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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
BUICK EBUILT ON MOTOR TRUCK
Caravan Equipped To Build Car Wherever
 Stops Made

The Buick Motor company of Flint, Mich., is entitled to congratulations on it's most novel enterprise in the sending out two of its most skilled workmen on a 9,OOO-mile tour of the United States, during which time complete Buick auto mobiles are to be constructed in some 40 cities.
 The workmen, Otto and William Hess, passed through this city on a twO-ton General Motors truck complete ly equipped with tools and so built that an improvised stage about 10 or 30 feet is available for the work in hand wherever the exhibitions are held.
 The idea back of the plan is to im- press motorists with the perfect inter changability of Buick parts, a chassis being constructed at each stopping place en route from parts carried in stock by the local branch or distribut- ing house.
 The novelty of this idea has excited the interest of motorists generally, and a great deal of space has been given it in the trade papers and other mediums of publicity. The caravan is to travel to all parts of the United States, from coast to coast, exhibitions being held in all cities en route where Buick branches, distributing houses, or dealers are located. The construction of the chassis is accompanied by a lecture by Mir. Patrick Heating, of the factory service department and to emphasize the event moving picture exhibition is given in each town following the demon stration. The films presented is en- titled Right on the Job" and portrays principally the efficacy of four-wheel brakes. The tour will take about three or four months time. The caravan at tracted great deal of attention in this aE is usual wherever it goes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
Cor. Balloon

Most cars have an adjustable screw on the steering knuckle for regulating the steering angle, which should be used when 1t is found that the tire needs more clearance for steering because of it's greater width.
 Further, additional lateral clearance may be secured when needed by inter- posing spacers, offsetting the wheels slightly.
 You may have wondered why tire manufacturers in indicating balloon and semi-balloon sizes mention such figures as 4.40, 6.20, etc. These figures are the actual sectional diameters in inches. The high-pressure tires you now may be using are stamped with nominal sizes, the actual dimensions not being used because it is simpler to say 34x4 than it is 34x4.66 or 4.72; further more, not all tire manufacturers ad- hered to the same dimensions for the same nominal size. With balloons and semi-balloOns the actual sections are standardized. While it may seem bit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

structions (refer also to the accompany ing diagram) for determining whether the clearance is sufficient:
 Measure distance "A" from rim top to nearest point on under side of fender.
 Measure distance "B" between bump ing points, i. e.. between top of rear axle and bottom of frame.
 To obtain adequate clearances, "A" minus ''B' must be at least as great as the distances given below for the diff ference size balloon tires for present wheels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
A CAI.L T0 ARMS

A street preacher in Scottish town called a passing policeman, and com plained of being annoyed by a certain portion of his audience. He asked to have the objectionable persons removed.
 "Well, ye se," said the officer thought fully, ''it would be deefficult for me tae spot them; but I'll tell ye what I'd dae if were you"
 "WhatE asked the preacher eagerly.
 "Just gang roun' wi tn hat !"-North China Herald,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

diametery vary, depending on the tread thickness and number of plies of cord fabric used.
 The number of plies of cord will vary from 4 to 6. If you wish to equip with balloon tires you must have your present wheels cut down, to 20, q or 9 inches in dia- l meter, or install new wheels, to accom-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
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confusing at first, it is just as easy to remember 6.2O as it 6 or 5 or 4. No tice also that the outside diameter. of the tire is given and the wheel dia- meter. This is because one wheel dia- meter may take different sizes of rims and tires. One of the oddities about standardization of tire sizes is that the sections are fixed but the outside
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

A Georgian from up in the noun tains came to town on his annual trip with load of produce to exchange for groceries. As he neared the city,s he saw q sign: Speed Limit 15 Miles an . Hour" Prodding his oxen with a stick, he muttered: By Golly, l Don't Be lieye we can make t."--Exchange.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

It's all right for Son Jack to take one of these harmless little moonlight drives occasionally, so long as he doesn't open his mouth and let the moon shine in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

It's a fact that of the ten million or more cars in service, not more than ninety-eight per cent have been in- yolyed in accidents.
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modate the following sizes

If your car is equipped with high-pres- sure tires you can choose semi-balloon tires from the following list, the desir- able size being determined after meas uring the fender and axle clearances.
 Balloon type tires for existing wheels nz,d rirnr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
QUEER QUERIES

QUEER QUERIES Dear c K-I have repaired my mo- tor three times, but can't seem to get the bugs all out of it. What would you recommend?
 Simp Silas-Try Roach Doom! Copyright, 1924, Premier Syndicate, Inc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

When we compare book agent with an automobile salesman, we don't all ways laugh at the book agent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
ASB- COM2AIRESOWO WOW SECZZOWS 0TH HIIH- HEESSIIRE sng RaLLOGS Z2E.

As soon as the balloon tire made big appeal to the public it was seen that it would take 0 long while before motor ists in general changed their wheels or |. had their wheels cut down. The de- mand for the low7air-pressure tire was big, so tire makers began to put out Semi-balloons, or so-called balloon-type tires, which now may be called balloons. These are thin-wall, low-pressure tires fashioned to fit existing rims. They are really oversize or double oversize cord tires with a thin side walA and balloon tire shape. At the present time, there are twenty-three balloon tire standards for mounting on 20, 21 and 22-inch wheels, those for existing rims and the regular high-pressure cord tires of about eight sizes.
 If you, a motor car owner, wish to use balloon tires, you must have your present wheels cut down or else buy new wheels. If you do not wish to do that and you wish to obtain easier riding, then there are the balloons for present rims. These require no changes whatever, but one must be sure the right size of semi-balloons is mounted, else there may be insufficient fender clearance. That means the tire may strike the fender under certain condi- tions and in steering around the tire may not have room enough. Before semi-balloOns are installed one must make certain measurements.
 One company issues the following in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

Why is the odor of an automobile exhaust like a counterfei' penny? Aw, that's easy because it a bad (s)cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

nuts, etc., in inaccessible places. How ever, if it sticks to you, perhaps you'd better continue using your pliers, be- cause magnet can't be taught to. dis tinguish between the different varie- ties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

Take a look at the motorist who got a wash and polish when he only asked for a washer, if you want to see the guy who put the rage in garage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
Roaii RuIes No. E

When a woman driver approaches remember that discretion has preserV. ed many a fender.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
LEE TIRES
 at Drennen Tire Co.

There's a lot of aggravation due to lack of fabrication.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

YuOng AutGist's Dictionary BORE-A fellow who talks about his car when you want to talk about yours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

literally is even quieter and smoother at 15Ooo miles than when new!
 While the majority of automobile owners keep chang ing from one car to another, WiIlys-Knight owners keep right on with their WillysKnights. It is common for WiIlys-K Knight owners to report 5o,OOO miles and more without spending cent for repairs on the engine. Think of the economy and satisfaction of that!
 The Willys-Knight is the easiest steering ear in America. EisM Timken bearings are used in the front axle The average car uses no Timken bear ings in the front axle, only ordinary bushings which wear quickly, cannot be adjusted and cause hard steering
 If you want a car of beauty and disdncicn-a car whose power is smooth as Glk-a car that makes driving an everlasting pleasure to the Kmghtl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

The Wilys-Kmght has the most powerful engine of its size ever built-and the quteteSt!
 Here is a car with all the thrill of 42 horsepower "a car you can drive SO miles and more an hour, hour after hour-without overheating loss of power-wthout engine trouble-without carbon cleaning without ever needing valve grinding. The Kmght-type: engine is the only engine in the world that actually tnproOes tOith use. Simply because has silent sliding seevevalves instead of pounding, noisy tappets.
 Tests gaore-conducted by unbiased, independent engineers of both America and Europe-have long since proved the superior power and stamina of the Knight engine over poppet-valve engines
 Think of the pleasure of owning car whose engine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

Brass tacks are the things man gets down to in order to accomplish arise in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

A man of twenty-five can insure his life for about $25 per year per thousand But his car-WOW! And the joke of it is, he always insures the car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

The man who worries about his com petitor is doing something that his competitor isn't.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27

Hints to Amateur ReE airmen A magnet is useful for picking III
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1924-04-15

Vse muzes nahraditi, icnom
lie zenu, kterou isl milaval Y
mladi. kdo nenna zeny, nema
nic dobreho, nema zldne ra-
dcsti, z;tdnehc po7ehnani, Ia
dne opory ami niru.
Rude-li domacnost st astna,
bude st'astnym cely svet.
Cti svoii zenu V nejvetsi pc
ci, v milujici hcrlivosti. Ne
bot ona to je, ktera pfinasi
tvemu domu pozehnani bozi.
Ctete sve zeny, neurazejte
jich. Snadno tekou ieiich Shy |!
o kazd9 v6cf porozpfavGj SO
svou zehou, a .ie-li mal;t skloii
Se k nj!
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1924-04-15
Zivouci Venuse Mcdiccj.ka

Jista anglicka filmova spo-
!ecnost vypsala Soutez irasy,
jejimz lCelem jest objeviti re
nu, ktera by sc krasou IA tvary
tGla vyrovnala az do nejmen-
Sich podroDnosti znane sOSe
Vcnuse MedicejSke. Firma chy
sta totiz novy film "Chram We
nnse", We kterem bude krasa.
vice pfedstavovati bohyni la
sky. X soutGzi pi.ihlasilo sc 149
zen. Hiedana skutecn6 take ma
lczena. Je to londynska herec-
ka Stella Pierres. Die dobro-
zdani znalcd podoba Sc tata
zena dneska ant1tke sose tak
n;ipadn6, re rozmery jejich ru
kou, nohou, stehen, boku, ko-
tniku atd. vykazuji jen nepa
trny nesouhlas S originalem.
Mtz, jenz nema narozenin
Ackoli to mi pravde nepodo
bne, prece jen existuji llde,
ktIfi nemaji narozenin. X te-
to Zvlastnosti je oysem zapotrc
bi naroiltl sc V Dravy cas- 1,
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1924-04-15

ma ,pravem miste. Jeden ,angli-
cky list prinad zpravu ta-
kovem ,muzi bez narozenin kite
rv spatril svetlo sveta V roce
1904 na parniku jedoueim z
Yokohamy DO San Franciska.
Pri jizde kolem sveta nutno 10
tK - jak znamo - bud vsu-
nouti nebo vypustiti jeden den
coz sc ridi podle sm6ru. kte-
rym jedeme. Tim docili sc o.
pet shody Sc vseobecn6 plat
nvm kalendaicm. Tato kalen-
d;irni uprava dele Sc kdyz lod'
mil 1S0 polednik, ienz pro-
biha mezi Japonskerp KaEfor
nil. Zmin6Hy mez bez llaroze-
min narodil sc tedy V roca 1904
v den, ktery musil byt vsunut
"a pfestupny Gen 30. linor
tudiz den 30. unCia, ikteryz-
to den - jak Znamo v obec.
mem kalendari sc nevyskysu-
je.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-05-08
PiersOn Eludes Winter
by Crossing Equator He Will Find
Only Warm Weather

W. W. Pierson, professor of
history in the University, has
planned his years tour of South
America and Europe so that he
VIII find only mild weather both
north and south of the equator,
escaping winter altogether.
Mr. Pierson is to have a years
leave of absence, for study, as
provided for University teachers
by the Kenan foundation. in Sep
tember, after teaching in the
summer school of the University
of Chicago, he will sail from
New York, pass through the
Panama Canal, and land in Peru.
There he will strike the begin
ming of spring, since Peru is in
the Southern Hemisphere.
From Peru he will take ship
to Valparaiso and Chile, and
thence will go by train across
the Andes to Buenos Aires in
Argentina. After considerable
stay there he will cross the estu-
ary Of the river Plate to Monti-
Video and go by rail to Rio de
Janeiro. From Rio in February
he will sail either to Liverpool
or Lisbon.
So, having passed spring and
summer iff f5oHttfif S;ot lea, ife
will reach England just as the
northern spring begins. There
he will meet Mrs. Pierson, who
will have been with her relatives
in New York during his South
American trip, and they will
spend several months on the
continent and in England. They
will get back to Chapel Hill in
September 1925.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-05-08
ARGUMENT HEARD
ON SCHOOL SITE
Bingham Township Citizens
Protest to Education Board
Against White Cross Place
NO DECISION MADE YET

A big crowd of Bingham town.
ship citizens gathered at the
court house in Hillsboro Mon
day, at the meeting of the
county board of education, to
urge the board to reverse it's
previous choice of a site for the
proposed new school in Bing-
ham.
A month ago the board ap-
proved the site offered by Lueco
Lloyd at White Cross, turning
down the one already owned by
the county about three quar-
tiers of mile to the west. At
this there arose a spirited pro-
test from the majority of the
township people, led by Harmon
McIver, Claude Sykes, and G. E..
Copeland. They said that Site
No. l was better, because it was
far more accessible than the
other to most of the families in
the district.
Alexander H. Graham, Hills
boro attorney and member OF
the legislature, appeared at
Mondays meeting for the pro-
testing citizens, and asked the
school board members to change
their choice. The chief represen-
tative of the other side of the
argument was Lueco Lloyd.
Evidently the board members
were in a quandary. They had
made one decision, yet it ap-
peared that a majority of the
people affected did not agree
with it. After much discussion,
the room was cleared of the
public, and the board talked the
matter over with Harmon Nc
Iver and Lueco Lloyd as the
chief spokesmen of the oppos-
ing views.
At the end the board did not
announce any decision upon the
petition. The matter is still
being discussed in the hope that
some settlement, agreeable to
all the people of the township,
may be reached.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-05-08
COker's Pig Pleases
ShOat Consumed With Zest in Woods
North of Villa

William Chambers Coker gave
a barbecue supper on the wooded
hillside north of his villa Satur-
day night. When the guests,
men and women, gathered in
the late afternoon, Foy Baker,
Chapel Hills leading barbecue
artist, had digged pit and filled
it with hot Goals; and stretched
over the Goals, on a griddle of
saplings, was the recumbent
figure of a pig, cooked to a per-
feet brown.
AS the company stood in wide
eyed admiration of this sight,
the grass-covered hills to the
west were bathed in a mellow
glow while the shadows deepen
ed among the trees. The frag-
rance of the pines mingled agree
ably with the fragrance of the
shOat.
Presently Foy bisected the
animal lengthWise with a tom
myhawk, and followed this by
cutting the meat into small bits
with the same weapon. Then
he applied a sauce made, ac-
cording to his own formula, with
butter, mustard, Cayenne pep
per, vinegar, and salt. Miss
Nellie Robertson placed spiced
apple on each plate, Mr.. Coker
added the cold slaw, and I. r.
Hickerson and A. w. Hobbs dis
tributed rolls and cornbread.
The liquid part of the feast con-
sisted of coffee administered by
r. J. Wilson and water when
other men of the party brought
from nearby spring.
When the eating was over
all the company encircled the
log fire which was stimulated
now and then by paper plates
and napkins. The host MS
cousin r. e. Coker, Misses Anne
Graham and Nell Blair render
ed several songs. The scholarly
nrofiIes of the professors, llght-
ed by the glow of the flames, I'M
narted an air of dignity to the
reVel. 4Lo
Darkness had enveloped the
Coker estate when the party
broke up, and torches were re-
quired to light the path through
the woods. While crossing the
stable yard the guests managed
to evade the high-bred SWINE
whose companion they had re-
Gently fed upon, and reached the
automobile fleet in safety.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-05-08
PHYSICAL DEPT.
HESTABLEHED
Chanel Hill School Board De-
Sides 1t. Lawson Is Direc-
tor, PauIsen Manager
AIM, MASS ATHLETICS"

The school board has voted to
establish department of physi-
cal education in the Chapel Hill
school, and has appropriated
$500 for necessary equipment.
DR.. Robert B. Lawson win
serve as director and G. Fl.
Paulsen will be the business
manager of athletics. both with
out pay. DR.. Lawson is already
at work selecting the apparatus.
This is not a project in athle-
tics, as that word is usually un-
derstood. Its purpose is to give
good physical training to all the
children in the school, not
merely to the few who are ex-
pert enough to play on teams.g
In order to make sure that
lnterscholastie athletics is not
over-emphasized at the expense
of mass athletics, it is proposed
to place limitation upon the
number games that can played
each year in the major sports.
Part of the $500 appropriated
will go for playground equip
ment. DR.. Lawson is selecting
it with an eye toward giving the
best-balanced physical exercise
to the school children.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-05-08
Clubs May Program
Many Entertainments Are Scheduled
For This Month

Because of the Carolina
State College baseball game,
the Country Club will not have
its usual gathering this coming
Saturday afternoon, but it will
make up for the lapse by a dance
next Wednesday night, May IA,
beginning at half past eight
o'clock. An orchestra will pro-
vide the music.
Lack of chinaware has been
a handicap to the club for some
time, in its entertainments, and
a committee of women members
have arranged a bridge tourna-
ment for the purpose of raising
a china fund. The affair will
take place May 81, Wednesday
of week after next. A small
charge will be made for each
play afAe! plsttes, tips aftc
saucers will be bought with the
proceeds. An artistic pattern
has already been selected,
There will be a victrola dance
Wednesday, May %, Every Sat
urday of the month, except this
week, there will be a gathering
of MEMBERSHIP men working
on the grounds and the women
sewing and decorating and doing
other odd jobs about the house.
On the last Saturday of the
month, the 31st, the club will be
hostess to its own members.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-05-08
AN EDITORIAL

Here is an opportunity to give
sorely needed help to poor peo-
pie, of our own neighborhood,
who have been smitten by a
terrible calamity.
A cyclone, tearing out Of the
south, struck the home of David
Blalock, on the banks of the
Haw River a few miles from
Chapel Hill, last week; lifted it
from it's foundations as though
it had been a feather; and
scattered timbers, planking and
household belongings up a hill
and into a forest for four or
five hundred yards.
The storm came, did it's work,
and was gone in a few seconds.
Mr.. Blalock, his wife, and his
son were found dead more than
two hundred yards from where
the home had stood. A grand
child died within a few hours.
There were seven persons left
alive, badly hurt-a man, two
women, and four children.
Suffering acutely, they were
taken to a farmhouse nearby
and kept there until DR.. Lloyd,
aided by the local Red Cross
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-05-08
Orange Church Celebration

The formal opening of the new
building of Orange Church,
about four miles north of Chapel
Hil!. will take place Sunday. The
preaching and singing and
speaking will go on all through
the day, and there will be an
outdoor dinner at noon. Be-
sides the present pastor, Rev.
j. M. Autry, the former pastor,
Mr.. McCracken, will be there,
and Rev. S. b. Turrentine; and
the Baptist minister, Charles
Maddry, who was born and
spent the early part of his life
in the neighborhood, Mrs.
Braune will lead in the singing.
Orange is one of the oldest
churches in this section of the
country. The new building is
a fruit of a movement that has
been carried on with great vigor
by the congregation.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-05-08
Firemen's Big Party
They Entertain With Baseball and
Then a Barbecue

Baseball and barbecue-this
was the program of the Chapel
Hill firemen for their annual
spring picnic day before yester-
day. On a field about two miles
out from town on the Durham
road, they and their guests play
ed ball; and afterward retired to
oak grove to eat of barbecue an
prepared and served by Foy
Baker.
John Foister, the firemen's
chief and now the head of the
State Firemen's Association,
was master of ceremonies super
intending both the athletics and
the feasting.
Owing to the scarcity OF
gloves, most of those who took
part in the baseball had to play
with their nude hands. When
a hot one came the problem was
solved by artful lodging.
DR.. Nathan, clad all in white
and smoking cigarette, starred
in the box. Jack Andl ews and
Bruce Strowd performed behind
the bat. A few Of the other ac-
tive players were Town Manager
Knox, Auburn Leigh, Chief
Featherstone and his assistants
Sloane and Edwards, Charlie
Pickard, Sam Atwater, d. Ne
vile, and the two Carolina foot
ball men, Sparrow and Merritt.
w. S. Robertson and II. A.
Whitfield, president and vice
president respectively OF the
Chapel Hill Bar Association,
were in attendance. The wee
president got there in time to
play a little, but his senior part
ner arrived prudently just in
time for the barbecue.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-05-08

officials, could provide them
with some clothing and get them
off to a hospital.
These people were engaged in
sawmilling and farming. At
best they eked out a poor liv-
ing, and now they are penni-
less. It is agreed by all who
have known them that they are
honest and hard-working and
deserve all the help they can get.
The American Red Cross,
from it's Atlanta headquarters,
has made as large contributions
as it. can afford in view of the
many other calls upon it. Moody
Durham and Theo Best began
collecting a fund a few hours
after news of the disaster
reached here, and an appeal by
the churches Sunday brought
in gifts. But more is needed.
Besides money, clothing for
children from two to nine years
old will be welcome. Send all
contributions to Moody Dun ham.
A committee of citizens will
study the situation carefully
and See to the proper distribu-
tion of both money and clothes.