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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-05
CONVERT PASSENGER
INTO DELIVERY CAR

A local garage recently modified a
used flve-passenger automobile to meet
the needs of a grocery by simple al
terations to the body, without disturb
Ing the gasoline tank or front seat, or
altering the chassis, writes G. A. Luers
Of Washington, d. c., In Popular Me-
ehanics magazine. The upholstering
ana rear seat were removed and two
foot section of the sheet metal in the
back was cut away, down to the wood
frame. A substantial step Of wood,
With sheet-iron hangers, was placed at
the rear entrance TO the car, and box
for needed tools was placed on one
running board. With the flooring
evened up where the seat was re-
removed, and guard built in front of
the cut-0ut section Of the rear, to keep
the merchandise from falling out, the
transformed car was of ample ca.
paclty, and convenient for the speedy
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-05
HARMFUL EFFECT OF
OVERHEATING MOTOR
Don't Disregard Warning Signal
When Radiator SteamS.
Cylinder Walls and Piston Rings WIN
Score, Causing LOss Of Compress
sion and Power-knocklna
Alec Is Warning.

"The man who speeds his motor to
the limit little realizes the danger in
volved," says William II. Stewart, Jr.
'If the cooling system proves equal
to the extra work, well and good, bat
If anything fails the engine is in dan
ger of ruin. OF course this will not
happen without some preliminary
symptom Of trouble. The radiator
viii steam slightly at first, but II this
warning signal is disregarded and the
motor is still forced ahead the cylin.
der walls and piston rings will score,
causing loss Of compression and pow
er. But this cannot continue long be-
fore the piston seizes and the motor
stalls and cannot be cranked. II this
happens while the engine is being
run at a rapid rate the fly wheel will
be unable to free the piston. The re-
suit will be to twist the erank-shaft
out of true, wreck a few bearings
and crack the crank case. This is a
permanent injury which can only be
remedled at considerable expense. So
do not disregard the warning given
you by the radiator.
occasionally an engine is overheat-
ed without doing all the harm mem
toned above. In that case It develops
a peculiar knock. This Is caused by
the piston and parts OF the cylinder
becoming red hot and so prelgniting
the charge Of gasoline vapor In the
cylinders. As this explosion starts
before the piston reaches top dead
center 1t has tendency to reverse
the direction Of the piston, causing a
knock. On hearing this the careful
motorlst retards the spark to see II II
is caused by having the spark too
far advanced. II the knock contln-
ues he opens the switch. but the en-
gine keeps running. 1t is running by
self.ignition; that is the overheated
parts fire the charge without the elec.
trie system. This is a perplexing
problem when it first occurs, but un-
der the circumstances throw out the
clutch, place gears in high speed. ap-
ply foot brake, then engage the clutch
This stalls engine. II will also help
If spark is retarded and throttle clos
ed. SO heed the warning given you
by steam from radiator and favor Che
motor until the steaming has stopped >
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-05
ViCk BrOthes Garage The
Home Of The Ford

In going through the Ford garage
YOU viii see one Of the busiest places
in salem. startirIg from the High
street end You see three S gallon pumps
, used for gasoline and one for distil-
late, also an oil pump for luhrieating
oil which measures pins, quarts, or i
gallon.
The office occupies a room in the
northwest corner l6x40 feet and is
modern in every way. the present Of
flee force consists Of 3 ladies and :
men.
The parts and supply room, also l6
x40 feet in southwest corner, there
you will find complete stock Of Ford
parts and auto supplies.
Directly back of the office and stock
room is a space 50x200 for storage Of
automobiles, which is used by Ford
owners during the day without charge,
and a regular storage rate of IS per
month. Free air for tires at three diff
ferent places so none need wait for
service.
The shop Is very complete and very
well lighted by large skyhghts and is
nearly as light as outside; in it you
will find lathes, milling machines, drill
presses, rehoring machines. eeetylene
welding equipment and so forth.
On the second floor the new Ford
cars are assembled and there also you
will find the radiator department,
where all makes of radiators are re-
paired; then again there is the vul-
eanizinr room where damaged tires
and tubes are repaired. 1t is a very
interesting trip to 60 through and
watch the large force of men at their
work. There are now on Viek Bros.
payroll about 40 men. About two
months ago the employees organized a
band and viii soon be able to demon
strate to the public that they are mu-
sieians as well as meehanicians.
Salem probably does not realize that
over $4,000 is paid out for labor atone
in this establishment each month, and
still growing.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-05
USEFUL KlHK IN EMERGENCY
Brass Spring Can Be Made by Ham.
merlng Soft Piece on Both Sides
With Hammer.

Soft brass can be made into spring
brass By hammerlng both sides slightly
with a hammer, using a smooth solid
block Of some kind as an anvil. This
produces a slight hard film, which
gives the brass the quality Of spring,
but filing or grinding VIII remove this
hard film instantly. This kink is use-
full In an emergency where a brass
spring Is needed and nothing but soft
brass is at hand.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-05
GREASE IS BAD FOR RUBBER
OIL Acts az ! Solvent and Destroys the
Material-uss Rag Saturated
With Gasoline.

Almost every car owner today knows
that oil or grease Is very bad for rub
Der, acting as a solvent and destroy
ing the material. When grease or oil
gets on the casing either Of them can
be removed by u rug saturated with
gasoline. While gasoline Is form Of
oil 1t eyaporates so rapidly that when
used In small quantities It does not
harm the rubber.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-05
Bosch Magnetic Service

r. D. Barton Of the Auto Electric
Service company, III South CONNER
sial street, viii soon have the official
Bosch Magnetic service station for
this section of Oregon. The testing
equipment tools and parts will cost
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-05
OBSERVE RATE OF OIL FLOW
Hlt Of white Paper Slipped Behind
Tubes VIII Show With Con-
siderable Distinctness.

If for any reason 1t is dIficult to
observe the rate Of flow through the
sight feed oilers mounted on the dash,
try slipping a bit Of white paper be-
hind the tubes to give a light back.
ground, against which the contents OF
the glasses viii show with consider
able distinctness, even In q poor
tight.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-05

several hundred dollars and Mr.. Bar
ton viii be able to give first class ser
vice on all magnetos, especially the
well known Bosch magnetic.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-05

The port of Astoria and the several
towns of Clatsop county have eontribut
ed $4,000 toward the Roosevelt high
way advertising fund.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-05
BY Slightly Altering the Body of an
Old Touring Car, 1t Was Trans
formed Into a Convenient Delivery
Car for a Grocer.

loading up and removal Of numerous
small packages Of groceries. The cost
Of this Job is only small part Of
what delivery-car body would cost,
and no expert workman is required to
make the change.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

One of the things which Hoke Smith and
other members of the senate sought to
make stronger by reservations to the peace
treaty was the safeguarding of the Monroe
doctrine. This policy is strictly American,
and its enforcement has been conceded as
a right of the government. Other nations
have acquiesced. That doctrine contains two
fundamental principles. One is non-coloni-
cation of American countries by European
governments; the other is non-interference
by European governments in those Ameri-
can republics set up in the place of foreign
governments by the nations of Central and
South America. Under these terms this gov
eminent has held that it has a right to pre-
vent any foreign nation from establishing
any rights in any nation on this continent
which might jeopardize the safety or endan-
ger the security of the United States. In gen.
eral, this government became a self-appoint-
ed guardian for the weaker nations of the
western world, not only to protect them
against injustice but to safeguard its own
rights as well.
But new deal is made The league of
nations will be established. The nations over
which the United States has maintained its
guardianship will become members of that
combination Thereafter they will look to it
for protection of their national rights; for
the preservation of their territorial indie
pendence" If they do this, and that is their
purpose in entering the league of nations,
they will step from under the protection of
the Monroe doctrine and take refuge under
that of the league The Monroe doctrine will
be left without substance. 1t will be like the
lawyer with abundance of good law, but
with no case in court to which to apply this
law This government might still take posi-
tive action to prevent the acquisition of any
rights by foreign nations which would jeop-
ardize it's own existence or security. But it
is questionable if such action would not be
subject to an appeal to the league of ma
tions regardless of the limitations which the
covenant places on it's restrictions If that
organization should decide that the member
nations of the continent have the right to
determine their own domestic policies the
United States would be compelled to accept
the new doctrine or go to war to uphold the
opposite contention that it can interfere
where the contingent rights are jeopardized.
Irrespective of what might result from
the self protective policy of the United
States it is clear that its guardianship over
the other cis-Atlantic nations will cease as
they enter the league of nations.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30
HOME MADE LIQUOR.

Every few days the newspapers note one
or more deaths from drinking moonshine or
home manufactured whisky. The lesson
ought to impress itself on those who want
something containing "kick" to take the
place of the old-time liquor. The connections
which caused these deaths are made by ire
sponsible bootleggers and some times in the
home where it is drunk.
Since prohibition came in effect the coun-
try has been flooded with recipes and direc-
lions for making brews and drinks which
have all the effects of genuine liquor. These
recipes and directions are bought by people
who have no knowledge of the effects of their
contents, if they are disclosed. In many in
stances the ''kick" material is not permitted
to become known because it is claimed to be
the secret of the preparation, and so must
be safeguarded against common information
in the interest of the discoverer The logic
seems sound, but the people who drink the
potion may be taking into their systems the
elements of disease and laying the founda-
tions to break down health.
It may be assumed that any preparation
which claims to have the effect of alcohol
deadly in its effect, but it is only matter
of degree Alcohol is itself poison, but its
nature and effect are known, and disastrous
consequences resulting from an excessive
use of it can be avoided. The substitutes
now offered are unknown. The people who
sell them are willing to profit at the expense
of those who are ready to buy and use them
If they do not kill an unusual number OF vic
tins they will be accounted reasonably safe
for general sale.
But the largest feature in the manufac
ture of substitute liquor is the ignorance o.
those making it, There is no more exactlnt
profession than that of the druggist or chem
list. A mistake in filling prescription Otter
is fatal. How much more dangerous is it TO
one who knows nothing of the effects O.
drugs, especially in this day of concentrated
preparations and coal tar products, to at
tempt to combine those which will numb tn
nervous system and produce stupor llk
that resulting from common drunk In tn
DAYS of the saloon.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30
Early White House Woes.
From the Sioux City Journal.

Housewives who are the victims of the
fuel shortage might find consolation for
themselves if they were to read the expert
ences of the first mistress of the white house.
Mrs. Abigail Adams, the wife of President
John Adams, was the first mistress of that
now historic mansion. She reached Baltimore
on her way to the national capital in the
dead of the winter. The trip from that city
to Washington, which was set in the midst
of a wilderness, was made by coach, and on
the way the party became lost in the woods,
it being impossible to follow the crude roads.
The trip can now be made in forty minutes
by train. 1t required three days for Mrs.
Adams to do So
The white house was in process of con-
struction. The capitol was only beginning
of the future one. Writing to friend Mrs.
Adams depicts the conditions under which
she lived in the presidents mansion. She
says:
''The lighting of the apartments from
kitchen to parlors and chambers is
tax indeed. The fires we are obliged to
keep to secure us from daily agues is
another very cheering comfort To as
sist US in this great castle and render
less attendance necessary bells are
wholly wanting, not one single one be-
ing hung throughout the whole house,
and promises are all you can obtain.
This is so great an inconvenience that
| do not know what to do nor how to
do. If they will put me up some bells
and let me have wood enough to keep
fires I deign to be pleased. l could
content myself almost anywhere three
months But surrounded with forests,
can you believe that wood is not to be
had, because people cannot be found
to cut and cart it? We have not the
least fence, yard or other convenience,
and the great unfinished audience
room l make drying room of to hang
up the clothes in"
How much like the present does her
statement sound when she says there is no
wood because people could not be found to
cut and cart it. That situation must have
been much like the. coal strike when in the
midst of coal mines people could not be
found to dig it. It is not difficult to imagine
the mistress of the white house wrapped in
an immense shawl huddled close to the small
fire in the open fireplace and shivering while
within sight of the windows out of which she
could look were almost endless forests OF
fuel. Nor does it take much more magma
ton to see her hanging up the weeks wash
ing, not laundry, in the now famous east
room, while shivering from the cold, and UNI
able to get bells hung which would help IN
calling to her aid the few servants which
then comprised the presidential household.
Few women would care to undergo the IN
conveniences Mrs Adams did. Most of those
who suffered from the fuel shortage Will
have more biting sarcasm in their letters
than she had in hers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30
The Fat of Prosperity.
From the Atlanta Journal.


Every observer is impressed by the fact
that in the last five years the value of Geor-
gia-raised hogs has increased from an aggre-
gate of some fifteen million to more than
fifty million dollars Striking as the figures
are, they leave unpictured vast realm OF
the development and prosperity which lies
beyond and about this new farm industry
of the cotton belt.
The doubling and trebling of the value OF
the states swine in so short period would
never have been possible but for certain
marked changes in agricultural policy
Thousands of acres of corn and sundry
crops other than cotton were planted as
prerequisite to the larger undertaking in an
imal husbandry. The counties now foremost
lin hog and cattle raising were first in the
extensive production of food and forage har-
vests They were, for the most part, the
pioneers of Investigation, and from them
the tyranny of cotton had its earliest effect
ual challenge. This remarkable increase in
the output of hogs means, then, that there
has been nothing short of revolution IN
our agricultural affairs.
And what beneficial revolution! 1t has
brought millions upon millions of new wealth
from Georgia's soil. 1t has saved uncounted
millions more in food supplies formerly i'm
ported from the west. 1t has given the
farmer cash income for every season,
where hitherto he depended on credit until
cotton-marketing time. 1t has saved the state
from what doubtless would have been dis
aster had the boil weevil invasion found us
still stalking our agricultural all on cotton
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30
All! Little Girl.

No rose can shut and be bud again,
Sometimes, my darling, you will under
stand
Why am greedy of the moments when
Against my breast hold your little hand,
And watch the curves and dimples of your
face,
And all your beauty and fiowerlike grace.
For the swift current of the ceaseless years
Shall bear you on their bosom to hfe's
main,
Where tempests rage and hearts grow sick
with fears,
And the black shadow waits whose name
is Pain.
Then this sweet brow shall wear crown OF
care,
And I. nv dear one, I shall not be there.
O tender feet, the way is rough and steep;
o violet eyes, your vigils must be long;
So while I NAV in loves nest let me keep
NV precious baby safe from any wrong
Kiss me with Tins still pure and indebted,
For sometime shall lose YOU. o nv child
JAMES B. KENYON.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30
WE THANK YOU.

At the close of the old and the beginning
of the new year we desire to express thanks
to every patron of The News for the cordial
cooperation and support which has made it
possible to publish newspaper which, we
believe, is fairly creditable to the people of
Dawson and Terrell county. Their apprecia-
ton has done much to tighten the drudgery
of the daily grind inseparable from newspa-
per work with all its exactions and harass-
ments The only New Year resolution we
have to make is to do the best we can for
our patrons and ourselves. We try to do
that every week in the year
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30
MR.. LANES RETIREMENT.

1t is stating a self-evident truth to say
that in the retirement of Secretary Frank
lin K Lane of the interior department
the cabinet of President Wilson loses it's
most capable, efficient and best balanced
member Secretary Lane has not ratified in
side his position because the position was
too large for him. Rather the position has
been strained to retain his ability because
he was larger than it. It has been unfort-
innate for the country and the president that
he has not occupied one of more world in
fuence during the last three years. No
member has brought so much ability to his
position. No member has so eminently per
formed the duties of that position. No mem
Der has possessed the clearness of vision, the
perspicuity of penetration and the lucidl-
tv of expression which Secretary Lane has
in abundance With no political ambition
he has been free to express what he felt and
thought without studying the consequences
his words might have on his future. He has
stood for the larger Americanism without
being pedantic. His judgment has been
calm, but reliable. His logic has been clear,
and his conclusions irrefutabe Had he &C.
cupied a more active position in the govern
ment there is every reason to believe many
of the mistakes now being disclosed would
not have been made.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30
HIST ROBBERY.

In the cold storage plants of the country
there are billions of dozens of eggs and mil
lions of pounds of butter, while the people
in the larger cities are paying $1.OO dozen
for the former and $1.00 pound for the
latter These stored eggs were bought at
from rs to 40 cents dozen, and the butter
from 80 to 40 cents a pound, and the retail
price today, less cost and expense OF stor-
age. is clear profit. A hundred per cent.
profit, or more, on the necessities OF life Is
robbery. The. regulation of cold storage IN
A.. :-tA-as+ of the, consumer is imperative
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30
Survival of the Richest.

From the Jackson Progress-Argus.
With print paper selling at II cents
a pound in rolls at the mill in carload
lots we can foresee lively time ahead
for the smaller fellow in the newspaper
business. It's going to be survival OF
the richest.-Dawson News.
That's the trouble The big, rich fellows
are going to get the paper as fast as it is put
on the market. They can outbld the small
have hard time pulling through. The paper
profteers are going to bring the hide, and
many small paper will get pinched before
the thing is over.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30
In Gods Country!
From the CordeIe Sentinel.

Says the Dawson News: "No ultra
radicals or dangerous foreign anarchists
have been located in Georgia. Not one
arrest has been reported, and but little
unrest among laboring classes in this
state has been found. There is work
for ALL There is a living wage for all.
There is opportunity for all-in South
west Georgia"
We have our little troubles, but thank
God nothing like the Reds who are trying
to sow discord and strife in other sections
of the country The presence of the negro
has kept out cheap foreign labor in the
South. and it must be said for the race as
a whole that negro labor is the easiest con-
trolled and most satisfactory to those who
know how to handle it of any uneducated
labor in the world 1t is well to remember
this when we are disposed to become impa-
tient with the negro for his faults.
1t is good to live in country where the
race which controls is of pure Anglo-Saxon
strain, and where the laboring classes are as
amicable The worst faults the negro has the
white man taught him. White men are even
now in some places organizing negroes, men
and women, into unions which can result In
nothing but trouble. These men, not the ne
groes, are the ones who should be summary
dealt with.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30
"KODAK KING" HAS REAL WAD.

From the New York World
George Eastman, of Rochester, N. ~, who
is thought to be the giver of $4,0O0,00O to
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
is universally known as the "Kodak King y
He's interested in Tech and many of his lead
ing officials are Tech men. After seeing the
Forsyth Dental Institute he gave Rochester
one costing 100000. He gave Rochester
university S5OO,000 for a woman's college.
He distributed $6,OOO,O0O worth of stock,
valued at $500 share, among his employees
for 500 a share. He was poor boy and
started as photographer in small dark at
tic in his humble home.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30
A PARTING REQUEST.

From the Fl. Gaines Georgian.
Unless our memory has slipped a cog ev-
ery man who has died in Clay county in re-
cent years has left his subscription account
with the Southwest Georgian in satisfactory
shape. Now, brother, don't you go off on
that long one-wav journey until you make
a noise like dollar and half, or such a
matter. in our presence. If you do forget US
we're liable to slip over to the graveyard
some dark night and deposit a block of ice
and a cheap fan on your "molehill"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30

Have you noticed any appreciable de-
crease in the cost of living in recent weeks,
and do you happen to recall that about three
months ago everybody in Washington from
the president down the line was making
vigorous and vicious assault on this most
pressing problem? The cost of living is
largely what we make it. 1t is an individual
affair.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-30

Nearly 10000 Greeks returned home from
the United States from June to September.
Thew took with them large amount of mon
ey in the form of drafts and bank notes.
Since January 1st postal money orders
amounting to S25, 100000 at normal ex-
change rates have been RENTED to Greece
from the United States. America appears to
be the oyster for all tong men.