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The Washington times., 1919-06-28
SPRINGS PROTECT
MOTORS OF AUTOS

Springs are a great deal more i'm
portant to the motor than to the
giant locomotive. In the motor car
the springs must AFFORD something
else besides riding. comfort-they
must protect the power plant from
the continuous bouncing over ruts
and bad roads that lifts the wheels
from the ground and brings them
down with a smashing crash.
The locomotive does not have to
run over these roads. It has a solid,
smoothly polished rail on which to
travel. Yet, even with its truck
springs, driving springs and equal
izing beams, the locomotive does not
last so hong as the motor car. I'm
agine how long the locomotive would
stand up travelling through deep
sand, rough and rutty roads and
gravel turnpikes that are full Of hid
den boulders. Still this is precisely
the kind Of roads that the motor car
must go through day after day.
Now, the law OF mechanics, from
which the basis of. all locomotion Is
figured, teaches US that it is diff
cult thing to keep a high-speed mo-
tor running on a solid foundation
a still more difficult thing to keep 1t
running right on foundation NOV
! ing in one direction on a level path
and a vastly more difficult PROPOSE
ton to keep motor running on lit
/ tie or no foundation at all, and con-
tinualIy moving not only forward,
but sidewise and up and down.
It Is really a mystery OF the age
that the motor car power plants have
stood this hammering day after day
as well as they have, when we con-
slider that the engine must resist this
Wrenching, the bearings must absorb
these shocks without cramping, and
the bolts and nuts must endure these
strains.
The American automotive engineers
have given q great deal Of thought
and study to the springs as a pro-
The Washington times., 1919-06-28
WAR DEPT. NOT TO
SELL ANY AUTOS

The director Of sales OF the War
Department has approved the trans
fer of the entire present surplus OF
serviceable motor equipment held by
the army in the United States to
other Government departments.
This action is in accordance with
Congressional policy as outlined in
the Postoffice appropriation acts ap-
proved July 2, 1918, and in February
%, 1919, and act approved March 3.
1919, authorizing the Secretary OF the
Treasury to provide hospital facilities
for dischared soldiers, sailors, and
marines. By the appropriation act OF
July 2, 1918, authorization was given
for the transfer Of surplus motor
equipment to the Postoffce Depart
ment and the act of February %,
1919. embraced similar authorization
for the transfer of any part OF this
surplus stock to the Department OF
Agriculture. BY the act of March 3,
1919. the Secretary Of War was d.
rected to transfer surplus motor
equipment to the Public Health Ser
vice.
The transfer disposed Of approx
mately 39,100 vehicles, including
5000 motorcycles. $500 passenger
cars and about 10000 trucks. The
Postoffice Department will receive
10.064 OF these vehicles; the Public
Health Service, 1896, and the Bureau
Of Public Roads, Department OF
Agriculture, 1888.
Because of their special design or
condition, a very limited number Of
passenger cars and trucks included
in the surplus stock has already been
found to be unserviceable for Gov
eminent use. These, and such others
as may later be cullec out for similar
cause in the course Of the"inspection,
which will be made incident to the
transfer to the other governmental
agencies, will be sold at public auc-
ton at the various camps and stor-
age yards at which they have been
collected, after the sales have been
duly advertised through the press.
Erroneous reports to the enect
that the War Department, would Of
fer to the public a large stock. of
motor equipment, including new pas
senger automobiles, have been wide
ly circulated. 1t was never the in
tention Of the War Department, in
view OF above mentioned acts Of
Congress, to so dispose OF its motor
vehicles. 1t has consistently follow
ed the policy of transferring all such
vehicles as promptly as they were
declared surplus, to the PoStodirH
Department, the Department OF Agri-
culture, the Public Health Service, or
by sale to other Governmental
agencies requiring such equipment
The Washington times., 1919-06-28
TELL HOW TO ORGANIZE
RURAL MOTOR EXPRESS

The national motor truck commit
tee of the National Automobile
Chamber Of Commerce, has issued a
booklet giving information on the
proper method of organizing a rural
motor express line. The booklet calls
attention to the services which can
be rendered by rural motor express
lines and II tells how the scale of
charges must be determined and
what details should be noted in max
ing a preliminary survey of the route
over which trucks are to travel 1t
tells how the canvass of prospective
customers can be carried out; how
the owner can boost his business by
an advertising campaign. 1t also
gives vital suggestions concerning
operating methods and how to deal
with farmers.
The booklet is written especially
for individual carriers and small
operators, and contains a great deal
of information which the prospective
operator should know.
The Washington times., 1919-06-28
AUTOMOTTVE
SECTION
PUSHING THE CAR
TESTS BEARINGS
II

In the selection Of bearings for
his car or truck, the manufacturer
takes into consideration two things:
cost and performances, according to
"A K. Hebnerd, general manager
Bearings Service company, Detroit,
With bearings, more than with any
other parts of his product, the manu-
( facturer is more inclined to place
performance before cost.
The same quality cannot reason
ably be looked for, however, in the
flow-cost car that can be expected
I'm the costly scar. Generally you
can test out some of the bearings
of a car simply by pushing it. 1t
will be found that a high priced
car, even when much heavier, can
sometimes be moved more easily than
a lighter, low-cost car, due to its
better bearings.
There are three classes OF install
lations. The first includes bearings
on the fan shaft, the clutch and the
starting motor, the steering gear,
and so on, but these can not be con-
sidered, because at these points bear
The Washington times., 1919-06-28
VAR DEPARTMENT NOT TO SELL CARS I
AUTOMOTTVE
SECTION

Tire and Rubber Company Is an an
nual field day for employees. At the
main plant at Akron. Ohio. the cottou
mills at Goodyear. Conn, and the
cotton plantations at Phoenix, Ark,
are held some OF the most unique
field and track meets staged any
where in America.
The annual affair held at Phoenix,
Ark, is the only field meet held in tho
State. The big one Just promoted
there was one OF the most successful
ever held in the West. Athletes from
the two Goodyear plantations matched
their abilities in the keenest rivalry.
Among the events not usually found
IN field sports in the East was q
bueking broncho contest, In which
real Western broncho busters con-
tended for supremacy, furnishing
many "thrillers" for the vast crowd In
attendance, while moving picture men
from. the coast cranked away roll
after roll OF ilm-
The Washington times., 1919-06-28

tector to the power plant, and tAS
Paige engineers, aleet to every engi-
neering practice that makes for
longer life in motor cars, have after
many rigid tests, adoptsd the eanti-
lever type springs and carefully pro-
portioned them to keep them hori-
zontal and in this way prevent exces-
sive motion.
As a result Of this method OF plae-
ing springs, the car slips over the
ruts and rough roads, and the springs
cushion the UP and down motion. M
stead OF meeting these ruts hsa1-on
and bouncing over them and JarrtnS
the occupants.
The Washington times., 1919-06-28
RUBBER FACTORIES WAR
VETERANS IN BIG PARADE

The Chamber Of Commerce of
Akron, Ohio, is completing plans for
holding a mammoth parade on the
Fourth Of July to honor the soldiers
who participated in the world war.
Each OF the big rubber factories OF
the city will be represented by its
ex-service men. The Goodyear Tire
and Rubber Company now has $500
men in its employ who saw service
with our army and navy forces, all
of whom will march as a unit in the
pageant.
The Washington times., 1919-06-28
GOODYEAR employees IN
BIG ARIZONA FIELD MEET

PHOENIX, ARK, June 2s.-An es-
tablished institution at each Of the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
Made More Than Half of Quota.

The rural auxiliaries made more
than half of the pajamas in the quota
of 404 assigned to the Keokuk chap
ter, making 231 suits.
! ''They did wonderfully fine work,
too" said Mrs. Chenoweth. They
have made since December goo
!handkerchiefs and 16S petticoats be-
side the knitting work they have
done in the department in charge of
Mrs Charles Van Sittert. They
have had to go miles to get to the
place of meeting to do their sewing.
and then to accomplish so much
means faithful work for busy
women" continued Mrs. Chenoweth.
The auxiliary at Primrose under
the direction of Mrs. H. w. Benja-
min, has sent in about 200 garments
for Belgian and French refugees.
Many of the garments were new and
were made by the members Of the
auxiliary.
Mrs. Chenoweth has had charge Of
the sewing work of rural auxiliaries
since last August and has been an
inspector in the sewing department
ever since the Red Cross shop was
opened.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
FIRST TALK
TO WARSAW
It Was Done Thirty-seven Years Age
When the First Telephone Line
Connected the TWO
Cities.

The first telephone connection be
tween Keohuk and Warsaw was estab-
1ished in August 1882, and the warsaw
end OF the line was in the Brinknan
drug store, the Bulletin learns from its
old files
w. H Dolbear, Western Union man
ager at Keok1lk for many years, wes
nephew Of the great scientist OF the
same name, VINO is believed by many
to be the actual inTentor Of the tele-
phone. Manager Dolbear had probable
the first telephone west OF the Mississ-
tppi river, and his conversations with
the railroad agent at Carthage, Illi-
nois, over the telegraph wire at night
was undoubtedly the first Transmission
OF sounds by wire across the Mtssiss-
ippi river.
The KeokrIk-Warsaw commercial
line in 1882, was one OF the early toll
lines in the beginning Of What is now
a great industry.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
NO COLD WAVE
is FOR kEOkUk
The Best Old Boreas Can Do is Still
Far Above the Zero Mark
on the Their
nor1eter.

The tail end of the blizzard that
swept Nebraska the other day
whipped across the face of Keokuk
this morning. 1t showed little and
the wind blew in gusts and swirls,
but it did not get very cold.
The official thermometer reached
26 degrees above zero at it's lowest
ebb last night, but the forecast this
morning was for slightly colder
weather tomorrow morning which
still will not be really cold.
The lowest temperature in the
United States this morning was at
Bismarck, n. D., where 1t was de-
grees above zero in the very core OF
the cold wave coming down from the
northwest on the heels of the storm,
the center of which was around Buff.
falo. n. Y, this morning.
There are no prospects now of
anything approaching zero weather
here at Keokuk.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
TAKE BEST IN
GROCERY LOOT
Boxes from a Wholesale Company
Warehouse Hidden In the
Old and Empty Hotel
keokuk.

If they had been given time to go
back and get some syrup and butter,
the thieves who stole self rising flour
and asparagus tips from the Hamill
grocery jobber's warehouse, would
have had the materials for a good
meal.
: A couple of big boxes of the best
brand of self-r1Sing flour and box
of two dozen pounds of the best Cali
fornia short, white asparagus tips,
was the loot. The boxes were car
ried from the rear of the warehouse
to the old and empty Hotel Keokuk
and placed in room on the first
floor through window.
The police tracked the thieves to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
Two Contracts Signed.

/ United Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-The rail
road administration toby signed two
formal operating contracts A standard
rental OF s3S,552 ,92S was guaranteed
the Union Pacific and six subsidiaries.
The Central New England was given
return OF s1,46S,123
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
Transport Due FEB. "a.

L United Press Leased Wire Service. !
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-Tha trans
port Orize.ba, Bordeaux for New York
IS due about February "a with head
quarters company, supply company,
ordnance and medical detachment and
batteries A, B, c, D, E and F OF the
S54th field artillery (S7th dfvision)
for Camp Dix, Devins, Funston, Pike.
Dodge and regular army.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15

their cache and recovered the goods
when Officers Wilson and Conn were
assigned to the case after the loss
was discovered by the grocery
people. The theft occurred before
closing time last evening.
Walter Stice spent the night in
the city jail booked for being drunk
and trespassing.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
Bic Fire on Island.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
SAVANNAH, Ga, Feb. 15.-Ap-
proximately 100000 damage was
done by fire which swept Hutchin-
son island, opposite Savannah, late
yesterday, according to unofficial
estimates early today.
The Southern Fertilizer works, in
which the blaze is believed to have
started, is In ruins.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
Philippines LEGISLATURE,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-The Phil
ippines legislature Just closed, has
passed an appropriation of thirty mil
lion pesos to extend universal free ed
ucation in the islands.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
Against the Primary Law.


There is a bill in the legislature
which licenses steam engineers, and
providing that no man may operate a
steam engine until he has passed an
examination by state board to test
his qualifications. This bill was en-
dorsed by the assembly, as tending
to raise the standard of that trade.
The shot firers in the mining dis
tricts have bill they want passed,
and the assembly endorsed it as
being equitable.
The objections to the Iowa primary
law, growing out of It's operation
practically for few years, are
shared by the labor element, as well
as nearly everybody else in the state.
and the assembly went on record
against it and asking for it's repeal.
The resolution has already been
passed by the Fort Madison assem-
bly, and is addressed to Senator
Frailey and Representative Oertle.
Never Timid; Always Conservative.
The meeting of the Keokuk as.
sembly last night was marked by
keen debates, 1t is the clearing house
for ideas striking the constituent
unions, or labor leaders in Keokuk,
and somebody is sure to take both
sides of almost every question com
ing up.
But the assembly evidently feels
its responsibility as a balance wheel
of the organized labor mechanism
and showed last evening that 1t is
determined TO look well before it
leaps in any direction. Sometimes
the debates were lively, and they
were generally instructive, especially
just now when SO many new angles
of new problems in economics and
sociology are coming up ali over the
world.
Never tiunid, but always conserva.
tive-that was the outstanding char
acter of the Keokuk Trades and
Labor Assembly at its regular meet
ing last night, and the words were
used by one of it's officers as denot
ing its permanent policy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15

like tender flowers bile
constipation be absorbed the
tongue white breath fevsh, stomach
good safe gently but thoroughly clean
coggedup Children love take Ce the candy cath
which INJURIES dappons Each 10
children old and upwards
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15

New York City put 1917 1000 600
into rapid transit development with
out diminishing the rush hour jams.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
A Wilma Worker.

Since last August she has. in some
weeks gone every day to the shop,
and every week she has gone two or
three days. She has worked much
of the time on the assembling com
mittee, which means, to pin into a
bundle all the parts of garment,
ready to give out to the sewing
women. The garments have been
cut at the Irwin-Phillips garment fac
tory, but assembled at the Red Cross
shop.
Mrs. Alfred E. Buck and Mrs. John
Burrows have been most faithful as
sistants of Mrs. Chenoweth In the
work of inspecting garments made
by the rural auxiliaries.
None of the equipment of the Red
Cross work shop is to be sold The
tables, sewing machines and other
articles are to be stored when the
shop is finally closed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
|KEOKUk LABOR
BODY CAUTIOUS
liz EXHIBITS a Tendency to Study Well
Present Questions Before Making
q Decision on Supporting
Either Side.
FOR REPEAL OF PRIMARY
Sends Question Of Support Of Govern
ment Ownership of Railroads to
Referendum Of the
Unions Here.

The Keokuk Trades and Labor AS
sembly last evening referred the
lauestion of endorsement OF govern
lment ownership of railroads to ref
ierendum, endorsed the bill to license
steam engineer in Iowa, and the shot
firers bill of the miners, endorsed the
repeal Of the present primary cleo
ton law, and by its debates and
speeches from the floor proved itself
very much alive to present day prob
lens, and at the same time conserva-
tive in its attitude of wanting to look
well before it leaps.
Credentials were filed by new dele
gates from the two constituent
unions and they were admitted as
follows:
Cigar makers-D. J. Kenny, Frank
Goetz, John Mckenzie, Frank Noel
Her
/ Painters and decorators William
! Bowman, C. l.. Hardy, 0. r. Dunn,
VIM. H. Vance.
the secretary had big bunch of
circular letters imploring the assem-
bly, to endorse the railroad govern
ment ownership movement, some OF
which We're from people having no
connection whatever with organized
labor, and some Of which were from
other labor bodies.
To Get Expression from Members.
After some debate and mature de-
liberation, the following resolutions
were adopted:
Whereas. various central bodies
throughout the United States
having taken action favoring
government ownership of certain
public utilities and the request
having been made on the assem-
bly, from various sources to take
similar action. Be it therefore
Resolved. that the delegates of
the Keokuk Trades and Labor
Assembly are hereby instructed
to take up the question of gov
eminent ownerships with their
respective local organizations at
their next regular meeting,
thereby giving the individual
member of every organization an
opportunity to express his view
and sentiment for or against the
government ownerships PROPOSE
ton. Further be it
Resolved. that the various
local organizations affiliated with
the Keokuk Trades and Labor
Assembly instruct their delegates
of action taken to be reported at
he next meeting of the assem-
bly,
This vii. get the expression of
opinions OF all the members Of or
ganized labor In Keokuk.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
'AUX|L|AR|ES OF
| mrs. CHEN0WETH
Rural Community Women Did Won
derful Work for Red Cross
Under Exceptional
Difficulties.
WENT MILES TO WORK
Mrs. chenoweth Proved Remarkable
Executive, and Very Indus
trious, Energetic Red
Cross Worker.
WENT MILES TO WORK

"If you want to see some real work
without any frills to it nor grand
standing. you ought to look up what
Mrs Chenowata has been doing IN
the Red Cross" said man of OBJ
servation and penetration to The
Gate City.
Investigation developed that Mrs.
Chenoweth is capable executive
who has worked hard-and incident
ally that her department of rural
auxiliaries of the Keokuk Red Cross
have earned several medals.
Mrs. Chenoweth and the sixteen
rural auxiliaries of the Red Cross
under her supervision are not going
to lay aside their needles.
They have now accepted quota
of twenty layettes for Belgian refu-
gees. Each layette includes a num-
Der of garments, so that the quota
means d hundred or more separate
articles to be made.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-26
GERMANY Gets
M0REF00D NOW
The Situation Is Improving
Throughout Country;
Tobacco Famine On.

Berlin, Germany, Nay 26--The ar
rival Of American food shipments has
caused a decided improvement in the
food situation in Germany. Moderate
quantities OF fats are now doled out.
and there is some milk for the chill
dren- Altogether the task Of keeping
alive looks brighter than it has for
a long time.
The problem that now asserts it.
self with pronounced emphasis IN the
existancs OF the German people is
that of smokes. Friedrichstrasse and
Leipzigerstrasse are thickly dotted
with war invalids offering suspicious
substitutes for cigars and cigarets
that differ only in the labels on the
boxes The filings are about the
same IN all One-third tobacco and
two-thirds cabbage or beech leaves
in many instances no tobacco at all
The price Of these cigarets rangs
from 10 10 cents each. A quarter
VIII buy cigar. This is an excess
sive price considering that before the
war cigars made exclusively from
real tobacco could be had at 10 3
cents each.
The hue and cry OF Germany's
smoking pOpulation-and that in
cludes practically every person from
IL years UPS tobacco. Not neces-
sarilv American tobacco, but tobacco
Of some kind from anywhere.
Dealers and manufacturers whom 7
have interviewed figure that Ger
many,s present tobacco supply viii be
completely exhausted BY the end Of
June As consequence OF this pros
pect prices are advancing still higher,
H|a. ri 4aaaa
ing smaller.
At the office OF the wen known
cigaret manufacturer. Garbaty, I wa
told that the reason for the long
paper mouthpleces on their cigarets
was the necessity OF diminishing the
and stiI give them a presentable
length
At Gustav Kaphun's, a firm that
operates a chain Of cigar stores Ia
Berlin the Entente occupation OF the
Balkans was blamed for the threat
ening cigar and cigaret famine.
81 used 10 get practically all or
our cigaret tobacco from the Bal
kans, but now We cannot get a single
leaf" stated the office manager an
other factor in the tobacco situation
is that most Of Germany's cigar and
cigaret factories are located in the
districts occupied BY the allies.
Finally. vast quantities OF raw and
manufactured tobacco were stolen
during the revolution"
Berlin cigar dealers are closing
their stores. Those still in operation
are open only two or three hours
daily Manufacturers are gradually I
dismissinE their workers in ratio with I
the dimunition Of the tobacco supply {
Unless succor comes soon all Germany e
viii be committing suicide through I
habitual inhalation Of poisonous /
beech leaf fumes