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Graham Special Eight Sedan

additional material cost should be
around 20 cents per pound OF weight
saved The reason for this is simple;
in an aluminium body weighing 10 per
cent as much as a similar steel body,
2 pounds of aluminium are used for
every pounds of steel replaced. At an
average of 38 cents per pound, the alu-
minum material would cost rs cents and
would replace 5 pounds Of steel at 8
cents per pound, or Is cents. This
would account for an additional cost of
81 cents. But 3 pounds of weight have
been saved at an additional cost, there
fore, of 20h cents per pound. If 1000
pounds of weight is saved in body
properly designed, the material will
cost around 5000 additional.
While for the conventional types of
aluminium commercial bodies the cost
of fabrication is generally the same or
less than for Steel 1t does not follow
that the purchaser can expect to buy
them at an additional cost of 20 cents
per pound of weight saved. The body
builder carrying larger inventory in
vestment and marketing higher-priced
article is entitled to a larger profit
Further, aluminium bodies, being of
higher grade, are rightfully receiving
better workmanship and closer super
vision.
Comparison Difficult.
1T is difficult to make definite cost
and weight comparison between alumni
mum and wood bodies. The cost of a
wood body depends largely upon the
class of workmanship employed, the
material cost being only small per-
centage of the selling price. However,
aluminium bodies, with their lower
assembly but higher material cost, COM
pete with good atwood bodies in weight
and selling price.
THE various fabricated commodities
are continually becoming less expensive
because of the improved methods of
manufacture. For example the recent
introduction of strong alloy rolled
structural shapes saves the purchaser
an appreciate amount over shapes of
the same strength produced by the
extrusion process The development of
new and stronger alloys will result in
lighter and less expensive bodies"
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BY DIR. GEORGE *. BURGESS,


Director United States Bureau of Standards.
The automobile is an extremely COM
plicated piece of machinery and the
average person seldom thinks OF the
tremendous amount of thought and the
great variety of materials which go
into the complete vehicle. The work
of the Bureau of Standards on auto
mobiles is, therefore, extremely varied.
In fact probably tWo-thirds OF all the
investiga lions which the bureau con-
ducts have at least an indirect bearing
OF the construction or operation OF
motor cars. However, there are some
phases of the work which have direct
bearing on this subject, and in the
limited space available it Will be ad-
visable to confine our attempts to them.
In the automotive power plants Sec
ton the broad problem Of automotive
fuels and lubricants is being studied
with the cooperation of the Society OF
Automotive Engineers. the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce and
the American Petroleum Institute.
When this work was started about ~
years ago ne petroleum refineries and
automobile manufacturers might almost
be said to have been working at cross
purposes. There was little or no CO.
operation between the industry which
supplied the 1uGI anu Lille I1dkSLo VI IAAS
engines In which 1t was burned.
Problem Now Understood.
Through the efforts of the bureau
these two groups have been brought
together. Now each understands the
others problems, with the result that
we how have an increased fuel supply
and better performance from our cars
than was possible some years ago. 1t
is expected that eventually the correct
fuel for every condition can be pre-
:rioed in advance and furnished to the
motorist.
Thus there is no need of using a
highly volatile gasoline in warm weather
or an anti-knock fuel in an engine
which is designed for moderate COM
preston and is uncarboniZed On the
other hand, N cold weather, when start
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Keen Bolts Tight.

The perfectly smooth, hard-surfaced
road at other seasons may become q
very rough highway in Winter. When
it becomes covered with snow which is
packed down by the wheels of hundreds
or thousands of automobiles, 1t Is filled
with ruts and bumps much the same
as the early unsurfaced highway. Loose
body bolts will get looser on such a
road. Keeping them tight pays.
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Wind Resistance Tests.

Even the aerodynamics sections of the
bureau has contributed to the design
of the modern motor car Wind tunnel
tests on small models number of years
ago showed the very high wind resist
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Court House Seats.

He-My dear, got couple of tickets
today.
She-Goodl Are they for the opera?
He-No, one was for parking too long
and the other for passing a red light.
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
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Color Trends.

Auto dealers say brown was the ia
vorite color in January, but that black
holds first place now, with blue close
second. 1t is natural for motorists to
want a color scheme which matches
their pedestrians-Life.
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Missouri Revenue Increases.

Revenue from Missouri's gasoline
tax, which is fixed by law at 2 cents
to be 100000 greater in 1880 than in
1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

Autos burn up 10000, 900 lamps every
year-enough to light New York City.
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country. All of the travelling statesmen now
travel in their own cars, and most of them keep
on travelling. Those three studies in still life
have been sitting in front Of Memefee's general
store practically all Of the time since Bryan
made his cross of gold" speech, weather per-
uniting All of the fat women seen on Main
street are married. Most Of the elderly single
ones have the running gears Of katydids, but
when you see one with piano legs surrounded by
pillows of adipose you know that she Is Mrs.
Somebody. A comforting, thought is that how
ever hard up farmer may be, he can always
go out and kill chicken, dig up few potatoes.
shake down a few apples, bake some corn
bread and find a crock Of milk. They can
break him, but they can't starve him. There
goes LATE Tibury. He wrote mail order house
for some macaroni seed. What has become of
the old-time lawyer who wore Prince Albert,
chewed tobacco and said "Sir to you!" when
any one spoke to him. The most terrifying
thing in the world is truck 40 feet long and
20 feet high coming head ON at so miles an
hour.
(Copyrieht, 1872
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BY George ode

than whalebone. Something has got into the
rip-roaring small-town lads. Any one of them
will roll the bones for 500 a toss when he
hasn't a solitary bean with which to settle He
Is out for adventure that defies all rules and
regulations and is tinged with risk. He has a
desperate yearning to go up to some large
town and hit the high spots The town girls
who have jumped the fence all seem to admire
the outlaw-type Of boy friend, so he is further
encouraged to paint wiSecrackS on his Shet-
land gas pony, cut holes in his hat, walk Just
as Capt. Kidd must have walked while striding
bloody deck, and give the metallic ha-ha to
the saps who preach virtue and all other
persons past % years of age
F the city can write several patronizing letters,
every day In the year, to the yokels out
among the sun flowers and the ifrnson weeds
just to give them the low-down and inside of
many colorful happenings in the metropolis,
why isn't 1t about time that some rlbe became
polite and wrote letter of Acknowledgement to
the slickers? If the syndicate columnists can
dig dirt by the ton, why should whiStling posts
the water tanks, the filling stations and the
nick settlements remain in the background?
Why not send word to Broadway that beneath
many mail-order sport shirt turks desire to
bust one or all of the Ten Commandments?
Let 1t be known that Maud Muller no longer
rakes the hay, but smokes it, after it has been
soaked In tobacco juice, inhaling the smoke
clear down to her floating ribs.
This contribution is timid attempt to write,
from the extreme background of rural regions,
letter which will be somewhat like all of the
letters we have been receiving. We are getting
tired OF rooming with an iuferiority complex.
This is all hearsay. but I knew it must be
true. The night clubs in the cities may have
gypped themselves right into the discard, but
certain kind Of after-dark resort continues to
operate In every part of the supposedly dry belt
It Is not on main highway and has no electric
signs and caters to a hand-picked group of
nlght-r1ding sports. The proprietor is usually
a tenant farmer whose efforts to raise grain
ana stock have made him worse than broke
His nome Is In secluded spot, well back from
any Travelled road. BY driving not more than
30 miles he can get "alky" at So a gallon the
same being the latest market quotation If he
nils two five-gallon milk cans, he will have to
invest $50. His further stock in trade will be
ginger ale and, possibly, cake of ice. The
main room of the humble night club Is the
Kitchen OF his farm house. The good wife will
make sandwiches cook up a mess of ham
ana eggs for registering visitors.
Wild boys and careless girls drive out from
town. cut up byway and take turn into
private lane, and they arrive at scene Of
gayety and are permitted to buy deadly mix
lure OF sugar alcohol and domestic ginger ale
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Music WorN


poem by Mrs. Coolidge. wife of the former
President by James Wilkinson, the baritone.
The music for it was composed by Maury Mad
ison, nephew Of the once popular "Hub" Smith.
composer Of Swinging In the Grapevine SWING"
and many other popular songs. Hub" Smith,
who died abroad back In 1903, was In his day
one of the bright geniuses of the old Columbia
Athletic Club, whose clubhouse passed into the
possession of the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION years ago. Although his more serious
moments were given over to the State Depart
ment he was social favorite high in demand
on all occasions. He also wrote an operetta
"Coronets and Coin." which was one of the
most noted contributions Of amateur effort ever
credited to Washington. It was presented with
great success at the National Theater by q
brilliant company of local amateurs.
A T meeting held last March at the Carlton
Hotel in the interest Of the development of
American music, Senator Phillips Lee Colds
borough of Maryland, presiding, it was unani-
mously voted that in view Of the work done
for the past three years here by the Misses
Sutro in their salon Of American Music" which
brought to Washington number Of talented
native American composers this work be con-
tinued.
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The Corn Belt Columnist, Sending Word Broadway

OMETIMES it just seems that one OF
the large industries of the big town Is
to slip thrills and gossip from the
main stem to Main street and the
lonesome stretches of the r. r. D. We
who live out in the sticks simply de-
YOUR the output of the boys who ramble amo:Ig
the pitfalls. They tell us stuff which we never
could find out for ourselves. We read and
ehiver. So many things are happening among
the bright lights that could not happen out
here! Most of us never saw New York and
never WILL unless the railroads, to find some
thing to do with their rolling stock, begin run
hing free excursions.
In the agricultural Middle West, entirely sur
rounded by "the corn, the corn, the golden
corn" as Uncle Dick Ogl&by rhapsodized cat
b time when it was worth, something per
busheD, we haven't much to do except read at
least three newspapers every day so as to find
out what clothes are being worn by the pic
kuresque celebrities who eat at the unusual
restaurants presided over by the Incompatible
bead waters who receive the princely tips.
IA /HEN was a small boy in a prairie town.
wv half-buried in mud, the women who wore
halico wrappers and presided over humble cot
Nages, found their whole entertainment in read
ing gushy and mushy love serials in the week.
lies. These rag-paper weeklies carried acres
Of diluted fiction dealing with heiresses, noble
tnen. handsome heroes and glittering social
efairS. What the submerged women OF the
small towns and country lanes could not find
IN real life they had to take out in day-dreams.
The men obtained their knowledge of the
Earaway metropolis by reading the Police
Gazette and gloating over spicy wood cuts
Phich dealt with various forms of crime and
Binful hilarity. We boys read detective stories
carried in the dime novels and nickel libraries.
We owned the Harrigan and Hart song books.
Our most burning curiosity was to find out
about New York City and those super mortals
who strolled along Broadway tasting the full
ness of life.
Times haven't changed so much, after all.
%he girls Of Hickory Crick are now more in
terested in the styles and capers of Newport
and Fifth avenue than they are in the dull
routine Of the home town. They cannot go
70 the city, so they try to bring the city TO
the country. Young people out in the tall grass
ore more interested in Texas Guinan than they
are in Mrs. Gam, official hostess for the Vice
President. The adjective most admired by the
Adolescents is "snappy" They are not so
Borldly-wise, but they are straining to be, and
p good many Of them engaged in the soulful
@ffort are wilder than hawks
latter ranging all over the map, have de-
Nded the hardest eggs to be found anywhere
re In the small towns. Not every village youth
y tough nut, but the tough ones are tougher
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at two bits shot Even when they measure
them high there are go doses to the gallon and
the poor tenant farmer makes a profit Of $12
gallon less the cost of gasoline and ginger
ale and the wear and tear on tires and kitchen
furniture. No chance to get into trouble unless
some customer SWITCHES"
We have another apple year and the cider
presses are working. Next month the cider win
be working. It will work until it becomes SO
hard that any one taking a swig win feel his
hair curl. No one has invented "cider brick, /"
but q man down in Fountain County made q
discovery worth telling about. He found out
that when hard cider was run through q cream
separator, the lighter and alcoholic content
would be thrown by centrifugal force into one
container while the water and solids would fall
into the receptacle usually intended to receive
the heavy butter fats. The volatile LIQUOR thus
separated from cider was q quick apple-jack,
just as harmless q rattleSnake. One Of the
boys. who tried whole flask Of it, was found In
the woods two days later looking for an unus-
ual bird which he had seen climbing up O tree.
1t was bright red in colo and shaped like O
duck, but had fur instead of feathers and In
candescent bulbs for eyes, Also q tail-Hght.
livery neighborhood in the q. s. A. has
- home product in Hollywood or somehow
represented in moving and talking pictures
Just this week I learned that the enhancing
Janet Gaynor Is the niece of man who roomed
WIN me In the coLege oorm1tory. The editor
m-chief OF news reel was born and reared
at our county seat. IL miles to the southwest.
Louise Fazenda and Monte Blue once lived In
Lafayette, which is over to the southwest. Helen
Morgan when she didn't have q piano to sit
on, was just village lass, 40 miles to the south
The visitors register here at Hazelden Farm
contains the names of Elsie Janis George
Marion, Tom Meighan. Eddie Sutherland, AL
Green, Charley Winninger, Grantland Rice,
Frank Condor, Booth Harrington Harry Leon
wilson and other notables who appeared in
pictures, written for pictures or directed pic
lures. Because they have been right here
among us and were just like neighbors we have
the blessed privilege of panning them.
thoughts while strolling: This tang in the
Autumn air means that the giggling Tessies
(lOO miles from any kind of beach, will no
longer brighten horses with their beach pajamaS.
why 90 we get hickory nuts only In alternate
years? Oscar Galloway of the Bon Ton filling
station books exactly like Haywood Broun espe-
claliy after busy day. Nothing looks more dis
courageo than musk-melon that has been
Kept TOO long. If you want to find out the
original color of q farm hand. look at the
shaved portion of his neck. Butch" Pettaway,
going TO the post Office. He gets o catalogue
twice year. Eb Bradford, on the milk truck,
Chicago. Ill. boy who made good In the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08
ACROSS.

ACROSS.
I. Rampant.
8. Shoestrings.
10. Deceived.
90. Native of Elan.
81. Vigilant.
%. Tending TO es-
cape.
%. Steel construction
worker.
"a. Large tree of the
pine family.
IS. Acid contained in
grapes.
Is. European fish.
81. Egyptian title.
20. Crystallized mag
nesium Iron car
Donate.
81. Girls name.
80. Fence of stone.
"a. Pieced out.
SO. Continuance.
81. Raised.
SO. Irregular use OF
words.
40. Steep flax.
AZ. Obstinate.
43. Fish net.
A. Style of painting.
As. Dignity.
At. Brilliant jeweled
ornaments.
SO. Irresolute.
So. Small greenlsh
finch. /
54. A duke of Edom.
81. Creative.
SO. Replevin of goods
unjustly detained.
So. Color.
GA. Fasten.
65. Greek god Of war.
81. Recurring on the
ninth day; obs.
SO. Particular being.
u. Woman airplane
operators.
"A. Flower organ.
rs. Portico.
IT. Peruvian Indian.
70. Rodent.
20. Figure having six
sides and angles.
81. Noted scientist.
81. An Indian buzz
zard; var.
"a. Shine.
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16. Employ.
IT. Valid mood of the
fourth figure;
logic.
10. Obvious.
10. Ten-year periods.
%. Savage.
80. Book of the New
Testament.
SO. The lore, as of a
bird or reptile.
IS. Blacken.
81. italian sculptor
and architect
(1598-1680).
80. Human beings.
Al. Genus of West
Indian birds.
AZ. Wooer.
As. A king of Judea.
46. Small California
rockfiSh.
AZ. Mans nickname.
40. German poet and
novelist { 1778-
1922.
81. A game.
So. A son of Zerah:
l Chron., &c.
81. Erse.
SIS. French govern
ment securities.
Sc. African antelope.
So. Book of the Old
Testament.
60. Mother of pearl.
81. Mans name.
g.. Outer seed coat.
Sc. Offices having
revenue without
employment.
90. Art of forming
representations.
70. Island in Adriatic
Sea.
II. Girls name.
70. Keen attention of
eye or ear; obs.
rs. One of sources of
indigo.
80. Burmese demon.
81. Groove.
80. Former Russian
emperorS.
IS. City Of Florida.
81. River in Euro
pean Russia.
80. Confirms.
80. Gray metallic ele-
ment.
90. Briskly; Her.
81. Musical compost
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Sunday Morning Among the Cross Words

Sc. Pertaining to
silica.
SO. UNFOLDING god
lesSneSS.
90. Place.
90. Lost color.
81. Island of the
Cyclades.
90. Exclamation of
surprise.
100. Caucasian wild
goat.
101. Sharp mountain
ridge.
1902. Wing adversary.
103. Japanese robe.
LOG. Serpent-lizard.
100. Strike breaker.
10. Silkworm.
Ill. Surroundings.
113. Card game.
lis. Turkish C o m
mander.
116. Father of Shall
lum: l Chr, 2:40.
118. Near; poet.
100. Turns.
1872. Pertaining to
coughing.
1913. Ancient German
people.
124. Gourmet.
125. Daubed.
126. Cobalt blue pig
ment.
1877. Wanted.
DOWN.
/. Peruke.
2. Theodolite having
auxiliary arm.
3. Outwork of fort.
4. Japanese rice
paste.
5. Fiber from the
century plant.
6. Headless; French.
7. Old World sand
piper.
8. Resinous sub
stance.
9. Turkish imperial
standard.
10. Yielded.
IL. Obliterates.
IL. Contends.
IS. Pertaining to the
skin.
IA. Puff up.
is. Fully grown pike.
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- OMETIMES it just seems that one OF
the large industries of the big town Is
to slip thrills and gossip from the
main stem to Main street and the
lonesome stretches of the R. F. D. We
who live mt in the sticks sin1nlv de-
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-06-26
Arizona Southwest
Bank and Branches
Closed byExaminer
REMOVE SIGNS AND
STANDS OFF HIGHWAY

An intensive campaign
to eliminate all commercial
advertising signs, fruit and
vegetable stands, fire-crack-
er stands and similar estab-
lishments from Maricopa
county highway right-of
way, will be undertaken by
the county highway depart
ment.
This action was decided
upon by Mr.. Bone and mem
bers of the board of supervi-
sors as a means of solving
the problem which arises
each year as the Fourth of
July approaches, when
scores of fire-cracker stands
spring up on the already
over-burdened h g h w a y
rights-of-w
From now on, it was stat
ed, no stands of this or any
other kind will be permitted
on the rights-of- ways.
Highway department in
spectors were busy touring
county roads looking for
signs and stands illegally
situated and as a result
many were moved.
Removal of signs and
stands not only will help to
beautify the valleys tree
lined highways, it was point
ed out, but will also be an
important safety factor. In
several instances, advertis-
ing signs and stands have
been found so situated at in
tersections of important
roads that they represent a
menace to motor vehicle
traffic.
Other counties in Arizona
and California are clearing
highways by removal of
these obnoxious signs and
stands.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-06-26
ENTERTAINS CLUB

The Allegro Bridge Club
was entertained by Mrs. w,
C. Kerchersid at her home
Friday afternoon with three
tables playing. Scores were
made by Mrs. ]. F. Eisen-
hart, and Mrs. Esley Gray.
Guest prize went to Mrs, M.
L. Talla. Others present
were: Mrs. Geo. Truitt, Mrs.
r. 3. Elsberry, Mrs. Olin
McCleery, Mrs. Ernest Nc
Cleery, Mrs. j. M. Hines,
Mrs. N. w. Bolin, Mrs Or
Vile Bone, Mrs. Fred Slater,
Mrs. C. G.. Hamilton.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-06-26
VETERANS EXEMPTION
EXPIRE SOON

Attention that less than
two weeks remain for veter-
ans and widows of soldiers
to file tax exemptions under
the initiative measure voted
by the people several years
ago has been called by Thad
Moore, county assessor. Mr..
Moore believes that there
are a numbr of residents in
Pinal Co. who have not taken
advantage of the exemption
and urges them to do so at
once as July l is the date
ct in the law for final day to
file exemptions. 1t is also
important in that the tax
rate depends upon the
amount of exemptions which
must be deducted from the
assessed valuation of the
county. Information and
blanks can be obtained at all
assessors office.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-06-26
BIDS OPENED FOR PET
.R|F|ED FORREST WORK

A bid of $21,094 SUBMIT
ed by Norman F. Barber of
Los Angeles for construction
of five new buildings at the
Petrified Forest National
monument has been for
warded to the department of
the interior for approval, it
was announced by c. j.
Smith, custodian. The bid
was the lowest of five sub
mitted.
Other bids were: Olds
Bros, Winslow, $24, 800;
A. w. Cisney, Phoenix, $685.
749; j. E. Megout, Mesa,
S24,453 and N. w. Duhane,
Phoenix, $27,056. These
also have been forwarded to
Washington. The depart
ment appropriation set aside
for the work is S21, 300.
The buildings will consist
of an administration and eX-
hibit building, custodian's re-
sidence, two employees resi-
dences and a tool and i'm
plement building. Work IS
expected to start in July.
Native sandstone will be
used with concrete tile floors
and steel window and door
frames.
Construction of the build
ing is a part of the program
to improve the monument,
contracts for road having
been let to open up a new
part of the forest.
Mr.. Smith said the i'm
program now un-
der way will add thousands
of visitors yearly to the con-
struction and bridge build
ing forests.-Arizona Re-
public.