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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1918)
'4 r THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: ' APRIL 21, 191&. 2u I' fr 1 IMIIASBROUGIIT REALIZATION OF MOTORCAR VALUE "Lexington" 1 Head Convinced .Nation Now Realizes Need 'T of Motor Car in Daily ' Life. "Men most keenly alive in automc" "ile matters today have witnessed a marvelous change" in sentiment to : ward the passenger car," said Frank B. Ansted, president and general man ager 'of the Lexington Motor com pany of Connersville, Ind. "There is no question but that the best cham pion the automobile business has ever had has been ftie unprecedented de mand upon time and energy which have made the automobile loom up as one of the big factors in winning the war Men in every walk of life find they have to have automobiles, The farmer, the salesman, the contrac tor, the business man all have added duties.,; Time is of paramount im portatfee and the motor car is essen tially a time making machine first of ll. , "This sentiment is reflected at our plant in Connersville, where far sighted dealers and distributors e clamoring for cars. They are patri' otically aiding in relieving conges tion by driving them through even to far distant points, as they realize that the continually increasing require ments on our vast war program must mean a cut in production. - , Government Comes First. "Conditions of this sort can only mean that someone who waits will be disappointed in delivery. We are go ing to do our utmost to give the gov ernment everything they need first. This is our plain duty. After that we will then do our best to, supply all of 'the orders for Lexington cars. But it stands to reason that the most forehanded customers will not wait, "ut will get the cars they need now. "Ask any of the business men in Washington these days if they would willingly give up their motor for the period of the war and they will tell ypu that they could not do without it This condition of affairs applies to every American, who is finding more and more things he must do at home t "place his shoulder to the . heel of war. ;"There is no question at all about either the demand or gasoline supply. The, two vital factors are supply and .transportation, and Jiere , it must be 'first come, first servd.'" - Lincoln' Highway Travel 'Will Be Safer This Year Lincoln Highway travel in eastern Nebraska -will be made much safer this year by the construction of a concrete viaduct over the highway at Elkhorn by the Union Pacific ray road, thus eliminating a dangerous tross at grade. A similar . viaduct now under construction , in Omaha will be finished before the start of the .ounng season v ; U. S. TRANSPORT DIVISION IN FRANCE DOING BIG THINGS Night Driving Without Lights, Road Repairs and Conges tion Offer Many Hard Problems for Americans; Efficiency of Motor Units Is Remarkable. Folks here at home, the great un knowing populace of these United States, are thoroughly uninformed on what our motor cars and trucks are doing for the armies we are sending abroad. Three men, three whose names have seldom appeared in dispatches or graced the columns of front page stories in the press, are working wonders with automobile and truck divisions. Quiet!, but with remark able efficiency, Brigadier General H. L. Rogers, Colonel F. H. Pope and Major Barrett Andrews have speeded up"this phase of the service until the motor truck section stands out as the pacemaker for alf departments of United States service in Europe. Major Andrews, who was in Wash ington recently on a special mission, fresh from the front, sheds much light on the motorized branch of war work. Closed Cars' Preferred. Forty per cent of the automobiles used abroad are closed cars and most of these are used by officers. The officer's ear is practically his 'home. He rides in it, works in it often while traveling from one point to another and directs the conduct of most of his business from it. Often he sleeps in it. Mud, dust, rain, sleet and other elements against which the touring car is no protection, must be .barred out of his office. Hence the closed car. The roads in France are in splendid condition of repair. v Even up to the communicating trenches, just behind the first lines, highways are in good shape. .They have to be. There are constant streams of trucks moving to and from ammunition, food and provision' dumps find the feeder trenches, through which fresh troops reach front lines and others return on relief. Shell-Torn Roads Repaired. The sliell-torn roads one hears about occasionally are myths, says Major Andrews, l he moke and teas from an explode "Jack Johnson" have hardly escaped, the crater of earth has hardly cooled before a section gang is at once at work repairing it. Be cause -trains of 50 to 500 motor trucks are moving constantly to and from the front, the necessity for keeping the road in repair is obvious. The very efficient French military police, com posed of old or partially incapacitated soldiers, fill the duties of a great traf fic squad. Their work is the same as that of our Metropolitan police to keep the traffic moving and weed out obstacles that might interfere with its steady movement. Each fleet of 10 trucks has a me chanic, skilled in quick repair and ad justment. ; If one of the trucks in this group goes wrong, he fixes it if . f tne nxing can De quickly accom plished. If not. the truck is run off the road and out of the way, so that the rest i the convoy may proceed without delay. I At each side of each joad there are 12xl2-inch beams, laid end to end for the many miles from base to front. These serve as night guides for truck drivers, because no lights whatever are permitted. Even tail lights are ta boo, because likelihood of breakage of the red glass discs is great. Night driving, therefore, is done in absolute darkness, the drivers keeping to the rignt -oi ine roaa ana guiaea Dy tne bump-bump-bump of the heavy wheels against the thick beams. Center of Road Open. The center of the road is always kept open for dispatch and officers' cars. And because there is often room for only one passenger car on the crown of the road, the trucks, be ing slower, must keep to the extreme right and left of the highways. After each JOth truck there is a "ram" or moving island for one automobile to turii in so that another form the op posite direction may pass. The -10th truck has a large white circle painted on its side which may readily be discerned on the darkest nights. This indicates the presence of the ram for the,( officer's car to turn in while the approaching car passes. The the natural question as o how drivers can see on pitch black nights cigarette is the answer. A. pin-point of red fire, readily seen at SO yards, is yet obscure from enemy airplane eyes. These are the only lights.- In plateau country, trucks and cars seldom get closer than 2,500 to 3,000 yards back of the trenches. In hilly or mountainous country they are driven up almost as close as the third line. No Marching of Troups. There is practically no marching of troops. Motor trucks carry them to and from the trenches. This elminates much weariness for the men and much delay in transportation. Group zones, in which two or three kinds of trucks are used to the ex clusion of other makes, are a recent development. This permits me chanics to specialize and allows for interchanging of parts that would not be possible were a dozen kinds of trucks used in the same section of country. Strictest orders prevail as regards the conservation of fuel. Whenever trucks or, cars are halted for more than a minute or two, the engine is cut off. Failure to observe this rule brings heavy punishment to the of fender. It may be a nice thing for artists to paint and authors to write about, but the speeding dispatch car is rare. Seldom, even on those roads not laden with miles and miles of trucks, is 45 miles an hour exceeded. Near - A Morey-Maker Model 12 1800-lb. $1075 Complete with Flareboard body and canopy top With panel body $1120 , Model 10 ( lH-Ton $1540 Chassis only Model 15 ' 2-Ton $1850 , Chassis only Other models alio AO prtew t . k. Ciwm THE 1800-pound Grant Truck will help you , increase your business and as a result make more money. Its -purpose is not only to help you to do your present business a a lower cost but to get you more business by.Improving your delivery service and by extending the radius in which you can make sales. " " This truck gives you 1800-pound pay-load capacity instead of 1500-pounds and costs you less than most trucks of the smaller size. v. It is the most modern, most complete and most economical truck of its size ever built It comes to you complete .with electric starting and lighting, in ternal gear drive axle, windshield, bumper, spotlight, steely felloe wheels-the biggest truck value ever offered. N . " All over the country this Model 12 Grant Truck is selling as fast as the factory can make them. There's nothing like it at anywhere near- the price. Look it ' over now and get your order in. LININGER IMPLEMENT CO. 6th and Pacific Distributor Omaha n r GrfANT MOTOR CAR CORPORATION, CLEVELAND , the points of distribution at the front the speed limit is 20 miles an hour. Repair shops and service stations are divided into three classes. Base repair shops are complete in eVery nirA rtf mntnr car nrf trnrlc trvire. Here a chassis is completely rebuilt, if necessary. Huge machinery characterizes these plants. Moving them to other places takes from two to three weeks, and they are naturally a correspondingly safe distance from the front. The second type of repair shop is semi-mobile. It, too, is comparatively safe in its distance from the trenches. It requires two or three days to move it and contains equipment and facili ties for the handling of adjustment and repair work which would require a week's work. The first-Jine repair shop is thor oughly mobile, being mounted en tirely on trucks and ready to move to any designated point -within an hour at most. On these trucks are tire vulcanizers, blazers, lathes, emery and other grinders and other machinery necessary in rapid overhauling and ad justment. Ditch System of Draining Roads Dangerous, Says Dealer "I have recently heard a very strik ing criticism and I fear a just criticism to Qjir highways," said Carl Chang strom of the Standard Motor Car dompany. "One of the officials of the American Automobile association claims that all of our present type highways are equipped with death traps on each side.-He believes, and I do, that the present ditch system of drainage should be done away with in favor of a system of underground drain pipes, making ditchless roads of our highways. "Any man who has driven over a busy highway where the speed aver ages 25 miles per hour knows that at the end of a considerable journey his nerves are on edge. He perhaps, has driven his motor car on the outer edge hanging over the ditch on one side, lest his wheels are raked off on the other side and a half day of driv ing like this along a deeply ditched road is enough to destroy his mental equilibrium. "I believe that the day is coming when flat roads without dangerous curves and without the still more dan gerous ditches on the sides, is not far away and when it does come the fast ' moving automobile will be respon sible for the change." 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We Goodyear Service Station Dealers know this well as you tire users should know it ; ; ' The cost of such a guarantee, like every other cost of pro duction and marketing, is included in the selling price of the tire. . t Thus the presence of such a guarantee in a tire of normal price can mean only that some other quality has been slighted or sacrificed. , If you drive with reasonable care, almost any standard make pi tire will deliver you mileage above the average guaranteed figure. The premium you pay for the guarantee does you no good at all, and by paying it you deny yourself such additional mileage as uncompromised quality could give. It is only the reckless driver the man abusive of his tires who can expect to profit regularly from the definite , mileage guarantee. Remember that you are paying for his neglect and helping to buy his tires the next time you are, offered such a guar antee as an inducement to purchase. 4t. This tign identifies the Good Star Servk Station Dealer. V Goodyear Tires, Tubes and Ac- f& wV nra alujnv. kettt in stack r ' THE NOVELTY REPAIR CO., 4S09 South 24th St. Phone South 1404. BLACKSTONE GARAGE CO., j 3814-16 Farnam St. Phone Harney 800. . HOLMES-ADKINS CO., 4911-15 South 24th St. Phone South 42a , NATIONAL AUTO SCHOOL, 2814 North 20th St Phone Webiter 8943. TROUP AUTO SUPPLY CO., 1921 Farnam St. Phone Douf. S230. JONES-HANSEN S. & A. TIRE & RUBBER CO., 4 , 2522 Farnam St. Phone Doug. 3854. COLFAX GARAGE 30th St. and Ames Are Phone Colfax 1907 ORR MOTOR SALES CO., i Packard Show Room, CHAS. W. WALKER GARAGE CO. Fontenelle Garage Auditorium Garage, and C. W. Walker Garage36th and Farnam St. COUNCIL BLUFFS AUTO CO., SW-518 Pearl St., Council Bluffs Phone 2691, CADILLAC CO., Farnam Ad 26th Phone Harney 710. W - i 5 . . . , , ... " ' V I