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The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17
THE HIGHWAY
CONGRESS RESOLUTION

Washington, D. c., January 81
The Importance of the recent highway
congress held in Chicago in Decem-
ber was greatly increased by the meet
ing of chairmen of the two hundred
and sixty-five war service committees
of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States in New York on JAN
uary 3rd, who not only concurred in
the action of the highway congress
but unanimously endorsed the resolu-
tion of the congress calling for fed
eral highways commission, a national
highway system and an extension of
the present federal aid system. Mr..
S. NJ. Williams. chairman of the war
service committee or highways and
president of the Highway Industries
Association, stated while in New York
attending the above meeting, that the
action of the chairmen of the war SER
vice committees of the Chamber of
Commerce is strictly in accord with
the feeling of business men generally
throughout the entire country, as fur
ther shown by hundreds of kilograms
and letters from Chambers of Com
merce, national and state trade as
sociations, rotary clubs and various
organizations of commercial and agri-
cultural interests endorsing the high
way resolution and offering every
cooperation for the enactment of ma
tional legislation that will remedy the
present inefficiency and provide for
active federal participation and con-
troll over our national highways. The
public generally is awakened to the
fact that the highways Of our coun-
try are too great an Importance to be
side issue Of any department Of the
government, with all respect to the
departments, and will demand that he
fore any material extension of the
present federal aid or additional ap.
preparations for national highways
they will demand that they be placec
under the control of separate anc
distinct federal highway commission
whose sole duty will be to study ant
guide the powerful economic develop
ment of highways nationally and t<
cooperate with the state highway de
partments in their individual prob
lens. When the present federal ait
law was enacted it specifically pro
vided that before any state could par
ticipate in the benefits of federal ait
they must have established highwa.
department. If state highway depart
ments, separate and distinct from 9th
er state departments, were necessar.
and they We're, a federal highway de
partment is of greater Importance ant
should be established by law with n
delay.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17
REFUSES TO SIT IN
BRITISH PARLIAMENT

One woman, the first ever accorded
that honor, has just been elected to a
seat in the British parliament.
Now she refuses to sit in it!
Countess Markiewicz-(good old
English name!)-is the woman who
was elected.
She likes the parliamentary seat
we'll enough, but her political party,
the Irish Sim Feinners, by whom she
was elected, are all pledged to refuse
to take their seats in parliament as
a protest against British rule over
ireland.
Countess Markiewicz was sentenced
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17
TUBERCULOSIS HAS
GAINED IN BELGIUM

Recent tuberculosis Investigations
among Belgians indicate that this dis
ease has increased greatly among civ
ilians, especially young women en-
ployed in munition and industrial
plants. Reports show also that there
has been large increase in this dis
ease in that part of Belgium which
was until recently occupied by the
Germans.
To meet this condition the Belgians
have raised 100000 francs, and the
American Red Cross has purchased a
chateau in Auvergne, France, to be op-
Grated as Belgian tuberculosis hos
pital.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17
PEERAGES FOR OFFICERS.

Field Marhal Haig and Vice-Admi-
raj Beatty, who led the British land
and naval forces, are to be made earls,
according to the London papers. This
is to give recognition to their services
in the war. 1t is stated that Generals
Plummer, Byng, Rawlinson and AL
lenby also will be raised to the peer
age, and perhaps others. In each
case the title is to be accompanied
by a grant Of money.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17

increases in the number Of animals
slaughtered under federal supervision.
In October, 1918, the cattle, calves.
sheep, goats and swine thus inspect
ed, numbered 5,787,202, in comparison
with 4,787,544 in October, 1917. The
number for the 10 months ending Oc-
tober, 1918, was 50,760,507, and for
the 10 months ending October, 1917,
it was 45.936.883,
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17

A mezzo tint engraving Of Harriet
Beecher Stowe, done by Jennie Brown
combe, is on sale in the art shop of
the Red Cross chapter, St. Paul, Minn.,
and it is expected that the picture will
sell for an unusual price. Antique
furniture and four sewing machine mo-
tors are among the articles which sell
almost invariably on the day they are
donated. More than $100 was taken
in by the shop one day last week.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17

one of the schools for mutiles and
learning some trade-I couldn't quite
make out what-to support her as
soon as possible. When see cour-
age like that-it's just one Of those
things you can't talk about"
These last few paragraphs give
some idea of the splendid work that
is being carried on by our Red Cross
women in France, even since the sign
ing of the armistice. The following
letter was dated November 22:
"They're moving the Americans out
of Vichy and to the west coast as fast
as ever they can. They're sending
them home; large numbers are sail
ing every day; unbelievable but true!
Every boy who has been injured, even
in the least degree, and all the more
seriously wounded, are put on the
transports the very moment they are
able to be moved.
"The war is over and we can't be-
lieve it for joy. We've served our
last newly wounded train, thank heav-
en-. They've been mighty happy men
who've come through the canteen this
week, no matter what nationality. And
now the crowd has begun to lessen and
we are thinking maybe the work is
going to change, and the need here be
less great, and we may be transferred.
We can't tell one day what the NOR
row will bring forth. l think we all
feel that now.
"No more guns rumbling anywhere
in France. So many thankful souls
in the world this week; Of course a
great many sad ones.
"I have all the marketings to dc
these days, for the canteen and Villa
both. That means lot Of my free
time gone and it is really bit hard
when one is on the midnight shift.
81 haven't told you word about
last Sunday, November II, have Z? OF
course, suppose everyone at home
was remembering the fact that it was
the day for the occupation of SO much
retaken territory. Here, as all owe,
France, there were great celebrations
The whole town of St. Germain con
gregated at the station in the after
noon. The band played God Save th'
King the Belgian hymn, the italian
national air, the Star Spangled Ban
ner, the Marseilles, everyone at atten
tion, soldiers with wonderful salutes
civilians uncovered, many, many tears
There was much vive lAmerikue
whereupon we twelve canteen workers
with a few American boys, gave fortl
much vivel' France. And then they ask
ed me to sing the Marseilles. Th'
band played while sang and most O.
us were at the point of tears. Som
way, there was something about being
in a little town like this that got
me more than if I'd been in Paris
because here know so many of th
faces; l could call so many Of then
by name. 1t was an experience l shall
never forget.
GAS the celebrators were about t.
disband some one suggested that
sing The Star Spangled Banner No
thing would do but I must sing it
They put me upon table and tn
musicians stood around it, and I look
ed down on that sea of faces and sang
"Then three men came bearing flag
the priest of the village and tn
mayor carrying the Tricolor, and be
tween them soldier carrying our ow7
good flag. First the priest sal
thanks; then the mayor thanked m
for the village population for having
voiced their JOY, and finally the sol
diers thanked me for the military
and ended by saying 'Vive PAmerique
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17

Observance of the Silent Moment
each day at noon, in Red Cross work
rooms throughout the country, should
be continued now as before the sign
ing of the armistice, according to G..
E. Scott, general manager OF the
American Red Cross, Washington, D..
C. Mr.. Scott's opinion is that although
victory for the allies has been attain
ed, the Red Cross should unite in the
prayer for the nations fulfillment of
it's ideals and for it's continuance in
the support Of American soldiers and
sailors until the last man may be re-
leased from foreign service.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17
RED CROSS NOTES

Rome, Italy-(By mail.)-1n Italy
Spanish influenza patients are fed on
milk. When the epidemic struck this
country, the American Red Cross
throughout Italy organized distribu-
ton of condensed milk among the suf-
ferers.
One can Of condensed milk diluted
with water gives three quarts of milk.
About two pints and a half are allot-
ted daily to each person.
The demand has been so great re-
Gently that 4,5o0 cases, containing
216,OOO cans of condensed milk were
shipped by the Department of Civil
Affairs of the American Red Gross
from Rome to the district organiza-
tions.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17

and Mrs. Pethic Lawrence, militant
suffragists, and Mary Macarthur,
head of the British Women's Trade
unions.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17

outskirts of Paris. The fighting is
stopped, but the tale should be told.
The soldiers had taken part in one
of these recent actions. The ambu-
lances began arriving at dusk and the
injured were tenderly unloaded and
carried into well-prepared wards
where the doctors and nurses began
their work. That hospital was put
up in two weeks. The drive, and the
wounded, had been expected.
The first relay of wounded which
rolled up numbered some 300 and the
boys were down and out, as tearing
shells and gas and the rest can put
them out. Besides the nurses, there
were 80 Virginia doctors, and 200
corps men to receive them. A thous-
and well-prepared Yanks can now tes-
tify that the Red Cross people did
their work WE'LL . ...
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17

One hundred girls from the south
ern states, Red Cross graduate nurs-
es. have earned the thanks of some
1000 Yanks at a base hospital Oh the
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17

MORE MEAT INSPECTED.
Additional tasks performed under
war conditions by the meat-inspection
service of the United States depart
ment of agriculture are indicated by
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17

Paris-(By mail.) - Frenchmen
henceforth will teach their children
that America and France ":must be
for them one single Fatherland," ac-
cording to a letter received by the
American Red Cross here from H.
Douillet, French army lieutenant.
He characterized Americas new re-
lations with France as "this filial bond
this unheard-of thing of patriotism
reaching across the ocean to make of
two distinct countries. one single Fa-
therland, to create the same duties
for all, the same discipline, the same
feelings of tender solicitude and de-
votion, the same joy in conquering or
dying!"
Thanking the Red Cross for the
comforts of the army canteen and re-
lief work, he added: "Thank you
above all for our little children, whom
we shall teach henceforth that Amer
ica and France must be for them but
one single Fatherland."
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17

Jerusalem-(By mail.)-A plan to
increase at once the diminishing food
supply of this region by placing plow-
ing oxen at the disposal Of native
farmers unable to own them, has been
launched here by the American Red
Cross.
The organization plans to buy large
numbers of oxen, to be rented out by
the day at nominal rates, or resold
at cost to farmers.
There are at present in this district
about IS plowing animals against 418
before the war; and food production
is at a menacing level.
The Glasgow courier., 1919-01-17

No city in Minnesota enjoyed a mer-
rier Christmas than did Cloquet, which
was almost wholly destroyed in the
form guaranteed quality. The farm
a city of shacks.
On tall pine tree erected in the
Garfield school-the only Cloquet
school which was not destroyed by
fire-were $4,000 worth of Christmas
gifts from the Junior Red Cross of
Minneapolis.
American soldiers in and out Of the
hospitals are still talking about the
entertainment and turkey feast pro-
vided for them on Christmas by the
American Red Cross.
Every Yankee fighting man who ap-
peared at any Of the four Red Cross
canteens between noon and night time
on Christmas received an old fashion
ed Christmas dinner, served by Red
Cross girls who are determined that
the boys from back home are to have
so much attention during the holidays
that they will forget all about cooties,
trench feet and other worries.
The men in hospitals woke up on
Christmas morning to find that dur
ing the night Santa Claus had left a
sock filled with goodies and the best
wishes from home at every bedside.
Christmas trees and evergreen decor
ations in every ward added to the at
mosphere Of good cheer.
At Paris headquarters of the Red
Cross there was a Christmas welcome
for every soldier who dropped in. A
vaudeville show in the afternoon was
followed by dancing at night.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-16

The Nash Six has new home In
Boise; so have the Nash ton and two
ton rear drive trucks, and the cele-
brated Nash Quad; and when the new
member is added to the family, the
Nash four-cylinder car, for the pro-
duction of which a new factory is now
being built in Milwaukee, II will ap-
pear in the new Boise headquarters
that of the Tyler Lindsey Motor COM
pany at 80 Bannock street.
BY the way, the firm name is new,
too. This is the first announcement
of the change. Heretofore it has been
known as the Boise Auto Market. That
was a good name and enjoyed first
class standing in this territory, but 1t
was identified with the sale of used
cars. In taking over the agency Of
Nash cars and trucks. the firm desired
a more fitting speculation, one with
which the names of Nash could be
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-16
BEAT RIVAL TO SALE
BY USING A|RPLANE
Toronto Lexington Dealers Fly
to Kitchener, Land Contract
and Return in Three Hours
Other Orders Follow.

The airpiane, up TO few months
ago regarded purely as a war weapon.
or as the plaything of some dare devil
exhibitor, has taken its place as real,
honest to-goodness factor In the COM
petitive phases of commercial life
Tom Bowler of the Gem State motor
company says this was demonstrated
in a unique manner in Canada last
week when the Lexington Motor Sales,
Ltd. used an afrplane to beat rival
salesman to a prospective buyer of an
automobile.
w. j. Walker. a salesman for the
Lexington Motor Sales. Ltd, OF To-
ronto and a former air pilot. reported
to +. Il. Knapp. manager of the Toron-
TO company, that a rival salesman was
on the way to the prospective custom
er. Walker was not only authorized 10
use an airplane to get to the prospect
ahead of his rival but Manager Knapp
requested that he be allowed to accom-
pany Walker.
The prospect. Rheinholt Iaing, lived
at Kitchener. Ont. 20 miles from To-
ronto. Walker and Knapp pressed in
to service a Curtis biplane. 1t took
less than an hour to make the trip to
Kitchener. To say Mr.. Laing was sur
prised when the two flyers approached
him with blank forms and a request
| for his signature to a contract for a
Lexington tourabout is putting 1t very
mildly.
Mr.. Laing went to the landing field
with the two flyers. There on a wing
of the machine, he affixed his name to
the contract while large crowds of
Kitchener folks. attracted by the news
Of the unusual feat. swarmed about the
machine.
| The sale, considering all elements
entering into ii, stands as one OF the
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-16
POLICE AND AUTOClUBOF CALIFORNIA
B0THSTUDYMOTOR THEFT PROBLEMS;
OWNERIS FOUND PRIMARILY TO BLAME
Nearly All Individual Thefts Traceabe Unlocked CarsEx
Service Men With Wanderlust Multiply Number Of Cars
Absent Without Leave-org anized Gangs Camouflage
and Exchange Stolen Autos Broken Up.

the San Diego business district in a
car stolen in Los Angeles.
Having played the field in Den
yer. G.. l.. Adams and H. A. Rich
mond came to Los Angeles to try
their luck at automobile stealing,
having heard, apparently, that his
was rich pickings. They rented q
private garage, and took the first
car they stole there for dissecting
all Identification marks they could
find, and tried to sell the parts to
wreckins houses here.
When they were arrested by the
clubs theft bureau, it developed
that they We're wsAhted in Denver for
having stolen 100 automobiles. Their
confessions were secured, and it is
with some qualification that club
officials announce that sentence has
been passed upon them for from
one TO ten years on the rusty side
of cell door up north"
The fate of public garage owner
who takes his customers cars out for
an airing without the sanction of the
owner is now hanging in the balance
with the arrest of Richard A. Koch
Ter, garage proprietor of Long Beach.
He took out a big machine belonging
to III. Mahessa of that city without Mir.
Mahessa's permission, and proceeded
to wreck it. The theft bureau arrest
ed him and he has confessed and is
now awaiting trial
FOXY SCHEME.
foxy scheme was tried without
ultimate success by two youths Civ
ing the names of James Solton and
Clyde Morrison, who stole a certifi-
cate out of an automobile in Sacra :
mento, hurried over the Motor Vehicle
department and secured license
plate which they carried with them to
San Francisco. In San Francisco
they stole n car, put the stolen license
plate on it, and drove to Los Ange-
les, happy in the mistaken idea that
they could sell the car here and get
away with the deal. They We're ar
rested by the auto club when they
tried 1t.
These are instances recited in the
clubs report showing the style of
activities INDUCED in by the pro
fessionaf thief. Club officers state
that the activities of The youthful
Adventures arriving from the east
following demobiization and their
own wanderlust are as pernicious.
ton of the unlocked machine.
Los Angeles motor car owners put
temptation in the way Of youths of
from IS to 20 years of age by not lock-
ing their cars, say the authorities
There have been 1856 automobiles
stolen in Los Angeles this year to date
having q valuation of more than ST.
100000. OF these Ills have been re-
covered for their owners and there
are many vet outstanding. The auto
clubs bureau recovered thirty-seven
machines in October. and is planning
special campaign for November.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-16
PACKARD SETS NEW
ACTUAL ROAD RECORD
FOR LOADED TRUCKS

Factory executives and prominent
distributors of the Packard Motor Car
company, In a new model pneumatic
tired Packard truck established last
Saturday what Is regarded as a new
actual road motor truck speed record.
They mde the run between Bay City
and Detroit. distance of 1905 miles
In five hours and So minutes, an aver
age of EOS miles an hour.
The party of officials, on an expert
mental trip to acquaint themselves with
actual freight transportation problems
left Bay City at S:11 a. m. on the re-
turn trip. They arrived in Flint. a dis
lance or 3D. miles, at 1854 and finished
at the Hotel Statler, Detroit, at $3.50.
Three stops were made during the trip,
one for five minutes to allow a passen-
ger to recover his hat, another for gas
oline requiring nine minutes and anoth-
er for three minutes on account of traf-
fic delay
Practically one-half Of the distance
was Travelled over roads recently wet
by rains. The truck was loaded prac-
tically to its capacity Of three tons for
the entire trip, carrying is passengers
with their baggage and two 1000 pound
weights.
The truck, which was especially de-
signed and constructed to meet the
growing demand for pneumatic tired
freight carriers, was equipped with
3Sx7 Goodyear cord tires in front and
40x10 rear. The body was 12x6 foot,
36-inch stake type.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-16
MOTOR TRUCK USED
BY RAILROAD ITSELF
TO HANDLE FREIGHT
Big Four Branch Roads Out of
Cincinnati Relieved Of Many
Short Hauls by Use Of Ten
Bodies on Two Chassis.

THE attitude between the railroads
and the motor, truck is gradually
turning from a spirit of competition
TO spirit of CO operation" says r.
L. Fulton, vice president of the In
ternational Motor company, manu-
facturers of Mack trucks.
The present serious financial con-
dition of the railroads and the in
creased freight rates that will newt
ably follow, together with the eco
nomic advantages of the motor truck,
point to very favorable effect on the
prices of foodstuffs as result of that
cooperation.
THE use of trucks as feeders to the
railroads up to a distance of huns
dred miles will release their facilities
for the increasing tonnage that re-
quires long distance haulage. 1t has
been specifically proven that because
of the duplication of handling in rail-
road transportation, goods can be
shipped on short hauls more econom-
ically by motor truck. In few years
the truck will be the standard meth
cd of short distance hauling. BY act
ing as "A feeder within radius OF
terminals, ii will provide the railroads
with an increased tonnage and assist
in making complete delivery, since it
viii penetrate areas that are now
The Big Four freight houses IN
Cincinnati have set the example. Two
motor truck chassis and about ten
bodies were used with tremendous
success in relieving the railroads of
large tonnage of short haul traffic.
Branch stations received the bodies
which We're filled and loaded on the
chassis. On fixed schedule, they
were brought to the terminals and
their contents transferred to through
cars. Under the old system, cars had
to be sent TO each of the branch sta
lions and brought to the terminal by
the engine seldom more than a quar-
ter filled.
The advantages of this plan over
the old eHtravagant methods are so
vivid that other large cities through
out the United States are realizing the
tremendous potentialities of the truck
as a feeder 10 the railroads. and are
establishing similar systems. 4
THE time viii come when each and
every motor truck that operates with
in a fiftymile radius of large cities
win he in effect a branch line of that
railroad. The reason for this is that
a railroad requires an immense mi
tial investment for right of way,
grading, bridges and rails, and is linn
tied in the amount of traffic 1t will
hold. If such a branch line does not
pay for itself, II cannot be diverted.
On the other hand motor truck
route has no limitations and can cas-
lily be transferred to a more profitable
route If one does not prove success
full.
There Is but one resistance to this
transportation millennium and that is
the lack Of appreciation OF the neces-
sity for. good roads The sooner solid
built national highways are supported
by legislation, the sooner a great fac
tor in the high cost of living will be
reduced .
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-16

joined with credit in the future.
The patrons are. OF course, Grover
Tyler and Walter Lindsey. whose per-
sonalities have been more or less sub
merged until the present in the firm
style OF the Boise Auto Market. Both
are fairly good looking young men, too.
but they have shown unimpeachable
judgment in standing aside and allow
ing his majesty, Nash Six, to make his
bow in company with the firms fairer
office manager. Miss Sylvia Lloyd.
1t was last Wednesday that Messrs.
Tyler and Lindsey arranged to take
over the Nash agency from the Wilson
garage, and purchased the latter's
stock Of cars. trucks and parts. The
decision to inaugurate the new firm
name of Tyler Lindsey Motor company
was reached at the same time. The ar
rangement was completed during the
visit to Boise of Al Oberg Of Salt Lake,
representative of the Pacific Nash Mo-