Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-09
LOS ANGELES MOTOR
EXHIBIT BIG SUCCESS
Tanks, Statesmen, Demonstra-
tors and New Models Have
Claimed Attention.

Doesn't is seem funny to see a
tank bigger than your own:'' eX-
claimed the Motor Pirate to Engine
Brown of the Times, as he was re-
Gently in Los Angeles watching the
war exhibit at the big wheel zoo.
'Is that the line of conversation
yoi oper. UP TO n stranger when you
want to sell him a new carr" re-
torted Brown. in some heat.
'Ay tank So" returned tn, snles-
man. In his choicest Swedish dialect
speaking of tanks" said Brown
savagely, sis 1t true that your people
didn't want to raise you on account
Of the foolish noises you made with
your face?"
II don't think it's as bad as that"
chirped the pirate, calmly when
I can sell you an $500 geewhizzer
uph ostered in wall paper for S1,1O0 l
should worry about my voice. Caruso
lis some warbler, but let him try TO
sell buZzwagons to his fellow citizens
end see what happens"
And that's no passing whim.
The genial gentlemen who Are
marketing the seasons gasoline gon-
dolas are neither deaf, dumb or blind.
Each one represents the car that sells
itself, but after all there is no harm
in speeding up the transaction with
lew Well-CHOscu WOTus' Inc man
who with the aid of a baritone voice
cannot take Lookout mountain on
high is punk performer. This years
salesman is pink, smooth -shaven
person with highly reached hair and
supple hands. He looks as IL he
might be deft in parlor magic and
while he Is demonstrating a car with
one hand he could be mixing ONE
let in a plug hat with the other. If
I 1T, Ia. Nl,At hA ~ n 4
at least engage in pleasing converse
ton. or course there is famine
in cars this year and the factory is
oversold, but he will manage to dig
UP one for you somehow or other
even IL he has to make 1t with his
naked fins. 1t will be a 10y for him
to do this-in fact. he will do any
thing in the world for you except
tako your note without an indorser.
/ The man who goes to an auto
show with $1,000 worth of cash or
credit and comes away without leav-
ing his measure for brand new
car has to be a grabbed and rnorose
person who would fight his own dog
Something About Tanks.
Still speaking of tanks the one
shown at the recent motor zoo held all
! eyes even If it could not stand the
shock of service. 1t was camou-
flaged to order from the plans of
the most expert naturalists and gun
smiths of the Knock Out Film COM
pane. One of the greatest author
! tiles on caterpilars outlined the de-
sign and this was TO owed up by
skill and experience. No wonder
these monsters strike terror In the
hearts of the enemy. Just give one
the scent of Limburger and it will
follow the trail of the German army
to perdition. TIE tank is a cross
between a hattecing ram and a. tape
worm and It can run on q road os
its own making. 1t IS usually a
mighty rough rond and II man
reeds little shaking up II Is hord
to imagine a Job more complete tina n
in chauffeurlny one of these runaway
forts. 1t beats looping-t.le-loop In
a wobbly airplane. 1t will Jar out
ones wisdom teeth at the very first
trial.
There are about seventy-five thou.
sand car owners within the limits OF
Los Angeles county and therefore 1t
Ia easy to guess why an auto show
will interest lot Of people. They so
to see how much worse other wagons
are than their own. We have a
Noah's Ark of the vintage OF 1913.
II has been equipped with a starter
with the sullen homing instincts OF
a Missouri mule. Most CT the time
we have to get out in tho middle OF
the road and wind II up like Water
hurry watch. The engine sounds like
n BIT of overtime work in boiler
shon ond when wo 20 forth the neigh