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INTERIOR’ of
caravan
SHOWING
COMFORTABLE
BERTHS.
LUXURIOUS CARAVAN EQUIPPED
WITH EVERY CONVENIENCE TO
BE FOUND IN UP-TO-DATE HOTEL
YOU may now put the back-seat"
driver to sleep—in a trailer
attached to your car! One of the
most interesting exhibits at the
jAutomobile Show staged at Grand
ICentral Palace, New York City, is
a luxurious caravan attached to a
■sedan car. But what a caravan it
is, with more trick gadgets for
comfort and convenience than
were ever used in even the most
luxurious of caravans.
The trailer is equipped with
four berths, running water, elec
tric lights, and special ventilation
apparatus. In fact, it has all the
comforts of an up-to-date hotel
room. This hotel room on wheels
Is no wider than an ordinary car,
yet the bertha used are quite
slumber - inducing. Of course,
there’s a trick to it, and it is that
the caravan is so designed that it
can be opened accordeon-fashion
to a width which exceeds that of a
railway coach. And so now, a
land-cruise can be blithely under
taken, and judging by the interest
showm in this new device, it
wouldn’t be at all surprising, if,
next Summer, nearly every auto
mobile had a little trailer ail its
own.
It is a far cry from the luxuri
ous car of today to the peculiar
looking contraptions that are the
grand-daddies of the various dif
ferent types of automobiles of the
present. The early Packards,
Oldsmobiles, Buick3 and Pierce
Arrows, to mention four of the
earliest makes of gasoline-engine
vehicles, are unmistakably auto
mobiles for all their rather mirth
► provoking appearance. But they
went, and that was all that was
required of a gasoline contraption
in those dim dark days when an
automobile costume^ for ladies
meant a long “dust" fcoat, and a
hat with goggles and a thick veil.
Henry Ford often refers to his
first car, which made successful
trial runs in 1893. It was driven
by a twin cylinder, four cycle
water cooled engine, and it made
from 25 to 30 miles an hour. The
first of the crop of old-fashioned
Fwrxh was manufactured in 1903.
Since then, of course, the Ford
car has graduated into the popular
luxury class. The motor magnate
cherishes all the early models of
his machine, and proudly claims
that they are still in running
order.
(International Kawaredl
Textiles arnl Tariffs.
From Cedar Rapids Gazette.
One of the most interesting de
lates in the Senate during the spe
;ial session was on the subject of
protection for textiles. Democrats,
insurgent..-, and regular republicans
ire agreed that this industry as a
vhole is not prosperous. But it was
pretty well proved in debate that
lack of tariff protection is not at
;he bottom cf the difficulty. In the
first plat, textile imports amount to
iess than eight-tenths of one per
Dent of domestic production. No
opdv but a tariff fanatic would seri
jusly contend that eight-tenths of
me per ceirt imports could depress
prices of the domestic output.
In the second place it was shown
sonclusive !y that without any tariff
protection the domestic producers
eould take care of themselves. For
eign trade unionists are vigorously
opposed to the introduction of'la
bor-saving machinery, while Ameri
'jn labor welcomes or does not vi
le.illy oppose it. In 1911 the tariff
Reckless Financing.
From Milwaukee Journal.
The first notable challenge to
esident Hoc er’s urging that all
. 'enos of government po ahead
and spend a lot of money in a hur
ry comes from the shipping board.
Tl.a board lends government money
to aid in the construction of ships
and yets it back when and if the
ships make enough profit. To l elp
make he iro.it, mail subsidies «tre
granted.
M toover suggested 14 new
trac routes, requiring 40 new ves
sels, i-i. t halt of them to be laid
down u the next *hree years. The
coct, it is not clear whether for the
half or the whole 10. would be $250 -
, board reported to congress that
i there were less than 3,000 automatic
looms in Great Britain while there
j were 250.000 in America. This ratio
! is about the same today. A foreign
weaver operates from one to four
looms while an American operates
from 6 to 20 and sometimes 38.
A conservative estimate places the
output of an American weaver, op
erating automatic looms, at 4,800
yards for a week of 48 hours. A for
eign weaver produces in the same
period 533 yards. The foreign weav
er receives $12 a week as compared
with $18 for the American. Even
though the wage of weavers is 50
per cent higher in this country than
in Europe it costs 214 cents to pro
duce a yard of cloth there as com
pared with one quarter of one cent
in America.
A representative of the National
Council of American Importers and
Traders testified before the finance
committee in part as follows:
“A conservative estimate is that the
American weaver with automatic
000,000. Mr. Hoover, interested in
assuring industry of this expendi
ture, recommended an increase In
mail subsidies, now over $12,000,000,
of $5,500,000 annually.
Chairman O’Connor of the ship
ping board sounds the note of busi
ness. Before a dollar of public mon
ey is granted as a- loan for new ves
sel construction, he says, “I am go
ing to satisfy myself that the oper
ators to which this money is loaned
i will be able to invest it in such a
I way that it will return not only the
principal but a profit."
That i3 good sense; it is living up
to a trust. The postmaster general’s
I dycisloq that the subsidy by the
looms averages six times the pro
duction of a foreign weaver with or
dlnr.ry looms. Obviously an advant
age of 33 per cent or even 50 pa
cent in wages is nullified by a aiC
ference of 600 per cent in produo
tive capacity.”
The difficulty of American textile
mills doesn’t lie in lack of prole©
tion. Their troubles must be ex
plained on some other basis. Ove?
production, competition with south
ern mills and labor troubles accounl
in part for depression In the indus
try. But they suffer most from
change in styles and the competi
tion of silk and artificial silk fab
lics.
Three Years of It.
From Tit-Bits.
“Your mistress tells me. Jane, that
you wish to leave us to become at
tendant at a lunatic asylum of all
places! What makes you think
you’ll like it? What experience have
you had?”
“Well, sir, I've been here three
years.”
postoffice Is justified does not dis
charge the shipping board from its
responsibility for approving loans
to aid construction.
Moreover, the proof of proper care
in spending public money is as val
uable as the administration’s pres
ent effort to assure business that a
great deal of money will be spent.
Launching suddenly into a program
of shipping is worth only a little to
the general sense of prosperity or
the opposite in the country. If the
administration is right about eco
nomic conditions, there is no crisis
which could Justify the expenditure
of public money unless soundly
spent.
Cave Dwelling in Jersey Meadows
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Equipped with mattresses, oil stoves, chairs and
tables, this cave, 16 feet square, inhabited by
twelve men, was discovered by detectives in the
f Ncwark-Keirny, N. J.f meadows, following th*
arrest of Joseph Principatto, 37, on a theft
• charge. The police destroyed the cave.
(International Hmaeel)
Who's Got the Button ?
3-Year-Old Matriculate
At Cleveland School
Buttons
encircle the
throats
and wrists
of the
modern girls,
Hollywood
stars
have chosen
buttons
of different
shades,
which are
twisted
together in a
double strand,
for their
choker
necklace and
bracelet.
(luternatloua!
jiawaraal)
Little Alfred Kendall Kelly, threi
years o'-d, is one of the 25 chil
dren of the same age recently em
rolled in the nuiBery school jus*
opened by Western Reserve Uni*
versity, Cleveland, of which hit
grandfather, I)r. Robert Ernes!
Vinson, is president Matriculatei
in the nursery school pay the same
tuition and rates as their 10,00(1
grown-up fellow-students of th«
neighboring university.
UuieruktlonaJ Nmirwll
New U. S. Minister Y°«nS Bob WillS High Post
to Czechoslovakia —„-*- n ■ ■ ■ 1111 rr:—i 1
A. C. Rathesky, Boston banker
ha». been named American Miniatei
to Czechoslovakia by President
Hoover. It is believed he will ac
cept. Mr. Rathesky is now presi
dent of the United States Trust
Company, as well as a trustee of
Boston University, and founder of
th« Rathesky Charily Foundation.
(International Ntwartei)
(Left to right) Senator Robert M. LarfFoIlettc (R.), insurgent leader,
of Wisconsin, and Senator John Thomas (It.), of Idaho, members
of the "Young Guard" as they appeared on the Senate Finance
Committee. Boh LaFollette is only BS years of ag> and has served
as a Senator for only five years. John Thomas gained vast finan
cial experience as a noted banker in his native State. He is serving
his second year with that august Congressional body.
“ J ilntei'Dbtlonal N«ww*el
New Governor of Virginia
The recently
elected
Governor of
Virginia.
John Garland
Pollard, whose
inauguration
toes,: place
Wednesday,
January 15,
with unusual
Gubernatorial
pomp and
ceremony.
He succeeds
Governor
Harry Flood
Byrd, brother
of the famous
A rctio
explorer.
(luternfttlotiAJ
Titanic Hero's Widow
Awaits Divorce Actioo
Mr*. Constance Grade di Urbina,
widow of Colonel Archibald
Gracie, hoio rC the Titanic dia
astor, l* awaiting the final action
in the annul.*!’ nt of her marriage
‘r Humberto tii Urbina, young
C loan, whom he married in
1924.
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