The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-05-06

: hack this y dgc Brothers car was.
tEcn about repairs, mileage, strength,
ruadability and comfort.
'TruthfUIly. never once did / en-
counter one OF these hard-balled
icathcr-Lcckcd. two-flsted, hard.driy-
Ing ,hauffcurs who had anything but
praise for the car. The first one ran
INTO In France was back In S. o. s.
near Cllon. Tht was in August.
1917. Sic was al shiny aud gisten-
ed in the burgundy sunlight Ike a
thing alive. She was just cut OF Am
erica they said and almost kissed
her: but this Is narrative and not
= homo-sick drool.
Mceb n Friend
Soon the cars began TO multiply
aud the wonderful hard roads back
here begin to hum with them. But
he s. o. 6. with its wonderful or.
f ganizatior md perfect roads. -fferel
10 real test OF t e strength of the
,ar. Where they cat h hell is up here.
"One evening recently. II was just
before the attack In which eight
thousand guns were missed on
/ front Of eleven kilometers. was
walking thru the inky streets OF
, SCISSORS which were not even lighted
with the pickering aurora boreals OF
rhe barrage. That was when bar.
RACES were five and siy-day affairs
and not the ferocious five or six hour
terrors they later became.
II was lonesome-damn lonesome
there amid the Poilu and the gut;ed
houses-when around the corner
heard the whirring thro1ty shrek Of
an automobile horn. II was one OF
your cars--I would have known that
sound in hell!
II dashed around the corner on
: which the famous Cafe Foliel D-Ar
stood snd there was one of your tour
ing cars, with its winter top spstter-
ed from stem to stern with mud. Out
II It stepped two officers-single
star and spread eagle-and | ducked
out OF II.
But presently they went in and
chummed with the driver. When
finally he was dismissed, We parked
the car and. went over to the Lyon
Rouge. where excellent wine could be
had at reasonable prices. (Oh. ancient
daysD
General Likes II.
The car belonged to General
Hines Il believe), who was then
chief Of artillery. They had driven
up from Paris. some so miles, in a
little over two hours to observe the
French artillery. Yep, he liked the
car--heavy enough to hang on the
road and light enough to keep out of
bitches, springs enough to keep your
liver from busting up. Yep damn
good hack
During the attack | saw nothlns
but the refuse Of war, but later met
him again. He had gone from Sois-
sons to Braine. and then t. Jouy, by
the way OF Aizy, where they waited
until the push was completed. Then
tit's his story, not mine). they drove
over the shcll-tcrn roads, Gcrcss the
main land up to Fort Nal Maissun,
which sits at the crest of the Chemin
des Danes i believed him when he
said .ag lin some hack
Yes, have had some opportunity
to learn motor cars over here. We
had n Swiss car. which would not
have ridden in for farm. II was
swell car, except that it never ran.
We tried to trade it in for Dodge
Brothers touring car. but they laugh
ed at us. Right now it reposes In
Vittel, with burned out bearings.
Dtse flywhed. broken clutch, a
stripped differential, and two brok-
en- springs, Those are the results of a
200 kilometer trip Some car,
ITS the z. of A. (2one of action
that quality in motor ears exhibits it.
sen, NIlNl nave II punt W
question drivers. The roads. Lord
man, the roads Rutted and slippery,
torn by trucks, cut by mines and
shell fire, lined by bitches full of
Shiny mud and jammed as far as the
eye can see with guns and trucks; at
times one must crawl at two miles an
hour for 10 kilometers, and then
speed across the shelled sect,Cn,
ready for the burst of shell, and the
proper A. r, f. greeting of eternity:
Good morning, Lord, I've hung on
he edge of n road going around =
,orner, with my heart in my mouth,
praying for stout frame on the car
md cool driver. And I've felt the
ar wrench and creak and flop back
IN the rOad-and sighel with henri