Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 119, 29 March 1919 — Page 25

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1919.

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Sfntc Mnnpv Shniilrl Nnt K otate s money pnouia iNot De Opent tor Uther lhan bub - stantial Highways. rauvc " ".sauiiai.uii ii iw iue National Highways Protective Society has devoted considerable attention to the road conditions of the United States and foreign countries, and Colonel Edward S. Cornell, secretary of the society, say3 very truly that it Is high time now to place the road building policy of the country on a sound economic basis. "Past mistakes in road building," he adds, "have not altogether been due to poor Judgment, because fifteen I years ago no one could foresee the development which has been made in the motor vehicle. Cheap roads built at that time lasted many years, and until the motor truck arrived could be maintained at a reasonable cost." Now that the motor truck has been developed it la nothing less than a crime for highway engineers to design and build and spend the State's .money for anything other than a substantial road. Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and other progressive states are realizing this fact and are building more concrete roads or roads with a concrete base. New York and Massachusetts are still continuing to build Impermanent roads and which would seem to be a waste of money. "The cost of maintenance of waterbound and macadam roads averages in New York and Massachusetts $1,000 per mile per year, as against $100 per mile per year for concrete roads. The bulk of the maintenance ln the macadam type is in the pavement itself. With concrete the bulk of the maintenance is on edges and ditches. "Commissioner Duffey, In his last report, states that bituminous macadam pavement under present conditions costs $23,000 per mile and concrete pavement costs $28,000 per mile, or a difference of $5,000 per mile. Thts cost la Insignificant when you consider the relative maintenance costs of the two types and the fact that after twenty years you will have a good road If a concrete one is built, as it is a proved fact that after ten years bituminous macadam will be practically a loss, besides, it will not ever serve as a proper base for a good pavement. "Practically every highway engineer today agrees that all roads should have a concrete base. If heavy traffic does not exist when the road is built, it will soon develop, and every hlghway should be designed for heavy j traffic. "Inasmuch as It Is admitted both here and abroad that a concrete base ! is necessary, then the cheapest form of pavement is obtained when placing this base by using a little care in the selection of materials and by using a better concrete. In this way it has been shown that a good concrete base and surface are obtained in one operation, and we have a permanent highway, cheaper than can be built In any other way and of longer life. "The highways of today must be built as a commercial and business proposition, and so must be of the best type to insure reasonable permanency. Commercial highways are a necessity for the development of the country as well as for the quick transportation of materials and for the lowering of the; cost of livine i "The life of a good concrete road should be at least twenty years and It would seem that this country could afford to spend a large sum of money In the development of such highways if the money were put i'lto roads which will last at least twenty years under motor truck traffic. Experts here and abroad believe that the concrete road Is good for much longer than twenty years. "The first flfty-million-dollar bond Issue for the building of permanent roads In New York State was appropriated nine years ago and there is hardly a mile of the roadway built under that appropriation that is in existence at this time which has not been resurfaced or rebuilt. ' Connecticut has had the same experience, as well as New Jersey, and thes states are now building roads that are meeting the requirements of present-day service." , Franhlh Will Specialize In Closed Cars in 1919 Sixty per cent of'the output of the Franklin Automobile company for the coming year will be closed cars and special effort will be centered on detail in the way of refinements. The upholstering Is a greenish gray Byzantine cloth. This is absolutely! new in the way of trimming, stylish to i the last degree, very desirable and soft to the touch. The shade is especially noteworthy and doesn't easily show the dirt. An a1! metal trim blends perfectly with this cloth. The new Franklin closed car Is the ideal of comfort and refinement. NEW DODGE MODEL. Dodge Brothers dealers are expecting to make delivery this week of a new four door sedan which will pell for $100 more than the present two door model. The chassis will be the same as at present. EH

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Bolshevism Frcssianism Gone Mad, Soldier-Actor Tells Chalmers Employes DETROIT, Mich.. March 30 Frank Tinney, captain U. S. A., discharged,

i former Now York Winter Garden star ; and for many years a favorite blacki face comedian, is still working hard ior uncie aam. I Captain Tinney was a morale officer for Uncle Sam and ,3 Btni carrying on hl3 work ln civil llfe He cialms to 1 110,(1 a commission-at-large and his America, principally the makers of munition and automobiles. "Th RnlRhpvlU t another word ror frussianism-gone-mad, he says. When Tinney was discharged he immediately formed a permanent theatfical coV n order to give a job to one hundred soldier and sailors. Returning transports were met and an all star cast of former soldier- ' actors are now with Tinney on a tour of the United States. When the show was in Detroit, Captain Tinney made many stirring talks to working people, thousands of whom are foreigners. His humor and personality interests them and his logic and Americanism convince them. . At the Chalmers factory, with an artillery tractor for a platform, he talked to over five thousand war workers. His entire company of eversea veterans, including six Cross de Guerre heroes, accompanied him and they were all met by a guard of honor of 300 Chalmers soldiers still in uniform but "back on the job." Headed by the Chalmers band, the parade of Tinney's veterans and the factory "soldiers" moved toward the great white plant where they were greeted by shrieking Whistles and the cheers of pretty girls and men in overalls. Captain Tinney addressed the immense crowd as "the men and women that made the stuff that won the war." As an officer of the United States army he thanked them for their heroic work and kept them laughing with a string of funny talk. "You're the people who raised the devil with the Huns," he told the yard full of automobile employes. "While we were collecting citations and honors for our work, you were collecting sweat and aching bones. Bolshevikl is just another word for Prussianism-gone-mad. You boys have got your old jobs back look at you, three hundred right in front of me in uniform and another one thousand already back in the good old 'Cits.' You can't be true to Columbia and flirt with wild-eyed Bolshevjsm. Stick to your flag and your job and your boss and they'll stick to you." DAVIS GIVES BEST MOTOR GAR QUALITIES A great help in buying a motor car is to keep the word AREA in mind, as a reminder of what you, a prospective car user wants, says C. M. Davis, of the Davis-Overland Auto Agency. "Let that little word be a reminder of the four qualities which a perfect automobile should have, ability, reliability, endurance and action. "Lord Tennyson said of the Duke of Wellington that he was foursquare to all the winds that blew. That is a 1 retty good characteristic of a real man, and is just as good a characterization of a real motor car. 1 "A man's value to the world and to his employers is based on the amount of supervision he needs. What good are ability and reliability in a man or a car without the other two qualities? They may have both, and yet be dead, pep-less, stale, which are as great faults in a car as they are in a man. "That is why I am especially proud to have the Overland to sell. It ha3 more ability, more reliability, more endurance and more action than any other car in America. "There are two models, in the Ov erland's vast line of thirty-two of which I am especially proud. One is the Wlllys-Knijrht seven passenger, and one in the Overland 90. Both of them are full of the four magnificent qualities I mentioned, and no automo bile buyer can do better than to invest In either of them." Fry Brothers Mahe Sedan Tops for All Automobiles Are you diFFat'sficd with your present automobile top? The easiest and most economic?)! way to gft It changed for one you will like better is 1o send 't around to Fry Brothers, at 615 and C21 South II street. A week or so In their shop, and you have a shining sedan or open top. "ut of the dingy old one. "We haven't any special claims on the public, except tint we do god. rubstantial, workmanlike work atm"derate price, and can give you a top that looks, and is belter than any factory-made one," says Roy Fry. "Our business has just started, comparatively speakirg. as we got going only p.r-cut the middle of January, but since then we have turned out about fifteen jobs and I hope and believe that we have fifteen satisfied customers." PAINTING ON BRASS Unless care is taken to have the surface absolutely clean, considerable difficulty is encountered in attempting to paint over polished brass. To in sure a satisfactory job the brass should first be scoured with a mixture of salt and vinegar to remove all the grease, after which the surface should be washed with hot soapsuds and wiped dry with a clean rag. Thereafter the paint may be applied without risk of its running while wet or chipping off after It has dried. EBBS

"IF I THOUGHT RACING DANGEROUS I WOULDN'T DO IT," SAYS DE PALMA

By JAMES H. COLLINS. ''Isn't racing awful dangerous?" Ralph De Palma must answer this question at least fifty times every day that he works his fast new "905" in speed or on the racing track. And every time his answer is the same. "If I thought it was, I wouldn't do it!" . "But don't racing drivers get hurt land killed?" suggests the questioner 1 people seem to have a child-like in1 terest in discussing with the speed i king all the different things that might happen to him. "Yes, they do but only when accidents occur," is De Palma's reply. By which he means that every mishap in his own speed career has been definitely traceable to an accident a tire "blew," a bolt flew through the radiator, something like that. But something is just as likely to happen while father is climbing up the stepladder with a length of stove pipe. De Palma points out, that step-ladders are dangerous, and father is apt to have an accident no less than the automobile racing driver. In fact, the probabilities are very much against heads of families climbing step-ladders, as compared with speed kings meeting disaster, because the latter are few in number, and people who climb step-ladders are a multitude. His Per Cent. Record. As fin illustration that racing drivers can be careful, De Palma cites the 100 per cent, record of his friend, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, the former auto racing star, who went to France in Uncle Sam's aviation service last April, and in seven months of air lighting brought down 26 German; planes. This was a better record than ! any made by American flyers in the famous Lafayette squadron, which had over three years' experience. Yet Rickenback. r never crashed a single ( airplane, or even broke a wing or a

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tail. He brought down 18 Germans with one Spad machine, and ran another for 120 hours, though the average life of tha, type of plane was only nine hours in fighting service. De Palma has been a serious student of speed for 16 years, and is now spoken of as a veteran, though he is only 36 years old. Still going strong, and faster than ever. His first speed work was as a bicycle racer, a line that he took up because, being athletic in his tastes, he thought it would

be good body culture. Then he graduated into motor cycle racing and from that to automobiles. His first experience in the latter line was in 1908, when he did a mile in 51 seconds. At Daytonia, Florida, the other day. he did a mile in less than half the time, 24.C2 seconds, or practically IVz miles a minute. These records are not exactly comparable officially, because the speed of 1908 was made on a dirt track, with a racing car, within the 300 cubic inch displacement limits set for racing, whereas the 1919 record was made in a 905 cubic inch Packard equipped with an aviation engine, buil for speed, pure and simple, and not admissable for competitive track, racing. But as records of how fast a human being can get over a mile of beach, and also as measures of the development of a speed king, they are certainly interesting. No limit has yet been reached in auto speed, says De Palma. Owing to trouble with the official electric timing device in Florida the top speed of his big car was not put on record. So he hurried out to Santa Monica Beach in California, determined to bring out the utmost speed that can be secured from his latest creation. The car which De Palma drives today represent the contribution of American private enterprise to aviation, as contrasted with the products You

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What the Speedway Proved Then 60,009 H ' hen Super-Sixes Now Confiri

Speedway and cross continent tests were used to reveal the endurance of Hudsoas, ,hen the SuperSix was a new car. The records made then, such as the great Pike's Peak Hill Climb up the world's highest roadway the 24-hour record of 1819 miles the unmatched round trip trans-continental run between San Francisco and New York in 10 days, 21 hours -are meii-iorable milestone- in automobile history. But a Greater Proof is Now at Hand Those records made Hudsons the choice of 60,000 users. And the performance of those cars during the past three years is even a greater proof of Hudson Super-Six endurance and performance than were those more dramatic tests about which all motordom showed such interest at the time they were being made. They proved that the performance of individual cars merely reflected the character of every Hudson. New advancements in refinements have been made as the Hudson Super-Six has grown in favor. New body types have served to make it the pattern car in that respect as well as the most enduring traveling machine built.

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of European makers stimulated by government subsidies for war. The big 905 aviation motor in De Palma's Packard was designed by American , engineers and built in an American ! factory during the same early 1915 period when European manufacturers :

were developing aviation engines to meet the desperate need of the allies on the western front. It was comt plete and ready for action before America declared war on Germany. . GARFORD WINS FIRST. The builders of the Garford truck have entered their bid for glory and a place among the, "firsts" in the war and after it, according to R. H. Fetta. A recent letter from a member of the signal corps with the American army of occupation closes with this sentence: "It will doubtless be of interest to you to know that the Garford was the first truck to cross no man's land Into German territory after the signing of the armistice." STRENGTHENS BLOOD Yon can't expect weak kidneys to filter the neios and poisons out of your system unless they are given a little help Don't allow them to become diseased when a little attention now will prevent it. Don't try to cheat nature. Aa soon as you commence to have backaches, feel nervous and tired, GET BUSY. These are usually warning that your kidneys are not working properly. Do not delay a minute. Go after the cause of your ailments or you may find yourself in the grip of an incurable disease. GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil capsules will give almost immediate relief from kidney troubles. GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules will do the work. They are the pure original Haarlem Oil Capsules imported direct from the laboratories in Haarlem, Holland. Ask your druggist for GOLD MEDAL and accept no substitutes. Look for the name GOLD MEDAL on every box. Three sizes, sealed packages. Money refunded if they do not quickly help you.

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For three years the Hudson Super-Six has been the largest selling fine car in the world. Its position is more firmly entrenched today than ever. Every new car, every new model, that has come out since the Super-Six made its debut has been a silent tribute to Hudson leadership. The Shows Reveal That Leadership Among fine cars that are ever powerful and equal to every emergency, the Hudson Super-Six holds undisputed leadership, as every automobile show this year has proved. Its refinements, both mechanically and in appointment, mark the latest developments. Its supreme leadership is still shown by the activity of its sales, exceeding that of any other fine car. It is that situation which calls for early action on the part of buyers. Factory production is concentrated on closed models for which there is an ever and immediate demand. No open car models will be available, except the few that some dealers now have, before early summer. Prompt choice may insure your getting a Hudson. Delay may mean disappointment, just as it. has to thousands each spring in the past three-years.

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