Show MAN AT THE WHEEL Live Stories of The Automobile World and Some Live Gossip of The Road and Garage GOOD OD roads is the next appeal of the motorists Moreover it Is the thc best appeal they ever made one tending to do more for tor the state at large every everybody ody In general and In particular than any other movement that could be framed During the week just closed a Good Roads convention was held It was a goo good convention and It planned to do things But doing things depends upon the vim and push of individuals The motorist Is brImming over with vim and energy As n a general rule he knows how to do o things if he did not he would not be a motorist Motor ot of Salt Lake are planning for n a speedway and for the Improvement of roads generally throughout the state A new club for the promotion of this work is in embryo I Over in southern California the motorists have their work underway The I Automobile Club of Southern California has shown the proper spirit of pro progressiveness progressiveness and ha has jumped Into the limelight of active endeavor In carrying out their pet theories A consulting engineer has been employed and Instead t f Impossible theories of road construction being advanced d the club of south Houth southern ern rn California has entered the field with practical ideas of road building Various sorts of macadam have been tried In California with varying sue suc cess coss and the engineer employed by the automobile club has finally settled upon bonded macadam as the best material possible for tor roads In a dr dry climate Dry macadam coarse rock filled filiel with finer material was unsatisfactory tOr tory bec because use of the tearing out process or of tires under high speed Protected macadam where here tar and other materials such as crude oil were used to bond the roadway together was found unsatisfactory bec because use heat affected It much the tho same as it would asphalt Bonded macadam was found to be the best materIal This was laid with fine rushed crushed rock with some material of cementing qualities This grade grad of road Is protected by making n a crude oil shoulder at the edge of thE macadam At the Good Roads Road convention just closed automobile owners showed the keenest Interest Although the proposed automobile club can have no definite J plans lans until after Its organization persons behind the movement are known to tobe bf be in favor of constructing a speedway from Salt Lake to Ogden It is the belief that this sort of connecting link between the two cities would give the motorists of both places unprecedented opportunity for flying trips through the country district Farmers Are Creating a Demand extravagant predictions and hot air there Is an almost Invisible Invisible B ble line But to do justice to the tho outlook In the automobile trade In Salt Lake this year one must approach very close to the hot air line Beyond un any possible doubt the current year will be the greatest the automobile In industry has ever known From throughout the country comes the story of enormous outputs yet In the Same same breath one hears the stor story also of the un unprecedented demand It seems just at present that the big demand for cars rs comes from the farm farmers farmers ers The country folk have the mone money have hae acquired the automobile habit and they are buying them by the thousand Throughout the state of Utah th the farmers cattle and sheep owners are asking for autos The number of orders being received thIs year are double the number received last year So great Is the flood of orders received by local dealers this year that the theman man who awaits spring to place his probably walt wait until fall for de delivery livery The wise buyer Is getting in his order now for spring delivery The buyer Is rather InclIned to treat this assertion as an effort of dealers to the game but the wise buyer buer knows better The man who believes he can go doWntown and buy nn an automobile offhand will had that he is seriously mistaken Out on the ranges where the cow pony once was king the owner ovner of sheep and cattle may today be seen riding In luxury truly king of his ranch with nil all that the expression Implies The First Annual Auto Show u H listen to the band A From February 19 to 26 the motorists will ill hold sway in Salt Lake By a contract closed during the past week a full tull brass band will wUl give dall daily con I cc In the Auditorium where the show is ig to be held and on the street to advertise th the great No feature looking to the entertainment of the I I will b be o overlooked True the show will be In a way a business affaIr I but there is offered to all the t to learn more about the auto a and d the automobile Industry thaw than might be gleaned from hearsay Information In a lifetime AU All of Ute the agents of all the cars car are going to be there to tell you what Is what There will be no chan chance e The various cars will be bethere there side Hide by side One agent will HI tell you why certain features have been added to this particular make while another will discourse at length on why another feature has been omitted from another kind of car The cars will willbe bl be opErated in such a manner that the demonstration will show prospective purchasers wherein lies the greatest vIrtue and you ou will discover for yourself wherein lies the greatest fault That Puzzling Sparking System ThEre will be man many prospective purchasers at the auto show Some will know how holy to buy an any auto but others the great majority wont know the difference between en the tho sparker spanker and the clutch In buying a machine one of the maIn features is careful examination of the system Two systems of producing the electric spark in hi bile wo work k are In general use Ute the high tension or jump spark system and andt t tIp low tension or system The difference in the strength of d the current Is the dIfference between the systems In the first It Is great Trough to jump front from one terminal to another forming a spark in the passage Ir the 10 low tension system the current does doos not suffice for this but when the two terminals are brought Into contact the spark forms on their separation Both s systems Stems are efficient Some prefer one and some the other the main objection to the tho high tension current being that a loss of strength in the battery means a lessening of the spark One safe way to judge is to have rIval agents explain the systems and th then n decide for yourself which had the better Imagination Hints to Car Owners and Drivers B BACK pressure from the thc muffler mu tIle r which has become clogged from too much smoke through the exhaust will cause a decided loss of power power which cannot be noticed Instantly The hood and sometimes t the e screws which fasten the handles on it may work loose and cause caule a rattle which would be hard to detect and could be taken for more serious trouble Never forget to replace a grease cup after filling It Continued on Page Three MAN AT THE WHEEL Continued From Page One Hard climbs on high gears strain the motor It is hi always better to drop back to second or even low speed and save the engine iron the unnecessary work A tendency to round corners at too fast a has caused some drivers a heavy heavy tire expense The best authorities say that the easiest and quIckest way to wear out tires is to overload them Oversize tires are always considered better than a regulation size The They fit the rim exactly but are larger In the tread c Powdered soapstone Is sometimes used inside of tires to prevent the tube from rubbIng agaInst the casing A careful examination ot of the steering apparatus at regular intervals ma may be the means ot of savIng a car from destruction or a bad accIdent The gasoline pipe from the main supply tank to the will bear watching Small leaks in the radiator should be repaired at once for tor they have a growing tendency which may cause the ruin of the entire cooling system Never allow a car to stand for tor any length of time in water or on a wet street It If it if can be avoIded This be may the means of getting better mileage from the tires Never apply t the e brakes with a quick jerk It if It can be avoIded This always lUses auses unusual tire tiro wear the Inner rubber tubes should be carried In a waterproOf ca case s a to get best b st results from Owners of cars with a nIckel finish will find that If f the nickel is greased overnight and wiped clean in morning all dark spots can be removed Unless the mouth of at a horn is covered with a wire screen the reed Is likely to become worn wern and clogged but be I can cleaned easily How George Ade Was Stung George Ade the humorist is a keen motorist He likes to drive his own car His motoring experiences have been tinged with Incidents which abound In the quality which has made his Mr Ades favorite fa a Q J h 11 11 D LUC c e Roadster In in which ne he has drIven thousands of miles Eight years ago ngo when living In Highland Park a suburb of Chicago he purchased a curved cuned lash Oldsmobile which his cartoonist chum John T Mc Cutcheon velt who is now shooting lions and tigers in Africa with Colonel Roose christened days dayse the rolling which clung to it un until n Its try Ade club e used his rolling peanut t to run from his home to the Exmoor Emoor Coun where he was probably the keenest but certaInly the worst golfer goIter After a while he found the capacity of the rolling peanut even with its auxiliary back to back seat was Insufficient to a lift to the golf goIt club accommodate those who wanted So he bought a touring car that early creation ot of the Lansing company which was limited to an edition ot of eleven cars or so The inder touring car got Its first test taking a hill hIlI while Into the carrying a load of actors city after a golf game In time for the opening of t one of Ades Adee at the Studebaker plays theatre It stopped at the foot not I be coaxed cajoled pushed or budged of the hill hili and It could not Then for the first time Ado Ade raIsed the hood ot of the radiator liS as big as the knee of a gnat lay that and there com enough one cylinder surrounded by space to stow awa away a few of the ginning of the end The actors passengers beside it It was the be took the trolley the theau the car homeward and Ade hired a team to haul au and with it a happy happ thought struck the After humorist several weeks of Ineffectual tInkerIng for a Christmas present He did I shall give It to rather brother b Bill |