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Arizona republican., 1918-09-08

USE AND CARE F0R l
 MUFFLER IMPORTANT

The purpose of the muffler is to gas escapes from the exhaust valve at high pressure and strikes the ear with disagreeable force unless it is silenced. It is necessary to reduce the pressure from each explosion and to allow tho gas to escape so that much of it's force is dissipated. The gas then passes out quietly with only slight pulsation or throbbing
 The methods are very simple. A gas passing through an ordinary pipe would be slowed down and spread out. But this arrangement would require too long a pipe. So baffle- plates are used to make the gas turn corners and force its way through small holes in the plates. In some mufflers the gas en- ters an expansion chamber. All this time it is losing heat and so contract ing, thus it slows down more and more. The final effects is to have the gas is sue from the muffler in steady, quiet l manner.
 | The care of the muffler is to leave it alone until it becomes clogged. It does it's work without any attention. The only time we think of it is when we wish to find out if the engine is missing l fer and lister to the sound of the ex- ] haust Do this cautiously on the road f as there are laws against it in many localities. If the sound of the exhaust is not sufficiently loud it may be in creased by retarding the spark and opening the throttle part way. The sound of each cylinder will then be brought out distinctly and any weak ness will be noticed immediately.
 About the only trouble to which the muffler is subject Is that it becomes clogged with soot. This may be caused by too rich a mixture from the car | buretor, indicated by black smoke from the exhaust. Or it may be caused by oil working up on top of the pistons, giving the bluish- white smoke charac- teristic of too much lubricant Another cause is where the carbon has been scraped loose from the cylinders, but allowed to fall on the piston. This fs carried into the muffler and so helps to clog. In order to clean. it must be taken apart and all the carbon deposits removed If the small holes are closed
 with soot they must be reamed out with
 three -cornered file or bearing
 scraper. The parts are then reassem
 bled carefully and replaced on the car
 It is easy to tell if the muffler is clogged where there is a cut-out. Run } the machine up a fairly steep hill. Ii the car speeds up with the cut-out oper
 it shows that the muffler Is clogged.
 well-designed silencer should not cut
 down the power of the engine more than per cent.
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Arizona republican., 1918-09-08

where an engine is an excessive car bonizer. it may be well to install one of the water feeding devices or vapor- izers. of which there are scores on the market, after the cylinders have been thoroughly cleaned of all carbon de- posits These devices will prevent the formation of carbon in clean cylinders, though I doubt that they will remove heavy deposits without assistance.
 Valve System Is Vital
 The valve system must be in excel lent working order, or heavy fuel out performing it's appointed function or only partly at best. Any car owner who has experienced the pleasure Of driving immediately after the valves have been ground, will need no advice in regard to having the valves ground at frequent intervals.
 Have you ever stopped to realize that every waste of power is really waste or gasoline? If gasoline Is ex- ploded and the power so generated Is wasted or only partly used. this amounts practically to waste of fuel If fabrication is not kept up to the mark, the friction between moving parts wastes power. Therefore, he par tieular to lubricate all parts of the mechanism as indicated on the chart or in the instruction book given with the car.
 The clutch, while it is usually a well behaved piece of mechanism. when 1t develops trouble, is an enormous power and hence fuel waster. When the clutch slips it is letting power slip away, not to mention the damage to the part itself and the unsatisfactory action of the car.
 Must Look to Wheels
 Misaligned wheels are another treu- ble that results in wasted power and fuel When the wheels are running out of true, scraping Is set up between the tire and the road, which not only tears the tire to pieces in short time, but also wastes fuel. It is the only wise plan to have the wheel alignment checked up twice year and oftener | if the car has suffered a severe bump or for any other reason the owner sus- poets that the wheels are out of line In connection with the wheels a dragging brake will materially increase | the consumption of power. It Is Sd easy to adjust modern braking systems that there is no excuse for letting these parts remain in a condition that is bad l for them and worse for the general l operation of the car.
 Finally the car owner can save a great deal of fuel by careful operation of his vehicle. He should learn to coast wherever possible. shutting of the ignition on long hills with tho throttle closed. Useless idling of the engine costs many thousands of gal Ions of fuel in the course of the year | in this country, Do not indulge In this costly practice. Do not waste fue around the garage. for washing parts etc. Kerosene does just as well a. gasoline for washing metal parts and it is not so valuable today as gase- line. Be economical and patriotic to, gether: serve your own pccketbook and your country at the same time by say. ing motor fuel in every way possible.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-08
HIGHWAY USE BY ARMY TRUCKS

Lieut.. Col. w. D. Uhler, in a recent conference in Washington on highway transport conditions, speaking for the war department, said that 5000 pferes of motor equipment had been delivered at Atlantic coast ports from cities in the middle west. Over 10000 more government trucks are to be moved in the same manner, under their own power. Colonel Uhler stated that the highways department of the govern ment must look to the tremendous use of the motor truck in the future in all of its road building programs.
 Referringto H. c. Shirley oe the Highways Industries Association on the great future of motor truck transporta : ton in this country. he said that roads must be built to meet it, He mentioned the advisability of having uniform li- censing and traffic laws in the various states.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-08
DEPENDAB|[|TY |S RECONSIDERATION
 IN PICKING TRUCK

Tn considering the purchase of 8 motor truck. don't think that any kind of a truck is good enough. Long, con tinuous (day-in. day-ouD dependable service is what counts. A truck on the job is worth any number of trucks in the repair shop. You want your truck to be Johnny on the spot 365 days in the year." says Joseph Nc Aleer of the Kissel Auto company.
 Truck economy depends not only on what you pay. Rightly considered the purchase of the best truck for your business is the truest economy. Such truck will last twice as long as many trucks costing half as much. And what is more to the point, they will be worth more than twice as much in satisfactory service all the time.
 The First Cost" FalIacy
 "The best built truck tbest suited to the working requirements) is the only truck you can operate al less than team and wagon rates. It is the cost to keep that counts. The gruelling work of continuous use shows up a poorly designed truck, and the experi- cnce of most owners, who have tried to save on first cost has been most painful and decidedly expensive
 'The first cost saving is the Ostrich way of figuring real truck economy The only true way is to figure the ul- innate cost of truck service-the cost per ton mile. Bargain price first cost talk contains Joker. Veterans own CTS know that. Serious minded owners know it. Owners, who have operated trucks know it.
 The first cost is the biggest cost of good truck. and the smallest cost of any other truck. because of the after expense. A truck must stand up and deliver mileage enough to justify its first cost or its first cost at any price 1 is a joke.
 Measure "vaIue" in Terms of Use , Tt it no longer considered a good practice to burn up money, nor is there 2 craze for cheapness amonk the great majority of owners. They are begin ming to learn that it pays to measure value in terms of use.
 When the owner has found out what the truck really is, he is beginning tt | buy real value-that is why price i. no longer a prime consideration. Tn, owner. who really does big things in z big way at big profit to himsel knows that real value depends on tn, eool UT eificc IeHueFeu-HOl on tnl Inst cost.' Final cost is more import ant than first cost
 You can buy a truck at almost am price you want to pay. Some truck. may be little higher in price thar some otlers-so also are gold watche. 1 higher than silver ones. Still all, wht can buy gold, buy it.
 The business man, who purchase. motor trucks is buying just so muci haulage-haulage at just so much pe mile. Forget about the first cost It is not how much the truck costs t, get, but what it costs to keep It il the annual cost per ton-mile tha counts. Buy the truck that proves (b, actual performance) what it will do not only in good weather on good reads but in any weather on any roads unde
 all working conditions"
Arizona republican., 1918-09-08

such great impetus as war relief measure, will continue after the war is the opinion expressed by Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the Ma tional War Garden Commission of Washington. Freight transportation shortage has been largely responsible for this. The automobile is now one good lap ahead of the railroad in get ting goods from the producer to the consumer and is going so strong that 1t Is not likely the railroads will ever catch up
 When a motor truck loaded with a ton of material for the army in France made trip across the continent the other day in quicker time than fast freight it showed the tremendous headway this move is making" said MT. Pack in discussing this subject. Three million men in the army have seen what the automobile can do in getting food to them, no matter where they are-in camp, on the firing line, any where. And they have learned the les- son. Their friends back home also know it. The boys have planted war gardens at their camps. the first of these having been started at Camp Dix by the National War Garden Commis- sion. And the motor truck is a valu- able adjunct in delivering Food f. 0. b. the Kitchen Door,
 '1n many parts of the country they are now following the plan which has been put into operation at Philadelphia by Mrs. Andrew Wright Crawford, oi Bryn Mawr where automobile owners lend them to volunteer food savers who go out into the country and hell pick fruit or harvest the garden crop Schedules are arranged so That botf the farmer and those who are to re- ceive the food supplies know they ar. coming. This is resulting in a grea' saving of food. which otherwise would go to waste. In this work the automo. bile has come to stay, and it will con tinue to do more and more in getting producer and consumer together"
Arizona republican., 1918-09-08

over last year with an increase of q per cent each. Next ranks Arkansas, Kansas and Mississippi each with 90 per cent gain. The smallest increase was made by Massachusetts; only l per cent more cars were licensed up until June than during 1917.
 The six states having the greatest number of cars named according to their rank are New York. Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa and California. The aggregate registration of these six states = 2,154,360 automobiles and trucks-nearly equals the total number registered in the other AZ states.
 According to the figures the money paid by motor vehicle owners for li- cense tags up to June l amounts to | $41, ,450, ,90S and most of this tremendous sum will be expended for improving
 and extending the national network of highVayn,
Arizona republican., 1918-09-08

Indications from most of the states are that the total registration for the year 1918 will be surprising. consider ing war time conditions. Ohio officials say they expect registration of be-
 tween 4250oo and 43O.00o; Arkansas estimates 43.000 for the entire year; and according to dispatch received
Arizona republican., 1918-09-08

by Goodrich this week from California, that states total has reached 351 ,0Se. or nearly 47,000 more cars registered today than on June l. In other words, California's increase in two months time was Is per cent, in addition to her gain of p per cent made during the first five months of this year.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-08
JAPAN OFFERS AUTO SUBSIDY

The Japanese government has enact ed law awarding subsidies ranging from S250 for small imported cars to si,ooo for motor trucks built in Japan The English, French and German gov ernments have paid subsidies for sev- eral years to owners of trucks that met the military specifications. but Japan is the first country to give officia recognition to the utilitarian value of the passenger automobile.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-08
AUTOS SAVING FOOD
 SUPPLY IF NATION

The automobile is doing more than any other agency to bring the food pro- ducer and the consumer together, and that this good work, which has received
Arizona republican., 1918-09-08

It makes no difference what your wants may be, you can have them sup piled by using and reading The Re- publican Classified Pages-Arizona's Leading Advertising Medium.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-08
WAYS SUGGESTED
 FOR SAVING GAS
 TO WIN THE WAR

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Arizona republican., 1918-09-08
FIVE AND HALF
 MILLION AUTOS
 ARE IN STATES

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The Washington times., 1918-01-28
NJ ADOO TO SPEAK
At THEATER Jan. 81
ON v. S. S. DRIVE

Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
H. 10 address a war savings mass
meeting in L. F. Keith's Theater on
Thursday. at 1880 o'clock, it was an
nounced today by ID. J. Callahan. d.
rector OF the District War Savings
Committee.
This will be the first address 81 E.
tary McAdoo has made in the interest
of the Washington war savings drive.
and residents OF tn. Capital will be
given the opportunity TO learn at
first hand the nations plans for fnan-
cling the war. The meeting is pre-
paratory TO war savings week. 'Jhich
starts February ,. Director Callahan
will introduce the Secretary. Ladies'
are especially invited to attend the
rally.
War savings week. the week OF
February . TO 10. has been designated
by the District committee. as the pc
Rod OF the most intensive campaign
ing of the drive in Washington. Per-
sonal solicitation will be resorted to
In an effort to rouse the people OF
the National Capital to carry the
Districts quota over the top.
BY the end OF war savings week
every person in Washington will be
given an opportunity to invest in the
miniature Government bonds, 10 The
confident belief of the committee.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
HEADACHE POWDER
CAUSES DEATH OFF,
NJ. FURNAS

Belieeed TO have taken an overdose
Of headache powders, Mrs. Joseph NJ
Furnas, thirty-four years old, e3t
Otis place northwest. became dss1
perately i'll last night and died at the
Emergency Hospital early today.
Coroner hewitt Is making an invsstf.
CATION
For some time Mrs Furnas has
been suffering and about Z o'clock
Sunday night she took the headaehe,
potiop. 4 few minutes later she BE-
came unconscious and was hurried
to the hospital, Every effort was
made to save her life, but without
avail That Mrs. Furnas'' death WAS
the result OF an accident was the
statement OF her husband, who 10
Washington representative OF an
adding machine company, with OFF,
fices in the Munsey building -
The police were told that Mrs. Fnr-'
mas took the drug 90 get relief from.
the condition of melancholla from
which she suffered.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
CALLS BABE PEACE
AS COMPLIMENT TO
PRESIDENT WILSON

How Peace" the three-day-old son
OF John ]. Cavanaugh. chief yeomsl
Of the Bureau OF Navigation, came to
be given his gentle name in the midst
Of the greatest OF all wars was told to
The Times by his proud father today.
I'VE were going to call him Wood
row wilson," he said, "but there
must be a couple OF thousand, OF
them already. Peace is what We
know the President wants and what
means the most to all humanity, so
we thought II would be more appro-
pirate TO call him Peace
whether he will live up TO his
name ] don't know, but he was yell
ing as hard as he could before he was
ohristened, but as soon as we named
him he became as quiet as a mouse.
He will have a name 70 be proud OF
when he grows up. because he Will
stand for Americas victory and the
hope OF democracy
Naming him Peace is intended a.
= compliment to the President, and
I think IL would please our leader
more than II we had made our baby
his namesake. 1 am going to send
'PeEce's' picture 10 the President as
q token of our regard.
Peace is q healthy little man,
and think he will grow up to be
as steadfast as the peace that is com
ing after the war. His mother is de-
lighted with the naTae. Some people
have 'joshed'' me about IL. but ] think
il In the most appropriate name that
we could have given 10 our child
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
HOOVER ISSUES
NEW FOOD CARDS
FOR HOUSEWIVES

days and Wednesdays OF each week,
and one wheatless meal In every day.
Have one meatleSs day, Tuesday,
in every week and one meatless meal
in every day. Have two porkIess days.
Tuesday and Saturday In every week.
Make every day a fat-savingS day.
Make every day a sugar saving
day.
Use fruit. vegetables, and. pota-
toes abupdantly. .
Use milk wisely.
BE Loyal To Pledge.
ANY one buying and holding a
larger supply OF food now than in
peace time, except foods canned,
dried or preserved By themselves, is
helping to defeat the Food Admins
tration in its attempt 10 secure a
just distribution OF food and the es-
Enlistment or fair prices. The food
hoarder Is working against the COM
mon good and even against the very
safety OF the country. Hoarding food
in households Is both selfish aud I'M
necessary; the Government Is pro-
tecting the food supply Of its people.
Loyalty IN. little things IL the
foundation OF the national strength.
Dis1oyalty in little things. gives aid
to the enemy. Keep the pledge"
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
STREET CLEANING
FORCE CRIPPLED
ADMINISTRATIONS

One hundred and fifty men on
washington's street cleaning force
failed to show up at work this morn
ing with Washington buried in the
deepest snow in nineteen years. No
etra men could be found by J. w.
Paxton, Superintendent OF the Street
Cleaning Department.
Out OF a force of about 400 men.
only $50 men reported for work, and
nany Of them. were from fifteen min
utes TO an hour late.
BY T:3O o'clock. Paxton had what
forces he could collect working at
the important street intersections
with 100 horses and twenty-five
ploEs. The force now at work will
work only eight hours. After then
there will be no more street clean
ing activity until tomorrow morn
ing. Mr.. Paxton hold The Times to-
day that he believes that he will be
able to handle the snow at the i'm
portant crossings and intersections.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
COMMANDEROF us.
U-BOAT CHASERS
TAKES OWN LIFE

NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 2s.-With a
bullet wound in his head and a re
volver in his hand, the body OF Lieu
tenant Commander John II. Parsons.
L. s. N. r. n was found today in
his office by officers of his command.
He had been dead several hours.
Lieutenant Commander Pearsons
was in command of practically the
entire flotilla of submarine chasers
on the Atlantic Seaboard, numbering
more than 100 boats. No reason is
known for his action. He was former
~ commissioner of fisheries for the
State of Virginia and was consider
ed wealthy. He had one son at An
napolis.
His body was discovered by Yeo-
man Edwin Holland. A brief note
addressed to Holland contained the
simple request that his brother, Will
liam Parsons, of Olney. Va, be no.
titled. Commander Parsons is sur
vived by his widow.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28

Following President Wilson's proc
Iamation calling upon the nation to
conserve more food stuffs, the Fed
eraI Food Commission today began
distribution of the new home cards.
They are labeled:
what you can do TO help win this
war and why you should do it."
"our problem" says the card "is
to feed the allies and our own sol
diers abroad by sending them as
much food as we can OF the most
concentrated nutritive value in the
least shipping space. These foods
are wheat. beef, pork. butter, and
sugar.
Saving Means Victory.
Our solution Is to eat less OF
these and as little OF all foods as
will support health and strength. All
saving counts for victory.
THE Food Administration asks ev-
cry loyal American to help win the
war by maintaining rigidiy as a min
imum OF saving. the following pro-
gram:
Have two wheatless days, Mon
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
McADOO TO BAR "SPY"
INSURANCE COMPANIES

Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
today is expected to take the first
step in throttling enemy incendiar-
ism machinery. which already has
taken toll OF $5O.OOO.OOO from prop
critics in the United States vital to
the conduct of the war.
The first step Is expected TO be the
shutting on OF a number OF allen in
surance companies. which are backed
by German finances and which have
used the information given them in
applications for insurance for the as
sistance OF spies armed with the
torch.
Richard NJ. Hurd. chairman OF the
board OF trustees of the American
Defense Society. is authority for the
charges against certain insurance
companies, which already have been
placed in the hands OF Secretary Nc
Adoo. Mr.. Hurd declares that mu-
nitions factories, grain elevators.
stock yards. oil properties. marine
properties. and other industries vital
in the conduct of the war have been
the chief sufferers.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
ANTI.TUsERcULosIs PLAY.

The Association for the Prevention
of tuberculosis of the District or Co
lumbia is planning to give a compIi-
mentaty performance of the play.
Love Forbidden" at the New Ma
tional Theater Sunday afternoon. Feb
ruary 3, at o'clock. This play.
written by Jacques Renaud, is a ser
mon-drama, telling In forceful Ian
guage the lessons OF prevention which
al ti-tuberculosis workers throughout
the country have long been emphasiz-
ing in lectures, moving pictures, and
leaflets and through the press. The
leading role, that OF the physician.
will be played by Robert Edeson,
supported by a Broadway cast.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
WOMAN SOLDIERS
WOUNDED FIGHTING
FINNISH TROOPS

STOCKHOLM, Jan. pa number
of women soldiers have been wound
ed in the fighting in Finland said a
dispatch from Haparanda today. They
were members of the Red Guard.
which, re-enforced by Bolshevik
forces, is engaged in lighting the
soldiers OF the Finnish republic.
Another report from the same
source said that discussions have de-
veloped in the Bolshevik government
at PetroErad over the peace negotia-
tions between the German and Ukrai-
niRn ENJOYS at Brest Litovsk.
IT is charged that the Ukrainian
delegates violated the principles Of
socialism by consenting to negotiate
with Germany for an impeTialistic
peace.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28

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special $500.
The Washington times., 1918-01-28
WOMAN IS KILLED
BY ESCAPING GAS
IN HER BATHROOM

With gas flowing from an open gas
set. Miss Mary Gleason. sixty-fopr
years old. an employee of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing. was
found dead at o'clock this morning
in the bathroom OF her home. G13 II
street northwest. She was discovered
by her sister, Miss Helen Walsh. who
detected the odor of gas emanatinG
from the bathroom. Upon investiga-
ton she found her sister lying across
the bathtub. DR.. Il. T. Holden. Bill
Sixteenth street northwest, was sum
moned, and he pronounced the woman
dead.
For several weeks Miss Gleason was
confined to her home suffering from
sprained leg which she sustained in n
fall on the ice. Coroner hewitt is
making an investigation.