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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Saleswomen Startle
London Auto Buyers
American Methods Are New to
Englishmen, but All Ad-
init Great Progress

The motor trade is undergoing a great
change. At present it is all of a Autter,
says "The London Daily Express"
Saleswomen demonstrators are push
ing themselves forward. They are 60
ing to prove themselves equal in sell
ing capabilities to the young men who
sit so nicely in the gorgeous motor
cars temptingly displayed in beautiful
showrooms.
The young men have little to say
about the woman car seller. They smile,
talk wisely about induction pipes,
stump feeds and insulators, and con-
tinue smoking cigarettes. Women de-
monstrators? Absurd.
Nevertheless, the woman car demon
strator is proposition which the
young men will have to face. There is
no reason why she should not sell a
silver-mounted thousand pound petrol
palace to a popular actress-or a money
ed prof teer She can sell hat to a
member of her own sex.
Good morning. sir" the woman will
say with q smile and a fash Of her
eyes. Just let me show you over this
a duck? Such lovely blue color, and
the horn is too delightful for words.
"Carbureter Ours is just too sweet.
Look at it. Why, this is just the car
you've been waiting for years. See this
doorhandle? Solid gold! Just try the
spring cushions de luxe. Comfy, aren't
they"
Who win be able to resist her? She
is pretty and we'll dressed, and she
knows even so little about motor-car
engines. So there is no reason why
the girl motor-knut should not become
an established fact.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Drastic Laws
Hamper Motor
Truck Trade
Lack of Uniformity Seen in
Differing Limitations of
Size and Increased Fees:
Cooperation Is Urge d

Several states have recently enacted
new laws increasing registration fees
for motor trucks and trailers and i'm
posing new limitations of size, weight
and speed. Similar bills are still pend
ing in the legislatures of few other
states. These laws and bills reveal a
lack of uniformity that is unfortunate
when it is considered that trucks and
trailers are used extensively in inter
state commerce and are becoming an
important factor in reducing the cost
of haulage, thereby tending to keep
down the rising cost of living
Until legislators and the public in
general become better informed re-
garding the economic effects of truck
and trailer transportation, laws enact
ed for protection Of the highways may
be expected to be extreme Eventually
& balance will be struck that will pro-
tect the highways sufficiently without
sitting the growth Of the only means
of using the highways that promise
any relief to the consumer in the mat
ter of prices.
NCSL Oh transportation lnevItab Y
falls upon the consumer, and whatever
lowers that cost innures to his benefit
The only way to reduce the cost is to
build good roads and permit the oper-
alton OF the largest motor trucks and
trailer trains that can be used with
out undue wear and damage to the
improved roads. The larger the guam
tity of commodities Or goods hauled
III one unit or at one time, the lower
is the haulage cost per ton-mile. So it
Is for the public to decide whe her i.
will pay higher taxes for better roads
and their maintenance or pay Me
higher prices for everything consumed
made necessary by the excessive cost
of hauling over bad roads by horse
and wagon or by small and relatively
uneconomical motor trucks
With widely varying state laws in
force, truck or trailer that complies
with the law in one state cannot be
operated legally in another, alal a
truck owner in one state operates at q
serious economic disadvantage against
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Engine Overheats,
Like Pedestrian.
In Hot Weather
There Are Many Things Car
Observation-Disclosures
Control of Motor, Says
Y.M. c. A. School Director
By II. Clifford Brokaw
Techmica! Director West Sids Y. NJ.
c. A. Automobile School

1t is about as bad for an engine to
overhead in summer as for an individ-
ual, and one will do this about as easily
as the other. Both can overeat, too.
with about equal disadvantage-too
much motor fodder, you know, will pro
duce engine lndisposition, and high
temperature follows. There are other
reasons. Of course. and the novice, par
ticularly, ought to learn causes, results
and cures.
While last winter was not especially
cold, most drivers found radiator
cover needed, and some found that the
fan belt were best removed. Then the
trouble was to keep the motor warm
enough to vaporize the gasolene; now
the trouble, since the real hot days
have come, is to keep the motor cool
enough to run properly.
With most cars the nearer to the
boiling point we can run the engine
without actually turning the water into
steam, the better it will run Many
engines do not develop full horsepower
because they are kept too cool for eff
cheney; yet we hear plenty of com
plants about overheating and boiling
radiators. If the engines were being
handled as the manufacturer intended,
this would not be. Some of the trouble
is due to retarded spark. In cold
weather the driver who retards the
spark too much uses up lot of gas
that gives no power, but the engine
does not overhead. With the rise in
the mercury comes the overheating. and
the driver cannot figure it out; he is
driving just the same.
1t should be remem bered that driving
with retarded spark will produce over
hp1+lnC Nnrh 11.,+i e he
spark lever is needed with present day
battery ignition systems. Many driv-
ers, when they find the engine knocking
at low speed, retard the lever and fail
to advance it again when running at
higher speed.
With magnetic ignition the spark
control lever may be advanced about
three-fourths of the full range and be
left there for about all speeds except
the very high. This is because the
nature Of the spark changes with the
speed OF the engine, equivalent to an
automatic spark advance and retard
Not so with the battery system.
Another cause Of chronic overheating
may be traced to sediment in the radi-
ator which prevents proper radiation
This is a deposit of mineral substance
from the water. Examine an old tea
kettle and you will find in the bottom
exactly the same sort of deposit. Usu-
ally this may be removed by running a
saturated solution of washing soda
through the cooling system. If you
haven't cleaned the radiator this season
drain off the water and replace it with
the soda solution and run with this in
for several hours. If there is a water
pump disconnect the upper hose from
the radiator and run the engine tc
pump out the solution, feeding water
into the radiator from hose, so that
the system is thoroughly flushed before
connecting the radiator hose again.
With thermo-syphon system dis
connect both upper and lower hose
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Carelessness Of Owners
Invites Auto Stealing
Even Amateurs Have an Easy
Time Taking Cars From
Street Curbs

This Is the particular season Of The
year when car stealing is at its height
and owners will do we'll to observe
every precaution. If they would dis
play small fraction OF the ingenuity
shown by the crooks, there would be
a very material reduction of the evil
1t is practically impossible to prevent
stealing entirely. but there is no gain
saying the fact that drivers and own
ers' carelessness makes it remarkably
easy for even amateurs successfully to
engage in car stealing
Altogether too few of the cars stolen
are recovered. A fairly high per cent
Is credited to the police of Detroit
who, of the 1,547 cars so far stolen
this year, have recovered LAC. Fig
ures for some CT the larger cities 70,
last year, giving the number of cars
stolen and recovered, are as follows
Boston, 1856, 6o7; Chicago, 2,611, 1854;
Cincinnati, 348, 291; Cleveland, 2,O76
1856; San Francisco, 1922, 1882.
Cars should never be left withou
some locking device or thief alarm ce
so that any attempt to steal the "a,
viii immediately be recognized by tn,
police Most cities forbid the lockins
OF car so that it cannot be moved II
case of fire or other emergency, so We
would not advise claiming and lockinl
wire wheel to a lamppost, for IN
stance. One owner who did that ha,
only the wire wheel to show for hi,
pains when he came out. Experience
also shows that it is not sufficient +
leave boy in charge of the car 70,
the owners instructions to the boy
may be overheard by some one who car
pass himself off as the owner if he
happens to be of the same build an
description. Spare tires also should be
locked, as some make a speciality Of
stealing these, as well as those in use
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

ders, poor ignition and poor carbure-
ton have passed, and the modern racinp
car engines can usually be started with
a few quick turns of the crank. Where
trouble might be encountered in start
ing, an electric starting system is in
stalled.
To one who has been on the track
and watched the cars closely the alb
seace of smoky exhaust is noticeable.
Volumes Of smoke in the old times
made it difficult to see the cars. To
day the average racing car gives Off
little more smoke than the ordinary
touring car, due to the greater KNOW
edge Of oiling
In the early days We had some very
fast cars fitted with very powerful en-
gines, as for example the Merced es. the
Benz and the Christie, the latter only
recently sent to the junk heap. To-day
a car of half the weight and fitted with
an engine Of less than one third the
size can easily drive away from the
older ones. There is less noise, the lob
of driving is easier and there is no
smoke.
Though RACING speed has increased
from something over seventy miles an
hour to about lob miles an hour, the
hazards have been reduced almost to a
like proportion. Of course, track con-
ditions are different also, and this has
been helpful in getting better speed.
To-day we have banked, boarded tracks,
as against dirt and concrete roads,
winding in character.
The racing driver to-day is younger
than his predecessor He is a more
scientific man and certainly more sys-
tematic. Above all, he himself is a
good mechanic. In the old days many
good drivers were nothing more.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Fred Stones Autograph
Adorns His Tires
Famous Comedians Suggestion
Adopted by Pennsylvania
Rubber COMPANY

The happy originality OF Fred Stone,
the famous comedian, is carried even
beyond his work on the stage. Some
time ago, during a visit at the plant OF
the Pennsylvania Rubber Company at
Jeanette, he conceived the idea OF
having a set of these tires made bear
ing his autograph worked in rubber
on the sides. His idea was SO inno-
vative that General Manager Seneca G..
Lewis Immediately set his experts to
work on il, with the result that such
tires were successfully evolved. On
the Vacuum cup ord tires which he
recently purchased the jet black tread
and sidewalk make the inlmitable sig
nature OF the comedian. m bright red
rubber, stands out Il striking relief.
The tires, while designed primarily
as 8 personal touch, prove even more
The name cannot be destroyed without
mutilating the tire to a eonside rable
extent. and thus proves an effective
safeguard against theft
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Over 500, 600 Autos
Owned in This State
Secretary Hugo Says 20 Per
Cent of Them Are Regis
tered bv Farmers

Francis NJ Hugo, Secretary Of State
Of New York, has just announced that
the auto registrations in the state have
passed the half million mark and that
before the end of the year there will
be close to $4,000 cars owned and
operated in this state. A marked in
crease in the number of commercial
cars registered is reported. Approx
mately 20 per cent of the automobiles
in New York State are owned by farm
ers By horsepower classification SO
per cent are less than 25, 80 per cent
are from 25 to 80 and I per cent are
over 80
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
New Officers Elected
BY Automobile Club
Henry MacNail. and Paul Arclli.
bald Are Named to I'm
pOrfant Posts

At recent meeting of the directors
OF the Automobile Club of New York
Henry MacNair was elected chairman
of the board and treasurer and Paul
Archibald was elected secretary and
chairman of the membership commit
tee. 1t also was decided to increase
the benefits to members by allowing
them from 10 to 40 per cent on all pur-
chases Of supplies through the newly
organized supply department.
The club will continue to cooperate
with the legal department of the New
York State Association.
Mr.. MacNair has been in automobile
work for more than a dozen years.
Mr.. Archibald brings to the club a
wide knowledge of automobiles, Access
series and insurance, and is looking
after the interests Of mem bers in tins
regard.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20

the owner in an adjoining state. If
the registration fee is much higher in
Massachusetts, for example, than in
the adjoining New England states or
New York state, the Massachusetts
operator cannot compete in interstat a
haulage with operators in those states
at the same rates without loss. Con-
sequenty, the Bay State is penalizinc
her own citizens and allowing nom
residents to use her improved roads
at lower rate than her own citizens
can use them or the roads in adioiling
states.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Humane Animal Muzzle
Is Regulated bv Gravity

The secret of recently introduced
humane muzzle, described and illus
trated in The Popular Mechanics Mag
azine,' which allows the animal wear
ing it perfect freedom of the jaws
when the head is in lowered position,
but which restraints when the head is
raised, lies in gravity operated
catch. This catch holds a rubber-cov-
cred metal bar firmly under the lower
jaw when the animals nose is not
pointed earthward, but is disengaged
by the force of gravity when the nose
is lowered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Compressed Air Used TO
Recover Logs i'm Canada

To recover from the bottom of Cana
dian streams the sunken logs that are
lost while on the way from the logging
corporation will employ machinery spe-
ally adapted to the purpose instead
Of the ordinary devices used for moving
timber, 1t was announced in Pop
ular Mechanics"
Compressed air and high pressure
water streams will be used to loosen
the logs. AS 10 per cent Of the logs
cut sink and remain embedded for
various periods without losing thei,
value by deterioration. the business OF
raising them should prove to be one OF
great commercial Importance 10 lum-
bermen
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Autos and Autoists

from the radiator and put the hose
into the upper aperture of the engine
TO flush out the water jacket thorough
" and also flush the radiator to get out
the last of the sediment. Part Of this
sediment comes from sand and vegeta-
bic matter carried in solution and par,
from lime and other substances affected
by the heat and more readily separated
from the water for deposit; likewise
there is some rust from the water
Jacket
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-27
LATIN AMERICA IN THE LEAGUE

If the United States should abide by the determination of the republican major ity of the senate to prevent the passage of the treaty resolution endorsing the league of nations, we should be put out of the league, whereas Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatamala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Colombia, Para quay, Salvador and Venezuela would be in 1t. It might be a profitable mental eXer- else to inquire whether we should be obliged, in the words of President Monroe, to consider this attempt of European na- ton of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.' But if the league of nations and the Monroe Doctrine managed to steer clear of one another, as they prob ably would the fact would still remain that the political and economic links between Europe and Latin America would become increasingly strong and the connection be tween the United States and Latin America correspondingly weak.
 The Nacion, of BuenOs Aires declares Lllhl l1lt lldGlu A1utI1Cdl COuIlllItS W LII find that they have acquired a special situ- ation in relation to the other members of the league, and be forced to consider the United States as factor in a certain man. ner foreign to their peaceful policy, which surely will not be satisfactory to them ill view of their sincere desire to be always in the same camp with their great northern sister" This is tactful enough, but there Is bitter truth behind that we shall have to face if we are to remain outside the league. No matter how much some of us desire to set up an American system and let Europe go it's own way, the matter is not entirely in our hands Latin America, with it's rich resources and political potentialities, may choose another course. And outside the league we could make no effective protest.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-27

factory legislation in dealing with the rail road situation reveals the true weakness of the party now In power. It's impOtency Is greatly hampering the government in ef- tecting businesshke administration of the peoples affairs. The delay in the return of the roads, like the delay in the return of peace, in the continuation of wartime con ditions and regulations of all kifuS As forced by the inability of the republican to act in concert.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-27
FORGED DELAY

The delay in the return of the railroads to their former private ownership and oper- ation until March l, while forced by the differences in legislation passed by the two branches of congress dealing with the roads under such a system, is not entirely dis agreeable to the country The return of the roads is beset with problems that con- eern not the owners alone but practically every individual in the country
 The determination of the senate to put in an anti-strike section, even tho leading lawyers are almost unanimous in declaring brings things sharply to a head. There is no reason to believe that the workers will sit quietly and await the courts decision in the matter, nor even await a return of the roads before exercising the strike right the congress Is attempting to outlaw. And while the attitude of the workers is to be deplored and even condemned, one must admit that, seeing in the legislation a flu ture of involuntary servitude, distrusting the courts on account of lack of knoWl- edge of their workings, the workers view point and their desire for direct action is a human one.
 If the roads are to go back to private operation and control as now seems inevit- able, the sooner the return is made the better for all concerned. As long as uncer- tainty prevails, so long will there be un- rest and dissatisfaction. The delay of con gress, after more than six months in al- most continual session, in arriving at satis-
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-27
JUDGE BUNNELL
 LEAVES VALDEZ
LOCAL OFFICIAL LEAVES FOR AN CHDNAGE TERM OF COURT
 RETURNS SOON.

According to information received in town yesterday evening. Judge Chas. E. Bunn,u who has been hold ug d term of court al Valdez for Judge Fred Brown. left there yester- day cnroutc to Seward and Anrnorag.. Judge Bunnrll has concluded court business at both Valdez and Cordoya. He has a number Of cases on the calendar at Anchorage which he will clean up for Judge Brown Following these. he will return to Fairbanks 2"d immediately begin the postponed term of court at this place This term is called for January 2Gfh jurors being instructed 10 report at 10 a m. on that date
 HAVE YOUR clothes made by Beg
 the Tailor opposite the Nordala
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-27
THE FALLACY OF FORGE
(By Dr. Frank Crane.) )


 It Is pathetic, it IS astounding, how wt cling to the delusion of the efficacy O- force.
 There are still Americans many anC vociferous who grow red and thump the table and otherwise emphasize their opin ion that all who do not agee with then ought to be ''jerked up and fined" if no beaten up and exported.
 It is inconceivable that people with, { common school education cannot under stand that this program of force, of repres sion and suppression, has been tried many hundred years, by Church and by State and has uniformly failed.
 In England and America, the lands 0, free speech, is the greatest stability of gov ernment.
 No opinion is dangerous except a sup pressed opinion.
 That which made Bolshevism power ful in Russia was not the logic of its ap peal, but the fact that for years it's propon ents had been crowned with martyrdom.
 l don't believe in the doctrines ot Debs, Emma Goldman or Berkman, anC for that very reason l would not imprisor them.
 The only man we want to lock up ol hang, is the one we are afraid of
 But we are not afraid of Anarchy, Rec Socialism, Bolshevism, Class Government or any such thing.
 It is liberty that will kill these noxiou> germs, not Tyranny They grow fat or martyrdom.
 Blatherskite-ism is like gunpowder; ii can wreck and ruin only when 1t is con fined. Touch match to powder in bomf loose in an open lot and it vanishes in { harmless puff.
 The best cure for bunk, lies and mania is to give them air. Then they cure them selves.
 You need not be afraid they will cor rupt and destroy this people. For the peo pie in U. s. A. have Common Sense
 And you can surely depend upon the
  fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can fool all the people all of the time"
 Bernard Shaw, in the preface to his new volume of plays, 'Heartbreak House, : says:
 ''It is not for me to chronicle the ex- travagances of an ally; let some candid American do that. I can only say that tc us in England with tightening hearts studying the phases of the moon in London in their bearing on the chances whether our houses would be standing or ourselves alive next morning, the newspaper accounts of the sentences American courts were pas sing on young girls and old men alike fol the expression of opinions which were be- ing uttered amid laundering applause be- fore huge audiences in England and the which the American war loans were raised were so amazing that they put the guns and the possibilities of raid clean out of ou1 heads for the moment"
 It is well to remember, says Haywood Broun, that this is not the opinion of a pacifist or a conscientious objector, but of a man who writes admiringly of those Eng lishmen who, altho they "had no illusions about the policy that led to the war were clear-sighted to horribly repugnant duty"
 Chicago officials have inaugurated a campaign to lower prices by wearing their old clothes The editor of the Miner start l. o4 nE l
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-27

It does beat the Dutch how those Hol- flanders insist on hanging on to the ex- kaiser. They must think he is good ad- ertisement.-Douglas Island News.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-27

Chicago officials have inaugurated a campaign to lower prices by wearing their old clothes. The editor of the Miner start ed this movement at the beginning of hard times-Valdez Miner.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-27

HAVE YOUR clothes made by Rer
 the Tailor opposite the NoriaIe
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-10-05
STRICT ETIQUETTE IN CHINA
Matter OF Tea Drinking a Thing Of
Much Importance in the Flowery
Republic.

The etiquette observed in tea drink
ing In China IS very curious. II a
lady asks you 10 drink tea with her
and especially II the tea be sweetened
lyon can count yourself as we'll re-
celved and much liked. II she does
not like you the tea is bitter. and
report has it that in cases Of this sort
DRAWINGS are often used After one
sip Of such tea the unliked visitor
makes a prompt exit
When making n call, II the servant
should bring in a cup Of tea there
Is no need TO take any particular no.
tice OF II. Allow the servant to place
1t where he likes near you, and con
tinue your conversation as though
nothing had happened II your bust
ness Is pleasant and agreeable 10 the
mistress or the master Of the house,
he or she will pass the beverage 10
Won II NOT, You are expected 10 leave
II untouched. otherwise you are likely
10 have a quarrel on hand and a Chi
nese Quarrel-eithor with a man or
woman-is unpleasant