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Thursday, January 28, 1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Mil (I New Automobiles car. At this year’s chow the same makers are offering a car of the Greatly Improved same size * but with a more power- * A- i ritl Atinrivio oq Hpt.t By Ca,leb Johnson When Even in times like these every body is interested in the new auto mobiles. Perhaps the automobile people are going to sell more of them in 1932 than they did in 1931. At any rate, there is a wider variety "" “"7 high 'quidity 'big cars are of good automobiles to choose from se ] Ilng at f rom ji ooo to $3,000 less than ever before, and at lower ful engine and a better car in ev- !ery way, for a hundred dollars less than half of that figure. There are better cars selling between $500 and $1,000 than could have been bought two years ago from $1,000 to $2,000. In tune with the times, the largest offerings of new cars are in the less than $1,000 class, and prices. Even though automobiles sales fell off in 1931 by more than one half from 1929, and only about 2,- 450,000 cars were built last year, than similar models sold last year. And I think I am perfectly safe in saying chat, without exception, they are all better cars. I was surprised to find how uni- there was more automobile travel forml y ^ he manufacturers have adopted all of the very latest im provements. For one thing, chey are all showing smaller wheels and W HAT many people call indiges tion very often means excess acid in the stomach. The stomach > nerves have been over-stimulated, and food Sours. The corrective is an alkali, which neutralizes the acids instantly. And the best alkali known . to medical science is Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia. One spoonful of this harmless, , tasteless alkali in water neutralizes ; instantly many times that much * acid, and the symptoms disappear at once. You will never use crude . methods when once you learn the , efficiency of this. Go, get a small . bottle, to try. Be sure to get the genuine Phillips i Milk of Magnesia prescribed by i physicians for 50 years in correcting excess acids. 25c and 50c a bottle— ' any drugstore. Black diamonds are harder than £em diamonds. tXX Perpetual ice is rarely found in €ayes in large quantities. than ever before. That is proved by the fact that five hundred mil lion more gallons of gasoline were , ^ ^ consumed In 1931 than In 1930. And lar « er tires-some of the tires have that. In turn, means that the old almost 1116 Proportion of dough- cars were driven harder and are i nut5 - ° ne ° f ‘ he , big f st l mpr f ov ?: nearer the stage where they must ments ln the who ‘ e automotive field be replaced by new ones. Auto- i in recent y ears has been m ‘ he mobile manufacturers figure that quality of tires. I can remember there are six million cars that when three thousand mUes was a ought to go to the junk heap this lot of servlce t0 get ““‘o' a set of year. And if they can sell that ‘ires, while today it is ordinary many they would be doing twice as ex P erience to get twenty t ousan much business as they did last miles and over. ^ y ear . The smaller wheels help bring I went to the first automobile the car closer to the ground, and show of the season at Grand Cen- by thus lowering the center of tral Palace, New York, on the open ing day, January 9. This is the first place where the makers all show their new 1932 models, and I found a great many things to in terest me which will, I believe, in terest everybody who has a car or who hopes to ]iave a car. First, and most important, prices all along the line are way down. Six years ago I paid $3,750 for a gravity make high speeds safer and lessen the danger of an upset on curves. Last year’s cars seemed low, but this year’s are still lower from ground to top. Several mak ers have found new ways of bring ing the body down below the chas sis frame. Head room is less, but people these days don’t wear plug hats while motoring! There were few four cylinder en- show. Even very low-priced cars have six cylinders, and many of those under $1,000 are eights. Sev eral makers are showing twelves who never made anything bigger than eights before. All of that is in line with the increased speed which modern motorists, with plenty of good roads to drive on, are calling for. A few years ago a forty-horse-power engine was considered very powerful; I should say that half the cars in the show have engines above one hundred horse power, and are so designed that they can be driven with safety at speeds up iio seventy or eighty miles an hour. In almost every car I saw, some special effort has been made to suspend the engine in such a way as to ninimize engine vibration. Lighter weight pistons and crank shafts are the rule, and I saw num erous minor improvements in methods of insuring equal distri bution of gas to all cylinders, on the eights and twelves. There seems to be a tendency to do away with the vacuum tank and pro vide pressure feed from the main •.ank. I don’t think there was a single car at the show which did not have the new so-called “syncro-mesh” gears, in one form or another. I think that in many respects this is the most important improvement in cars that has been made. It eliminates all trouble in shifting gears, making that operation en tirely noiseless and eliminating all danger of stripping the gear teeth. And, in connection with this syn cro-mesh transmission, every car that I examined, from the $500 ones to the $10,000 ones, has some sys tem of free wheeling, usually in connection with an automatic clutch. Some have a button to press with your foot, to put the free wheeling and automatic clutch system into operation, some have the button on the dash board, some have a lever on the steering wheel, but in practically all of the new cars it is possible to drive over al most any kind of country without ever having to use the left foot for the clutch lever. On steep down grades where the braking power of the engine is required, the throw ing of a switch or the pressure of a button cuts out the f*ee wheeling feature and the engine directly geared to the driw shaft. On a good many of the nVw cars you dan stand still in traffic with the en gine idling, and by opening the gas throttle, by. means of the foot ac celerator, it will start off in first speed, automatically shift to sec ond when it gets up to four or five miles an hour, and then automati cally shift into third when the ten mile speed has been reached, and this process : ; s reversed whenever the car slows down. On a great many, if not most, of the new cars, the self-starter is also automatic, so that the engine can never stall so long as the switch is on. All it takes to start the engine is to throw the ignition switch. This device was used nearly twenty years ago by one maker that I know of and it has amazed me for years that nobody else had taken it up. Now they are all doing it, or most of them. Hydraulic shock absorbers are now regular equipment on every thing from Fords to Cadillacs, where only the last year or two they were expensive extras. And many of the new cars have what they call a “ride control” device whereby the tension on the shock gines in any of the cars at the est priced cars. That, of course, makes' riding easier. It also gives a longer hood under which to put a eight-cylinder engine, and permit longer bodies, with more leg room, in the smaller types of closed caio I saw a smaller proportion of car. of the rumble seat type, however, and more having a close-coupleu body, with rear seats for two o. three, and a removable canvas uop over all. They are yery sporty looking affairs, many of these, and doubtless will be popular with the type of young folks who have been such eager buyers of two-seaters with rpnble. Bigger and more powerful head lights, two horns instead of one— I cannot quite see the use of that— much more chromium plate and stainless steel, a greater variety of more brilliant body colors, deeper and more impressive-looking radia tor fronts, and more complete streamlining to prevent wind re sistance, are among the other min or improvements which almost all the new cars show. Of course, they all have four-wheel orakes, most of them mechanical brakes, with the exception of one very pop ular line which has used nydraulic brakes for several years and still applies them on all of its cars. And almost every one of the new cars has sun shields inside which can be pulled down and set at any angle by the driver, instead of the old-fashioned sun shields which were never completely satisfactory. I should say that a majority of the should say that a majority of the cars have some form of shatter proof glass as standard equipment for wind shields and windows, and some of the new ones have got the front seat floor boards and cov erings so fitted that there will :ao longer be a cold draft on the driv er’s feet in winter. I should say that perhaps half the cars in the show are wired for radio as standard equipment, and every one of these has some kind of a radio receiving set especially designed to go under the dashboard which is sold as an extra, at a cost from $100 to $150. Nobody has seen the new Ford yet. Nobody but a few insiders in the Ford organization know what it is going to be. Mr. Ford never exhibits at the national* show, but usually shows his new models at the same time. The rumor is wide spread that the new Ford will have eight cylinders and many other radical changes from the present model A type. But we will know a lot more about that when Mr. Ford tells us. x C-. i lL At first 1 glance we fell in love with this new sleeve. It was some- hing new and most flattering to* the arm of the young woman who wore the dress. On second glance we realized that though it looked a trifle intricate it was not too difficult to achieve at home. Care ful investigation followed—and here’s the story. The sleeve of the dress ends a few inches above the elbbw, and is: continued on over' the elbow by a loosely fitting extension of chiffon or net to match the dress. The edge of the net or chiffon is finished with a narrow hem run with fine, round rubber so as to make the sleeve puff slightly over the elbow. Velvet ribbon to match the dress is used for the trimming. It should be an inch or a little more in width • and you will need about one yard and a quarter for each sleeve, the exact amount depending on the size of the arm. Cut the velvet ribbon in four pieces for each sieeve. Join the ends to form four circles and. then, gather each along the top, and sew to the sleeve as shown in the sketch. Inoculate The Get Ready For Chicks. CLEMSON COLLEGE, Jan. 16.— Advising growers who expect to plant garden (or English) peas this season to inoculate the seed with the proper nitrogen-fixing bacteria before planting, E. H. Rawl, exten sion horticulturist, states that this absorbers can be altered to suit the Seabrook, county agent of Beau- load in the car or the character of fort: “A few years ago E. H the road. Everybody knows that a Rawl advocated inoculating vari- CLEMSON COLLEGE, Jan. 23.— Thousands of chicks are lost each Garden Peas year by crowding them in dirty brooder houses, according to P. H- Gooding,. extension poultryman, who thinks that it is useless to pay a high price for high grade chicks, if they are not given good care dur- j ing the brooding period. Eggs of a - uniform size and shape which were produced by selected birds produce , . , . . . , the best chicks/ but if these good practice has been found to increase I ... ’. ^ . ....... - chicks are not given a good ration vine growth and yield not only on . . ,. * v.- x. v. an d comfortable surroundings in SOU to which th.s crop has never j wWch j,, ^ m * been planted but also on soU where tato , itable individ0 , als . the crop has been previously grown., A taQDdec house 10 b 12 feet , ... „ . and a brick brooder will eliminate terial is very small, he says, and . .. „ , . . .. much. o£ the 'worry connected with can be obtained from any reliable . , . . . . .. , , ,. , , ,. . . ., chick raising and if an all-mash seed firm, but the buyer should .. . „ . .. . .. ... , ... ’ , , . , . , , ration is used, the feeding will be insist on the best material and be . ~ oorfoiw ^ ie fv-och greatly simplified, Mr. Gooding certain tna t it is xresn • a « % « , «_ thinks. The brooder house should Illustrating his point Mr. Rawl built on. runners so it can y be quotes experiences related by T. H. moved, to. clean, ground when ready heavily loaded car holds the road better than a light one, or at least ous legume seed with the appropri ate bacteria. Several demonstra- shakes up the passengers less. With , tions were established in another the “ride control,” which operates by opening or closing the oil valves in the shock absorbers, the same riding comfort is promised with only one passenger that ordinarily results from having five in the car, while rough roads are smoothed out by a similar application of the “rido control” adjustment. None of the cars at the show was equ pped with the new low pres sure tires. From twenty-five to thity-five pounds pressure is standard for balloon tires. One tire maker has brought out, and I wa^ told that others will soon bring out, a tire which requires only twelve pounds of air pressure. It has a triangular cross section, a county, and the results obtained interested me greatly. This year I asked two farmers of this county to co-operate with me and demon strate the good of inoculating uhsir pea seed at planting time. A. D. Hare of Beaufort and J. W. Demp sey of Burton constented to do so. The peas were to be fertilized and cultivated in the usual way, and no extra expense was to be incur red except the cost of the inocula tion culture. “Mr. Dempsey gathered 800 mar ketable hampers from three acres, or a yield of 266.66 bushels hamp ers per acre where inoculated, while check plots showed a little bet ter than 150 hampers per acre. Mr. very bro^d base on a wide wheel Hare’s results were not so striking rim and about four inches of sur- ; but nevertheless were very good, face contact with the road. Friends He made a yield of 990 hampers of mine who have driven in light from six acres, or 165 hampers per cars equipped with these twelve acre where seed were inoculated, pound tires say that they behave his check plot showed about the wonderfully- ! same as Mr. Dempsey’s. There I noticed a decided tendency to- will be more farmers to inoculate ward longer wheel base in the low-, English pea seed this year.” to start the brooding season. Ceil ing, walls, and floor should be swept carefully and scrubbed with lye and water. Then the entire building should be flooded with dis infectant. Any good coal-tar dis infectant may be used with good re&ultSu. A “Grow Healthy Chicks” card may be secured from the county agent with seven, rules, to follow in growing healthy chicks. Thirty- six record keepers, who kept the brooding records lost 21 per cent/ of their chicks as compared with a mortality of only eight per cent of eight who had these cards and followed the instructions. Mr. Gooding feels that the practices they followed were responsible for the difference. txt Senator X—We ought to investi gate the expenditures of these candidates. Senator Z—How much did they spend? L.-iator X—Fifty thousand dol lar £ :nator Z—What will an investi- ga; .ig committee cost? S.nator X—About $50,000. Senator Z—That’s not bad. We ll take the matter up.