are adver-
Using Tacoma. In a weekly bull
letin sent out to automobile edi-
tors in every city of the country
the Apperson Brothers Automo-
bile company have the following
notice:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-28

cubic inches.
Joe Thomas, we'll known To-
cal racer, will drive the unusual
entry in both races, and Harry
Ballard, owner and builder, will
ride as mechanician. Every
ounce of surplus weight has been
removed from the car. Her best
speed will be on the curves, it
is predicted. Low and flat, with
perfect racing lines, it will be
able to slip around the sharpest
curves of the Montamara course
with as much speed as it can
make on straight course. Ia
coma race fans are enthusiastic
over the Tacoma-made car, and
many small wagers have been
made on it,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-28

"In Tacoma, Washington, on
the Fourth of July, will be run
the Annual Road Race for motor
cars. 1t will mark the introduce
ton of the APPERSON "Jack
Rabbit" on the track to the rae
ing enthusiasts in the Northwest.
F. G. Swanton, who sells the AP-
PERSON in Tacoma, has entered
the car, and although it will be
selected from stock, motorists
out in the Northwes! claim that
the Jack Rabbit" will be run
ming right up in the front at the
finish"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-28

in the races, but when the ma
chine developed sensational
speed on its first try-out, he de-
cided to race. The car was
slightly altered for racing pur-
poses, lower wheels placed on it,
and it is now ready for the
300-mile grind that it will be
submitted to next Saturday after
noon.
With strength of over 40
horsepower and a speed already
developed of more than rs miles
an hour, the car is predicted by
its builder to be one of the fast
est machines in the Inter-City Gen.
fury and Potlatch trophy races,
where it will be entered. The
engine has a displacement of 31S
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-28

Eat at the Lotus Grin, the
pest place In town and the new
est. u Pacific Avenue.
"Adv4 rtisemenks~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-28

latch. The Seattle cars had
planned to take the Tacoma dele--
cation about the city, dine them.
and send them back to their
homes with a feeling that Seat
tie would heartily cooperate in
making the Festo a huge sue
cess.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-06-28

A young daughter of w. a..
Porter of Tyler, Texas, while en-
tertaining a party of girls friends
IN her fathers Kissel Kar 40.
lost her head and control of thu.
car while descending a dangerl
Gus MIL at a 40 mile an hour pace.
The ca rleaped from the road.
crossed a lawn, destroyed a rus
NC bridge, dashed down q six
loot terrace and landed on it's
nose In twelve foot ditch.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17
In the Course of Time
the Pure Spirit Will
Again Be Sent to In
habit the Sinless Body,
She Says.
Written for The Atlanta Georgian
6v Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright. 1879

right action, to right thinking, to
high aspiration, and to the use Of
every faculty and power we pos
sess while here on earth, no mat
ter how limited our outlook.
A man who has been obliged to
follow mercantile business or a
trade, yet who has longed to be a
scholar, and who has spent all his
spare moments in the study of
law. or literature, will come back
to earth in his next life with
precocious mind, ready to attain
the heights of learning with small
effort. A womaa who has all her
life Ioneed to be musician began
after she 2ssed the meridian to
study the rudiments of mus g.. She
will not live to achieve more
than a beginning in this life; and
the uninstructed mind might
think she was wasting time. The
Knower realizes that she is pre-
pairing herself to come back to
earth a great musician.
Nothing can stand in the way
of divine soul which is burning
with an all-compelling resolve.
1t burns away the obstacles
which lie between it and its goal.
1t brings into the visible realm
the invisible helpers.
Meantime all that man is do
ing will count for great value
when he comes again to earth.
His efforts, his ambitions, his
hopes are not lost.
We will be what we will to be;
if not here and now, then later
on, when We win bring new pow
ers and new strength from the
spiritual realms through which
we will pass en- route to earth
again.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17
Ultra MOdestv
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER.

automobile ride. Il trust you i'm
plicitly."
The lad was scarcely to be
blamed when he answered, some
what gruffly, If 1 hadn't be-
lieved that already l would not
have asked you to go with or
without a chaperon."
But reluctant and hesitating
speech on centain subjects is only
one phase of the exaggerated
modesty that borders on indie
cency.
Some persons see insinuations
in plays-and these not plays
that are among the many to
which one might justly take eX-
ception-where less suspicious
people discern only innocent fun.
Such persons watch for the
double entendre in the speech OF
others and find Improperly
where another would not.
This is not an argument in IA
vor Of coarse speech, nor would
advocate conversation upon top
les which are unpleasant and, to
say the least, distasteful, If not
evil. But I do claim that If cir
cumstances make it necessary for
one to speak of such matters
If, for the good of mankind or for
the suppression of some wrong, a
man or woman must deal with
any disagreeable problem, there
is a consciousness of the pure
ness of ones motive, of the dig
nifty of the end toward which one
strives, that makes one FORGET
questions of modesty and i'm
modesty, proprlety and impro-
priety in the one overwhelming
desire to do that which is right?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17

in the civilized world-except in
our glorious country. Here we
must either go to some crowded
hotel, where we have to undress
for dinner and sit and order
French things that we don't want
or go to a frowsy family hotel and
starve.
knew woman who had a lit
tie mountain place. She served
good meals, we'll cooked--old-
fashioned things. fgied chicken.
hot biscuit, melon, preserves,
piccalilly and hot coffee. You
couldn't keep the automobiles
away from her door, though II
was miles and miles from every
thing
Last summer we went there to
eat, and remained to--weep. The
porch was there, still shady the
vines were there. still afoam with
delicate white flowers; the we'll
bubbled sweet and cool and fresh.
but the woman was sitting on the
porch in a swinging chair with
her hair marcelled in the fashion
of the year before last, and In the
kitchen was a Chinaman, and In
the Office was "A demon boy, who
wrote menus from something he'd
read in a book. The Chiraman
served things all looking just
alike and tasting just alike as
II some frowsy hen had laid eggs
in the range and somebody had
poured tomato catsup In to sweet
en- the air---ugh. and the woman
will wonder why the place isino
longer popular when she went
and paid a Chinaman and boy
to run it so swell" too.
One good steak, one baked po-
tato. one slice OF sweet. home
made bread. one pat OF fragrant
butter a glass of milk, an old
fashioned chocolate layer cake
and some sliced peaches with real
cream. Why, we'd have mo-
tored so miles to get them.
Where have they all gone, the
good old American dishes we all
like apple pie with cheese.
crumbly crust. soft cheese, ginger
bread warm from the oven, soft
ginger cookies--out OF the blue
iar-graham bread with a deep
crust. raisin bread. made with
plenty of shortening. peach cob
bier, chicken pie, cornbread--why
can't we ever get any of these
things any more, why must we
always have a menu" and a lot
of imitation things that nobody
can even pretend to like7
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17
The WitChing Hour
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN.

ToTALlTY has occurred. The
first of the word totality
was written at the instant
of the beginning of the total
phase Of the eclipse OF the moon
as observed from the observatory
the morning of the anspicious
day, September is, 1918 The
apparent humiliation, the cutting
out of space of the resplendent
moon standing over the distant
Pacific Sea, was a most impress
sive scene. from up here amid
hundred silent sentinel peaks,
early in the morning.
The time shown by the mean
solar clock, regulated to standard
international time of the 10th
meridian west of Greenwich, was
four hours one minute a. m. At
the same absolute instant of mean
solar time the master solar clock
in Greenwich was reading 90
hours minute, or one minute
past noon. as shown by the minute
hand of the great clock really
hall ~ itsn
And one minute past noon there
is the same as four hours one
minute a. M. just along our good
120th meridian in California, the
beautiful; or the eighth great
hour circle, at one-third of the
distance around the earth and
likewise around the celestial
sphere, starting from the worlds
first meridian as revealed by the
one-inch piece of spiders thread
In the focus of the worlds adored
transit telescope over In British
land.
For the eyes of man are To-
cused, as 1t were, on this tiny
fiber in high power lenses.
The magnitude of the eclipse
was 1.435-that is, the diameter
of the earth's shadow where the
moon passed through it was AS
thousandths rreater than the di-
ameter of the moon. Then we
had an eclipse of long duration.
And It was, indeed, impressive to
see how much larger the earth is
than the moon for even without
the telescope the curvature OF the
shadow across the moon was
much greater than the curvature
OF the moons circumference. And
with high power on the great
telescope and the stars obscuring
sight 10 see the edge of the ad-
vancing shadow cross immense
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17

Y brain power. no applica-
ton to study, is ever lost.
1t is never wasted
Somewhere. some time, that ef-
fort, that power, that knowledge,
will come into use.
This one fact alone is enough to
make the belief in reincarnation
of inestimable value, as a source
of happiness to every soul here in
this brief and troubled life span.
Christ taught reincarnation.
1t is we'll known to students Of
this philosophy that few souls re-
member the old lives, at least not
until they have studied &c. that
purpose.
This explains why John the
Baptist when asked art thou
E1ias?" replied No" But Christ,
knowing all things, said;
II say unto you he (John) is
Elias, who wa: for to come"
(Mat. Kill and xvi:12 and 49,
Solomon says: Il was a witty
child, and had a good spirit; yea
being good I came into body
undefiled."
Josephus said to the Romans:
do we not remember that all
pure spirits who are in conformi-
ty with the divine dispensation
live in the loveliest of heavenly
places, AND IN COURSE OF
TINE THEY ARE AGAIN SENT
TO INHABIT SUNLESS BODIES?
But those who commit self-de-
struction are sent to a r gion of
darkness"
Origen says: Every soul is in
PRODUCED into body according to
its deserts and former action"
All this is very encoura ging to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17

lunar craters, SUBMITS and peaks,
and spread over plains below.
During totality the moon &C.
Quilted a number of small stars
that is 1t passed between the
telescope and the stars, opscuring
them, one by one. They, at in
slant of disappearance, vanished
instantly, as if cut out by the
edge of a rapid knife. This is
proof that the moon has no at
mosphere, for air refracts, and no
refraction of light has ever been
seen at times of occultation OF
many thousands of stars.
I could not detect diminution OF
light upon viewing distant peaks
with the unaided eye until the
shadow had cut off one-half of
the lunar disk. Then the black
ness of night drew on apace and
became intense at totally. Sat-
urn, Mars, Venus, the Pleiades,
the Galaxy and Orion blaHed and
burned and glowed with super
nal spIendor when the light from
the moon was cut off.
Then | had trouble. Pasadena
turned on about million cleo
trio lights. and this prevented
the entire scenic splendor of the
eclipse. For Los Angeles keeps
the electric lights going at times
of full moon, while Pasadena
shuts them off. But the folk in
when they missed the moon.
At full total eclipse ali OF the
light of the moon Is not extin-
guished. Light is refracted around
the earth by It's atmosphere and
drawn to a rude focus on the
moon. And the great object
gla sses are so powerful that this
faint light could be utilized In
dimly exploring the interiors of
the lunar craters. They present
ed a peculiar aspect OF light and
shade under this strange illumi-
nation.
The people in Washington, d.
c., and in Baltimore and Phila-
delphia, could not see the eclipse,
us al time of beginning the moon
was setting below their distant
Western horizons. When the OBJ
ject- glasses were turned toward
the moon, OF course, the opposite
or eye-end was pointing through
the globe OF the earth toward the
sun. A straight line drawn
through the center of the earth
from the center of the SUN to the
center of the moon, is the line Of
eclipse data. But the surface of
the earth is, on an average, 1888
miles from the center; the diam
eter of the moon, as seen from
the earth, is SO minutes of arc;
and OF the earth, as seen from
the moon, 1913 minutes of arc; a
number that must be allowed for
in computing the time and points
Of view. as seen from many
places on earth. The ephemeris
giving all computations was pub
lished in Washington four years
ago and every one was fulfilled
to the letter. For great Is the
power of mathematical minds.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17
TREATMENT OF MULES.

Editor The Georgian:
| am a reader of he Georgian
and | agree with the gentleman
who signs himself Humane" on
the question OF cruelty to dumb
brutes. I understand Atlanta has
no s. P. c. A, and shame on big
Atlanta, the Capital City of our
big State, to let these drivers
beat the faithful animals up so
brutally and not hand Is raised
TO protect these poor dumb
brutes, go to work every morn
ing and walk down Marietta
street quite a few blocks, and to
hear the whips cracking you
would think It was sham battle.
/ know of one contractor who has
ten or twelve teams and ! have
heard him tell his drivers to hit
the mules on the legs so the
welts wouldn't show.
A LOVER OF ANIMALS.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17

ksTNO the ultra pure all things
are impure" Such is the
corruption of an ancient
proverb, a corruption which, we
are sometimes forced to admit,
bears a firmer stamp of truth
than does the original maxim.
It is a sad commentary upon
human nature that the person
possessing consciousness of
self-righteousness is pretty sure
to be conscious also of the other
fellows faults.
If he didn't appreciate them he
would lose half the pleasure Of
his own virtues.
Some people, compelled by
what they consider a sense of
propriety. are particular to the
point of prurience in speaking of
doubtful subjects. Their hyper.
trophied modesty makes them
ridiculous, and the subject Of
which they are forced to speak
assumes an indecency that would
not belong to it If 1t were treated
honestly.
Il am suffering with rheuma-
tism in my limb" complained an
manifestations spinster to her
physician.
You have four limbs, madam"
the blunt practitioner reminded
her. From your vague reference
to the affected member I suppose
1t Is one of those limbs termed
by sensible people LEGS!"
You need not ask a chaperon
TO accompany US a girl said to
young man who had asked to
be allowed to take her for an
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17
The Villainous Cooks
BY WINIFRED BLACK.

TIME man didn't like the way
his steak was broiled and
he called the cook in and
said so. and the cook, being a
Western man and of high spirit
and very sensitive, pulled his
gun" and shot the man who com
planned dead.
This happened in st. Louis the
other day. The cook Is in Jail,
grumbling a good dea! about the
meals they serve there, they say.
The man who complained Is
buried. wonder II someone won't
put up a monument to him? He
deserves one II man ever did.
Whatever Is the matter with us
Americans that we Will allow
people TO feed us the stuff they
call food and never even voice
one single protest? There are
no restaurants so good as the hest
American restaurants in all the
wide and rolling world, and may
l ask long suffering public if
there is any restaurant so bad as
the second class American res
taurant anywhere in the uni
verse;
Where did YOU go this summer?
Down to the New England coast?
What did they give you for
breakfast? Anything you could
eat and enjoy? Tell the truth,
now. And the dinner-forty dish
es on the bill of fare and not one
of them At to eat
A Ia this and that and the
other thing, and not one slice of
decently cooked meat, not one
vegetable that tasted like any
thing but an imitation,
Peas! What, We're those peas.
those little brlgh tgreen bullets
they served with what they called
roast lamb? Beans, Those pal
lid strings? Corn! That with
cred thing on a cob? Beef!
Where did you get It? Chicken!
What did II taste like9 Veal! Oh,
spectered horror of pale misery.
Pork! Well, yes, that does look
like an old fashioned pork chop
when you take a microscope and
look 1t right straight in the face.
But what, oh, what did the cook
in his tiendish fury do TO It?
Pie, Leather and stewed fruit.
Cake! You could taste the grease
long before you got chance to
cut It. Ice cream! That was
fairly decent. though If you went
far enough South. that began to
taste Of hair oil, in some mystic
rious way.
The mountains-fresh trout, the
best vegetables in the world
ruined in the cooking, absolutely
cooked TO death. or left hslf-raw
what Is the matter with our
cooks, who are they. and what
are they, that they make us suffer
thus?
Why are there no little inns
pleasant. honelike stopping
places where you can get a chop
and a potato and a salad and a
bit OF cheese any hour OF the
day or night and And it good and
savory. too?
You can find such everywhere
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17
Letters From the Readers of The Georgian

went off without hitch and
there were many thousand guests
present. ! assure you that we
feel very grateful to you and your
good paper for the kind words Of
your encouragement and public
ity for our undertaking.
LOUIS SPENCER DANIEL
Managing Director Cordele
Chamber of Commerce.