McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, January 28, 1932, Image 2
Thursday, January 28, 1932
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.