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CARE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY.

Careful driving not only saves the
owner loss of time and money due to
mechanical troubles, but also greatly
reduces the tire expense. which is the
chief cost of upkeep in running a car"
says Harry S. Houpt, president Of the
Hudson Motor Car Company of New
York. 1.-THE careful and experienced
driver controls the speed OF the car moro
by the proper use OF the throttle than by
the harsh use of the foot or emergency
brakes. To suddenly dart forward and
then suddenly lock the wheels is a strain
upon the entire car and more especially
upon the tires When tho wheels are
locked they Glide over the surface OF
the road or street with the momentum
and weight Of the car dragging one way
md the brakes holding them solid. This
produces the same effect as appryinG
an emery wheel to the surface OF the
tire in one spot If you caught any one
doing this to your tires you would have
them arrested for malicious destruction
OF property. But when you apply your
brakes and lock the wheels you are I'M
consciously doing the same thing. In
addition, You subject the tread to a
tremendous tearing strain which may
tend to separate the tread from the
carcass OF the tire.
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MOTOR EXPRESS POPULAR.
VI Benef1t to Farmers. Merchants
and the Railroads.

Colt Stratton Company started the
motor express ball rolling on Monday.
Ialy ~ when they established daily
connectiols between Stamford. Conn, and
Nex York A Dodge Bros screen panel
business car is being used. This has
oesn specially equipped with a box on
~ 10 handle packages OF odd sizes
me express leaves Stamford at . o'clock
me morning and arrives in New York
- lEl5, taking in the towns along and
aaF the Boston Post road. The return
up Is made in the afternoon.
one OF the features OF the work Is tho
stopping service. A merchant may give
~ order to the driver TO be filled in
Nsw York or elsewhere. He buys the
'rtcles al the designated place and car
'ee them back TO the merchant the same
aay' The work, although In its initial
',sgAs' is coming along in splendid
,nape' The purpose Is to enable the
.4rmer, the merchant and the manufac-
,lrer 70 keep the railroads clear for the
YoVernment 20 haul war material. The
.uFh'hg OF az much material on the high
"ys as possible will greatly reduce the
Fooiem OF transportation.
'ot S'ratton Company Is working
.Il 'ne National Automobile Chamber
y" commerce through the Motor Truck
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slightly with flour emery and oil or other
valve grinding compound. DO not grind
valve too much. Many auto owners
think that IL a little is good lot Is
better. and the first thing they know the
valve sea is sunk 40 deep in the casting
that the exhaust passage is obstructed
Loss OF compression through the
valves might occur also from having the
push rod adjustment so close that the
valve Is always held open after II Ia
warmed up. Occasionally the adjust
ment will work loose and hold tho valve
open.
There are many other causes for
missing cylinder. Most OF them affect
more than a single cylinder. For in
stance, a leak in the intake manifold
due to defective gasket at the point
where two cylinders are supplied with
gas causes those two cylinders to mis-
fire while the others operate all right.
A similar leak near the carburetor may
affect all of the cylinders so that they
do not FIRE rexularly.
Ignition interrupter points which have
become pitted or glazed will cause ir-
regular firlng and sometimes where one
cam OF the inter~upter becomes worn
more than the others II will cause mis-
firing. but only in the cylinders which
1t controls A mixture too rich or too
lean may cause mishring. II there Is a
clogging of the sasolene line. cylinders
will misfre when the throttle Is wide
open and Are regularly when the engine
Ia not running at full capacity, because
not enough gasoiene passes in to make
a normal mixture for wide open throt-
tie. This difficulty may be traced to a
collection OF dirt on the screen at the
gasolene tank, at the carburetor. or at
the vacuum tank where one Is used.
In some styles OF vacuum tanks. II
the float springs a leak and does not
operate the tank will All up with gaso-
lene and raw gasolene will be drawn
into the inlet manifold. Where the vac
uum line tap IL made on the end OF the
manifold two or three cylinders only
may be affected. these misfrinE be
cause Of the excessive amount OF gaso-
lene drawn into them.
II the carbureter is out Of adjustment
1. may cause mshring. due to a mixture
too rich or too lean. II might cause
misnring on high speed and not on low,
or the ~everse. When nothing else seems
to be wrong mishring at low speeds
ray be corrected often by widening the
spark plug gap slightly. and nishring
at high speeds by lessening the gap.
Since n missing cylinder. In addition
to subtracting power may actually I've
putting a brake on the other cylinders,
and in every event wastes gasolene and
oil without any value received. triple
conservation may be effected by cor
reoting the fault, to say nothing or the
saving OF wear and tear on the nerves
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uncovered. 90 Standing several months
without recharging. Let us examine
these In detail.
al. Discharging the battery too low.
This causes the sulrhate to accumulate
in such quantities that II becomes in
soluble--too hard to dissolve. II gener-
ator fails to deliver current and car IL
used continually this will occur. Its
presence Is ineNcusable because the am
meter would show that no charge is TAX
ing place and the hydrometer test would
disclose 1t Immediately.
"2. Standing too long discharged hn.
the same effect. as the charge gradually
weakens and the sulphate becomes in
soluble.
"3. Acid too strong is due to the mis-
taken zeal of some one who tests the
eiectrolyte and finds II low in gravity
He Immediately puts In some sulphuric
acid TO bring II up to strength. When
the battery Is fully discharged the acid
is tooatrong and ruinous sulphation oc-
ours. One OF the cautions which can
not be roo forcefully impressed on the
battery user IL never add acid except
under expert advice. The battery man
has facilities for determining II the cell
needs acid, and he is the proper one to
replace IT. II should only be added in
case 1t has been spilled or has leaked
out.
~. Internal short circuit Is due TO a
piece of metal falling into the cell.
warped plates or sediment too high. The
cell is discharged and remains so while
the others are in use. Consult a battery
expert as this Is a serious trouble.
"5. Battery never fully charged means
that the delivery of current from the
generator Is not great enough or that
we use the lights and starter too much,
The culphate Ia completely driven out of
the plates and so goes on accommodating
until the battery Is ruined.
80 Tops of plates may become ex-
! POSED to the air due TO evaporation OF
the water in the electrolyte. particularly
in summer. Keep II above the plates
and this trouble is not to he feared ex-
cept In the rare case OF jar becoming
cracked through rough handling. The
electrolyte leaking from the battery lie
sufficient warning.
a. When "A battery Is stored for the
winter It should receive n freshenlng
charge once every two months. II this
Is not done the battery becomes sui
phated.
"a suiphated plate Is readily distin-
guished by Its color. IT carries coat
! Ing OF white. which is readily seer
| through the opening at top Of the cell
/ Such a battery should he taken to the
service station Immediately. 1t may bt
possible to save it by a long. SLOW
charge. the rate depending on the ca
pacity OF the battery. In case OF doub
consult the nearest service station. TIT
battery manufacturers have a chain o
such stations all over the country. where
a battery may be tested and wate'
added free of charge. IL fear Of sui
phation or any other trouble Is enter
tanned consult the battery man imme
diately. He IL a good man TO get &C
| puatptad with
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
NATIONALS FOR FARMERS.
They Are Buying Higher Priced
Cars Than Formerly.

american automobile manufacturers
have been cognizant Of the great wealth
OF the agricultural districts for many
years and the makers of cars selling
for $1,000 or less, have reaped their
richest harvest In the wheat and corn
belts. 1t Is only recently, however. that
the builders of the higher priced auto
mobiles have regarded the farmers as
prospective purchasers of more costly
cars" says William G. Poertner, presl-
dent of the poertner Motor Car Co.
"In the past three years. thousands
OF farmers who once thought they could
get all the automobiles they wanted for
81 900 or less have come to the con-
clusion that the expenditure OF $4,000
or more for a car Is money well in
vested, and have backed their judgment
with their dollars. For verihcation or
such statement one has only to look
over the sales records of the National
Company for the past twelve months,
during which period more cars were sold
to the agricultural districts OF the great
middle West and South than any other
time in the eighteen year history Of
the National Company. The greatest
increase in shipments is credited 10 the
agricultural communities. especially the
cotton States of the South"
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Life on the farm was not considered
so dismal nor did the flow OF farmers
sons to the city take place without rea-
son. We are a quick witted, active
minded race, and one OF the require
ments of our nervous makeup is a GER
tain amount of change Before the in
PRODUCTION of the automobile on the
farm this change was lacking. The
farmer was practically isolated-con-
fined to the dull grinding repetition of
the same dreary tasks day in and day
out for year after year. The nearest
town was generally too far away by
horse to afford more than a rare visit.
Social intercourse was stunted by the
difficulties OF carrying II on. Is It any
wonder the boys left the farm?
To-day sees great change. No
longer does the farmer get along with
makeshifts when he needs supplies or a
machine part A 100 mile trip to town
is no barrier to the motor equipped
farmer when II comes to keeping his
tractor and other farm implements GO
ing.
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with us all over northern France over
bad and good roads,. or the other types
of lorries We started with very few re-
main in service.
We can rely upon II every day. all day
long. ana II Is always In condition and
always performs its work in tho most
satisfactory way"
Another officer writes:
Il might say that this Company came
out with ITO lorries of various makes; OF
these we now have only forty-two lorries
left and they are made by the Peerless
Motor Car Company The other makes
having been despatched elsewhere. and
Peerless kept for preference. These lorries
have now been driven on the roads OF
France and Flanders for nine months, and
have had to contend with all sorts OF DIFF
hcuties, which you can quite understand
arise during the day runs and up to the
present we have come out on top on
every occasion"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
D. S, INDEBTED TO AUTOMOBILE

VIM" certain reactionary forces
l.u .iNe TO TAX the automobile out of
W. ,'tence, says George Stowe of the
S'Enell Motor Car Company OF New
49, the country owes a great debt OF
lnu'ude TO the automobile. which Is
.soually being recognized as a great
@ohomic force"
wee, President r. C. Ruschaw Of the
n, '.nel Motor Company N a recent let
vi says very truly:
HIhee the invention OF the harvester
reaper no single tool or device has
,1, American farming as has the
,s.omool!e. with its offspring, the motor
~ ana the farm tractor.
x,, VI course 1t is needless TO say that
nout the motor truck. and more es-
m.aHy the farm tractor, production OF
se vast win the war crops would
e been physically impossible. But
must also remember that a few
s,, rs ago 1t would have been very diffi-
s~ 20 raise these crops In tho short
ao available. The farmers mind has
Ls "seo as well as his methods OF work.
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Over there where the motor truck Is
doing a lions share in helping to win the
var and shatter Huns all TO chips, Peer
MS trucks are doing a plenty.
Across shell torn battle fields. in the
hck OF the fray, called upon for service
OF unhaard Of severity, through long days
and l'ghtless nights of ceaseless turmoil
he Peerless Is credited with having done
conhderably more than is ordinarily ex-
Nct.d. over ten thousand Peerless trucks
t's now with the various British armies.
mere is what one correspondent in the
British army writes.
SoMEWHERE IN FRANCE. June l.
We starred with about 100 motor lorries.
iaelded In which were twenty-five three
loa Peerless, and ! am pleased to say that
We nave all these in thoroughly good
aorsing order after continuous service
'of now over twelve months three months
"a Eng land on Salisbury Plains. over and
'mcush mud. after this they have been
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ding clothes" 1t gave the world some Of
the finest materials and machines In
existence.
New Manufacturing Methods.
The quick evolution Of the motor car
and the advent OF large scale production
brought with 1t new philosophy OF
manufacturing Giant factories. with
hundreds OF thousands of dollars worth
Of modern labor saving machinery were
built to handle the manufacturing
operation OF this new Industrial power.
Hundreds OF thousands Of men and
women found steady work and good
wages. Within the span OF but q few
short years the manufacture OF motor
cars has grown from almost nothing to
Americas third largest industry.
Take our own plants, for instance.
The Studehaker factories at South Bend.
Detroit. Chicago and Walkerville. occupy
16s acres, contain 4,704.1ls square feet
of floor space and represent an invest
ment Of over sl5,0o0.000. There are
very few organizations OF any kind in
the world which have so large a floor
space under the control OF one company.
In these great plants we manufacture
practically all of the parts which are
USED in the building of Studebaker cars
This naturally means that our manu-
factire Is done on an immensely large
scale-in fact. we turn out thousands
and thousands OF pieces where others
only turn out hundreds. This immense
volume effects economies ot manufac-
ture which would be absolutely impos-
sible for the small maker and because
We design and manufacture our parts In
our own plants there are no AS
sembler's' profits In the prices Of Stude-
baker cars
In the Studebaker plants there are
thousands upon thousands of dollars
worth OF automobile manufacturing ma
chinery. Single machines represent an
investment of from $4,000 to $4,000.
$4,000 Boring Machines.
! We have machines which face three
! eides OF motor casting In one opera
ton. The cost OF each of these machines
was 10000. There are other machines
which bore sxty-seven holes in a cylin-
! DER casting In one operation. The holes
In each cylinder bear exactly the same
relation to each other. because the
| boring mechanism Is always guided
through jigs which will not admit Of a
one-thousandth part of an inch differ
ence in any two operations. These ma
chimes cost Studebaker $4,000 each.
Studebaker cylinders are reamed out
arter they are cast by roaming
machine which operates through a jig
with unvarying ACCURACY machine
that is worth $4,000. Without such ma
chimes. costly as they are, 1t would be
utterly impossible to produce motor cars
! In quantities at present day low prices
| and these machines have been made
possible only by the marvellous evoIu-
/ ton OF the automobile.
l might go on and enumerate over
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BUSINESS ROMANCE
IN MOTORS GROWTH
Automobile Makers Have Led
IN Developing Marvellous
and Costly Machinery.
ny ". r, wOLLERING,
y,,..rresjdent, ~ Charge o. Production
studsbaker Corporation Of America.

y,es.rreJdent, W Charge o. Production,
studsbaker Corporation Of America.
when one looks at a beautiful build
mr. or is carried away by the wonderful
citing o. play, 1t is too often tho case
,ha, one forgets to pay due tribute to
,,s Genius Of the architect or the play
..,,vh, II Is the same with the auto
1,,hie ono sees the beautiful new
,o,or cars on exhibition at the Auto
rohIle Show, looks them over carefully
and critically inspects every new feature
n construction, yet may give no
.housht whatever to the constructive
engineering skill which makes the
--scsiul machines possible.
National automobile advertising, by
fres use Of language in describing the
r,r, OF the various manufacturers, has
r,u,ed the public to accept the motor
,.- AS a perfected utility of the modern
a,y entirely overlooking the great prob
,sns that have entered into It's evolu.
ton.
Yet Il should never be forgotten that
,sA motor car pioneers had many diffl-
,u,t obstacles to overcome, many knotty
r-oblems to solve. before the automobile
cached its present state Of develop
nsnt Designers MAD TO keep In mind
coalitions as they exist not only In the
cites but In the mountains OF the West,
through the SHOWS or Canada, and under
he burning sun OF the tropics. Cars
rad TO be made which stand UP under
al these conditions since the farmer,
FOR Instance, uses his car both In SOM
ner and winter over all kinds OF roads
Motor MAKERS HAD 10 Lend.
n, course the deyeIonment NJ any.
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War Helping Truck Development.

1.-THE war has served to show UP many
OF our weak points Among them not the
least is our system of short haul trans
portation." says William Fulton Melhuish,
president Of the Fulton Motor Truck
Company Of Farminedale, l.. !.
while ii Is true that since the begin
ming Of the war we have taken immense
strides in the development of motor truck
haulsge and thousands OF horse drawn
vehicles have been replaced in every part
OF the country there vet remain thou
these are most noticeable in the crowded
cities In downtown New York
particularly all street trahlc Is linn
tied to the speed of the slow
est moving unit, which Is stil the
horse truch. moving about two and a
half miles an hour. Fully ?5 per cent.
Of the expensive waits due to Jams are
chargeahle to the horse Substitute mo-
tor trucks for these anachronlsms and
our streets. narrow as they are. Will
handle three times the present traffic"
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A PACKARD DEMONSTRATION.
j. Footsore rinneRnn Says II Was
Great.

The fine sense OF appreciation OF J.
Footsore Finnegan--and other peripa-
tettc birds of the bumpsrs-is pro-
verbal Rarely does he enjoy the hos.
pitality of some absent host without
leaving n note expressing his gratitude
And invariably that Is about all ne does
leave. Witness this incident reported
from the salubrious Pacific slope:
A Packard brougham was shipped 10
Earle G. Anthony. the Los Angeles
dealer. in a closed freight car contain
ing other merchandise. including three
hoboes And IL may be assumed that
When three 'boes find themselves travel
ling across country with luxurious
passenger car they are not going to
spend their sleeping hours on a ship
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-06-06
for centuries. German intrigue has

for centuries. German intrigue has
encompassed the earth. She now vir-
tually controls all of central Europe,
the Balkan States, the Turkish En-
pire and much of Russia. Control
ling the Berlin-Bagdad railway, by
far the quickest route to Asia and
Africa, the spider that sits in Berlin,
when the road is completed, can dart
along the lines that lead over Europe,
Asia and Africa, and dominate the
Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
She would have a vast commercial ad-
vantage in peace and vast wealth and
mimlitary and naval advantage in
war. At the close of the Spanish
American war, Count Won Goetzen, a
special friend of the Kaiser, said to
an American: "About fifteen years
from now my country will start her
great war. We shall be prepared,
others will not be prepared. Some
months after we finish our work in
Europe, we will take New York and
probably Washington and hold them
for some time. We will put the
u. S. in her place with reference to
Germany. The Monroe Doctrine will
be taken charge of by US; and we will
take charge of South America. Re-
member this, and in about fifteen
years from now you will be interest
ed" Picture a sudden invasion of
the United States: First they set
themselves to capture New York city.
While their fleet blockades the harbor
and shells the city and the forts from
far out at sea, their troops land some
where near and advance toward the
city in order to cut it's rail communi-
cations and starve it into surrender;
then plumber, robbery, murder and
outrage run riot; building after build
ing goes up in smoke and flame, burn
ing alive in their homes the innocent
and helpless. The general plan of
campaign against America has been
announced repeatedly by German
military men. And every horrible
detail is to be followed up as in Bel
GUM and in France. Germany al
ready has much capital in South
America. She desires a colony in
Brazil. This would necessitate our
defending the Monroe Doctrine. We
must fight Germany in Europe now
with the Allies, or we shall have to
fight her in America alone. In an
swer to the nations call, more than
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-06-06
(Ashevil1e Times.l

The Times takes pleasure in intro
ducing Gordon Darlington to the bus
mess men of Asheville, many Of
whom are already we'll acquainted
with Mr.. Darlington, who for nine
years has been associated with the
Hendersonville Hustler. During
those years Mr.. Darlington has sue
cessfully managed the business de-
partment of the Hendersonville paper
and made a distinct impression on the
growing city. Mr.. Darlington comes
to the Times to take charge of the
local advertising department and is
already at work. Courtesies shown
him will be appreciated.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-06-06

, 100000 of u noble young men are
! now within sound of the roar OF the
enemy cannon and within range of
the shell of artillery and in hand-to-
hand encounter, hundreds of whom
are falling in defence of what we
most value and love on earth.
"God of freedom bless our lads, nerve
their sinews to the fight;
Bless the flag that ever waves for God
and for the right"
We shall regard the war won only
when the German people say to us,
through their proper credited repre-
sentatives, that they are ready to
agree to a settlement based upon JUS
tice and a r~eparation of the wrongs
their rulers have done. We fight to
save the very institutions we live un-
der from corruption and destruction;
for an honest world in which nations
keep their word; for a world in which
men think of ways by which to con-
quer the common cruelties of nature
instead of inventing more horrible
~cruelties to inf1ict upon the bodies
and spirits of man; for a world in
which the philosophy or ambition of a
few shall not make miserable all man
kind. We fight for the ultimate
peace of the world and for the liberia
ton of it's peoples, the German peo-
pie included. The world must be
made safe for Democracy. To such
a task we shall dedicate our lives and
our fortunes, everything that we are
and everything that we have, with
the pride of those who know that the
day has come when America is privi-
legged to spend her blood and her
might for the principles that gave her
birth and happiness and peace which
she has treasured. In the words of
u Chief Executive: "We shall not
slacken or suffer ourselves diverted
till the task is won." For this cause
will we battle until the last gun is
fired.
"For conquer we must when our
cause it is just,
And this be our motto, in God is our
trust:
And the Star-Spangled banner in tri-
umph shall wave
Ger the land of, the free and the
home of the brave"