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Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-15
PICKED MEN WILL
DRIVE TRUCKS IN
ENDURANCE TEST
Former Army DriUers Will Be
at Wheel; Expert is in Charge
of the Operating Committee;
Several Bad Stretches.

Not only will the great trek of the
trucks from Los Angeles to the I'M
perial Valley, San Diego and return,
IN the ship by truck and good roads
tour from May II to May 25, be a
rigorous test of the trucks them
selves but it will call for a good deal
OF mental and physical stamina on the
part of the men who are to drive
them.
The men who sit at the wheels of
these big fellows with their capaci-
ty loads blowing through the sandy
wastes and the steep tortuous noun
tain roads, will have their work cut
out for them. Particularly will this
be true on the run past the Salton
Sea and in that from Ell Centre to
San Diego which it is proposed to
make in one day.
1t will be hard physical labor. It
also requires that the caravan be
kept together and operating as a
flexible, yet compact unit that be of
the type and training which will make
them quickly and unquestionably
amenable to orders.
PICKED MEN
The men who have been chosen to
drive the 80 or more trucks that will
be in the tour, will be picked men.
The majority will be eX-service men,
men who in the service of their
country learned to obey promptly and
willingly the commands of their su-
periors with an efficiency that has
redounded to their credit. Absolute
military discipline will be called for
on this tour if it is to be the highly
successful demonstration of truck and
good roads usefulness that seems
assured.
The operating committee in charge
of the Ship by truck and good roads
tour has been assured of the hearty
and enthusiastic cooperation and
support of the Draymen's Associa-
ton of Southern California.
The association has further volun-
tered it's services in the care of the
loan which the trucks are to carry.
1t is made up of men who have made
a study and business of this feature
and are thoroughly competent, as
probably no others are, to handle
these details.
EXPERT IN CHARGE
This end of the tour will be in full
charge of F. C. Bennick, secretary
and manager of the association.
Under his direction the loads each
way will be secured, assigned to the
various trucks, loaded, unloaded and
cared for in every way. He will
take care of all billing. An loads
handled will be properly insured and
cared for in every way.
The task of keeping big caravan
of 80 or more trucks running smooth
ly and in co-ordinated unit over desert
roads, mountain passes and under all
sort of conditions for eight days with
each truck loaded to it's full capacity
(Contipuad on ma Ua-Cl
Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-15
ROAD CONDITIONS
FINE FOR TOURING
REPORT AUTO CLUB
Roads Through Southern Cali
fOrnia Excellent at This
Time: Best Road to Yuma
Via Way of INLAND.

General road conditions, as reported
by the official touring bureau of the
Automobile club of Southern Califor-
mia, have never been better for spring
trips throughout the west than during
the opening Of the present season.
| Where shall be go, and how are the
| roads, are two questions which are
almost universal at this time in South
ern California, it is reported, and for.
the benefit of those who would appre-
ciate some suggestions for spring or
summer tours the Auto club offers the
following:
Select tours which will give you an
insight into the remarkable agricul-
tural development of the southern
counties in the last three years. Do
not gravitate in circle, but choose
routes which will provide a possible
extension of the trip into regions with
which you are unfamiliar.
Popular and familiar routes such as
the coast highway between the Mexi-
can border and Santa Barbara; the
routes connecting Los Angeles and
San Bernardino, Redlands, and River
side; and those to the beaches in any
county of the south are all in excel
lenI shape, DIS are CNe various county
road systems. For the sake of brew
ity. the automobile club herewith only
indicates where minor repairs are be-
ing made and some difficulty will be
encountered.
|. Temescal Canyon from Corona to
Elsinore in Riverside county is now
paved as far as Glen Ivy, and the bal
ance of the road is in good condition.
The best route at present from Bakers
field to Kernville is via Caliente. The
road is passable from Caliente north
for a distance of 20 miles along the
Kern river to Fairview. It is not adj
visable to use the road from Bakers
field to Kernville via the Green Horn
mountains.
The best route to Yuma from the
Imperial Valley, according to the lat
est report is by way of INLAND and
Glamis.
In Orange county, owing to con-
struction work on the Ell Modeno
grade east of Anaheim, it is advisable
to use the road via Ell Toro in driving
to Modjeska's Home. Santa Ana cam
Won is all paved except about 800 feet.
San Diego county roads are now in
good shape.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-15
AUTO RESULT OF
WORLD W|DENEED

"The automobile is the result of a
worldwide need for transportation. y
says P. Willis, local dealer in Chew
rolet passenger and commercial cars
Twenty years ago an unlimited
market waited for an improved means
OF transportation. But it took con-
slant and untiring effort to prove to
the public that the automobile was
the right vehicle to supply this de-
mand.
"Now everyone knows what the
motor car has accomplished. They
know how it eliminates distance. They
have experienced the direct and con-
venient communication it affords be-
tween widely separated points. The
demand for this improved transporta-
ton is greater than ever.
"The number of people who feel the
need for automobiles is increasing
every day. In addition to this actual
need, almost everyone has personal
desire to own a car.
"Today it is no longer a question OF
whether an automobile will benefit its
owner. 1t is a matter of how the
most satisfactory motor transporta
ton can be secured for the least cost
"This question is being solved fol
the great majority by the medium
weight car of today-the product Of
experience.
mechanically dependable, complete
ly equipped and as economical to main
tain as to buy, it is efficiently serving
the need for which it was created"
Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-15
NEW OAKLANDS
REACH FL CENTRIC

w. o. Hinderks and L. r. Abbott
of Edgar Bros. Co. are returning from
Los Angeles today, bringing two Of
the new Model "a G Oakland Sensi-
BILE Six automobiles, touring type.
These machines are latest model Oak
land, with the longer wheel base,
heavier frame construction, and room
Ter body, which, with the many other
features which have made this car
popular, promise to put it in a class
with cars considerable higher in
price.
These cars being brought overland
in order to supply customers who
have been waiting for some time for
the freight situation to allow them to
get their cars. The Hawley- King
Company of Los Angeles, received a
trainload of Oaklands few weeks
ago but they are not able to meet
the demand in any degree even with
the large shipment.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-15
AFTER
NEW z TON TRUCK

c. D. Otteson, manager of Edgar
Bros. Co. Ford and Fordson service
department went to Los Angeles last
night to get new two-ton Interna-
tional Truck for the company.
TIE truck is to be added to the
Edgar fleet of service cars and
trucks for the purpose of hauling mer-
chandise from their warehouse in
Imperial to the various stores in the
other valley towns. When this truck
is put in commission the company
will have three trucks in their haul
ing service handling only their own
merchandise, two two-ton Interna-
tional trucks and one one-ton Inter-
national.
In this connection it might be added
that the same firm also has Is Ford
cars in service. These are being used
by their stores, field statesmen, and
tractor experts. Altogether they es-
innate that their fleet of cars and
trucks represents an investment OF
approximately $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-15

Iecutive board of the American Cotton
association in June of this year. A
commission is also at work studying
the methods of all the successful mar
keting organizations in this and other
countries, from the California Fruit
Growers to the dairy association of
Denmark, and upon the data assem-
bled by this committee and by the
investigating commission will be based
the big selling plan of the cotton asso-
citation.
NOTHING EASY
There will be nothing easy about
working out this plan. Not only is it
the biggest marketing scheme of a
cooperative nature ever undertaken,
but it will have the active opposition
of immensely wealthy interest, such
as the various cotton exchanges
throughout the country who have been
gambling in cotton for generations
the swarms of "street buyers" brokers
and other middlemen, who have been
extracting from cotton multitude OF
profits from the time it left the pro-
Queer until it reached the mills. This
movement for nationwide cooperation
in the marketing of the worlds big
gest and most valuable crop is being
watched with the keenest and most
varied interest by interests of world
Importance.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-15
TRUCKS KEEP BUSY
TO BRING PROFIT
The idle truck not only earns no

The idle truck not only earns no
profits but represents a steady loss.
To obtain maximum return on the
investment maximum of work
must be produced by the truck.
Overhead expense, including depre-
citation, interest on investment, in
surance, garage charges, etc, is con-
slant whether the truck be on the
road or in the repair shop. But when
the truck is working this overhead
expense is swelled by drivers wages,
gasoline, oil and tire cost and similar
items. 1t is obvious that the greater
the. amount of actual work accom-
plished the more this cost is dissipat-
ed.
Owners increasingly are giving
their attention to methods or devices
that reduce trucks idle time. Pri-
marily the truck must be maintained
in good mechanical condition. This
condition attained it, becomes a
problem of increasing the number and
frequency of paying loads.
Systematic and expert inspection
should anticipate nearly every me-
chanical trouble, barring those caused
by accidents. Thorough and frequent
fabrication is the most effective pre-
ventive against the many seemingly
insignificant troubles which cause
costly delays.
Many factors enter into the
problem of increasing the number and
frequency of paying loads. Proper
routing and dispatching, efficient
loading and unloading methods anc
the use of the logical size of truck
for the work to be accomplished are
among them.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-15
EXPERTS
LAY PLANS TO
MARKET CROP
One of Largest Marketing Plans
in History NOIU Is Being
Worked Out; Hope to Make
1t GrOIUer to Consumer.

On Monday, May II. the biggest
marketing experts in America will
meet at Memphis, Tenn, to consider
ways and means for working out a
plan to market comparatively the en-
tire American cotton crop, the biggest
and most valuable crop of any agricul-
tural product produced, not only in
the United States. but in the world.
At this meeting of the special COM
mittee on cooperative marketing of
the American Cotton association the
Southwest will be represented by w.
S. Stevens of Phoenix, Ariz., president
of the Arizona Egyptian
Cotton Growers associations, the
southwestern branch of the American
association.
Among the men of national promin-
ence and Importance who will be asso-
ciated with Mr.. Stevens on this COM
mittee are its chairman, ID. S. Murph,
head of the Federal bureau of markets
of the department of agriculture. Gov
ernor w. P. G. Harding of the Federal
reserve banking system, A. f. Lever,
member of the Federal farm loan
board; J. S. Wannamaker, president Of
the American Cotton association, and
many others of equal standing and inn
portance in the marketing world.
BIG MOVEMENT A
This movement to market direct
from the producer to the mills the
American cotton crop, is the begin
ming of the biggest and most ambitious
marketing scheme for the benefit of
the farmer that has ever been launched
in this or any other country. a move
ment that will, of course, take long
time to work out, but that will, when
carried to its logical and successful
conclusion, not only secure the best
and most uniform prices for cotton in
the industry. but will iron out and
eradicate most of the abuses of the
cotton market of the past, abuses that
have enriched lot of unnecessary
middlemen and kept the farmers nose
to the grindstone-and been of nj
benefit to the consuming public.
The report of this special commit
tees work will be rendered to the ex
Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-15
Rules For Pedestrians

l. Pedestrians crossing streets at night shall white
light in front and red light in the rear.
Before turning to the right left they shall give three
short blasts horn at least three inches in diameter.
3. When inexperienced automobile driver made
by pedestrian he shall indicate the same the pedestrian
shall hide behind tree until the automobile has passed.
Pedestrians shall carry in their pockets any sharp nstru
ment which may cut automobile tires.
In lodging automobiles pedestrians shall not
than miles hour.
Pedestrians must register at the beginning of each year
and pay license fee of SIS for the privilege of living There
shall be rebate if they do not live the entire year.
Z Each pedestrian before receiving his license to walk
the streets must demonstrate before examining board his
skill in lodging eapng crawling and extricatng himself
from machinery
Pedestrians will be held responsible for all damages
to automobiles or their occupants by collision.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-15

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Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-15

About 80 Akron Boy Scouts who will
home at SOyster Bay, N. Y, in July,
will carry their own band of 40 pieces.
They are routed over the Lincoln high
way in pneumatic tired trucks and
after three days camp at Bear Noun
tain in New York, the national boy
scout camp, they will return through
central New York, stopping at Mag
ara Falls. The commissary truck will
be equipped with six wheels, the I'M
usual design being developed by en-
gineers of the Goodyear Tire & Rub
Der Company.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-15
SAN FRANCISCO, May

SAN FRANCISCO, May 15.-One
thousand tons of canned salmon. sar-
dimes, rice, canned and evaporated
fruits, paint, varnish and lubricating
products from the Pacific coast will
invade the Argentinian market when
the shipping board steamer Pallas
sails for Buenos Aires in June, accord
ing to Swayne & Hoyt. operators of
the vessel, who said there had been a
big demand for cargo space. The mis-
Icellaneous cargo is in addition to a. big
consignment of lumber
Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-15

An international consortiuM to
provide funds for China has been
organized. . Something of that sore
is also suggested for the folks who
are compelled to fight the high cost
Of living. Any sort of little personal
consortium would do.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-05-15

Since Delaware failed the female
suffragists by refusing to furnish
the seth vote we never hear of the
Estate any more.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25
Troop Meetings

Number Three deserves special men
tion for the excellencv Of the Friday
night meeting. which was presided
over nv Jobn Grant younr man
who is o,,allfyina as assistant scout
master. lie was aided by Lucian
Homes who has already oualified and
been commissioned nc assistant. Both
of thosc vo,nr men have taken great
interest in scoutjur for several years.
starting 81. "Tcnde,1oot scouts and
WORKING mn. rhc meeting was 10
ouiet. orderly demonstration Of good
scouting and every member of the
troop Who was present is TO bc com.
plincntel for his part i'm making the
troop great and proving themselves
GOOD scents in the absence OF their
scoutmaster Mr. Davidson.
Number one worked imdar difficult.
lies. Scoutlnastar David Dawson was
unable 10 ho present. ana Assistant
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25
,AIllcr's Nntisepiic oil, known as
SNAKE OIL
Positively RclieycS Pain in Few
Minutes.

TRY it right now for rheumatism.
Neuralgia, llmboeo, sore, stiff and
swollen joints, pain in tine head back
and limbs. corus, buuions, cJc Ntcr
one application pain usually diaap.
pears as II by magic
a new remedy used internally and
externally for coughs, colds, Group,
influenza, sorethroat, diphthcria and
tonslits
This oil SIS conceded TO Doe the most
penetrating remedy known. Its prompt
and immediate effect in relieving pain
is due TO the fact that it poue,rlles
to the affected parts at once AS
an Illustration. pour tenn drops ON
tine thicl.cs, piece of sole lcuH'r and
t wu penetrate This substance
through aud through ln three min.
utcs.
Accept no substitute This great
oil Is golden r.I color only Get H
ID Gomar Drug Co. "dE'
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25
by ENiNlITT Il. REID

Saturday, the 18th, was general
hike.day for Scouts. Several groups,
= two or four scouts each, went out
20 make their 14.miles hike, which
one 0f the things q scout must do
before he can become a IistClass.
Incidentally a story OF the hike
r1 be written after the scout has
returnod Probably the most strenu-
Gus hike was that made by George
DunuIs and Richard Conine, from
ArImore to Hewitt. They completed
lcr u miles in good time ana write
M Interesting story Of events incident
t9 .he "long walk"
Raymond Buford ana Earl McCu.
mm Travelled north, beyond Naddo
creek, and had am exciting time in
the woods, scouting. fishing, signal.
ing and studying nature.
Patrol Leader George Smith, ac-
conpanied 10y Scouts Roland McCul-
p and Robert Douglas hi>cd north
cast toward Caddo bridge, cooked
inner in the open and returned 10y
way Of the refnor'ca after q day
hrim full of scout adventure.
Tho big hike" i'm number of scouts
participating. was made to "Ratlle
snake Cliff north of town. Twenty
one scouts accompanied Executive
Reid on This trip starting at .
o'clock in the morning Wd returning
at i'm the afternoon.
During this hike every scout quail
fied m the tracking tests, following
rather difficult trail through tim
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25

Scout Lee Webb, of Troop Three,
determined last week to finish up
cu his FmstClass tests and win
the badgt The only test which he
had not passed was that Of signal.
ing. sending % message mt the rate
Of sixteen letters a minute by the
international Morse code. This code
is used by the Boy Scouts i'm prefer
cncc to the American Morse used
10y telegraph companies in this coun-
try for the reason that the former
IS the code employed in an wireless
communication and cable messages.
Scout Webb "wrestled" with tho code
several days getting acquainted with
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25
TRY TO BREAK INTO
MARINES MODEL JAZZ.

Port au Prince, Haiti, Jan. e4.-Ol'
ficers of the United states Marine
Corps who have charge Of the peni'
tentarp here have had TO issue spec
ial orders to keep the natives from
breaking into their model Jail.
Recently acheck roll call of prisoners
showed an excess of five over tnc
number regularly committed there by
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25

nike were. Harry Palmer Donald BE
Saw. Glenn BcSaw Wendell McIish,
Roy Stewart. Lawrence Wilkes, John
Waite. Leslie Warren, -. T. Oliver,
Chris Sullivan, Charley Sparks, Roy
Wright. Harry Payne. Abe Lewis,
Junior Chisholm, Joe Taylor, George
Franklin, jefferson Banks. Harvey
Nagroucr. John Dawson.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25

law Investigation showed that tia
five had sneaked in with returnin%
road gang. lured by the prospect o.
three good meals a day and a clean
comfortable cell in which to sleep
Now every party Of prisoners work
ing outside the walls is carefully cou1
ed before it is admitted to tn
in order to eliminate ringers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25
NOTICE Il. OF p.

THERE WILL BE 4 SPECIAL
MEETING MONDAY EVENING JAN
UARY 26, FOR PURPOSE OF
WORKING IN RANK AND VOTING
ON APPLICATIONS MEMBERS
URGED TO BE THERE.
HOMER c. HURLEY, &
25.2 Il. OF $. & X.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25
Grocery Prices STAY Up.

Growers predict little change in
prices this year. giving as their
reasons that food stuff is scare.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-25

Advertise your WANTS in Tho 'rd
moreite.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-03-20
U. 5. TREES PLANTED
OVER SOLDIER DEAD

WASHINGTON. March 20 On the
battle fields whore American soldiers
gave their lives when the call Of hui
FuaHity came, France Is planting Amer
lcan trees sent by the American Fores-
try association
Expressing the gratitude Of the min
lister Of agriculture 81 France Amhns-
sador Jusserand today reported To the
American Forestry association the first
steps taken go care for The seeds which
the association shipped To France from
Boston, Jan. IS, 20 help in refoFesung
the battle area
Most cf the seed ri Douglas fir will
be sent TO the departments If Aisne
Disc, Ardennes and Somme. for the re-
fnrestati0n OF the regions devastated by
war said the ambassador The seeds
Of the leafy trees such as oak. ash
and poplar. VIII be sown this spring In
nurseries. The minister adds an eN-
preston Of bis desire that his feel
Ings Of deep gratitude and those Of the
administration Of waters and forests be
conveyed to the American Forestry as
ISOLATION"
Thus in the years % come" said
Charles Lathrope Pack. president Of the
American Forestry association. today.
America will have the finest Of all
memorials on the battle fields where
her Sons answered the call Of humanity
the living growing trees Of America"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-03-20

located steel fuel tank. shown as Of
rectangular cross section, with filler
neck Il gasoline gauge G and u, the
supply pipe leading to the earburetor
mounted Ia the engine crank case and
driven by cam q, carried upon one
Of the engine shafts. in the same man
ner that the engine valves are operated,
1t takes ia air and forces 1t through a
check valve i. and the air pressure pipe
Il into the top Of the fuel tank, where
Il raises the pressure in the space above
!. - fuel aud forces the gasline through
supply pipe -. The check valve
an automatic valve, which opens TN
direction only, thus permitting air
flow into the tank. hut closes against
movement OF mir back out Of the
+. The pump Il In operation so long
the engine Ii running so that air
esgure, Of a pound or so per square
inch, Is maintained upon the fuel while
the car ia in service. The development
Of too great pressure in the tank Is
prevented by a spring closed automatic
relief valve mot shown connected into
air pressure pipe Il, which opens when
the required pressure IL reached and
permits the escape 10 the atmosphere
nf excess air furnished by the pump,
Although the fuel tank is supposed TO
be kept perfectly air tight, by means
on packing under the filler tube cap
there is likely to be. In practice. some
escape Of air at these points. through
the check valves or elsewhere in the
system, so that when a car is Idle for
sometime. the air pressure falls below
the point at which fuel, upon which to
installed and the required pressure In
the fuel tank was created by exhaust
gases taken from the exhaust manifold
of the engine, through a check valve,
but II r,as found that the action OF the
check was interfered with by carbon
particles and oil contained In the ex-
haust and the method. though it pos
sessed the advantage of simplicity was
abandoned The pressure system over
comes the defects OF the gravity system,
hut Il Introduces complications in the
shape OF two air pumps, which are like
liz to cause some trouble and 1t is
somewhat difficult to keep the tank and
the air line perfectly tight, so that
starting OF the engine can be effected
without preliminary hand pumping.