. ' THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 25, 1917. i (
have been Derfected the measures ior
k. staMlitv nl flvinff machines. Ureal
HEW TYPE MINE
AT TfflADTO SHOW
White Company Introduces
Four-Cylinder Car With
Sixteen Valves.
NEED NO MORE CYLINDERS
Thomas Edison and Detroit Electrics
To the motorist who is interested
chiefly in mechanical things, the one
improvement of a fundamental char
acter to be seen at the automobile
shows this season is the aixteen-valve
type of four-cylinder engine which
features the exhibition of the Ne
braska White company in the palm
room at the Automobile show this
week.
This new type of engine does not
change the function of the four
cylinder type of engine in any way,
but it, introduces a double valve prin
ciple which makes the four-cylinder
motor capable of any performance ob
tainable from other types. Also as
interesting as the valve design itself,
is the fact that new extremes of motor
car performance are now secured
without surrendering the simplicity
and ruggedness of the four-cylinder
motor.
Valve Efficiency Vital.
. The White' company asseKs thai
valve efficiency is more vital than the
, number of cylinders and also contends
;'. that any power and flcxibilityvhich
has been secured heretofore by multi
plying the cylinders can be produced
in a more effective and satisfactory
manner by increasing the valve
capacity of the "four."
Engineers of this company say that
the wide flexibility and rapid acceler
ation of the multi-cylinder motor are
due not to the high frequency of ex
plosions, nor to the overlapping
power strokes, but to the high speed
of the engine in conjunction with a
low geared rear axle. This being ap
parent, the company two years ago
announced its determination to adhere
permanently to the four-cylinder type
o motor and to bring this type to
its ultimate and final form. The sixteen-valve
"four" therefore is the
culmination of a definite policy of
engineering research.
. Bv using a double set of valves in
each cylinder, a counter-balanced
crankshaft and lighter reciprocating
parts, the company has produced an
extraordinary powerful engine of the
high speed type, which is claimed to
match any performance within the ex
perience of motor, car owners today.
' Every demand for fast getaway, hill
climbing ability or flexibility is more
than satisfied in the new type, prov
ing that It is possible for a highly de
veloped 'four' to equal any other
type in any kind of a test.
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"WOMAN CAN'T BE A FRIEND."
. Gotham Psychologist Puts ' Out a
Theory Regardless of
f Consequence!. ...
' Charles Gray Shaw, professor of
philosophy at New York university,
has devoted considerable time and ef
fort in research work on the problem
of "can a woman be a friend and, if
not, why not?" Today he made public
. ' the results of his study.
"She cannot be a friend," Prof.
Shaw announced, "for although the
word is given in both genders, the
fact alone is masculine. The reason
for this state of unfriendliness in
woman is that to be a friend a clear
cuKpersonality and a disinterested
outlook on life are required. Woman
lacks both of them. Woman is never
a friend because she is never an in
dividual, and to be an individual one
must stand alone. Woman is a planet
a satellite well adapted to revolv.
. ing around some center, but not or
ganized so as to stand 'alone.
"Men's clubs, of which they are so
proud, are combinations made tor kill
ship. It is a hothouse for tender
plants." New York Times.
PAINLEYE TAKING
ISSUE WITH
French Inventor Takes Posi
tion Wireless Has Played
Important Part in War. 1
our adversaries, who captured a motor
ear with one ot the outtits, nave
equipped themselves with similar ap-
I pliances, but tacking tne aeucacy anu
the precision of our instruments. It
j was France that had the entire iniat-
ive oi mis ormiaiu dijpuvaiiww.
"Inventions for tollewing tne en
emy's sapping and mining operations
by sound that were, in all armies, very
POINTS OUT INSTANCES
crude and insufficient before the war,
nave mauc mc must tcuiaiftauib p. vs. ..... , ' V3 ,u-
ress' and will reflect honor .upon progress aisj nas dccu . . -
French science later on. improvement of motors, . part cular y
"Aviation in every respect has been 1 in the reduction of their weigttt in
remarkably perfected by the efforts of ' proportion to their effective power, so
science and technicians since the war that they speed up to 150 mi es an
began. Today a' pilot goes up in all hour. Finally in spite of the aimcul
f h.r withn.it fear of i ties, wireless telegraphy has been
being upset by sudden squalls, so well marvellously adapted to aviation.
"DONT SHOOT PHONE GIRL"
Pertinent Remarks on the Value of
Courtesy in Speaking in
the Dark.
To speak to a telephone operator is
like speaking in the dark to a stranger,
Arthur Frost and James Brown em
ployes of the British t'ostal leiegrapn
company, came across to work for the
nir.rt Kniifd States Cable company.
Mr. Fraser and Mr. Brown opened the
station at Rye Beach
The death of Mr. Osborne not long
rk 10 a sirangcr. nrinm. where he was suoenn-
In such a situation courtesy would , trnA,nt ai the French Cable company,
seem to be the first rule of the road
Unfortunately, courtesy is not invari
ably the tone which people employ
with telephone operators.
During one of the national conven
tions, something went wrong with the
wires; messages were delayed and
mixedr offices and correspondents
were losing their tempers. In the
midst of it. lames Morgan, with that
. imperturablc humor of his, sent back
to the Boston Ulone a telegram oear
ing merely the words that were born
in the dance hall of a western mining
town:
"Don't shoot the pianist. He is do
ing; the best he can."
Don't bully the telephone operator.
She is doing the best she can. If she
were not she would not be where she
is. Being a telephone operator in
these busy days is no sinecure.
The silliest place to lose one's tem
per is into a transmitter. It is the
most cowardly place, also. To abuse
makes Mr. Fraser today the last o:
h rah kev ninneera.
As a watch charm he carries the
nnlv existing fragment of the first
transatlantic cable in 1858.
Fnrinirpri in a sold circlet, it is
cross section, eleven-sixteenths of an
inch in diameter and one-eighth of an
inr-h in thickness. The core, six cop
per wires entwined, is only one-eighth
of an inch in diameter. The encasing
ia mitta nercha. which, in turn. Is
nvelnned in a easing of iron wires.
The whole, anoearinff about the site
of a dime, he has carried for twenty
years. Boiton oloDe.
ELECTRICITY DEFIES WINTER
Modern Monsters Outclass Steam
Locomotive in Bucking
Mountain Cold.
A writer in Leslie's, describing the
winter work of the electric locomo
tive, nn the Milwaukee's mountain
a telephone operator (who is a long I division, tells how forty-two of these
wav off. a woman and an employe) is
about as heroic sport as shooting
robins. The operator cannot get her
tormentor discharged. She cannot
even answer back. Discipline forbids.
Boston Globe.
HE LINKED TWO CONTINENTS
Last of the Cable Pioneers Recalls
Romance of Sea Com
munication1. One pioneer only is left linking the
early days of the transatlantic cable
with these days of "week-end cable
letters" on private matters and innum
erable lengthy cablegrajns telling the
western hemisphere of the stirring do
ings and the European war's confu
sion in the eastern hemisphere.
The one remaining link is V. J.
Fraser, now district cable manager of
the Western Union Telegraph com
pany. He lives at tsroomine, Mass.,
with his son-in-law and daughter. Mr.
Fraser is 71 years old.
When he came across the ocean in
1874 and established his headquarters
linhtninir-rnnauming monsters are
defying the cold and snow. Thair
nvotors are always ready to start, and
really work best in cold weather.
Frozen pipes and snow drifts have no
terrors for them.
One electric takes the place of four
steam pullers. It towers above you
like a black steel giant. It weighs
600,000 pounds, and is 113 feet long. It
has thirty-two wheels and, having no
fluri to clean or boilers to inspect, It
runs a thousand miles without over
hauling. No smoke, gas or cinders
make the tunnels and snowsheds un
nlaeant and nftnsive.
rvneaino- thp Continental Divide,
these motors are now operating for
a distance of 330 miles from AlDerton
to Harlowton, and in February will
be running 110 miles farther to Avery,
Idaho, a total of 440 miles. The Mis
souri at Great Falls, Mont., furnishes
much of the power. And when I the
electric is running down grade, the
oower is regenerated by gravity.
The restored current actually sets
at Rve Beach N. H.. cable messages I DacK tne power company. -
cost $5 . word, and i.s. than twenty j eredU he raurcja w o . -
JIWIU -mi a tv nw s - f
Hut In the cities our greatest inter
.est In these electric pullers is in their
promise of relieving crowoea centers
words at a time were never accepted
by the sending company.
Today the cheapest cable service
offered is week-end letters from our
Atlantic coast to London and Liver
pool at a rate of twenty-four words
for $1.15, with an excess charge of 5
cents a word. Week-end letters may
be filed up to midnight Saturday, and
will be delievered Monday morning.
The contrast in times also is illus
trated by an anecdote Mr. Fraser tells
of a message from Queen Victoria to
President Buchanan in 1858 of about
100 words, which consumed two days
in the sending. Today a normal cable
operator can average 1U0 words
minute in transmission.
In 1874 Mr. Fraser, with four other
operators B. J. dee. Hugh Osborne,
of smoke, cinders and noise. New
Vnrk has been blessed bv this exemp
tion, and it is but a matter of time
when other cities, more or less
patient sufferers npw, will be relieved
hv the electric locomotive of these
evils. There is no tendency to hurry
the railroads, overburdened as they
are by the growth of traffic and by
the freight and terminal, situation
generally. But the reform is on its
wav. and evervbodv is interested in
what the electric locomotive can do
and is doing in the intense cold and
deep snows of the Rocky mountains.
Minneapolis Journal,
REO TRUCKS
Bear Mute Testimony
To the Well Earned Reo Slogan
"The Gold Standard of Value1
-Ton
Speed
Wagon
Engine Size,41gx41s. .- Pneumatic Tires. 34x4 Va- Wheel
Base, .121 Inches. Price $1,000 f. o. b. Factory.
2-Ton Truck
Engine Size, 4 Vsx4V2 Tires Solid. Size: Back, 36x4;
Front, 36x31 'a. Wheel Base, 146 Inches.
Price $1,650 f. o. b. Factory.
That "built-in" value
and never - failing
sturdiness so long as
sociated with the Reo
products comes to at
tention most force
fully in Reo Trucks.
They will not fail you.
On the other hand,
they give unexpected
service where other
makes are questioned.
Jones-Opper Co.
Omaha, Nebraska ,
Distributors Eastern and
Northern Nebraska and
Western Iowa.
A. H. Jones
. Hasting, Nebraska ' .
Distributor Southern x and
Western Nebraska and
Northwestern Kansas. -
Space No. 10 Annex,
Omaha Auto Show.
(Correapundftnce of Tha Aaoclatd Pre...)
Paris, Feb. 10. Painleve, a mem-;
ber of the French institute, eminent
mathematics, deputy for the Latin
auarter. and until recently minister
of public instruction and inventions,
says inai i huiiim liuwwit
severe in his judgment when he ex
pressed in a recent interview his sur
prise that science had played so small
part in tne war.
'The most imoortant scientific ap
plications made since the war began
are still military secrets," said M.
Painleve to the Associated rress.
"When it is all over and details of new
inventions and new developments of
old ones, discovered and put into
nractice. used at the front, may be
revealed, I think Mr. Edison will re
vise his opinion and that the world
generally will admit that scien.ee has
done its part.
Armia Kivai I in anntner.
"To mention only isolated cases, the
processes of wireless communication
and for the registering ot sounos ai
distances, that is by the ordinary
wireless currents and by ground in-
uction, have been marvellously per
fected through the requirements of
the war. All the armies are rivalling
each other in skillful methods tor
tapping the enemy's lines of tele
phonic communication from a con
siderate distance; noi rapping as u
is generally understood, but by the
use of a marvellous instrument that
enables the sentinel in his advanced
listening post out beyond the front
line of trenches to hear the .enemy
communications by telephone going
over wires that are several hundred
yards away
"No more than an allusion to these
things may be made," said M. Pain
leve, wno, as minister oi niuumuuo,
organized a veritable mobilization of
rientisti and scientific laboratories in
France. The technical sections of his
ministry collaborated with inventors
to bring to practical use the interest
ing propositions tnat were xuunu
worth considering. He himself pre
sided over a special commission of
men of science, charged with the ex
aminatn of all new inventions and
processes proposed for use in the na
tional defense, and must consequently
be regarded as in a better position
than any other man in trance to
know what science has done for the
war.
Svatam ia Perfected.
I would mention also," he said, "a
system that we perfected and put into
use for locating the enemy's batteries
by sound. The principle was known
before the war, but it was regarded as
impracticable. It has, since tne war.
been brought to the higheit state of
nerfection and efficiency and for
months has been in use over the entire
front. It has proven so effective that
POWELL
SUPPLY COMPANY
OMAHA
Automobile
supplies
2051 Famam Street.
II II . - w Ml .
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wes
PNEUMATIC HON-SKJO PUNCTURE-PROOF
The Lee is the only puncture-proof
pneumatic tire made. We will have
sample sections showing their con
struction on display at our store, 2051
FaiTiam street. Also men in charge
to explain their merits from both a
sales and service-giving standpoint.
FACTORY EXHIBITS OF AUTOMOBILE ACCES
SORIES AND SHOP EQUIPMENT AT POWELL'S
February 26th to March 3rd, 1917
The pleasure cars and trucks will take every inch of space in the auditorium, the basement
of the auditorium and the new annex. As this left no room for accessories, we decided to put
on a separate Accessory Show of our own in our display rooms at 2051 Farnam street.
This will be a most comprehensive showing of all that is new and desirable in the ac
cessory and supply lines- Direct factory representatives and demonstrators will be on hand
to show the operation and use of the new things and to explain the sales opportunities offered
on the different lines.
A visit to this Accessory Show at Powell's will give you the same advantage! as would
a trip to the different factories whose products are exhibited.
You will be able to get full information on every product and the most advantageou! tales
arrangements that can be offered. Whether you are now in the market or not, it will be well
worth your time to go through the different exhibits and learn of the new machines, new ae
eessories and improved methods.
You will be most welcome here, whether buying or1 not, and we cordially urge yon to at
tend and bring your friends. (
Yours very truly,
For Powell Supply Co.
Among the Exhibits
Will Be:
Boaeh Magnetos.
General Electric Bat
tery Charging Out
fits. Weaver Tire Chang.
Ing Apparatus.
Weaver Shop Equip
ment. Shaler Vuleanizers
in Operation.
Wondermlst
Welding apparatus.
Kellogg Pumps.
Car Springs.
Non-Burn Brake Lin
ing. Speedometers.
Fire Extinguishers.
Healy Valve Reseat
era. Columbia Batteries.
Edison Mazda Lamps
Rex 8park Plugs.
Hess-Brlght Ball
Bearings.
POWELL
SUPPLY COMPANY
OMAHA
Automobile
supplies
2051 Farnam Street
WHITE
MOTOR TRUCKS
In building Motor Trucks, it is the policy of
The White Company to make them highest
grade. This policy is founded on the convic
tion that nothing less sturdy or less refined
or less expensive can efficiently and econom
ically meet the actual requirements of motor
truck service.
White Truck chassis are built in capacities of
1 V2-2, 3 and 5 tons, with special body designs
and equipment for any service including
power dumping bodies, powet driven pumps,
winches and hoisting bodies.
THE! WHITE COMPANY
, CLEVELAND ,
THE NEBRASKA WHITE COMPANY
FRED C. ROGERS, Mgr.
Show Room, 2417 Farnam St, Omaha, Neh. , l'
Our exhibit of Trucks will be held at our show room, not at Auditorium