THE ' OMAHA SUNDAY BEEr APRIL 29, 1917.
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IMPETUS IS GIVEN
BUSINESS BY WAR
ATicultral Communities Will
Thrive and Make Increased
Hauling. ;
"NO MAN CAN BE A BEAK"
. The impcttis which the great war
erisie h given to intensive farming
OIL STATION LOCATED ON VALUABLE PROPERTY AT TWELFTH AND HARNEY
Said to be bet in the United State: Owned by L. V. Nicholas Oil company.
will promote the prosperity of Amer
ica far more than any adverse! in
fluences of the struggle can depress
that prosperity," said R. E. Chamber
lain, truck tales manager of the Pack
ard Motor Car company, in a review
of the business situation with refer
ence to truck production and distribu
tion. : ' ,;
"This means more grain, more of
every kind of farm products. Agricul
tural communities will thrive, and
there will be increased hauling be
tween the large cities and the farming
Communities. ' v '
"For this increased : traffic, " for
border defense, and for other pur
poses, there will be much road build
ing done this season. City dwellers,
who suddenly have had it impressed
on them that agriculture is the basic
industry, are also learning rapidly
that this Industry cannot be raised to
anything like efficiency without an im-
Erovement in the roads. So on road
uilding as well as on farming we
shall see close co-operation between
city and country. Even without road
building for military purposes, here
is field of contracting that will be
full of activity this summer. . ,'
Increase Ship Building.
"Shipyards that have been idle for
years are reviving under the energetic
action of General G. W. Goethals, as
he sets about his program of a thous
and 3,0003n wooden ships a vear tp
carry food to England and France.
This means not only revival of busi
ness in all other phases of ship build
ing, but big stimulus to all lumber
ing operations.
"Then there is alt the transportation
for a million armed men to be taken
care of. Evervthing thev use will
have to be hauled, by rail, by boat,
and over longer or shorter hauls, by
motor trucks. As we think of the
job this will be, we can thank the
Mexican border situation for having
brought out some good results, chief
among them, perhaps, the reliability
ot our motor truck manutacture.
. - All Feel Increase.
"All these activities are interlock
ing. Everyone, in every line of oro
- ductive endeavor, is touched by. them
in some way. Big business cannot
take a contract for a million pounds
of bacon or a half million tents1 with
out little business having its part to
do in the supplying of the order. '
. "No doubt it is natural that the first
feeling on the outbreak of a great war
is one of uncertainty. But when we
have had time to survey the strength
that is in our prosperity, that uncer.
tamtv iriv.s uav tn a rphirninff rnnfi.
dence that is stronger than ever. The
famous quotation from the wisdom of
the late J. Pierpont Morgan carries
, even more force today 'Nobody can
anord to be a bear on America!
Mitchell Car First Up
High Mountains This Year
Bucking snowdrifts and fighting its
way through a veritable sea of slush
and snow, a Mitchell-"Six." owned
and driven by E. V. Ballert of Los
Angeles, climbed to the crest of the
high San Bernardino mountains to
the famous fine Knot Lodge, Febru
ary 11 and brought in the first mail,
as well as the first automobile of the
The above picture marks the erec
ion of what is said to be the finest
tion
oil filling station in the United States,
both from a capacity ana an aruiec
tural standpoint.
This station is to occupy a iront
of sixty-six feet on Harney and 132
feet on Twelfth street. The arrange
ment at the filling faucets will ac
commodate four cars abreast. Large
flood lights from the ouilding nearby
will play on the location at night.
Two Men, Four Machines Increase
Push Rod Production by $300,000
Just two men now produce more
than $300,000 in additional yearly out
put in the Willys-Overland factory
with the help of four magnetic grind
ers, used to machine and polish push
rods for Overland Big Four motors,
says J. R. Jamison, Willys-Overland
branch manager. This is a typical ex
ample of the vast economies made
possible through enormous produc
tion In the automobile industry.
At the present time these men can
grind 242 push rods, simultaneously
on their magnetic grinders so-called,
because the push rods are held in
place on steel plates by magnetic
force. . ,
One man operates two machines.
The daily output of the two men
year. At first, the proprietor, F. C
Skinner, could not beiieve his eyes
when, he saw a real automobile ap
proaching. Ths only mail he had
received so far this year had been
brought in by men on snowshoes.
.. Many tales have been related of
how it was utterly impossible for an
automobile to reach the summit of
the San Bernardino mountains, tow
ering 11,600 feet above sea level and
with its steep grades, this winter. Nu
merous stories of automobiles being
snowed in, stalled or stranded on the
road to Pine Knot Lodge have been
told. So this is a record run for the
Mitchell, attested and signed by . a
statement mailed by Proprietor Skin
ner and exhibited fy the Mitchell rep
resentatives at Los Angeles.
More Cole Improvements
To Help in Operation
To reduce the number of parts and
the wigbt-of the parts to arr abso
lute minimum and at the same time
maintain satisfactory operation m the
constant aim of the motor designer.
In this work Cole ensrineers have
taken- some interesting steps in advance.-
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For example, in the Cole Eight
motor one finds that the two chain
sprockets and the chain, formerly
used to drive the fan and generator.
and four machines is 2,600 ground
and polished push rods.
-Before the installation of this
equipment each push rod was labor
iously ground Dy nana, i ne maenm
in and oolishintr of 600 to 700 push
rods was then considered a big day's
work for these two men. This pro
duct, besides requiring more time,
was not to be compared with the
present output for finish and
accuracy.
To this additional production can
be, added the yearly saving of thou
sands of dollars in push rods that had
to be scrapped in the earlier days, be
cause of inaccurate grinding and ma
chining, now reduced to a minimum
because of the minute accuracy of
modem equipment.
have been eliminated from inside the
mnw nA In tliiir nlace we find two
V-type fan pulleys and a continuous
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motor performing the same work.
Ru malrinv thi. chance, several im
provements in operation were effect
ed, first, an noise was eiimuiaicu.
Then, too, the weight of the parts
concerned was reduced considerably.
Last, but not least, by transferring
this driving mechanism from the in
side to the outside of the Cole Eight
engine,, quite a contribution was made
to the accessibility of the motor. ,
Rules of the Road Book
Now Ready for Motorists
The 1917 edition of "Rules of the
Road," which treats , exhaustively of
the-commonly accepted highway rules
for motor car drivers, has, been put
mto- circulation by The B. 'F.- Geodr
rich Rubber company. It is dedicated
to the interest of the American mo
torist ; in the prevention of ac
cidents and to the cause of greater tire
mileage.
The booklet declares that 75 per
cent of the automobile accidents are
due to carelessness or failure to ob
serve the simple rules-of the road.
"If everybody -observed city ordi
nahces, accident liabilities would be
reduced," it says among other things.
Wedemeyer Has Driven
A Dorris 100,000 Miles
H. F. Wedemeyer, a' former St.
Louisan, now on the Pacific coast,
visited St. Louis last week and re
ported to the Dorris Motor car com
pany his experience with a 1907 Dor
ris, he owns: , .
"In the seven years I nave been
in southern California, he said, l
drove the 1907 Dorris over 100,000
miles, mostly in Los Angeles, River
side and Orange counties. Two hun
dred or more miles in one day is
about the average mileage for a fam
ily outing. All of this traveling was
on a set of tires a year. One left
frrtnt t,r 1atrt me three vears. The
last day I drove the car I got forty
seven miles an hour out of it, same
as your Mr. Joseph Rumble did when
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not touch the engine m four years,
except to clean the spark plugs.
','The only new parts on this motor
are a water pump, a new Stromberg
carburetor and the two maxin bear
ings. The last few years I have used
distillate, one-half the price of gaso
line. My ignition is a Seeley system,
on the order, of an Alwater-Kent,
and for juice I use drycells The
roller bearings are perfect, so is the
body, and the top has not even a
break in it. I bought the car ten
years ago this week. . , ,
Gives Ground Around
, Plant for Vegetables
The Pennsylvania Rubber company,
in response to the appeal of President
Wilson for an Increased production of
foodstuffs, has turned over to its em
ployes the extensive acreage sur
rounding its large plant at Jeanette,
Pa.
This land will be allotted to em
ployes, on application, in sections for
planting. The company will plow
and cultivate the entire acreage. Each
employe will look after the crop on
his section during the season and re
ceive the profit when it is marketed.
APPERSON
ROADAPLANE EIGHT
The Car That Possesses All the Virtues
The Roadaplan combines beauty of design, perfect balance, minimum
friction, light weight, ample power, and modest price.
We have made at big powerful car with 130-inch wheel base that only
weighe 3000 pounds . . vy . '
The economy of the Roadaplane in its upkeep costs is astonishing and
very gratifying to the man who hat to pay the tire and fuel bills..
The basie cauaa for this economy is due to clever designing.
Roadaplanea have introduced a new element of luxury in ridingend so
re doubly blessed by their owners "Handsome it that handsome does."
Let us take you for a "flight," " 1 .
Sixes and Eights, Seven, Five and "Chummy Roadster" (four passenger)
APPERSON MOTOR CO.
J. H. DEONG, Manager.
OMAHA.
2060-62 Farnam St.
Phone Douglas 3811.
APPERSON ROADAPLANE
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Sunshine! Out of the dirt of the city streets
free to follow fancy's prompting for a day
or a month the Twin-six will carry you with
the greatest of comfort and the least of worries.
And a just pride of ownership as well as the
certainty that you pace the easy miles at rea
sonable cost will enhance your pleasure in
Packard body styles to choose from. Prices, open cars,
three thousand fifty dollars and thirty-five hundred dollars,
at Detroit. , i? U See the Orr Motor Sales Co., Fortieth
and Farnum Sts., Omaha also Lincoln and Sioux City.
For Best Results, Try a Bee Want-Ad.
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Back of 'this season's new Over
land Big Fours and Light Sixes
are a direct line of nine preced-;
ing models from which , they r
were developed. . . y
They directly continue the line of
models that made the Overland
Jiameetand in the public mind
or integrity of value. ,
Overland policy has steadfastly
sustained that integrity of value
in the car throughout its entire :
: service in the hands of owners. .
Over three hundred thousand of '
these cars are now in use and
the helpful suggestions of their
owners and of the more than
four thousand dealer and factory-branch
organizations that
sold and served them, are largely
responsible for the balanced
greatness of this . season's Big
Fours and Light Sixes.
Their new beauttheir'rjerfected
easy " riding qualities, their
proven sturdiness and mechan
ical excellence, their admitted'
tire, fuel and pil economy make
themVorthy of the confidence
we enjoy, that they will still
further, enhance. Overland pres
tige. ; . , . :
They embody the wisdom of the
unmatched Overland experience
; in building cars of this type. . -
They are dominant values, cars of
proven dependability and ster
ling worth. :
As long as we have, them lor de
livery before May 1st, the prices
are $850 for the Big Four, $985
for , the Light Six thereafter
$895 and $1025. - -..
WILLYS-OVERLAND, INC., OMAHA BRANCH ;
I SERVICE STATION 1
I 20th and Harney StrMts
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SALESROOMS
2047-49 Farnam Straat
Phona Oouglas 3292
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