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Lake County Register (1922), 16 Jun 1928, p. 6

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PAGE STX kick. Emp're State Express and what a thrill 1 got out of it! But the kick and thrill is just as great today as it was then, the sort of thrill that makes for great happiness and contentment and 1 wouldn't miss it for the world. Speed is not only my life's work but my life's pleasure. Yes, there's no kick like the kick in attaining great speed Why I1'd rather speed along in my eld engine than eat, although Mrs. ,lnttemeld might. not altogethér agree with me on that point." ; f «DSay listen, Buddie the ordinary Rozo doesn't know what it is to get thrills by going up iu an elevator the Singer Tower, if they crave E thrills why don't they ride a 1 girder up forty stories or so." r.ncl Malarkey speaking. Jack is ene of those we stand and watch as he calmly steps on a girder as tc giant crane begins to bhoist it and probably flipping the ashes #rom a cigarette as if he were seat--, ed in an arm chbair, takes his thrill THE MOTHER OF COL. CHARKLES A.LINDBERGH ATTAINED SPEED AND HEIGHT ON HER FLIGHT To MEXICO. _ as all in a day's work~ Furcther more, Malarkey has this to say. "Sure 1 suppose I do get a kick out of riding girders, makes you feel sort of above the rest of the gang, if you get what I--mean. |1 began getting a kick by walking girders after they were riveted fif-- teen or twenty stories up but that got so it wasn't so much on the thrill stuff so I got a job riding 'em up and you sure get a kick doing that. 1 guess most everybody, as you say, gets a thrill out of going up in the air, if you get what i mean." ' * aFA ABOLISH SPEED LAWS Paul G. Hoffman, Vice President of the Studebaker Corsporation, in an dnterview during . the recent Automobile Show, wae quoted as follows : ; 23 "It is a mistake to make safety a matter ot speed as such. There are timn}>s when twenty miles an bhour is <«ngerous and sometimes sevent\ .= safe. It all depends on THE LAKE COUNTY REGISTER, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1928. conditions. and 1 predict that with: in five years all speed--limit laws in the United States will be abot-- ished. Michigan has already abot' ished.hers.. We are living in a rapid age and must keep going more rapidly all the time. . . . The automobile is going through the same history as the railroad.. At first a manthad--to walk ahead of a train to warn pedestrians. Then speeds were limited. Now we keep the right of way clear and let trains in the open country go as fast as they can." A George H. Townsend, whose motor boats for the past two years bave won the famous Gold Cup Trophy of the American Power Boat Association, naturally believes there is nothing like ploughing through the water in a speedboat for the real thrills. +. © "I've tricd them ail," says Town-- send, "speeding trains, automobiles and airplauer and nothing can--com-- with the thrill that goes with the racing motor boat. To set the blood tingling just get in the--cock: pit of --my Greenwich Folly, with the spray breaking over the bow and just eating up the miles on the sound and I think you'll agree with me that it's the thrill of thrills." Joe Tracy, who used to make them take. his dust ia the Vander-- bilt Cup Race, risked his life for the thrill of the th.ng.. Even now that be has retired from the racing game, Tracy still gets a great kick out of driving a car «peediiy and watching just how it hbehaves. m "Without question driving a rac ing car gave me my greatest thrills. When Il=drove in the Vanderbilt Cup Races I know i probably risked my life but the glorious kick of the thing fully compensated me for the risk I took. Lindy may tell you he gets the greatest thrill of all driv-- ing bis plane but to my way of thinking it can't compare with driv. ing a racing car on a dirt road and taking some of those hbhair pin MARION DAVIES AgoUT TO SATIS® THE VRGE FOR SPEED AFTER A BUSY DAY MAKING MOVIES Hiffel 'Tower, constructed of> sived Begun in 1887 the full heigh» of 984 feet was not reached until two years later. Since then it has been the mecca of all who could reach it because of the urge to gain the bighest point possible. During the war anti--aircraft guns were mount-- ed on its second balcony. The same determination to.attain height bhas made men and women risk their lives to climb mountains and engineers to construct incline railways to take the less ambitious to the top. : & Two story buildings were consid-- ered hbhigh a few generations ago. But gradually they grew higher un-- til modern steel construction came to the aid of seekers of height and now . with our ~Woolworth and Singer Buildings in New York, the Temple Building in ~ClLicago and the new Union Terminal in Cleve land «nything short of tweoty stories :s considered rather old fashioned. ' 654 -- _ Time was wuen our forefathers believed they were traveling pretty fast and comfortably behind a yoke of oxen and that the height of ispeedy travel had been reached iwhen borse drawn vehicles came into general use. Man, at that time, satisfied his craving for speed by training trotting borses.. New York City built the famous Harlem River Speedway that these gentiemen might try out their imvorites. It was considered quite the fashion-- able thing for our Grandfathers _nnd Grandmothers to gather there of 'a fine Spring afternoon and watch the spirited brusbhs. And now--well the dirt speedway has given way to a concrete b al--vard and instead of an exercia© place for the trotting horse bas become a favorite early morning drive for testing the power of automobile en-- gines. Where we used to see fatal accidents when a tru{y uorge kicked over the traces and smashed up a light sulky we now see a crash at times but the driver #en-- erally emerges fiom the turned over car unhurt. He hbas been pro-- tected by steel. Likewise it was dangerous to attain g:eat sypeed with the old time wooden pa----en-- gor cark. Accidents then generally meant floss Oof li'e. Steel> «nce 'agaiu came to our rescue and our Im:mia ter speed made fool--proof by the con«tructi--n of all steel cars, ;sm now we race along a*t sixty i miles an bour is rerfect s--fets. SArT TY 'IN E$TEEL +« The early autorao'.le, the * horse-- lees carriake'" of our boyhoog days, was a step towards satisfvinz the syeed urge -- Engines were mare more and more powerful, we sped ibrogugh the streets anu along the bighways "asteor and faster and the danger to the driver grew as did the speed. Thew again came steel. The all--stec) antomobile body was coustructed and now we can come out of a pretty bad smash--up all safe and sound. "In an attempt to avors a head-- on collisicn with the approaching car, Zednick beaded for the bank which at this point is 40 feet deep and guarded by a beavyy winwlen railing. He was traveling at a hi:igh rate of speed,.for the car, after partially -- breaking> the rajling, went over it and made a spiral nose dive to the bottom of the em-- bankment. . It turned completely over and ianded on its top, skid-- ding for a distance of about 12 feet and thea turned a complete somer-- sault, end over end, landing with all four wheels in 'the air. The automobile was equipped with an all--steel 'body.. The stee' body of the car undoubtedly saved the life of the driver, who suffered only minor cuts about the arms and bead." c% Only recently the Helena Inde-- pendent published, under the head-- line, "All--Steel Body of Car Saves Owner'. Life in Nose Dive," the fmulowing : A Not long ago the manvufaciarers of an all--steel automobile body sent out a test driver with orders to do his best to break the body. That be did his best, though un-- successfully, is attested to by the fact that he tipped the car com-- pletely over, skidded over 340 feet along <a stone curbing and did nothing more to the steel body than put a dent or two along the side of the top and this was straightened in an bhour or two and the car again on the rodd. & There are many instances of steel bodied automobiles going over embankments, turning over several times and landing &% practically no injury, other a few minor dents and scratches. to the body or to those within the car. Racing cars with all--steel bodies bave thrown wheels rounding turns and gone completely throvugo railings along the roadside with-- out any injury to the body of the car. of the automobile body. builder who puts a steel (wall around him. The lover of spe«d is now amply protected and can sati«fy his urge in safety thanks to the ingemnuity Girls are now wearing --so little that mighty few inches of skin are left unexposed to the dangers of freckles. § Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Mopoaceticacidester of Balicylicacid Unless you see the "Bayer Cross" on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for 25 years. SAY "BAYER ASPIRIN®" and INSIST! | DOEs NOT AFFECT THE HEART | & ASPiRin Accept only "Bayer" package which contains proven directions. Handy "Bayer"' boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100--Druggists. Painted breakfast sets has made it decent t' eat in th' kitchen. Benator Robert M. LaFolietts, Rep. Wis., is a member of the commitiee and is planning to ofer the .entire LaFoliette platform of 1924 together with some individual planks.:one con-- demning marine occupation of Nica-- ragua. While he expeets some sup-- port among a few members of the committee, the administration lead-- ers are in complete control of the committee. Smoot read each o%f the 30 planks to those presenm. L. Melion's hotel room. The were approv-- ed when the conference broke 'up in the early morning hours after three FARM PLANK _ COMPROMISED Those m attended the co: 'crence and expressed their" approval ; ie document included the follow:ins> 4. line party leaders: Senators Emo, Bingham, Connecticut, Moses, ) Senator--elect Vare, Penn., Watson Ind.. Secretary Melion, his nephey W. L. Mellion, James Farncis Burke, Pittsburgh leader and James Elver-- son, publisher of the Philagdeiphia Enguirer. hqurs discussion. Smoot said there was no dissent. By PAUL £&R. MALLON U. P. &X * KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 12--A Republican plattorm which cn,um a "compromise® farm plank, de-- nounces pronibition "nullification-- ists," deplores lavish expenditures in from the tentative piattorm offered by Sengtor Smoot of U:an, the draft includes an endorsemen: or the ad-- ministration's farm polic«; angd ree-- ommends the Jardine y.an of ex-- tensive cooperative mark 'ting. It suggests revision should > mage to protect . agricultural products $%0 wnatever extent is necessar; Approve Documens influential | rstc:s=a MATIN MOTOR SALES As approved, with minor changes world's conception of what an automobile should be ? that Buick sales equal the cylinder V alve--in--Head sis, and a score of other exclusive features explain The world--wide prefer-- ence for Buick is your guarantee of satisfaction. Choose the car which out-- sells any other three cars in its field. i All Buick models have Lovejoy Hydraulic Shock Absorbers, front and rear, s standard equipment engine--most powerful en-- gine of its size in the world --the Buick Sealed Chas-- combined sales of any other three cars in its heldt Buick's popularity. Demand for Buick has in-- cars at or near its price, Wha: better testimonial! to Buick value than this? What more convincing Local Representative and hails PHONE 456 practically all the jously h, the draft of the ad-- s and ree-- ).an of ex-- keting. -- I% o magde to TOducts .' %0

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