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WD3 WASHINGTON TBfES: SATURDAY; JUNE 28, 1919.
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riscoe & Stahl, of Detroit, desigTi
eiyi of a car which is to be manu
factured In France under American
methods and of American material,
by Bellang;er Freres, of Paris, in an
immense plant which will allow of
pi eduction almost on the basis of the
Fi rd Motor Company, have received
a. sable statins' that two of the five
B Uangrer brothers, the president and
th s. mechanical superintendent, will
se 1 for America June 28, to inspect
th 5 completed car.
Benjamin Briscoe announces the
co -hpletion of this car, and says that
it will be ready for inspection on the
i rival of Bellanger Freres, who will
In mediately make the trip to Detroit
af ;er their arrival In New York. The
or: ly surprise of the great French
in .kers will be the fact that the car
is all completed and ready for their
in rpection. They have been in close
to ich with all the plans and have
sc :n the drawings and approved
th sm.
Vmerlcan methods' have made it
pc ssible to brine: this car to comple
lii n and to make it ready for an
ea rly start of manufacturing-. The
fa :fory ia Detroit, in which tuning:
ui is being done, and machines tested
arfft made ready for shipment for
wark in the huge French plant, and
thfe warehouse In New Tork at which
vril be gathered the materiaUjjur
chksed in America for assortment be
fore shipment to France, will all be
ready for inspection.
France, according to information
received by Briscoe & Stahl, is al
ready set for a most successful busi
ness. The country has reduced the
import tax on American cars and
parts from 70 to 45 per cent, and
-here is already a movement on to
reduce this tax to 15 per cent within
a year. Automobile men who have
seen the Briscoe car and who know
of its construction and of its pos
sibilities in France, have said that
t would be a wonderful seller in
Europe. They have watched the de
velopment, and many of 'them know
the market conditions and are con
fident that Bellanger Freres wiU
score a remarkable success.
45.300 YANKS TO
GETWORKONROADS
CITY OPPORTUNITY
LIES IN HIGHWAYS
Thousands of soldiers coming back
to civil life with & preference for
outdoor work will And employment"
in building highways in their home
States. Reports from State highway
departments of eleven States, sent in
to the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Com
pany, say that 45,300 men will be
employed on their roads this year,
and that soldiers will be given the
preference.
The States and the number of men
needed follow: Nevada, 600; Missis
sippi, 3,000; Nebraska, 2,500; Georgia,
9.000; Maryland, 5,000; Minnesota,
5,000; M&ssachusettts, 3.000; Arizona.
1.200; Delaware, 3,500; Texas, 7,500;
Virginia, 5,000; total. 45.300.
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repair and rebuild all makre of batteries only the best of
work at the most conservative prices.
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"Improved highways of a. permanent
type providing motor expris3 and
passenger transportation facilities
spell opportunity today to the city
which intends to lay the foundation
for a healthy, permanent future
growth.
"Improved highways that make
possible rapid motor transportation
365 days out of every year will just
as certainly permit and stimulate our
peoplo to move out on to the sur
rounding country acres as a fast and
free flowiag stream will deliver at
its mouth the piece of bark flung in
at its source."
These remarks were made by W. O.
Rutherford, vice president of the B.
F. Goodrich Rubber Company, at a re
cent conference.
"Quite recently our trade extension
division," adds Mr. Rutherford, "com
pleted a survey of a large county in
one of our great Eastern States that
has not a single mile of railroad
track within its borders. Onr object
in making such surveys and conduct
ing such research is to help provide
a market that will extend the field of
usefulness of products made by the
workers of America that are indis
pensable to the life and fiappiness of
mankind and to the strengthening
of our national life. This particular
county was isolated, though of great
productive power, and was not har
nessed up to the homes of the great
industrial cities of the East nor assuming-
its part of the burden In our
march of progress."
"Such a "county, typical of many'
sections of our country, offers un
limited possibilities to greater use
fulness. Adequate provision for im-
I proved roads and highways transpor
tation will provide a system of veins
facilitating and stimulating commu
nication that can be linked up with
main arteries of travel."
J. L. Wacksmuth, local manager of
the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company
at "Washington, has again urged in
this connection the great opportunity
before our colleges and universities
for help at this time. He makes the
statement: "Throughout tKe land in
counties, as well as in State assem
blies, our legislators are at a loss for
scientific data on which this great
development of motor transportation
can be guided to the ultimate good of
alL.
"For this reason it becomes In
creasingly Important that the col
leges here and neighboring States
should provide Instruction on high
ways location, construction and main
tenance, and on every aspect of high
ways transportation."
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Ridding This Country of Another Phase of Bolshevism
New Highway Measure
Advocates Creation of
Federal Roadway Body
Legislative attention, from the
standpoint of highway development,
is beginning to center upon the Na
tional Highway billj introduced In
Congress by Senator Townsend. This
measure provides for the creation of
a Federal Highway Commission and
the establishment of a national sys
tem of highways.
It is presented by its supporters as
a piece of legislation designed to
bring about the construction of a na
tional highway system within a
reasonable length of time, to co
ordinate all the highway activities of
the Government, and to publish sta
tistics and data on highway transpor
tation, construction, and maintenance
for the benefit of all of the people.
Secretary Houston, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, has raised a
question as to the desirability of the
proposed legislation. In reply to an
inquiry recently he said, "that the
roads in each section of the country
vary in degrees of importance in the
service rendered or that may be ren
dered to any particular locality, that
the traffic conditions vary greatly in
the different sections, that the State
highway departments are better able
to classify the roads than anyone else,
that Under the present Bankhead bill
the Government is co-operating with
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the classification has been carefully
made, and by agreement between the
State Highway Departments of ad-
I joining States the roads of first im
portance generally meet at State
boundaries." Having the above
points in mind the secretary added
he could not see the wisdom of "sub
stituting for the present co-operative
program a plan which would commit
or limit the Federal Government to
the construction of two Federally
owned trunk line highways in each
State."
Bin oe Wot Confiiei.
H. G. Shirley, member of the Fed
eral Highway Council, and former
State highway engineer of Maryland,
stated that the national highway bill
does not interfere with the co-operative
plan existing among the States
with the Federal Government. It only
substitutes for the Secretary of Agri
culture the Federal Highway Commis
sion, which, under the law, is charged
with the duty of carrying out the pro
vision of the Federal aid law as now
operated, and all other obligations or
contracts entered into by the Secre
tary of Agriculture with the re
spective States. Therefore, the ef
fectiveness of the Federal act plan,
as argued by the Secretary of Agri
culture, will not be interfered with in
the least. The bill has further made It
the duty of the commission to make
a recommendation to Congress as to
the future operations of the Federal
aid law after 1021.
"The national highway bill is en
tirely a new piece of legislation. Its
object is to build In each State trunk
line highways to the extent of not
less than 2 per cent nor more than 6
per cent of the total mileage of the
State, and to join them up with the
main trunk lines of other States so
as to make a complete national sys
tem connecting the entire country to
gether. It creates a system of na
tional highways, independent of the
States, and highways that will carry
interstate traffic, and that are neces
sary for the welfare of the country
as a whole.
"Under the present Federal aid law
the Federal Government has no power
to select the roads in any one State
that will be improved. The initiative
is with the State highway depart
ments, and in many Instances is real
ly with the counties themselves, who
have to put up the State's portion of
the money.
Constitute Rnrnl Pout Itooda.
"The only limitation prescribed by
the Federal aid law are that the
roads shall be rural post roads. When
a road has met this condition, it is
the duty of the Secretary of Agricul
ture to give his approval to its con
struction. All Federal" aid projects
start with the forty-eight different
State highway departments, and such
projects are considered in forty-eight
different lights, by forty-eight differ
ent men holding forty-eight opinions,
and it can be seen that a national
plan that would evolve from, such a
procedure would be most chaotic, to
say the least. It is also impossible
under the Federal aid law to so co
ordinate the forty-eight State sys
tems that a plan would be finally
evolved that would form a connected
aysiem mrougnoui me country in a
lifetime.
"The personnel of the State high
way departments is constantly chang
ing, and in a more or less degree the
State highway satems are changed
with the changing of the State high
way officials. It is. therefore, out
of the question to expect any con
nected system of roads between the
forty-eight units, over which there is
no supervisory power or anyone with
authority to bring these forty-eight
units into accord, or to direct them
in improving those roacs that would
form a natjonal system.
"Many of the States nave laid out a
, system of State, highways. A number
of these highways are designated by
law and have been laid down by the
Legislatures, and are not always the
roads recommended, by the State
highway departments. Even these
roads are being constantly changed
at each meeting of the Legislatures,
so that the system as now laid down
will not be the system as nnally con
structed. Many of the roads as laid
out in the State systems on which
Federal aid is being expended, should
not and never will be classified as na
tional highways, but they constitute
a large portion of the mileage of the
plans that have been approved as a
general State system, and on which
there has already been granted Fed
eral aid.
"Work of Many Tears.
"It will take many years to com
plete these State systems under the
Federal aid allotment, and at the
present rate of construction it will
be fit least fifty years before there
will be connected up a few roads in
all the States approaching a national
system, and at least 100 years before
the entire State systems have been
completed and built up so as to form
a general system of roads from which
a reasonable national system could be
established.
"We have seen the road work of the
country expand from the township
unit into the county unit; frorg le
county unit into the State aid . .t;
from the State aid unit to the State
unit; from the State unit to the Fed
eral aid unit, and it is but logical and
reasonable that the final steps should
be taken by establishing a Federal
unit.
"Many qf the highway activities of
the States, when they first entered
into road construction, were in co
operation' with the agricultural de
partments of the State or agricul
tural colleges, but it was soon found
by experience that as this work ex
panded and grew it became so im
portant that it was necessary to pro
vide an independent unit of the State
government, whose duty it would be
to look after this one important de
velopment of the State.
Advocates Commission.
"Likewise, the day has come when
the road work of the Federal Gov
ernment should be separated from the
Agricultural Department of the Gov
ernment and put into the hands of a
strong commission which will devote
its time and energy to this most im
portant work of the nation, and place
it in the position it should occupy to
be of the most benefit to the people.
"The advocates of good roads are
only asking in this national highway
bill that the roads should be put on
an equal footing with the other de
partments of the Government, so that
they can be given proper considera
tion and study, for there is no other
pursuit of the Federal Government
that will develop and bring prosper
ity to the country to a greater ex
tent, for the money invested, than
the speedy improvement of its im
portant highways."
RATE A SCIENCE
A new field of opportunity will be
opened to American collegians short
ly throuch the introduction of a
course in instruction for motor trans
port corps units In the reserve of
ficers training camps of the United
States. The course lifts motor truck
operation to the dignity of a science
and in effect will provide thousands
of students with a. knowledge that
will fit them not only for actual
operation of motor units but for en
trance into the field of highways
transportation as economists and
men skilled in administration.
Arrangements looking to the inau
guration of the work are now under
way by the training branch of the
Motor Transport Corps of tho War
Department in Washington.
The course is divided into two
broad divisions, that of military and
non-military. Under the first the stu
dent will be given a grounding in
military work which will carry him
through from elementary subjects to
advanced motor vehicle engineering,
field work, transport corps mainten
ance, administration, etc
The second branch includes the
iifttml hnsff atiirifea sitrh an mathn-
matics, English, languages, chemls-l
try, etc, and manual work consist- j
ing of pattern making, forging, shop
work, applied mechanics, machine de-
sign, surveying, thermodynamics andi
similar subjects, together with a I
study of business law, accounting,!
public speaking, foundry work and
a number of other topics which will
serve to make the student proficient'
in the various lines of endeavor that:
are called for in the various branches I
of motor vehicle operation. I
In addition to the foregoing It Is I
planned-to develop an elective course!
which will take into consideration!
economic surveys of territories for
highways transportation operating
costs, road development, finance and
history.
The entire treatment of the subject
is founded upon a purpose of prepar
ing men for possible military service
and at the same time for an attrac
tive commercial field developed as
one of the offshoots of the war.
It is felt that out of the course
will come a large body of men equip
ped for efficient development of high
ways transportation, whose services
will be much sought after by owners
of motor transport lines and also by
communities desirous of developing
their high way transportation facili
ties to the utmost in a sound, business-like
manner.
a distinct increase In truck sales,"
says Harry M. Lee, president of the
Duplex Truck Company, of Lansing.
Mich.
"The various stories as to what the
Government was going to do hurt the
truck business. Many business men
who were ready to buy trucks held
off in the hope of getting an army
truck cheap.
"Now that It has been decided that
the surplus army trucks are to be
used in road building and postofflce
work, and will not be offered to the
public. I believe that the truck pros
pects who have been holding off will
now purchase.
"The ad. weather of the spring has
also hurt all business, but this is
passing.
"Despite the Government trucks
that are going lnte road work, the
highway builders who have had ex
perience are buying Duplex four
wheel drive trucks, because they know
that where the going is bad the Du
plex will go through with a load
where the ordinary truck would be
stalled light."
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CAREFUL INFLATION OF TIRE
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From a prominent newspaper man
of the Middle West comes some ad
vice regarding tire inflation that will
interest every tire user, says the
United States Tire Company.
"I get big mileage out cf my TTnlt
ed States tires," is the statement of
the newspaper man, '"but I am of the
opinion that the records my tires give
are due in considerable part to the
way in which I handle the subject
of inflation. Many of my friends use
the same brand of tires that are on
my car, and yet they don't get any
where near the service from their
tires that I do.
"This is my rule twice a week I
test the air pressure In my tires. It
is some trouble to do this, and there
are many warm days when it seems
like a bother. But 1 stick to the
practice religiously.
"During the period I have been
making these regular te&ts I have
learned some interesting facts. When
I find a tire losing two and one-half
or three pounds regularly, 1 figure
that something Is wrong with the
valve and put a new plunger into the
valve.
"When I find the pressure dropping
as much as five pounds right along,
the trouble is almost certainly due
to the development of a bad spot in
the tube. Experience has proved this
to be the fact so invariably that now.
when I find a tire losing as much as
five pounds regularly, I change the
tube without bothering to find the
exact cause. But in the days when
I did take the trouble to run the
thing down I always found a porous
spot in the tube.
"This subject of inflation has been
harped on so much that it sounds
like a chestnut to most motorists.
But by following this rule of semi
weekly tests I get results so unusual
that I hardly ever mention them to
my friends, for fear my statements
will be put in the fish-story category.'"
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Treas. and Mgr.
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