Arizona republican., 1918-09-01
FARMER'S AUTO| |S
 A USEFUL ARTICLE

An editorial in the National Stock man and Farmer threw interesting light on the utility of the farmers automobile" says Mir. Reubens of the Kissel Automobile company, local deal- CTS in Dort cars.
 The article in question reads as fol- lows:
 "A ten-line editorial in our issue of July 20, brought us so many letters that we can't acknowledge them by mail We hereby thank those who have given the information asked for and assure them that it will be used where it will do the most good. There are some striking things in this correspondence too many even to mention here, but we shall try to summarize a few of the ideas expressed by farmers who use automobiles. One man sums it up by saying, The automobile is not lux ury, it is business necessity on the :arm
 The others all express the same Idea but in different words. One of them says the automobile is as much a necessity as the blow, the grain binder or the silage cutter. Another, It is as much part of my business as selling my produce is And another Taking the automobile from the farm would be like taking the railroads from the country We might go on at great length with similar quotations from these letters, for they all tell the same story-the automobile is a farm necessity.
 Many make estimates of the saving of man power and horse power effected by their machines. Still more discuss the saving of time by the use of auto mobiles, and they remind us that time is money on the farm as everywhere else. To enumerate the various uses to which automobiles are put would re- quire more space than we have but the fact that the wife or the daughter runs he machine to town or to market while dad works in the field is fre- quently mentioned.
 The majority of those who have re- piled to our question about the use of automobiles for business and for pleas ure say 90 per cent for business, 10 per cent for pleasure. Some report 100 per cent for business, few as low as 75 per cent, and few hardly know where to draw the line between business and pleasure. Many assert that farmers have no time for joy riding, and others denounce driving cars for pleasure only
 
 good gasoline and tries for pleasure at this stage of the game might well be accused of being a stacker and lending aid to tho kaiser is the way one man puts it.
 Another thinks Sunday joy rides should be cut out entirely and the country's power devoted to the win ming of the war. The farmers car is business institution about sums it up. good deal has been said about the effect of the automobile on the church, and also about the decadence of the country church. Judging by these letters, the country church is a mighty vigorous institution and the automobile is helping it rather than hurting it. Many of the writers men, ton going to church as one of the uses of the farmers automobile. but some of them question whether that should be classed as business, pleasure or duty. One gentleman says it is not pleasure while others think it is a pleasure and duty as we'll and a few consider it good business We venture 10 say that it does not matter how we classify church going-the important thing is to go, and the automobile helps folks to get there. Visiting friends is
 aS a PiedSure ana as help inf business.
 Incidentally, there there are many references to horses. Several say that the light driving horse has disappeared. these reports coming from communi- ties where roads are good all the year. others say that they have put their drvlnS horses to work in the field while inc automobile does the driving. The saving of work horses by the use of automobiles is mentioned many times. Farm horses may be kept exclusively at farm work and don't have to delIve, milk or produce so to mill or do other