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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-08


Under the extremity heavy fire.
the Cantigny Framicourt wood has
been torn up by high explosives.
Enemy supply trains were subjected
10 n d.lugc OF shells. The Hky Was
ablaze with the light ot the Amer
can fire
Tho bochc guns replied against
our rvar organizations.
The clearing weather has enabled
excellent observation.
French airplanes hover over the
German lines In fiockn.
The front N now sea OF mud.
and conditions are similar to the
early stages OF the war. when there
were no shelters and men acre LIVING
in mud holes,
Couricma nche 10 q village about "A
mile and quarter northwest ~,
Monidldicr. on THE railway connect.
Ing that city with A-nienn N.snll
81 Georges is mile and half west
Of Montdidirr. on the main highway
connecting Montdidier with Breteuil.
Fontalne Sous Nontdidi.r is a mile
north OF aesnil.St Georges Can.
tigny IL n mile west and slightly
north OF Fontzin~. Sous. Montdldisr.
framlcourt II a small village n mile
and half east Of Canugny. and
about midway between canugny and
Courtemanche
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-08
Huns Ready to Start New Drive
HEAVY GUNS Of
YANkS SKATER
ENEMY TRAINS
ny FRED =. FERGUSON

IHfIFH FFFfs fofFffDpHHFNr
WITH THE AMERICAN
ARMY IN PICARDY. May B.
The American artillery thruout
the night WAS pounding the Ger.
man positions sf Cantixny. Cour.
t~nAneh~. f'ontlaine- Sous Montdid.
b~r. Mosnil.st Georges. and al
rusSis and woosis In the vicinity.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-08

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New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
Figures That Prove
Autos Business Worth

A letter received by G. F.. Jamison,
assistant general manager of the Elgin
Motor Car Corporation, from w. E.
Downs, Of La Fayette, Ind, who re-
placed horse by motor car method,
furnishes testimony of the economy
and utility which the automobile
brought to his business.
"In 1914 we paid for horse and buggy
hire $625, driving about 5000 miles"
writes Mr.. Downs. "In 1915 we pur-
chased an automobile, drove it 1000
miles, paid S94.70 for oil and gasolene,
$46 for insurance and $3.50 for garag-
ing and q truck body, or total of
$3.50. We saved 1895 over the horse
and buggy, and in addition $175 in
drayage charges, grand total of S511.
"In 1916 we drove the same car 1900
miles, paid $124.15 for oil and gasolene.
$46 for insurance and $120.96 for ga
rage, or q total Of $29011, saving of
1886. We also saved in this year 1926
in drayage, or grand total of $500.
"Our canvasser saw 80 per cent more
people and increased his sales 40 per
cent the first year and nearly 200 per
cent the second year. We do not at.
tribute all the gain in sales to the use
Of automobiles, but are quite sure 7E
per cent OF the gain can be placed tc
it's USE"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
Auburn Line Large;
Cars Little Changed

With a five and a seven-passenger
touring car, four-passenger roadster,
new sport model in two chassis sizes.
FIVE and a seven-passenger convertible
sedan and q permanent sedan, the Au-
burn Six line of cars is one Of the
most complete at the show. Few manu-
facturers in the medium priced field
show as many different cars.
The smallest chassis has 120-inch
wheelbase, the larger one 131-inch
wheelbase. In mechanical details Au-
burn Skies differ little from last sea
son. There are no radical changes In
body lines the 1913 cars are new cars
They have high and narrow radiators
and high hoods and sloping windshields
The new tops are smarter and much
neater, the tonneau top line is Halter
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
Can Go by Motor Many Places

Almost every spot of interest in
America is now accessible by automo-
bile is the report Of the tire testing
motor car fleets operated by the max
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
Maxwell Truck Gets
Stock Model Plate

The Maxwell one-ton truck which
made demonstration dlivc of $500
miles from New York to Jacksonville,
Fla, and return has been certified by
the A. A. A. rs a stock model through
out. The technical examination re-
quired by the A. a. A. after the trucks
return to New York was made by James
A. Homstreet. The stock certificate
plate has been issued, and henceforth
will adorn the instrument board of the
record maker
The Maxwell is the only truck in
existence and the only one in the his
tory Of automobile production to attain
for itself this certificate, as the drive
was made under the first sanction is
sued by the A. A. A. to apply to a truck
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
Good for Larson;
Our Sentiments, 90

G. r. Larson sounds an especially
sppropriate seasonal note of caution to
the assembled hundreds of representa-
tives Of every branch OF the automobile
trade who are in New York City for the
show Mr.. Larson's statement resolves
itself into Il plea for motor car pub
licity and advertising copy more con-
servative in tone.
"If the manufacturer has machine
that has established new record of
one kind or another" Mr.. Larson de-
clares, che Is, of course, perfectly JUS
titled in announcing the fact through
every medium at his command. Rec
ords Of this sort, however, just as ex-
ploits in everyday life are easily exag
gerated The prosaic happenings we
encounter are not the ones to which we
unconscously add details. 1t is In
dealing with the unusual that we must
be most circumspect.
1T is a serious error Of judgment, to
put the matter on a business rather
han d strictly ethical basis, to make
extravagant claims for any automobile.
returned short time since from a
trip to the Olds Motor Works in Lans
ing, Mich, whore had q chat with j.
B. Mccoy, the advertising manager In
discussing methods of bringing the
oldsmobile before the public, Mr.. Nc
toy and myself were agreed that it is
Dad business use tne term IN botn
its literal and its colloquial sense--to
sell car on the premise that 1T has
done or will do things which you know
are impossible Of achievement Tor that
machine.
"Mr. Mccoy sums 1t up nicely and
concisely: If you don't treat your GUS
toner fairly and squerely, you are plac-
ing an unfair burden on the car. An
automobile sold on exaggerated state
nents is expected to make good to
point beyond its capabilities. 1t may be
Il good cara very good car, at It's
price but when claims are put forth
in its behalf that are not built into 1t
an injury is done to the purchaser, to
the automobile, to the dealer, to the
manufacturer aud to the entire IN
duStry.
Furthermore, the advertising of
car is the customers first introduction
TO the institution that produces 1t. and
the character and the sincerity of the
advertising should reflect the character
and ideals of the manufacturer.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11

and the Gayoso Farm, which is some
fifteen miles distant, over roads parts
OF which were ut times almost impas-
sable on account of mud and sharp
rocks. This truck, equipped with 36x4
flrestones and 36x8 Firestone Giant
tires, started September 13, 1916. and
remained in constant service until Oc-
tober 21, 1917, when the old tires were
removed, making q total OF 1850 miles,
and in that time losing only two hours
on two different occasions, or account
OF having tires regrooved.
Just one more example. George
Freese's Sons, Of Nappanee, Ind, re-
port that the 36x1O Giants on their
three and one-half tons Indiana truck
have run through mud and fresh
gravel, sumner and winter, 20,22S
mileE and are good for 5000 to 5000
miles more.
The advantages we claim for the
grooves are as follows:
First, they give greater traction be-
cause the rubber in the body of the
tire, above the bottom Of the groove
works in a wave and tends to grip the
surface of the road.
Second, they possess greater resil-
ience because the burrows in the con-
tact face Of the rubber allow this sur
face to expand more easily.
Third-They are less liable to break
down through heat generation because
the grooves allow the surface rubber to
expand with little resistance. In an
ungrooved tire the surface rubber must
generate more heat, because a fiat sur
face opposes greater resistance to cx-
pansion.
Fourth-They will give greater mile
age because, in addition to generating
less heat, they provide surfaces that
absorb shocks and severe displacements
with great ease, thus receiving less
punishment in doing the same work,
and. therefore, living longer.
Fifth-They lessen operating cost
through greater protection OF the
trucks mechanism, because of the in
creased cushion made possible by the
greater residence created by the
grooves.
An especially interesting feature
about these Giant tires is that, when
the surface is worn down so that the
grooves are efaced, there is plenty Of
rubber left and new grooves can be cut,
even while the truck is loading or un-
loading. by simply lacking up tho
wheel while new channels are cut with
regrooving macniNe.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11

car ON the farm.
Investigation convinced me that the
automobile bears about the same rela-
ton 10 the general farm manage
men. and operation that the telephone
bears TO the home 1t is in quick mes
sage work or on the speed-up Job that
the motor car comes in to do its part
in the farm economy.
The automobile has brought the city
to the country. and vice versa. From
this both have profited. While we have
been talking Of good roads. the auto
mobile has forced them upon us and
has lcssened the cost of farm produce
bv reducing the cost of trans sportation,
Because Of the motor car, farmers have
acquired the urban habit of going after
what they want as soon as they want
il. No longer do they allow their wants
to accumulate, as in the old days.
Thanks to the automobile, supply
shelves are always kept full.
Farmers who live fifteen to twenty
miles distant from their markets used
to consume an entire day making the
round trip~-and at times, if the day
proved unusually hot, it would be along
INTO the night before the tired horses
and men reached home. To-day farm
ers in these same sections start for the
market early in the morning and are
back on their farms in few hours
ready for days work at something
else
Sometimes fve-mile trip must sud
denlv be undertaken. The teams are
awav or at work and would be too slow
anyway Almost before you could think
about hitching up horse the car IS
halfway toward the end Of the jour
ncy.
Again, the binder breaks down on q
busy day. Perhaps there are no re-
pairers less than ten miles away.
Under old conditions this would mean
no more work for half day. Now, the
horses are tied TO the fence, q speed-up
trio is made to town, and the binder is
again running at speed within an hour
The car not only saves time on the
farm, but at the same time is source
of healthful pleasure to some one of
the family For instance, mother needs
10 go to town on business. Elizabeth
can drive the car just as well as her
big brother. Some one has to go to
The train, or another has to be met.
The boys or men do not like anything
to interfere with the regular work, and
80 mother and Elizabeth, or one of the
other children, take another enjoyable
ride without disturbing the machinery
of the farm or upsetting the plans Of
those particular boys and men.
A valuable horse or cow is suddenly
aiken seriously i'll and certain medi-
cine is absolutely essential The drug
gist may be miles away; but the cal
IS equal to the emergency, and speed;
I'D the drive in time to save goody
percentage Of the entire first cost o.
the machine.
These are only a few instances drawr
from everyday occurrences.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
Tire Pressure Shown
By Valve Stem Device

Probably a lot more persons would
keep their tire pressures up to the
recommended point if it were not for
the bother of removing the dust cap
protector, oftentimes a finger-numbing g
and dirty task, and then taking off the
dust cap itself, before applying the
pressure gauge To do away with this
and to make it possible to see at a
glance just what the pressure is at
ali times, there is device offered for
permanent attachment to the valve
stem.
It threads down over the stem and
has slotted place in the side, where
is shown the indicated PRESSURE The
device comes in sets of four and sells
at $40 the set.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
Long Service
Records Made
By Giant Tires
Remarkable Mileages Are
Reported by Truck
Owners
By II. l.. Harphan


stone Tire and Rubber Co.
Remarkable mileages are continually
being reported by owners Of motor
trucks equipped with the "Giant Tires"
manufactured by the Firestone Tire
and Rubber Company. We're these re-
ports infrequent they might be regard
ed as exceptional, but the steady
stream of letters telling US of mileage
totals we'll over $1,000 miles prove that
they are the rule rather than the ex-
ception.
For example, the Koehne Transfer
and Garage Company, of indianapolis,
reports that the 36 by and 26 by
Giants on their three-ton Mais truck
had delivered over 36,7S4 miles, "hav-
ing been driven in all kinds of weather
over all kinds of roads and under all
kinds of loads during the last two
years" The company concludes its
letter as follows: "They have rendered
this great mileage as we'll as decreases
our expenditure for truck repairs be-
confidently believe they are the best
truck tires on the market"
From San Francisco J. O'Shea (Inc
writes US as follows: "The 40 by II
Giant tire removed By you the other
day went not less than 25,000 miles on
one Of our ive-ton White dump-body
trucks"
eve estimate that at a cost Of 25
per cent more we have received Is pei
cent service from the Giants than from
the former equipment" writes the
Hotel Gayoso, of Memphis, Tenn. "Las,
September we placed in service a two
ton Indiana truck. equipped with you,
Giant tires, running between the hotels
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
Carbureter for Kerosene

A carburetor for using kerosene is
the Detroit Kerosene Carburetor. In
it the air is heated before going TO the
narburetor. then mixed bv rronved Ven
turf nozzle With heated liquid fuel.
This mixture then passes through q
chamber still further heated by exhaust
gases. A three-way valve permits using
gasolene until the engine becomes
properly warm, after which kerosene
takes up the load. L. +. Schwarzkopf
stands sponsor for this device.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
Horses Lose Out in
City Heavy Haulage

transportation problems are being
solved everywhere by the motor truck.
IN cities the disappearance of the
great horse-drawn trucks from the
street IS everywhere remarked. In their
place are the big trucks, bearing loads
that would have taken many teams Of
horses in the old days. And the trucks
make the trips to the freight depots
and delivery points in as fast time as
the speed ordinances allow, thus con-
serving both time and men.
Sears, Rocbuck & Co, for instance,
have Republic fleet. These are three
and one-half ton trucks, engaged IN tho
parcel post delivery for the big mail
order house.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
Hurlburt Trucks Are
Broadening Their Field

w. B. Hurburt has built up right in
New York City a truck manufacturing
industry that has become internatio
in it's reputation. Designed and built
originally to suit the exacting service
of this city, the reputation Of this
truck has spread all over the world.
The Hurlburt Company has grown
quietly into recognized position as
a maker Of trucks. Close personal at
tention Of Mr.. Hurlburt to the details
has, in no small way, contributed to this
end
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
Moore Car a Newcomer

The Moore car, a newcomer at the
show, has Louis Disbrow, the former
racing driver, as consultant in the en-
gineering department. Another ex-
racing man, Lee Oldfield, is the de-
signer. George l., Moore, who heads
the company, has had an unusual career
IN the motor car business, to judge
from notices sent out. He was once a
car washer in the Ford plant.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
An Idle Motor Car
Is Investment Tied Up

an these days, when we are learning
to live more efficiently, every automo-
bile should be constantly in use. An
IDLE motor car is an investment tied up.
Also, the man who usually lays up his
car in the winter, possibly through the
lack of red corpusclcs, owes it to him
self at this time to make the gain in
personal efficiency which the use of his
motor car will give him. ."-E. c. How
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
Car Has Brought
City yandCountry
Closer Together
Personal Observations Of
Sales Manager After
Long Tour
By r. T. Hodgkins
General Sales Manager Stakeholder
Corporotion Of AmeYica

w YORK people
may have the idea
that even on the
farm the automo-
bile serves no pur-
pose other than
a luxury. | should
have liked to have
had q few such
persons with me
on Il trip ! made
through the farm
ing centres Of the
country last fall.
Coming in person .
al contact with
hundreds Of farm
ers througho out
the " o s p erous
agricultural sec
tions. | feel | OBJ
tanned the correct
view Of the motor
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
"Drive Your Own Carr Year

That this is going to be "drive your
own car" year is the opinion of c. T.
Silver, Metropolitan Kissel Kar distrb-
utter, who adds: "Of course, the pres
ent scarcity of chauffeurs, mechanics
and young men has q great deal to do
with it, but in driving their own cars
owners receive benefits which add to
their personal efficiency. and help to
keep them in better health and spirits"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
ers of Goodrich tested tires. These
fleets journeyed 100000 miles in 1917
over American roads to test out Good
rich tires,
Trucks Garry Passenger
Cars ON "Drive-Away" Trip

Ingenious measures were recently
adopted to ship trucks and passenger
cars when the Maxwell company exc
cuted drive-away of fifty trucks load
ed with fifty passenger cars from De-
troit to Chicago.
The overland truck train released a
train of thirty freight cars for other
transportation services.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-11
Coodbye. Old Detour

Road work on tho state highway
known as Route 4 has Just been COM
pleted between the vi i'lages OF Bloom
irgburg, Wurtsboro and Monticello, N.
Y. This practically completes the
through route to Buffalo
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-20

over the plateau, swinging or 10 the
right and passing over Montfaucon.
Three minutes later German bal
loon came down in a pillar of smoke
and fire. The airmen swung back on
their way home.
Fifty or more Yankees stumbled
through the harbed wire entangle-
ments on Vauquos plateau itself,
searching for souvenirs in the con-
c""te dugou's and tunnels the Ger
mans had bored deep into its side.
They picked up German skulls, relies
Of battles since 1915, looked them over
curiousy and threw them aside. They
poked about in the crater Of the great
Nauquols nine, exploded by the
French three years ago, and went
sliding down the hf1lside toward the
rolling kitchens outside the ruins Of
Nauquois village.
One lone doughboy remained
perched upon the biggest rock at the
summit of the highest ridge, his pack
al his side, chin in hands. gazing out
over the battlefield In the gathering
darkness.
I've been here all afternoon, Just
Slttln' and lookin," be said. ut sure
is worth coming all the way from
Tulsa, OKLA"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-20
Man Has Much to Learn.

Man thinks he is Il pretty smart fell
low now. And 50 he IL, but it must he
somewhat of bump to his pride when
he considers how long 1t took him to
lenrn the few things that he knows.
For It is really only few things
that man yet knows compared to the
things that surely he Is destined yet to
know. II Is true that he has invaded
both the Kingdoms Of the fishes and
the birds, that he can navigate the I'M
der waters of the seas and the upper
winds of the air but these are prob.
ably small achievements IN view of
that which 1t is possible for him to
achieve In the futurc,-Los Angeles
Times
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-20
where The YANK
:. LICKED the HUN
BattIe.Sca red Iauquois Plateau
Awe.lnspiTinu Sight 10
American.
CREST GIVES GREAT VIEW
Lone Oouohboy From Oklahoma Looks
Long and Says: ~ Sure Is Worth
Coming All the Way
From Tulsa"

With the American Army in the Ar
gonne.--Vauquois plateau, SCARED
with four years Of battle, affords a
wonderful view Of the battle-ground
over which General Pershing's First
army fought in the first phase g his
attack. From its highest ridge the
whole fighting field from the Meuse to
the western fringe Of the Argonne, eX-
ceptng one small patch blotted ont by
Montfaucon on the right, could be
clearly seen by day and the burst Of
every Boche shell observed.
Far off to the north q blue line OF
hills marked the Boche positions. Dark
columns of smoke announced the ar.
rival OF American shells. Two German
balloons, black specks against low
hanging clouds, watched columns Of
our transports winding down the
roads.
Far down on the left German
shells were bursting in white puffs
along the road curving down from
Apremont around hin to Ba,llny and
then strengthening out between rows
Of straight little trees to Charpentry,
where our tanks fought so vallantly,
Over to the right there were occa.
Slonal bursts of Boche arrival on
Montfaucon, golden in the afternoon
! sun. Northwest Of Montfaucoa. more
German shells were breaking in the
woods and along the roads south of
Clerges, Just behind our advanced line
Alive With Activity.
The fiat plain at the foot of vau.
Quois was alive with activity. Auto.
mobiles snaked their way In and out
OF long columns Of trucks. Men gallon.
I'd to and fro on horseback. Lines Of sol
diers went struggling along the roads
unmindful Of enemy shells. Sharr
flashes Of light with their accompany
Ing crashes signaled the departure
OF American projectiles. A tiny train
went rattlng across the plain carry
/. Ing mutations toward the front
Overhead there was constant whirl
OF airplane motors and occasional,
the whoofs Of antiaircrafters as
Boche planes attempted salles acros.
g our lines.
y South Of Cheppy 40 or more dough
boys sqnatted along little ront
shooting craps. Two German shells
came In with a whine that hardl,
Yeached our ears on vauquols. TIL,
q do'lghboys scattered quickly into IN,
underbrush. Then they came out n,
twos and threes and the crap game wa,
Resumed.
Balloon Falls In Flames
a whole feet Of our planes pnsset
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-20
FELT PITY FOR VAIN MAN
$50 Full Of Himself. That He ta8 No
Room for Anything Else" Wrote
William Penn.

A vain man is a natIseous creation !;
he is so fun of himself that he has no
room for anything else, be II never SO
good and deserving
IT'S at every turn that do this,
or can do that. And as he abounds in
comparison, so he is sure to give him
self the better of everybody else. ac-
cording to the proverb, all the geese
and swans.
They are certainly TO be pited that
0n be SO much mistaken at home.
And yet | have enilcilmes thought
that such people are in a sort happy,
that me- Lag can put ont Of counte-
NJ e with themselves, thoagh they
l.. ither have nor merit other peoples
But at the same time one would
wonder they should not feel the blows
they give themselves or get from
others. for this intolerable and rdicu-
lous temper; nor show any concern
for that which makes others blush for,
as we'll as at them, viz, their unreason-
able assurance.
Whereas the greatest understands
ings doubt most, are readiest to learn,
and least pleased with themselves
this, with nobody else.
For though they stand on higher
ground and 50 see further than their
ncighbors, they are yet humblcd by
their prospect, since it shows them
something 50 much higher and above
their reach.
And truly then it is, that sense
shines with the greatest beauty, when
ii is set in humility.-Wllliam Penn,
in Fruits of Solitude
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-20
GIVES BLOOD TO RED CROSS
Woman Gets $25 for TRANSMISSION On.
Grafton and Turns Over
Check.

Kansas City, Mo.-~A handsome. we'll
dressed woman answered recent adj
vertisement of a local hospital for hu-
man blood in order that ii might be
transfused and a life saved A reward
of $50 was offered
The woman permitted quart Of
blood to be given to the sick patient.
When the operation was over the doc.
tor started to write out a check for
the money.
make it payable to the Red Cross"
she told him, and it vas done