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Show 0 fxiam t Sail Automobile and Truck Section Sunday, June 27 1920 TRIBUNE PATHFINDER STARTS MAP TOUR 1920 sW$:rMtA&Kki3: JL. ' : P TO BUTTE 3ncr AND HELENA T V ., S i. -- : A . ,f IDAHO 4 TO PORTLAND AND SEATTLE I k x j 'iV-- ' ' ps PU I .WwoMjrf'' j ,' J1 - mm t C : j WYQMIN II f 4 v fM yrV"' '' MBSW V .$ii lj4S8ss Kffl:' JL ir SjpfWgft ... i TO f SAN PANCISCO, J" RENO, ETC '' TO DENVER. 4NEVADA COLO. fCOL Intermountain Country to Be Newly Logged Thousands of motorists who have depended upon this journey for highway information will welcome the news W. D. Rishel is now ready to take up his work for this year. On the left is the car and the crew which will travel in it and on the right is a map showing the country which will be investigated with a view to giving the motor enthusiast all information concerning road conditions. that Sft&S. I TO LOS ANGELES AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA- - Climbing Hills With High Gear Dangerous salt Take TRIBUNE" Prominent Automobile Writer Asserts Foolish Before Publication Is Out Grade Drivers Are First Cousins to the Scorcher in Poor Judgment. Information Is Available in Tribune Auto Section. By W. D. RISHEL The thousands of motorists who have depended upon The Tribune for maps and logs of the Intermountain country during the past fifteen years will welcome the d announcement that The pathfinder Is now ready to take up Its work for 1320. The Tribune has selected an Overland car equipped with Firestone tnes and usln Vico oils and lubricants for this seasons work. A careful study of the car, the tires and lubricants Is convincing that It Is well equipped for the strenuous work ahead of It this year. At this time It Is probably well to fact that again reiterate a The Tribune was the first newspaper in the world to put a pathfinding car on tba road to map and log and establish through lines of automobile travel. Ho well has this work been accomplished that every highway established In the west has been located over routes first laid out by The Tribune ear Since the plan originated with this paper others In different sections of the country have taken up tins work, but The Tribune, first In the field Is recognised as authority In th.s line of The strip map service will be contin-use- d In preference to the old log sjsein discarded three years ago by the pathfinder. The strip map service la haider to compile and more expensive to It takes trained experts to compile, but It Is better for the motorist and lor t'nlc. reason has heen developed tj Its present stage by Ihe Tribune pathfinding car. There are approximately 20,000 miles In tne intermo.ini.nn of main highway country which It Is necessary lo keep In order that the motorist im up to date select the best roads to and from his points. Most of these highways have been mapped and logged several times fc The Tribune car, but constant Changing of highways makes It necessary that these roads be covered yearly to keep posted on the best routes. It Is this class of work the pathfinder will do a greater part of the coming summer season. Each Sunday the auto-nbile section will contain new maps and Theso printed matter on road conditions. will be jublished later In The Tilbune of benefit those for book the Auto Tour who wish all these maps In book form. Is pubUntil the next annual Tour book lished It will be necessary to clip these from o. editions the Sunday maps strip The Tribune for future reference. Tribune-Overlan- well-kno- n. pun-lie- n. HOW TO KEEP RUBBER SOFT. A prominent tire manufacturer says that an excellent way to prevent hardening of Inner tubes when they are stored for the winter Is to place them In hot water once a month or six weeks. They should be Immersed for Just a couple of minutes and should then be carefully dried and partly Inflated before being hung up again. This treatment serves to keep the rubber pliable and soft. INSPECT BEARINGS REGULARLY. Fsw owners pay the attention to the ball bearings that these latter deserve. They usually wait until the garage man calls attention to the Injury done by breakage. At least once In six months ball bearings should be Inspected, the rough or worn halls replaced with perfect ones and tbs ball run filled with graphite grease. SHARPENING FILES. Worn files may be sharpened by placIn a solution of sulphuric acid them ing and water, made In proportions of one part of acid to two of water. The files may be left overnight, after which they sfhould be rinsed In clear water. The acid should be put in an earthen vessel. Is first cousin The hlgh-geto the scorcher, and both are bound to become wiser as time goes on, asserts R. O. Allen, writing on the folly of driving motor cars up steep hills In high gear solely for boasting purposes. Continuing, Mr. Allen says: "I fully understand that the modern automobile Is made to climb almost anything but trees. But I wish to demonstrate that to climb a steep hill on the high gear imposes the hardest kind of work, not only on the engine, but also on every other part of the car. The low gear ratios are provided for hill climbing and they should be used for It. "It may be well here to consider a little more carefully the amount of work performed by an automobile climbing a gradient on, say, a gear ratio of three to ojie. A ratio of three to one means that one revolution of the rear wheels Is produced by three revolutions of the engine shaft With the lower gear ratio, the Intermediate and the low, the number or engine revolutions becomes still greater as compared with the number of revolutions. It Is not so difficult to compute with exactness the distance which a car Is propelled by one explosion In the engine cylinder and the power consumed In hill climbing. The circumference of a wheel is approximately 100 inches, and In covering one mile the wheels revolve 633 times. With the motor turning over three times as fast as the road wheels, It will require 1809 revolutions of the gear shaft to propel the car one mile. Thus. If such a car should proceed at the rate of thirty miles per hour, approximately 930 engine revolutions per minute are required With two power strokes st everv revolution there are 1900 revolutions per mile, and each explosion propels the car one foot and four and a half Inches. This estimate assumes that the car be propelled over level ground. To mount a ar MAP hill simply means that grade resistance Is added to the various frictional and other stresses. An automobile weighing 2000 pounds climbing a hill 200 feet high (measured vertically) simply performs the task of overcoming the action of or lifting, and the calculation of thegravity powef required to do this must Involve the factors from which the horsepower unit Is derived. To lift 2000 pounds 200 feet high In one minute Is the same thing as lifting 2000 multiplied by 200,, which equals 0 pounds one foot high In one minute. Theoretically, then, the lifting of 2000 pounds 200 feet high requires 12 12 horsepower. and the losses through friction, air resistance, etc, consume the remainder of the theoretical horsepower output. From all of this It must become apparent that rushing up a steep hill on the high gear must subject any car to enormous stresses, which are likely to affect the life and service of the car to a considerable degree. Gear shifting Is not a cumbersome task, and the mounting of gradients will not be attended by harm gears are put to the use for which they were Intended by the automobile BX COMPILED ARIZONA Angeles, WD.RISHELL 4u0,-00- Could You Tell e Judge Quality of Auto Brake? Apply Filler, Then Give Time to Set IU OULDNT It be odd If you had an accident and you were put on the stand. In your own sued, defense, and the attorney for the plaintiff asked the following questions: 1 What la the make of your car? 2 What horsepower? 3 How many cylinders? 1 What kind of tire on each wheel? I What speed can you make? 6 How much mileage to a gaUon of gasoline? S In what distance can you stop car without skidding? jour 9 What kind of brake lining do you use? in ninety-nin- e cases out of 108 the motorist can answer the first seven questions,unhesitatingly but not one In 100 can answer the eighth or ninth question. Then the attorney for the plaintiff says to the Jury: I rest my case. This driver knows everything regarding his car which pertains to his comfort and economy, but nothing does he know, and little does he care for the safetyonof the public. I ask for a "verdict the ground of negligence Have jour brakes Inspected reguAk if they are lined with one larly of the standard brands of lining road-whe- Many motorists make nlstakes in the tread filler or putty, the plastic material ued for plugging cuts Figures This material should be applied at ntgh or when the car Is not to he used 'or Show some hours The cut should be cleaned out with gasoline The t e cut o i have a coat of cement, which must be Is Not allowed to dr Next the whose hands must be clean and free from perroll should of a little the puttv spiration, between his fingers and then rorce It evenly and firmly into the cut June 6. There is WASHINGTON, Let the stand until reand repair the morning, more consolation than worry for the sults will be satisfactory. automotive industry in the report of the federal trade commission investiDRY BEARINGS. One cause of lnsuffl lent lubrication in gation of the causes of advance in the bearings Is found In obstructions In prices of gasoline, fuel oil, kerosene the grooves In the bearing holder Sediment often collects In these grooves so and other refined products. The rethat they cannot perform their appointed port strongly favors the oil companies function of carrying lubricating oil to the in that it sets forth in the conclusions bearing surfaces. An excess of graphite that the .price is a supply and demand If that be used with the oil. sometimes price and that prices are influenced produces this condition. somewhat by pessimistic statements as to future supply. The belief is expressed that the oil trade is competitive. The Mexican situation is declared to be better in 1920 than m 1919, but the psychological factors became, in this year, more important than the actual wav they employ Are Quoted to That Gas Situation i Alarming. Has Nothing to Do With the Case By FBAltK A. CLABVOE. statistical position, the mental attitude tht something about my auto, said Pete, gives me a feeling quite scary Whenever I step on the gas for a spin, It sounds like a singing canary. ((rpHESES A That Ive oiled it, Ive cleaned out the Ive looked where they say the squeaks frolic. light But Ive never been able to find out the noise That sounds like a spook with the colic. I've greased it, So he went to MeMurphy, who owned the garage. To have the car put in condition. It needs lubrication, MeMurphy opined: Lets oil up the blooming transmission. So they took off the lid nnd they filled it with oil. And they cleaned out the ease for the geezer. Now the can runs as smooth as a boat on the creek You cant hear a whimper, by Caesar. Then MeMurphy broke forth in melodious song, s And bs smiled with of his face. Oh, the oil that you put on the springs, tra la,' Has nothing to do with the case. nntrAdbkin8trrKl7 il f.rue"t world. The production of the world is ,u,te- - so upset that this eountry Is now ex- de1D1PendlInK M?n A porting an abnormal amount of oil and 0,1 but soms day ths rest of States, which was aggravated by the the Products, world will have those products to sudden slump of north Texas output m j need jy w6 them, spare tfie middle of 1919 and by the unfavor-abldevelopment industrially and poATTACHING FRAME BOLTS. litically in Mexico in the autumn of It Is sometimes rather difficult to get . that year. bolts that run through the frame chanAs to ths profits, It is set forth that nels back In place after they have been only an investigation of all of the oil removed. Where these boita are drlled to take a cotter pin the simplest way to companies could determine these. Is to run a piece of wire The present position of this eountry replace them through the hole In the bolt. The bolt as to a supply of oil is declared to bo may be then drawn through the hole. safe, but that we are levying a heavy tax on our natural resources. Laws to AUTOS RULE IN CALCUTTA our a mentb three-fourth- TO LOS I e protect supply through restriction export of uuu,'?c CrU,i elimination et wTofCklcultU, tadmT wasteful methods drilling and kind of vehicle. more economical methods of utilization i j are suggested. While the figures are not set forth in the conclusions, there are in the body of the report figures which set forth that there is in this country a potential supply of oil for twenty-seveyears, and that our supply is only 10 per cent of the potential supply ox ths UJ : n thTn'otheJ Autoist Takes All at Times, Transportation of Every and Gives Nothing To Description Is Specialty of ward Keeping Highways. New Brand of Engineer. Much has been written about the road d Authors have the beauties of the broad highway. Poets have sung the praises of the the open road. Artists have painted silent mysteries of nature's wonderful The breathing spaces. geniuses of verbal expression have done a master work In drawing forth an appreciation for the routes of common travel; these great stretches of land with numerous tributaries, which are the connecting links between a rural and urban people binding them, griplike, into a more sociable famThis fact, no doubt, is responsible ily. 1 for the If term, good roads. their goodness ended here, their Influence would be somewhat limited. As It Is, they are cosmic for good The pleasure-seekin- g motorist glides over the d roads with positive contentment and breathes with freedom the freshness of woods and fie ds. But what Is true of life relationships applies equally to ths broad highway. One cannot always receive pleasure and not expect to give something In return The road, being a constant giver of enjoyment, exacts a toll In exchange an expression of self In an emergency. This Is the personal aids of the road that which invites helpfulness to the distressed and makes the disabled motorist a newly made friend If the goodlv Influence of the road were here circumscribed, Its righteousness would be restricted In scope. There Is another characteristic radiating from the road which makes It In truth a missionary. For here at times birth Is given to the highest and noblest qualities of human nature. A pedestrian may bs roaming Idly along tbs highway and he 1s met by a motorist alone. The walker Is aaked to ride, the men exchange words, and. although strangers, they are made sociable people. has Selfishness been robbed of being. Then, again, the car may seat several f the highoccupants, and the knight way le Invited to share an unoccupied place and their society. He reads In the invitation sympathy, kindness and realises that there Is humanity In svery mile of the avenue of mortal wayfaring. All that la needed Is the circumstance to call these finer Inherent characteristics Into expression. From American as an Innate thing. oft-us- smooth-surface- word-painte- Every business man with a haulage problem has at his command today a ready, reliable and gratuitous source of assistance and cooperation In the solution of bia transportation problems. Truck users and prospective truck users are learning that the modern truck salesman may be depended upon to brlnr to their attention points of view which contribute materially toward the correct solution of their hauling problems. A few of the higher grads truck manufacturing concerns train their salesmen In the transportation problems of a great many different lines of business. A. real truck salesman knows he Is more than a truck ha Is selling selling transportation. He has equipped himself with a wealth of Information of great value to the prospective truck user. If you think there la ths remotest possibility of your being able to use trucks to advantage, talk the matter over with a competent truck salesman. Such a man can be properly called a truck transportation engineer. Do not labor under the misapprehension that If you permit an Interview to a truck salesman you will thereafter he hounded. No truck salesindefinitely man will waste' time on you unless he knows you can use his truck to your advantage. Armed with his knowledge of truck transportation problems and complete data on your proposition, he can easily determine whether you can use Ms Truck to advantage or not. If not. he will waste no time on you. If, however. you ought to motorise, be can very readily and conclusively prove the fact to you. In either event, there ts no occasion for inmunerabla calls and Indefinite argument Any men who attempts to sell you a truck on any other than a scientific proof of ths profits it will make for you. Is not a salesman at alL He Is merely a walking catalog and as such mav bs shut up and laid aside. a man Fend for a real truck who can solve your problems. sg-sma- WHEN MOTOR 8T0PS, When the engine stops suddenly the Ignition fs generally at fault. A broken or disconnected wire usually is tne cause, so examine the wlrq terminals first |