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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SAT URDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1919 Ey me -- TT Tr Exhaust Echoes NORTH SHORE AUTO MEN MEET TO FORM OWN ASSOCIATION Problems confronting the automo- bile dealers of every-city and state are such that national organization is absolutely necessary for adequate protection, according to P. F. Dru- .ry, field secretary -of the National Automobile Dealers' association, who has arrived on the north shore to lay before the dealers an invitation to join the national association. The organization's headquarters are in St. Louis. Representing the 27,000 dealers of the country it now has a membership of 5000 in the forty- eight states. It is coroperative, or- ganized for "protection, not profit," and its officers are nationally known among the dealers. F. W. A. Vesper of St. Louis is president and Harry G. Moock, formerly of Denver, is the secretary and business manager .in charge of the St. Louis office. A meeting to organize the North Shore Auto Dealers' association as a branch of the national organization was \ called for Monday night at 8 o'clock in the rooms of the Evanston Commercial association. Two weeks are needed by the com- mittee to draw up suggested rules and regulations and by-laws Per- manent officers are to be chosen at the next meeting. A large number of north shore automobile men appeared at the club in response to the annuoncement that an organization is to be created and all were enthusiastic over the prospect of a strong association here. Membership will include auto men from Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnet- ka and Glencoe. J. L. Scales, who was named to as- sume the duties of a temporary sec- retary, announces the following committee to consider rules for the budding organization: Henry G. Williams of Northwest- ern garage, Evanston; B .H. Briggs, Grove street and Sherman avenue, Evanston, and W. T. Wehrstedt, Winnetka Motor Co., of Winnetka. Several local automobile men are already members of the national as- sociation. Mr. Drury in explaining the objects of the association sets forth the fol- lowing facts concerning the indust- There are a billion and a quarter dollars invested in the automobile industry and the security of this capital and the safety and weil being of the 830,000 employes are dependent upon commercial and legislative fair treatment. There are 6,000,000 automobiles in daily use in America and the country "has been absorbing cars at the rate of a million a year. This absorption is expected to reach 1,500.000 annu- ally. About 750,000 cars wear out a year. The annual wage paid by the in- dustry totals $750,000,000, which is equal to the total circulation of gold in the United States in 1917. The number of employes is one-half the total of all the railroad employes in the United States. The industry is the third largest in the country, be- ing exceeded in manufacture only by the steel and clothing industries. Mr. Drury calls the attention of the dealers to the services now of- fered by the N. A. D. A. to members. They are an employment department for high-class employes, such as salesmen, sales managers and service managers, a war tax rulings depart- ment, a legal department, a legislative aid department, a speaker's bureau, an advisory advertising trade information department, a highways construction department, aid of traveling field secretaries in building up local associations and handling local problems and the N. A. D. A. bulletin. In the bulletin con- . fidential matters of importance to the trade are distributed to the mem- bers, insurance informative details on trade problems often days ahead of general circulation through the ordinary -channels. All these servic- es are free to members. This year the association has con- centrated on a program of obtaining a reduction or a total elimination of |° the 5 per cent semi-luxury tax on automobiles, the passage in congress of the Townsend bill for a national ' highways commission similar to the interstate commerce © commission's operations over the railroads, uni- formity of state licensing and regu- lation and stabilization of the truck market. : FUEL NOW GREATEST PROBLEM OF OWNER, ASSERTS SHERLAND "With the tremendous increase in the consumption of gasoline and the consequent reduction in its quality, the fuel' problem is becoming of greater importance every day to the automobile owner," declared Louis J. Sherland this week. : he "To understand the situation it 1s necessary to remember that the auto- mobile motor is operated by heat, ythat it is the expansion of the het | bureau , aj gases in the combustion chamber that moves the piston. . The problem then is to extract as many heat units as possible out of the fuel that is taken into the cylinder. "In the early days this was com- be supplemented by the addition of paratively easy as the gasoline sup- rd 'then was highly volatile and! vas easily vaporized into an 4in-! flammable gas. As the demand for | gasgline increased, however, the] supply proved insufficient and had to the heavier oil products which were not so easily vaporized. Heavy Fuel Causes Carbon "The result was exactly the same as though you tried to burn heavy lump coal in a furnace designed ex- clusively for nut. In the automobile engine the heavier fuel refused to vaporize properly. Part of it was | burned, part of it formed carbon ard] fouled the spark plugs while some leaked past the.piston rings into the oil in the crank case, destroying its lubricating properties. "The outcome was: hurned out | bearing, fouled spark plugs, the form- atron of excessive carbon in the cyl- inders, hard starting, waste of. fuel, low 'mileage, loss. of power and a knockir motor. hese | evils, engineers res methods of applying he: irious pt i i assist i drop | retor is bolted directly tc | er block and the inward passages in the vaporization of the fuel, real- izing that the low grade of gasoline available would supply more heat units than high grade fuel, and furn- ish more power is these heat units could be extracted. ~~ Develops 65 HM. P. "The result may be seen in the Es- sex, the wonderful performance of which during the past few months has aktonished the motor world, Al- though it is only 29 1-2 inches in length overall, the Essex motor de- velops more than sixty-five horse- power, -- this. remarkable achievement is made possible by its scientific struction which permits the thorot atomization and burning f of fuel supplied "The manifold carrying the carbu- con- | given a downward slope from the carburetor through the valves. Per- fect conditions for starting are .as- sured since the raw gasoline flowing from a choked carburetor must prime every 'cylinder in the most effective way. The combination of gravity flow of the mixture and the hot mani- fold insures perfect distribution and complete combustion of the fuel." COURTESY THAT PAYS Compliments of congrafulation are vays kindly taken, and cost one ing but pen, i paper. I on good LN is al- he draw- ink n and IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE next of the gas industry. week. OFFI Again We Say, our dollar is just like yours. CES: "Your Dollar and Our Dollar" Your Dollar and Our Dollar are alike. But why mention it? Because that seems the simplest way to point out to our customers how present-day prices have boosted the cost of providing good gas service. To Quote from Uncle Sam's Reports and other reliable and authentic sources, your dollar today will buy only 55% as much food as before the war,--only 45% as much clothing,--only 53% as much labor,--only 42% as much of commodities of all kinds! This means that your dollar's purchasing power is about half what it was before the war. The Costs of Coal, Oil, Labor and general supplies for making and delivering gas are the highest in the history They have increased on the same scale as household necessities. These costs are beyond our con- trol. We have to meet them in order to continue good gas service. A Recitation of the Details of these costs makes a very long and dull story. Part of the figures would tell vou little or nothing. All of them would bore you and would mean nothing to you unless you are an engineer. : But We want to Point out to our customers that Old High Cost of Living has chopped the purchasing power of our dollar in half the same as he has yours. How all the Facts and Figures on this subject are brought together and the price of gas fixed accordingly will be outlined in our next statement to appear in this newspaper orth Shore Gas Company Waukegan, Lake Forest, Highland Park, Winnetka, Libertyville