OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1918.
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MEET BANKERS
IN OMAHA SOON
Invitations Out for Big Meet
ing in January to Prepare
for" Spring Selling Cam
paign. Plans have been developed for a
gigantic meeting of automobile deal
ers and bankers to be held at the
Omaha Commercial club January 7.
Invitations will soon go out to the
various automobile dealers and their
bankers throughout the stale, ac
cording to R W. Hayward of the
Hayward-Cameron Motor company.
The primary object of this meet
ing is to bring dealers and bankers
back to the realization that the au
tomobile industry will soon be back
to a pre-war basis so far as produc
tion is concerned. Most of the au
tomobile' factories are released from
their war contracts and are in a po
sition to go ahead with consumer
production on a 100 per cent basis.
Bring Propinent Speakers.
The arrangertient committee, head
ed by T. H. McDermon of the Nash
Sales company, antl assisted by R.
W. Hayward, George Van Brunt,
W. S. Johnson, and W. H. Head,
have arranged with three nationally
known meif to spealoat the meet
ing. LaFayette Young, who has'agreed
to speak at the meeting will give a
general talk regarding the outlook
for business of all kinds. His talk
ill not only deal with the automo
bile situation, but will take up in a
broad way the national situation.
C. V. Nash, president of the Nash
Motor company of Kenosha, Wis.,
has accepted an invitation to speak
to the dealers and bankers regarding
i tie situation contronting the manu
facturers. Mr. Nash, who was for
a good many years connected with
the General Motor Corporation, has
had a wide and viried experience in
the automobile business and should
be able to present the manufacturers
probjems in a very comprehensive
manner.
Talk of Finances.
R. H. Collins of the Cadillac. Motor-
Car company, Detroit, Mich.,
will take up the automobile situation
from the angle of sales and service.
Probably no automobile manufac
turers has given mono attention to
working out the details of various
policies than has the Cadillac Mo
tor Car company of Detroit. Mr.
Collins is personally known to hun
dreds of automobile dealers in this
locality and his deductions will no
doubt carry a great influence.
Walter W. Head, second vice
president of the Omaha National
bank, who has been largely respon
sible for interesting bankers in this
meeting will discuss the automobile
situation from a financial angle. The
average layman has little or no con
ception of the importance of the au-
W1LL-KN0WN OMAHAN
HAS JOINED UNIVERSAL
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R. A. Newell, formerly with the
Geo. H. Lee company, has accepted
the position of sales manager for the.
Universal1' Motor company, 2562
Leavenworth street.
Mr. Newell is an Omaha product
and graduated from the Omaha
High school in 1904. He comes
from a successful sales record of
seven years with his former em
ployers and is well equipped for his
new position. His 'many friends and
acquaintances predict a successful
future for him in his new line of
work. ' v
toniobile to the average bankers
business, nor the close relationship
which has been formed between the
bankers and the automobile men. It
will be his purpose to dispel all
doubt from the minds of the
financiers regarding any uncertainty
in handling automobile paper.
Finds Goodyear Tire Kits
in Destroyed Ford Cars
Many of our soldiers, now abroad,
who were formerly employes of
the Goodyear Tire & Rubber com
pany, Akron, Ohio, have written the
company concerning interesting ex
periences they have had. Corp. John
D. Walker, with Company E, Supply
Train. No. 10, writes in part: "I was
detailed to one of the American
motor bases to get 40 Ford machines
that had been destroyed in the drive
of the Argon ue sector. In each car
I found a box of accessories and in
checking these over found that each
cfcr was equipped with a Goodyear
Tire saver kit. It made me home
sick for a minute. But as I had
some 250 kilometers to drive to the
front, I was very much elated to
have the repair outfit with' me as a
matter of protection against - delay
on the road on account of tire
trouble."
NASH WILL NOT
CHANGE PRICE
OF AUTOMOBILE
President of Huge Concern
Says Cars and Trucks
Cost Same for Six
Months.
"There will be no changes in the
prices of Nash passenger cars and
trucks before July 1, 1919," is the
statement made by President C. W.
Nash to a big meeting of Nash dis
tributors from all parts of the coun
try held at the Nash Motors plant
at Kenosha beginning Thursday.
This statement is bound to be read
with interest in automobile circles
everywhere, as it is another indica
tion that automobile prices in the re
construction period of the first six
months of 1919 will be generally
maintained.
Since the signing of the armistice
there were price reduction an
nouncements made by a few man
ufacturers and this made the ques
tion of price policy uppermost in
the minds of "flistributors and dealers
everywhere.
To Maintain Prices.
The developments of the past ten
days indicate that the majority of
the leading manufacturers will
maintain their prices and this seems
to be particularly true among the
manufacturers who nave held their
prices down during the uncertain
conditions of war.
The Nash company, while it, dur
ing the war period, was on practical
ly a 100 per cent basis, furnished
the government while on this basis
only regular peace-time products of
the Nash factory. Accordingly, they
are among those companies which
are in a position to almost immed
iately resume quantity production of
their own products for . le general
consumer trade.
Tries to Cut Costs.
Tn discussing his position on the
price question, President Nash said.
"It has always been my policy to cut
manufacturing costs by efficient
manufacturing methods, and to sell
on a very small margin of profit on
a volume production basis. This
policy we have rigidly adhered to
throughout the war period and are
continuing the same policy now.
"We know that the Nash Six with
perfected valve-in-head motor
priced at $1,490 is in demand by
our distributors, their dealers and
the consumer public in quantities
that will tax our production facili
ties. This same point applies to the
complete line of Nash trucks.
"Our margin of profit on the
complete Nash line is a 6mall one
and it is only by quantity produc
tion that we are in a position to
market the line at these figures and
remain here in business."
Overland Plays WasKwoman for
15,000 of Its Employes Each Week
When an organization assumes
the responsibility of caring for
15,000 men and women employes and
realizes that their health and physi
cal fitness must be kept constantly
in mind the obligation assumes tre
mendous proportions.
"Few people realize the many
varied industries that must be main
tained in connection with our chief
occupation of building automobiles,"
said ; one of the officials of the
Willys-Overland company in a talk
on factory activities.
"Of course, there are dining
rooms, temporary hotels for use of
men until they can get permanently
located, hospitals for first aid work
and man other important branches
which are vital to the prysical fit
ness of our employes.
"Perhaps one of the most un
usual is our complete modern laun
dry. It handles an amazing amount
of work each month, probably more
than the average city laundry.
"In October, 27,722 pieces of
laundry, 95,000 pounds of factory
rags and 5.000 automobile covers
were handled in this cleaning plant.
"The company washes the out
fits worn by the wjomen workers
twice each week. In October this
totalled 6,800 pieces, including
bloomers, aprons and caps. Just re
cently the company installed over
$10,000 worth of new machinery to
enlarge the laundry and reduce the
night work which had become neces
sary. "With this additional capacity it
may now handle the work of the fac
tory, hospital, administration build
ing, bowling alleys, Overland club
and Overland camp."
Start Motor Freight
Service to, Decatur
from Omaha Monday
C. E. Stallard, for several years
connected with the Missouri Pa
cific railway here, and more recently
ir; charge "of the highway transpor
tation rate committee of the Cham
ber of Commerce, will start a mo
tor truck transportation between
Omaha and Decatur Monday. Mr.
J.tallard's plan has ben endorsed by
ti.e industrial committee of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Stallard will start in with one
two-ton truck, increasing the num
ber as the business justifies it. Each
truck is capable of making three
trips per week, leaving Omaha on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
and leaving Decatur Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday. Ft. Cal
houn, Blair, Herman, Tekamah and
Decatur are the towns on the route
chosen and every class of freight to
be transported between those towns
and Omaha will be handled.
Makes New Long Distance
Record Run in Australia
Ever since automobiles have come
into extensive u.-e in Australia, there
has existed a spirited rivalry among
motorists of the eastern coast con
cerning the establishment of the
fastest driving time between the cit
ies of Sydney and Brisbane, a dis
tance of 620 miles.
From time to time speed records
have been made between these two
points which promised to stand for
a long period only to be again low
ered. The latest record is the one
set up by Fred Eager, a well-known
automobile man of Sydney, who has
created a new record of 19 hours.
3Hli minutes, cutting 6 hours, 24
minutes from the best previous rec
ord. Eager drove an Overland car
equipped with Goodyear cord tires,
and established the new record
under the auspices of the Automo
bile club of Queensland, his time
becoming a matter of official record
with the club. v
Willard Has Done Much
to Make Motoring Easier
"It is gratifying but not surpris
ing that threaded rubber insulation
should have originated in the Wil
Iarl factory," says Elmer Rosengren
of the Nebraska Storage Battery
company. '
"Mr. Willard is jiever satisfied,
nor are the men associated with him.
in the past achievements. For
years their slogan has been 'A Still
Better Willard.'"
Many years ago, Mr. Willard's
work in connection with the im
provement of starting motors and
lighting generators helped to make
electric lighting and cranking pos
sible. His improvement of the pasted
plate type of battery for automobile
lighting and self-starting service
was equally important, for upon it
depended the commercial practi
cability of the entire electrical sys
tem. Every part and piece of the mod
ern storage battery owes some im
provementin greater or less de
gree to the inventive genius and
manufacturing resources of the Wil
lard organization.
De Palma Smashes Auto
Records With Packard
Ralph de Palma, driving his spe
cial racing Packard, smashed exist
ing automobile speed records for
four distances at Sheepshead Bay,
August 17. The former records foV
two, ten, thirty and fifty miles were
1:12, 5:24, 18:56 and 28:04. The new
figures de Palma established are
1:05, 5:23, 16:31 and 27:29 respec
tively. On August 31, de Palma drove
four miles against his own record in
an exhibition at the New York Po
lice Games on the same track. His
time for this distance was two
minutes and three seconds. The sec
ond two miles of this trial he drove
in one minute and four-fifths of a j
second.
The latter record, however, has
not yet been sanctioned by A. A. A.
contest officials. Motor Life.
NEBRASKA BOY
HEAD OF NEVADA
HIGHWAY WORK
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CLARKE COTTRELL.
Clarke Cottrell, Who Directs
Expenditures of Millions,
Visits Boyhood Home
at Auburn.
Clarke Cottrelh engineer of high?
ways of the state of Nevada, a Ne
braska boy, who made good, was in
Omaha Saturday, on his way to his
boyhood home, Auburn, Neb.
Cottrell was born at Auburn, De
cember 21, 1885, and is a graduate of
Auburn High school, 1904.
After leaving the state university
he took up engineering and superin
tended one of the first roads built
under federal auspices, in the coun
try and the first of its kind in Ne
braska. Road Is Model.
This was a road across the Nem
aha river bottom east of Auburn,
and it is being exploited by the na
tional government as a model of
highway construction. It embraces
many novel drainage features and
was the first road in America to have
what is technically known as
"shoulder protection."
Mr. Cottrell went to California
and was made superintendent of
construction and maintenance of the
San Francisco bav road district, un
der, the California State Highway
commission. He dirtcted work in-
For Sale
1918 Ford Touring Car
Driven about 300 miles
Price $550
Phone Doug. 8554 during day;
Walnut 3615 after 6 p. m.
or Sunday.
No change in the prices
of Nash passenger cars and trucks
before July 1, 1919
TN offering Nash products to the public, wc
A have never made price an issue. At this
time, however, owing to the various price
changes announced in the motor car industry,
we wish to call your attention to the fact that
Nash products at the present price represent
unusual values. Nash prices have never been
artificially raised, therefore there will be no
change in the Nash prices before July 1, 1919.
THE NASH MOTORS COMPANY
Noah Pmntngir Cm 5-Pnxnger Car, $1490 4-Passenger Roadster, $1490
Sedan, (3330 4-Psongr Coupe, (2350 7-Pasaenger Car, $1640
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Noah Trmcht One-Ton Chassis, $1650 Two-Ton Chassis, $3173
Naab Quad Chassis, $3230 1
F. 0. 8. Kenosha
, Nash Sale Company Hayward-Cameron Motor Co.
Distributors ' .
T. H. McDearmon, Gen. Mgr. Omaha Distributors
10th and Howard, Omaha Phone Tyler 2916 2427 Farnam St. Pfione Doug. 2406
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UniUE CARS AT UQU1ME PRICII
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"I Am' Standardizing on the
'Standard of the World'."
"I have used many motor cars of 'different makes and prices.
The Cadillac meets all my requirements and satisfies me in every
respect. My boys in France have written several times of Cadil
lac performance 4 Over There. ' '
"I shall meet them with a NEW Cadillac and want it now
to be sure of delivery," said a prominent business man of Omaha
the other day when he purchased an additional Type 57 Cadillac.
Among other cars he has used a Type 57 Cadillac Roadster for
five months. He realizes Cadillac value and the satisfaction
obtainable by using several models of the Cadillac the car
which has through performance earned the title of the
"STANDARD' OF THE WORLD"
Our past three weeks' business evidence a keen demand for
good motor cars, and now that the Cadillac model and price are
completely established, you should buy a Cadillac and thereb;
secure known permanency and satisfaction.
VISIT OUR DISPLAY NOW-
Jones-Hansen-Cadillac Co.
OMAHA ' . LINCOLN
volving the expenditure of $20,000,
000. Commissioned in Army.
He is ninrrieil ami lias one child.
When the war broke out he volun
teered in the combatant enRineer
service and on the day the armistice
was signed he was granted his com
mission as first lieutenant. He has
been discharged from the service
and will return to Carson City, Nev.,
to resume t lie duties of his office.
Mr. Cottrell will soon award con
tracts for 4.000,000 of road con
struction to be done in his state. '
Salt River Valley Cotton
Crop Great Aid in War
The Arizona cotton crop, grown
chiefly in the Salt River volley, near
Phoenix, where the Goodyear Tire
& Rubber company owns the largest
cotton growing plantation in the
state, has been of wonderful benefit
in the prosecution of the war. The
larger part ot it has been utilized
in the manufacture of high grade
automobile tires, for which purpose
it is tfce best cotton known. An
other use to which it has been ex
tensively put is that of making tread
both of, these items being prime
war necessities. The well known
Egyptian grade only, is grown in
Arizona, and is of a better quality
than the) Kgypitan cotton grown in
its native land.
Shows Goodyear Tire That s
Has Been Run 23,440 Miles
One of the most interesting win
dow displays that has appeared re
cently, exhibiting tires, was the one
shown by thp Franklin Wicks com
pany, Seattle, Wash. Tlu display
consisted of a number of Goodyear
cord tires, marked with the number
of miles each hail delivered in ac
tual service. The average mileage of
all the tires in the wiifdow was
17,618. In the center was shown a
tire that had run 23,440 miles.
We 'Ates 'Em.
Another thing we don't like is
these marble seats they have in some
of the banks.
Roads Must Be Kept
Open to Help Move
Nation's Foodstuffs
''The announcement of the United
States Railroad Administration that'
the' shipment of foodstuffs wouldj
be given preference over thaVof any;
commodity, will no doubt have con-j
siderable effect on the rerouting!
of the country's transportation!
equipment," says Carl Changstroili
of the Standard Motor Car l. 1
"The extremely heavy movement)
of grain, flour andjOther foodstuffs
overseas, will to a great extent de
pend on the ability of the motor
truck. This will no doubt give'
those freight cars as well as motor
trucks loaded with foodstuffs the'
right-of-way over any other com-,
modity. If our roads are not kept
open this, winter, there is bound to
be a congestion of commodities
only secondary in importance to
foodstuffs. I understand that al
ready a large number of permits'
have been cancelled, and freight
held as non-essential will not be
forwarded from points of ship
American Cotton Equal
to That Grown in Egypt
The embargo on imports of'
Egyptian cotton for use in autonio-,
bile tire, airplane and balloon fabric
and the limitation of the imports to
80,000 bales lor the current year will
not seriously hamper American
manufacturers. The southwestern
states, in which, since 1912, produc
tion of Egyptian cotton has risen
threefold, will yield close to 50,0(10'
bales. It is believed that eventually
imporation of this product will
cease altogether, as American plan
tations increase their yield.
Careful analyses and spinning
tests by the Department of Agri
culture remove all question as to the1
quality of the American product,
which has been found to be the
equal in every respect of the foreign,
cotton. Motor Life.
Mr. Ford Use?
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You'll never know how much satisfaction
there is in jour Ford until you've equipped
it with a
U & J Carburetor
.Starts as easy in cold weather as in summer,
gets fully 50 more mileage from the gaso
line, and the increased power and "pep" will
make you wonder if it's the same ear, '
Guaranteed to the limit.
We'll put one on your Ford lor you in an
hour. Or you can install it yourself without
special tools. (
Nebraska representatives wanted. Write to
tl&J Carburetor Co.,' 311 N.I 8th St., Omaha, Neb.
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Victorious
Over the Wear and
Weight of War
Time Work
Bethlehem Trucks
stood the "gaff" of
ivar-toeight -loads and
did it without special
care, and at a distinct
economy in operation,
upkeep and invest
ment.
Bethlehem service meant mora
than any speedometer can show
you in mileage it means tho
carrying of whatever you have
to transport to wherever you
have to get it in the least possi
ble time and at minimum effort
and expense. -
Bethlehem Trucks are built to
carry the owner's confidence a
weir as his goods. They are tho
modern motor trucks equipped!
with Gray & Davis Electric
Starting and Lighting, a Driv
ing Shaft Steady Bearing which
prevents shaft troubles, and a
whole catalog of other improved
features. f
Get a Bethlehem Internal Gear
Drive Motor Truck and receive
the kind of service you must
have to put your business on a
100 work basis. --
lTonthassis 2J4 Ton Chassis
$1965 $2365
Zlt Ton Chassis .
$3465
F. O. B. Allentown
The motor truck bought today
without electric starting and
lighting will be out of date to
morrow. Examine a Bethlehem
and know why.
J. T. Stewart Motor Co.
DISTRIBUTORS
, 2048-52 Farnam St., Omaha
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