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The Washington times., 1922-07-23

The matter of selecting and ar
ranging touring equipment in your
car for long runs is of vital impor.
tance and should receive careful con-
sideration. The amount Of weight of
extras" should be limited to a mini
mum, and in placing your extras. !"
including baggage, about the car. see
that the weight is evenly distributed.
DO not strap a trunk, on a running
board on one side and nothing on the
other. This tends to unbalance the
car and makes driving difficult, par
ticularly on wet or soft roads.
In assigning seats to your passen-
gers, take the weight Of each indi-
vidual into consideration so that the
load is balanced evenly on each side.
II only one passenger is carried in
the rear, he or she should ride in
the middle of the seat. to keep the
car in perfect balance. II a rear
spring tends to bump on one side,
place a light passenger over 1t. II
both rear springs tend to bump, the
heavyweights should occupy the
front seats.
The matter of distributing the loSd
evenly over the car may seem trivial
IL you will study the arrangements
of the units on the various cars, you
will observe and appreciate the
thought and study engineers give to
keep the weight evenly distributed.
and by experimenting with your pas.
senger load you can convince youc.
self that these are facts. Also IL you
are a close observer you will often
notice that cars travelling along the
road in snaky fashion, have the pas
senger load heavy on one side. The
lighter the car, the more sensitive 1t
will be to these conditions, but re-
gardless of size and weight, perfect
balance makes driving and general
operation half the effort and con-
tributes largely to safety at high
speeds or in emergencies.
To illustrate more clearly the i'm
portance of balancing loads, the
writer recalls racing the Lark" the
fastest train between San Francisco
and Los Angeles, for eight consecu-
tive nights, several years ago. The
distance was 425 miles. At the start
of each run. l arranged the passeng.
ers according to weights. About
ninety miles out Of Los Angeles after
crossing the Ridge Route and arriv-
ing at the foot of TETON Pass, where
mountain roads end and flat valley
roads extend northward for more
than 200 miles, a relief stop was
made for inspection of oil level. This,
Of course, was done in a rush and in
hurrying back to their seats on two
occasions, the passengers shifted
from the original arrangement, which
was not noticed At the time. How
ever, after getting above forty miles
per hour an unbalanced condition
was apparent which gave me visions
of a low tire on one side. or of
something going to happen, but soon
a voice from the rear seat asking
questions revealed to me that the
passenger positions had been shift
The Washington times., 1922-07-23
BIC ARLINGTON
TRACK MEET To.
INCLUDE DRILL
Fort Myer Cavalry Will Pro-
vide Band Concert as
Added Attraction.

A snappy cavalry drill by soldiers
from Fort Myer and a concert by the
band from that post will-be included
among the features Of the automo-
bile, motorcycle and bicycle meet
staged at Arlington Track py Vih-
cent b. Costello Post, Americah Lee
gion, next Saturday afternoon
c. ". Dessez and Frank Hazeiton'
who are handling the entries. report.
ed today that a large NUMBER o,
Washingtoniap had already signed
up and that all the indications were
that the various events VIII De spir'
itedly contested. ..- -,
In addition to the large silver
trophy cup, provided by The WASH.
ington Times as the prize In tne
fiVe-mile open automobile race, were
will be gold medals and gold watches
and merchandise awarded. Inc CycIes
Trades OF America will provide prac
tically all the prizes offered IN 'he
bicycle and motorcycle races.
The Arlington track mas -peen roii
ed and smoothed. and II Is expected
that entrants will avail themselves
of the opportunity to practice tnere
today, and the remaining DAYS this
week before the meet begins.
All the proceeds OF the meet VII
be applied TO the fund which the ie
Rionnaires are raising to guiio .
home for disabled soldiers In the
District OF Columbia.
The Washington times., 1922-07-23
.8OO-M|LE TOUR IN
STANDARD, PLEASING
II. M. Denton Says he Was
Amazed at Stability OF
New Model.

H. M. Denton, Of washington. d
c., has Just written the STANDARD
Motor Car Company, OF Pittsburgh
at the conclusion Of an s0o-mile triI
through Virginia, OF his pleasant
surprises experienced with new
Model 9s Standard Eight.
He declared that during the entire
trip he added no Oil 20 the lubricatine
system and upon his return found
less than two quarts Of oil consumed
He said the roads in certain sections
of Virginia were in very bad con.
dition. due to recent heavy rains. and
that a washed-out stretch between
Richmond and Lynchburg required
four hours to cover twelve miles.
"One of the things that aston
ished me most" said Mr.. Denton,
was that at the end Of the journey
the car had no rattles or squeaks
and that on no part of this trip, over
the hot and sandy roads, did motor
meter show summer heat On the
entire run I did not consume over
one quart OF water, and the motor
seemed to improve with each mile
of the Journey"
The Washington times., 1922-07-23
|CHANGE IN BODY
MADE NlATEST
| DODGE MODELS
Scores Of Visitors Inspect New
Cars Shown in Semmes'
Salesroom.

Announcement of conservative
changes in all models of the Dodge
Brothers cars caused the visit Of
scores of interested motorists to the
headquarters OF the Semmes Motor
Company, local distributors, to In.
spect the cars which are on display
In the Connecticut avenue saiesroom.
Among the differences to be noticed
on close inspection OF the newest ar
rivals here, the most prominent Is
the fact that the hood and radiator
have been raised to meet with the
general body design, adding greatly
to its appearance by better stream
lining. The section Of the body be-
tween the front doors and the hood
are also in conformity with the rest
of the body, and strengthened ma!
teriaily by interior braces of sturdy
castings. Noticeable also is the fact
that the dashboard has been tilted,
aiding appearance but also making
the instruments on the dash more
easily, read.
TheNormer side piece that accom-.
panied the top, stretched to the sides
Of the rear seat, are missing from
the newer cars, as is also the con-
ventional extra brace that was found
to be unnecessary and in the way
by Dodge Brothers engineers. More
upholstery has been added to the
rear seats in carrying OUT the aim
Of greater riding comfort. Outside
door handles have. also been added.
The lower section of the Windshield.
where the frame rests upon the cowl
OF the car, has been waterproofed by
q rubber strip facing outward.
The Washington times., 1922-07-23
$50, 900 PASSENGER
CARS PURCHASED IN MAY

Total production OF passenger cars
during May was slightly in excess
OF $50, 900, which would give yearly
production OF 100000 vehicles. OBJ.
viously this record will not be main
tanned during the entire year, but It
is safe to say that 1922 will see many
more cars turned out into the roads
than we had any right to expect at
the beginning Of the year. At the
present time p number of companies
are compiling !. notable production
records.
For instance, Dodge is turning out
600 cars per day, Willys-Overland
500, Studebaker 440, Maxwell 400.
Ford, OF course, is the daddy OF them
all with daily output of 4.3on
General Motors is now approac'
1000 passenger cars per day u .
various units.
The Washington times., 1922-07-23
DON'T FUSS AROUND
YOUR CAR TOO MUCH
It's, Almost as Bad as Neglect
ing It, Expert
-'.... h Declares.

. A fault equally as destructive to
the car as neglecting 1t is the habit
OF fussing too much with II. The
Gmeworn happy medium" applies
as elsewhere, but its exact nature re.
quires a bit of explanation.
Not to oil the bearing Of the gene
rator means subjecting 1t to exces-
sive friction. with resulting excessive
wear and screeching; to put too
many drops Of oil through the oil
lead means short circuiting the arma-
ture--and trouble. II the fan b. -
Is not frightened occasionally II q
slip and cause the engine to ov,
heat; II II Is frightened too often
It will stretch and break premature
ly, leaving the driver-in nine cases
out of ten--stranded on the road.
p The car that Is lavished with mis-
directed attention Is quite likely to
be In worse condition than the car
which is abused. It's the old story
of the meddling youngster grown up
to be an inquisitive car owner. Much
OF the work that comes to repair
shops Is merely undoing the mechani.
cal crimes committed by over-cur-
fous car owners.
one driver was so keen about lub.
ricating the engine that he chose to
ignore the oil indicator and kept ad.
ding a quart Of lubricant every time
he saw a chance to let the garage
man see how well he took care Of his
car. One day they towed him home
and drained fifteen quarts Of oil
from crankcase before the gaspins
pistoris were free to travel UP and
down in their cylinders. Grinding
valves and cleaning out the carbon
added TO the cost Of OVERRIDING 1t,
not to mention the nine quarts Of
oil that were wasted.
The Washington times., 1922-07-23
ONE MAN CAN REPLACE
MANIFOLDS ON A FORD

II Is often difficult to put both the
trtate and exhaust manifolds on at
the same time on a Ford. l have
found that one man can replace
both manifolds without difficulty by
pIacfng the intake manifold In place
and tightening up the singiearrned
clamps on the two inside studs. The
exhaust manifold is then placed and
the regular twoarmed clamps are
frightened up on the two end studs.
The two one.armed clamps are then
taken off one at a time and replaced
with the regular two-armed clamps.
The Washington times., 1922-07-23
WILlYS. PLANT READY
FOR CAPACITY OUrPO7

So complete were the Durant
plans, that even so short a time after
the purchase of the WHY'S plant
in Elizabeth. N. j.. II has been an.
Stars and $50 Durants per day.
The Washington times., 1922-07-23
HERE AND THERE

J. c. Stuart formerly member OF
the sales organisation OF Hummer
Motor Company has been made vice
president and general manager Of
the Thaden Motor Sales Company,
Washington representative for the
Auburn. Stuart has been identified
with the automobile industry for
several years and should meet with
considerable success in his new posi-.
ton.
Lyman L. King formerly with the
Parkway Motor Company has also
Joined the Traden organization and
win be a member Of the sales organ
ization.
Harry Cunningham who has been
associated with the sales OF the
Haynes for about two years as sales
manager has accepted q position as
sales manager for the Hummer
Motor Company, whore he will handle
that good Lexington car which has
been going strong for the Hummer
brothers.
Paul Bromley and @. A. Prall have
also sworn ailegience to the Lexihg
ton and will assist Sales Manager
Cunningham and his able lieutenant
'Biif' Rutherford In the Immediate
delivery department. ...... .
The Hummer Motor Sales Com
pany's service station is now manned
by q corps Of Lexington factory
mechanics under the leadership oi
Frank Rudd.
Z. H. Ankeny, who has been
associated with local automobile
interests for a number Of years. IL
now sales manager for the Powell
Motor Company. distributor for tn,
Hanson Six and the King Eight
Ankeny will be in direct charge o.
the sales and advertising OF these
populas cars. L. G. Ankeny is alsc
a member Of the sales organization
Of the Powell company.
Frank X. Stonestreet, the host o.
the popular Rock Point Hotel, an
nounces that the large pavilion al
the point has been completed and
may be reserved for dancing parties
With the excellent fishing at Rock
Point this season and the growing
popularity Of motor trips to Stone
streets, Stonestreet has been a bus,
host but never too busy to ably care
for his guests.
The Washington times., 1922-07-23
Columbia Car Sales.

At the stockholders meeting Of the
Columbia Motor Car Company, Presi.
dent ]. G. Bayeriine announced that
the company has on hand an order
for %, 700 light skies for delivery up
to January l. 1923.
The Washington times., 1922-07-23
RACE BETWEEN TRAIN
AND AUTO IS PLANNED

20 A race between an automobile and
a passenger train is Scheduled Tor
July 1s between Garden City, Kan,
and Littleton, Col. a distance of
500 miles. Charles w. Bogart, Of
against the Santa Fe Flyer.
Permission to exceed speed limits
3 being arranged.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-23

swallow '-despite the callouses ACCUMULATED
by the sensibilities during the years of toll and
contact with the hostile pack that are trying to
get the same dollar we're after ourselves =
The boy, fresh from home and just striking
out for himself, has none of these callouses
His nature is sensitive, without insulation. And
making him the target of the unnecessary sharp
word or lack of consideration is about the low
est-down act that the so-called human being is
guilty Of
When it comes to girls, thousand times
more so.
Maybe you remember, years ago, the heart
aches and spiritual injuries and disappoint-
ments that were yours wher. you first began
making your own living. Probably there were
things that occasionally brought few tears to
your eyes.
Ii we all kept this memory fresh before u.s.
the boys who work today would get better
deal.
Considering the harsh and thoughtless treat
ment that most boys get on their first jobs, it's
no wonder that So many of them grow up bru-
tai, cynical and defiant toward their fellows
You can tell how much of real manhood there
is in grown-up by the way he treats the boys
who work around him. And you can spot the
bully, roughing the lads in way he'd not have
the courage to try on men his own size.
Another thing: These boys now working
with us, and making mistakes due to inexperi-
ence Gas we all did in our turn, are the future
leaders of the world For all some of us know
our only claim to greatness may be in having
worked with some great man of the future, now
a boy nervously fumbling at his first job
A certain baggageman didn't realize this years
ago, when he permanently injured a train-boy's
hearing by boxing him on the ears for clutter
ing up the baggage car with electrical appara-
tus. The train-boy was Thomas A. Edison.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-23
"Find Yourself"
To Win Success

Are you feeding your stomach and
neglecting your brains?
Do you expect to build up your body
on diet of ice cream, cake and char
lotte russo?
If so, you are stumbling along an I'M
certain road to nowhere, says DR..
James M. Fitzgerald, noted physician,
surgeon and vocational guidance ex-
pert of Chicago.
For your success depends as much on
your mind and what you put into it, he
says, asst does on your physical health.
In an exclusive interview with NEA
Service, DR.. Fitzgerald maps the course
for any man or woman to follow, if
success and happiness are sought.
Read the interview, study his rules for
success, and then see how closely you
are following them in your own every
day course of affairs.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-23
The Wise Ike
BY BERTON BRALEY

If ever bozo was hep to the trails,
Yours truly is certainly him.
I've studied the chickens and followed
their trails,
I've kept the wrens under my glim.
: I've piped 'em at work and I've iamped
EN- at play,
I've fiirted and danced with 'em too.
At knowing the ladies I'll modestly say
The birds that outclass me are few.
I've looked 'em all over; the kind you
can pet,
And also the kind that you can't,
The baby-faced blond and the stately
brunei
At fappers I've taken a slant,
The vamps and the ingenues, queens
and the dolls,
And all other kinds there may be;
If any ones got any dope on the molls,
reckon that baby is me!
And now that that's settled, I'll slip
you the dope
And tell you as much as / know.
For my education is wide in it's scope,
I'm jerry, I'm jake and I'm joe;
If anyone knows EN- | otta, that's plain
/ should be some wise little elf,
But though I've endeavored to study
each jane,
don't know no more than yourselfI
Copyright, 1922, NEA Service)
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-23
"HERE BOYw

Around factories, offices, stores and any
other places where people work together thing
frequently noticed by visitors is the boiled
attitude of grown-ups toward the boys who are
on the payroll.
The boss usually is salaamed and toadied to
as if he were sacred COW. Miss Pansy Plush,
the beautiful typist, gets lot of fawning con-
sideration. And even the male grown-ups treat
each other with mutual Difference or respect,
despite considerable amount Of facetious josh
ing.
But when it comes to the boy who works
around the place-well, when he's called and
commanded, it generally sounds as if he were a
trained dog that had to be handled roughly on
the theory that, give him an inch, he'll take a
mile.
Rough treatment, lack of consideration and a
stern rebuke are difficult for a grown-up to
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-23
Voice of the People
Voice of the People

Voice of the People
Editor Evening News:
Three years ago, when l needed
doctor for my family, had to meet
him on the Wilmot road mile and
half away, with big team. It was i'm
possible for him to get any nearer with
his auto, and he had no other convey
ance. Five days later wanted to see
my family at the hospital, we had to
hitch the team onto the auto and pull
it quarters of a mile, most of the
way with running board and pan drag
ging in the mud.
The road past my place has been
fixed now, but there are lots of roads
as bad as the Woodwork road was in
the county yet. Now, before you talk
of putting lights along any country
road, think of the other fellow. Think
of the fellow that has paid his taxes
and helped put in the roads along the
property of others, and have had to get
along with dirt roads, good enough
when dry and scraped, but "all in"
when wet and muddy.
Country roads are not what they
used to be. There was a day when
they were used very little, and people
were very careful to keep off them as
much as possible when they were soft.
Today most people travel with autos.
A man starts out perhaps from town to
see some party in the country, all the
roads he knows are good for several
miles. He has to go on a crossroad a
little way-it is wet, and the auto
leaves a couple of burrows the whole
| length-perhaps lots worse. The coun-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-23

says. an this respect it is IKE the
body.
mo one would expect a strong ply
sique on diet excluded to ice cream,
cake and charlotte russo.
Likewise, it is impossible to pro-
duce much of mind on mental pab-
ulum restricted to information about
crimes, banalities, chicanery, frivolity
and other specious subjects.
"The mind, like teapot, pours out
what has been poured into it. Your
energy goes the way you direct your
attention. And with your energy goes
your success"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-23

try man is not the only one that suf-
fers from animproved crossroads, but
he suffers many times more than any
one else. Five hundred and twenty-five
dollars would go quite ways toward
crawling these crossroads, especially
if done every year and for as many
miles as you talk of lighting, Take
the town line road between Bristol and
Pleasant Prairie from the Plank road
to the Geneva. There re at least
twenty families that use that road to
get on the concrete. These have all
paid taxes to help build the concrete
roads. Now don't leave them in the
mud and put on unnecessary frills to
suit few that have nothing else to do
but hunt up ways to spend money.
F. W. Roberts.
P. 81 think that the recount"
should be recounted. AS it stands, it
is slap at nearly every election off
cial in the whole county. Something
should be done to prove one or the
other count right, or maybe both
wrong. F. w. R.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-23

The last fiscal year closed with surplus of
S313,OOO,OO0 in the Federal Treasury. Most Of
that can be used to meet any deficit that may
accrue during the present year. It is the pur-
pose OF Congress to help meet the, situation by
cutting appropriations to the limit So prom
Using is the outlook that Chairman Madden of
the House Appropriations Committee feels sure
that the prospective deficit of $6700OO,O00 will
disappear before the fiscal year ends on June
80 next
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-23

Up to the present time the new tariff has
failed to affect the import trade, which is very
heavy. That fact alone is sufficient answer to
the charge that the tariff rates are too high.
Apparently they are not high enough to bring
the protection that American industries have a
right to expect Meanwhile the customs reve-
nues for the fiscal year are expected to be about
$455, 100000, more than S1OO,O0O,OOO above
those of any previous year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-23
Life.

New discoveries are made about the
life-giving powers of the blood's white
corpuscles, which protect the body
against germ infection and stimulate
the growth of new tissues.
These discoveries, which some scien-
lists believe may lead to making peo-
pie live longer, are announced by DR.,
Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Insti-
tute.
The announcement is important, for
DR.. Carrel is a medical scientist of
high standing in his profession. Usu-
ally these startling predictions come
from professional self-advertisers.
A steer is more careful of his stom-
ach than even college student we'll
informed about diet. So says DR..
Francis G. Benedict, nutrition expert
addressing National Academy of Sci
ences.
The old saying that "Most of US dig
our own graves with our teeth" is
worth repeating every time we sit down
at the dining table or lunch counter
The way to a mans heart, and usually
to his coffin, is through his stomach.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-23
TOM SIMS
Says

Blue baboon has arrived in the U. S.
After the gland craze you can't blame
a baboon for being blue.
Football is dangerous game. In
Iowa City, 1909 autos got stuck in the
mud at football game.
Matthews, of the Polar regions,>was
arrested in Chicago. They should be
kept, or he will become a janitOr.
A British sportsman has bought an
African volcano and may intend talk
ing back to it instead of his wife.
Auto statesmen are too ambitious.
McAdoo reports his car was stolen
while he was attending an auto show.
When grand opera opened in New
York two men went because they
thought the Viennese Diva was bath
ing girl.
A mad hunter writes in to tell us he
couldn't hit barn from the inside
with all the doors shut.
The height of ignorance is buying
two neckties just alike.
A great many of our Injuries are for
internal use.
Gibbons knocked out Ashe in 45 sec
onds in Detroit. Report that some left
during the fight is untrue.