Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1920-01-04

into which the automobile industry had
grown and to supply for it represent
alive organization and clearing house,
there was formed last spring the Boise
Automobile Dealers association. In
point of number of members it is not
prodigious, for there are just two dozen
at the present time. But viewed from
the standpoint of the interests they
represent the intimate relation of those
interests to the general welfare OF the
city, community and state and the flu
ture development along many lines that
the organization can further. it's a
great little body.
For the trade itself the association
has worked wonders since its establish
ment on April 2S, 1919. 1t has knitted
together into common concern with a
common purpose two dozen business
houses whose members We're COMPARE
tive strangers and rivals. They have
learned that their own interests are not
only similar but practically identical
They have learned that their calling is
more that of service than of acquisi-
ton. They have found that to build
up together they must strive together
and not at cross purposes or up blind
alleys alone.
ASSOCIATION PLANS
Partly as a result and partly as a
means to bring about results the deal
ers' association meets fortnightly at
luncheon in the rooms of the CONNER
cial club and they discuss everything
from the degeneration of gasoline to
the spirituality of new upholstery col
ors-from national highway legisla-
ton to the grade on the slaughter
house hill.
And at the outset of 1920 the mem
bers of the association stand as a body
ready to work together for every
worthy movement for the betterment
of roads. streets, civic and state in
terests within and without the ordi-
nary scope of the automobile field.
They have found their feet as work
ers IN the local city association and
they are now planning to organize
early in the year just begun a state
wide automobile dealers association.
which in turn will be affiliated with
hest interests of every section be
served and the need of every individual
who drives by gasoline will be studied
aud met so far as cooperative effort
can do 1t. &.
FOR NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
Many of the undertakings. discus
SlullS anu tllttUfiSGS VI the dSSOCldIlDD
are of course family affairs of purely
trade matters. One that Is just now
being taken up, however is of uniter-
sal interest and concern. The associa-
ton. through its officers. Jay NJ. Par
rish, president; II. r. Neitzel vice
president, and w. G. Ash, secretary
treasurer, is preparing to boost for the
endorsement and passage at the pres
ent session of congress of the Town
send bill under which millions and mil
lions of dollars will be put to work
upon a thorough system of nation
wide hard surfaced highways.
Again we have reached point
where the handy man with pencil
! if he has some other figures to mar
shall to his aid, might have a joyful
time. II he is a higher mathematician
he can graph the differential curve
showing the relation between two
dozen autCssolk in Boise and the most
progressive movement toward national
commercial prosperity through trans
portation since the discovery of steam
power--a movement that has been
waiting to be started since Caesar built
his first rock road.