The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-07-02
Auto Tourist Who Has Driven
More Than $4,000 Niles Gives
Result of Observations.
NO TWO GOOD ROADS ALIKE
Don't Take Strange Road at Moro
Than 20 Miles an Hour" His Ad-
vice-car Doesn't Drive Twice
Alike in Any Roadway.

Little Falls, n. Y.-Archfe Baker
claims to be a confirmed automobile
tourist of long and varied experience.
He says he has driven upward OF o.
600 miles in his 1916 seven-passenger
six; and the car looked it when Archie
and his family pulled out beside the
road just west of Small Gulf between
Little Falls and Herkimer, to camp
in one of the most noted of Mohawk
valley tourist parking places.
Baker and his wife and a twelve
rear-old son and ten-year-old daughter
laid that touring agrees with them.
They gave the impression of having
an independent income.
"AIy experience is that a lot OF
tourists don't know very much, and
don't stop to learn anything, either,
said Mr.. Baker. 1.-THE result is, they
have lot of hard knocks. When we
were coming into New York state
about $50 miles from here, we turned
off down a side road to camp by Lake
Erie. There was an outfit down by
the lake which claimed they had had
a lot Of hard luck. They dished
wheel; they tore up tire; they lost
a tent off the back end of the load;
they slept cold nights, and they were
| lust about ready to quit. But,
shucks!. they won't quit. Nobody
ever does quit once the family have
| gone to touring right-the way 1t
/ ran be done. Their dished wheel In
terested me. The man claimed he
didn't drive fast, but he skidded.
| caught the weight of the car on the
right rear wheel, and smashed it all
a-blim.
This was on a strange road, out in
Indiana, he said, and it sure did look
! all right. But it smashed him, and
it was pure luck that he didn't roll
over. / asked him about the kind of
road, and he couldn't tell me; said
1t was pretty muddy, but had gravel
on 1t too.
"There you are He smashed up
and was taught a lesson, and didn't
know what the lesson was. The fact
Is there are more than 200 different
kinds Of good roads in the United
States. I've been on most kinds. III
recite a few Of them-mountair
contract roads, stone water-bounC
concrete roads, OIL waste roads
gravel, sand and clay, broken down
stone roads, cut and I'LL crushed
stone surface, cinder, shell, banl
gravel, beach gravel, desert two
crackers, and so on.
"No Two Good Roads Alike"
mo two good roads are alike
Good and careful a driver as ! am
I darn near rolled over out west o.
Salt Lake City last summer, skid
ding in the dust-dry, fluffy dust
Why, If I'd been driving 20 mile
instead of careful II miles an hour
we'd rolled end over applicant, ant
it was a good road, If you knew hOy
to drive 1t. Yes, sir. There is no
a road in all this United States, no
the best, widest, finest, smoothes
road, that isn't treacberOus If man
not used to 1t. / don't mean wild
eyed hummers, but just common folk
like me.
!, IF you don't believe it, you stud
the road accidents you come upon a
, you ride across the country. Hal
the skidding Is done where the roa
type changes, where a man leave
concrete and hits oil surface or wher
he leaves the waterbOund stone 70
hard pan.
"a car doesn't drive twice alike o
any roadway from New York to So
Francisco. l know, because I've mad
the trip. Where do tourists comm
east bang up with trouble? It's whe
they come off bad roads into goo
roads. You take the western part
New York state. and people leavin
the good roads Of Ohio after crossin