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The Delta independent., 1924-07-25

And speaking Of that dawn-to-dusk
flight. there are those OF the farmers
al this season OF the year.
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come in mann colers and patterns.
Velours and yefvets have enjoyed con-
siderable popularity as body uphoaster-
ing materials in recent years. The two
terms are practically synonymous and
designate soft strong WOODEN fabrics
woven with raised and short nap.
Pushes also come under this CLASH
fication, but they are woven with a
much deeper Pile.
Leather is being used to some extent
In the interior Of business or utility
models, but it has only one place in the
finer closed bodies. That is on the
drivers seat, where it may allow great
err freedom of movement and be subject
to continued service.
Harmony of color is first essential
in my successful example of artful in
terror decoration. 1t is most important
in the case of automobile body interiors
Harmony is simply a pleasing arrange
ment of colors. If you decide to adopt
a two-color scheme of trimming, be
sure that the colors are complimentary
and harmonious. To cite an example,
do not mix tans or browns with greens.
If you are of nervous temperament, Sc
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What effect will castor oil have on
gasoline and on the motor. Win it
Intricate the cylinder walls from the
top OF the piston? Win it also remove
carbon? Would you recommend its
sss *. r.. s. M.
The use Of castor oil in the gasoline
will tend to depoeit a gummy mass in
the cylinders. The addition of any kind
Of lubricant to the gasoline In not
advisable. 1t does no good and tends
to produce carbon: ~,
Barney Oldfield
NY work take me into rural COM
munities on dirt roads. which are rutty
and rough during some periods of the
year, but as rule they are pretty
good. / travel about ten thousand
miles a year on these roads,
/ want to buy a new closed car, In
the 81 900 or 81, 200 class.
would like to buy a. car equipped
with balloon tires. Would you recon-
mend them for the roads described
above, if so, would they decrease the
mileage on fuel and how much?.
r. 8. III.
/ recommend balloons on 20 or 21-
inch wheels for any car. The use Of
such tires tends to decrease fuel con-
sumption because the tires stick to the
ground and always are pulling.
Barney Oldfield:
r have a 1928 Ford touring car with
a metal cowl board and recently put
on dash light with single contact to
the battery. This lights o. K.
wanted to make trouble lamp SO
got single contact socket from head
lamp and / put single contact plug
in one end and the globe in the other
end. On the other end of the wire l
have a single contact plug. put this
end in the dish lamp and do not have
any light, but if ] touch the side of
the globe on metal part, of the car
it lights UP. How can I fix this so that
it will light without touching the globe
on metal part Of the car?
J..F. M.
According to your description you
simply run a single-contact bulb and
provide no ground return. That bulb
will not light unless the metal base
of the bulb is grounded. You can get
ground by installing the metal socket
in metal part of the car. Otherwise
you will have to use two wires il you
want to carry. the bulb away from the
car. -
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REDECORATING
A CLOSED CAR
Select A Reliable Shop
And Have Complete
Understanding
By BARNEY OLDFrELD

Automobile upholstering or trimming
Is special trade. Do not take your
car TO furniture upholsterer, for he
is not equipped to do the work properly
If the dealer who sold you your car has
trimming shop, let him do the work
III he has not, it lis better to deal di-
rccfly with the trimmer, avoiding the
unsat isfactory arrangement of transmit
ting orders through third party.
! Having selected what appears to be
reliable shop, agree upon specifica-
lions 90 that it will be understood ex-
actly what work is to be done and the
grade and pattern of all materials that
are TO be used. See that the cost of the
complete job is based on the specifica-
lions and agreed upon in advance.
Your choice Of materials must be made
from three general types-cotton, wool
and mohair. Cotton and cottonwood
fabrics are used generally in the in
expensive cars. They do not wear as
well or are they as rich in appearance
as the wooden materials. Cotton We
burs are used extensively, but they are
not rs 4servicable as wooden velours or
mohair plushes. The most popular
cloth for body interiors is wool broad
cloth. It can be procured in large
gMAAg8l iSSA CuAVhSp pdttcEus anu SuIldcc
finishes. It Is easily cleaned, lends
itself to any style of trimming and
wears wei. Bedford cords are heavy
woolen materials woven with raised
cord or ridge. Bedford cords and
whipcords wear very well, but they
lack the luxury Nof the broadcloths and
woKsteds.
Mohair and mohair plushes are COM
ing into greater favor every day, large
~ because of the unusual service quail
ties which have made them the stand
ard fabric in Pullman cars. Mohair will
outwear nearly any other upholstery
material It does not show dirt very
much or soil easily and withstands
abuse. Mohair plush has the disad
vantage of being little harder to clean
than the other fabrics because of its
deep nap. Mohair and mohair plush
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DUFT. ROUTS CUPID

A duel was fought in forest on the
outskirts of Berlin recently between
two men more than 40 years old who
had been lifelong friends, says a Berlin
letter in the continental edition of the
London Mail
They are both bachelors, hut one a
merry squire, fell in love with a pretty
girl of 81 and was determined to marry
her. The other, wealthy business
man, was certain the pretty girl would
make his friend unhappy. He noticed.
for instance, that when the three Of
them were in restaurants the pretty
girl returned the admiring glances of
young men at other tables
Love is blind, and the squire saw
nothing of this. His friend, not under
standing the danger of interfering in
other peoples love affairs, hit on a plan
to save him. He sent the pretty girl
a love letter inviting her to meet him
and signed it with a fictitious name.
Two love letters had no effect, but the
third brought that naughty girl to the
rendezvous, and he was there to see
her arrive. He went home chuckling
and wrote and told her how he had
tricked her and warned her to leave his
friend alone.
But she, with that touch of genius
which deceives mere men every time,
went straight off to her squire with
tears in her eyes and the letters in her
hand
The result was the duel and bullet
in the chest of the kind but laundering
friend. The story has, however, a high
ly moral ending. Overcome with grief
at the sight of his friend bleeding on
~. a \ 4
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I
lect cold colors, for they are predomin-
sntly restful. Grays. blues and the
darker green's are in this group.
Warmth and hospitality find express
sion in the dark brown and deep maroon
tints. Friyolity and show are reflected
in the colors in which yellow pre-
dominates. as in the tans and, light
| green's, 40
One soon grows extremely tired of
bright colors and pronounced figures.
The rich simplicity of pullman car
interior, is the result of mapy years
study. to secure highly restfuE effect.
Your closed car is comparable to the
pullman. for both are 4 conyeyances
whose confined interiors must be rest
full in order to offset the atmosphere OF
motion and unrest which 4 surrounds
their exteriors. Z
Consider practieability when select
ing upholstering materials. Light tans
and green create charming exteriors,
but they have an uncanny affinity for
dirt, silk materials cannot possibly
withstand the rigorous service that is
met in motor cars.
Trimming style is an important con-
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Sims
THE l9G TIRE NAN
AT The PQflP!

The innocent Suffer with The Guilty
On recent drive through the suburb
Of Detroit to the center Of the city,
we counted TWENTY-FIVE pedestrians
who stepped to the street from the
curb wifhoist a single glance at the
left.
AccordinS to the text books, Self
preservationfis the first law of nature"
Judged by the indifference which we
mortals display, the first law might
rightly be regarded as somewhat of a
fiszie.
furthermore, as long as compliance
with this law is matter of individual
discretion, and no penalties are IN
volved, except those which are self
inflicted, 1t must be expected that fools
will presist in ignoring peril. 81
Unfortunately, however, the shazards
OF disobedience fall alike on the just
and the unjust, for blameless though
he may be, the motorist is compelled
to accept a share of the responsibility
for most OF the accidents Of this sort,
which result from the pedestrians own
stupidity.
A little observation---or single, per-
sonal experience--is usually enough to
convince one that Mr.. Volstead's logic,
at least, is sound. A lot of people need
to be saved from themselves. 4
The fellow who wrote look before
you leap must have been gifted with
the prophetic instinct. He penned, it
long before the day Of the auto-dodging
pedestrians:
Any tourist can testify that the
signs OF the times all seem to indicate
u detour ahead.
The reason Tor demonstrating these
light cars ID because the directions to
the consumer say, '.Shake Well Before
Taking T.
IT'S whole lot easier to explain to
the repairman than to the Judge.
We can only judge the future BY the
At l ssI,s., .h s.is What some ssi'en-
I wonder II he'd know from half the
journey
How many detours there were stili
ahead.
The number Of people now looking
at the new cars is fair indication Of
the number that have made the final
payments on their old ones.
Actual sign on an Ohio roadway
PHYSICIAN and VULCANLZING.
The old-fashioned mule-skinner finds
that his vocabulary is just as appro-
pirate in five-ton truck. Ouly now it
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OVERLAND AIDS
GEOLOGY SURVEY

Judging from the report made by
Professor Henry V. Howe, who holds
the chair of geology at the Louisiana
State university, an Overland roadster
which he drives has done more than
its share to advance this science.
Since last May, Professor Howe has
driven his car across the Sontinent
to Oregon and Washington and return,
a distance of more than $500 niles
This trip was taken for the express
purpose of making geological surveys
and the collection of specimens, which
required that the greater part Of the
journey be made over stretches of c0un-
try where no roads existed. Professor
Howe adds that the last $500 miles of
his trip were over roads hub deep In
mud. ~ sf
Despite the handicaps.' writes the
professor, Il was greatly surprised to
find that the car had at all times an
abundance Of power. both for the steep
mountain grades and for the heavy pull
ing in deep sand and mud. As a mat
ter of precaution / had a mechanic
go over the car every 1900 miles. The
charges for this work and for a new
cork gasket on the oil filter-the sole
eplacement---amounted to but $780,"
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11.4% Less to Run
The .Studebaker Light-Six Touring

all surfaces, as was done in the
Liberty Airplane Motors. This extra
care costs US 100000 yearly. but it
means perfect balance in the motor.
More Timken bearings are used
in this car than in any competitive
car within $500 of its price.
There are SIT operations in max
ing this car exact to lk1oooth Of an
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able you to look at any car and tell
whether it's been cheapened to meet
a price or offers true quality.
1t will tell you why some cars rat
tie at 10000 miles and others don't.
It shows one single point in closed
car which measures whether you're
getting top or medium quality. The
book is tree-clip the coupon below.
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H.4% less TO ,as

This supreme quality
means lower operating
cost. Owners Of fleets OF
cars In this class made
audited records to prove
this.
They compared $40
cars, running up to Is. 900
miles each. And they
found that the Stude-
baker Light-Six cost
il1.4% less to operate
than the average of its
s-i,,~aa gT1.ss saalr.S9a. ~
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The reasons are these

The Studebaker Light-Six, in its
chassis, represents the best we know.
In steel and in workmanship it Is
identical with the costliest cars we
build.
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The trend toward Stude-
bakers mas become q sem
sation.
Last year l4S,167 peo-
pie paid $20l 900 600 for
! Studebaker cars.
Back Of this car Is an
honored name, which for
II years has stood for
high ideals.
Behind it are 500, 000,~
600 Of assets staked on
pleasing you better than
others.
Before you pay 81 900
or more for q car, these
are facts you should
know and compare. You
owe that to yourself.
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w YHEN you. buy aecar in the
NM "thousand-dollar" class.
v v here are some things you
should know.
We made canvass of men who
bought rival cars in this class. And
we found that 90 in each 100 bought
without knowing these facts.
So, for your sake and our sake, we
want to present them to you.
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inch. And l22 are exact to one-haH
that.
Genuine leather cushions, ten
inches deep. Unusual equipment.
Scores Of extra values.
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SAGE $500 TO 500 =

Studebaker builds 1907
600 fine cars yearly. It
builds in model factories,
raodernly equipped. 1t
has spent $3s, 900. 900 in
the past Ave years on
new-day plants and
equipment.
BY quantity and up-to-
dateness it saves large
sums per car. A car like
this Light Six. built un-
der ordinary conditions.
would cost $500 to $500
more.
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ways drove AS carefully a. II he had
earned it himself
A motorist who ~ets sf.-- y 49,
mud can always take his choice .-dis
out or dig up.
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probation. The saving was nearly
one cent per mile.
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Made BY the Leaders

This Il one Of the cars which has
made Studebaker the leader in
quality cars. Our sales have almost
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-14
Send in that Subscription Today.
Labor" Slabs Labor

Labor is the name of weekly paper published
by the officials of the sixteen standard railroad
unions. 1t is run by the same men who control
the Conference for Progressive Political Action
and the July 18th gathering in Cleveland. And
Labor is carrying on the same kind of sabotage,
disruption and betrayal on the political field that
split the railroad unions in the strike of 1922 and
almost destroyed the shop crafts.
In its current ISSUE Labor boasts that LaFol-
lette, by his attack upon the st. Paul convention,
does Labor quote to back up the statement? Not
even ordinary official labor papers, but the CAPT
talst press, the natural enemies of the labor move
ment The NeW York World, the Baltimore Sun,
the Washington NeiUs, the Hearst newspapers
these are the sources of the Applause of the
nation" according to the paper that calls itself
Labor.
Such effort to stab the Farmer-Labor party
movement in the back is typical of Labor and its
bureaucrat BOSSES In the railroad strike they
calmly applauded while seven unions helped the
bosses to defeat the other nine. In the political
struggle of 1924 they have calmly, and as a matter
Of course developed two Tor three) distinct poiti
cal policies which will inevitably split even their
own pitifu efforts in the old parties, in their dual
movements for LaFOllette and McAdoo Now they
carry disruption a step farther in their Islander
against the only real effort at political action for
June 17th
"a rose Of any other name would smell as sweet
and whether the sheet is called Wall Street
Journal or Labor makes no difference. 1t is doing
the will of the bankers in the working class ranks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-14

Roumania is in the throes of a deep-gOing social
change Little by little the last vestiges Of feudal
influence are being uprooted. The day of undis-
puted capitalist supremacy, a dictatorship not
married by the challenge Of the feudal land-owning
class or disturbed by the rumbings of the revolu-
hOnary proletariat is now clearly in sight.
The role of the capitalist class of Roumania in
the war was despicable and cowardly. 1t bore all
the earmarks of the vascillating foundering
policy Characteristic of the exploiting class at
the early stage Of its development. But goaded on
by the allies and finally succeeding in winning
over the landlord class, the Roumanian capitalists
finally entered the lists against the German mill
tary machine.
Then the Roumanan ruling classes were re-
warded for their bloody work. Special recogni-
ton was accorded them because of the dastardly
role played in crushing the Hungarian Soviet Re
public. The allied imperialists aided and abetted
the Roumanian seizure Of Bessarabia while Soviet
Russia was busy fighting back counterre revolution.
This course of development lent tremendous i'm
petus to the enhancement of the political and
economic powers of the Roumanan bourgeoisie.
French capitalists did their bit to strengthen the
Roumanian tyranny But soon there was a con
hict in sight between the land-owning class and
the capitalists. The recent menacing gestures of
General Averescu at the head of the well-to-do
peasants against the Bratan0 government were
manifestations of brewing revolt against the
hegemony of the capitalists over the landowners
Now we are told that the Roumanian govern
ment is taking aggressive measures to strengthen
the grip of the capitalist class the unfortunate
country The sale of some of the biggest estates
to the peasantry was only an attempt to weaken
the feudal overlords and get more revenue to main
tain the dominantly capitalist government in
power. Then the great state resources, as Mines
fisheries and forests were given away for a song
to the capitalists Soon a moratorium was de-
clared against the debts owed to foreign govern
ments and foreign individuals by Roumanian
debtors. Now the oil fields controlled by Ameri-
can, French, British and Dutch interests are being
confscated. This is simply another step in the
same direction. Of course the Roumanian govern
ment will yield to foreign pressure and return the
properties, but only after it will have secured
pledges for huge financial assistance from the
Paris and London bankers. The Roumanian CAPT
taists must have such big loans in order to be able
to hold their in case of a revolt against their
tyranny either by the workers and poor farmers
or by the slave-owning class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-14
"On the Cross of Gold"

Coolidge and Dawes will be the standard bearers
of the reactionary Republican party This choice
is of monumental significance. Everyone expected
Coolidge to be nominated. Many believed that
sham progressive would be chosen as Cautious
Gals" running mate. Others thought that if an
out-and-out dyed-in-the-wool reactonary would be
picked the second man the ticket the honors
would fall dark horse.
Dawes may be as black as they come in politics.
but there is nothing unknown or hidden about him.
Coolidge and Dawes will be the gold-dust twins of
the Republican campaign. The selection of this
team to make the race for the party of graft, oil
and polluted politics is of threefold import to the
working and poor farming classes of the country
First of all, the character of the personnel shows
very plainly that the reactionary capitalist clique
intends to do no word-mincing in the coming
months. The powerful employing class interests
have chosen the frontal, open, direct method of
attack the discontinued masses. Coolidge is a
perfect son of the financial alleys. Dawes is an
oldtimer at the game of serving the owning class
1t was Dawes who helped Mark Hanna sell McKin-
ley, the marionette of American Imperialism to the
country. 1t was Dawes who opened the Republi-
can party's open shop campaign in December,
1922, before the Chicago Chamber of Commerce
with the warning to the working class that "The
politicians these days are afraid of the labor
unions, many of which are headed by criminals
We need men who are not afraid of mobs-who are
ready to fight"
Secondly, the selection Of Coolidge and Dawes
indicates that the American capitalist class is very
definitely committed to an out and out offensive
international policy. Little camoufage will be
employed to hide the imperialist maneuvers. Plain
SIk and s55SSeen SgsdS fofe world hrcia ind cJr.
mercial supremacy will be the pillars buttressing
the diplomacy of Yankee foreign policy. The
Dawes plan and the Dawes nomination are closely
linked.
Thirdly, the choice Of two such notorious spokes-
men Of the uppermost crust of the exploiting class
shows that the capitalist class is going to invest
most heavily in putting over its safe-and-sane
president. Months ago we told our readers that
the reactionaries were planning to invest $780,
100000 in the campaign. The proof is here in the
person of Dawes.
What the solons of Wall Street will do now is
to invest handsome in the Democratic
ticket which will be permitted to take on some
what liberal tinge that the masses will not
go wrong in voting either way. All of this should
only serve to instill the working and poor farming
masses desire to organize mighty party of their
own to fight the capitalist class. The employers
have thrown down the gauge of battle to the ex-
plotted masses Resistance to the bitter end
against oppression by the big business interests or
crucifxion on the capitalist cross of gold-these
are the only roads open to the working and dis
possessed farming classes of the country.
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Of Plentywood. He will be one Of the
most aggressive figures in the CON
vention
State Senator ]. H. Anderson, also
from Montana, is famous as one of the
most eloquent campaigners in the
state. He has a strong grasp of the
many problems Of the farmers.
Foster and Ruthenberg.
These men and women, who come
out Of the great northwest, are the
very backbone Of the Farmer-Labor
movement, that has been springing up
in the various states. In addition to
them there will be present in the con-
vention the representatives of the
most militant section of the working
class, William 2. Foster and c. E.
Ruthenberg as the delegates of the
Workers party.
This is the foundation for the wide
spread belief that the present farmer
labor movement will become virile
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By Joseph Manley

force in the struggle of the oppressed
against capitalism. The great Ameri-
can agrarian revolts of the past failed
from lack of unity of the farmers with
the industrial workers.
Workers and Farmers Uniting.
The st. Paul convention is the d.
rect result of the militancy and or
ganizing ability of the most militant
section of the workers. 1t is the re-
suit of the iron will and determination
to unite and organize following the
July Ord convention against the OPP
position of all the combined forces OF
capitalism, great national farmer
labor movement The June IL con-
vention will mark the end of the old
fallacy that the interests of the ex-
plotted farmers and workers are di-
ametrically opposed.
Out of st. Paul will march class
party of workers and farmers deter
mined to seize power from the com.
mon enemy.
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Then there will be r. III. DAD
Walker, from North Dakota, ono OF
tho "old-timers" of the Non-partisan
league In that state. He It is who
said that there are three kinds OF
farmers: "The tired farmer; the re-
tired farmer and the rubbertirsd farm