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AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL
Thirtieth yeah
Section Two
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1919
Section Two
VOL. XXX., NO. 70
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Cyril Arthur Player, editorial writer i
on the Detroit News, formerly auto
mobile editor ot the Seattle Tost In
tenisencer, proposes a federal law that
ould protect the motor car or truck
owner from this colossal evil against
society-motor car thipvery. He sug
gests a federal status which would
compel the registration of motor ve
hicles, passenger cars and trucks with
the federal marshal, attorney or ot'utt
official who deals in the enforcement
of federal laws. Mr. Player would
have the manufacturer cast numbers
on his various units. It would be an
offense under federal law to steal a
oar or truck; to try and efface or
disguise such numbers; no cars coukl
be sold without it, was accompanied by
a federal certificate of registration,
which would be in effect the registra
tion of a bill of sale with the federal
covernment.
Something must be done to halt or
Hop the theft of motor cars. It is
costing millions of dollars and a large
number of men to trace stolen motor
vehicle;5. It increases the first cost
find increases the yearly maintenance
cost of motor cars. Insurance prem
iums have been placed at excessive
figures because of such stealing and
the future indicates that unless some
protective measure with teeth in it ap
pears they will still further increase.
Motor car thieves are occupying too
much time and causing too much wor
ry for police departments, it is teach
ing crime, because it has been an easy
matter to steal and dispose of a mo
tor car with punishment prospects
light even in extreme cases.
Kteps are under way in Detroit to
have the Detroit Automobile dub and
the Detroit Automobile Dealer's Asso
ciation get back of a movement for
such a federal law. Roth organizations
will discuss it at their next meetings.
A. L. Zeckendorf, Cole and Chandler
dealer and president, of the Dealer's
organization and G. Kdward Bliel, Re
public truck manager, a director of
the Automobile club, are both strong
for the enactment of such legislation.
Over fiOoo letters are leaving De
troit addressed to the automobile deal
ers throughout the country urging that
they exert their influence for the en
actment, of such federal legislation.
They are urged to take it up with their
local dealers' organization, with the
.National Automobile Dealers' Asso
ciation and their congressmen
There seems to be no doubt but what
'he movement once started and then
lacked by some strong organization in
the automobile Industry will result in
federal legislation being enacted. The
industry' itself can spell the doom of
the motor car thief.
No one sees an opportunity of in
juring anyone in the enactment of such
a law, unless it be the organized gangs
of motor thieves. Police departments
in all large cities would welcome such
a law. It would be folly to quote the
amount of money that is involved year
ly in car thievery: that it would ex
tend yearly into eight figures and pos
sibly nine is conjecture. Close to a
million dollars of that sum is spent
yearly 'in tracing stolen motor cars;
a large number of men are engaged in
this business who could be doing some
thing more profitable for their com
munity. Motor car stealing has increased in
surance rates and there is every in
dication that unless something is done
the insurance companies will be forced
to still further advance theft pre
miums. Prediction for the future indicate
that there will be a shortage of man
power in the country, so much so that
the national government will be forced
to suggest ways and means of cur
tailing unnecessary labor. Men de
tailed to hunt motor car thieves would
fall under such a ruling; a federal law
would reduce the number of men en
gaged in such work and give a man
that kind of protection for his motor
car that he is entitled to.
Congress has devoted a great deal
of attention to the third largest indus
try when they were in nee.d of rev
enues. Some congressman will es
tablish himself as the champion for the
large number of motor car owners in
this country today
Who gets the honor is something im
partant politically, but what the gen
eral motoring public is interested in is
assurance that motor car thievery will
be halted if not stopped. If a federal
law is the solution, and this thus far
seems to be the answer then a federal
law is what we want quickly.
IS
QUICK TO FORESEE
TRACTOR SUPREIViACY
"No man can estimate at present
with any exactness ,to what extent
the tractor will modify existing
methods of farming. But it is ap
parent to all that methods are chang
ing from animal power to mechanical
power, just about as fast as the manu
facturers can turn out machines," says
Ernest G. Coan, advertising manager
of the Pratt-Gilbert company, dis
tributors of Avery motor farming ma
chinery. '
"Just to cite an instance that hap
pened in our state a few weeks ago.
A farmer purchased an Avery two
row motor cultivator. An expert was
sent to help start the outfit and in
struct the farmer in its care and op
eration. Within an hour or so of the
time the expert and the motor culti
vator reached the farm, the owner's
fifteen-year-old son was running the
outfit with ease, and doing about as
good a job of cultivating as any man
can do with a single-row cultivator
and good team. The boy and machine
were doing work that heretofore has
been accomplished by two men and
foiur horses. What is more, the
machine can keep going longer hours
than the horses.
"The other day we ran across a man
who is a real tractor enthusiast. He
has been farming with an Avery trac
tor for a couple of years. In many re
spects his story is typical of scores of
others we have heard. Following is the
substance of what he said: 'I used
to laugh when I read or heard about
using tractors to plow, harvest crops
run the thresher, etc. I figured that
it was a new fangled idea, and that
my horses. were good enough for me.
My argument was that I could depend
on horses, while it would always be
a toss up whether the tractor would
work or not. But I was open for
proof and I made it a point to watch
the iron horse work whenever I had a
Chance. A man from Iowa bought a
place next to mine and with the ma
chinery he bought was a small Avery
tractor. He had one piece of about
twenty acres right across the road
from a piece of my land about the
same size. I had about five acres of
mine plowed vhen he commenced.
When he staVted in with his tractor
I felt sort of sorry for him because the
season was well along and I didn't
figure it wise to waste any time ex
perimenting. I was using four horses
on a riding plow, and just to show
my neighbor how it ought to be done
I put on an extra team. I was beat,
as the saying is, before I started. He
had his piece plowed, disced and seeded
before I had finished plowing.
"'I saw right then and there that
that little old machine was better than
six horse teams and I began to get
down to comparing costs. Well, sir,
I just sold myself a tractor right there
as slick as a whsitle. And now that I
have used one for two seasons, I feel
towards the man who is trying to farm
without a tractor. I look forward to
the day when reliance on horses for
the heavy work about the farm will
HOT WEATHER CAUS
THE HAPPY RELEASE
Mrs. De Smyth-Jones "Now I want
you to save me an extra supply of
flowers next week. My daughter Alice
is coming out, you know."
Proprietor of Stall "Yes, mum, I'll
save 'er the very best, pore thing.
Whatever was she put in for?" Sat
urday Journal (London.)
COMPONENTS
Life has its little troubles.
And they never all relax.
The drink is mostly bubbles
And the price is mostly tax.
Washington Star.
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DFMANYAUTO ILLS
SAYS TIRE EXPERT
"These hot summer days are the
ones that cost motorists a lot of
money," is the declaration of D. W.
Sanford, manager of the local Good
year Tire and Rubber company office.
"Most motorists have a wrong im
pression about the increase of air pres
sure in tires in warm weather," says
Mr. Sanford. "In fact thae belief is
quite common that on hot days the
air pressure may increase to the point
of causing a blowout There really is
nothing to this belief, for the heat does
not come from the temperature of
the air outside, as is commonly sup
posed, but from the natural flexing of
the tire as it rolls over the road or
street.
"As this heat is due to the bending
of the tire, the same amount of heat
is created regardless of the outside
temperature. Most tire users believe
that to overcome this effect the pres
sure must be decreased, and the com
mon practice is to run tires at a lower
pressure on hot days. But this in
creases the bending ot the tire carcass
and the motorist actually aggravates
the tire condition that he seeks to re
lieve when he decreases the pressure
in his tires.
"It is true that on a very hot day the
air pressure in tires that are used
continuously increases slightly but
never sufficiently to cause any injury
to the tires. Tires are not as fragile
as some persons imagine, and are able
to stand three and four times the or
dinary pressures used.
"There is more danger of decreasing
the pressure than in permitting it to
increase, for after the tires have rested
YOUR AUTO ABC
By Otto Krank
It happens on hot days
PATCHES
Patching will make an auto tire thai
has sprung a leak hold air. Patches
don't ccst much. Putting them on is
simple. But every hot day finds every
highway strewn with motor cars heldi
up because the heat has caused
patches to loosen. And every garage
has a string of patrons who are thei
victims of such a mishap.
The safest and surest way to fix a
tube so it will stay fixed is vulcaniz
ing whether you do it yourself will one
of the little home kits that anyone can
use or whether you take it to a garage.!
This isn't a wholesale condemna-j
tion of patches. It's a-good thing toj
have something of the sort under the,
seat when you are away from home.
But it's a lot more comforting to have J
a first class tube in good condition to I
slip in when the inevitable happens!
either by puncture or blowout or just
old age. j
And when you put on a patch be
sure that it extends far out around
the hole you are patching. I have
made a friction patch do the business!
for a pretty big blowout by putting a
strip of the stuff inside the tube face
up to meet the patch on the outside.!
Perhaps Mr. Repairman would con 2
demn the idea as foolish. But somej
of those patches hump up most dis-s
tressingly if not reinforced.
Be sure the tube is CLEAN before
you apply the cement and the cements
is DRY before you apply the patch. To
many a repair has turned out bad bc-
cause of haste in putting on the
patches, and it's no fun to work a
hand pump on a treeless road with tins
sand blowing in your eyes. J
a while the air pressure will drop, and
there is always the danger that the
motorist will omit to put in enough au
to bring the pressure up to the re
quired point.
"There is no condition in which tires
are subjected to greater variations of
air pressure than in automobile rac
ing on our speedways. Yet even on
the hottest days the terrific grinds of
the race tracks, with tires revolving
20 times a second, do not cause them
to blow out. And there is certainly no
condition in ordinary driving that even
approaches those of the speedway. '
"The recent races at Indianapolis
were held on one of the hottest days
that racers have ever experienced, yet
thirty eight per cent less tires were
changed than at any previous race, nin--p
of the ten winning cars being equipped
with Goodyear cord tires. Racing
drivers have learned that after a tire
becomes heated to a certain point, the;
radiation of heat from the tire is a .-it
great as the generation of heat all of:'
which means that any increased airi
pressure due to heat is negligible in !.'
effect on the tire. S
"There is no question but that motor-"
ists will profit greatly by keeping tips
tire air pressures, no matter what tlv.?l
heat conditions."
If you want a thing well done don't
do it yourself unless you know how.-:
Boston Transcript. "s
PRETTY GOOD
"Has our client a good case?"
"Good for several thousand dollars."
-Boston Transcript.
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FRESHENING THE SEA
MOTOR.
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TLDTED
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"I wonder what makes this American
bacon so salty?"
"Shrotage of shipping, my dear.
They tow it across." London Opinion.
WE WANT NO CHAOS OR ANARCHY,"
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