The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-11
Holds Truck Routes
Solution OF Problem
nv /. W. KENNETH,

1922 N@NN S""AN1 N"hN So
struetor Of Indiana Truck Salesman
Training School)
There are four ways of t~ransportas
tion-waterway, railway, highway anu
airwsy. The three former methods
mentioned are greatly dependent one
upon the other, and neither can de-
velop its highest efficiency without
the other two.
The four ways of transport ton are
above mentioned in the order of their
development. Waterway first; made SO
without any law or act of man. Freight,
however, was only moved down stream
in rivers, Until man built a steamboat
that had the power to go against cur
rent; wind and the sail were utilized
or still water.
There is no method OF transportation
nearly so cheap per ton as waterway.
but it can only be employed economical
~ where heavy freight is to be moved
and the time lost In transportation not
considered.
Railway has done more to develop the
worlds transportation and civilization
than all other means Of transportation
combined. Yet, If you were to build
railroad tracks ten miles wide, on
. either bank of all the navigable rivers
in the world, you would by no means
have solved the transportation prob
lem for that portion OF a country where
the food, that keeps a nation alive, is
produced.
Mr.. Hoover recently made a state
ment. which has since been proved a
fact, that at least one-half of the pro-
visions (p~erishable) produced on the
farm, were allowed to spoil. either from
the lack of transportation to market or
due to the slow, horse-drawn method
of delivering to the markets.
With rural motor pynrpSS lines ODpT-
ating over all highways, 100 per cent OF
farm products could be marketed,
rather than the loss OF 80 per cent by
decay, which. according to the law Of
supply and demand" would reduce
the cost of living 81 per cent.
Most of us remember, since It was a
common practice until recently, how
the farmers drove their hogs, cattle and
sheep over the highways to market, and
how common it was to lose several OF
the fatter hogs from the overhead and
| exhaustion. and that n team and wagon
| occasionally followed the drove, in order
to take UP the animals fallen by the
WaySide. In those days, the farmer, not
| being euuinped with scales to weigh
the lat animals before starting to mar
ket, as he does nov was not aware
of the enormous %shrinkage in weight,
due to the primatiVe method OF trans
portation to market. Where fat an
I imals are driven to stock pers on a
railroad siding in some hamlet, TO await
the placing of a car and loading Tor
city market. the shrinkagc is equal and
at times greater than the long drive &c
market. Furthermore, the time con
sumcd in railway transportation OF
aimed at by the producer, but where
rural motor express lines are establish
ed. or where the farmer oWnes n OPP
crates his own trunk and trailer, the
animals are loaded during the cool OF
the night, staring Immediately for th'
market, in many instances 100 nile
distant, which can easily be covered
with a two, or three and one-half tor
Indiana truck, on pneumatic tires, with
in seven to nine hours, arriving at tn
stockyards early, and while 1t IS ye'
cool. receiving the highest market prizes
for his animals, as quoted at the clos'
of the market the evening before.
1t Is not at all uncommon to see {
string of motor trucks many block'
long, and in some instances one mile II
length, waiting to unload rat animals
in such markets as Indianapolis, LOUIS
Vile and in numerous smaller cites !,
Illinois, Iowa and other western as WEI
as Eastern states.
The facts as above stated, whicl
have been proved and are true beyon'
the slightest doubt, should be sufficien
for the farmer to proceed without fur
Their delay, to motorize his t~ransporta
ton. If, in some instances, the tarme
is not doing business on q suftiiclentL
large scale that his individual WorI
warrants the use of a substantial
constructed, ample powered moro
truck, it would be far better for hi
to enter into an agreement with one 9
more of his %neighbors, to dc, their maui
ing, or in some instances, do the Wor
tfor his immediate small community
than to be induced to u sonre SO
called motor truck, constructed alon
the same lines as a passenger car; pe
cause some local dealer, totally mex
rerierced in highway transportation
has something for sale that he TIN
dealer) saws will do the work.
IF a farmer was to raise thorough
bred horses. ponies or light roadster'
to hitch to his pillow or use IN all heaV
work on the farm, we would say tha
man has not exercised good hors
sense" put after all, would that nay
heen any more foolish than for tn
same man to buy a small garden trac
tor and expect it to pull two or thre
plows, or to buy some so-called one-to,
or one and one-half ton truck, hsht'
constructed and equipped with a shla
MESSENGER car type motor, when ne
sure, that especially during the harVe,,
time, hts truck must be expected Y
carry 100 bushels of wheat or ten oale
of cotton?
lust because a 95-lb. jockey was alb
to nut 90 per cent of the winners undt
The wire at the New Orleans or Ley
ireton race tracks, you would n
recommend him as an efficient hot
carrier, I am sure.
While it may seem strange. 1t
nevertheless true, that where farmir
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