The Washington herald., 1911-02-19
AUTO TOURING Is
CONSTANT DELIGHT
No Other Form of Pleasure
/; Compares with 1t.
By WALTER e. FLANDERS,
President. EMF Company.

President, EMF Company.
Nothing in the whole field of motoring
affords such varied and constant pleas
ure as the form Of use that has given
the name to a type Of car that has won
greatest fame and has become more
generally used than any other. The
touring car is the car of automobiles
1t is in touring that the owner OF mo-
tor car finds his greatest pleasure
Multitudinous as are the uses OF the
automobile, there is one field that must
always be supremely attractive to the
majority of owners. 1t makes no differ
ence whether the car was purchased for
pleasure or utility purposes. The pleas
ure of touring cannot be equaled by any
other pastime- Automobile touring is a
boon to mankind and the greatest health
giving sport known to civilization.
There is nothing in the world that afE
fords as much joy as a slashing trip
through a country that lies always open
to the automobile tourist For him the
bonds Of the time table are loosened; he
may go whittier he will, and his journey
need not be marred by passing through
this manufacturing town or that, as
must be the case of him who relies upon
the railroad for travel. Not for the mo-
torist is the confinement of the train.
The automobile tourist is his own time
table. He starts at his pleasure, and If
he comes to place where he would stop
and rest all he needs is a pressure Of
the foot, turn of the hand, and he is
there, to stay as long as it may please
him.
Through woods and plains over hills
and valleys, by broad rivers and bab-
bling brooks, in settled country or in
solitudes, he makes his own itinerary.
He need not fear to venture as far from
civilization as his wanderlust may lead
To the man who owns a motor car and
knows its use America is indeed the
promised land. In every State, in every
county stirs the spirit Of the good-roads
movement Everywhere he will find
preparations being made for him as the
bringer Of progress and civilization and
the agent prosperity. Here and there he
will find speed traps, but he will have
been warned of them by his club and
will know how to conduct himself with
discretion. But for every speed trap he
will find a dozen stretches of road where
he may open his throttle and speed on,
secure in the clear ribbon of road that
unwinds beneath him, exulting in the
joy of the tonic air on the hottest OF
days, drawing from life the best that it
holds for him in the pursuit of health
and pleasure.
There never was such an instrument
to promote democracy as the motor car
One might expect exclusiveness on the
Part of a man who shares the road in
his $4,000 car with the owner of a run
about, but one would be disappointed.
Let a man in the runabout be in dis
treSs and he will find his richer brother
cheerfully pausing to give the help of
his high-priced chauffeur and glad
enough to accept the cheerful return Of
the favor the next day or the next week
All good automobilists become brothers
Of the road when once the longing for
the road has seized them, and there is
no escape from the motor-car microbe
and no cure for its ravages.