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The Washington times., 1919-06-28
THE MOTOR
TRUCK

o. the genteeI Toursedan,
He's the slicker. spick and span,
An he leads life of luxury an ease;
Mr.. Roadster, he's a sport
OF the racy. reckless sort,
An Miss Electric she's a lady, IL you
I'm related to their tribe.
But amt what you'd describe
As slicker. or sportin' lueky-buck;
I'm the roughneck of the crew
I'm the coarse uncouth YahoO-
I'm the un-aristocratic Motor Truck!
I'm the sturdy son OF toll.
I'm the grim and grimy moil
An the bedlam Of the busy marts OF trade
You can pipe me of a mile
BY my rough and ready style,
An my hale an hearty hiceough on a
grade,
can carry heavy freight
At slow an steady gait
I'm the patient. plOddin sort with pep and
pluck
But I gotta groan an grunt
When 1 do my toilin' stunt,
Cause I'm just Q plain. plebeian Motor
Truck!
Where they dig an blast an bore
In the earth for oil an ore.
TwiXt the mines and mills ply with
precious loads;
Ger the rugged mountain trails
kin trundle with the malls
An they tell me I'm a bear at building
From the peaceful countryside
Where the farms an fields abide:
l transport tremendous loads OF market
truck:
O. I'm burly an I'm tough
Cause I'm built of solid stuff
I'm your bustlin', husky, rustlin' Motor
Truck
To the Furthermore advance
OF our fightin' force in France,
In the face Of them inhuman. hellish Huns
To the front-llne trenches famed
BY the breeZes from No Mans Land
I kin lug the ammunition an the guns
/ kin treck with tons OF food
Der them shelI-torn stretches strewed
With the grim debris Of battle, blood and
muck
An Til do my bit unawed,
BY the everlivin' Gawd,
As crashin', smashin' Y. S. Army Truck!
c. WILES HALLOCK in the Denver Post.
The Washington times., 1919-06-28

This column IL devoted to tbs interest OF
the autOist. All questions as to care and
upkeep. engine troubles, tours, etc, will be
cheerfully and fully answered by an expert.
Questions must reach this office not later
than Thursday to insure issue in current
week. Address all communications carr
Automobile Editor Washington Times, Civ"
Ing initials of inquirer for index purposes.
II your car IL in trouble on the road And
you need a tow or assistance avail yourself
OF The Times Auto Emergency Service, u
II yours for the asking. See notice in this
section,
The Washington times., 1919-06-28

The Hartig Tire Company, 1912
Fourteenth street northwest, has
started TO expand their business, and
have opened several branches not only
in Washington but elsewhere.
The 'Hartig people have the dis
| tribution fthe Ajax, ]. & D. and
India tires, and they intend to carry
full line of all these tires at all
their branches.
At present they have opened sales
rooms at Baltimore and Norfolk, and
are planning still further expansion.
Locally they have two branches be-
sides their main office. One OF these
is located at 1915 Eighth street south
east, and the other at 1902 NJ street
northwest.
In addition to the tires already men
toned it is the intention Of the COM
pany to handle all standard makes as
soon as arrangements can be made.
At their main salesrooms they have
added a fully equipped repair shop,
under w. +. Garrity, a factory expert
of many years experience.
The Washington times., 1919-06-28

The foregoing gives a practical In
sight into the transportation methods
OF the immediate future. Motor truck
The Washington times., 1919-06-28

License plates that are being used
for commercial cars, both for dealers
and users. are to be produced by prison
labor, bill having been passed by the
Y. legislature to that effect. Equip
ment for manufacturing the plates is
to be Installed at the Sing Sing and
Auburn prisons, and ii is said that the
State will effect a considerable saving,
as the consumption Of plates was ap-
proximately 10000 last year. It is
understood that New Jersey, which
utilities convict labor to produce its
automobile license plates, has found
the plan very economical.
In 1913 automobile manufacturers
paid a total of $4,000, 900 in taxes to
the Federal Government. In the same
period car owners paid $50, 200, 900 in
motor registration fees to the States.
Total automobile taxes including the
personal property, excise, local
charges, etc. for the year are estima-
ted at $3.50 100000. The charges will
reach 5000, 900 900 in 1919. All Of these
are paid by car owners in the last
analysis, making a total charge of
$25 per car for 1918.
Against this it should be noted that
Of the 100000 miles of highways in
the United States but $3.50 miles are
equal to the demands OF heavy duty
traffic, and this mileage is made up
of loose. unconnected links.
1t would appear from this that the
needs of the car owner have not been
considered in highway construction,
yet his taxes amount to a sum equal
to more than half of the total road
expenditures In the United States for
any single year. Evidently a national
policy is needed.
Secretary OF State Hugo CN.Y.) is
sending lists Of the 81 lenses and light
devices for eliminating
headlight glare, thus far approved,
TO the chiefs Of police, justices Of
peace, and all other officials, asking
for a strict observance Of the law.
Troopers Of the State police have re-
ceived orders to note cars operated
with glazing headlights.
Prediction IS made that within
thirty days all cars will be equipped
with non-glaring devices in conform
ity with the law.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-04
Europe's Mecca
Pas the Chief Point of Interest Of All Allied Kings Presidents, Princess
Ministers and Other Dsntane

Since the signing of the amsice
all allied kings presidents princes generals other gni-
ar Par to show lifting gratitude for the
by these visitors meets them the little railway the end
OF the Avenue de Bos Bouogne escorts them with full military hono
up the avenue OF the Arch OF Triumph and then under this
Champs Elysees
Cordon OF soldiers line both sides of the their hedge
fixed baynets they stand at salute while
quite naturally obuc the view nothing the that
the soldiers the crowds depth fifty hundred feet
Everyone who stepdd who
brings it, hours in advance the parade wonderful Avenue
Bots de Bouone and plants vantage point spite
trngs and elevated bayon they will be able coee
One may thousand of these enterpsng Parisans
mounted on stepladders viewing the pageant
Then the coge passed the proud the spders
endavor like the Arabs with their fold
away-but they don't get away with the silent part.
The efforts thousand people trying get through crowd of
$4,000 people with 1000 epdders such hat-we
nothing be done except to The Avenue of the
Stepadders."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-04
MANAGEMENT OF
THE INCUBATOR

Results of incubation depend large
ly upon the management of the ma
chimes, the first essential being good
fertile eggs from thrifty breeding
stock. Good matches cannot be OBJ
atained from poor eggs, writes an au-
thOrity.
Incubators should be tried out sew
eral days before eggs are to be put
into them. See that all parts are in
perfect working order and that the
temperature runs regularly at 103 de-
grees Fahrenheit for several hours be-
fore placing the eggs in the machine.
Never put eggs into a cold machine
nor one that is not in perfect regula-
ton and running at proper tempera-
ture.
Eggs should be turned twice daily
after the second day of incubation I'M
til the eighteenth day, when the ma
chine should be closed after the last
turning and not opened for any reason
until the chicks are all out of the shell
that are going to hatch, which should
be by the middle of the twenty-first
day of incubation.
Great quantities of moisture should
be provided. 1t is not so important
that the moisture be provided in the
machine as it is to keep the air moist
in the room where the incubators are
in operation. This can be done by
placing burlap on the floor and keep
ing it wet orsby placing layer OF
sand on thefoor and keeping it thor
Oughly wet.
Incubators should be operated in a
basement or some room that is we'll
insulated, so that the temperature
in the room can be controlled.
Incubators should be perfectly clean
when receiving eggs. A good plan is
to thoroughly wash all of the parts
and disinfect the machine thoroughly
and allow to dry before placing in
the eggs.
Run the temperature as evenly as
possible at 103 Fahrenheit throughout
the period. Air the eggs often and as
long at each airing as the temperature
in the room will permit. Sixty degrees
Fahrenheit is a good incubator cellar
temperature.
Do not change regulator unless alb
solutely necessary. Keep the lamps
clean. Keep an even flame. Keep
the char off the wick. Use only GOOD
oil.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-04
Declares Reading Is Like
a Narcotic-Cleuds Mind

The habit of reading for amusement
becomes with thousands of people ex-
actly the same kind of habit as VINE
drinking or opium smoking; 1T is ike
a narcotic, something that helps to
pass the time, something that keeps up
perpetual condition of dreaming
something that eventually results in
destroying all capacity for thought
giving exercise only to the surface
parts of the mind and leaving the
deeper springs of feeling and the nigh
er faculties of perception unemployed.
The result of all this reading means
nothing but cloudiness in the MIND.
That is the direct result. The indirect
result is that that mind has been
kept from developing itself. All de-
velopment necessarily means some
pain. and such reading as | speak of
has been employed unconsciously as q
means to avoid that pain, and the con-
sequence is atrophy.-Lafcado Hearn.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-04
White Ants in the Soudan
Dispose of Dead Vegetation

In Soudan Notes and Records plea
is made on behalf of the white ant,
which has naturally acquired bad
reputation among European residents.
The characteristic feature of the eli
mate of the Soudan is the rapid
growth of vegetation, promoted by
seasonal rains or artificial irrigation,
followed by a period or drought and
Gesiccation. The white ant attacks
vegetation only when it is weakened
by drought or disease, and in that
case the sooner it is destroyed the
better. But for the activity of the
white ant the whole of the fertile
parts of the Soudan would, in a very
few years, be covered with an impene-
trable layer of dead vegetation; and
the only alternative method to clear
it off would be by the agency OF ire,
the dangers Of which are Obvious
Nature.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-04
Tricks Found Necessary in
Getting the Ugly Crocodile
to Pose for His Photograph

1t is a habit of crocodiles to conceal
themselves in burrows in the banks
of rivers, which makes it real task.
for the photographer whose problem
is to rout them out of their holes and
get them into view of the camera. In
the American Museum Journal A. w.
DimOck gives an amusing description
of the methods he used when con-
fronted with the task of taking pic
lures of crocodiles in Florida.
1t was really exciting, says Mr..
Dimock, after locating the mouth Of
a crocodile's cave, to hang the noosed
end of rope in front of it and stand
on the bank above waiting for bite"
while my boatman busted himself
thrusting a harpoOn pole into the
earth from ten to twenty feet behind
me. In a few moments out would
rush the crocodile; then there would
be excitement at my end Of the line.
The big reptile always struggled and
fought; he clutched at the line and
rolled over and over; he swan out
into the stream and he sulked in it's,
depths, but the moose was tightly
drawn and never allowed to slip, and
the end found the creature facing the
camera on the bank.
1t was a matter of ethics that the.
crocodile should be freed when he had
posed for his photograph, and remov-'
ing the lasso called for much agility
on the part of the volunteer.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-04
First Horses in the United
States in 1929 When Oxen Did
Great Service on the Farms

The first horses imported into the
United States were brought to New
England in 1929. One shorse and
seven mares survived the voyage.
Horses were not highly esteemed
nor much needed in America at. that
time nor for hundred years after
ward. There were no race courses nor
trotting parks and the roads generally
were so poor that speed was not de-
sjrable had it been possible with
safety. Oxen were found to be much
Better for all farm work.
Most of the land was rough, rocky,
and full of StumpS, so that oxen, being
strong, patient and slow. made much
the better team for agricultural pur--
poses and numbering than did horses,
and they were cheaper kept, needing
but little grain even when at hard
work, and none at all when in pasture.
They required no expensive harness
like horses, only cheap yoke and
chain, and were quickly yoked.
Under such circumstances it is not
surprising that horses in New Eng
land were not greatly admired or much
petted, A farmer was prouder of a
yoke of large, fine red oxen, four years
old, well matched and well broken,
than of span of degenerate horses
such as were common at that time in
the country. They were seldom stabbed
OF groomed except when at work every
day. The colts until three years old
were wfntered in the yard, in order, it
was supposed, to make them tough and
hardy
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-04

sailors. in charge of an army officer.
is the military headquarters of the
post and the home of blind officers.
The government has erected six build
ings at a cost of $2500O0. These are
two used as barracks for enlisted men
with sight, who attend to the upkeep
of the place; a school, a manual train
ing building, a recreation building and
gymnasium and swimming pool.
Evergreen has the double function
of a hospital for the men while they
need medical care and a school in
which they are fitted to carry on"
The aim is officially stated:
ITO equip the blind man so that
upon his dismissal from the service of
the United States he may take his
place as a self-suppOrting, self-respect-
ing individual in society or be pre-
pared to receive further instruction
of the federal board of vocational edu-
cation"
The patients are either totally blind
or so deficient in vision that they are
precluded from re-entering the usual
occupations or even normal home life
without some training.
"If 1t is borne in mind" says "Point-
ing the Way" booklet describing
Evergreen, ''that despair is the natural
reaction of those who are suddenly
stricken with blindness, it will be read
lily appreciated that Evergreen cannot
be used solely as a school for trade
training and higher education, but that
courses have to be arranged to teach
the blind men how to be blind; to
teach them that, though blind, they are
still normal men; to impress upon
them the Importance of observing the
usual conventions of life; the neces-
sity for strictly living up to the rules
of personal hygiene, of advantages ac-
! cruing from association with normal
people; to afford them an opportunity
TO develop latent senses so that in a
large measure these may be substitute
ed for the lost sight"
Value of Physical Training.
The courses that every man who
goes TO Evergreen are required TO take
are physical training, fundamental
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-04

lie In his blindness. Owners of fac
tories are learning. right here in New
York and wherever old prejudices are
being swept away by demonstrated
truth that they have work the blind
can do as well as those who can see.
Ability to earn a good living is be-
coming ordinary rather than eXcep-
tiOnal, thanks TO the teaching at such
places as ST.. Dunstan's in London and
Evergreen in Baltimore, where all
Americas blinded soldiers, sailors and
marines go to have the way pointed by
the government and the Red Cross
Institute for the Blind.
The number of men who have come
out of the war blinded is far less than
most people suppose. 1t is safe to say
that the figure of blind veteran polk
ing along with cane or being led
along the streets was common in the
vision of those trying to imagine con-
ditions after the war. Somehow. prob
ably because the blinded soldier is the
most appealing to the feeling. of pity
and is held in special affection among
those wounded, and because of gen
eral belief that shell shock and gas
sing often destroy the eyesight, the
notion has been prevalent that blind
ness would have big place in the
casualty lists. This is not true.
The latest United States army re-
port is that 227 men out of the mil
lions we sent into the national service
have been blinded. Small as is this
total students believe that this figure
is too large. Among the allies the
proportion of blinded men among the
total casualties has been one in 1900,
and there is no apparent reason why
the American rate should not CORE
spond with this.
Beautiful Home Now Hospital.
The place whittier blinded American
fighters are taken when they return
to this country is formally United
States army general hospital No. 4.
Actually it is one of the loveliest spots
imaginable. 1t is at Guilford, suburb
of Baltimore, on the 100-acre Ever
green estate of Mrs. T. Harrison Gar
rett. which she has loaned TO the gov
eminent. The Garrett home is now
the home of the blind soldiers and
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-04
TarantuIas Construct Their
Burrows and Nest in Ground

Tarantu1as are plentiful in the
rough. broken country in the southern
part of California. They are repulslve-
looking creatures, with fat, hairy bod
les, overplentiful wiry legs and cruel
poison mandibles. They stay in their
burrows during the dry season, but
as soon as the rains begin they sally
forth. The tarantula constructs very
skillful burrow and nests in the ground.
1t has a cover SO nicely fitted that 1T
can scarcely be detected from the
surrounding soil. The cover opens
and shuts upon a hinge and on the
inside are holes into which the occu-
pant thrusts its mandibles and thus
"holds the FORT against intruders.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-04
Electricity Plays a Part
in the Formation of Hail
According to One Theory

The formation of hail through cleo
trio action, according to one theory, is
an interesting and even wonderful
process. The wind draws out cloud
into a long, narrow strip. In that
form, owing to the great amount of
surface exposed to the air, the cloud
evaporates rapidly, producing intense
cold.
Dry particles Of snow are then
formed and these, by friction with
water drops, quickly become charged
with negative electricity. But the
water drops carry positive electricity,
and since negative attracts positive a
film of water is formed upon each snow
particle and is instantly frozen into a
layer of ice.
At this thickness it's outer surface
remains moist, the water not freezing
so rapidly there, whereupOn the cleo
trio charge changes from negative to
positive and the particle is repealed by
the water drops and driven to the outer
parts of the cloud. Here the increased
cold covers it with snow, and friction
charges it anew with negative cleo
tricity.
Repulsion is now once more changed
for attraction, and the particle rushes
back into the cloud, receiving upon it's
surface another film of water, which
is turned into a second ice layer.
Thus the growing hailstone darts
zigzag through the cloud, piling up
it's alternate layers of snow and ice,
until gravitation gains control and
sends it with jingling crowd of it's
fellows spinning to the ground.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-04

Zealand. 1t is solicited turpentine
of the kauri, a wonderful tree which
only f1ourishes in New Zealand
The gum is found in the earth and
dug up like peat, and also on the forks
of living trees, says the Wide World
Magazine. That taken from the ground
is the fossilized remains of what were,
in the ages long ago, forests of SPLEEN
did kauri trees. The extent of the in
dustry may be gagged when it is
stated that between 5000 and 1900
tons of this gum is exported annually
from New Zealand.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-04
SCIENTIFIC NOTES

To conserve iubricating oil
practically all machinery in Swe-
den has been given ball bear
ings.
Colorado led the states for
production of tungsten last year,
with California in second place
and Nevada third.
Berlin inventors have perfect
ed a process employing electric
ity for coating only one side of
q sheet of metal with tin.
A quickly attached paper
cover for tumblers has been in
vented that is said TO keep car
donated drinks fresh until
wanted.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-04
His Achievement.

81 tried to dodge motorcycle" ex-
nlained the gent from Jimpson Junc-
zion. IT throwed myself back ami
fetched up in front of motorcar. 1t
rave n boot and / gave a yell AMI
inmped sideways and bumped into a
fat man and glanced off and rolled IN
dor popcorn wagon. In trying 20
scramble out / caught my toe on the
edge of the curbing and frogged for
ards with my head under the swing
sng door of saloon, and eight or ten
6.aIlerS coming out walked on me.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-04
Discovers the "Watch Tick"

An Illinois watch repairer discov-
cred what he terms a watch tick. "
He says it's new tick in watch, and
makes its home inside the works. A
watch was brought in TO him for re-
pair. In taking the works apart the
Waterman discovered a tiny insect in
side. It iad made a nest there.