The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-06
Increasing in North Caro-
lima Is Per Day
BUY THEN
Many Bond IsSues-Farmcrs Find
Cars Advantageous For Both Bust
ness and Pleasure.
(By THORNWEIL HAYNES.o

tISN lI1>)lSN w ELL ia
High Point, Aug. 3.-Motor cars
are fairly flooding the South. Dur
ing the month Of July they have en-
tered North Carolina alone at the
rate Of $4,000 worth a day, there
having been licensed during this
time by the department of state
about two dozen every twenty-four
hours.
Whether or not the "honk-honk'
may rightfully be called "the great
civilizer." as some Of the more ar
dent insist. it nevertheless increases
its clamor. and has without doubt
been the means Of a great many bond
issues for highway Improvement.
Farmers. who at one time were
stolidly against such issues. have for
some time been buying machines for
themselves in order to put their
homes and farms in closer touch with
the towns. many even moving their
families into the cities for better
school facilities. while the motor
car takes them in the morning to
their farms nj back again at night.
Where the automobiles are thickest
the roads are best. n this ex-
plains. perhaps. why the little
stretch Of roads of fifteen miles of
the national highway between
Greensboro and High Point won the
ST. 900 prize some years ago for the
New York and Atlanta And to
show how the good roads fever has
no palliative. the $1,000 was i'm
mediatley put into a solidly-built, ar
tistic bridge across a small stream
which flows between the two towns.
Years ago the farmer could not
abide the goggle-faced fend at the
steeripg-gear. The "honk-honk' af-
fected him much after the manner
the indian war-whooD use to
affect the backbone Of the Pilgrim
Fathers. But nowadays the fellow
who knows more about a
than cranking a car
edges the autoist has his good quail
ties. especially since In shortening
machine he has also shotened It
for the mule or horse-pulled We
hjcle. And then, too. the horse
has quit shying, and as for the mule,
that most patient of q~uadrupeds,
he has moved SO far in civilization
that he not only smiles at h speed
ing auto, but run away in an IN
S%diil dl tHc SKILL VI q HiCC1bo1 Wv
More Farmers Interested.
More formers daily are not only
finding the motor car a pleasure, bu'
such a convenience in transactins
farm business that the time saVeo
goes far tOward paying the purchase
price. And the doctors. too, seventy
1--WE per cent Of them. own their OWL
cars. When a man wants a physl'
clan he wants him badly. When G
human stomach Graves one Of thu
worlds twelve billion pills that are
annually manufactured. the honk O
the automobile is more satisfying
than the clatter of horse hoOfs. Ant
the merchant finds the auto truck
greatly in advance; the Ommercla
traveller economies time by arrang
ing his own schedule.-in fact, Their
is hardly a class of people who dt
not find the use of the motor ca
iority. people buy it for other reasons
There was a friend of mine. [ re
nembe when he first bought his. l
was not for pleasure or profit or con
Ncnience. | distinctly remember hov
d big car used to have the habit Q
coming around somewhere near hi
front yard every evening and witt
q yell swearing it would go no far
Their. 1t would whiz and dance am
shake itself until all the %electri
lights for blocks around would laugl
like an oil lamp in an old-time pas
senger coach. but there that ca
stood uuivering and trembling a
though in doubt whether to breal
out in a big "ha-ha." or to fling 1t
liver and lights all over the neighbor
hOOd 1t was very insistent. Jus
as my friend would light his after
supper cigar and TAX up the even
ing paper. and as it started up tn
little incline in front of his house
would begin to say "tut-tut' to itsel
rs though there was nothing eS
pecialiy wrong: then with an expo
sive mechanical oath it would rip GU