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Show rV' TJIE SALTLAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY 'AIORNIXG, JULY 34 2, 1922. a , Motor Car Thefts Keep Each Year of Popularity Ogden Canyon Growing Pace With Production . Ogdens nationally known scenic attraction la receiving Increasing homagt with mcH boccomItj season. The paved highway in the canyon built last year has added e pleasure of motoring, and the number of summer homes la growing larger rapidly as the result, ITahtng, bathing, plenty of fresh air and cool nights; combined with Incomparable mountain scenery, Is sufficient to attract the attention of even the most confirmed urbanite. wells eight mllea up the canyon. Thirty-thre- e artesian wells were drilled at this point Atlhe top (left) Is the fountain In the center of the -artesian The flow hy the dty of Ogden for a fresh water supply. ofthS fountain la shown with the Cz pressure a' in front , a Of 'the Hermitage Inn, and (lower), looking toward the mouth of thecanyon. The automobile Is a Hupmobile coupe of the latest model. The top 'la a unique feature, ' . . s V to-th- Unskilled V Hands Salt Lake One of Eight Cities to Show Decrease; Police Handicapped in Recovery of by Lenient Courts. Ma-Vchin- es Special te Vbe Trtbans. ST.IXH.MS, Mo., July Automobile thefts seem to keep right along with automobile production, according to statis"Index cities for tics of twenty-eigwhich complete four-yefigures have been kept by the National Automobile Dealers association. cities show that These twenty-eig37,554 motor vehicles were stolen ha 1931 and 11,1.3 recovered. The number was 40 per cent of the total, roted In the four jeers, Inthj highest are dicating that theofthieves not only but the production keeping abreast of the ahead police departments forging and the legislative bodies In means devised to safeguard the owner. A summary of ths four-yefigures cities follows. for the twenty-eig1921 191 1920 . 11 30 046 37 5 54 27,446 IJ.50 Stolen f.-Htf,67 fl Recovered I nrooovered ...31 pe. 36 pc, 39 pc. (6 pc. Taught TradeDuring Nightat Detroit Auto , 1. ht er Factories. ht for Demand Emergency Competenta Machinists Is Solved by Manufacturers ar ht Motor Industry, by training unskilled laborers In special machine operation, has pulled through a trying period of skilled help shortage, according to the Boston Mews Bureau, "Pirating" of help by one factory from another has practically ceased, and wages hare not Many been forced up beyond reason men have been raised from common labor at thirty to forty cents an hour to to sixty semiskilled class at fifty-fiv- e rents. They have, In effect, learned'''" a trade, increased their Income and are lees responsive to radical leadership reWhen demand for automobiles turned with a rush last January and a February motor executives, noting tendency toward Increased labor urnwas over, set out to find a cure suggested that larger plants establish a training school in whhh.men without experience as skilled machine operators could be taught one particular operation. Tried in a small way. It showed Immediate results New men are taken Into plants at night and with maihines slowed down are taught specialised work By performing 'one operation over and over green men soon become expert In the particular activity and are as useful as men skilled In a wider range These and operatives are called "specialists comprise, In opinion of J I Lovett manager Michigan Manufacturers' association, the largest class of workers in the automobile Industry today. :.r Few Show Decrease. New again hands ths Hat with total number of stolen, 6808. Chicago Is a doss second with- 499 Chics o recoveries. 4431, however, were greatly In 1 -- 1.82 00 81 160 238 MS-1 4W1 16 72 408 741 493 20 87 2TM TH 2T445 r rent number ? pr rent f Mtnber 7T3 89 pep cent of fmmbef 120 1927. 18 28149 per cent f anvutor 1018. 1919, 527 48 134 27 10 another trial they had room enough for Iver hear of a mountain of gass r a gla'ss road a Roman chat lot rate No. this Kn t a vvrtt about a ginss The chunks of glass were found to be jvramld in the rear of sonuboih s boltie d i -- ui protects are already under way bv tht organ ixation and effective advertising is already started, he satd Throe large signboards will be constructed at once, celling the attention of tourists to th Yellowstone highway Special te Tko Tribune will be placed at Granger. Wyo . one LQIANVJulv 1 Flans to advertise the One of Brigham Citv and the other at south route the along Yellowstone highway park the west entrance to the national Tcl'ow stone to park Lake from Sait Commerc'al organisations In each rltv out w!T at also sigm dismissed were route put along the through Cache valley a road meettig held at Pocatello WednesPERMITTED. h AUTO PURCHASING day, according to the report given of the The soviet government of Russia has George B, Bowen, president of chamber of commerce, who attended th - auctioned the purchase and operationbusand cooperative'to organthis vehicle motor from gathering a thea delegate meetbvg of the directors iness establishments, as well as the r leation, at to of the chamber held last evening. Presi that an organisation transfer by present holders, eubjeot said Ilowen registration oworr-W- p of was formed which wttl have for Re spethe state monopoly cial mission the advertising Aof the Ye-or and operation of automotive equipment. number llowstone route to toufiets o for road building, they were used as the base w th the smaller pieces on top The teiw erature cause continual changes in the park rhlpping of the mountain resultng In the s irface of the roacl telng coverel with small pieces of this g'asslike niaterlul , wniih, ground down by' cons tan t traffic, make a verv durable toadied May Expenditures Increase Millions Over April; Street Building Leads. Since thO standard methods had proved unsuccessful the enginee-- s were inCIned to think this idea might be practicable Accordingly great logs were hauled and piled along the base of the mountain and fires started along the three-- u tarter-mil- e eectlon of the proposed route Energetic ofews piled logs on the fir for several days and after the desired heat had been registered the Intrepid enof the gineers directed the spraying mountain face with water from the river below. Superior Chevrolets Why? c. The entire face or the mountain exchurks the deafening reports being heard for manv miles The experiment was a com' le'e s icoeps 6 out half of the space was cleared and after ploded in huge NOW YORK. July Official figures state. Texas was next in lino w th $6 voted and sold and Ohio was third with $1,494,150. for roads and street, compiled by the Materials Cost Greater. Asphalt association of this city, show Ohio, (With $1,636 $91, also led In street seathat with the summer construction reported sold followed bv North son In full swing the state, counties bonds Carolina with $937,000 and Virginia with parishes, townships, rold distrietsi cities $8 ft 00O. Hie reports indicate that the costs Inand towns of the country are preparing volved in road an street construction are a big and fall program of entering Jubv Into public discusconstruction. The reports show that bond sions whenmore it comes to voting money for Issues Promised far future road and street mvcTnent Inr; The Fnlted tttate highway construction increased $18 654,750 in May bureau of punlle roads has just complete I' over those reported in April on road huiUhng costs tnat are In May a total of $30 673 O"0 was re- statls'its not only valuable but pertinent to puMIc ported In bond Issues proposed for road duttusvtoni of any gvod roads project. This The total for April was federal bureau improvement spends more money for $13,751,000. Bond Issues voted for roads than any other one body In the highways In May amounted to $35, 2.! 4,46", while world Last year It expended $105 000 0119 those voted in April were $o0,S15 618 a of federal appropriations Infor new highdecrease for May of $15 591 058 The to- way excess of the a mini tal value of road bonds reported sold for total construction, amount exoended for all purposes tia decrease the do May amounted to $32 135.916 of artments commerce, interior of $1,236 221 over the sales In April agriculture combined In conjunction This is due to the fact that a majority and with this sum, en amount more than of the bond election are held in the early equal to the federal aid was provided by spring or the late fail. the states. All of this expenditure went Into something that constitutes a tangiState Totals Huge. ble asset for the (free use of all the peoto toil roads having been expressaid That street construc'ion fared relative- ple. ly better than road building an May is ly prohibited by law. The cl' arts prepared bv nhe bureau indicated by the fact that proposed bond issues reported for that purpose amounted compare the cost Involved in the conto $8 720,300 lit May, an Increase of struction of bituminous macadam conand graded and drained $1.902, 70 over the $6S17,fwO reported the crete. gravel month before, and bonds voted amounted highways, and show dhat for the whole of the Vntted iStstes during the entire to $10 119 482, an Increase over the $8 034 covered bv federa' 132 reported in April of $2,983,450. Bonds period of actually sold for street construction, aid, the average coat of concrete, bihowever, decreased from the $8 581.361 re- tuminous macadam and gravel roads ported 4n orli to $6,862,847 in May, a drop considerably' increased 1 alert with flexibility, it possesses 201,-50- on bond Issues proposed, CO, Toledo, Ohio. 1 1017-102- 2, is flowing power respon sive to the slightest late-summ- er -- Because, The car Special to The Tribune ,? SK We delivered during the month of June 105 e. four-pass- , - fl-- v, Dependable Dealers ask you to buy CHAMPIONS stolea. un-ta- ln 0, Full Service to Your Car atlen ex-'p- pt 60-6- 5. are the greatest value in spark plug quality and construction TODAY. With 10 years satisfactory service in Millions of Ford Engines, you know from experience they mean to your Ford Engine what you most desire Strdrw thiec-qunr-te- 49-4- CHAMPION X AT 37,554 j 60-6- GENUINE m rtefoa. Y Glassby IngeniousMethod admirably-adapte- 7752 78-1- Salt Lake-- ellowstone Park Road Advertising Discussed Road Cut Over Mountain of 'utory, nor a story of a broken-bottl- e road police trap for si eedors mountain of solid gn ,s was the biggest rroblem tonfront rg the con-trJon engineers who built the magnflctnt toed s stein vvhhh Is one of the fin st utifiual features of one tf the national parks How they solved the prnl'b nt bt meh-1- s hitherto unheard of in road corstiic-- r on Is one of the most interesting freak stories In the history of road making When the special geological re ort of lie scientists attached tw the Cnitcd States geologl al purvey was submltte-- to Hie Inlted States government ertg neers efore construction werk was Pt tried nothing very remarkable was noted the statement that, for of a mile along the proposed rver 'oute. there was a seemingly impenetrable mountain of glass running sheer down t the riv er Road construction was started 'n other parts of the immense domain while ths engineers (prepared to attack the m whhh was really a survival of the Cre'sceous an ! suhseoi'ent Tertiary periods, wrhose story goes back to the st cooling of the earth a surface Giant b'apting and heavy, powders charges of dynamite were used with as httle effe t on the adamant glass wad as a wooden mallet Finally when all the a surveyor tisi al methods had failed with the engineering party who had fora been gass-blowmerly suggested hiaCng the mountain and spravlng it afterward with water to make it dis.nte-giat- 8 13 14 2 1 12 8 262 14 10 ir Totals 92 1 78 m Not Wanted. CHAMPION SPARK PLUG 8 888 1 577 898 m vn Another result of training school has been rapid depletion in ranks of unemThere is no ployed common laborers opening In Detroit for the floater, but laborers willing to learn specialised operation can be readily plated baglnaw recently Imported 150 moulders from the east, and Is looking for other skilled Body painters are wanted help 4 By Intelligent handling of a limited supply of help, 1920 mistakes are being avoided, men are earning as much per week as formerly, because they lose no time in changing Jobs, and there has been reached a stability heretofore unknown. Following compares average ware rates at present with 1920 peak and January, 1923, for the three principal class of Workers In the automobile industry: 1920 Common labor, at present, Tool January, 12.!, 90 peak, makers and similar skilled workers, at Janu-ir19-- 0 5 present, peak, Machine specialists, at houses 1922, six or seven months during the 1920 Janupresent, peak, tar ml returning to the farms the reary, 1922, 50. mainder of the ear, many workers are bill ding homes in the new outlving secPermanency Realized. tions Radiating In almost every direcThere Is conviction in some quarters tion are hundreds of miles of new concrete school roads along which the men butld that the training has gone a long way toward, solving the traditions! dif- houses costing $750 to 31500 and then In their flivvers Toward ficulty of obtaining sufficient skilled he'p "commute during rush times. Jt Is hoped that by Pontiac, along the new Livernola high cooperation with city officials men re- war opened by the municipal car lines, leased during dull manufacturing periods more than lftoo such houses have been can be given employment In public works. built since January. The common laborer thus becomes a machine specialist when needed in automoe rarer , Automobiles of bile plants, returning to construction are produced In France, running capacity from 35 work when the Industry passes through to 40 mlh to the gallon of gasoline the dull seasons. These cars have a speed up to forty-fiv- e Instead of living In Detroit rooming miles en hour. , l4 80 W acceleration, enduring, ruggedly et delicately: attuned. Even those men who heretofore have realized the value of a4 better car for use in their daily work have, inthe such a majority of cases7been hindered f car because of the high pricethat must be paid for it. This objection, too, has been overcome by pricing this new Superior Chevrolet at a very low figure. rom-securi- ng of $t,718 514 West Mrglnia, wtth '$16,223,000, led ths states In May in proposed road bond Issues reported Florida wss second with $3 250,0610 and Iowa was third with $3 In proposed bond Issues dor streets. Illinois led with ths one proposed expenditure of 45 400 CO0 !n Chicago, and Texas wgs second with $1 299,000. Florida, with $468 000. ranked third With road bond Issue voted during May Michigan led w ltl $9,380,850, while Alabama. with $3 130,000, and Colorado, with $3,140 000. ranked second and third Ohio voted more bond lseues for streets than any. other state and led with $1,433 997. Murhtmn followed with $1,175,000. North Carolina, wHh 41,143 000. ranked third. North Carolina, with $8 400 000, reported more road bond tyjld than any other 00,-OO- V Traffic Law Violators Must Carry Record Cards Alkire-Smii- h " in New The board of aldermen City recently adopted an ordinance requiring all motorist to carry cords decorated with their photographs. The card wdll have spaces In which policemen will make marks for the first four minor infractions of the law "When three four spaces ar fHled the motorists will have to be good --or appear In traffic court. York 62-6- 0 SALT LAKE: West 4th South. Wasatch 2694. 77 y so .790 5i M 1 S. 804 85 1,1 1 t v, 1021 43 General level of wages In the lndustres la about IS per cent under peak during 1S20 and 6 per cent to 10 per cent above January l, 1922. Common labor Is receiving 50 to 45 cents an hour, against 0 to 65 at peak of 1U0 and as low as JO cents last winter. Tool makers average between 75 and 90 cents an hour, 25 SI as low ns 60 cents and peak against last winter. largest class of automobile workers, rapldlv becoming known as machine specialists, range from 55 to 60 cents an hour, against 75 to 90 In 1920 and 45 to 50 six months ago Workers In the latter class are not limited to earnings based on these rates Soma plants designate a eertaln number of nuts, bolts or other pieces as a normal days work and pay a bonus If output excesds this quota. To this extent the arrangement partakes of piecework, but does not follow It In other respects. A worker is sure of normal days wages Inclined to and extras If he feels speed up. ; ' ar ht 2049 WageStabiJizecL 100-12- record for the The detailed four-yecities follows: twenty-eig- 574 8 800 . 0, Record Given. 1940 5 179 "It Floaters eea of the recoveries In New York, Twenty-on- e 3451, cities showed a greater number stolen In 1921 than In 1920 Cleveland. Portland, Ore., Seattle. Salt Lake, Columbus, Ohio, York, Fa., and Richmond, Vs., showed fewer theft In 1921 than In JJKk "The greatest handicap under which the police are laboring In the recovery ef stolen vehicles." according to C. A. Vane, general manager of the association, "la lax enforcement of laws to punish motor vehicle thieve. Courts are unduly lenient with this dais of offenders. Charges are continued against such lawbreakers until the patience re-of the wltneeses Is sxhaustsd, finally in dismissal." lating A tendency was also noted during the 1921 depression, for owners of Insured. vehicles to conspire for the disappearance In order to collect the In- -, of the vehicle surance. Numerous cities over the country reported the recovery of motor ears from quarries pits and rlverg. (hat had been reported stolen and which the police declare were clearly disposed of, with the connivance of the owner. Auto Co, OGDEN: 2550 Washington Avi. Phona 229. V A jT N |