Everything for the Motorist"

TffE STTXDAY OKEGONIAX, PORTXAND. OCTOBER 24. 1920 "highway Pullman." The car i eo 1, arranged that It can be converted 70, TRAVELS into an invitingly comfortable bed by STREAMLINE CUTS lowering the back of the front seat and stretching a light mattress over the seat cushions. 30 JO-MIL- E TOUR On the running boards are metal RESISTANCE boxes containing provisions, cooking WIN. utensils, clothing, a small gas stove, and, in fact, everything that is re- quired for an extended camping ex- pedition. 20-Ye- ar Journey to The trip of the Kleins has taken Started them through Arkansas, Tennessee, Entering Wedge Necessary Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Flor- Regain Health. ida, North and South Carolina, Vir- as Speed Grows Greater. ginia, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsyl- vania, New York, Connecticut, Massa- chusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and part of Canada. They BIKE PEDALED ALL TIMES the United States at Port Huron, AIR IS HIGH Mich., traveled to Detroit and Toledo, PRESSURE and before returning to Oklahoma will travel through Illinois, Wiscon- sin, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri. The way San Diego Physician Roams They have traveled 9000 miles In the General Tire's reputation has grown into at their new Overland and have aver- Statistics Show Power That Must Will Over Face of Entire aged more than 20 miles to the gal- to Move Car a National demand amazes nobody. lon .of gasoline. Be Exerted Just On the "inside" in American Continent. N. M. McDonald and family also at Considerable Speed. camped on the Overland lawn re- y Akron, where there are no secrets, the General is cently. Mr. McDonald, formerly In unde the taxi business at Marion, O.. home niably great. Dr. John Warner, 73 years of Warren O. Harding, purchased his old. of new Overland in Redlands, Cal., So much has been said about the 106 West B street, San Diego, Cal., last body, and the way in Neb., March. They left Redlands on June streamline rode into Blair. last week on 7. and 12 days later were in front which automobile designers endeavor his bicycle, upon which he has trav- of the home of an old friend in to cut down wind resistance that it eled 30.000. miles in the last 20 years, Marion, O. The mileage In the 12 may be of interest to shed, a little One of the chief features of the General's success is the says a writer in the Los Angeles days registered 2820. The car aver- - light on the subject and to tell what Times. mouth-to-mout- After visiting a niece there for way its reputation spread outside of Akron by h three days the old man, who looks PORTLAND WOMAN CHOOSES PEERLESS FOUR-PASSENGE- R CAR. about 50 years, tuned up his bicycle and put out for Medaryville, Pulaski from user to user. county. Indiana, to visit his mother, Mrs. John Warner, who is 94 years old and the oldest woman in that county. Warner was born in Medary- ville, served throughout the civil war Akronyandjthe tire world saw an ideal built into the in an Indiana regiment and went to California 30 or 40 years ago. This is Dr. Warner's third bicycle General Tire with men, with materials, with methods trip from San Diego to Blair. It took him six weeks to make the trip. The cost was something like $19, which that could mean nothing less than ultimate National rec- Included his food and lodging en route. ognition Kit on Handle Bars. .which it has won on its superior Quality. Repairs to his bicycle during the trip was 15 cents for a patch on his front tire. Gasoline and oil cost nothing. Room rent cost him just Results made known" by users themselves are $1. 50 for the six weeks. He slept the General outdoors every night but one. And he cooked every meal for himself ail Tire's greatest advertisement the proof of its Quality. the way from California to Nebraska. Warner's "kit" is certainly some kit. His cooking utensils consist of two little tin pans which fit into each other, a little skillet with a de- Try a General CorcTTire alongside of tachable handle and a canteen for water. His bedding consists of two A recent purchaser of a Peerless Is Mrs. J. J. 755 East Fifteenth pieces of canvas, two blankets and street North, shown In her new car. The car is a two-power ran ere any other in the .world. a sm.ill air pillow. All rolled to- eight, selected by BIr. Rosten because of its flexibility, power and ease gether his kit fits on his handle bars. of control He sleeps out of doors in rain, snow or moonshine just the same. We Carry a Full Line of Accessories "And I'm riding straight towards acred 25. 8 miles to the grailon of fuel wind resistance really means. One Is 100-ye- trip. a cent was to hearing expressions as the ar mark." Warner says. for the entire Not used such Twenty years ago Warner had tu- spent for repairs. Before Mr. Mc- "cutting through the air," and other berculosis and was fast nearing the Donald started on his long1 cross- phrases of a similar nature, but many grave. country trip he had traveled 5000 interested in the subject from the walking one foot miles with the car. automobile standpoint would like to "You are with know just how much pressure really Everything for the In the grave," a doctor assured him. - cease REXEWAIi exists and just how- much power is "All right: henceforth I shall method chaxged absorbed in overcoming the resist- to walk and I shall ride," he an- ance of the air, says a writer in swered. Marmon Concern Works Out Plan Motor. Motorist" No Goal In View. The average man. walking briskly, Warner was a physician himself. That Creates Interest. travels at about 4 miles an hour. His He had practiced medicine for years body presents to the air a surface of and was pretty well off. So he gave Nordyke & Marmon company, build- 6 1 up bought bicycle ers of the Marmon car, recently an- about feet in height to foot in his practice, a and handling1 width, or about 6 square feet. Mov- started out for health. nounced a new method of ing at 4 miles an hour, he is travel- simply wandered. Ho had no renewed Marmons under a nation re- He policy ing at 5.8 feet a second, and the Bet place in view, but went wherever wide that has aroused keen in sistance opposed to his forward mo- notion struck him to go. For 20 terest everywhere in the motor trade. the of mo- tion by the air, assuming it to be years he has followed the same rule. "Hitherto the manufacturer still, is just about one-half pound. Three times in that period he has tor cars has left the matter of han- In words, he is. continually ridden up to gate of his dling- used cars strictly up to the in- other the front says W, pushing a half pound resistance niece, Mrs. Minnie Triplett, in Blair, dividual dealer' Fred Vogler, ahead of him as he walks. dismounted and called, "Hello!" The president of the Northwest Auto com- first word they have ever had of his pany. -- distributor of the Marmon, "but Car Presents Flat Surface. coming was when his cheery "Hello" the Marmon factory under its new If the same man walking 4 miles an rang out policy recognizes the importance of hour were facing a gale blowing 26 There is scarcely a city in the Unit- making every owner of a motorcar a miles an hour, the relative velocity ed States in which Dr. Warner has satisfied owner, regardless of whether of the wind would be 30 miles an not appeared in the last 20 years. he purchases his car first-han- d or not. hour, and the man would be. walking But he never sleeps in one when he "Under the new policy, when we against a pressure of more than 26 can get out of it. He will spend the send a Marmon car through our shops pounds. This would be enough to day in the city, but at nightfall, win- for a thorough renewal prior to re- make an appreciable difference in the ter or summer, he takes his old "bike" selling it. our men check every me- ease of walking and he would readily and rides out Into the country, maybe chanical feature of the car, according notice It. a mile, maybe ten miles, rolls up to a chart prepared by the factory. The resistance that the air Inter- under a tree and goes to sleep. The When they are through the chart poses to the progress of the car is of next morning he rides back into the shows an exact record of the condi- two kinds. There is first the resist- city, perhaps. Perhaps he goes on tion of every feature of the car. ance by, "This chart is mailed to the Mar- that is caused striking the and sees the city again in four or ex- bank of air that is always in front of years. mon "factory and their mechanical car, re- five perts there check it over carefully. the in other words, the wind 45 Mile A Day. report job of sistance, and there is also the re- Diego If the shows that the sistance that is caused by the fric- . On his present trip from San renewing has been done thoroughly along he averaged 45 miles a day.

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