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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

That rather than swing over into
the ditch and run the risk of having
a driving wheel get stuck in the mud
when meeting another car it is bet
ter to turn off at an angle even if
the front wheels sink into the mud
50 long as the rear wheels are on
the road where they can set good
traction You can always manage TO
keep out of trouble.
That the load 10 be carried on
camping trip is often excessive
enough to make it advisable to ad-
lust the CarburetOr FOR a richer mix
turc ana the brakes for better de-
CELEBRATION, Too often you are in
Clined TO try for high gas mileage
on the trip. and feel that because
You are heading for the open Coun-
try brakes are not so essential.
That gravity is a vital considera-
ton in lubriCation and that if YOU
oil some unit of the car in the belief
that your action viii serve to stop n
squeak you arc not making much
Roadway unless YOU apply the lubri-
cant in such 4 way that it will run
down, by gravity to the part to be
oiled. Too many car owners oil
Car"lessly and might just as we'll not
oil at all.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05
Did NOu know

That continued wet weather will
often affect the steering Of the car
by making the whCcl--Seem stiff :?
During such periods it is well to
squirt engine oil over the various
operating points Of the steering as
sembly. such as tho king pins. pit
man arm, tie rod pins, steering
knuckles, etc. in addition to the
usual greaSinE
That particular care should be
taken when cleaning spark plugs 10
see that nothing drops into the
cylinders through the openings? In
one instance a broken washer fen
into one of the cylinders and did,
no damage until it caught under an
intake valve head at a time when
the driver was trying to accelerate
quickly. 4 backtire into the car
burstor started a fire. Ordinarily
dirt will be blown out through the
exhaust. but that only helps TO clog
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05
Ainfnrilnm'A Hantiicap

hOtDfuCUI y hAIiuhdp
Simultaneous with the belief that
the automobile has developed by
leaps and bounds there is developing
the idea that. owing 70 a natural
handicap. the automobile does not
progress at the speed II should. IL
is pointed out, for instance. that the
real reason Why any new and de-
sirabi: feature OF design does not
come into popularity with greater
rapidity Is because the average mo-
torist drives but one car at a time
and does not change to n new car
moro often than every three or four
yearB. on the average.
It Ia quite surprising at the pres
snt moment to discover how many
automobile trade people have never
had "A ride In n car equipped with
balloon tires or four wheel brakes
The list In rapidly narrowing. OF
course. but both OF these Innovations
had been on the market quite some
time before dealers and automobile
salcsmen generally had been able to
arrange for demonstrations. II viii!
he quite some time before the aver
age man viii be able to talk author
Itatively on these features. as well as
on many other mechanical changes.
for the simple reason that no one
can talk with authority upon any
innovation until he has had Consid
cradle experience with II. There
doesn't seem TO be time for this.
oven in the mad pace American mo-
torinE now runs
II takes lot OF time TO acquaint
1JmO.WD people with the virtues OF
q new feature. ana because so many
people are eager to air their mar
rowcd Views upon anything that Is
new almost any innovation In motor
dom must suffer setback II would
he an immense help to motordom.
many believe. II all the car owners
and nil the people In the trade could
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

" as possible actual workinv
ditions in the car. Then befor. ~
finished car is delivered II ia ,s
jected to many tests TO see th,,
conforms exactly to standards -, !
the company producing it. VI
In the plant of the Packard Ma.
Car Company every motor upon
final assembly is operated -
hours by an electric motor IA
all its working parts functio,.
smoothly. Then 1t goes ip,n
quiet" room from which all ONT,
noises are eliminated and her.
drives a dynamometer which m,,
ters it's efficiency and power. W.
it is operated In this silent" m,s
an expert goes over every part 4.
with n stethoscope TO catch -
sounds not audible to the uDae,.
human car which might indiss
faulty operation OF any OF the ps-,
While the motor is undergoing
test other units In many other IA
of the factory are passing thro,sI
equally severe ordeals.
The transmission and clutch nj
is mounted on n machine vAs
drives all OF its gears In the 81,
manner in which they will OPEN
in the finished car. The fin!sA.
steering gear is worked IN" \
hand, n tester working the vAs
back and forth until it IS posi-,
to make a complete turn Of "a
wheel with one finger under drio,.
conditions. This follows perm
that the steering gear spends in ,
speciaIly constructed machine tAg
works the steering wheel back a..
forth.
Another silent room" Is provide
for the testing of the rear axle Uni,
The gears Of the axle are driven u
der mower while a brake puts lt
load" on and an inspector make
any adjustments necessary TO inS'
noiscless operation.
when finally completed the cha'
sis Is sent out on shc road for
severe driving test. Later. after q
body has been mounted the iiniSNe
car IA sent out for a road test dui
ing which particular attention
maid to the location and correciio
Of any possible squeaks or rattle
BEFORE being shipped every car
scanned closely by n corps OF I'M
inspectors who check every part
the body and chassis.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

preaching vehicles, leaving no room
at all for the man behind to pass.
In attempting to pass, therefore,
driver is taking an exceptionally
bad risk, for he can get by safely
only when no other car is approach
ing. Since the car ahead. in its par
ticular position. obstructs his view
of any approaching car he invariably
goes into it blindIy, and with pro-
portionate results.
Any accident that follows is very
likely TO be IA head-un collision Of
the most serious type. With the eX-
ception OF going over entertainments
the reports of automobile accidents
show that the head-on type is pro
ducing the greatest percentage OF
fatalities. 1t is the least oNcusable
of all collisions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

to reduce rates but can do this only
through n reduction in losses. 1t
feels that its agents may be sufli-
GENTLY familiar with the causes of
losses to be able to get down to
brass lacks on this subject that has
thus far hattled officials and safety
advocates
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

An insurance company is conduct
ing a prize competition among its
agents with a view to developing a
practical plan whereby automobile
accident losses can be lessened The
winning agent will receive $1,000
and, in addition, the esteem OF To-
OOO.WD motorists The insurers want
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

"Tel the court where YOU were a
Gao on Wednesday, March s."
defendant: II was In RoNhuU
AN And what were you doing
asking n man a question.
"Aha-but how do you know II WI
5:3O?"
AHA yourself, l was asking hH
the time"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05
Tie Old Mechanic Saws:

Automobiles are gettin' TO be SO
near perfection that a lot OF chaps
around here are beginnin' 10 get
little out OF practice on trouble
ahootin. They seem to get puzzled
over a lot OF little things that would
have been play" for car owners ten
years ago.
The feIlers who used TO get out
and get under could take down
crankcase and ft bearin' right on
the road. but lot Of people today
have TO send a hurry call when they
break fan belt. II may be all right
to get our cars TO a point whore tho
don't give serious trouble. but IN
less motorists keep brushed up ON
the subject OF trouble shootin' what
good'll IL do?
Some chaps come in here with
long faces just because there hap
pens 10 be Some little trouble will the
controls. Maybe the throttle controls
lever on the stcerin' post is Siippln
little so that the engine doesn't
get enough gas when cold and whcu
they're shiftin' gears. Usually ita
Just a matter OF gettln' out screw
driver and tightenin' something here
and there.
4 stickIn' valve would have been
cinch for any old timer. but nova
DAYS the average owner thinks the
engine is goIn' to come through and
hit him n just one valve gets a little
baiky. They don't seem 70 even try
10 see what's wrong. which makes
me suspect that this so-callcd easy"
car ownership Isn't doin' anybody
any good.
Changin' tires is problem for Il
lot Of folks. You wouldn't believe
IL but found one Teller tryin' to
take OF n rim while the dust cap
wns still screwed on. II was the
first tire he had had to change in
two wears.
7 told him II was too bad. but 7
guess he didn't get me. Some people
don't seem TO know that trouble has
It's Advantages.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

Some guests will tell you they
enjoyed the ride thoroughly.
others will thank you for being
so thoughtful as to ask them to
share with YOU your particular
brand of carCIcssncss, while still
others will go SO far as TO eN-
press the wish that YOU will
think OF them again some day
when YOU feel like raising cain
on the road.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05
Wise Beyond His Years

"Now," said the professor Of chem
iatry. under what combination y
gold most quickly rcleascd?'
The student pOndered n moment
'T know, sir" he answered. Mar
riagc."-Stray Stories.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05
Three Touring Tips

Watch the end OF each concrete
stretch Of road Sometimes they
drop off into the toughest sort of
paving that is actually dangerous at
high speed. Many 4 tourist who is
running along a concrete road at 40
miles nm hour suddenly reaches n
type Of roadway which he would not
ordinarily traverse at more than
Twenty-Five, cut down ON the speed
until Won see what sort of turn the
road is taking.
An annoying but harmless engine
knock such as a piston slap, piston
pin rap or n water thump can often
he SilcnCed by changing the rate Of
speed. Remember that driving at
the speed ~ which it is most pro-
nounced will agCravate the trouble
and. In time, extend tho range Of the
knock so that II cannot he silenccd
by 60 simple an cypcdient as chang
ing the speed,
when parking the car on the
streets of q resort bc sure that in
applying tho rulc ~ doing ae The
natiNcs do that vow ~" Not making
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

take time enough to put new fea-
ture TO the test and decide whether
TO accept or reject 1t. The world
could go on with something else and
waste far less time.
The way matters stand new fea-
ture has to sell itself. slowly batter
ing down prejudices and opinions
based upon ignorance OF the facts.
The best the car owner can do IS TO
learn all about new feature at the
earliest possible moment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

\ number of recent accidents arc
a warming to he wary of passing a
car that is well over toward the cen
ter of the road or street. 4 car that
is in this position is naturally ex-
trcmCi% close TO the lire of APP
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

The only time to he thankful
for a poor memory Is when try
ing to remember how far you
went on thcslast ten gallons Of
gas.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

Some people check up on
their gas mileage by believing
the gas tank indicator. Others
are peSsimistS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

Nowadays when a road begins
TO seem smooth u mOtoriSt
thinks his tires are undcrin-
fiatcd.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

the blundcr Of initiating some other
visiting motorist who may happen to
be doing the wrong thing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

Gasoline is excellent for clean
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

Ing the cars wheels. IL even
takes off the paint
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05
LOVES LABOR LOST
Won ShonlI Know

up the muflcr and cut down engine
efficiency.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

When a man says, "Now next
Sunday you must come out win
us i'm our car" it's just civiliLi-
tion's subtle form of retaliation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-05

Nowadays the average motor
lat who stops at the wayside fnn
for wafIics brings his chicken
with him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-24
WEIGHTS
ARE FOUGHT
IN D. c.
Five Ice Dealers Forfeit Their
Collateral on Charges Of
Violating Law

A campaign against short weight
dealers has been launched by George
NJ. Roberts, District superintendent
of weights, measures and markets.
AS q result of this campaign five
ice dealers have forfeited collateral
on charges Of violating the law. !
Washington housewives are warn
ed by Inspector Roberts to make
sure that the dealer weighs the ice
before they accept it. The five deal.
ers against whom charges were
brought are alleged to have sold ice
without placing 1t on the scales.
They are:
Henry Schaeffer, AZ Hayes street
northeast, who forfeited SIS; Der.
nard A. Madigan, $50 Morris street
northeast, IS; Stanley s: Mari. Ala
Shepherd street northwest, IS;
Thomas L. Bromley, 1916 / street
northwest. IS, and Frank Kenner,
S4S Oakdale street northwest, SIS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-24
Sidelights Of the
Convention

NEW YORK, June 24.-It will
take a. real expert to figure out
safe starting price when the
Democratic sweepstakes leaves
the post. Present quotations
vary, but the odds are lengthen.
ing rapidly against both favorites
-McAdoo and Smith. Some
Smith hackers are still taking
two to one. but for the most
part they want two and half
to one. McAdoo prices have
gone from two and half to one
to three to one.
Senator Underwood and Gov
ernor Silzer are the long shots,
at six to one. William jennings
Bryan was offered at ten to one,
but only one layer with faith in
long shots had accepted the chal-
lenge early today.
Governor Smith, speedy
racer named after the New York
State executive-paid his hackers
at Aqueduct well and bunch bet
tors are certain that their money
is safe on Smith to win the norni-
nation.
A cool quarter of a million has
already been laid, it is reported.
Most of the bets are small ones.
Keith Saunders, thirteen-year-old
boy scout Of Elizabeth City, N. c.,
won't have to crash the gates to-
day. Franklin Roosevelt has
promised him pages badge as a
reward for. his long journey and
his enthusiasm for Smith.
"Old Jim Democrat" seventy
nine-year-old negro mascot Of the
Georgia delegation, lays undis-
puted claim to being the first
McAdoo booster. "Old Jim" drove
the doctor up to the adcAdoo home
in Marietta, Ga, On the morning
that the. present candidate was
born. When 1 heard that baby
crying" said "Old JIM" II said,
there's President Of the United
States, maybe"
Judge William J. Connolly Of
Detroit, has some ocean trans
portation that he is worrying
about. The judge has booked
passage for himself and family
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-24
PRETTYMOTHER
HEADS n. !.
DELEGATES
Mrs. Caroline o'Day Dresses
as Well as She TaIks-Her
Political Views
By HELEN FOX
international News Service.

NEW YORK, June 24-The
chairman of the New York delega.
ton is terribly smart woman
and the word smart refers to. her
clothes and nail polish as well as
the quality of her cerebrum.
Mrs. Caroline O'Day is clever
and capable-vide the choice Of
the State committee to talk for
it at the convention. And Mrs.
Caroline O'Day is charming and
chic-vide what she wore when
interviewed today:
The effect was most effective Of
all effects-olack and white. Her
frock of black silk was relieved
with a fresh bit Of filet lace In
front. Down each side Of the lace
vest were two rows of small steal
a narrow scarf that was black on
one side and white on the other.
The steel effect was continued in
the buckles on the smart, tongued
shoes.
Mrs. O'Day's hat was Of black
straw and trimmed effectively on
one side with black and white os.
trich pom-pom.
Clever and Pretty.
A diamond bar pin was fastened
to the hat in front. Gray hose and
gloves accompanied the costume.
But most effective of all were the
large pearls she wore in her ears.
From the tip.topmost Of her
pretty pom.pom to the toe.tipmost
OF hen fashionahly shod feet, the
new SnalrTnan was anything but the
woman politician" we know from
Innumorable cartoons.
And Mrs. O'Day talked as well as
she dressed. Fer voice waJ softly
Inodulated and she had great dis
tinction of manner. There was a
delicious naivete and charming hon.
esty in the delight that she express
ed at the new honor that had been
paid her.
1T came rs a great SURPRISE" she
said. "the first heard about 1t was
at luncheon last Saturday. take
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s
Never in the checkered history
of national conventions has there
been one in which the principal
actors (ostensibly), the delegates,
have been so utterly helpless, aim.
less and rudderless.
Politics is the last Of their con-
Germs, and nominations ara the
least of their cares.
Most Of them are luninstructed.
Those who are instructed have a
feeling that their pledges are only
scraps OF paper, to be torn up and
thrown as political confetti to the
four winds Of Madison Square Gar
den as soon as they have spent
their nominal fury.
Right now, the delegates only
know they are hot, uncomfortable.
wobbly and a long way from home.
Names Like Santa Claus.
They talk Ku Klux and prohi-
bition and reparation and council
OF nations and other things they
don't know much about, in a wilted
way, and as they talk they know
no one listens.
Each one realizes he cannot talk
authoritatively; each listener knows
he Is listening to nothing that
means anything.
There are whispered discussions
about Taggart and Brennan and
Guffy and Smith and Underwood:
those names are spoken like a kid
talks about Santa Claus-with an
inward disbelief, still figuring it
isn't wise to enlighten the less ad.
vanced youngster to the fact that
Santa is just a sort Of myth.
Not exactly myth, for the TOYS
VIII be in the stockings in good
time but still holus pokus that
only the gullible really take seri.
ously.
Points They Might Draft.
My own peregrinations among the
delegates, punctuated by many re-
unions Of old associations in MANY
States, leads me to the belief that
II a quorum of delegates from all
quarters at random this morning
were gathered before the start Of
the first session and that COMMITTEES
on the whole were assigned to draw
an honest platform answerable only
to themselves and their own con.
sciences, 1t would read something
like this:
I'VE, the democratic party in con.
vention assembled, do hereby re-
solve:
"That-we view with alarm the
high rates for rooms with and with
out bath in that insular city known
as New York, which has offered us
It's hospitality and breaks us;
That-we declare for better and
more liquor during the convention,
IT having been held out to us that
Manhattan Island was good and wet,
whereas it is only good;
"That-we point with pride to the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-24
DIRECTED VERDICT IS
ASKED BY SHOTWELL

Arguing for an instructed verdict
for acquittal, counsel for Charles
s. Shotwell, former chief of the
material disposal and salvage sec.
ton Of the air service, who with
others is on trial before Justice
Bailey charged with conspiracy to
defraud the Government in the sale
OF surplus cantonment lumber, said
that nothing had been adduced in
the testimony to show that Shotwen
had participated in any conspiracy.
All the actions Of Shotwell in
reference to the release OF lumber
under the contract between the
Government and Phillips & Steph.
ems, according to counsel, were in
strict accord with instructions from
his superiors and were approved by
them. Counsel for Shotwell stated
that his client did not order the
clearing OF lumber for sale at a
price below the market value as
claimed by the prosecution, because
no prices were fixed until long
after the orders for clearance.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-24

speeches will not be long, since II 10
going to be hot in that Garden, and
we don't know what its about, any
way;
''That-we violently protest against
the attitude of the taxicab drivers
of New York, who work meters on
us and ride us four times around
the block because they know we are
strangers;
''That-we solemnly voice our in
dtgnation against the French lite l.a
on the menu cards, this being sup.
posedly an American convention;
That-we strenuously object to
the uniformed Pinkerton men on
each floor Of each hotel, as being a
reflection against free and militant
Dc mocracy;
"That-we find the telephone Sc ".
Ice atrocious, and the proportion of
busy signals and wrong numbers an
affront to Jefferson and jackson:
That-we bitterly resent the
temperature and regard it as
dirty Republican trick to soften our
celiuloid collars and dempen the
dignity that befits a great party:
That-we affirm our faith in the
integrity of Democracy's man Of des.
uny--McAdoo-or Smith-or Glass
or Ritchie-or Davis-or Ralston.-
or Underwood-or Dever-or some
body;
That-we are here to vote, and
we view with horror the flock of
reporters who ask US leading and
insulting questions about how we
are going to vote. when we don't
know ourselves;
"That-we are for the Constitu-,
ton, the Declaration OF Independ-
ence. the Monroe Doctrine, the Ten
Commandments:
"That-we. are against the Re.
publican Congress for passing the
bonus bill, and against the Repub-
lican President for vetoing It: ditto
on the Mellon tax law; the POSTAL
raise, ct al, etc.;
"That-we are for our candidate.
Watch the papers"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-24

for Europe on Saturday. Now he
doesn't know whether he is
going to have a chance to ac-
company the family or not.
Irving Berlin has written
doubtful song hit, I'VE Will All
Be Voting for AL" The song is
a hit in New York, but it's be-
ing sung at all of the entertain.
ments given the visiting delegates
and those who have McAdoo
tendencies are loudly protesting
against it. Several women
walked out Of a theater party
yesterday when they heard the
song for the umpteenth time from
the stage.
Alvin Owsley's boom for the
vice presidential nomination is
being carefully nursed by his
father. The elder Owsley is work
ing like trojan for his son.
The South Carolina delegation
went into the Democratic ma
tional convention today with its
organization completed at the last
moment.
Governor Thomas G. Mcleod
was picked as delegation chair
man. Colonel E. A. Brown was
sent to the resolutions committee.
Judge w. w. Johnson was chosen
to act for the national committee
man, Judge j. G.. Evans, who was
i'll. Mrs. Leroy Springs Is the
new committee woman.
Mrs. w. D. Melton was elected
vice president for the State of
South Carolina. F. HI. Dominick
was elected to the committee on
rules; Mrs. Springs to the com.
mittee on credentials, and Mrs.
Tom B. Pearce to the committee
on permanent organization.
Democracy's hosts to the ma
tional convention, were promised
relief today from the sweltering
heat which has prevailed since
the weekend. The weather mans
prediction Of partly cloudy and
cooler" was received with great
enthusiasm by the delegates who
have been standing around the
hotel Hobbies hopping their brows.
Showers also may fall during the
day, the weather man said.