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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23

Only few years ago a 80 x<4 cord
tire listed over $4,000. Today, you can
buy the highest quality 50 4 tire
a Firestone Gum-Dipped Cord for
about $4,000.
Last spring crude rubber cost tire
makers around 40 cents a pound. To
day, it is over 90 cents a pound.
1t was not so long ago that $500
miles represented the average life of
cord tire, while today, $4,000 miles
and n1ore-is only the usual perform
ancefo a Firestone Gum-Dipped Cord
Due to large, concentrated produc-
ton, specialized machinery and sim
plified factory methods, together with
economical distribution, Firestone is
able to keep tire prices low-no matter
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23

stop crossings and all the heaviest
mountain climbing in second gear
from specified limits. The test was
for, economy in operation and free
com from mechanical troubles.
All the cars were privately owned,
entered by southern California deal
ers. The 1886 miles aggregate
showing on the twenty cars speed.
ometers at the start was striking
evidence of the reserve mileage
built into these widely advertised
one-profit cars.
1919 Models Oldest
The Oldest cars entered were the
1919 models. Every Big Six entered
made more than fifteen miles to
the gallon of gasoline; every Spe-
cial Six exceeded 15.5 miles, and
the lowest attainment OF the Stand
ard Six class was 1872 miles. Mo-
tors were not shut off during the
trip going or returning.
The Gilmore Oil Company checked
gas and oil; Cliff Mulick. of the
Lovejoy Pacific Company, refereed
the run; j. B. Van Mugs. of Arrow.
head Inn, checked the arriving and
leaving time at the inn. Start and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23

of one make of car ever assembled
for such run. a.
Every car completed the 172-m1le
course from Los Angeles to Lake
Arrowhead and return without a
single mechanical mishap and with
out. being late at a single control.
Yet the average ''age" of the TWEEN
ty was 1861 miles at the start.
The ''youngster" of the lot had
gone only 59,358 miles; the Oldest
car had done 266,153.
1865 Miles Behind 1t
Even the winner in the big six
class had 186,815 miles behind it
at the start. Yet it made the 172
miles, rising mile in altitude to
beautiful Arrowhead Inn, with an
average of 1871 miles to the gallon.
The winner in the special six
class was a 61,231-miler, which
averaged 1875 miles to the gallon.
First among the standard, or light
six, class had gone 1885 miles, yet
made the remarkable record of 30.5
miles to the gallon with no coast
ing.
The entire run was made strictly
within legal limits-fifteen miles an
hour in cities, thirty-five miles an
hour in the country: full stops at all
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23

engines working perfectly reads
the log.
The Shenandoah, twice before had
fought successfully against storms
which approached the proportions
of hurricanes. There was every
reason to believe her safe in the
air under any condition. However,
just as cities have been leveled by
earthquakes oN t9rnadoes, and just
as great ships of the sea have been
sent to the bottom by typhoOns,
the Shenandoah met one of these
as yet unconquerable forces of ma
ture before which she was forced
to bow after a terrific battle, dur
ing which she was rolled and tossed
like a chip in a heavy sea.
Engines of the Shenandoah were
300 horsepower motors especially
designed and built for her by the
Packard Company. Fuel was fed
to them by an inch and half gaso-
line line~that ran nearly the length
of the ship. Men familiar with the
great airship have marveled since
her tragic last flight at the cool
courage of her commanding officer,
Commander Lansdowne, right up to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23
PACKARD MOTOR
SHOWS WORTH
IN AIR
Engines of PN-o, No. 1,
Worked Perfectly, as Did
Those of Shenandoah

Reliability of the modern high
speed gasoline motor of great
power has been brought forcibly to
the attention of the world in the
last few days. Events both on the
water and in the air also have
demonstrated what an important
part automobile engineers are hav-
ing in the development of aerial
transportation and high speed
water travel.
In his personal story of the great
epochal flight of the PN-9, No. /,
which for days claimed the attention
OF the entire world, Commander
John Rodgers said 1.-THE engines
worked perfectly and there were no
signs Of leaks or any other trouble"
Across more than 1900 miles of
the open Pacific ocean the two
500 horsepower Packard motors Of
the big flying boat roared without
once missing an explosion for more
than twenty-five hours HURTING ten
tons of plane, men and gasoline
through the air at 80 miles an
hour. Only when the forces of ma
ture upset the calculations of men
with head winds that called for
greater power and the CONSEQUENT
use of more gasoline did the great
plane come down. The motors ran
right up to the time the last drop
of gasoline was exhausted and
went dead together. Commander
Rodgers commented on the total
expenditure of gasoline
While a whole world waited and
prayed during the ten-daX search
of the ocean wastes for Com
mander Rodgers and his gallant
crew Of four, other equally brave
heroes of the q. S. Navy We're
placing their trust with confidence
born of many successfully met
grueling tests in still other motors
designed and built by automobile
engineers and artisans in the plant
Of the Packard Rotor Car Com
pany.
All Engines Working
How merited was this trust is
shown in practically the last unfin-
Ished sentence in the log of the last
tragic flight of the navy's great air.
ship, the Shenandoah Commander
orders care in changing course, all
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finish was at the studebaker Cor
poration's branch office in Los An
geles, with A. W. Maxwell, mana
ger, in charge of the rim. In each
car was a checker supplied by a
competing driver.
Curt Anderson, branch manager
for Harry D.. Riley, Of Anaheitn,
drove the winning Big SIX; e. G:
Seeley piloted the winning Special
Six entered by the Alhambra Ga
rage. Jack Adams drove the best
Standard Six for Keller Brothers
of Pasadena.
The run over. each of, the twenty
cars was returned to its owner, to
keep on it's regular service, for all
are in daily use and give every
evidence of continuing it for years
to come. Each owner insists his
car is not "old." As one remarked
IL a poetic mood. There is no age
tc a stout heart"
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his very plunge into eternity. His
last order, shutting down each mo-
tor. may we'll have saved the lives
of those who escaped the fatal sun
derIng of the ship. He must nave
known that in the breaking up the
gasoline line would be severed and
the ship filled with highly explosive
gas which the flame from the ex-
haust of any of the motors would
have set off. His order shutting
down all motors, it is believed, I'M
doubtedly saved an even worse
tragedy.
In MOtOrbOat Races
While men in motorboat racing
do not stake their lives on the de-
Probability of motors as they do In
the air, no more grueling test Tor
a gasoline engine could be devised
than that given each year during
the Gold Cup race and the great
l5O-miie Detroit Sweepstakes con-
test
Packard motors easily took first
and second places in both these
speed boat classics this year.
Baby Bootlegger, owned and
driven by Caleb Bragg, millionaire
New York sportsman, was the win
ner of the Gold Cup race at Man
hasset Bay, Long Island Sound,
and Miss Tampa took second place.
Each boat had a Packard Gold Cup
motor of 260 horsepower. Still
another Packard powered craft,
piloted by Colonel j. G. Vincent,
vice president of the engineering
of the Packard Company, set a
new world record for the second
heat of the race but later was put
out of the running with a broken
propeller shaft.
The 150-mile sweepstakes race at
Detroit was won by Colonel Vim
cent Labor Day with Packard
Chriscraft II and Baby Horace III
was second, fifteen miles ahead of
the nearest other contender. Both
boats were powered with Packard
12-cylinder Sweepstakes motors de-
veloping 500 horsepower. Both
tore through the water at so miles
an hour for the whole $50 miles
without either motor once missing
an explosion.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23
This Weeks Motor
SermOnette
Cars Are No Exception
prepared by the Washington
Automotive TRACE Associatiop)

Any motorist is justified in
fighting shy of extravaganza, but
that does not necessarily amean
he should delay buying new
automobile if he feels he has
need of it.
Lately there has been feeling
among prudent motorists that
they are little extrayagant just
because they are buying new
cars every year, or, in some in
stances, every six months. All
is not extravaganza, however,
that glitters.
Today a motorist has to take
into consideration the. changing
times. The car owner of America
is living at a faster pace than at
any time in history.
The average person does enough
in one year nowadays to have
satisfied the person of q century
ago for at least ten years. Many
people see more in the course of
a year today than their ancestors
saw through their entire lives.
y The world moves at a faster
pace. A car does not travel a
few thousand miles during the
pleasant weather of the year and
then go into Information for the
cold season. 1t runs several sea-
sons in one 1t crowds several
years transportation into Few
months.
A popular song in America now
lasts but a few months. Many
have deplored the fact. But is it
not logical and progressive? The
facilities for popularizing a melody
are so much more. effective today.
The public is so much quicker to
appreciate and to absorb.
1t is very much the same
way with motor cars. People
are not necessarily extravagant
with cars. 1t is simply that they
are quicker to grasp the adyan-
tages of new models and more
willing to make better use Of
what they buy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23
BOYS RENT AUTOMOBILE;
START OFF FOR FLORIDA

Aquilla E. Payne, 1901 E street
northeast, and Severance Farmer
CPS H street northeast, both nine
teen years old, are enroute for
Florida.
The Square Deal Auto Co, at 427
K street northwest, rented a car
to the boys. When they failed to
return with the machine, the com
pany reported the matter to the
police who learned from the boys
parents that they were on their
way to Florida.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23

HIGHWAY AUTO SUPPLY CO.
21O6 Rhode Island Avenue N. E.
HARRY KATE
514 Four-and-a-Half Street S. w.
INSTANT SERVICE TIRE co.
18th and V SITS. N. w.
KAY STREET FILLING STATIOl
2O23 K Street N. w.
MIKES SERVICE
1928 Nichols Avenue S. E.
MOBILE AUTO SUPPLY
1912 H Street N. E.
MODERN AUTO SUPPLY
917 H Street N. E.
MUTUAL TIRE co.
eOS Pennsylvania Avenue N. w.
NATIONAL AUTO TIRE CO.
439 K Street N. w.
NORTHWEST GARAGE
Rear 1913 18th Street N. w.
PARKWAY FILLING STATION
18th and Park Road N. w.
PLAZA AUTO SUPPLY
4O1 Massachusetts Avenue N. w.
POTOMAC TIRE co.
2731 M Street N. w.
REECE TIRE HOUSE
7O2 Rhode Island Avenue N. w.
WIN DID OnnrE #
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23
WASHlNGTON-R RICHMOND
BUS LINE TO START

Parlor car buses of thirtypas-
senger capacity are to be run be-
tween Washington, Alexandria and
Richmond beginning October Is, it
has been announced, following the
granting of a charter to Robert L.
May, proprietor of the A. b. and w.
Rapid Transit line.
A regular schedule will be main
tanned on which fourteen buses
will be operated, making stops at
all intermediate towns.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23

Get ready for the coming
months of slippery payements
and bad roads. Assure yourself
of greater safety, comfort, and
economy BY equipping now with
Firestone Gum-Dipped Balloons.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23

where crude rubber prices go.
And, because of special Fire
stone processes, chief among
which is Gum-Dipping, motorists
are getting thousands of extra
miles by using Gum-Dipped Cords.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23
s 7 UDEBAKERS
ON ECONOMY
RUN
Remarkable Showing Made by
Cars With Average Mileage
/of 1857

"There is no age to q stout heart"
The fourth annual reserve mile
age economy run" for Studebaker
motor cars with more than $4,000
miles on their speedometers brought
to the starting line in Los Angeles
twenty entrants, the largest number
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23
MOS T MILES P E r D 0 L L A r

p E r . O l. l. A K
SCHULTZ GARAGE
1896 H Street N. E.
SEATON GARAGE
As Seaton Place N. E.
BOG r. I. Ave. N. w.
SECURITY AUTO SERVICE, Inc.
18th Street and New York Avenue N. w.
FRED D. SHEPHERD
1920 M Street N. w.
STAR SERVICE STATION
18th and c Streets N. w.
SMITHS SERVICE GARAGE
216 Warren Street N. E.
SOUTHEAST AUTO SUPPLY CO.
629 Pennsylvania Avenue S. E.
SPEEDWAY AUTO SUPPLY
1872 14th Street S. w.
STAFFORD & GRANT
46O1 14th Street N. w.
TRUCK TIRE SERVICE CO.
1924 18th ST. N. w.
WARDMAN PARK GARAGE
9th and Calvert Streets N. w.
WAYsIDE SERVICE STATION
1900 Wisconsin Avenue N. w.
UNITED TIRE STORES
26O1 Pennsylvania Avenue N. w.
BOYER'S ECONOMY AUTO
SUPPLY CO.
Capitol Heights, Md.
Fl ETR OW NJ Ri BIB e
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23
Tennis Club Dance

The Tennis Club of the Govern.
ment Hotels will hold a dance
Saturday night in the hotels. Jerry
Galloway is chairman Of the COM
mittee on arrangements.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-23

ABSHER'S GARAGE
1911 E Street S. E.
AKRON AUTO SUPPLY CO.
500 7th Street S. w..
BENNING SERVICE STATION
Bennine Road and Minnesota Ave. N. E.
Benning and Anacostia Rds.
BROOKLAND GARAGE
1000 Michigan Avenue N. E.
CAPITAL RADIATOR &
FENDER co.
215 pennsylvania Avenue N. w.
CENTRAL AUTO WORKS AND
NGARAGE
449 Street N. w.
CROSSTOWN AUTO SUPPLY co.
1901 14th Street N. w.
DUKES TIRE HOUSE
1911 9th Street N. w.
EAST CAPITOL SERVICE
STATION
II 18th ST. N. E.
EDWARDS MOTOR SERVICE CO.
1903 Rhode Island Avenue N. E.
HERBERT'S TIRE REPAIR SHOP
1880 Pennsylvania Avenue N. w.
NORTHEAST AUTO EXCHANGE
GARAGE
so III Street N. e.
AM RICANS SH {
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Gum-Dippingis an exclusive method
used by Firestone. It is an extra pro-
cess, carried out in special Gum-Dip-
ping plants, after which the cords are
put through the usual calendering
machines. Gum Dipping insu1ates
and impregnates every fiber of every
cord with rubber, and practically elimi-
mates internal friction and heat and
builds strength and endurance into
the tire.
In the day-in and layout service Of
taxicab, bus and truck operators
on the cars of hundreds of thousands
of motorists everywhere - Firestone
Ful1-Size Gum Dipped Cords are CIV
ing unheard Of mileage, dependability
and satisfaction. 5.
The daily worker., 1925-04-24

CTAMBOULISKY'S peasant gov
~ ernment has proven that the
peasantry cannot create a, strong
solid power; that peasant govern
ment accelerates the class differentia-
ton on the land, and that without an
alliance with the workers the peas.
antry cannot maintain power.
The speaker then characterizes the
peasant organizations in the Balkan
countries, and points out that the
peasant masses are steering towards
the left. The Communist parties must
support the Peasants International;
they must support the left wings in
the peasant parties, and discard the
social democratic preJudices in their
own ranks.
pELA KUN declares that he fully
- agrees with Comrade Bucharin's
critique Of the peasent policy of the
Hungarian Soviet dictatorship. The
overthrow Of the Hungarian Soviet
Republic was predetermined by the
absence Of Communist Party as we
understand It now; also by the world
situation and by the strategic posi-
tion.
But the main cause Of the over
throw of the Soviet government was
the role played by the peasantry. The
Hungarian Soviet government had
turned the large estates into agricul-
tural productive co-operatives. The
land proletariat therefore felt no real
change. In the Red army the demand
for land distribution became loud.
The speaker is convinced that
had the Soviet dictatorship continued
to exist, it would have been com
PEELED to distribute the land. The
opinion of some comrades, that the
slogan Workers and peasants gov
ernment" is applied to agricultural
countries only is false. The Hunga-
rian social democracy has opposed the
workers to the peasantry.
The Communists must promote the
alliance Of workers and peasants,
otherwise be threatened by great
dangers.
NARGA: Does not agree with Com
' rade Bucharin's statement that no
peasant parties should be formed. The
speaker favors the formation of peas
ant parties under the leadership of
the Communists. Peasant leagues are
not analogous with trade unions, since
they conduct direct fight against the
state in questions of taxation, etc.
The daily worker., 1925-04-24
German Government Aids Zankou

The German government comes to the support
of the bloody Zankov regime of Bulgaria by ar
resting 9S Bulgarian students in Berlin, charged
with conspiracy in the uprising The students have
been given the third degree and all the documents
found are to be turned over to the Bulgarian gov
ernment.
If any country in the world should be willing
to give asylum to refugees from terror governments
it should be Germany. The allied governments
that now back the murderous Bulgarian govern
ment in its war of determination against the work
ers and peasants blockaded Germany and starved
thousands of people to death-children for the
most part.
The German government calls itself republican,
a popular government but its latest action shows
it to be merely tool in the hands of international
counterrevolution. The insincerty of the protests
against the international organization of workers
under the leadership of the Communist Interna-
tiOnal is evident when every capitalist gov
ernment acting in concert and particularly when
such action is in support of government based
on mass slaughter of the workers and peasants-a
slaughter merciless that the capitalist press
is sckened and at which the professional soldiery
revolt.
The daily worker., 1925-04-24
Sessions of Enlarged Executive of the c. l.

III POWERS (America): The Amer
fican farmer has become a universal
figure. America is no only the largest
industrial country, but the largest
agricultural country as well. The de-
vastation caused by the American
imagined. One fourth of the farmers
have been ruined. The proletarianiza-
tion of the indebted and bankrupt
farmers is progressing very rapidly.
The proletarianized farmers are
streaming into the industrial towns,
thereby changing the whole outlook
Of the American proletariat., 1t is one
of the main tasks of the American
Communist Party to continue the
work among the farmers. Unfortun-
ately the party has not, in the year
just past, worked as intensively among
the farmers as in 1928, when we at
tanned considerable success among
the farmer masses. The party must
correct this deficiency as soon as pos
sible.
DOBNER (Czecho-Slovakia): Des-
- cribes the frightful condition of
the peasantry in Carpatho-Russia,
where a few big landowners and a
handful Of Jews own three-fourths Of
the land, whereas the peasants own
one one-fourth.
MESTCHERIAKOv (C.PR.): Calls
the attention of the parties to the
methods OF work among the peas
antry.
GRECO (Ttaly): Describes the diff
fculties Of emigration after the war,
The return of the city proletariat to
the land has intensified the agrarian
crisis. This explains the creation Of
an Independent peasants party "Po-
polari," after the war. This party is
however dominated by the large land
owners.
The Italian socialist party did not
understand the agrarian question, and
was unable to coordinate the occupa-
ton of the factories by the proletariat
with the occupation of he land by
the land workers. ass
Fascism has not solved the agrarian
problem. The speaker describes in
detail the present activities of the
party, the formation of workers. and
peasants committees, and expresses
his belief that the agrarian problems
in Italy can be solved only by the re-
volution. A ~ fps
The daily worker., 1925-04-24
DECIDE SALARY,
BILL ON MERITS,
URGE TEACHERS
Passing Buck to Mayor
Won't Do 1t

NEW YORK, April 22.--Letters and
petitions are being secured on large
scale calling upon Governor Smith
not to sacrifice the interests of the
schools at the behest of the realty
associations.
From all indications and from re-
ports in the press 1t seems the gov
ernor is planning to pass the buck
to Mayor Hylan by vetoing the Ricca
teachers salary bill. Whatever reas-
ons he may give, such a move can
not help being interpreted as a direct
response to the powerful propaganda
of the realty associations thru their
attorneys and press agents.
The teachers maintain that they
expect the governor to reach a deci-
sion on the case "solely on the basis
OF the needs Of our public schools and
the economic needs OF the teachers
and they say the signature to the
Ricca bill will be the strongest proof
thereof.
The daily worker., 1925-04-24
The New Code" Guilty Until
Proven Innocent"

The deportation proceedings in New York against
Emanuel Vajtauer, CzechO-Slovakian worker, have
revealed the fact that under the immigration law
of 1924 there is no such presumption of innocence
of the accused as is found in other statutes based
on the established legal code.
In other words the burden of proof rests the
accused. The defendant is presumed to have en-
tered the country illegally, to have violated the
immigration law in some other manner until he
can prove otherwise.
This complete reversal of the very foundation
of criminal processes in all AngloSaxon countries
will doubtless astonish many wellmeaning people
who believe all the bunk about the impartiality of
laws and courts that they read in the school books
and the capitalist press. 1t is a cold fact, how
ever, established by the decision of Judge Hand
in ruling on an application for habeas corpus in
the Vajtauer case, that in its war the foreign
born workers, the capitalist government of the
United States has abolished the right of trial by
jury and placed every foreign-born worker at the
mercy of the spies and stoolpigeons which infest
the ranks of the workers and particularly the labor
unions.
q
union furnished the government with the informa-
ton resulting in his arrest If this is true it shows
that just as during the period, the membership
of the trade union is being debauched and turned
into spies and informers
The purposes of such laws is to divide the labor
movement-to create suspicion Iand dissension
among and between the native-born and foreign
born workers. No profits from this except the
capitalists and it is enightenng to note that the
loudest shouter for drastic regulation and registra
tion of foreign-born workers is James j. Davis the
steel trust tool who is secretary of labor in the
Coolidge cabinet.
The Communists suffer most from these excep-
tonal laws at present, but it is the labor move
ment against which they are directed and which
they designed to cripple by cOwing the most
militant of it's members-the fOreign-bOrn workers.