The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-16
ARDMORIE MOTOR NOTES

community You will hear such re.
7 rnarks-"Oh yes, we have Il fine ma.
cadam road to our front gate" etc.
! You will find If YOU have not already
: found, farms offered for sale on the
basis of having a rural motor express
coming and going one side OF il, per.
haps two sides Of it, as We get into
it more thoroughly. What We do when
we send the motor truck through the
rural centcrs. is to push the rural free
| delivery and parcel post service just
one step forward. II is a thing that
has got TO be, and in very few years
at least, just as accepted as the rising
and setting Of the sun. The public
authorities must be sufficiently edu.
Gated 20 make good thing possible
They must learn, as have most farm
crs, that the most costly thing in the
world is bad roads. Mud is mans
greatest common enemy--it prevents
progress in education, slows down, and
in many cases, renders impossible de.
livery Of food stuffs, produced on the
farm 10 the user, in a fresh and mer.
chantabIc condition.
This Is the age Of speed. 4 nation
can move only so fast as It's people
move. You have seen one man hold
up a whole train in New York sub
way; you have seen one train in the
subway hold up the whole system. You
I have seen a slow moving horse ana
wagon tic up tho traffic in your own
city streets, and you have seen our
pcrishablc food stuffs on the farm,
rOtiing on the ground, because we have
never furnished modern transportation
TO move the product off the farm. The
farmer cant produce and transport at
the same time.
We work with fcycrish haste TO push
steel rails 10 the mines, the steel mills
10 every city, 50 that our manufactur-
ed products may reach the market, or
perhaps tidewater Tor reshipmcnt TO
an parts of the world, but We have neg
lrctcd the most important cudeavor Of
all, which is agriculture. We should
encourage such production. Produce
or fruits should not be hauled 800 to
500 miles when just as good can be
grown within a few miles Of our door
and delivered TO our local markets by
motor trucks operated over good roads.
Rails cannot reach your rural dis
tricts, they cannot go over the hills,
and under them, it would not be profit
able 10 do so, but rural motor express
can.
no you know that we are never more
than sixty days ahead Of famine and
starvation between harvests. that if
all the crops OF the world failed at one
time for a period Of three months, life
on this planet would cease? While this
has never happened, It is not lmpos-
sible
Speed up motorizo our highways
Let US not be placed in position
where the tying up Of q railroad by a
strike, or storm. is going to make those
who we love suffer.
4 rural motor express in a com |
munity win stimulate greater efforts
in tho farmer 10 produce more-bring !
more trcshcr and better food, at lower /
cost to you, and produce a surplus to
be stored for emergencies.
The following Figures were taken /
from the books of the Green Motor |
Express, operating between Marion and .
Anderson. indiana, a distance OF 80 .
miles
Operation OF - ton rural motor J
express truck, AZ copied from the books I
of Green's Rufol Motor Express Com /
rany:
Truck bouAt aud placed in oper
alton Dec, A9iS.