Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-25
DOINCS IN THE AUTO WORLD
Prize of $5O 900 Offered for Road RaceW be Run Over Vanderbilt and Grand Prize Courses-Perfect Balance Between Carcass and Tread Makes Tire Give Big Mleage-Good Roads Encouraging to Motorists.

A road race for a prize of S50,000, the largest purse ever offered for an event of its kind, will be run over the Vanderbilt and Grand Prize courses at San Francisco in October of this year by the racing committee of the Panama-Pacific exposition.
 The race will be called the Grand American Sweepstakes and will be open to the drivers and cars of the world. No piston displacement rules will be established and if the present plans, as announced by William L.. Houghton, chairman of the racing committee, are carried out, much the same regulations that prevail in Grand Prize events will hold.
 What make tire give big mile age? This question is always the go- ahead signal for warm discussion among motorists and tiremen. Users of tires are beginning to ask them selves this question: and are looking for the correct answer with increasing insistence because they realize that it is possible to pay for needless mate ria1s in a tire.
 As a matter or fact mere extra weight of rubber will not give extra mileage. Neither will added layers of fabric necessarily add more miles of service. If an over balance of rubber is used the carcass of the tire will give out long before the tread is worn down, and the motorists find several pounds of rubber on his hands which he cannot use-and which he paid many dollars for.
 On the other hand if extra plies of fabric are used in a tire they have to be paid for, but the tread will be gone long before the carcass, and the money for extra carcass is wasted.
 The real long mileage tire is the tire with perfect balance between carcass and tread, so that as much or more mileage is given as any extra thick tire could give, without costing the motorist so much.
 The running of the various speed ways brings in the sale of cars. It cannot be denied that safety and san ity in incorporation of a motor car are essential to a continuation of the suc- cess of the automobile industry, and the tendency in this direction is borne out by an examination of the methods of the great bulk of the manufactur- CTS. Stanch construction and the utilization of every mechanical i'm provement and refinement rather than an effort to provide tremendous speed are, in the minds of these manufac- turers, the demands or the day in mo- tor cars.
 The speed mania has had its day Those who think that speed is one of the essentials in a car are a minority of the motoring public. Their pleas for speed are being ignored by the majority of the manufacturers who produce cars that appeal to the sub- stantial public. The need of the time is stanchness, simplicity an ease of operation rather than speed
 The policy of the automobile com pany is to built cars for the pleasure and business of the great majority of the American public, rather than for the joy rider or the speed merchant No business except that racing de- mands abnormal car speeds, and any one who has ridden at, say, sixty miles an hour knows that there can be no real enjoyment, at more than thirty or forty miles.
 Conservation of good roads is just as important as the encouragement of good road building. Good roads cost aslot of money and a motorist pays a great deal toward it. The owner of an automobile should feel the respon- sibility in making his share of the in- vestment in good roads go as far as possible.
 Bad roads discourage motoring, yet to certain extent motorists are re- sponsible for them. How often have you seen a well oiled road in fairly