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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-08
TIRE saving KITS
SAVE MOTORISTS
HEAVY LOSSES
Thousands of Miles Can Be
Added to Life of Tires
If Careful

"A tire saver kit has come to be rec
ognized by motorists as a necessary
part of a cars equipment" asserts
Pop Hesse, local manager of the
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Motorists realize more and more that
thousands of miles of tire life can be
added and much money saved through
preventing tire troubles by few SIM
pie, prompt precautions. Tire saver
kits supply those precautions.
1T is one thing to have tire saver
kit, and yet another to know how to
use it's contents properly. Motorists
know, for instance, that the insertion
of a little tire putty in small tread
cuts closes such cuts up and prevents
sand and water from getting to the
tire fabric, where they ruin any tire
in a comparatively short time.
Even so simple thing as the ap-
plication of tire putty to a tread or
side wall cut must be done right if the
operation is to be successful. We often
encounter cases where a motorist has
found a small cut on the outside of his
tire, has simply stopped long enough
to put in some tire putty and has
then gone his way. Later he has COM
planned that the putty didn't stay.
That was perfectly natural. There
is right and wrong way to fill tread
cuts. The right way is this:
THE motorist should select a time
when his car will not be used for sew
eral hours, say in the evening when
the car is to be laid up for the night.
Then the cut should be washed with
gasoline so that no dirt remains. Next
the cut should have coat Of the
cement that is incluc ID in the tire
saver kit. When the cement dries a
second coating of cement should be
applied and permitted to dry. Next,
see that the hands are clean and dry,
free from perspiration. Take little
tire putty, roll it between the fingers
and then force it evenly and firmly
into the cut. Let it set until morn.
ing.
Then it will be found that a real
repair has been made.
"One of the commonest causes for
premature tire destruction is a cut in
TIC SuI IdSO vi d IlIS.
cut opens the way for the penetra'
ton of water and dirt AS the tire is
used these destructive elements force
themselves farther and farther into
the interior, separate and wear the
fabric piles, and the final result is a
blowout Even if such a blown out
tire can be repaired, the repair job
is much more costly than the proven,
tive application of tire putty would
have been when the cut first appear.
ed. And usually tires that blow out
from neglect such as described are
beyond repair and the purchase of a
new tire is necessary. Compare the
cost of a new tire with the few min,
utes' work involved in the timely ap.
plication of tire putty. The answer is
easy" ~.. .*..-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-08

The automobile plants finds it ex.
tremely difficult to get material re-
Quired, and will soon find it impos-
sible, with increased cost of labor
and everything else, to. continue the
present prices for automobiles.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-08

These suggestions, taken from a
handbook issued jointly by number
of concerns writing automobile in
surance, are based on experience
gained in handling thousands of auto.
mobile accident and damage claims.
70 Under the seven classifications of
careless driving, careless pedestrian,
general carelessness, skidding. me-
chanical breakage, fire and theft are
given every possible suggestion to
prevent, so far as possible for the
driver to do so. accident and loss to
all concerned. .-....
Don't drive too fast with tire that
is soft or nearly worn out. ~
Don't permit your spotlight to blind
the drivers of approaching cars. 49,
Put whatever alcohol you use in the
radiator.
See that your brakes are properly
set and turn your front wheels toward
the Grub if you leave your car on the
incline.
Watch for the pedestrian who tries
to cross the street ahead Of you after
you have received the traffic Off.
GERS signal to go ahead.
When being lowed or towing an
other car, don't hurry: take corners
slowly and look out for pedestrians
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-08
list of SAFETY FIRST HINTS.
ISISSUED BY INSURANCE men

who may try to cut between the cars,
not observing the tow rope.
Stop as far as possible from the
Travelled portion when necessary to
make repairs or tire changes on the
road.
If working on the left or road side
of a car exercise extreme care.
If forced to stop at night never.
permit anything or anyone to stand so
as to hide the tail light from the view
of approaching car drivers.
II you are driving, don't try to
talk to persons in the tonneau.
When using an elevator don't drive
on or off before the elevator comes
to full stop at proper level.
Don't run the motor in q closed
garage The carbon monoxfde In ex-
haust gases is odorless and colorless.
yet small percentage Of It in the afr.
is fatal.
Don't park your car, leaving head
lights undimmed. But be sure to see
that all lights are burning at night.
Don't allow children to drive.
Women should not be permitted to
drive alone until they have become
experienced operators.
Install good non-glare device IN
lamps, and keep your Lights adjusted.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-08
do YOU MEAN TO own AN AUTO
=. Mobile NTHECOUR Of A YEAR

You read in the New York papers
that the recent terrible heat wave
was complicated by the fact that the
supply Of electric fans had run out
they could not be had.
That is small and passing diff.
Guilty.
The great fan of the human race
Is the automobile-the machine that
takes you flying through the air and
fans the whole family.
Do not let the supply of automo-
bile fans disappear while you are
making up your mind as to just when
you should get the machine that you
have been thinking about, and ought
to get now.
If you prefer a new machine to the
old one you have, do not De in hurry
to get rid of the old one, unless You
get right price. Put it away; you
will get better price for it soon.
If you should offer 100000 for a
new Rolles-Royce machine-the we'll
known, English machine--you could
not get one here or in England. You
can buy an old one rebuilt, and men
pay as much as $4,000 for them in
England-because the government is
using the factory for making trucks,
and a new machine cannot be bought
at any price.
All of our automobile machinery,
all the facilities of the big companies
will not be able to supply govern.
ment needs alone, if this war runs
for two or three years, as it promises
to do.
At present you can get your ma
chine without interfering with the
governments wants, without selfishly
putting your family needs ahead Of
the government needs.
Don't wait if you want a machine,
and at the present prices. Buy your
car now
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-08
VALUABLE Hints
ON VULCAN|zING
By D. r. CAIN
Instructor Goodyear Tire and Rub

Instructor Goodyear Tire and Rub
Der Co.'S Tire Repair School.)
A very satisfactory tire paint for fin
ishing the inside of a tire after repair
ing may be made by mixing thorough
ly one gallon gasoline, onehalf pint c.
30 cement, IL pounds soapstone and
one-half pound whiting. Many sue
cesful repairmen are using this form
ula with the best of results.
1t is so comparatively easy to pre-,
serve the tread design in vulcanizing
repairs made on tire with non-skid
treads that the wonder is that any re-
pair man should fail to do SO. A tread
pattern is inexpensive and easily
made. First cut ply of L F 50 fabric
eighteen inches long and same width
as tread. Over this lay ply of gum
of one-sixteenth gauge, one-half inch
wider than the fabric, and cover the
whole we'll with soapstone Then place
this pad fabric side down in sec
tional mold and stand the tire the
tread design of which you wish to
preserve on this. Tighten the clamps
and cure for twenty minutes.
In using this pattern in the vulcaniz
ing of the tire repair twenty minutes
should be added to the regular cure in
order that the heat may penetrate the
pad. :. H..
In building up a sectional tire repair
cleanliness is prime requisite. The
Sfock chou1d no walI stitched and all
air blisters either rolled or picked out
Each operation should be followed by
cloth saturated with gasoline to take
off the bloom The gasoline should be
allowed to evaporate thoroughly be.
fore proceeding with the next step.
All fabric must be applied skin-coat
down
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-08
BY J. X. McALPINE

The war is not affecting automobile
The general public has learned that
it can work harder and play harder
and live happier with a motor car
therefore people are buying cars.
Never before has the automobile in
dustry experienced such a rush Of
business. Retail car sales are now al
most twice as heavy as production,
Automobile and motor truck factories
everywhere are literally swamped
with business For example. the
production figures of the WHY'S Over
land company for the current year up
to July q, show an increase of moro
than $14.000,000 over the same period
last year. The month of June was
thought to be a record breaker for
the colossal concern with business
amounting to $11, 100000, but the re-
tail sales for the first three weeks OF
July totaled S9,250,000. Not only is
the total amount of retail sales in &C.
tual dollars and cents greater than
last year, but the number of cars
sold is in excess of last years figures.
The March quarter for this year, for
motor car and truck manufacturers
as whole was the largest in the his
tory Of the industry. The White
company and the Pierce Arrow com
pany are practically entirely at work
on trucks and almost wholly with
drawn from the passenger car end
of the business temporarily. Both
companies are having all they can
do to supply existing demands for
trucks. Manufacturers have to shar-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-08
Motors Acquire an Established
Place in Line of Farming
Utilities

One Of the most impressive bits of
evidence showing that the motor
truck has acquired a recognized place
in the line of farming utilities is the
fact that it is not unusual for federal
farm loan banks to advance money
for it's purchase, in the opinion of E.
A. Williams, Jr., head of the Garford
Motor Truck Co. of Lima, Ohio.
As a matter of fact there is no spe.
cific reference made in tie farm loan
law for the loaning of money to buy
motor trucks and automobiles. Such
provision was Intentionally omitted by
the trainers of the law, Mr.. Williams
explains, otherwise it might have been
possible in some cases for farmers to
invest in power vehicles which would
not have been at all suitable for their
needs. q,
According to the farm loan law, il
an automobile gets into the classified
ton of legitimate purchases with farm
loan money it must be shown that 1t Is
essential equipment for farm opera
ton. That is why motor trucks have
made such a remarkable showing in
the loans, said Mr.. Williams.
1.-The farm loan law provides" con-
tinued Mr.. Williams, that loans may
be made for one or all of four pur-
poses: % To provide for the pur-
chase of land for agricultural uses;
CD to provide for the purchase of
equipment, fertilizers and livestock
necessary for the proper and reason
able operation of the land; (3) to pro-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-08
LORD NoRTHcLIFFE'S
FIRST JOB AT $12.5o

The current issue of Bicycle News
calls attention to the fact that Lord
Northcliffe, the famous English jour-
nalist, now in the United States as
head of the British war mission,
started in the journalistic world as
editor of a bicycle trade paper back
in the eighties, when he was Just
plain Alfred Harmsworth. He was
chosen for his first editorial job at
the princely salary of $3.50 per week.
An old print just resurrected shows
Lord Northcliffe the proud possessor
of an old-time solid-rubber-tired high
wheeler, quite different from the
American makes which bicycle ex-
port figures show are being appre-
ciated by European riders today.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-08
If>You Do, Get it Now; Ma
chimes Will Be Scarce and
Price Higher if You Wait

The following editorial was pub
lished by the Washington Times:
The family without an automobile
is like the poor Dodo-a bird that
recently became extinct. It had lit
tie wings, but couldn't fly.
The man who lives without an au-
tomobile, if he can afford it, is as
foolish as that Dodo would have been
if real wings had been offered to him
and he had declined on the ground.
that he preferred to walk-and be
knocked on the head by the sailor
landing from an Arctic ship.
The automobile gives wings, not
to the selfish individual, but to the
whole family. 1t gives youth to the
old father or mother, strength to the
child too young to walk and, above
all, united pleasure to all the family
group.
The man who might own car.
even by sacrificing in other directions,
and who does not own a car, is neg
lecting an opportunity, neglecting his
family, and his friends.
Do not economic on life itself. The
automobile takes you into the air,
into health, into the beautiful coun-
try. 1t makes you acquainted with
this earth, which is your inheritance.
Do not go down into dark cellar
to count your pennies, or let concen-
tration on false economy keep you at
home, far away from the beautiful
world. in order to save the small
amount that it costs to keep up the
good automobile of today.
This is not written, however, to urge
the value of the automobile. That
is demonstrated
1t is written to impress facts upon
our readers.
It will soon be difficult to get, at
any reasonable price, the automobile
that you want.
If you intend to get car soon, or
in the course of a year, get it now
and be sure that you have it.
Many of the most important plants
have stopped manufacturing pleasure
absolutely-because the
government has ordered them to work
on flying machine engines, or gov
eminent trucks. When cars on hand
are sold, they will make no more.
The automobile plants finds it eX-
tremely difficult to get material re-
Quired, and will soon find it impos-
sible, with increased cost of labor
and everything else, to continue the
present prices for automobiles.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-08
RETAIL CAR SALES NOW ALMOST !
Twice THAT OF THE PRODUCTION
j. K McApine Says Factories are Nearly Swamped With Or.
ders-More Than S14 100000 Increase Over Last Year in
One Pan-Many of Factories Make Nothing But Trucks al
Present Time-War Has Stimulated Automobile Industry

pen their pencils to include costs and
a normal profit in the present prices
of automobiles, and further advances
Trade gossip has il that one of the
best known of the factories making
cheap cars will shortly announce an
upward revision Of price.
The practise Of sensible economy
by those desiring high grade cars is
clearly manifest, even here in Homo
lulu. by the fact that the Hudson
Super-SiX, selling at less than $4,000,
has become Honolulu's fastest selling
fine car. People, as a whole are
earning more than ever before Wages
were never so high nor work so plen.
tiful. The extremely rich are prob
ably suffering through heavy taxa.
ton measures, but the great majority.
the working class, are prospecting.
Business conditions continue to indi.
cate industrial and commercial activ-
ity such as has never before been ex.
perienced. We are going to see a
vast Industrial expansion. II isn't GO
ing to be 100 per cent employment, 1t
is going to be more than 100 per cent
employment Is it time to get scared?
1t certainly is not. There will be de-
mand for the services of every man
and woman; the unskilled worker will
step into the place of the skilled work
err and women will be called upon to
take greater place in industry. This
will mean the greatest wage fund
that has ever been paid out. H. any.
one is idle they will be so from choice.
Don't be Stacker, and don't put off
buying that car. Cars may never be
so cheap again. Buy It now!
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-08
Mounted directly on engine shaft.
Friction Drive for Generator


A sectional view of the friction drive
as used by Gray & Davis on their
types E and Gil, generators is shown
in Fig. 1 and sectionaleview parallel
to the shaft of the generator is shown
in Fig. 2. The cupshaped piece OF
metal marked l in both figures is con
nected to the end of the driving shaft.
Two friction shoes, marked 3, are con-
nected mechanically to the end of the
generator shaft, so that they may
move in or out along pins in the end
of the shaft, and held against the IL
side surface of the cup by cooled
springs, 2, which are under compress
sion. Two weights, marked 4, are
connected mechanically by four links
to the friction shoes These weights
may move perpendicularly to the shaft
along pins fastened to the shaft which
enter holes in the weights. AS the
speed of the driving shaft increases,
the centrifugal force acting Ga the
weights increases, aid this action
tends to draw the two friction clutches
away from the inside surface of the
cup and thus disconnect the generator
shaft from the driving shaft.
The speed of the genneratcr shaft at
which the disconnection actually takes
place will depend on the adjustment
of the two coil springs holding the
weights against the inside Ct the cup.
These springs may be adjusted by in
sorting a small screwdriySr in the
opening 5. When the maximum Cur.
rent output of the geneI ator - to be
increased, which amounts to lncreas-
ing the speed at which the generator
shaft is connected from the driving
shaft, the screw in The opening
should be turned to the right.
Reduces Temperature
The governor is very sensitive, and
only a slight movement of this adjust
ing screw is necessary to produce a
decided difference in the OUTPUT of the
generator. Just as soon as the speed
of the generator decreases a slight
amount after the friction shoes are
raised from contact with tie inside
surface of the cup the centrifugal
force acting on the weights will de-
crease and the springs will shove The
shoes out against the cup and again
establish the mechanical connection
between the generator and the driving
shaft.
The total variation in the spseI of
the generator, when the speed of the
driving shaft exceeds the speed 81
which the generator is adjusted, does
not amount to very much, and as a re-
suit the electrical pressure generated
in the, armature winding will rise to a
certain maximum value and then re-
main practically constant for all high
er engine speeds.
The small projections around the
outer serface of the cup produce a
fanlike action which causes a circula
tion of air through the generator, thus
tending to keep its temperature lower
than it would otherwise b.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-06-08
Hymn Of the Earth,

Hymn Of the Earth.
My highway Is unfeatured air.
My consorts are the sleepless stars.
And men my giant arms upbear,-
My arms unstained and free from stara-
I rest forever on my way
Rolling round the happy sun:
My children love the sunny day.
But noon and night to me are one.
Ny heart has pulses like their own.
I am their mother, and my veins.
Though built at the enduring stone.
Thrll - do theirs with godlike pains
The forests. and the mountains high.
The 1o1mlng ocean and the springs.
The p~iains-Oh, plaasAnt 49,,
ny voice through all your anthem rtngsl
YA are 20 cheerful in your minds.
Content 70 smile. content to share
Ny being In yOur chorus linda
The echo OF the epher1l air.
NJ fset may tall. no pebble roll.
10 drop o. water lese the rad;
The issues Of the general Soul
Afo mlrr0fed In tts round ebode.
william EllAEy Claiming.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-06-08
Whsre All Race, MinoIe.

From the Philadefphia Public Ledger.
A AZ was raised over the Jamestown
M M1rseed mills. From h owners Of the
lean sheep
Sorted by. An American. caraed by an
Italian. spun by . Swede. warped. by Z
drawn In ~ scotchman. woven BY I
neIe1an. suDerviaed By . FrenchEnan: In
.pec.ea oy an american. secured BY an
an If1shuhan. pressed by . Pole.
Where el1e couad thi6 > stfue oxcaot IN
Sne land OF the free aad the homo Of tie
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-06-08
No Bluff.

From the Washington Star.
Robert Henri. the New York artist. told
q Whistler story Of the Art Students
league.
said.
'Once in a Paris class he was conduct
ing he did not like the red background to
a study he had commenced. and so he
But the red showed through, SO ne
scraped off the brown n put gray In It's
place.
...still the red showed. He took up his
palette knife 1nd began to scrape afresh.
saying to a student who was reverently
r! suppose you know what I'm trying
for here?'
"tOh. yes SIR exclaimed the student.
Well, it's more than I do said Whist.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-06-08
Just . Tri0s

From the Boston Transcript.
French maid Ito inquiring frfend): Oui,
Madame In Ill. but re doctaise hat pro-
nounce 1t something very trifing. very
small,
Friend: Oh. I am SO relieved. for I was
really anxious 70 her. What does the
doctor say the trouble Is?
French aid Let me think! It wax
something leetle. All. I haf 1t now. Ze
doctaire nay Eat madame . re small
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-06-08

Ho8OQ0oTGeT0 Oh plotting, WILL IN no
case return the lands taken by Boer
and Briton alike.
We touch hero upon the basis Of flu
ture peril. Having renounced Constan-
tincple. having turned her back to her
Slav brethren in the Balkans and in
Galicia, Russia may demand q similar
course ON b part OF France toward
the people Of the Pays Messin, and OF
Italy toward the Inhabitants Of the
Trentin0 and Trieste districts. II she
does. then Germany. having adopted
the Russia policy. perforre., may be able
20 negotiate q separate peace with Rus.
sia and thus break the alliance Of her
enemies. Obviously this Ii her second
line OF action, Il she does not win the
wal In b field or on rne sea this sum.
mer.
II Germany proposes peace without
annexation or indemnity this winter.
then she will expect, not unreasonable.
to . aided by . certain fraction Of the
people OF France, Of Great Britain. OF
Italy and OF he United States. The
question that win be raised then vim
% whetner the peoples OF these ma
vone &re willing and ready to bear the
burden q anothof year sol war tosob-
tasn 1Air settlement Of the old Ques-
pons q AIeaoe-lorraine, OF the italian
lsxedenta ana Tor Great Britain per.
manont abolition 81 the 0ermaa man
- Aros1yh4 German colonial establish.
meuse-elweys provided that Austrian
xuxkteh detection hae abollshod
- n4eeeAe0ropoepetil. For while this
e00e4 . possibility it seems to NO
aAy 0oueston Of peace Il impossible.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-02-15

County Commissioners Clerk, Meyers,
has been engaged this week IN mailing
out notices to taxpayers of the inten-
ton of the Commissioners to place upon
the assessment books household furni-
ture and effects in excess of 500 valu-
alton. The Commissioners will be in
session for the above purpose on Mon
day, March 9Th. at which time all in
terested parties may appear and be
heard regarding the proposed assess
ment of their property.
Mrs. Maude Young, 35 years old, fol
lowing her fifth unsuccessful matri-
moniaI venture, declared marriage was
a failure when her latest husband,
Frank H. Young, was granted a divorce
from her by Judge Graham in the Cir
cult Court at Huntington, w. Va. Mrs.
Young testified on the witness stand
that she was the plaintiff in the pre-
vious four divorces that had separated
her from her husbands.