Arizona republican., 1914-05-17
D0 N0T DRIVE
 IN RUT---BULl
President of Case Auto Makers Gives Sound Ad- vice to Users of Roads; Motorist Can Do More Than He Thinks
CBy F. K. Bull, President J. I. Case
 T. NJ. Company

(By F. K. Bull, President J. l. Case
 T. M Company
 Have you ever stopped to think, MT. Automobile Owner, that you can do lot to help along the good roads movement and preserve the surface of the highways, without so much as donating a cent toward their upkeep.
 I do not mean that you are to be exempt from doing your share to- ward helping solve the problem of good roads, for the future great ad- vantage of the gasoline propelled vehicle will lie in the pleasures and business advantages gained in trav- cling, from town to town, city to city and state to state.
 In this article I have been asked to deal with the tourist or auto owner, who knows not the meaning of the word economy in using coun- try roads. Or I might better put it by saying that I have been asked to call the attention of the auto owner and truck driver to their wonderful lack of appreciation of good roads.
 When an automobile owner or driver strikes a piece of bad road he surely realizes it and in a muf- fled way, at least, expresses dissat isfaction. Very often. however, he is responsible for it's condition.
 Why not make a resolution to do your little share toward preserv- ing the good roads and helping the bad ones?
 The first and most important les son in preservation of the highways of the good roads clubs in Texas, reads as follows:
 Don't Drive in the Rut.'
 Examples innumerable in all parts of the country might be recited in this article where fine pieces of highway or a trans-state road in its entirety. has been destroyed by au- tomobilists who insist in travelling on exactly the same lines as the other fellow
 How often have you seen a we'll oiled country road in fairly good con dition or a new section of highway just built become almost impossible by constant usage of a rut that was first marked by the initial car to travel over it.
 Last fall 1 made a trip from Ill- cine, Wis, to San Francisco, Cal, tC test out three new touring models and to inspect the country highways in the northwest. On several occa- eff lf I that today would be as fine as any in the country, had the tourist ol driver of the gasoline propelled ve- hicle as well as the resident of tn, rural district who still swears by his horse and buggy, cared to exercise economy in the use of the highwa, placed at his disposal by the count! or state or as in some instance b! money donated by residents alont the road.
 l recall vividly one piece of roat on the Pacific coast, where the rut. were as deep as the rails of a stean road. are high and worn as thougl they were moulded there. Eacl tourist that came along-and ther' are thousands of them every year il that section, had followed right il the path of the original car and on, of the best sections of highways W, travelled over in our 4,000 mile triI was consequently all but impossible
 Almost without an exception ever. piece of good road in the country i! sooner or later destroyed by thi: same carelessness on the part of tn, owner or his chauffeur Six inches of road that is often twelve fee wide is called upon to stand tho strain of all the machines that pass over it.
 After these ruts are started ant the surface has been broken through the chuck holes and dust holes come and in rainy seasons you have tho water to contend with which softens the surface and decreases the ef- ficiency of the material used in mak- ing the road.
 Don't drive in the rut' would be splendid motto for all autoists tC