Evening journal., 1919-10-14
PARADE TO SHOW
1 TUCK IMPORTANCE
New Method Will Relieve
Railroads of Short Haul
Freight.
DEMONSTRATION
TO BE ELABORATE

What the motor truck means to the
people OF Wilmington will be demon
straled on Thursday afternoon In the
ship by Truck" parade, which Is being
run under the endorsement OF the
Wilmington Motor Truck Association.
The ship by truck parade, which VIII
be Wilmington's initial Introduction to
,he national movement, will undoubt-
odly prove TO be one OF the strongest
advertising events the merchants and
truck owners Of the city have had ine
onnortunitv 10 ioln with. The commit
tee is expecting more than 400 trucks
90 form the procession. AlreauS
quests have been received in such NUM-
bers that the committee Is settlhg asluo
a special section for the decorsleu Ne-
hlcles.
The parade Of Thursday will be a CO
operative affair OF the truck dislrlDu-
tors. the tire representatives ana tiio
merchants and business men or tne clIS'
The executive committee on the pa
rade details will meet tomorrow even
ing and the plans and details viii De
whipped into final shape. The lihaiice
committee will announce tine cash value
Of the prizes offered and the number OF
entries received at the ship by truck
Headquarters will form the nucleus
around which the parade Will be Dulll.
The necessities Of war brought nome
70 the nation the importance or lhe
motor truck. When the French line
stood at the Marne, the truck began 10
receive the recognition Il deserved.
War. I'm that emergency. taught over
night an industrial lesson that the ma
tion would otherwise have taken years
20 learn. People realized, all at once,
that the motor truck was essential ana
vital I'm transportation, and therefore
basic part Of living.
Like good roads, motor trucking
should interest every man, woman OF
child. Both are basic elements IN low
ering the cost Of distribution, saving
products now wasted, opening up re-
sources heretofore uniapped.
The truck is ready and able TO shoul-
der burdens the railroads cannot carry
and io leave them free for responsi-
bilities too long deferred and delayed
Il is a time for principals 10 confer
"a time FOR them 10 cooperate. lhe
trafnc situation Is one Of greatest Sig
nincance. our future industrial growth
depends largely upon the assistance
rendered the railroads by trucks IN
speeding UP freight movement. COM
runilies which are not served by the
railroads find in the truck the means
for their rapid Development
Truck lines already stream out from
city to city. from distributing centers
10 the surrounding towns, hamlets and
rural districts II the truck arteries are
used AN will be served efficiently. The
railroads will be relieved Of a part Of
The Overwhelming demands now being
made upon them.
The truck is the one satisfactory so
luton 90 the difficulties Of short-haul
freight. The hundred-mile radius be
longs 10 the truck. But the truck has
not stopped there. It's future Is re-
stricted only by the extent of good
-oads and systematic schedules.
H. r. Walker. secretary Of the com
miitee here. has been fostering the
"ship by truck parades throughout
New York state and Pennsylvania for
lhe last year. Each parade had been an
Improvement upon the preceding one,
and Wilmington is now trying 10 OK
,el the showing made three weeks ago
IN Allentown. Pa, where over 800
trucks paraded through the streets be
hind the combined bands OF Allentown.
The route Of parade Will be as fol-
lows:
Form at Fourth and Union streets at
2.lJ p. m. sharp on Union street, driv-
ing carefully north into Pennsylvania
avenue. to Eleventh, and down Market
street 10 Front, east TO French. and
north 20 sixteenth. End OF parade.