The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-20
SERVICE Managers
FORM ASSOCIATION
IN new YORK CITY.
Initial Meeting Proves Big
SuCcess-Spirit of Cooper
alton Between Dealer and
Owner FOStered.

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After two busy months Of preparation
the Automotive Service Managers as
ISOLATION, of New York, held it's first
formal meeting as such Wednesday
evening, Sept. 3, at the national auto
mobile chamber of commerce, in New
York city. The organization meeting
was well attended by a representative
body of manufacturers n dealers SER
vice managers and superintendent Of
repair stations of the Metropolitan dis
trict, several coming from as far as
Newark, and the very evident mani
Hesitation of interest augers well for the
success of the enterprise.
As Alfred Reeves, general manager
of the national automobile chamber of
commerce, pointed out in a message OF
welcome and congratulation, all other
factors Of the automotive Industry
manufacturers, statesmen and engineers
have long enjoyed the benefits of CO.
operation and 1t Is high time that the
service branch appropriates to itself
the same adYantagesA for upon It so
largely depends the ~permanence of the
business, I'VE can make and SELF auto
mobiles" said he, but without SER
vice we can not continue to sell them
Approaching this the manufacturers
will heartily approve and support n
movement that will make for better
service and admittedly service Is still
far from what 1t should be-
c.. NJ. Brown, president Of the Auto
mobile Dealers association, of New
York, echoed these sentiments and fur
Their assured h new association OF the
backing Of the dealers in its endeavors
TO promote the quality OF service rem
dered car users.
4 The business part OF the meeting in
cluded the reading BY the secretary
of an outline OF the work done by the
temporary board of directors appointed
at the informal meeting held July 2 to
draft constitution n bylaws and com
plete the preliminary arrangements. The
constitution and bylaws were then sub
mitted and adopted and by a unanimous
vote the temporary officers were made
the duly accredited officers to serve
until the regular annual election in
January. They are:
; President, Ralph G. Rognon, Vim Mo-
tor Truck Co.. OF New York; yice-presi-
dent, j. w. Watt, REQ Motor Co., of
New York; secretary, J. Howard Pile,
Motor World; treasurer, f.. ". Dirks,
Buick Motor company, and directors,
e. Hum, Packard Mootr Car Co.,
chairman; J.. H.. LANCE, Three-Point
Truck Co; j. M. Grant, White Co;
r. d.. lOWt, DlOuA fSOuhLS AubO WI
H. NJ. Holt, Willys-O Overland, Inc, and
AL Rawson, Rec Motor Co., of New
ark.
Organized with the avowed purpose
ito improve and facilitate cooperation
between the automotive industry and
owners of its products through effici-
ent service by promoting ID meet
ings for discussion Of problems and So
~lutions, 90 education and welfare OF
automotive mechanics, go interchange
Of ideas and a. establishment Of kin
bred Organizations, 1t can well be APP
preciated that an event OF great m
portance to motordom has taken place.
With the last mentioned object pro
noting establishment of kindred or
g~anizations'' successful 1t will mean
better service, not to the New York
locality alone, but to the entire coun-
try. There are already service man
ayers associations in Detroit and In
dianapolis and a national service~man'
ayers convention is planned in De-
troit this fall. Il
At present with the nation, state and
municipality gravely considering the
cost of living, 1t is fitting that some
agency draw attention to any ineffici-
have a direct bearing on a phase of the
problem. OF the multitude of foods
that are in daily use, milk ranks high
est in Importance. It is the food OF
the child, as well rs the adult. Upon
milk depends the health and welfare
of the future generations. Anything
thai can be done to make 1t purer and
cheaper must be done, and done at
once.
A recent analysis of the dairy bust
ness OF 10000 farms In the United
States, by the bureau of farms and mar
kets of the state of New York, showed
that each of these farms produced an
average Of 10000 gallops of milk an
nually of which so per cent is hauled
to the creamery, rs per cent to the
milk depot, IL per cent to the cheese
factory, 10 per cent to the condensary
and 8 per cent used on the farm. The
average round trip by the dairyman
to the selling point is seven miles. OF
these 10000 dairymen about 50 per cent
make the round trip every day in the
year. With horses and wagon 1t takes
21A hours to maxi the trip. A motor
truck can cover this distance in about
one-half hour, while a large truck could
combine the deliy cries OF 80 or more
producers. Here is q daily saving OF
10, 900 hours, which in these days of
scarcity Of farm labor, Is an item OF
considerable Importance.
Similar testimony. comes from a
Western authority, Mayor J.. R. Dalton
of W~oonsocket, s. D., chairman of the
state highways transport committee:
"~Supposing that a farmer has been
in the habit of feeding surplus milk
or other supplies to live stock because
the value was insufficient to warrant
o. drive to market, the truck will en-
able him to send it to market at a
nominal cost.
For instance, a farmer has been
driving three miles to town, occupying
his time and that of his team, say
three hours. By using truck service
the loss of time is reduced to, say,
half an hour, a saving of az hours
a day, Is hours a week, 60 hours or
five working days a month, or ESQ