Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 250, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1924 — Page 9

SATURDAY, MARCH 1,1924

EYES OF CITY AND STATE TURN TOWARD SPRING AUTO SHOW

REDUCE TAXES ON CARS, SAYS MOTOR WSPETITION Hoosier Seeks Modification of Present Federal Taxation. AUTO’S USES ARE CITED Organization Claims Many Non-Essentials Are Now Tax Free. Supplementing the bombardment of the Ways and Means Committee of the National House of Representatives, which Is being carried on by the American Automobile Association, the Hoosier Motor Club announces that it will circulate petitions at the Indianapolis Automobile show asking that the Congress greatly modify or remove the Federal taxes on passenger cars, trucks, tires, accessories and repair parts. “We are prepared to have petition blanks at all car exhibits In the Indianapolis auto show,” the motor club statement says. “These petitions briefly point out that scores of luxuries and non-essentials are now free of Federal excise taxes and that such essential units of the Nation's transportation system as the passenger car and truck should no longer be kept under the burden.” Show Visitors Solicited It Is stated that exhibitors at the show will make it a point to see that the show visitors generally sign he petition blanks. “Cooperation on the part of automobile owners through the Hoosier Motor Club and the American Automobile Association can best be shown by a liberal array of signatures on these petition blanks," the club announces. Fifteen million automobile owners are compelled to rav a tax on their

• * Pre-eminent Fine Car Values Fourteen Exquisite Bodies —Three Exclusive Chasses Including the Speedway Six ' a New Stutz Creation

*T>OUNDING out the greater Stutz line of •*\_ Sixes and Fours with the Stutz Speedway Six—another master product—the Stutz Motor Car Company of America, Inc., presents the most comprehensive selection of class equipages now available. Here are characteristic Stutz modes and colors, and winsome interiors to charm the most fastidious. Here are engineering features which account for the consistently high Stutz performance records.

See the Stutz Exhibit at the Automobile Show Updyke Auto Cos. 1027 North Meridian Street Telephone, Main 3&21 "V STUTZ MOTOR CAR COMPANY OF AMERICA, INC., INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA V#< BmilrUri ./ Origin*/ run rjmtrw Srua nMrlor C*n

Live and Learn In cold weather watch the radiation system. Use a good cleaning mixture to remove scale and mud. Also an anti-freeze spirit should be used. In case your motor will not start, don’t keep flooding the carburetor. Prime the motor by putting gas in the petcocks. If this doesn’t work, look for ignition trouble. A little attention to your car will make it last much longer and give much better service. If you still drove a horse you would see that it was fed and ( watered regularly, and a car needs just as regular treatment. See that your brakes are properly set if you leave your car on an incline, and also turn your front wheels toward the curb. It is best not to start or stop suddenly, nor to skid round corners. The strain set up in your tires by that form of misuse is terrific. Don't run the motor in a closed garage. The carbon monoxide in exhaust gases is odorless, and a small percentage of it in the air is fatal. —Automobile Digest.

misfortune every time they have to buy replacement parts. Four million five hundred thousand farmers own aid operate motor vehicles. In 1923 they paid $46,000,000 in Federal taxes on cars, tires and repair parts. In 1918 automobile excise taxes amounted to .65 per cent of the total United States internal revenue receipts. In the last six months of 1923 the proportion was 6.9 per cent and the 1923 average was 5.5 per cent paid by motor taxes. As the number of cars increases the volume of Federal tax grows. Necessary I'ses Shown One hundred and forty-four thousand doctors use automobiles in the exercise of their profession. Two hundred and sixty-seven thousand children ride to school daily In motor busses. In the period of 1917-1923 the sum of $265,000,000 was expended l>y the Federal Government for good roads pu- lose*. In the same period $589,000,000 was collected from automotive war taxes—only 45 per cent of the money taken from automobile owners was expended for better roads. Over $300,000,000 surplus Is avail-

EDDIE UPDIKE 10 SHOW ROLLS ROYCE $15,000 Cabriolet Model to Be Exhibited at Show, Together with the various models of Stutz fours and sixes to be displayed by the Updyke Auto Company at the Auto Show, Edgar Updyke announced today that he will also show a $15,000 Rolls Royce, full Cabriolet model, for the benefit of lovers' of fin, motor car equipage. This car will be on View throughout the week at the Updyke booth, where all show visitors will be welcome. In connection with the Stutz chassis and body types to be shown, the Speedway six, latest addition to the famous Stutz family, will be on display in Indianapolis for the first time. Though Mr. Updyke has made numerous attempts to secure one of these cars for Ills salesroom floor during the past several weeks, this is the first time his efforts have been successful, due to the heavy- demand for this model for show purposes throughout the country. The new Speedway six features performance and comfort from start to finish and so far exceeds the expectations of even the Stutz engineers. One of these oars will be at the disposal of the public after Sunday. “All models of both Stutz and RollsRoyce will be explained In detail to our guests at the show,” said Mr. Updyke Saturday-. Keep Garage Floor Clean If garage floors are not kept clean and the tires stand in a pool of oil, the treads soften and the traction strain in service stretches the rubber in wavy outline. —Automobile D:gest. able for tax reduction, and of this more’' than $200,000,000 will be used in reducing income tax-s. Where will the remaining $100,000,000 give relief? Chewing gum, perfumes, toilet articles. soft drinks, etc., have been relieved of Federal taxation. The owners of 15,000,000 motor vehicles continue to pay discriminatory taxes.

And here are prices which rank lowest among those, of America’s finer cars . Fourteen creative types on three exclusive chasses—each with its own engine especially adapted to its particular requirements—compose the greater Stutz line of Sixes and Fours for 1924. They arc pre-eminent fine car values. No cars confer greater distinction—none endear themselves more completely by their utter dependability, efficiency and lasting fascination. Never were cars so fine priced so low.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Portals of Fair Building to Swing Wide Monday Night at 7 O’clock to Receive Throngs—Forty-Eight Makes on Display, Beginning at 7 o’clock Monday evening, hundreds of Hoosiers will pass through the gates of the State Fairground to the mecca of Indiana’s motordom —the Thirteenth annual Spring Automobile Show—to be held in the Auto Show Building throughout the week. t „ t Thousands will "pass through those gates to view the greatest of all shows in the history of the institution—for the Indianapolis Automobile Show has long since fixed itself definitely in the civic and manufacturng life of the city as one of the established institutions around which revolves much of the automobile enthusiasm and patronage for which the city is justly famous. That each successive show has proved greater than the last has become an accepted axion with the Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association which sponsers it. And by the same token, it is an accepted fact that the commercial advancement that results has been found of great benefit to the industry.

Latest Creations Present In this age when the prospective au- | tomobile buy-er is familiar with all | such things as Balloon Tire, Fourj Wheel Brakes, Yalve-In-Head Motors j and all the mechanical appurtenances ! that were such articles of mystery and wonderment of a score of years, the i distribution of automobiles has become an oddly different task. No longer are these “contraptions” as they were called not long ago, things of amazement, but bywords of the passing motorist and his cousin the pedestrian. Therefore, that all these latest Innovations should find themselves prominently displayed at the coming motor show Is but the ultimate expectation of the Show-going public. These will be there and their legion of kindred contrivances, not as spectral accessories at some sideshow but as ”hon-est-zto-goodness-standard- equipment" on the latest contributions of Autodom. / Whatever the visitor’s tastetin motor cars may require, it Is to be doubted if, even In this day of great expectations, some real embodiment of them cannot be found In the display of fortyeight distinct makes of cars, each with Uts three, four five or six model displays. The visitor will be greeted by Mr. Elght-In-A Row, his half-brother, Mr. V-Type, their underlings, the 8.-Uh'on Family, Introduced by such distinguished hosts as Packard, Cadillao,

Buick and many other premier lights in the automobile firmament, but the Introduction will searee be necessary, as has been said before, though the acquaintance In many instances will undoubtedly ripen into such friendship that scores will have the Show floor at some night in the week, proud possessors of bright and shining models of 1924 creation. Hundred Exhibitors Hosts More than 100 exhibitors, including those whose di-plays will consist of trucks or accessories, form the great reception committee which will receive the throngs throughout the week. In charge of affairs, as has been his wont for many years, will be John Orrqan, secretary of the Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association and genial show manager under whose direction the exhibition will be presented. “In order that the show visitor might have more than just the beauty of the aUunnguuto displays. Orman has commanded the efforts of the (Continued on Page 10;

STANDARD PRICE ADOPTEDBY OLDS Genuine Parts and Service Offered at Flat Prices, Genuine Oldsmobile parts can now be purchased from any Oldsmobile dealer in any part of the United States, at a standard price without the addition of war tax, handling or transportation charges. Every Oldsmobile dealer has a master parts price list issued by the factory, which is always open for inspection. The Lathrop-McFarland Company, local Oldsmobile service station, is run on what is known as “fiat rate cost system.” The time limit required for practically every operation on the new Oldsmobile six is set by the Olds factory, and the customer Is charged for the operation based on the time set by the factory. According to Mr. McFarland of the Lathrop-McFarland Company, the new low price of $795 on the Oldsmobile six, backed by the quality of the car .and the now system of lower parts and service cost, meets popular favor with every oho who treats his transportation coat in a business-like manner. - FINANCE FIRM FORMED Local Company to Loan Money on Ford Car Purchases. Announcement is 'made of the organization of a company to loan money for the purchase of Ford cars under the title of The Reliable Auto Finance Company. The company, with temporary headquarters at 239 W. Washington St., is capitalized at $35,000. Harry Sussman, a life-long resident of Indianapolis, is the manager.

KISSEL CUSTOM © B U ILT * _ .A t i , - The Brougham-Sedan and Speedster Smartest at the Show HYDRAULIC FOUR-WHEEL BRAKES —BALLOON TIRES True to tradition Kissel craftsmen are again responsible for the most distinguished new body conceptions disclosed at the Shorn In this group of Kissel models the Brougham-Sedan and the Speedster illustrate aptly a beauty of body and grace of line that yon immediately recognize as being distinctly beyond anything yet produced. Their artistry and excellenceserve to renew and strengthen the prestige Kissel has long enjoyed as America’* foremost originator of motor car styles. On all models Kissel offers Hydraulic Four-Wheel Brakes and Balloon Tires as optional equipment at additional cost. C. L. SCOTT AUTO CO. 538 North Meridian Street Phone , Main 3022

‘Under! James’ A lot of goodwill comes from the present program of some dealers to encourage car owners to perform for themselves the many small repairs and adjustments that heretofore have been either grafted from the dealer or else purchased at an extravagant price, according to the dealer’s own protective impulses. Primarily, the average car owner will learn a good many things about his car that he never dreamed of before and which will do him no harm to know. He will learn to expect less of his car, and better appreciate the good service that is built into tbo average machine. Furthermore, he will lean* that many of his past difficulties were distinctly the fault of his own neglect. It does ’em all good once In a while to “get out and get under.” —Automobile Digest.

LUXURY OR NECESSITY? \ Auto Serves Its Place in Modern Business World. Some 600,000 cars in this country are owned by corporations. Most of these vehicles are fob the use of city salesmen, superintendents and Inspectors. This is nearly as many automobiles as there are in the whole of Great Britain for all purposes.—Automobile Digest. Gas Cap Danger The cap of the gasoline tank filler has in it a small hole—ls the gasoline system Is of the gravity feed type. This Is to allow air to enter the tank so that the gasoline flowing out will not leave a vacuum, which will finally become so strong as to stop the flow of gasoline to the carburetor. When gasoline fails to reach the carburetor at anj r time, make sure that this vent Is open before looking for stoppage.— Automobile Digest.

'FORD PLANTS USE 1,1 FREIGHT CARSEACH YEAR One-Fifth Nation's Supply Serves Single Auto Industry, DETROIT, Mich., March 1-—More, than half a million freight cars, onefifth the freight car ownership In | tfye country, are used annually by the Ford Motor Company’s main plant* and various branches, according to figures recently given out here. The average freight charges paid through the Detroit offices direct to railroads, that paid by branches on minor shipments and freight charge* on direct shipments made from manufacturing Institutions to branches approximates $78,200,000 annually. Add- ; lng to this about $75,000,000 paid by dealers on shipments of autos received by them, brings a conservative figure of $150,000,000 paid every year by the Ford Motor Company. An average of 860 car loads of freight are handled every day In and out of the Highland Park and River Rouge plants alone, and It Is estimated that on the Ford Motor Company’s account 60,000,000 pounds of freight in car load lots are handled every day In the Detroit district. Spark Plug Gap The length of the gap Is very important. If It is too long, the engine will misfire, especially on sudden acceleration, for the resistance Is too high under compression, and the spark jumps across the safety gap of the magneto instead or fails, in the case of the battery system.—Automobile Digest.

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