The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-05-21
Owner of Automobile That Runs
on Country Roads Must Ex-
ercise Discretion.
NO MACHINE "FOOLPROOF"
Car Requires Care In About the Same
Degree That a Team of Horses
Would-ShouId Be Treated
at All Times as an In
vcstment

II you want your automobile to
stand up under the wear and tear of
country highways and country usage
take care of it! If you don't de this,
don't 20 around telling people that the
farmer has no business to be owning
and running an automobile, writes m.
H." in Farm Progress.
So far, no manufacturer has made
an indestructible car. Not one OF
them has turned out machine that
could be called "foolproof." You can
smash up and twist any machine, no
matter how well built it may be- il
you will just be reasonably careless.
No motor car is going to keep right
on looking like new car if it Is
brought in off muddy highway and
allowed to stand in the shed with a
coat of mud varying in thickness from
half an inch to an inch spread care
lessly over its paint. You can't blame
the manufacturer If your automobile
looks bit scaly and dilapidated after
month or two of such treatment.
Suppose you try cleaning it and pol
ishing it up bit from time to time,
and see If the car can't retain it's good
looks.
OF course, you bought the car to
use, but why insist on taking 1t out in
weather that turns the ordinary dirt
road into mud canal, and where ev-
cry revolution of the wheels throws
the yellow clay or the rich dark loan
as high as the tree tops? You may
want to get your moneys worth out
OF your car and be able to boast that
you run err all winter long, and that
nothing headed" you. That is all
right, Of course, and the car is yours;
but why make business any better for
the automobile people than it is at
present?
A car is a considerable investment
for the average sort of farmer Why
not figure that you have a piece of
machinery that, under the present coa-
ditions in dirt road community can
not be used, say, four months in the
year? On the other hand, it can be
used for the balance of the year, and
used to good advantage
Why not just content yourself with
eight months satisfactory usage, good
service and long life to the motor and
let 1t go at that? At least until your
neighborhood gets a system of roads
that will be as good in March and
April as 1t is August and September?
Do you realize that every time you
abuse your car you furnish the moss
back with a fine lot of arguments
against people on the farm who buy
automobiles? There is always some
one waiting around to pick up your
latest piece of bad luck" with a ma
chine and use it as a text on which
to preach a sermon with a poorhouse
ending. OF course, talk won't hurt
you, but it is a little more pleasant
not to be used as the neighborhood
horrible example"
1t is fact that an automobile ia q
good investment for the farmer who
can afford 1t, II he will give 1t rea-
sonable care. Any man who has owned
one, used 1t, taken care OF it and
made 1t part OF his everyday farm
equipment, knows that 1t is a good
investment in the way Of farm ma
chinery. On the other hand, II the
machine is given no more care than
the farm buggy, the farm wagon, or
the moving machine, 1t is about the
most costly luxury that can be shell
tered by farmer.
! The difference between the farm
auto that is luxury and one that Is
| a year-to-year necessity, lies In the
care and the upkeep that you are
willing to give it. If you don't take
good care OF it, Iengthen its period of
service and thus save your own money.
the farm car is luxury. When you
take care Of It right and use 1t sensi-
bly, 1t Is not luxury.