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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

nhIkolI Nov Highway rransportt deserves capital letters
lis the biggest thing country The developen 80 +he
motor industry States is wanned ~ IN tb; th
ht ;tb +b country roads and other highways from
"aNes w., IN" intervention OF middeman
and produce from recourse to many LANDINGS and
often stated problem living ~ S'' VIE
instead OF rail trains locomotive and freight oars the
e o0ua TO come when tractors hauling highways
improvements ~ IS coming fast and with the latest
t IN ar 'akng for the trailers only
SAFE " rum but nearer it's solution
Looking into the going easy to see whole trains
gong down the highways tractor in the
that load of tonnage the group of farms NAV
m TO the nearest market at speed miles
Plenty
over any other method The biggest the handling
ous and repeated handling present system
Of rail transport ' '
nerc transportation by motor truck for hauls Of xrvi die
has been tried many business Some of
the best Philadelphia Akron Akron
Cleveland then extraordinary long distance
the return and the coast to coast
Vest to East the Maxwell are more bv wav of
showing that spite of truck
ing is not only possible but mnenty practical are all kinds of
shorter from and return loads ar
nge that prove beyond question the proposition
fuly adapted al such needs
1t going 10 be question OF highways are the right
nds OF roads trucking be successful necessary for
the government with the governments TO make
are p to the obs for
ne are needed truck hauling cannot be done with the economy
ano dispatch THAI lower onv will
De question OF main roads, but leading these roads be-
e oS al 'n farmers and other shippers all the highways
Even II morse naung done the feeders mean
lower cost and greater speed ~
Just manufacturers of goods get going again tho vail
road transportation will be they some
ana the limiting of shipments
renewed the
OASIS and manufacture getting normal the
sroads will be chance affect the
spen OF necessities 90 to work
10 eve the tange Unless the
ennot perform limit it
question of tractors and rae can rn
This country has made vehicle trans
rurtaon of the world This
peet OF the future tonnage of goods
along the roads of the direct The
hauled the
the solution of the high reduced commodity
pace the problem of labor will be
which threatening element in the United States a. esn
Of Of The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
dealers Pour in Orders
Now That War Is Over

E. A. Scheu, Eastern sales manager
Of the King NJ otor Car Company and
general manager Of the local King 8
organization, says the signing of the
arnistice produced an immediate and
almost unbelievable chang" in the atti-
tude of dealers throughout his terri
tory.
"As late as the last week in October"
says Mr.. Scheu, these dealers had no
new orders to give to the factory. ex-
planning that the unsettled conditions
and the Importance and difficulty of
just keeping going made it impossible
1or them to make further investm ents.
Then, almost out OF clear sky, cam T.
the signing of the aImistice Immedi-
ately these same men put in their or
ders for new King 8s being determined
to get what cars they could because
of the shortage which is sure TO pre-
vail before very long.
This eagerrcss Of the dealers to get
cars ought to indicate to the public
the Importance of getting orders in be-
fore the big shortage comes A dealer
is an experienced buyer who is in closer
touch with conditions at the production
end than the layman is. He wouldn't
stock ubno if he did not know that
cars were going to be scarce before
very long"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Single Motor Truck
Helped Turn Tide
OF Battle

ne victory at Chateau Thierry-
mat furious engagement which turned
me lde OF the war forever in favor
OF the Aliles-was made possible
through the performance of a single
motor truck How this came about is
related by Captain Guy A. Whjtcomb
OF the Motor Transport Corps.
ne marines, who were smashing
the last German offensive, were run
nlng short Of machine gun ammuni-
tlon.' said Captain Whitcomb. Their
commander telephoned back for more.
me motor transport commander
called Tor four volunteers from among
ms ninety trucks, and every driver
volunteered
HE chose four, loaded the trucks
WITH $4,000 rounds apiece of machine
gun Dandoleer ammunition, and they
set out-four trucks made in Detroit,
turned out OF the Packard factory
just few months before Three Of
them were caught in the German bar
rage and their cargoes blown UP and
their drivers killed The fourth made
MS way through with the priceless
10000 rounds that put the finishing
touch on the American victory and
saved the day a Chateau Thierrv.
Tine driver made his way back TO
the transport park and reported in
these words: Sergeant Anderson re-
ports, sir, the delivery Of 10000
rounds and requests permission to
make another trip But his captain
noticed the blood pouring from the
sergeaat'S wounds. ordered him to
the hospital, and the brave Anderson
died ten hours later from fourteen
shrapnel wounds
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Auto Engineers to
Consider Post
War Subjects

The through meeting and vie
tory dinner of the Society of Auto
motive Engineers will be held January
II to ID
The technical sessions will be devoted
to war and postwar subjects. The
views of many men who have been en-
gagged actively in France with our army
or IN the work of the Allies will be
gwen. There has never been a time when
,. a 4. members were so active as
now IN joint professional work. he
cause there are so many absorbing sub
Jects before the engineering world of
fundamental value to the nation
A number of scientific subjects relat-
ing intimately to the automotive indus
tres include fuel. thermo -dynamics of
the internal combustion engine - the
most important factor of the kind we
nave before us to-day 1t Ia expected
that tanks. types of postwar automo-
plies, radlal-type aeronautic engines
and farm and road tractors will be dis
guessed at the coming meeting of the
S. A. E.
The recent intensive work in air.
craft engines and the lessons to be
learned therefrom for use in automo
bile practices will be discussed thor
oughly. Facts asceltained from the use
or motor trucks in the war will be
pointed out as affecting commercial
practice. The development in motor
patrol boats Will be explained. as we'll
as important features of stationary and
farm engines and motorcycles for de-
livery and messenger service
The dinner viii be held in the Grand
ballroom of the Hotel Astor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Automobile 7heHs Increase;
Public Warned TO Lock Cars
New York State Association Says Owners Leave Cars
Onprotected-"Jo Joy Riders Are Reported Respon-
sble for Stealing Many Automobiles

ALBANY, Nov. 30.-From the great
number OF automobile thcfts reported
TO the headquarters of the New York
State Automobile Association at Albany
there is an apparent epidemic of thefts
OF this character prevalent throughout
the state. Automobile owners are them
selves TO blame Tor Il large number of
these thetts, because they continue to
ignore the ofp repeated admonition to
lock cars unattended, whe Their in pri-
waite or public garage or parked on the
street
No positive means has been invented
to prevent the theft of automobiles.
Methods Of locking the electrical equip
ment and the motor have prevented
thefts and some owners lock the wheels
with chain guards, but the great ma
lorlty OF automobile owners. while TAX
ing the precaution to lock up Liberty
ponds and other securities in safety de-
post boxes, deliberately leave their au-
tomoblles, which in many instances
greatly exceed in value the value Of
their bonds, standing about the streets.
unlocked and unattended and at the
convenience OF the 'ioy rider" and pro-
fessional thief.
Nor does there seem to be anv par
ucutar organization of automobile
thieves he New York State Automo-
bile Association may receive a report
of stolen car from it's club at Gouver-
ncur one day, from Troy next, then
Blnghamton will follow with a stolen
car report While Albany has prac-
tlcally daily stolen car record, Cen
eva, Oneida1 Oneonta, Utica and other
places seem to suffer at the same time
from the same cause.
"Joy riders" are responsible for LARGE
number of thefts, but in such cases
these cars, if not wrecked, are usually
found abandoned along the road as
soon as the gasolene has become ex
hausted, but a large number, and the
number is growing rapidly, of automo-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Motor Truck Carries
Coal From the Mines
Mining Firms Haul Thousands
of Ions by Trucks When I'm
able to Get Railroad Cars

What the motor truck is doing to
alleviate the coal situation is illustrated
by the case of the Dixie Bee Line Coal
Company. Of Norton's Gap, KY. which
through the use of one motor truck
has been enabled to supply to the ma
ton 1880 tons of coal which other
wise never would have left the mine.
according to a letter to the Federal
Motor Truck Company written by C. f.
Henry, secretary OF the mining com
pany.
This truck has been our salvation IN
the coal business" saws Mr.. Henry.
ne Fuel Administration ordered the
railroads not to furnish cars to wagon
mines, as the mines us ng teams and
wagons for haulage from the mine to
the car are called. As we were a wagon
nine, we would have been compelled 10
close down, as did ether wagon mines.
II ! were not for the fact that we were
able to get Federal truck in time.
w e haul in this Federal fifty tens
day over mile of common dirt road.
and are able to do the work Of hauling
as economically as The big mines"
Mr.. Henry states that his company
saves S334.26 a month on haulage. the
figure being arrived ct BY comparing
the costs of their present truck haulage
with that of team and wagon haulage
Another mining firm. Browning. Med
lock & O'Briant, are operating Fed
eral truck and ave loading on the same
spur as the Dixie Bee Line Company.
IN event OF truck trouble with the
trucks Of either mine the other truck
IS thrown into the temporary haulage
gan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

ever is ever found, and this seems to be
tne work OF professionals at all hours
or the day and night in all sections of
the state.
AS long as the original license plate
remains on the car there is fair
chance of recovery, but very few cars
are ever identified or recovered after
the original license plate has been ex-
changed for another. Some thieves. it
Is SAID, purchase their own license
plates through the mails, giving as
resident address some hotel, to avoid
suspicion, and it is also said that many
stolen cars are reconstructed in the
larger centres and sold by we'll organ
lzed gangs of thieves.
The New York State Automobile AS
soclatlon with it's statewide affiliation
of 1870 local automobile clubs, with the
cooperation of local police departments
and especially the state troopers, has
recovered large number Of stolen cars
during the last year for its members.
but there is also a large number of
stolen cars for which this association
has offered its usual reward but Of
which no trace whatever has been
found.
The New York State Automobile As
ISOLATION has time and again suggested
mat manufacturers stamp the car num-
Der in the steering post. This method
would not prevent theft. but it would
prevent sales OF cars to honest dealers
and individuals in many instances A
method has now been suggested which
sounds just as practical as other equip
ment, and that is to have all automo-
biles equipped with secret device
known only to the owner, which, when
the car is moved or motor started by
other than those authorized to do So
would automatically display a con
spicuous sign with the word "Stolen."
The New York State Automobile AS
sociation again warns all automobile
owners and operators to lock your car
when unattended, no matter where it
NAV be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Materials, NotMarkets
Problem of Auto
Industry

The problem of the automobile in.
dustry in reverting to peace business
will be materials and not markets, &C
cording to Alvan Macauley, president
and general manager Of the Packard
Motor Car Company. The supply of
labor skilled in automobile making will
increase gradually and become avail
able, Mr.. Macauley thinks, about as
fast as materials are received, and ulti
Mately there will be employment in the
automobile business for every man for
merly in it.
The Packard company began moving
on to peace basis two days before the
armistice was signed, when the manu-
featuring department was authorized to
resume the making of motor cars.
Thus, the company, which two years be
tore the declaration of war began work
on the aviation engine from which the
Liberty motor developed, became one
of the pioneers in the resumption of
the industrial programme of peace
times.
"The automobile demand before war
num-" says Mr.. Macauley "The bust
ness declined, not for lack of demand,
but on account of war conditions, which
made even transportation by auto
mobile of secondary Importance. In
brief, the industry, with all it's facili-
ties and special talents, was called to
the colors.
"Now that the stress and strain Incl
dent to equipplng for war against the
most powerful military nation the
world has ever seen is past, the auto
mobile demand will certainly reasscrt
itself.
"Markets undoubtedly will be there.
The problem will be to obtain the
proper mater ais from the makers of
steel and other products of which auto
mobiles are made. They are now work
ing on war materials. The govern
ment's announced policy is to taper
down the demand for these Materials
1t follows from this that they can only
taper up-if that's a correct expression
in supplying materials for the manu-
facture of automobiles.
GAS to labor skilled in automobile
making, that will become gradually but
steadily more available, and at an in
creasing rate as war contracts are com
pleted or diminished. Probably the
labor will become available about as
fast as we can receive materials.
"Generally speaking, | predict that
the automobile industry will reassert
and reestablish its former splendid
proportions as rapidly as is wise in ex~
listing circumstances There will ulti-
mately be employment in the auto
mobile business for every man for
mcrly in it,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Congress To Be Asked to Pass
Comprehensive Highway Bills
Adoption Of Federal Road Plan Will Be Urged-Efort
Will Be Made to Provide Each State With
wo Main Highways

WASHINGTON, Nov. 80. - Several
comprehensive highways measures will
be introduced in the present Congress
soon after it reassembles next week
for its concluding session.
Present indica .ons are that the bills
Will agree in fundamentals and all will
call for the creation of Federal road
plan, III which each state relatively
Will be provided with two main high
ways, one running transversely and the
other longitudinally across the state
and connecting with similar arteries
OF communication in adjoining states
or countries. Both Canada and Mexico
are DESTROYS of making trunk highway
connections with the United States, in
the belief that an interchange of road
travellers will do much to further
friendly international relations.
An understanding has been reached
between the American Association of
State Highway Officials and the Amer
lean Automobile Asso -lt.tion to support
the same measure, 1t viii be remem-
bcred that these organizations led the
successful campaign for the passage Of
the Federal road aid act. whereby $751;
100000 is now being expended in con-
nection with $4,000 900 contributed by
the. several states on highways which
form parts of state road systems. The
next effort will concern interstate or
Federal highways, and S100,000,O0O an
nually for five years is one sum that
has been suggested. In addition, there
would also be appropriated an amount
yearly for the continuation of the
present road act.
1t is not unlikely that President
Wilson in his address to Congress on
its opening may make reference to
highways transportation in his recon
struction programme.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
P a ckard Company
Has Built 5000
Liberty Motors
By BECK

The 5,000th Liberty motor built by
the Packard Company was shipped on
November 2i week after its final
assembly in the Packard shops. and a
week ahead of the first anniversary of
the completion of the first Liberty en-
CINE ever made from standard tools.
1t was on Thanksgiving Day, 1917
that the first Liberty motor to come
from an organized production line came
from the production line of the Pack
ard. Wrapped in an American flag. it
was shipped the same day to the Amer
lean aircraft forces
Between thanksgiving and the fol-
LOWING March the process of the new
war engines development was that of
the accommodation of tool to design
and design to tool always necessary in
the preparation for quantity production
OF quality motor. The work of
pioneering this development was either
given by the government to the Pack
ard or assumed by the Packard for the
government. Consequently, as late as
february rs, Packard had produced the
only Liberty engines in operation, and
to date Packard has built more Lib
cry motors IMAM any other manufact-
urer has made.
The great results of that develop
ment period are measurable by the
tact that the improvements effected
raised the horsepower of the Liberty
motor from 1861. at which the govern
ment had accepted it for production.
to more than $50. Another result was
that large scale production rapidly fol-
lowed final Standardization of tools
and design, so that by the end of the
war, eight months later, Uncle Sam
had more than $4,000 Liberty engines.
Packard's original order, for 5000
VIII be completed, at the present rate
OF production, in less than thirty days
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

A. A. A. officials are quite in accord
with the action of the Senate Finance
Committee in deciding to cut out of the
war revenue bill the proposed gaso-
lene tax of two cents a gallon. Some
weeks ago President David Jameson of
the National Association of Motorists
presented to Chairman Simmons and
his associates a forceful and logical
argument against the gasoene impost
as being a tax on industry
Earl Curzon, of the British War
Board, recently declared to the Inter
Allied Petroleum Conference that the
Allied cause had been "hoated to vic
tory on a wave of oil" because "if it
had not been for the great fleets Of
motor trucks the war could not have
been Won" The oil, of course, had to
be obtained from America at was
victory of automobiles over rail
roads was the apt expression of the
British war authority.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
War Ooer Work on Lincoln
Highway VIII Be Resumed
State OF Illinois Has Already Voted $6OO0O000 Bond
Issue tor Construction of Permanent Roads-Nebraska and
Other otates Expected to Resume Road improvements

Def ROT, Nov. 3O-With the ink
scarcely dry upon the armistice which
closed the greatest of all world wars.
tangible evidence is already coming to
hight of one of the important forces of
good resulting from our participation in
the great struggle. Definite plans are
now being made for the building of
through, connecting, permanent high
ways destined to he of value to the en-
tire nation. The war brought home a
national appreciation of our imperative
need for permanent, through, connect
ing highways. Transportation condi-
tons existing in 1917 and 1918 focus at
tention upon this need.
With an eye to the future the Lin
coin Highway Association anticipated
Developments in this connection, and is
prepared for greater measure Of
active, constructive endeavor in 1919
than ever before. Despite its evident
Importance road building was being
more and more restricted as time
passed, but with the cessation Of hos
tilities more liberal policy on the
part of the many agencies governing
such constructive endeavors is conf
IDENTIFY to be expected, more, it is an
tlclpated that every such agency will
lend its full support TO the Immediate
resumption of such work
The State of Illinois provided for the
complete hard -surfacing OF the LIN
coin Highway from Geneva to the Mis-
sisslppi River, but wartime conditions
prevented the undertaking OF this
work in 1918. The demand for this
improvement has grown. A. the No
vember election the voters of the State
Of illinois approved sixty million dol
lar bond issue, By an Overwhelming
majority, for the construction of a
state wide system of permanent ROADS.
The bonds were not to be sold nor the
work started until after the war. The
end of the war came within a week o.
the approval Of the bond issue. 1t is
but fair to assume that the work of
finishing the construction of the Lin
coin Highway in the state will be un-
dertaken at the first available oppor-
tunity in tho spring
The action ia Illinois set q precedent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01

Information has just been solicited Of
the Lincoln Highway Association as to
the ways and means of providing for
the adoption OF similar measures IN
the State Of Nebraska Within the
week thirty-six letters have been re-
Geived at the Offices of the Lincoln
highway Association, in Detroit. from
representatives of the national orpani-
zstlon, located in each of the eleven
states crossed By the route, from coast
70 coast advising OF plans for the
lur'herance Of actual construction.
10" mat undivided attention may Be
given to such projects.
The war is over The period Of ~
construction has come Highway i'm
provement. along the lines advocated
by the Lincoln Highway Association
seems destined 10 receive the first at
tention.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Use of Pneumatic Tires
Extended to Trucks
Lumber Company Tries New
Equipment on Hauling Logs
Over F our-Mile Route

That the use Of big pneumatic tires
IS rapidly extending to fields where
they have never been expected to APP
pear is indicated by the use OF two In
ternational trucks, with trailers. al
equipped with Goodyear cord tires. by
the Mickier Lumber Company. Of Tho
rotosassa, Fla. These trucks ~
being used TO carry log loads averarinv
three tons over four-mile rou-es
rheumatic tires were resorted to only
after solid tire equipment had been
proven impracticable. because o. thoir
lnaolhty TO secure Traction n he 80 z
ruts- a comparison o. Tho work Dsr-
formed on these pneumatic WITH hat
performed BY mule teams shows eh.t
1900 pounds Of lun Der arr now bsir =
eslissssd daily, against 5000 sounds
formerly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Los Angeles Auto Club
Has 'Anti-Class' Week

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3o.-The anti
glass week" observed by the Automo-
bile Club of Southern California in
Los Angeles resulted in the collection
of 1875 pounds of bits of glass on the
streets, each piece of which was a cor
slant menace to motorists.
An average of thirty-one bad smears
of tire destroying substance were re-
moved each dav during the week of the
campaign. Broken nj TX, bottles, wind
shields and lamps w& be the chief con-
tributors to the menace TO automo
bilists
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Goodrich Co. Will
Reward It's Employees

The "Stick to Your Job" slogan has
its reward with employees of the B. T.
Goodrich Rubber Company. which has
been making a large share Of the truck
tires and other rubber goods used by
the government since wars inception.
President 3. c. Work announced that
as reward for their loyalty the com
panys salaried employees would receive
by the first OF the year as a bonus 25
per cent OF their yearly salaries. This
means the distribution of at least two
million dollars.
The bonuses apply not only to those
salaried men and women in the huge
factories at Akron, but also to the field
force