Show “7 “KEPUM HEMOD actomobhes' roads GO()I nffTf iMlll JUUi-IUn ggoTORMG SECTEOH MOTORCVCirs -jt-- MOTOR TRUCKS SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY APRIL 8 1917 'Doc' Gets Offer Also jWore Coin That Is Perhaps WILL BLAZE TRAILS FOR Resta May Leave LAND WARSHIP Track Wife Fears KING CHASSIS HeTI Meet Death GIVEN TROOPS to Be OLDSMOBILE THE ONLY CAR EOR RITCHIE 1 Shrouds Reason Salesman T urns Doivn Fat Job in Boise Speedivay Champion Missed From Races This Season Mystery YRK HOC M'DKKMOND did MXhit the boss for a raise when got that letter maybe he ot it and that is the reason didn't answer it ——the reason he he still a Salt leaker but at any rateis ire San Franciscans Learn Fix-Mu- v Route Is No If the auto editor ever gets a wire like that from an opposition paper he is going to either take the Job a Sinecure PLAN ( TO MAKE Limit or strike the boss for some more But as the novelists have it we the climax anticipate K very one knows Ior MeDermond by this time — he of the gleamLug smile and the elks’ tooth watch 'harm and the ties and glad lollies and so flashy forth Doc Isn't a physician at all except that he treats folks who need an automobile prescribed for them Doc Is a salesman and one win really sells 'em t'ole “eight'' is his car Anyhow some days ago Doc got a letter which read something like this: "We are holding open the of sales manager for you position Will vou take it? Jet us know at The letter was from an auto company in Boise dealers in Premiers Chalmers and Maxwell ears MeDermond didn't t!ie letter because — well because he likes Salt Lake so well and is so fond of the Shank Auto company Perhaps (this is a mere guess i he will set more money more than his present exorbitant At any rate he stuck salary n Thursday came a wire “We hi ve not heard from you relative to position as sales manager Answer in once If Interested as we for you to take u' anxious t lie wire read Win reiifinii Doc Just He's going to stick here hegrinned says SURE McGee the Buick Dealer Will Trv Out Both Suggested Roads IIAWISi r m-e'- 'i 7 - Claim infj m- April ji overland mi'y jir:i- r! is i as simpU as loadopt I Light thought is the experience nf iL m I'iitni'if dvert ising Hub's r o " lamin'' committal which i r range in1 nt s of tie i I'i mi a fiiis committee some weeks afro i a mute l rnin San C r:m l ''“'I''1 Li iii'Kti i'a!: Itciio Lovelocks fd V Mnntoll'i r:iko ogiU-n- l i ra ml Iinu-tlnrDeliver tn st I mils a stnrin jin-(‘Sty of u ii ai isf? taw ns that SVN T i i -- 1 s n - r I : I ufi-rii- i v ti-i- w-c- v or this designated route uvrt-itheir protest anl n t!':it ill- cn'iro route mat ter i1’ "til ro without t com mi i to ny new do ision The oniintr i f ' I'toTi tli-- rout through - I I - i har-f-’- - : : I " 1 t Ran-dall-Do- j ’ ohi-rtiu!- i t - m ' i iig an-aw- er r- ! ’ dis-frihiiti- - i Auto “When a man buys a second car of the same make he has been using” said Sales Manager Olson of the Auto company local Oldsmo-hil- e distributors yesterday “he is“ furnishing proof positive that his first :ir gave him eminent satisfaction And Randall-Dod- d - 1 fo'tnerti r '!!doubt i t VI - f'- t nii ) Km Lie- out 1 i wXs t lilLt It ii'nl I uiise iienfiv there' i tliat it might he in per- t ion ii 'Hit across trie iiivntul divide :ii-- grades were conin'aimi a ! i ADVICE OFFERED j BY SPEED KING I " l at :i n - i r apparently ban rea--iicThe ''b will Advertising le an epoch - mu k j 'allforuin deci-lo-leaves snn A iuleh-n- e John Aitken Predicts Tliat mal rniv officers are ro the tourists to of ie rotd mid the sc'ieduln Today's Records Will Be which requires art average or p- -r ri' day - so tight as not Badly Beaten llow f any delays once rhe riu a r ': '1 litsuggestion accordingly ha beerI: of the inward !v ‘lauilrt t m A mobile conipaiiy represent a ti e of! By John Aitken the Dulck on the coast to scud a cur dust because Ty Cobb writes baseball from San Krancisco on May to make th trip east over one of the disputed stories and Elmer Oliphant gives inroads returning via the other This terviews on football is no reason why car sliouid he hack in San Francisco should try to be an automohlle race RIi 10 Hut my mall brings letters d T e Tub iaraian of twenty cars author of inquiry from curious motor truck every dayfrom and a oi:1 at1!t u hall’-to- n ambitious race drivers er V is muie ticrosj the high ‘Jit n woin-as well as men) and from a k1 Rockies two months le-- r mail Pi ri u i: rers It would rerpilre a s avowedly are open whole fa’T fore fie to catalogue all Carnegie ! lice croi4 on Msv S' :u !1 he will the questions r library am a for his record HaMisli crossing from "How does it feel to rid©everything lot) miles will lie three months earlier than it a n hour?'' to "How monev much He i claims there in the racing game?” or “ShouldIs made before has been ir t know a rnnl which is onen at this a race driver try to jump from his car cr which fin trip can be in case of accident?” time and made i eirl- as May There is one question however I Should the Iian of M’Cee gov through want to on record now with an an-- i Iikdv ' ill L'U'f wit: "lias the with n companion limit of speed been i e t o n of l'l'anc'-cApril reached in speedway racing?” San night My anAdverwhb'h iias been swer It lias not'' is “No decidedly officially XV lien I did H'5 miles an hour speed tising diat t Tiebigcar will be which tie on the New York etirted speedcluV is holding that night in the way at New YorkSheepshead won hay the darkwill run ness gold trophy I and dtinn ti'idltoriurn and was in the parlance Iliicolii h all of the street “going some" And if I1 roposeilli':i!n'vNevada to Salt the average motorist who acro-s gets a thrill li over o'Hii tlietce fco'na when he does forty to sixty miles an trn hour could have been with me I ber Tr lieve file sensation would have been to convince him he was going y a r r il enough t than I actually was Perhaps faster Or miles an hour does not look fast k'irr atin l'oi-ifrom a safe and sane grand stand neat f !' but from the driver’s seat with the I' M a dizzy track whirling atneithc-pace under r I'1 looks nor sane bis safe it eyes : ' u as that speed was llut r d Mil it will not staml long True T cannot 'l tell today just 1 what car or driver can v v east am positive it will he better It but summer broken next It will be my to "beat myself" TO MXWilK IIUI’ARTMKNT natural ambition I have been driving in Since 1H04 manager King has hern made car twenty-fthe first dealers in races for being' I stock of :he'in new department our events when was on the Job Car company timers Mot-:-the will he with a National on tlie Indiana state bn Thi- department sales division Mr- fairgrounds in a round the clock hii auxiliary to rli ilm-hill climbs road races r of sales pro- hibltional contents King lias been in I can remember speedway u I'or M Mji" 20 u aei-ompan- - : - i r i r - I Mt-Ije- 1 J I mo-toris- ts ! ! t j i s 1 i when we at last achieved seventy-fiv- e miles an hour speed Tliat has not been so long ago and we thought at the National factories that we had reached the Then the foreigners of speed peak came and showed us their dust so we along on and working kept until we in turnstudying showed our dust to one the foreigners notable occasion when Joe Dawson piloted the fabeing mous National car (which was practhe Indiantically stock) to victory inrace apolis aspeedwayI while gave up active steerFor of cars in races and “steered” the ing driver and cars from the repair pits at the side of the track This was valuable experience Then I was given the to work with the engineers opportunity at the National factories in cars helping deThis build and test their sign me the viewpoint of the racing gave situation from every angle driver enNo gine and the strategy of racing was end of valuable experience association with gleaned by my close the engineers and race drivers tf the Peugeot factories in Paris I helped them when they were campaigning here in the states and I visited them and spent considerable time working in their factories until the war broke out My advice to ambitious race drivers Is to start to work in a know at the very bottom and work upfactory motor car construction thoroughly ever trying to cut any speed capers I'nless one knows where cerare put into motor cars it tain to reason they cannot get the standsthings most “out” of motor cars I attribute my whol? success to the experienceNa- I obtained from the engineers at the tional factories at Indianapolis where I am proud to say I am still playing a j j ed - a-- s? 1 -- ' ad-fi-s- : 'a i s : i -- 1 -- I ’ 1 l i record-breakin- g f-- i ' or-gani- ra ! er AMERICAN FLAG BLUE COLOR OF COLE CARS I I I a little favorable comment has been caused by the unusual shade blue which the Cole Motor Car company of Indianapolis lias It is known as American of its 1D17 color scheme adopted as part 1917 Cole Kiglit models color all for Is the standard and it blue flag When the national preparedness movement was at its height almost of a year ago It had no niOTo staunch supporter than J J Cole head he in Industrial believer a preparednesa the company strong Always it was not was equally enthusiastic over preparedness for the nation and decided that the product of his factory should play a he that strange in patriotic endeavors part “We will start out” he said “by painting all of our cars Americanflag blue” and the necessary factory orders were issued to that ef- NOT Mr Cole however had issued orders which were not easily fulthere were many shades of American flag blue filled He wa told that one he preferred and he was asked which replied in his decisive “There is only one American flag blue onheour cars” manner “Find out what that is and put it to Incorporate the same What the Cole company wanted to do was ite standard color which was woven into the famous ghadlng of blue inThen ensued a lot of correspondencebetween the facflag Betsy Rossindividuals who are regarded as authorities on the American tory and and exexhibits of historical significance were inspected flag: museum was diswas the direction result The in every sought pert opinion j lie-fo- re tinctive color which the company has adopted ELGIN CLASSIC TO BE RESTORED PLAN DOLLAR FOREVER PLAN part I : -- eight-cylind- iiOO-mi- le o fed dd company sells real real estate man his third Oldsmohile when a man comes the third time for Into our salesrooms last week it was the same make of car it Is proof that not a Question of demonstration or he is not only satisfied but absolutely showing the good points of the Oldsmoa matter of convinced that it Is the very best make bile: it wan simply new car Ills taking latest the order for a seven of car on the market at the price passenger tour“Ritchie has been an Oldsmobile Oldsmobile is a booster for years and when he came ing car of the type” 7 — The of CHICAGO April may not king be seen at the wheel of the blue PeuAfter capturgeot this season and the ing four speedway classics Vanderbilt cup road race last year and winning the 1916 A A A the term championship and all thatannounces Implies Dario Resta that he probably will not drive this year Two reasons are advanced for Fiesta's retirement It Is said that he is not satisfied with his contract with Alphonse Kaufman owner of the Peugeot in which Dario scored his American triumphs and also that his wife a sister of the late Spencer Wlshart fears that he will meet the same fate as her brother who was killed at Elgin In 1914 Resta lias been offered a Although on the Hudson and the position Mercer teams he probably will not accept either He asIs a said to be seeking a orposition consulting an opportunity to inengineer vest $40000 his share of the purses he has won in this country in a business less hazardous than drivingTheracing cars money that Resta has won Inprize this country in two years0 totals $100000 Of this sum manwas contributed by the agement of the Chicago speedway where he proved to be invincible and took six races oat of as many $52-00- starts THIEVES ODT OF LUCK WITH THIS Salt Laker Invents Device Vliicli Prevents Stealing of Motor Cars The theft problem as relating to automobiles — the problem which causes owners to quake with fear every time they think of their unprotected parked machines which causes whole squads of police in cities to be designated for no service except auto thief chasing — may be solved as a result of the ininvention of a Balt Dakar genious J E Christie Is the name of the inventor and his unique device is called The the Christie automobile lock of the lock is that of a comprinciple bination safe with the exception that are the numberless combinations worked by buttons and may be changed at the owner's pleasure When the car is stopped the motor is shut off by the pressure of a button This locks the whole machine extra tires tool box and even engine the hood The hood can only he una locked button and even then thebythiefspecial would be foiled for he would be unable to start the motor An additional arrangement makes it his possible for the owner so to adjust wheel that if a thief started to push the car away an alarm gong in the hood would sound A E Young secretary of the company says that arrangements are now will the company marcompleted and thatdevice on the have the antitheft ket within thirty days An assem- - I bling factory will he located here Maryland Folks Present Militia With Armored Motor Car Cruiser Baltimore April 7 —An exact duplicate of the new type of armored motor car such light ajf is being manufactured by the King Motor Car company of Detroit and the Armored Motor Car company Is to be presented to tb Maryland militia ty the people of Maryland The car is to b paid for bv publio subscriptionl no The King Motor Sales company ths distributors for head tlie subscription list Maryland The project is being exploited bv the Maryland League of National Defense Subscriptions are Veing received by the Baltimore newspapers Many other states are making about furinquiries motor cars to their nishing armored At the present time military bodies the Motor Car company Is furKing nish ng a standard eight cylinder chassis to the Armored Motor Car company which is placing tie new type wax bodies on the chassis for the ordnance department of the Vnited States army and the I'nited States marine oorpa The reed for armored motor car of the type ahaslight been recommended It is used on reby the government connaissance work In hostile territory and for with foot troops in many phases of activity Tlie King type is a light mobile car with defen sIvh armor and a machine gun mounted in a revolving turret The same armament of the car la either a Lewis Vickers or Benet rapid-fir- e gun The tur ret is operated by manual power a pinion and rack cut lntregal through with the lower curret base ring TTie of vertical train gun port will Armor plate is permit used for the turret sides and top of the car Eventually it is car squadron expected that an armored of tvrelve oars of this type 'onsfstlng to the uiiit will be formed by the gov- eminent Each oar carries three men a driver gunner and mechanic The latter acts as an assistant to either the driver or gunner r is purtloularXv adapted for ' The work scouting ilong the border for the army and for landing parties o t marines from battleshlp-1 -- -- s NEW AUTO DIRECTORY IS BEING PRINTED Copies Will Be Ready for ZMetsihutlim at Secretary of State Office la About a Week The new state automobile directory Is now In the hands of the printer and within a week or ten days will be for distribution at the office of ready Harden Beiuiioa secretary of states at the rate of $1 eopy Entries can be secured untilper5 p m today The first installment of the directories will number 2000 Printed ooples of the sntoraobile laws and regulations enacted bv the las are now available at th Legislature office of the secretary of state They are being distributed free of charge to all applicants The booklet gives the regulations a to brakes signals lights are and speed The rules of the road in full and the powers and duprinted ties of tlie public authorities are 7 — Prospects for reOiiago ofApril tlie annual Elgin road sumption races this summer are brighter than The have been for two years they 'lassie was abandoned last year and until recently it was thought It could bo resurrected TRIED BY KANSAS GIRL notHowever following a conference between the directors of the Elgin Road YVTLiIj CHANGE IJYCOLY WAY association and representatives Racing route of the Lincoln highway The of club most the Automobile A motor car is desired by everyNebraska is to undergo some of the Chicago obstacles have been overcome through In the near future In DawSanction has been granted by the change Some come into possession body son where has it heretofore Automobile American for association county chanof a car through legitimate been following section lines It will August IS as the date for the event now follow the water grade of tbe nels and others by “hook or Several of the speedway associations Union X’tocific railroad along the Platt have given assurance that they will encrook” Some Just let It go as river ter racing cars under their control “want” but Miss Beryl Thomas i so not was of Irfavenworth Kan is Miss Thomas satisfied easily the a laundress and possessed ofroad-plaan for Apperaon longing to but without the means one and took a father purchase unusual way to satisfy her craving Apperson Bros Writing the Automobile company at Kokomoto Ind she explained she wished She become the owner of a car was informed that she could purchase one from the nearest dealer and the usual catalogue and price list was inclosed After looking through the cataprice of the logue and noting themodels various roadplane Kokomo Miss conThomas wrote the is believed to cern a letter which be without equal in the automoThe letter follows: bile business de"Received your letter and more and am scriptive matter if possible As eager than ever for Kansas City has the agency next I will do th this territory best hing — buy a car — will I go eight cylinder the the limit Am sending you and I think first payment $100 Tlie truck tliat has won its name on dependable service— I will have paid for it when I am This 60 I am 20 years old now as tlie most powerful — most dependable — most is no joke to me I am in earnest I sfW6ftr it’ The Mack economical truck on the market A money order for $1 was Inclosed In the letter The company Truck embodies several features new to returned the an money to Miss Thomas with expression of apAmerican practice — and some that but preciationthatfor her kindness not are roadplanes stating are wholly original and patyet sold on the "dollar down” basis ented — features that in- MOTOR TRUCKS SAVE HUNDREDS OF LIVES High teen Hundred Army Cars of American Make Haul Coal to Parisians Motor trucks undoubtedly saved the lives of hundreds of Parisians who during the recent severe weather were without coal and unable to secure furAll the coal dealers' ther had become exhausted owing to stocks supplies the stoppage of supplies up the Tiver Seine and the only coal available was in the reserve depots of the cltv of Paris It was Impossible however to distribute it to the various quarters of the and suburbs owing to the absence city It was at this of men and horses authorcritical point that the 1800 military ities derided to place trucks army about half of them being American trucks at the disposal of the city for the haulage of coal to local dealers NORWAY EXPERT VISITS I S E Larson engine expert of the Kull-ber- g Christiania company Norway other spent a week at Milwaukee and Wisconsin points recently to study tractor designs and to place orders for tractors and other power farm machinery for his company ne seven-passeng- er -- MOKE WHITE TRUCKS ARE PUT INTO SERVICE EACH YEAR THAN TRUCKS OF ANY OTHER MAKE 3780 Miles in 7 Weeks cost at an p of $030 sure long life to up-kee- Truck mainly for Snyder of Sodus New York has been using his White hauling' of celery from his farm to the storage a distance of five miles Last season for a period of seven weeks the truck was operated continuously six days a week averaging from 80 to 100 miles a day The average load was 42 crates of celery The route traveled by the truck does not include a single foot of state or improved highway and was encountered regardless of its dry or muddy condition During all this time the entire cost of upkeep amounted to 30 cents and Mr Snyder states that his White is still in the pink of condition though not a new truck by any means J R lV2-2-To- Is in Awarded the ONLY GRAND PRIZE for Motor Trucks at the tional Exposition San Francisco 36-3- 8 Panama-Pacifi- c e Motors Co SUTH WEST TEMPLE SALT LAKE CITY 0 C HUNTER Manager tlie Mack AUTOS MACK n the lilifr of such performance as this that Grocers Fruit and Produce and Meat and Provision dealers purchase more White Trucks each year than trucks of any other make It i PRIVATE Interna- PHONE WAS 846 I i — War de- Washington April officials do not believe it partment be to commandeer 7 necessary automobiles as a measure The supply of such to Iwar cars as would be adapted exceeds service say they ! the demand at the time and ! the present supply present could be materi-j should the army really Increased increased manufacture quire If however by any unusual it should become necessary J to commandeer motor cars accord-- ! officials the ing to war department ! same in the followed procedure ! emergency purchase of submarine ! chasers would be followed and boards of assessment or appraisal the to pass would be I condition organized cars and valuation of upon the to be taken over and the govern-- t ment would remunerate owners in the amount recommended by thee i boards The war department anticipates I little difficulty with Its motor problems for it expects that in the event of war thousands of automobiles would be gratuitously offered to the government if there were need for them are made in sizes to fit your needs in either worm or chain drive Coma S Main street — and let us show you to our salesrooms — 425-4what tlie Mock can do Or if you can’t come to us— Call Wasatch 3181 — and we will come to you Let us solve your delivery and transportation problems 23 privately-owne- d eon-tingen- mu cy 1 |