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L~t.__ You have ,been on a motor trip-ýo r if you 'are stili planning one-,bring your car in and have it cbe êked- over by expert mechianics. It costs. no more a nod the job is done . ighi .'-Estima'tes gldygiven-our servicé ,iscareful and ,complete. MILLER & M ILLER, 7 32 Twelfth-St George Minier Phone WiI. 50 Léo Miler GOiLDEN DAYS By E VANS Drawn for Wilmette Coal & Material Yard Phone Wilmette - 4200 IN veyed his flrst factory. Most ofthme windows had been broken and weeds were groming luxuriantly ail about, but the condition ôf Mr, Firestone 's finances made the future rubber mag-. ;n4te care littie about external appear- aices. HFe, wantcd, some- kind of a place :to manufacture rubbertre.The building was made habitable, a fewv pieces. ,of mliachinry-just enough to get thinýs. started-were purchased and :fi ve -year-old Harvey Jr., turned i .0,1 thé. steani. -The Firestone com pany 'w-as. off for better ýor -for worse. Fromn that, littie shop has, sprtîng an organization that reaches around the w~orld. Tie original ten-mian staff has growýn to an organization of, 15,090 sCockholding emiployes and niammnoth ftactories in Akrpt,, Los Angieles, Hani- ifton, Ontario, and Londoîî, Fngland, Ehav e a conîbined ýcapacity *of 80,000' fres, a.dàv. Annual sales of the par- cnt -Company . and, itb subsidiaries, realch nearly $150,0O(00,000 a yeéar. lu aiddition to its tire factories, the ccnîpany lias thxe world's largest fabric. I ills- t New Bedford, hlerslia at Fal UIverand Newbtiryport, -.a,.i,., one of thie largest footwvear conmparies ini flic wý,orldl at Hudson, Mass., a great ru- i. er preparation plantîniiiSingapo)re,,dis- tributors anrdbranches ini every part ,c. the vorld and 26,000 deal1.in thie United States. Packard Motors Undergo Extremely Rigorous Test Motors which go juto Packard cars * .receive the saine kind of test ing and, factory inspection that is eînployed in' turning out the finest airpiane motors, - a is éxplained. Eachi is run 'for many hours under the eyesof experts before it is placed in the car. Each Packard Eight inotor is run for the equivalent Of more than 500 miles on a "Jacking. in"I stand, with an. electric miotor. fur-' nishing, the power. It then is -oper- ated..under its own power on a dyna- miometer whert.-it undergoes-, exhausà- tive tests. Later each motor is tom clown for an inspection of,.the working *parts. Even the >n it has flot finishyd' vith test wýork for each completedý car is sent out on the road for, a driving v heels also are beig builf to accoi- niodafe those purchiasers wlho prefer fuis type.. -CLOSED CARS POPULAR Closed cars comprised 89.4 percent of flhc Anier-ican ,automobile, ouftput in 1929, mvhile, open- cars c onîprised - 10.6. percent. pecfe d to be in attendance at the Si xth International Road Congres s to be .hcld ini Washingtoni, D. C., October 6 to 11. The congress wilI be held under thie auspices of the Permanent .Interna- tional Association of Road Congresses, with headquarters in Paris, and the inîuîîediafe -direction of the Anierican Organizing commis sion, *Rov D. Çhapi !i, president, with offices- in Washingfon. ' More than flft-v nations have accepfed the invitation of the United. States gov ernnuient to .send. delegates. Seventv-sixý sep)arate repýorts, 'prinited ini* Frenlch, Gernian. Spanisîx and En- glish, the four official languages ofitlic Conigress, wvill fornî the basis for dis- cussion af flie sessions in October. The reports repres-ent flhc studieçi opinions of 170 of the, principal wvorld aiiori-.ý Ces on the moof questions of highway construction, design, ni aterial,. main- tenance, administration, finance and. traffic.ý Marmon Proves Pioneer ini Straight-8 Progress Pioneering steps hv Niarmion Nith tlie straiglît-eight ini the fiel(fof popui- lar usage again'are brouight fô niin(l by autoniotive deyelôpnielit.s of . receit weeks, according th, George C. Tenniev, gen'eral .sales directo-r of thie Mamnîcui M_.otor Car- conpanYI. Four N-ears a.go Ma\frnuoîî tufued the, Cntire resources of its org-anization t.o flic exclusive manuifacture of straig!-t- ciglîfs. and rapidly clinîhed f0 a positioni of leadership as one of thie industrv's molsf experienced straighit-eighit jhu;ýid ers. The first M\armion sfraiglît-eiglht niodel was announced ini 1926 and sutc- ces sive additionsf0he uldtoli introduction this year of tÈe ;flrst coin- plete straighf-ýeigbt Iune in ftle iudustry, covering eacl.i f the four. major price* fields fromi $1 ,000 upwvar'd. Two uîîontlîs ,ago 'Marnion offered the public tanigib)le proof of its' 1straight-eight experiîence bv annouinc- ing a one-y.ear factory wraît nthe conîpflete Marmon fine, protecting the owner against defective material or iworkniafiship) for a period four times longer thani the duration of the war- ranty that is standard practice ini the ,iindnstrv. Te$2,00 .,00 ASSETS Tenet tangible assef s of the auto- mobile indusfry in the United States at the end of 1929 totalled $1,956,687,661. Approxiniately 65 percent of ail new and used cars s old'lasf year were pur- chased on tifle paynîenf plans.ý f.