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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1921)
4 C THIilJKK: OMAHA. SUNDAY. MARCH 20, 1921. "it if I I ' I V V' V' I Ex-Officers Make $100 Per Week Begging in London Such Is Charge Now Doing In vestigated ly Officers' Asso oition; One Mendicant Imprisoned. X. ; London, March 1'). The scandal of pensioned cx-olTicers who are said to be nuking a luxurious living by pa rading barrel organs in the London streets is being investigated by the police authorities arjd the Officers' association, Grosvenor square. "Public sympathy and generosity i grossly "'abused, " said an official of the association. "There is no need for any ex officer whose dislress is genuine to adopt the barrel organ game. Make $100 a Week. "Our inquiries Miow that spme of these men have collected as much as 100 a week, and are able to live at expensive hotels. Tfiey start early in the morning and then make a tour of fashionable shopping centers. "The public, particularly women, .ire drawn to the masked victims, and demonstrate their sympathy by gen erous donations. j "Some of the barrel organ ex-officers when interrogated have given false addresses, and it was ascer tained - that others had previously been assisted by the association." The Officers' association has found positions for a considerable number of pensioned men, and at the same time have given financial aid to en able them to set up in business. Corner at the Automobile Show Every human being is a poten-' tial sportsman or sportswoman. v That is the principal reason why our New Series "Glenbrook 6-44" has won so many frierids. This smart five passenger car is the very next thing to a living, breathing companion. The smooth, even flow of power is almost magic in effect as it accelerates from five to twenty five miles per hour in ninex ; seconds flat. Steep hills, of course, are mere play and you wHl return home - after a day's journey refreshed, relaxed and gloriously exhila- rated. Such is the "Glenbrook" a surprise and revelation to. the most critical motorist. Siw Mn "-M" Moid Ariwn fW Pumitr Sport wtai$l hmta f Pumnt Crap Pour Pmnmftr . ftin fin ftmir CM!VMn " rAlOE-PBTROIT MOTOR CAK CO. DBTKOIT Mnnmeiurtri Ptin Ktttt Ctrl tmi XtUr Track. i Nebraska Paige Co. R. M. Austin, General Manager 27th and Harney Sts. Omaha, Neb. THI MOIT BtAttfffUt CAH.S IK ,'AUS JUOA i 1 " ffpmi Mi h A corner at the auto show, showing the,Hudson and Essex display arranged by Guy L. Smith. Omaha Gets 187,000 Head of Live Stock by Truck in 'Year Battery Economy a Simple Matter When Proper Care Taken MOTOR. Digest - I i i 1 1 . t 1 I In Stockholm, Sweden, there are four motorcycle "speed cops'" to regulate and enforce traffic laws. Coal is being hauled directly from the mine to the consumer in Terre Haute, Ind., by motor trucks. Philadelphia has 98 horse-drawn -re-fighting machines, and 106 pieces of motor-driven apparatus. Seattle, SSpokane, Portland and Taconia and the extreme northwest ern part of the United States are alive with motor truck transport companies. In England the official automobile license tag must be kept in a small, circular holder attached to the car and displayed" near the windshield. Tony Tommy, chief of the Florida Seminolcs, who still wear the garb of their forefathers, is the first of his tribe to buy and operate his own automobile. ' "Billy" 'Sunday, the base ball evangelist, is in favor v the use of automobile riding on Sunday for health and recreation and to get in touch with God's out-of-doors. American-made passenger autonxv ilcs, exhibited in various motor shows throughout the union, rang in price front the cheapest at $1,000 to the most costly at $11,000. Because of a foiling olf in the de mand for baby carriages manufac turers in Chicago are experimenting on a new type of motor perambula tor operated by storage batteries. Brooklyn, N. V., issued permits for 3,617 garages, 3,157 dwellings and 10 churches last year. The es timated cost of the garages was 30 times that of the churches. . Lieut. J. D. Glick, in command of the submarine chaser Eagle 40, has special permission from the Navy de partment to carry his passenger au tomobile on the vessel he commands. The total number of automobiles imported into Brazil from Jantiarv, 1907, to June 30, 1020, was 24,475. representing a value of $24,723,430. Of this number the United States furnished 15,109 cars. Study C) Under lilwks , I. a l-'ajiette cylinder blocks after 50 -000 miles of testing have not shown wear in excess of one-half thou sandths of an inch, factory officials report. The ordinary cylinder block needs reboring" at 10,000 miles, they assert. Automobile Owners Attention! Will allow $10 for your old battery on exchange for a New Chain Battery. Made in Omaha. Two year guarantee forgone week, beginning Mon day, March 21. Service Station 2816 Leavenworth St Phone Harney 4452. Farmers Use 79,000 Motor Trucks, 10,000 More Thau "Battery ecemomy.r-economy in Mvt XUoLflcf riooa ,vP fWiiafc TToo Ttt I electrical current, means nothing Transporting, Live Stock Has Bib Economic Advantage. By GEORGE M. GRAHAM,. Membrr, Nnllofnl Mutur Truck Compnny. Today the farmer is in greater need of the motor truck than he has ever been before. The prices ob tained for many classes of products by the farmer depend, to a large ex tent upon his ability to place them on the market in good condition at the right time. The ordinary meth ods of marketing farm products do not take promptness into considera tion. Great quantities of food are wasted because farmers cannot profitably get their products to mar ket. The number of motor trucks now used by farmers is 79,000, or 10,000 more than the next nearest class of users, manufacturers. The total number of farms in the United States is 6.361,502, of an average size of 140 acres. It has been stated that any farm of 80 or more acres can profit ably use a motor truck. Adding a factor of safety of 75 per cent to this estimate, it is concluded that a farm of 140 acres can economically support a motor tructr. It is; there fore, reasonable to assume that if every 140 acres of farm land 'will support a motor truck, the possible number of motor trucks that may be sojd if 6.361.502. f Our wealth lies in our soil,, but so lone as urban population increas CAD1UAC Cadillac Leadership Is Evident This Year As Usual The number of Cadillac Automobiles sold at the Automobile show this year is only "The proof of the pudding." proof that real quality and depend . ability are the things which buyers are seeking today. - - - i fl Buyers who held off until the Automo- ' bile show to make their selection again paid fine tribute to the Cadillac. During the show week, March 14 to 19, six Cadillac automobiles .were sold to . . residents of Omaha, and five to out-of-i town visitors: If Now is the time to order your Cadillac v and insure delivery when you want it. J. H. Hansen Cadillac Co. OMAHA LINCOLN cs at the expense of our rural sec tions, and we neglect our opportuni ties in failing to provide transporta Jion beyond the belt of communities built up arourtd our railroads, we cannot expect to extract enough of our raw products to care for the in creasing demands of an ever-cn-croachimj 'consumer population. Oftentimes strikes or a congested railway system will cause disastrous losses to the farmer and to the con suming public. This is the point where the farmer's motor truck proves a real investment, for he over comes the loss by carrying his cattle or his farm produce through to desti nation where a" ready marlrct awaits them. The use of the motor truck fot transporting live stock has a big eco nomic advantage. It 'prevents shrink age in the weight of the animals to a vlarge degree. This is especially important in "farm to railroad siding to yards" delivery. After a car is ordered, it may not be spotted for several days. With the motor truck to depend upon, the producer can keep his stock pn his' farm until a few hours before the car is set for load ing. This avoids lonjj waits in the loading pens, which are never help ful to slock. In the case of a direct. "farms to yards" haul, the truckmen- ables the producer to get his stock to the yards when the market price is nighest. Good Roads Stimulate. Think of 6,800 head of hogs, valued at $200,000, being hauled into the Indianapolis stock yards in one day by 500 motor trucks, which traveled 2,500 miles. This' if not the only point receiving live stock direct from the farm by motor truck. St. Joseph, Mo., is receiving 2,500 per day, while Omaha received over 187,000 in one year, and these records are increas ing at a great rate, year byyear. Good roads are a great stimulation to the business of raising live stock. The increase in the, number of hogs which 'go to market via the motor truck over the highway is proof of this. The use of motor trucks with the farmer may be said, therefore, to be developing just as rapidly as the farmer is learning to think jn terms of road mileage. When he ceases to think of transportation wholly in terms of horse power and can com prehend the cost per mile a pound regardless of the power used, then the sale of motor truck's will be geatly increased. Farmers within a radius of 25 or 30 miles oL South St. Paul are turn ing more and more to the use of trucks for delivering their stock to market. Roads leading into South 'St. Paul ia a.11 directions are now being used by hundred of farmers, large and small, some of them com ing from as far as the Lake Minne tonka district, while others come from the section near Northfield, and still others from Washington, Da-' kota and Ramsey counties. The development of the truck has brought on a new phase of orchard ing. .- The rapid transportation qE large loads increased the business facilities in cities and made profitable locations that had for centuries been considered impossible The same is true of the country. Land that was good in all ways, but too far from the railroad, has now taken on an added value, and greater 'areas can be devoted to the production of agricultural crops. Particularly is this so in the growing of perishable crops, such as iruits. 1 he crop that has the largest monetary value may be grown at a profit at a greater distance from the shipping points than those' of low value, provided the perishable crop can be got to the railroad at a reasonable figure. Good toads and the truck practical ly put all forms within reach of the t market. . I The fruit grower who has a haul to the loading station cannot con sider the question of affording to have a truck; the real problem i.s that he cannot afford Ao be without one.,The truck has become a part of the equipment of all large and progressive orchards; it is as nec essary a the horse and wagon used to be. and. as a matter of fact, can in most instances take the place of the horse and wagon. It does all the fetching and carrying about the place, bringing the fruit from, the fields to the packings sheds- and transporting the baskets back aifcain to the fields. It gives a rapid means of 4akin2 labor from one part of the place to the other or for bringing it out from trTe centers of popula tion to the orchards and taking it back again at night or at the end of the week. j more or' less than taking care of the i battery," says Elmer, Koscngrcij of ! the Nebraska Storage Battery Com- pany. "In the care of your auto mobile, battery qare is really tbe simplest of all. If means that once a week in summer and twice a week in winter you will fill your battery with distilled water. That, before you do this, you take the test of the battery with a hydrometer syringe to see that it is kept in a fully charged condition. "Your car, in all probability, !s equipped with an ammeter. It . has a definite, useful purpose. At regu lar intervals t-ike comparative am meter readings' to see if your gen erator is returning to the.- battery as much energy as is being used. 1 you do not know how to make these tests your service station man will show you how." Iff?! One trip behind the wheel of A Westcott will convince you that driv ing such a car is not "work." It give? you a new'version to motoring. STANDARD MOTOR CAR CO. CARL CHANGSTROM, Prei. 2555 Farnam St OMAHA 4 Quality Lars and Phone Doug. 1705 . Sauare Deal'ms" L. HI WuDSON SUPERf Special Auto Show For the benefit of the many thousands who were at the show, we are gofng to hold a, Special Shtfw all this week at our salesroom. We will have on exhibition all;the Special Cars we had at the show, together with all the models our , factory produces. The crowds at the Auditorium were so large that it was impossible to give everyone the personal atten tion that they deserved. v t We want you to come to our show this week and let us show you ther Hudson and Essex in detail, where you will have the oppportunity of looking them over carefujly.x t We know we can satisfy you with either a Hudson or an Essex, as the case may be. Our past perform ance and records, together with 100,000 Hudson and 50,000 Essex owners, prove the merits of our cars. Let us help you select your new car. Let us show. you what fair and square automobile dealing is. We know , you wiH want a car that will give you -Service, Reliability and Economy our, cars will do this, we know. We want to show you. Buy a car backed by the Best Service -in the city -.where the customer's interest is first consideration. - , . GUY L.SMITH 2S$S57 Farnam St. -SERVICE FIRST Omaha, U S A - Open Evenings Till Nine Phone: Douglas 197QJ 1
