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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1919)
7 THE. OMAHA ' SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 28, 1919. 11-B WED AUTOS ARE BOON TO ALL WOMEN DRIVERS Sedan and Coupe Especially Notable for Greater Ad vantages They Offer V . In Winter. 'The sedan and coupe are espe cially notable for the wider range of . advantages .they offer to all women,'- says A. w. Cook,, Omaha retail store manager for Chevrolet Motor company of Nebraska. . "With either of these two styles the woman who has many interests outside her home is able to increase the" field of her activities to get to more places in less time and with greater comfort. It conserves her mental and physical ejiergy and helps her to accomplish more with out sacrificing domestic responsibili ties. "For the same reasons closed cars do away with the most un pleasant phase of shopping the getting to stores and back espe cially in inclement weather. ''In such a car- more shops can be visited and a wider selection made in every purchase. It enables the housewife to seek out the best values in all supplies and to get things home she really needs just when she needs them.', , Elmer Apperson of Apperson Brothers will winter in Los Angeles. Mr. Apperson has. shipped one, of the latest models of Apperson cars to southern California and will tour up and down the coast. "WilBD Can You Answer These? " Is your generator working properly?. -' ' ' . ' Are your starting motor brushes O. K? Are yottr spark plugs clean? Is solution at the proper level? Is the charge too low? Are'" the terminals tight or loose? . -. . " Is the battery firmly wedged or clamped into place? Drop' in and see us and we'll give you the answers in a few minutes. It may save you a repair bill. Nebraska Storage Battery Co. 20th. and Harney Phone Tyler 2920 The Alley Garage (VP YOU VVlrtTTOAW VilWri OF TH If ''WM QEAr? IS THE" &Y1UrVlTtf lHfr Play IN fC $Tfcfcl?INrWfrE:fcU ?S2 TRUCK BRINGS UP HEAVY LOAD FROM LINCOLN Proves That Autos Can Buck the Snow Where Horses Dare Not Undertake the Trip. Last week Geiger & Co., who op crate the Globe Van and Storage company at Lincoln, Neb., made a trip from Lincoln to Omaha carry ing three and one-half tons of household goods, including a piano. Many of the experienced travelers of the road between Lincoln and Omaha were absolutely and morally certain that this truck would be part of a landscape between Lincoln and Omaha until the snow had melted, but the man who drove the truck, a Four-Wheel Drive special "job had a different view of the sit- nation ana proveatnat n was rignr. Another thing worthy of mention i connection with this trip is that no chains were used on the trip. The 40x8 Pneumatic tires made this trip possible and demonstrated quite clearly that the modern motor-truck can get through where the horse can not. ; This truck carried a return load from Omaha to Lincoln. The re turn load consisted of Firestone tires. . California Motor Car corporation has been formed and capitalized at Los Angeles. A. L. Tull, former sales manager of the Elgin Motor Car corpo-ation, Chicago, is the leading spirit in the "new company. f ; ? RP1 IfQil FT It's the Simply a Reo and Matter of Imitations No matter what you may read or be told, the fact re mains that the Reo Speed Wagon was the first of iu kind to he produced and is today the largest seller of any similar type of truck. . And REO supremacy has been maintained despite the fact thatmany imitations have since been offeree! the public. Mounted on pneumatic tires and equipped with electric lights and 'starter, it has established low delivery cost records that have never been equaled. These statements, which we are prepared to support with indisputable evidence, Should be sufficient to convince the most logical reasbner to choose the Reo Speed Wagon in preference to any other vehicle of like capacity. , A. A. Jones Co. Jones-Opper Co. Bonus for United States Rubber Company Employes As a holiday remembrance,' the United States Rubber company gave to all salaried officers and employes 10 per cent on their yearly salaries. This news came to the Omaha branch of this company in the form of a telegram from New York on and deposits a film of it.on the work, a i rrt ' . . , t .-,- 1 Uecemoer J. ine necessary prep- causing me soiner icjsuck nrnny. orations were made and by noon of the 24th everything was ready for the distribution of the bonus. As the employes were leaving for lunch, they were told to go through the office of T. J. Needham, the manager, who presented the checks to each individual with a personal word of thanks for their co-operation during the past year and good wishes for the year to come. As each employe left the office of the mana ger, they were met at the door by A- A. McClur, assistant manager, who presented each lady with a handsome box of candy and each man with cigars. Essex Continues to Win Honors On Track and Road "The Essex continues to hang up new endurance records, according to word -just received frohv Detroit," said Guy L. Smith. "After holding first place through the entire latter part of the race an Essex flashed home a winner ahead of seven other starters in the .40 mile road contest that featured the Ladd, III., welcome home to its serv ice men. The Essex completed the distance in 56 minutes flat. "At Enid, Okl., in a recent series of dirt track races the Essex and Hudson made a clean sweep, cap turing five first places. An Essex won four out of five races and fin ished second to the Hudson in a 20-' mile event. The Essex averaged 1:124 to a mile, while the Hudson finished the 20-mil race in 26 min utes flat." An interesting suggestion for use in connection with soldering iron or slecl is to make a swab from flexible electric light cord,' which is used in swabbing on to the work a solution made by dissolving a bit of zinc in muriatic acid and then diluting with a litte water. The acio solution dissolves a little of the copper wire Auto News From All Over The Entire World Charles P. Root, general manager of the national -motor truck relia bility contest to be staged out of Omaha in June and July, 1920, has completed the rules for the contest and prepared the copy for the entry blanks, submitting these to the con test board. A. A. A., for their ap proval Mr. Root announces that, in addition to The Omaha Bee tro phy, the main trophy for the event, there will be trophies for each class from the three-quarter to the three and one;half-ton models and that it is probable there will be a trophy for the ton-mile showing on' fuel. Many manufacturers, have written asking for complete information and entry blanks,- stating their intention to make one or more entries for the contest. r ' H. T. Porter, for many years in charge of distribution for the Detroit-Cadillac company. New York City distributor for Cadillac cars, has been awarded the New ork City distribution for the Lafayette ear. J. C. Flowers, former president and general manager of the Premier Motor corporation of. Indianapolis', who disposed of his interests in that company to Dr. R. A. Skelton, will, it is said, reorganize and refinance cue of the prominent firms in the cast. More than 200 entry blanks have been mailed for the Indianapolis 500-mile race to be run May 31 at the Indianapolis speedway and for which a "purse of $50,000 will be of fered with $20,000 for the winner. American La France Fire Engine company has selected a site near Newark, N. -J., and will produce a new motor truck. R. C. Curtis, former manager of the Splitdorf Electrical company of Newark, N. J., has purchased land on Warren near High street, New ark, where a plant to cost $1,000,000 will be erected with 130,000 square feet of floor space and eight staries, to manufacture automobile accesso ries. ' United States has' imported, ac cording to reports from England, 220,000 tons of crude rubber this year. The production of rubber in "the world was about 320,000 tons, according to an English estimate', with. 40jOOO tons' of wild rubber. Production in 1920 will probably reach 360,000 to 370,000 tons. Michigan capital has been com bined in the formation of the Mun cie Malleable company which has taken over the Whitney Malleable Castings Foundry company of Mun cie. N Deliveries which are impossible until spring bring deposits of enort mouj size in England, according to news from that coutitry. It is not unusual to -pay $5,000 down on a $15,000 car for" delivery many months in the future. Franklin street, is starting to rnanu facture the Parenti car at Buffalo with a production for 1920 of 5,000 cars planned, Samuel Regar, treasurer of the, Chandler Motor company and chair man of the finance committee of the Cleveland Automobile company, is on the Pacific roast oh apTfasure . tou'r. . , Officials of the Wilson Foundry company at Pontiac, of which John " N. Willys is the backer, announced recently that the payroll of th-com-pany for 1920 would be $4,000,000. Arrangements are being lnadxs , to build 1.200 houses for woiknn and Mr, Willys is backing the compaoy In the housing project to the limit. Canada is ,to ' have a lilTiw.iy mucn on the plan nt.ttie Lftwm highway and extending fronf toa'it to coast ' v J Motor and Accessory M'ahufai turers' association has- issu4' for mal sanction to its mcmbefS'who" will now be able to exhibitnat tWe r Kansas City Tractor club shox Feb- ' ruary 16-21. Sanction has also, been issued for ihe Minneapolis atuomo- live auu muuaii ini tAyyauivn ithivh opens January 31." " Robert Lansing has been anoint ed manager of the Roamer"'Motr Car company, Chicago. 'rf- O. H.' McCormack, sales manager of the Hudson Motor Car company, . has been given the. added duties qf, the supervision ot advertising ae partment under the title of director of sates and advertising. . , ; Fifty-three carloads of crude rub ber, 3,180.000. pounds, in 5.900. cases, reached Akron for the Goodyear lire and Rubber company lastweek, . the largest shipment of crud. rub ber to ever reach, the rubber: city. . The shipment is sufficient to make Moline-Knights cars will be I.-n'own in the future as the "R and V Knight.'' The Root and Vander voort interests, which make the car, decided on this change a short time ago. . , . ' . Parent! Motors corporation, Buf falo, with general offices at 1214 350 01)0 tires and represents the pro-' duction of 300,000 rubber trecs. Rigid tests have been given the 1920 models of the Jackson-Automobile company. Schedules 'of th factory, idle since the outbreak of the war, call for the production flif 3,000)000 passenger cars by next July. o Halting, Nebraska. Distributor for Southern and Waitarn ". JNebraaka. ' . .. Oman. Nebraska. Distributor for Eastern and Northers Nebraska and Waiters. Iowa. - Marjorie Is Not Care Free; Has Heals In Real Life; Also a Cure for Socialism (Continued From Page Nine). vorjte arguments at their finger tips They bring them to school, and en deavor thereby to impress them up on all with whom they come in con tact. It so happened that Miss Bentley's friend had a class full of the socialistically precocious chil dren. Any argument she used to show them they were wrong was upset by their answers or questions. It got to the stage where the teach er was beaten on every tack she took and her position in that school was becoming unbearable. She was about to apply for a transfer. to a school in another section of the city when a letter from Miss Bentley advised her of the. "poison cures- noison metnoa. tier aavice was to T- . . .... 1 , f tignt tne cnuaren, not Dy wora qi mouth, but by action, using the equa lization argument against itself, Miss Bentley had heard her friend tell of the eagerness with which these children strove for high marks in their monthly tests. That was their goal and anv means and meth ods were used by them to attain the coveted 100 per cent The test ques tions were given. On correcting the papers the teacher found that four of the children had received 100 per cent, ten 90 per cent, eight had 75 per cent, sixteen 60 per cent, ten had 50 per cent, and using Miss Bentley's method of marking their papers, she equalized the marks. All the children, irrespective of their mental attainments and the results of their work received 70 per cent. The effect was electric. Twenty two children who were bright and who had always led the arguments of social eaualization now led in the wildest squawk ever heard; and the parents joined them. "It is wrong! It is wrongr tney yelled. The teacher advised tnem she was simply following the teachings of socialism, pointing to the fact that only 22 were suffering while 26 were benefited. The poor in mind were the equal to the bright ones. It stung them hard and the yelps of socialism have died a peacetui deatn in that room. Miss Bentley argues that methods of that kind, discreetly applied to socialism, bolshevism, etc., will do more good than laws or guns. Incidentally she asks what all the followers of Emma Goldman and Al exander Berkman think of both per sonages arriving at HIUs island at tired in the latest style clothes and some 40 odd trunks of wearing ap enough possessions to put in, two trunks? Think it over. Bench JAght. A very convenient bench light may be made from an old piston by using the piston as a base and the connecting rod as an upright arm. Another arm of brass stock is at tached to the end of the connecting rod by means of a wing nut, so that the light may be manipulated in any desired direction,