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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1923)
Washing Car Spoils Finish. ' Dealer Says Use of Brush and Cleaning Solution Detrimental to Surface of Fine Enamel. ** « The purchaser of a motor car, proud * Of Its resplendent lustre. Is prone to «• make many commendable resolutions pertaining to its frequent washing - and cleaning and then actually do f.more harm than good in the zeal with “■which these operations are carried f.jDUt, according to the observations of Fred C. Hill of Fred C. HIM Motor company. “If one could watch the minute care with which the final surface is built up at the factory, where coat after coat of expensive material Is deftly applied and carefully rubbed, the car owner would be more specific when he gives instructions to have the car washed." states Mr. Hill. "He would make sure that tho wa ter Is no wartner than 60 degrees No matter how much mud or dirt is on the car, It should not be scrubbed off with a brush. Cleaning solutions should be avoided, especially if they contain ammonia or any kind of lye soap. "When running water Is used, the pressure should be Just sufficient to keep the water moving six inched from the end of an open hose. Then the mud and dirt should be gently loosened with a soft clean cloth or sponge. If soap must be used, It should be pure castlle. When the car is clean. It should be showered oft wiU\ cool but not cold water, espe cially if warm water lias been used at the beginning of the work'or If the car Is to be run out into cold weather. It Is advisable to wash one section at a time, drying with a good cha mois. "Every time the car comes in after a muddy trip, it should be washed be fore the mud has a chance to set or harden. Frequent but proper washing when a car Is new will lengthen the life of the finish, the action of the coul water tending to harden the var nish. \ There Is no regular water supply In Quito, thp capital of Ecuador. Car riers bring the water into the city In jara. Appian Way Still Retains Remnants of Glory That Was Rome When Paul Approached City ---- r i Military Road of the Early Romans Flanked by Ruins of Statues and Temples —Original Paving Blocks in Place. Bjr C. W. M'GASKILL. Pastor of the Methodist church at Has tines. Neb., and former pastor of the Hanscom Park Methodist church In Omaha, who Is tonrlne Kurope with his wife. This Is one of a .cries of articles which Rev. Mr. MeOashlll has written for The Omaha Bee. The majesty and grandeur of ancient Rome were manifested In ail her works. We see them in her language and literature, buildings, sculpture, aqueducts, and her unsurpassed mill lary roads. No other city In the work had such magnificent and such vast water conduits, and even now she has the best and most abundant water supply of any city known. One Im mense fountain, originally called the "Virgin Fountain," supplied by a sub terannean aqueduct from the Cam pagnia, which aqueduct was built by Adrlppa In 19 B.^C., now discharges 17,500,000 gallons per day. while three other fountains are supplied from this CHANDLER. CLEVELAND MARMON STUDEBAKER HUDSON NASH OAKLAND APPERSON LEXINGTON FORD EMPIRE MITCHELL BUICK LIBERTY EASY TERMS LOOK AT ’EM COUPES, SEDANS, SPORT CARS AND TOURING CARS—14 DIFFERENT MAKES Our used cars are moving fast, but every day we add a few more good ones that we have taken in trade on new Chandler and Cleveland models. We can’t hold them for higher prices. We have no place to put them. We’ve got to sell them as fast as we take them in. Here is your chance to get a Good Used Car at prac tically your own price. Don’t wait till spring. Buy now, save money and have the use of your car for the rest of the winter. DON’T DELAY—COME IN TODAY REMEMBER THE PLACE 2421-23 Farnam Street OPEN EVENINGS AND SUNDAY A. M. Ralph W. Jones, Inc. Distributors of Chandler anti Cleveland Cars for Nebraska and Western Iowa • ‘TAe Good MAXWE LL Cluh Coupe y ^ The good Maxwell is definitely fulfilling the promise made two years ago that it would he made so good that leadership would come to it by spontaneous public recognition. The rear axle of the pool Maxwell would credit a car three tunee Ira price. It if carefully designed to stand the etrree and attain ©f every tort of road. Its component parte are fitted ^ith an ac curacy that aatmea quietness end long life. Prices f. c. b. Detroit, revenue fax to he added: Touring Car, ; Roadster, •R8S; Club Coupe. •9^5, Four Paaeenger Cxtupe, •123‘h Sedan. *1315 * Peterson-Millard Co. Farnam at 28th Street HA rney 5066 *985 same source. Tet this is only one of the great aqueducts that supply wa ter to the city. The one road that stands out from all the rest, the “Queen of Roads,” as the early Romans called It, Is the Applan Way. Named for Builder. I Via Appla, named for its builder. Applus Claudius, was built in 312 13. C.; and now after 2,300 years lg '■ a magnificent monument to its builder. Most people, especially In our western here and met Paul. There are three | or four quaint little dwelling house* that look as if they might have been there for 2,000 years. The road from Antlurn to Tusculum crosses the Ap plan way here now Just as It did then. There Is a small tavern, a little store, a blacksmith and wheelwright shop, and the remains of a very ancient church. While I was watting, looking about, a Franciscan monk, barehead ed, riding a donkey and with saddle bags dangling at either side, caine; by. With his bald head and flowing Appian Way. showing original pave-ment over which Paul the Apostle, walked. Almost perfect Homan fates on ruined temple beside Appian Way, after !,0#0 years of exposure. world, who know of this road at all simply know ths-t If was the road over which the Apoatla Paul came into Home. And of course 10 those interested In Bible history, this fact will always adl tremendously to Its Interest. Yet aside from this it is today the most marvelous road in all the world. To ! lovers of the picturesque it exhibits some of the grandest scenery known, i To lovers of history and to the search ers after monuments of a great past, no other road exhibits such a number ' of monuments or such a varied mass : of ruins. Road in Ruins. Cold, unimaginative, intellectually and spiritually dead must be the per son who can, without the deepest emotion, pass over the nine or 10 miles of this road from the Arrh of . Drums to the little village of Tluee Taverns as Paul called It. Df course 'it Is all in ruins now. You can hsrdlv step at either side of the road with out stumbling over an arm or a foot jbroken from some magnificent statue, jor coming face to face with the base or crown of some < 'orlnthiun column, some headless statue whose flowing garments of Parlap marble sort whose graceful form might well make n Michael Angelo or a Raphael en vious; ruined tombs that were once | covered with glistening marble are all along the roadside silent evidences of a most glorious past; Columbaria, cinerary urns, catacombs may be seen that still hold the ashes or the de i ■ avert bones of Homes greatest tnen and women, or of the early Christians, the associates of Taul and Peter, I.uke and Timothy, many of them the early martyrs of the church. Hold* Strange Beauty. I raid tint to lover* **t the pb turenque it exhibit* some grand • • ep*rv. The r" id Itse lf espei tally fr«>rn the tomb of C'eofllA MefHIa on. had to me .1 strange t>eauty. It* very ruin*. Jhs solitude®, were sublime. Then the long line rf arched aqueducts that in*y bo seen fur miles as they stretch lace like across the f'ampagnla between the road and the distant unon- rapped Albans, golden in 11m light of 1 ho setting sun, ai 0 in deseribably beautiful. Th* green fields on either fide • »f the I. broken and made picturesque by the stately ruin* of tomlm and ancient villa* and by lonely tnarblo pillars, the remnants of temples where peo pie bowed in worship liefore the shepherds knelt before the «‘hriat child in Bethlehem, give color to the sc**ne. The very load bed. stretching awas Into the distance like * white ribbon. It tersected here and there by fr.it; tnetita of the ancient pavement, aw®!, ♦mis ones Imaglnntlon if he has any. Way hi the distance me the Allwin bills, green with pine and cypress tree*, their sides dotted over with towns and villages. Further back are tin* snow capped mountains, the Pniestine bills making a sllvei frame for the pictmo within. Hot First \ lew of Itoad. It was tit Three Taverns as he mruc over the crest r f I ho Alban hills nbbvc Alba no that Paul caught bis first glimpse of this marvelous stretch of load. A* I sot on the ordst of the bill hist above Krattoohle, the ancient Three Tavei n*. and for n long time) looked out over the ruin* of that former magnificence, the wonderful <*ampagnIn, the Uternal city In the I distance, I tried to Imagine what it must have been when Paul paused no 1 doubt near this same spot nnd looked out o\rr this wains ilsta, only then It was In It* glory. The Three Tavern*, which literally means three shops, 1*. I Imngine. j much the same todsv as if was when ilia ''In 1st Ians of Home walked out 1 robe*, he looked all the world as I fhmgine f’aul looked when ho came through this very village nearly 2,000 year* before. The -patches of original pavement atone that ms.v he r-irn here and there along the road give one a lit tle Idea of wiiat the load tied must have been when I’aitl ram* over it. Jt is marvelous to inp that even . now, after nearly 2.300 years, there are stretches of this pavement still left. .Some of it is grooved with deep ruts rut Into the hard atorfo by the constant pn.-sage of vehicles. Ovid -peaks of some of these grooves even | in Ins flay In one of hirf poetic allu- j s.onsN "The plow is not more worn by constant use, nor the Appian Way ground by tiie curved wheels, than la my soul, darkened my misfortunes." , fining ov»r this road of ruins as w« liave day after day. seeing these remnants of past glory still so mag nlflcient in I heir ruin, and knowing ^hat 2,000 years of time have done their worst with storm and earth quake. knowing that tn the fifth cen tury two invasions robbed these mon uments of the precious metals and or- , influents that adorned them, know irg (hat In 040 the floths from th* north sacked and stripped them onoa j more, knowing that down through the ; years the very ones who should have protected the priceless gems of a groat tare stripped them of their mar ble to build churches and palaces, aud that even tons of the finest marble were burned to make lime for mor tar to ’.>e used ir. the construction of these building-, knowing all this, snd then looking upon this road ss 1 it is today strewn with fragments 1 of the most .wonderful ststues and columns, friezes and ornamental tab lets, inscriptions tnla.d tn polished marble a« exquisitely done ss any jeweler could do In setting a diamond, faces in marble which after more than j ;.ono years of neglect and exposure are as perfect In feature snd human likeness ss anything that >Wrr came | from the hand of a Michael Angelo or a Itaphael, though protected he j every care. I ant simply overwhelmed by It ell. nml my Imagination is not cupal>!o of picturing what this road must have been In its palmy days, In th» dajs when Virgil and I.Ivy and, Clcefo and Julius Caesar and Nero; and the A|>ostle Taul walked its gilt lering way. Council of Young Men ^ ill Meet IMrftalc* lo Be l.uoO of \ u ralioiial School at Bello to*. Members of th> Young Men's c<»un HI will lurid a **«»nf* inice ht Helievue, Neb-. February 18, under suspires of : th* Young Men * council of onmhs. Delegate* Will be guests of III* United Stabs Vocational schoul. It. It. \N allure, rouncll liluffs real estate man, will speak on "Th* Mr* sags of th* Torch." N. J. Weston, director of physical education at thr Omaha Y M. (’, A . will talk on ''lighting the Torch," ami He' Paul Calhoun, pastor of th* Central United Presbyterian church of Omaha, will speak on "Passing of the Torch." Croups will be organised for the dismission of church nthlstlrs, orga nized class** and church group con ferences. tieorg* W. Campbell, social and religious secretary of th* Omaha Y. M. <‘V A., will be In attendance, and David C. Kobcl ha* been chosen as conference plnnirtr The University of Omaha quartet will sing Possession of West Indies Is . Urged by Navy Strategists Recommend U. S. Control in Islands as De fense Move in Event of War. Washington, Feb. 10.—American possession of the West .Indian Is lands now owned by Europelan na tions, Is regarded by the foremost strategists of the navy as of the ut most Importance to our national se curity. America, they told, ought to con trol this natural outer barrier of rte fcnsc In order to establish powerful naval bases In that region as a pro teetldn of the Panama canal and of continental United States, and In os der to prevent the islands from be ing employed as bases by an enemy. The attitude of the navy gives point to the movement to purchaee theee valuable outposts from Great Britain and France. So long as they Remain in foreign hands the 'United States cannot establish thereon capital ship, submarine and aircraft bases. Looking for Base. So vital la the matter deemed by the general board of the navy that the government la now seeking to ac quire the beat alte obtainable for a naval base in the eastern West In dies. Proposed s(lea on Inlands not owned by Great Britain or France, are to be Inspected by Secretary of the Navy Denby and the naval strategists next srplng. The strategic Importance of the West Indies to the United States was set forth by Capt. Sinclair Gannon, head of the plans division of the Navy department, and of the Joint artny and navy planning committee. "The many trade routes, which traverse the waters of the West In dies, give to those islands strategic importance of vast proportions. And these trade routes are of paramount Importance to the country bavin* th# most vital sea interests Involved. A cursory study of a large seals map of the West Indies region shows th* United State# to be the country pos sessing th* preponderance of inter est In those waters." Jap Flapper Appear*. Honolulu, T. H.. Feb. 10.—"Thera is no such thing as flapperlsm In Ja pan as yet. although the young girl* of the Island empire are perilously near to It." says Dr. A. B. Dean, presi dent of the University of Hawaii, who recently returned from an extended trip to Japan. "Flappers of th* American variety are not seen in Japan," he declared. "But nevertheless the younger set of Japan la shocking Its elders«as much as the youngsters of America ere shocking theirs; for the girls are com mencing to dine out with men friend# and go to dances with them. They usually dance the fox trot or one st{p. and they wear their Japanes* sandals while doing so." Ask any Durant owner why he is so enthusiastic about his Durant car. Invariably hig reply is a host of reasons; namely, quality together with service and low upkeep. Reasons enough why your selection should be a Durant. Remember, all the qualities you expect from ‘‘a real good friend” are to be found in the Durant— because it is— Juit a Real Good Car Our Aim, Not Our Motto, Ii SERVICE!—MAKE US PROVE IT COOPER Motor Company Sales and service AT Untie 6204 2066 Fima Street IT STARTS PROMPTLY IN THE COLDEST WEATHER The behavior of Dodge Brothers Motor Car on zero days is a fair example of its fitness the year round. You turn the switch, step on the button, and the motor starts—without undue noise or delay. The reasons are readily understood: The coordination of the power plant is well nigh flawless. The slightest impulse sets it in motion. . The battery—6-ceQs, 11-volts—is unusually large. A high-vacuum carburetor so thoroughly vaporizes the gasoline that it ignites instantly under the spark. The electrical system is remsrkably efficient and cuts to a minimum the usual voltage loss between battery and started. Finally, the starter, itself—an admirable ex ample of ha kind—is uirectly united with the engine' by a chain drive which is always in mesh —a fact having much to do with the prompt* ness and quietness of its action. The pric* of tb« Typ«-A M&u tt $1506 d»li\pr»«f O BRIEN-DAVIS-COAD AUTO CO. 78th and Harney St*. v Telephone HA rnejr 0123 Council Bluff* Salesroom—33-35 Fourth St. Telephone Council Bluff* 891 Omaha Automobile Show, February 26 to Search 3