The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-05-22

PUBLIC OPINION.
neutrality-suspicious.


U OWnsfs VI tF1thn
Fellow sufferers in great afflic-
ton, Greeting:-
Do you ever have car troubles?
Do you ever have to call on the au-
tomobile doctor. when your car gets
sick? You have a wonderful car or
you are an expert mechanic, il you
do not. Now. fellow sufferers,
have had experience that may be of
some benefit to some of you. espe-
cially one who has just started on the
road of experience Of manipulating
the wheel to a four, six or eight gas
consumer When you get little
trouble with your machine, the first
thing you do is TO go to doctor so and
so, expert in all car troubles, and il
il ooh. yes" he knows all that is
wrong and he will guarantee to make
il as good as new, but does not know
how much time" it will take, so like
lamb going to slaughter you trust
your patient to this wise one and
when you call. pay your bill. take
your patient out for an airing, same
trouble and if not more sick, you are
in luck. You then Of course take
patient back to doctor" and he will
find more trouble and guarantees to
make all as good as new, and when
you go TO pay the bill, does he credit
the account with the amount Of the
first guarantee job? Not on your
life but he adds on more cost. charg-
ing by time and not for work Say
you pay $40 on first proposition.
when you pay on the second for same
trouble you will more than likely
have a twenty spot out on guarantee
worth about six-bts. A job on a car
that started at seven dollars, wound
up at $4,000 for the same trouble.
Car sanitariums takes a patient and
to desect the ''ninards."
and in rushes another patient, and
away rushes the expert doctor and all
his assistants, and inspect complaint
of we will say number two, and lets
number one suffer, then back to num-
Der one and number one is in luck If
one hour is faithfully put in, no
clock, no time card kept, so number
one suffers and back and forth go
doctors and nurses and eights hours
time" is charges made for patients |
numbers one and two. and number |
three case overlooked and prescrip- [
ton made thrown in and will appear
in bill tomorrow. Now brother suf- (
ferers is 1t not time for US to call
halt and combine and take our pa
tents to the ''sanitarium." that will |
mean what they say when guarantee /
ing their work? What is a guarantee. /
Il not worth a pinch Of snuff? was
told by a party that the time"
should be paid for Now il was not !
TO be paid for honest work, but for
lime. time only ! understand that /
L is time charges, and this must be
paid regardless Of service. The ,
charges are made for gasoline bath. .
every time your patient undergoes I
treatment for the same ills and It .
appears to this car owner. the idea
S the service be id.
II the patient baek-fires and kicks I
hey find that something is wrong
with the muffler and so much for
ooking wise. My patient in its last
illness had bad case Of oil flow.
which would empty crank case in a
-un Of five miles. One OF the doc
ors" prescribed for the trouble.
'harged up time. gasoline washing etc
md still the oil flowed out. Carried
I back. and the head surgeon pro
,ouneed another cause Of the flow
md again the same old story. more
yas for bath. more time and by that
lime from seven dollars the bill be-
anne twenty-five dollars, Having
'aid ten dollars on the bill, agreed to
'ay balance when ever the contract
guaranteed for trouble was done and
he Flow Of oil was stopped and writ.