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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-22

sign, the car has even greater breadth
and room and more of the large car
qualities than the outside view indi-
Gates.
In form it meets the approval of
streamline advocates, having a grace
full body without abrupt transitions.
The radiator housing is of the straight
front type with rounded top and edges
neatly smoothed off, blending into the
straight tapered hood. The cowl meets
the body section in a sweeping flare.
The side panels are straight, but have
the effect of sloping very slightly up
ward to the rear and are topped with
strips of durable pressed steel. Wide
doors lead to the high backed, COM
Portable seats, upholstered in leather
of a grade that would do credit to any
car. The cushions are shaped for ease,
with sloping seats and deeply tufted
backs and ends. The front compart-
ment, like the rear, has an abundance
of leg-room, and the floor. like the run
ming boards. is linoleum- covered.
The breadth of the rear seat brings
the body close to the ground in effect,
while the spare tire, supported on the
strong and simple three-point carrier
above the plain cylindrical gasoline
tank, the definite location of the Ii
cense tag in the center of the circle
formed by the tire, with the taillight
Illuminating it from the left-hand side
and finally the crowned center of the
guards, impart the impression of a
staunch and tidy structure.
The working out of the compact four
cylinder block engine, with it's integ-
rally mounted three-speed selective
gearset, reveals close attention to de-
tails, as well as fine appreciation of
the fact that the average American mo-
torist prefers to do great deal of his
driving on high gear. The cylinder
dimensions of 3Ax4h inches afford a
displacement of a trifle over 212A GU
bic inches-212.27 cubic inches to be
exact. The engine has a compression
of 65 pounds per square inch. Even
/ on the basis of 30horsepower the
car ready for service has a weight
ratio of only rs pounds for every horse
power.
The gearing is conservative. On di-
rect drive the transmission Is geared
3.615 to l, the driving bevels having AZ
and 1S teeth. On intermediate the ratio
is 6.93, affording good speeds on hills
while low speed is geared 1857 to /
as compared with somewhere about /:
| to 1 in a good many much larger an6
heavier cars. Thus, running on direct
drive, the engine turns over approxi.
mately $50 revolutions per minute at g
car speed of 20 miles an hour, LA
revolutions at a speed of 80 miles ar
hour, and 1880 at 40 miles an hour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-22
Chalmers Six Hauls Fifteen
Ton Hammer at Factory

Installation of heavy machinery at
the big automobile plants presents
problems that only resourceful factory
managers can solve.
During the week big steam ham
mer arrived at the plant of the Chal-
mers Motor Company for installation
in the drop forge building. The steam
hammer weighed in excess of fifteen
tons, and after being unloaded from
railroad flat car, had to be moved q
distance of quarter mile.
A Chalmers Six-30 chassis was hur-
ried over from the final test, hooked
up to the big hammer by heavy ropes
and the power turned on. SO heavy
was the piece of machinery that steel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-22
Few Motorcars Stored
For Winter Says Barner

The STORED for the winter" tag on
motorcars will be less in evidence
throughout the country this year than
ever before, according to C. II. Barner,
Dodge Brothers dealer in this city.
There are several reasons, he says.
One is the unparalleled business ac-
tivity now in prospect, which will re-
quire incessant use of the automobile
for businessmen. Another is the
growing impression that 1.-The motor
car made these days is good enough
in any weather." Still another, and
perhaps more important, is the de-
velopment of winter cars to the point
where cost no longer conflicts with
comfort.
In other words, the time has ar
rived when the average motorcar
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-22
DODGE BROTHERS
CAR AT KEYSTONE
Popular Priced Four Has
Proven a Good Seller Ever
Since Introduced Here

In its general aspects the Dodge
Brothers car Identifies itself as car
of a type that so large a portion of mo-
torists want--a handsome, comfortable
medium size car for five people, with
plenty of power, and built to run foI
years. A full grown car of 30-35 horse
power, with four-cy Under motor and a
wheel base of 110 inches. Available in
f1ve-passenger touring car form and
as a two-passenger roadster. 1t is sold
with everything that could be asked
for in the way of equipment. including
electric lighting and starting. one
man top, and windshield. With its
tapering effect from the tonneau to the
radiator and its well-knit low hung de-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-22
PEERLESS EIGHT
IS DEMONSTRATED
T0NEWSPAPERMEN
&. II. Barner, Local Distributor,
Takes Scribe For Fast
Spin in Country

The Peerless Motor Car Company
have long advertised the phrase, ASK
the Peerless dealer to demonstrate it's
double BOWER range" A representa-
tive of the Telegraph, the other day
asked G. H. Barner, manager of the
keystone Motor Car Company ito be
shown" Did he back down? Not for
an instant. Mr.. Barner is busy man
but gracefully he accepted the chal-
lenge and really Showed the news
paperman. Out of the wide doors of
the handsome new home of the Key
stone we glided in the big black beauty
and down the street into the heaviest
downtown traffic where a snail's pace
was necessary. Did the big Peerless
halter and hitch when she was held
up behind numbering horse-drawn de-
livery wagons? Not for a minute, She
seemed perfectly content to take con-
ditions just as she found them. But
presently we We're out of the traffic
congested districts and she pointed her
sleek, black nose out towards the far
stretching country roads. when you
get to know her better" said Mr..
Barner, you'll understand that she s
car of dual personality Back
there, under the menacing eye of the
traffic cop she demonstrated her
1oafing range In this loafing range,
the fuel consumption is about halt
what you would expect of a car it's size
and power. Think of an eighty horse
power eight-cylinder car, with all this
power, smoothness and fleXibility, con-
suming so little fuel in all ordinary
driving as to put many a forty horse
power car to shame
Presently" continued Mr.. Barner
= &"Ill demonstrate her other personal
ity; her sporting range" We were
now clipping along at lively pace
nearing the city's limits. With that
delicate purr of the well-bred motor
she carried us out into the open coun-
try over the glistening asphalt road
way. Watch her step along now into
her sporting speed, said Mr.. Barner
The throttle was opened q trifle wider
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-22

Doors fit tightly, but open easily and
rafting is minimized by eXactness
OF construction. One of the most
attractive features of the Dodge
Brothers winter car is the fact that
the winter top may be removed with
out difficulty, thereby affording an
ideal conveyance for use the year
around. Also, by purchasing winter
top, with which the local dealer is
now supplied, any owner of Dodge
Brothers touring car or roadster may
easily convert his last summers auto
mobile into a dignified, comfortable
closed car ready to cope with the
worst of weather
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-22

rollers placed under it were crushed
like egg shells and the ropes lasted
for only short periods.
But the 2,000-pound Chalmers chas-
sis moved its 30,000-pound load with
ease and the hammer was in position
within an hour after arriving at the
factory,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-22
MARRIED 63 YEARS

Conoy. Pa, Nov. %. - Mr.. and
Mrs. Benjamin Hoffman, aged 90 and
SO years, respectively, are married
to-day 63 years. Both are enjoying
good health, and they. have lived in
the same house ever since the we'd
ding day in November, 1853. They
were married by Lutheran minister
at Lancaster. Ten children were
born to them and nine are living.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-22
A Tribute

Now that we have moved into Our new
quarters, feel that it is befitting that
should transmit to you my heartiest ap-
proval of the service you have rendered
IN your careful attention to each minute
detail in the planning and construction
of Our new home
Rarely is there building erected in
which, after occupancy, some slight aft
erthought does not present itself by
which Improvement could be made In
our new home, however, the careful
forethought exercised in the original
plans has entirely eliminated even the
possibility of improvements in the ar
rangement. | feel that Our new build
ing is tribute to you as we'll as to our
selves.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12
SWAT THE ROOSTER

swat the rooster" will be the slo-
gan in Kansas May % to 81.
'All male birds should be removed
from the flocks at that time in order
to save heavy summer loss caused by
incubation of fertile eggs" declares
Ross M. Sherwood, poultry specialist,
division of extension, Kansas State
Agricultural college. 'If this is done
1t will mean thousands of dollars in
the hands of the poultry raisers of
the state.
Rooster week offers an excellent
chance for the cooperation of mer-
chants and farmers. Several dealers
have already promised to pay prem
ium to every farmer who will agree
to sell every rooster. If some dealers
in every community would offer like
inducement 1t would mean increased
profits through the sale of eggs in
the hot weather.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

type" in many Of the printing Offices
all over Iowa, Kansas, Texas and
Oklahoma, and run" newspapers in
all of those states, for the past So
years, celebrated his 80th birthday
Friday, April 2Sth, and that day did
a full days work in the Herald Office.
While Mr.. Drummond does not work
at the trade regularly, he helps out
frequently in this and other Offices in
an emergency and can still hold down
case with the best of them. In ad-
dition to his labors In the "art pre-
sentative" he found time to serve
Uncle Sam for nearly four years in
field and recruiting service during the
Civil War, and during his long life
has been identified with various bust
ness enterprises. He is not an "old
man" yet by any means, but is alert
and active, and every we'll day finds
him busy. He insists that he is 80
years young" and we believe him.
Here's to you, may you live another
eighty, Father Drummond.-Beaver
Herald.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12
SOME REAL HEROES

An argument that is sometimes
used in favor of war and preparation
for war is that it is necessary to de-
velop the strength and courage and
virility of men; that in times of peace
men grow soft and timid and retro
grade. That struggle and sacrifice
are necessary to the development of
man undoubtedly is true, but there is
no reason why courage and virility
should not be developed and use in a
better cause than in killing men.
There is plenty of opportunity in the
world to display courage in the inter-
est of humanity, and far nobler and
more self-sacrificing kind of courage
than that shown on the field of battle.
There have been a great number of
cases Of this kind of courage, cases
for instance where men have DELHI
erately risked their lives and lost
them in trying to rescue other who
perhaps had no claim on them other
than the common claim of a member
of the human family on other men,
bers of the human family for help in
time of trouble. Obeying calls of
this kind men have risked their lives
in burning buildings to rescue women
and children and helpless men. Men
have gone down into mines after an
explosion, when the mine was almost
filled with poisonous gases when the
chances were several to one that the
rescuers would never come out alive;
and yet, knowing this danger, good
many heroes were found who were
willing to take the risk. And there
have been good many cases of won
drous courage and self-sacrifice
where there was no call of distress to
appeal to the sympathy of the hero.
Take the case of the young physician
who deliberately risked his life and
lost 1t in demonstrating that yellow
fever was communicated by a certain
kind of mosquito, and that if that
insect were eradicated yellow fever
would cease. He demonstrated the
truth of his theory but he did it at
the sacrifice Of his own life.
No military leader who led his
armies to battle has displayed so
great heroism as this young physi-
clan, and certainly no one of the
great military leaders rendered man
kind a greater service; but his name
is scarcely known to fame. So OBJ
scure is it that as write this can
not recall what it is.-T. A. McNeal
in Mail and Breeze.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12
MORAL ART

The artist, working simply for the
sake of enforcing moral, becomes a
laborer. The freedom Of genius is
lost and the artist is absorbed in the
citizen. The soul of the real artist
should be moved by this melody Of
proportion as the body is uncons-
ciously swayed by the rhythm of a
symphony. No one can imagine that
the great men who chiseled the stat
ues of antiquity intended to teach the
youth of Greece to be obedient to
their parents. We are perfectly GER
tain that Corot painted those infin-
itely poetic landscapes, those cot
tages, those sad poplars, those leafless
vines on weather tinted walls, those
quiet pools, those contented cattle,
those fields flecked with light, over
which bend the skies, tender as the
breast of a mother, without once
thinking of the Ten Commandments.
There is the same difference between
moral art and the product of true
genius that there is between prud-
cry and virtue.-Robert G.. Ingersoll.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12
Next Week, the Devil"

of grit and sand, he prints the news
Of all the land, he boosts the town to
beat the band and that's the power
beat the band and that's the proper
caper. He soaks the grafters In the
neck, he saves the Ship of State from
wreck, he's Johnnie-on-the-spot, by
heck when things are in a tumble.
He writes the ads that bring the
dough, he chases all our gloom and
woe, he tells US all we want to know
and yet he is quite humble. He never
gets bit stuck up, he's worked since
Hector was pup to earn his daily
bite and sup and have little over.
l know we owe him many plunks, so
let us shame the other skunks and
furnish him with kale in chunks
wherewith to live in clover.-Ex.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12
NEWSPAPERS ARE HARD HIT
Increase Cost of Material in Publish
ers List From 10 or Is to
5000 Per Cent.

Ever since the momentous August
Of 1914-especially during the past
six, months-the skyrocketing Of the
prices of necessities around news
paper plant has gone on with beau
ty of consistency which arouses alb
solutely no enthusiasm among pub
fishers throughout the country who
have to foot the bills. Products es-
sential to the publication of news
papers have jumped in price all the
way from 10 or Is to 5000 and more
per cent.
War, directly or indirectly, is CIV
en- as the reason for the enormous in
crease in the publishers bills. And
as war seems likely to continue for
some time, so too the market sky
rocketing promises to go to heights
even beyond the present astounding
prices. Nowadays it is next to i'm
possible to obtain market quotations
for even so short a time ahead as
next week"
Press rollers, which are made
largely of glue, glycerine and molas-
ses, have gone up, so manufacturers
notified the consumers last week, 18
per cent. Glycerine-and the quality
used in newspaper plants is not the
pure white glycerine one buys in the
drug stores, but quality less refined
has taken one flying leap from
antebellum price of 10 cents pound
to 81 cents. or H.
Rags which are being bought up
by the powder manufacturers eager
ly and are needed also by paper man
ufacturers in cleaned and more or
less sterilized form, are a necessity
in the mechanical departments of
newspapers. The price of rags has
jumped just 100 per cent or from
three cents pound to six cents.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

Writing paper is an important item
in publishers paper bill and 1t is
worth nothing that this item has gone.
up 25 per cent.
But 1t Is when the consumer Of
anything having to, do with dyes or
any other department of the, chemical
section of printing and Photographic
reproduction goes out with his shop
ping list that his hair turns gray.
Metol, which the art department of q
paper cannot get along without, cost
81 pound before the war;. Now it
costs $50 pound. Increases of L.
600 to 5000 per cent and more looms.
up all over the chemical section Of
the printing plant.
AS an ink manufacturer explained
day or two ago the acids and dyes
and everything else used In the col
ored inks especially exploded from
800 to 5000 per cent in jiffy, once
the imports from Germany had been
blocked. Blues that cost So cents
before the war now cost $14 and SIS
a pound, with increases in yellows
also all the way up to 5000 per cent.
And, what is more of moment, the.
manufacturers of inks fear that pros
poets of filling demands in the future
look doubtful. se
Violet coloring, used in the manu-
facture of inks. printing paper and.
wall paper, has advanced from go
cents pound to $40 pound, or an
increase of 5000 per cent,
Bulletins tell US that the limit has
not yet been reached, and that should
the war cease tomorrow. 1t will re-
quire not less than two years for the
supply to be made ample to bring the
price to normal again.-Attica TO-
Hub.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

Some one mailed skunk hide last
week that had not been denatured.
AS soon as Miss Scott was able to
discover what made the loud noise
she had it escorted out doors and left
it to recline on the sidewalk. Every
body who saw the package thought
someone had lost their mail and
started to give it back to the post
mistress. However, as soon as one
would pick 1t up the package would
speak for itself and they generally
let loose of it like it was hot.-Grid-
ley Light.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

]. w. Richardson took two wagon
loads of fat hogs to market a few
days ago which netted him $525.
Hog raising is getting to be one of
the greatest industries of this county
and it is no wonder, when a man can
load up two wagons with them and
drive to town and bring back enough
money to buy 40 or 80 acres of as
good land as the sun shines on.
Some drummers, who were recent
ly at Shattuck, Okla, were here this
week and circulated a report which
has been discussed with some inter-
est by our people. 1t was to the
effect that corps of railroad engi-
ners were commencing a survey from
that place to Ochiltree. This report
has not been substantially confirmed
as yet, but If found to be correct it
will be gratifying to our people. We
will probably know more about this
in few days.-Ochiltree News.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

A crowd of Topeka young people
wanted to dance last Saturday night,
but there was no one to play the
piano. They dispatched hack driver
on searching expedition, and he re-
turned towing a negro, who COM
planned of feeling kinda run down,
but guessed he could play while.
The party broke up at late hour,
and the next morning found the
negro in the municipal pesthouse
with the smallpox and the party in
the office of a doctor skilled in vac
cinating. The musician rested easily
last night, but the dancers are still
nervously waiting to find out whether
1t is going to be the smallpox or the
vaccination that takes"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

The village topper was invited to go
over to the town hall where lecture
was being given on the evils Of the
alcohol habit. The lecturer was ILL
ustrating his talk with one of his ex-
amples, showing how an egg could be
cooked by being dropped into glass
of alcohol. That set the old soak to
thinking and ever since then he has
been taking his food raw. He said
he wasn't aware that he was packing
his own fireless cooker around with
him until he heard the talk.-Minne-
apolis Better Way.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

Why it is, ponders the Lebanon
Times, that careless seven-year-old
boy can drop half-burned match in
an alley and burn up all the barns
in the block, while an able-bodied
man has to use up a box Of matches
to get a wood fire started in heater
that has draft enough to draw all the
furniture up the stove pipe?
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

We are advised that fifty million
dollar company has been organized to
buck the Standard Oil, and it has
been suggested that as trade-puller
the new company offer to throw in an
automobile with every gallon of gaso-
line. Useless, utterly useless. Old
Jawn D. would shove up the price a
few more notches, give orders to
throw in two cars to the gallon, and
the public would fall for it, as usual.
Stafford Courier.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

A Horton boy has job with the
tent show, says the Hiawatha World.
He is known to a number of Hiawa-
tina people. Monday morning cou-
pie of Hiawatha girls went to the
show grounds, expecting to see their
Prince Charming in the role of star
actor. They found him digging post
holes.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

The city council Monday night al
lowed a bill for hauling off thirteen
loads of tin cans at fifty cents load !;
cheap enough, considering the i'm
proved appearance of things since
cleanup week. Some didn't do their
part in the Improvement but most
people did, not because it was clean
up week, but just because they felt
inclined that way.-Hugoton Hermes.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

In the name of friendship, love and
truth; faith, hope and charity; sun,
moon, etc., we beseech our city broth
ers and sisters to honor, cherish and
obey the ordinance against letting
chickens run loose during the APP
preaching garden and good lawns
on.-Harper Sentinel.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12
A La WILLIAMSON

Breathes there man with soul 30
dead. who never to himself has said;
THAT editor has quite q head, I'm
glad take his paper. He's got q raft
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

A large crowd attended the big
town lot sale here Wednesday. About
$50 lots were sold at good prices. A
number of out Of town people bought
lots and are planning to erect i'm
provements on same.-Tyrone OBJ
server.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12
Rheumatism

II you are troubled with chronic
or muscular rheumatism give Cham
berlain's Liniment trial. The re-
lief from pain which 1t affords is
alone worth many times its COST
Obtainable everywhere.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

er who raises the biggest potato and
the cleanest wheat is boon to hui
mainly and history never hears Of
him. And yet we claim to be just
and impartial people!-Texhoma
Times.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

The temperature and ventilation in
church never please all alike, OBJ
serves Tom Thompson. Some blood
is cold and some warm. Why not d.
vide the religious people into cold
and hot Christians, instead of Bap-
lists, Methodists and Campbellites?
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

The politician who makes a fam
out speech that rings around the
world becomes great man and
breaks into history. But the farm
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12

Paramount pictures every Monday
and Wednesday. Majestic.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-05-12
CONTEMPORARY COMMENT

/. s. Drummond, the veteran print
er of the Southwest, who has stuck