The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-07
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
New State Auto Guide Book Is
Complete.
Next Year Book Will Appear in
Leather Cover.
FIELD WILL Be BROADENED
Routes in Adjoining States to
Be Included.
Has Been Improvement in
Kansas Roads.


The Kansas state Automobile As
sociation Official Guide. which is be-
| ing distributed this week. is the most
| complete Kansas publication for mo-
/ florists that has yet made its appear
ance. 1t gives logs of all the main
auto roads in the state, contains the
| Kansas automobile law recently en-
acted by the legislature, and contains
| a large amount of material of interes,
| to automobile enthusiasts.
! The guide was pu bliShed in Topeka
! by the officers of the state organize
ton. 1t is a creditable piece of work.
! However, d. z. Watkins secretary OF
| the association has announced that
| next year the guide will cover a terri
| tory including Kansas and adjoining
| states-MiSsouri, Oklahoma, Colorado
and Nebraska. 1t will be deliberately
! bound in soft leather. 1t will be SO
| ped out in case one wants the log
for any particular trip and does not
| care to carry the entire book.
The following statement is made by
| the publishers of the guide:
Wonderful Progress Shown.
The Kansas State Autom obile aSSo-
citation history has been brief but sue
cessful.
When the association was first or
ganiZed seven per cent of the high
ways of Kansas were receiving atten-
ton. Before the close of the year
1912, thirty-seven per cent of the
Kansas roads were being dragged and
graded: stone culverts, concrete Gull
verts, bridges, and other necessary
i'm proven were being made gen
orally throughout the state.
The association does not claim cred
it for all of this wonderful progress,
but it modestly assumes some credit
for having been in existence and hav-
ing been busy every day in the year
promoting the campaign for improved
highways.
All of the things proposed by the
State association have not been at
tanned. but the cooperation of the
body of influential men who are MEM
bers of the association means progress
for the future
During the last legislature the asso-
citation proposed a horsepower tax
and exemption from further taxation
of motor cars. The members of the
legislature objected to the exemption
from other taxes. However. the leg
islature did exempt motor cars from
local license taxes, but added the five
dollar state registration fee, which re-
Quires that every car owner be pro-
Vided with a number.
number of legislative proposals
tc increase the burden of taxation to
the motor car owner were defeated,
and it is the opinion of the officers
of the association that the next legiS-
lature will be in favor of making
further beneficial changes in the pres
ent method of handling the motor car
taxation. These results can be accom- !
plished only by united effort on the
part of the members of this associa-
ton.
Dad Foots the Bill.
THE boys buy the motor cars-the |
men pay for them" is the statement of
an official of an auto concern.
N one but the experienced motor |
car salesman can have any idea of the |
great influence of the boy in the fam
lily, when the question of buying a |
motor car comes up. Unless the sales |
man can sell the boy, he is going to |
have a very hard time in selling the |
father. OF course, this is not an in |
fallible rule. but it is true in nine cases
out of ten. The boy is naturally in
terested in motor cars, because his
eyes are open to every new kind of |
pleasure, and nothing else offers such
enjoyment IS a motor car He gets
the catalogues and reads them from
the different cars are made. and con-
sequently when the head of the house
is ready to make the purchase he
looks to the boy because that is where
he is going to get a large part of his
buying knowledge.
Just the other day one of our sales
men went out to call on a prospect.
and when he got there he found the
tives of two other cars on the
ground. There was nothing for him to
do but wait his turn. Finally the
young son came home from school and
the waiting salesman immedia tely got
him into the car and drove out to a
wide boulevard, where the young fell
low was taught how to drive When
they returned the boy was still at the
wheel, and, as he drove up, he shouted
to his father: Buy this for me. dad,
because I can drive it already" This
chap was only 9 years old, vet his re-
quest was eE%ugh to cause the father
to buy the car, even before he had
given 1t a trial himself"