If you were the only person in town that traded with
mail order concerns—it would hurt some— but it wouldn’t paralyze the
prosperity of the community.
The greatest injury would be in the influence your out
of-town-trading exerted over others. Other people might follow in your
foot-steps of foreign trading and that following would prove detrimental to
home business development and betterment of public welfare.
Set a good example. Be a home buyer. Take pride in
your community. Feel that money spent here at home is playing an
important part in building up the town. Know that it buys the goods
you want and goes towards some public good. That it helps increase the
efficiency of schools—puts down better street crossings—erects better
libraries—brightens the town’s lights—makes the parks more attractive—pays
for better police protection, etc.
Instead of fostering the mail order habit—fight it openly.
Teach the truth of home trading. Preach home patronage. Show mail
order buyers the error of their ways—and go out of your way to do it.
Local merchants handle the highest grade merchan
dise. They carry advertised brands. They sell at a proper
price—makes of goods that bear the stamp of honest manufacturers.
They deal cpen-handedly. They don’t cover up questionable quality
with private labels. They offer you the latest and most dependable
lines—in all lines of merchandise. Their stores are conveniently at hand. You
can reach them in a few short seconds—over the phone—or step right into their
places of business—give or leave your order—and have the goods delivered
straight to your home—all in a few minutes time.
They willingly accommodate you. They take particular
pains to give you just what you want right when you want it. You
don’t have to buy in big quantities to save freight or express charges. You can
spend less at a time—and save considerable sums in cash, to say nothing of the
great saving of time and trouble.
Advocate those advantages. Do mail order traders a
good turn by turning them away from away-from-home buying—liven
up local business, and by so doing speed the town along the road of progress.
Spend your money where it will in turn be spent for
local improvements instead of sending it away to fatten business and
better conditions of other communities. Support the community that supports yoiu
The Cslumet Baking Powder Company
paid for the preparation of this article.
‘STEPPING ON IT’ WASTES 25 PER CENT
V .«* M « «
ITRBANA, 111., Feb. 9.—“This car sure eats gas,” you observe to the
filling station attendant as be screws the cap on your gas tank after put
ting in five gallons. Then you pay him, step in, slam the door, “step on it”
and dash away.
But did you know that when you step on it for speedy getaway one
fourth of your gasoline vanishes? Of course you didn’t, for this fact has
just been established in the laboratories at the University of Illinois as a by
jJlUUUCL UL ail mvcougttuuu ucici
mine the amount of air and power re
quired to ventilate the Hudson river
vehicular tunnel. The tests also
show that it is the wasted gasoline
that forms the deadly monoxide poi
son gas.
“Perhaps you have never thought of
it just that way, but in order to have
the average car get away quickly
when you ‘step on it’ you must waste
more than a fourth of the gasoline
you buy,” declares Professor A C.
Willard head of the University of Illi
nois department of mechanical engi
neering who revealed the automobile
gas findings.
“The explanation is simple,” he con
tinued. “In order to burn gasoline
in an automobile engine, the gasoline
must first be mixed with air in the
carburetor as everyone knows.. This
mixing business is carried on to suit
the driver who demands ‘pep.’ The
greatest pep or maximum power is
obtained from the average automobile
engine when the mixture of air and
gasoline is in the ratio of about 12
pounds of air to a pound of gaso
line. Unfortunately for our pocket
books, this is not the most economi
cal mixture we could use since there
is not enough air present to burn all
the gasoline. The most economical
mixture, or the one which does burn
all the gasoline, is in the ratio of
about sixteen pounds of air to one
pound of gasoline, but such a mix
ture too slow in burning to suit
the average driver. Therefore, he sets
his carburetor for a twelve to one ra
tio and throws away in the exhaust
gasses over 25 per cent of the heat
value of his gasoline in the incom
pletely burned products of combus
tion.
“But mere extravagance is not the
end of it, as these partly burned ex
haust gasses are made up principal
ly of the deadly, carbon monoxide gas,
which has caused so many deaths. A
study of the exhaust gasses from over
100 actual automobiles, which was
made in order to determine the
amount of carbon monoxide in such
gasses, supplied positive evidence to
back pp the statement in the first
paragraph. This study, which was
carried on in connection with the ven
tilation of the automobile tunnel un
der the Hudson river at New York
City, showed that the exhaust of the
average automobile carried approxi
mately 6.3 per cent by volume of car
bon monoxide gas. This condition cor
responds almost exactly to a 12.4 to 1
air to gasoline ratio, which provided
the quick getaway but wastes at least
25 per cent of the heat value of the
gasoline by producing the fatal car
bon monoxide, instead of its compara
tively harmless relative carbon diox
ide.”
Japan To Reduce Army
(By Associated Press)
TOKIO, Japan, Feb. 9.—Four divi
y.
COPVRIOHT UNOERWOOO * UNDERWOOD. N.'v.j'
RADIO WAVES SEARCH ARCTIC
FOR NUTTING.
William Nutting, of Brooklyn, N.
Y., lost with his four companions in
their tiny vessel, the Leif Ericsson,
for the past lour months, after hav
ing started to follow the course tak
en by the Vikings from Denmark to
Little Harbor, Labrador. Govern
ment cruisers and airplanes having
tailed to find them, radio was used
recently: “Have you seen Nutting?”
being broadcast from KDKA, East
Pittsburg; WBZ, Springfield, Mass.,
and KYW, Chicago.
sions comprising of 40,000 men of the
Japanese army will be dismissed by
May 1 in accordance with the gen
eral retrenchment plan of the gov
ernment. The divisions abolished
have been selected largely with a
view to the economic results in the
regions where they are stationed.
Eaton, Crane, Pike Stationery at
the Alaska Shop. tf
Electric Railroads
Co-ordinate Service
By Operating Bases
NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Service ex
tensions by both rail and bus lines,
totaling more than 8000 miles thruout
the United States were made by elec
tric railways during 1924, J. N. Shan
nahan, president of the American
Electric Railway Association announc
ed today. Most of this extension was
made by the railways supplementing
their service with busses, but the 312
miles of new rail construction was the
most since 1918, Mr. Shannahan said
He added that the co-ordination of
busses and cars into single transpor
tation units in communities was pro
ceeding rapidly and improving serv
ice.
“Electric railways generally thruout
the United States held their own dur
ing 1942,” Mr. Shannahan declared.
“In the face of severe industrial de
pression early in the year, which in
some communities decreased traffic
ten per cent, and an increase of 2,065
590 in pleasure automobiles, the record
is remarkable. Final figures for lite
year indicate total passengers carried
will be within two percent of the
16,000.000,000 total for 1923, which set
an all time record.
j “Today the traffic trend on electric
I railways is upward and indications
| for a banner year during 1925 are
Jgood. The electric railway curve in
(variably follows the general business
I trend.
I
“Perhaps the most encouraging fea
ture of the electric railway business
today is the gradual but definite co
ordination of electric lines and busses.
Electric railway managements thru
out the country are steadily assum
ing control of all local transportation,
including both rail and motor lines,
and co-ordinating it under one head.
One hundred and seventy electric rail
way companies are now operating a
total of 2500 busses in the extension of
passenger service into suburban ter
ritories where traffic does not warrant
the extension of rail lines and in sup
plementing established rail service.
The bus has replaced a few car lines,
which probably should never have
been built, but nowhere has it suc
ceeded in supplying an entire city of
any considerable size with complete
transportation. Where public officials,
citizens and companies are co-operat
ing in an endeavor to establish the
best possible car-bus service, the wild
cat jitney is rapidly disappearing
through local and state legislation.
The pleasure automobile is a far more
serious competitor of electric rail
ways than busses.
“Underlying conditions with the i
electric lines are sound, as evidenced i
by the way the industry withstood the j
serious depression of the early part I
of the year. An increase of only one {
percent is shown in operating costs, i
although wages alone went up two per
cent. There were 65 wage increases, 1
!
13 decreases and 60 renewals without
change. The average fare increased
from 7.31 in January, 1924, to 7.49 in
January, 1925, or abouut 2.5 percent.
“Only 13 lines representing 1022
miles of track and with outstanding
securities of $75,000,000 went into re
ceivership. Twenty-two - companies,
representing 1650 miles of track and
$176,000,000 of securities, were dis
charged from their financial difficul
ties.
“A total of 312 mile of new track,
the most since 1918, was constructed
and 712 miles reconstructed. A total
of $342,000,000 will be spent in 1925
for new plant and supplies, an increase
of 30 percent over the amount spent
for similar purpose sin 1924.”
Simple Mixture For
Gas On Stomach
Simple buckthorn bark, magnesium
sulph. c. p. glycerine, etc., as mixed
in Adlerika, helps any case gas on
the stomach, unless due to deep
seated causes. The pleasant and
QUICK action will surprise you. Be
cause Adlerika is such an excellent
intestinal evacuant it is wonderful
for constipation—it often works in
one hour and never gripes. Seward
Drug Company.
Jake Hepfinger, a well known bar
ber, formerly of Alaska, is running a
shop at 2204 Second avenue, where he
will be glad to see all his friends who
come from Alaska.
Coming up, St. Patrick’s Day dance.
TOURISTS MOW MAY MOTOR
TO WILD LANDS OF BONTOK
(By Associated Press)
MANILA, Feb. 9.—The famous rice
terraces of the Ifugao tribe in the
Bontok region of the Mountain prov
ince, which always have been inacces
sible to the outside world, except over
a narrow mountain trail, will hence
forth be accessible to tourists in mo
tor cars. The Ifugao tribesmen have
themselves completed the roads over
which automobiles can now reach
their territory, 5,000 feet above sea
level.
Tiie engineering accomplishment of
the Ifugaos, by which they irrigate
their rice fields on the mountain
sides, even though their implements
are of the crudest kind, have attract
ed the attention of irrigation engi
neers from many foreign countries.
Brunswick Pnonographs and Re
cords. The Alaska Shop. tf
Snow Shoes, $9.50 per pair, at
Graef’s. tf
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I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
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brothers welcome. Fred Martineides,
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