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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
ovERCoMEs OWNERS ERRORS.
Globe Tire Designers Make Side
Walls Thick.

In a recent discussion on the problem
of getting more tire mileage for automo-
bile owners, ]. b. Linerd. president of
the Globe Rubber Tire Company, said
that educational work on the care and
repair OF tires has done much. but that
the engineering and research depart
ments of the large tire companies have
done more. In building tires such as the
Globe, for example. the human element
must be considered. Onwers are known
to abuse tires. to operate the under
inflated. to neglect to repair tread cuts,
&c, and these are considered in the de-
sign of the casing. OF course 1t is to
the interest of the owner to take care
of tires In the proper way. but knowing
the owners weakness. the Globe com
pany has in the design Of Its tires
guarded against serious damage by
slight neglect on the owners part. The
side walls are extra heavy. the tread
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
LINCOLN MOTOR CO.'S
GREAT WAR WORK
A Remarkable Production Of
Liberty Motors Stopped for
Commercial Activity.

! BY Its ANAL settlement with the Gov
eminent, made within the last few days
the Lincoln Motor Company wrote finis
to one Of the big. dramatic chapters In
the industrial story of the Great War.
Organized less than two years ago
by Henry NJ. Leland and wilfred c.
Leland, this company made record
attracted worldwide attention In per-
Tod filed with almost superhuman
Embellishments
To say that the company made $500
Liberty motors and q corresponding num-
Der OF repair parts in less than a year
gives only a faint suggestion, OF what
has been accomplished. When the first
Government contract was obtained, Aug
81. 1917, frog ponds dotted the site OF
the Lincoln factory on West Warren
avenue. Detroit. More than one hun
dred deeds and contracts changed hands
In acquiring title to the ground. The
main factory buildings were erected in
three months, making a group more than
1000 feet long
In less than two months more these
buildings were equipped with what is
said to be the finest collection Of pre-
cision machinery In the automotive
field. Eishty-nine concerns coopsrated
to get this result In all. e1.S07 special
tools OF 6,522 different designs, had
to be set up to obtain production on the
required scale. Much Of this tool de.
"elopment was carried on at a time
when hundreds OF changes were beinS
made In the design OF the product
Such difficulties proved only q spur
to greater effort Within twelve months
there was bullr up an organization OF
5000 men ana women. And although
under constant pressure to get greattt
production the company overlooked no
cetaii looking to the health, safety and
we'll being of !ts employees.
Before the close of 1918 Lincoln had
the record of producing the largest num-
Der of Liberty Motors in a single day
the largest number in a single month
and the largest total rolled up by any
manufacturer. Although the leading
English manufacturer, with 10000 EN-
ployees. was able to turn out hut fifty
aircraft motors per week, Lincoln with
5000 Americans was producing Liberty
engines at the rateNof fifty per day
The Lincoln Company completed its final
contract with the Government sixteen
dhys ahead Of schedule and received
from Government officials the highest
commentator for its motors
Thus Henry NJ. Leland redeemed his
promise. made when he had no orga-
nization and no factory, to build as
many motors and OF at least as good
quality as would be produced in any ex-
isting plant.
The. Lincoln factory Is now being re-
arranged to manufacture for the market
a product that has been in course OF de-
veiopinent since the signing Of the ar
mistice.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
NEW LEAGUE CURBS
RECKLESS DRIVERS
Open to All Motorists Who
Will Watch and Report
Lawlcssness.


Incorporation papers have been issued
by Francis NJ. Hugo, Secretary Of State.
covering the League for Motorists Pro-
lection. which is an organization OF au-
tomobile owners who have banded
themselves together to cope with speed
maniacs and reckless drivers.
The organization is headed by Harry
W. CASTOR, president of the Lexington
Motor Company Of New York. and the
temporary offices. will be at 16 West
Sixty-first street until such time as
suitable permanent quarters can be Sc
cured James v. Boise, manager Of the
Chatham and Phoenix Bank. broadway
and Sixty-first street. IL the leagues
treasurer.
Speaking of the scope and purposes
of the league Mr.. CASTOR says: Since
the inception of my connection with
the automobile industry in New York
have silently watched the growing
menace of reckless driving. A certain
class Of taxi drivers, truck chauffeurs
and speed kings, who have the instincts
Of gunmen without their courage. are
daily making the lives of law abiding
motorists and citizens more and more
miserable. with this thought in mind
l went to Albany some months ago and
conferred with Mr.. Hugo, Secretary of
State, who agreed that 1t has been I'M
possible for the duly accredited officers
of the law to curb this growing menace,
because the number of officers Is neces-
sarily limited and they cannot be in all
places at one time. Furthermore. these
shrewd outlaws, who have converted
the public highways into Belgian turn
pixies, have a way of resorting to their
acts of vicious recklessness when no Of
ficer OF the law happens to be at hand,
1t has been very easy for them to es-
cape arrest and conviction because the
officers of the law are in uniform and
are easily located in advance.
Under the plan of the League for
Motorists Protection every man carries
upon the front and rear OF his automo-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
ESSEX WINS NEW HoNoRs.
shows AmaxinK Hill Climbing
ABILITY in CONTEXT.

That the new Essex won first honoSf
In the light car class and finished second
in the free for all rim of tho world
hill climbing contest at San Bernardino
Cal, a few days ago was no surprise to
Harry S. IIoupt president Of the Hud
son Motor Car Company Of New York.
MIR. Houpt IN discussing the Essex
performance said: Take It all in all the
Essex is one of tie best hill climbing
cars on the market
This Rim OF the world contest Is re-
garded as the hardest hill climbing ties,
in California. The cars have to climb
eight miles to an elevation Of over 5000
feet, and the Essex covered the course
in the amazing time Of ten minutes four
seconds
THE Essex was driven by Arthur Full
Ter of Los Angeles and it's showing Is
regarded as unusually remarkable when
IL Is considered that the contest was fin
ished with one of the front wheels near
collapse as a fesult OF a skid into the
mountalnside.
Never was a race in America staged
under more dramatic circumstances
Dense waves of binding fog swept up
through Waterman canyon, ooscuring the
famous switchbacks from the spectators
below. But despite this all the cars
made the race without SERIOUS accident.
although there were several very narrow
escapes.
at was the most difficult hill climb
ever held in California. There was no
successful rival Of the Essex in It's class.
Even In the heavy car class 1t was
only car costing almost twice as much
and having over twice the piston dis
placement that made any better time
The Essex is a car that can clint
the steepest and longest grades withou,
overheating. That had much to do with
our victory. A cool motor also mean:
freedom from lubricating troubles"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
DEVELOPS FOREIGN TRADE.
Bethlehem Motor Truck Omcinl
Opens New Market.

Considerable progress is being made
by the Bethlehem Motors Corporation.
under direction OF H. B. Hall, vice-presi-
dent, in the establishment of Bethlehem
motor trucks in foreign markets.
Since March /. when Mr.. Hall took
active charge of the export activities of
the company and which date marked
the completion OF Government contracts
which limited the Bethlehem factory al
most entirely to the production Of trucks
for Government use. Bethlehem trucks
have been contracted for in thirty-two
countries in Europe. South and Central
America and the Far East.
Bethlehem motor trucks are now in
operation in India, Dutch East Indies,
Japan, China, all of Scandinavia and the
West Indies, and sales connections have
been established for the development of
central Europe, including Bulgaria, Tur-
key and Rumania, when peace has
finally been concluded.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
KEYSTONE SALES BOOM.

The director o. sales and advertising
for the keystone Tire and Rubber Com
pany very enthusiastically gave out
some figures on the increased sales for
Keystone tires since the mileage was
raised TO 5000. -
THE greater demand is doubly pleas
ing because even before the mileage was
Increased the Keystone tire was making
new selling record everywhere.
Reports from all points from our
stores and agencies in San Francisco all
the way down to Panama and up to
Maine. show that Keystone tires have
helped materially to increase the sales.
The indications are that the June
business will more than double the
record breaking business of June a year
ago"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
GETS PROMOTION.
wendover IL Made U. 8. Tire Co.'S
Branch Manager.

A. L. Wendover has been appointed
New York branch manager of the United
States Tire Company with headquarters
at 1890 Broadway, under District Man
ager Z. S. Roe. Mr.. Wendover Is widely
known in metropolitan automobile
circles. He began as tire salesman for
Morgan & Wright in 1906, and Joined
the staff of the United States Tire Com
pany when that company absorbed Nor
gan 4 Wright in 1911. For a number
OF years he has been special sales rep
resentative in Westminster county, where
he has been county supervisor for a
number of years. He succeeds G. C..
Gaillard, who has been assigned to
other duties in the companys executive
offices.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29

the same desire.
Roads charted on the above map are
mostly stone. macadam and brick and
can be e negotiated in any kind Of
weather.
There are a number Of very desirable
routes from New York city to Niagara.
The trip may be made by way Of AL
bany, either on the west or east side
Of the Hudson River. or 1t may be made
over the Liberty Highway. going through
Middletown, Liberty, Binghamton. Ell
mira and Corning and thence to Buff
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
GUY CHRYsLER RESIGNS.

Guy r. Chrysler. who has been vice.
president and sales manager of the
Gramm- Bernstein Sales Corporation, for.
marty Eastern distributors OF Gramm-
bernstein trucks. has resigned his position
= few weeks vacation, when he viii an
nounce his future plans, which will nc
doubt find him actively engaged In the
motor truck field, which would be lone.
some without him"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29

Probably the most popular tour OBJ
jective-of motorists living east Of the
Mississippi River Is Niagara Falls.
Parties making trips west from New
England and New York State almost
invariably request the Goodrich tour
ing bureau to route them via Niagara.
and likewise tourists from Western
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29

falo by way Of Avon or Rochester and
the Lake Shore road.
While Niagara Falls Is prepared to
handle thousands of visitors the close
proximity Of Buffalo affords tourists
ample hotel and garage .accommoda-
lions. In making the trip motorists are
strongly advised to set aside at least
two full days to be spent at the Falls.
1t Is impossible to see all the many
points of interest in less time.
Maps and tour cards will be sent free
Of charge on request to the Automobile
Editor of THE Sun.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29

unusually thick and tough, and the
fabric plies designed to take more than
the usual amount Of repeated flexing.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-23

time an acre Of potatoes is saved from
its Astounding enemies sprayed, washed
hoed, ploughed and otherwise nurtured
and brought to its maximum-it has cost
the farmer more than he is going to get
from it, even at price Of seventy five
cents or dollar a peck to the consumer.
Even at that price the consumer is
now getting a particularly vile quality
of potatoes--so vile, in this particular
neighborhood that many householders
would just now be inclined to eliminate
the potato from their bill Of fare with
out any deep regret. At the same time,
the loss of the potato as a daily arti-
Gle of diet would be a serious one to
most people, II supplies the need Of
vegetable ingredient in the diet, and of
an article Of food offering the needed
bulk, as no other vegetable does. Many
people have difficulty in digesting the
carrot, the turnip, the beet, and the on.
ion. Everybody can digest the potato.
It's perfectly neutral taste makes II an
agreeable background for meats. It's nu-
tritive value is not high, but we could
better spare a more nutritious vegeta-
be.--Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-23
CURRENT COMMENT
Irving to Balance the Books.

The statistician is busy on the heels
Of the triumphant prohibition crusade.
He tells us how many thousand retail
liquor stores will be wiped out, how
many millions of capital invested in
brewing and distilling enterprises will be
destroyed, how many employees of those
enterprises will be thrown out of work
and compelled to seek other Jobs With
his figures thus compiled we do not quar-
rel. To dispute them, were dispute pos
sible, would be but a languid amusement
at the best
But when he argues that prohibition,
reducing the number of arrests, will also
reduce the cost Of running our police de-
partment and the cost of our courts, he
invites contradiction. We venture to pre-
dict that after prohibition becomes efTec-
tive our police department and our courts
will cost at least as much as they cost
now. Very probably they will cost more.
Those who administer these agencies of
government always find a way to multi.
ply expenses and the taxpayer foots the
bills, He viii continue to do so under
prohibition, and the bills will show no
shrinkage,--Brooklyn Eagle.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-23

present high price for that article Of
food, then nobody can, and it looks as
if the American people might have to
give up the potato as an article Of daily
food The Aroostook soil is highly ia
vorable to potato, the farmers arere have
adopted the best and most scientific
methods Of growing the tuber, and they
have the organization that is adapted
to it. Everything points there to potato
culture. But the Aroostook farmers have
met and resolved that the price of $3.50
barrel, which they get at their farms,
does not meet their expenses in raising
the crop, and that they can no longer
take the chance Of coming out even on
it.
There are certain strong indications,
indeed, that the potato is doomed as a
staple Of food From being one Of the
most easily cultivated crops, 1t has be-
come one of the most difficult TO raise
SUCCESSFULLY. 1t has more enemies than
the poor Serbians found when they at
tempted to stand up for the rights of
their fatherland. II has the Colorado
beetle, the earlier and the later bright
and several distinct varieties Of rot. The
individual tubers are eaten by white
grubs, brown grubs, cut worms and other
creatures. A particular kind Of chemi-
cal attack is required to defeat each
one Of these enemies. A spray, indeed,
may be devised which unites in one liquid
all the different kinds Of poisons needed
for the purpose, but the application of
this spray requires skill to prevent it
from killing the vines The spraying
requires labor in addition to the regular
cultivation Of the crop. And no spray
reaches the devouring grub. BY the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-23
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Would Abolish Mile and a Half Trans
portation Limit.

Editor, Barre Times: Having read
several articles in The Barre Times in
regard to the transportation of school
children, ! would like to submit the fol-
lowing for publication if you would kind
ly grant me the space.
In Groton we are, at present, trans
porting 26 scholars at cost of about
$50 a week. Thirteen of them are from
sections of the town where there once
were schools supported, but for the lack
of scholars or for the inability to get a
teacher boarded in the district, the
schools have been discontinued and the
scholars transported to some other
school. The other - are children who
live beyond the mie.and .a-half limit
from the schoolhouse.
About the time the law fling the mile.
and-a-h half limit took effect, one Of our
citizens, with family of small children,
moved into an old house on an abandoned
farm located mile and fiye-eighths from
the schoolhouse, and he has since got
over 500 a year for letting his chill
dren walk to school.
The same thing is being done all over
the state, wherever an old farmhouse or
lumber camp located more than one and
one half miles from the schoolhouse can
be found.
l think that the mile .and-a half limit
is a bad thing and should be abolished,
and the distance left to the school di-
rectors and superintendent to be de-
cided upon, with an appeal to the com
missioner of education.
G. H. Mills,
Clerk of Groton school board.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-23

spur people ON to invest. OF course, it
will be just as patriotic thing to do to
invest money now in the governments
support as it was when the war was at
its height but the influence Of the i'm
perative necessity is lacking 1t will be
cold, calculating American people rather
than a people worked mp TO fever heat
by the thought that the war might be
lost were they not to subscribe; but there
will be the compensating influence. that
government bonds at a favorable rate of
interest bought at par in q time Of peace
are by no means an investment to be
turned aside,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-23

The determination of County Agent
Sweeton of the Windham County Farm
bureau to give up his work and 60 into
practical farming on his own hook will
be seriously regretted by the farming in
terests of that county, for we read in
the Brattleboro Reformer that he "has
raised the agricultural standards of the
county to new level and has been the
means of saving thousands of dollars for
the farmers" That County Agent Sweet,
on chooses to continue in the farming oc-
cupation, with the difference that he will
be working out his own investment,
should bring new assurance that the
farming occupation when carried through
correctly is almost certain to bring good
dividends, The only regret in this case
is that Agent Sweeton is going to Con.
necticut to put his ideas into practical
operation.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-23
Getting Back to Normal.

Governor Coolidge has appointed a
committee to investigate ways and
means Of establishing business and in
dustry on a normal basis throughout the
commonwealth. This committee is made
up Of real estate man, a banker a con-
tractor, representative of a big cleo
trical and waterpower concern, and an
organized labor representative. The state
board of labor and industries is asked
to cooperate with the committee by fur
nishing helpful information and advice.
One Of the main objects Of the inquiry,
it seems, Ia to promote the unemployment
Of men now being rapidly discharged
from the military and naval service and
from various lines of war work, but the
scope of the inquiry is broader than that,
and will deal with many sides of a large
problem. The encouraging of workers Of
the Bay state TO own the homes in which
they shall live, for example, is a con-
sideration having far-reaching bearing on
the industrial and social welfare of the
commonwealth.
The task of organizing the various in
terests involved in concerted revival OF
building needs is one of no small moment
and difficulty, and presents field in
which committee of this character
should be enabled to render valuable
service to workers and the public in gen
eral Jealous, well-ordered cooperation
is urgently needed at this time to tide
the state and nation safely over the
rough and stony paths Of the readjust-
ment period. Springfield, Mass, Union.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-23

The world may fondly imagine that it
is getting complete information about
what is taking place in the discussions
between the nations concerning peace and
league of nations; but it is compare
lively slight information which is given
out as compared with the things which
actually take place, one is forced to con-
TESS What is given out to the world
takes few stiekfuls of type, while what
is actually said would require volume
or two every day, 1t seems probable,
however, that the summary of what is
actually accomplished at each session is
permitted to go out to the world, and as
that is what actually matters there will
be no general complaint,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-23

Officers of the Vermont Volunteer mill
tia are taking their duties rather serious
ly and are going through courses of
training in tactics which should fit them
for maintaining the V, V. NJ. until such
time as a Vermont National Guard, com
posed of younger men in the ranks, can
be brought into existence. The Vermont
Volunteer militia has had no real service
since the Vermont National Guard went
out Of existence but it has kept itself in
readiness for call.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-23

If the Germans are able to read Amer
lean newspapers they can learn now and
then how nearly they came to being
wiped off the map. There is no doubt
that severe blow was in the making
for Germany to feel--one that surely
would have brought decisive military
victory for the allies-but let's not be
700 childish in boasting about what We
we're going to do to Germany and the
Germans
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-23
THE ARMY AND NAVY AS A SCHOOL

THE ARMY AND NAVY AS A SCHOOL
With the glamor Of war service denied
them, great many American boys will
do the next best thing and enlist in the
army or the navy for a term of service,
which will bring them next to the equip
ment that but recently was making war.
The rapidity with which the youths are
rushing into the naval service indicates
that the spell Of war is still upon the
country, or that section of it which is
represented by youths from Is up. These
youths will probably never participate in
actual conflict but they viii get some
valuable experience from their service
under the banner of the United States,
one Of the most beneficial of the inhu-
ences being the requirement of habits Of
obedience, orderliness and regularity.
There is much TO be commended in a
system which puts youths through a
strict course of military or naval train
ing at time when they need strict dis
cipline the most; and those who volun-
tarily enter the army or the navy are
likely to come out with some good points
learned, and with no bad points fastened
on them, provided the youths are of the
right calibre at the outset.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-23

Imagine our Vermont lawmakers be-
ing subjected to daily temperature test,
clinical thermometer stuck in the
mouth of each before he is allowed to
enter the Senate or the House chambers,
and if any show temperature higher
than normal they to be barred from at
tendance! That is what the Oregon leg
islature has decided to do in order to
prevent the spread of influenza among its
members. 1t is a drastic measure but
calculated to be effective in protecting
the legislators although exposing the "hoi
polloi" outside.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-23

It is a somewhat startling statement
that the only state that will not be sc.
riously affected by the new telephone
rates which Postmaster General Burleson
has devised and put into operation is
Texas, which is Mr.. Burleson's home
state; but, if the condition is such, it
probably could not be ascribed to any
fayoritism on the part of Mr.. Bluleson
for his home state. No federal official
would try to get away with any such a
dodge as that.