THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 10. 191.
FORDS TURNED
OUT AT RATE OF
3,000 PER DAY
Normal Production Has Been
Going on at Factory
Since March; 525,
OOO for the Year.
Charles L. Gould, manager of the
iocal branch of the Ford Motor com
pany, has just returned -from the
Ford branch managers' convention
held at the factory in Detroit, where
35 branch managers from all the as
sembly and service branches
throughout the United States 'and
the eight branch managers of the
Ford Motor company of Canada
have been in session for the last
10 days.
The fiscal year of the Ford Motor
company ends July 31st, and this
conventioin, preceding an anticipated
twelve months of unequalled produc
tion and demand for Ford cars, is
of exceptional importance to the
Ford Motor company and to the
automobile industry as a whole,
since 28 Ford assembling plants
were represented where the com
bined present production is 3,000
cars a day and which have over
9,600 employes.
The manufacturing effort of the
company for the. first six months of
the present year was concentrated
almost entirely upon the output of
war materials, and it was not until
March, 1919, that the production of
Ford cars and Ford parts began to
assume normal proportions. At the
present - time"""oTitput is averaging
3,000 cars a day, and production for
the year ending July 31, 1919, will
be over 525,000 cars.
The production of 3.000 Ford cars
a day hat necessitated the develop-
ment of departments at branch as
sembly plants and the Ford dealers
organization to a point where many
of these plants are assembling for
the demands of the particular terri
tories they serve an output of cars
greater than the production of the
average automobile factory.
Prohibition Prevents
Carrying Out of Will
Portland, Ore., Aug. 9. Now that
July has come and gone, one pro
vision of the will of the late Gus
tave Glaser cannot be complied with.
He willed: "I do give and
bequeath unto the German veter
ens (Verband Deutscher Veteran
der Nord Pazifik Staaten) the sum
n( $5fl in nahle them to narticinate
at my funeral with their flags and to
have after the funeral a, solemn
draught in the true German fash-ion.
New National Models Are Selling Strong Here
Among the cars which have been
selling "strong" this season are the
new National models, two of which
are shown in the above picture. Al
though the National has been a fa
vorite in this locality for a number
of years, no concentrated effort has
beeu made in selling these cars re
tail. The new National Car Sales
corporation has turned a number of
these cars in Omaha. The Excellent
mechanical construction and the
beautiful interior finish of both the
open and closed models have made
an instant appeal to fastidious mo
torists. The indications are that
many of . the closed 'models will be
operating on the streets of Omaha
during the coming, fall and winter
season.
Suggest Society Against.
Cruelty to Motor Trucks
Yc have societies fo"r the preven
tion of cruelty to Old Dobbin and
the Old Gray Mare; but who ever
thought of a society for the pre
vention of cruelty to motor trucks!
Well, that is hist what is suggest
ed by R. S. O'dell of the O'Dell
Hamilton company, distributors of
Mack trucks.
"Just because a truck can't feel is
no reason why it should not be
handled with care, argued V IJeJl
with sympathetic fervor for the
much abused, misused motor truck.
"The economy and efficiency of
machinery lies in the way it is
handled and treated. We need a
society for thejprevention of cruelty
to our modern iron horses which
feed on, galoline, just as we did for
the old consumers of hay and grain.
"Trucks need one kind of care in
hot weather and another kind in
cold weather.
"Straw hats are put on horses to
protect them from the excessive
heat of summer; but very often
'drivers will forget to see that there
is sufficient water in the radiator and
enough oil in the oiling system to
lubricate the various bearing sur
faces. "In winter horses are sheltered
from the cold in stables and given
an extra amount of bedding; but
very often a truck will be allowed
to stand over night without the wa
ter being fully drained from the
radiator.
"If the horse is neglected, the
animal suffers pain, and our humane
societies see to it that it is stopped.
But, 'if the truck is mistreated, it
feels no pain and no one gives it
any sympathy. The owner gets a
severe pinch in his purse, and may
hold up his right hand and swear,
'Never again.' But that is about as
far as it goes. Users in general go
on year after year, paying out large
bills incurred through ignorance,.
carelessness and indifference.
"We need a society to educate
users of motor trucks to their proper
care, winter and summer, and in all
kind's of weather. It will mean
longer life for all trucks, 'greater ef
ficiency and economy, better service
and greater satisfaction in' every
way," said O'Dell as he hit his fist
on the table to clinch the argument.
Manager of Fisk Co.
To Go Into Business
For Hiself In Omaha
The tire buying public of Omaha
and vicinity will be interested to
learn of the change in the selling
policy of the Fisk Rubber Co. In
thfc past the i-isk Rubber Co.
has
maintained tire service stations at the yearly output will be 18,000 com-
i-11 their branches and sold direct to
the consumer as well as to the deal
er. Under the new policy they will
be wholesale only and will discon
tinue their service station and all
road service.
John H. Lionbcrgcr. who has been
manager of the Omaha branch for
nine years and Ao is undoubtedly
FRANK1IN CAR
MADE EACH SEVEN
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Night Shifof "500 Men Put
to Work to Try to
Keep Up With
. Demand.
Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 9. Con
struction of a new $500,000 addition
to its present works, opening of an
other large building as a body fac
tory, leasing of many thousand
square feet of sadditional storage
space, and the immediate employ
ment of one night shift of 500 men
with the possible addition of an
other, are changes set in motion to
day by the Franklin Automobile
company. ,
This tremendous expansion policy
is the result of a determined effort
to lift the production of Franklin
cars to keep pace with the increas
ing demand and to a point where
America Has One Auto
Each 18 Persons;
Much Less In Europe
To
"To obtain an inkling of the im
portant part the automobile plays
in both the social and business life
of the United States it is only neces
sary to compare the number of cars
with the total population of the four
principal countries of the world,"
Lsays W. R. Nichols -of the W. R.
Nichols Motor Co.
"In the United States there is one
automobile to every 18 persons; in
Great Britain ohe car to every 2'li,
perspns; ii France, one carrto every
400 people, and Itajy and Belgium,
one to every 840 peoole, or, taking
all the cars in the Four European
countries named above, there was
at the beginning .of the war a total
of 350,000 motor vehicles, or one to
every 353 persons. This is all the
more remarkable when you consider
that the population of the United
States at that time was 110,000,000
as compared to a total foreign popu
lation of 127,000,000 people."
pleted cars, or one car about every
seven minutes of eacli working day.
Ground was broken today for the
I new 7-story, reinforced concrete
manufacturing building, an addition
i to the present works, as the first
steo in the expansion program. The
actual building operations will cost
$400,000, exclusive of any equipment
one of the best known and most e-"j and the contractors have tackled a
Owner Must Watch Danger
Point of Auto Battery
One thing that a good rhany
automobile owners can't understand
about batteries is the way they
hang on and keep giving service
right up to the minute when they
refuse to work at all.
"These folks reason," says Elmer
Rosengren, local Willard service
station dealer, "that the -light ought
to get a little weaker and start a
little slower unit the battery grad
ually wears out.
"Sometimes a battery acts that
way, but another one may keep
right on working until it Is actually
ready to fall to pieces. When the
cells are opened uff for inspection,
the active material is in some cases
so broken up that it will not hold
together. This may be due either
to old age or abuse. Of course, we
never open up a battery without the
owner's consent, but a battery in
this condition could not last a great
while and might go out of service
at any time on the road.
"Most car owners are anxious to
know the truth about their batteries
and prefer to have a brand new bat
tery when they know their old one
is approaching the deadline."
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penencea tire men m tnc west, is
severing his connection with the
company and will engage in the re
tail and wholesale business of tires
on his own account. 1 lis many
friends and customers will be pleas
ed to learn that he has leased a fine
new building at 2220 Harney street,
where he will be have one of the
finest and largest tire service sta
tions in the world.
Fisk and all standard tires wili be
sold. Road service wilt.be contin
ued and improved. Harvey 'Jones,
formerly manager of the Lincoln
branch of the Fisk Rubber Co., and
J. W. Goehring, former manager of
the Atlantic branch of the same'
company, will be associated with
Mr. Lionberger in the new firm,
which will be known as th John
Lionberger Tire Co. The Fisk serv
ice station will not be closed to the
public until the John Lionberger
tremendous construction problem in
agreeing to have the building ready
for occupancy before January 1.
Leaking Tube.
Sometimes an inner tube receive
a puncture big enough to allow the'
tire to" become reflexed after a brief
interval but nt visible to the naked
eye. When this happens in the
garage the bucket of water tells the
tale at once, but on the road about
the only way of locating the leak is
to inflate the tube and hold succes
sive portions of it close down to
the dust along the surface of the
toad. When the puncture is
brought into this position the out
puff of air will ruffle the dust and
indicate the position of the leak.
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Tire Co. s place is ready, which will j nJient,y bec0mes speckied after its
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Have you ever noticed the pleasant look, the
interested wave of the hand when one Cadillac
owner meets another on the road? There is a
look in the, eye of each as though he thoroughly
understands and appreciates how pleased the
other owner is with his car.
There is a reason for this understanding be
tween Cadillac owners when they meet, because
v every Cadillac owner knows the complete satis
faction that he and his family are enjoying from
the use of their Cadillac. He knows that the
other owner had good judgment when he de
cided on a Cadillac. He knows what everybody
says about Cadillac, particularly now the boys
who return from "over there," and stability, per
manence of satisfactory performance, is but one
of the reasons for that keen look of interest ber
tween the owners of Cadillac cars.
Conditions at the factory are slowly becoming bet
ter, and deliveries of Cadillac cars may very soon
increase.
The type of car you desire may become available,
so why not order now? We have lled orders in the
same rotation as they were received, and we thank
our customers for their patience and assure them that
they will not regret having waited for their Cadillacs.
Those who ordered first, naturally receive delivery
first.
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' Order your Cadillac now for Fall delivery. Or,
better still, see us and find out what tfpa and size of
Cadillac will be available first.
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No Need of Long Wheel
Base if Springs , Are
Set on Auto Right
"How long should a car's wheel
base be"
This question is a good deal like
the famous old Lincoln question:
"How long should a man's legs be?"
to which the father of the Union
replied: "Long enough to reach the
ground."
Engineers pretty generally agree
now that there is nothing gained
by extravagant wheel base; that
wheel base is merely a device which
an engineer falls back on when the
purchasing department refuses to
buy him the right grade of springs ?
and that the real way to get easy
riding is to engineer your chassis
correctly.
"A notable case of easy riding
without restoring to extravagant
wheel base is found in the new Al
len five-passenger car. This car
seats five passengers with absolute
comfort, and takes rough going as
smoothly as the largest car built.
Its secret lies partially in the way,
its weight is carried, but the largest
percentage of its smoothness comes
from the long, free, lazy 56-inch
springs.
Peterson-Hayward
Motor Co. Takes Over
Jordan Auto Agency
The Peterson-Hayward Motor Co.
has recently concluded arrangements
with the Jordan Motor Car Co. for
the distribution of Jordan cars in
Nebraska and western Iowa. Sev
eral of these cars are now on dis
play at the sales room of the Peterson-Hayward.
Motor ' Co.
Both. R..VV. Peterson and J. A.
Kavanaugh, are especially pleased
with the new models and already
several sales have been made since
the arrival of these cars.
1The Jordan, although a compara
tively new car, has won its laurels
purely on the merit of its construc
tion. Ned Jordan, who is at the
head of the Jordan factory, is one
of the best known men in the auto
mobile'" business. His enthusiasm
regarding the industry has enabled
him to turn out a car which is said
to be far superior to many autos
selling at higher prices.
Out-State Weddings Are
Illegal in Wisconsin
Chicago, 111., Aug. 9V-Young
couples from within the boundaries
of the Badger state can come to
Waukfgan or other Illinois points
and get married, if they wish, but
they are liable to get into a peck of
trouble when they return to Wiscon
sin and start keeping house The
eugenic law of Wisconsin has been
held legal, and the judge ruled that
marriage of Wisconsin couples per
formed outside the state to ecape
complying with the law are illegal
in Wisconsin. ,
Clothes Better Than Checks.
Pottsville. Pa., Aug. 9. Whether
styles change by the hour, day or
year was of no" consequence to Miss
Frances Foulk, a pretty 19-year-old
girl of Frackville, who stocked up a
five years supply of clothing, shoes
and other feminine accessories in her
home. Neither did she have any
compunction it is alleged, about
sending worthless checks to the
Philadelphia business houses for
goods. However the recipients of
the checks did offer strenous dis
approval and as a result Frances
is being held under $300 bail for
trial at the October session of the
I'nited State district court at
first encounter with a rainstorm.
These spots are hard to get off, but
a treatment of raw linseed ail and
salt and malt vinegar applied with
plenty of elbow grCase will come as
near turning the trick as anything.
Hubby Slept in Clothes.
Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 9. Letitia
Henson could stand for a lot of
things from her husband, Henry, but
when Henry insisted on going to
bed with his clothes on and spitting
on the floor, Letitia saysln1er di
vorce petition that it was more than
she could bear.
For Cleaning Contact Points.
It is sometimes difficult to find
a really satisfactory agent for
cleaning the contact points of igni
tion apparatus or the surface of a
commutatoron a starting motor or
a lighting dynamo. There is some
thing known as "cuttlefish paper,"
which is finer than the finest qual
ity of sandpaper and which is very
well adapted to this operation.
Cuttlefish paper is not regularly
carried by hardware stores, but it
may be obtained from dental supply
houses.
Truck Tires Keeping Pace -With
Development of Gar
One of the first rubber companies
to apply itself to the problem of
producing tires fNc the modem
motor truck the most efficient car
rier since the locomotive, was The
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Ak
ron, O. . In the evolution of the
pneumatic truck tire, this company
with its extensive research facilities,
has played a most prominent part.
In many respects the introduction
of the motor truck has not been
unlike that of the locomotive some
90 years ago. When the locomotive
was ushered in to a wondering and
incredulous world, its sponsors en
tertained fanciful visions of its
future importance as a carrier, but
their "iron horse" was still little
more than a giant toy. Road condi
tions absolutely prohibited its use.
Then followed a period during
which the steel track was perfected.
First the rails were of hardwood
strips, then ribbons of iron were
placed on these wooden, rails, .next
all-iron rails, a little later a light
"T" rail and now the heavy rail of
today.
The adaptation of the motor truck
to present day traffic uses has been
accomplished by conquering just as
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ing the locomotive of nearly a cen
tury ago. Gas makes the giant go,
but without a suitable track of fires
of rubber, the sap of a tree its
commercial advantages would : be
limited.
' The first trucks were fitted with
solid tires, for at that time no other
tires were available. But the Good
viai rnmranv hecan immediately to
develop a tire that would permit the
motor truck to orancn out into a
broader field of service. The ad
vantages of pneumatic equipment
were 'apparent and now thousands
of truck owners, are adopting them
for use in every conceivable kind of
service.
Home Made Cement.
Four parts of iron filings, two of
lime and a fifth part of common salt
mixed to a paste with vinegar make
an excellent cement for spark plugs,
for connecting pipes, etc. When
carefully mixed this cement will
stand compression and heat and can
be air-dried.
Bluing Metal.
The car owner who does his own
repair work sometimes finds it neces
sary to "blue" small bright objects,
such as screws. This-may be done
by placing them on a piece of alieet
iron and holding them over a fire
until they assume the desired color.
To Clean Spark Plugs.
An excellent method of cleaning
spark plugs, or in fact any mica sur
face, is to wash them" first in a 10
per cent solution of acetic acid.
which is an infallible solvent of
grease and carbon deposits. - The
plug? should tnen be wasneo on
with gasoline and finally dried by.
rubbing them with a cloth.
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Sam's AJibi Was Good.
Aurora, 111.. Aug. 9. "Judge, you
should tell me why I should do my
father-in-law the tavor ot Durmng
his store when he has good insur
ance and I don't like him." Samuel
Minnus of Chicago asked Justice
Uutton when he was arraigned
charged with arson. Minnus was
charged with firing his father-in-inw'e
ttnrp lierausr he advised his
daughter against withdrawing a di
vorce suSt. The judge freed Minnus.
DIS1
riLE
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We are now ready to accept orders for Furnace Distillate, to be de
livered over the Winter months. A pljone call will bring our salesman. .
' OMAHA OILS
"Best in the Long Run
Omaha Refining Company
City Sales Department
5th St. and Avenue H (East Omaha). Phone Webster 900
America's FIRST Farm Truck
Built for Country Roads :-: Built for Farm Loads
Patriot Trucks are built in one of Ihe largest factories in thevUnited States devote'd
v exclusively to the production of Mqtof Trucks, and are sold on the basis of actual per
formance. e
The attitude of the Hebb Motors Com pany and of every one of its distributors is
identical "Our interest only begins when we deliver the truck." - j
Another reason why the Patriot is the logical truck for the western buyer is the
fact that the Patriot factory is located within easy reach, outside of the freight-congested
manufacturing centers where quick action can be secured, if service or repairs
' should ever be required. - '
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Manufacturers
Lincoln
Nebraska