New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-13
Hurry, Hurry
Slogan Of Auto
Owners i'm L. S.
Iwo-thirds of Pleasure of
Motoring Lost by Many
Drivers With Nerves on
E~sc to Reachs Destination
Scenic Beauties Are Lost
Married Men Lead i'm Rush,
While Wife Calmly Notes
Latest Styles Along Road
BY II. Clifford Brokaw
Technical Director, West Side Y. NJ
c. a. Automobile Schools

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c. A. Automobile Schools
Where do they go, these ten million
automobile owners in America and
&heir families? What happens when
the driver steps on the gas and whirls
away from his home with his cargo
of human freight?
Most of the men at the wheel drive
like the old Harry to some point of
destination and then turn around and
drive back in a similar fashion. They
see in their minds eye only this point
of destination and miss the beautiful
scenery along the route. Two-thirds
of the pleasure of motoring is lost be-
cause the drivers nerves are on edge
IN his consuming desire to get where
he is going.
This mania for getting there is es-
pecialiy characteristic of the married
man. En- route he spends a good deal
of his time Grabbing about other ma
chimes on the road. The slow driver
with whom he catches up just at the
foot of steep hill is especially pro-
voking to him. So is the man in
charge of an approaching machine at
night with binding headlights.
Women Observe Styles
In the mean time his wife observes
what women in other cars are wearing
SO as to get the latest ideas in motor
ing styles. She is also likely to de-
vote some attention to her husband
driving, making various suggestions
as to how he can improve it.
In the springtime those who ques-
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go out in their cars in search of the
once despised dandelion blossoms.
Later they scour the country for pie
plant.
Some go out into the country for
flowers and appropriate everything in
sight that looks like a blossom. This
often involves the wrecking of beauti-
full dogwood trees, thesruining of APP
pie orchards, and even the choice
bushes and bulbs of country residences
are not always spared Thus do these
vandals on wheels become a menace
to the country life in America.
In the fall of the year apples, pears
and peaches that survive the spring
onslaught are sometimes confiscated
and sweet corn and other garden stuff
is not overlooked by the motoring par.
ties out for lark. In fact, the week
not unlike that of the early Pilgrim
who had to carry his gun all the time
to protect life, limb and property.
Many motorists go out into the coun
try for picnics or weekend camping
parties. They take whatever is hand
est in the way of wood for a camp fir,
or to cook their meals in the open
Som etimes they are not careful to pu
out their fires, and serious conflagra
tions are the result.
Vacations Passed In Autos
Some go on long tours, stopping eacl
night at a convenient road house O.
hotel or they camp by the roadside. /
| good many take their vacations in thi
fashion.
The bride and bridegroom find tn
automobile an asset in getting to am
from the marriage altar. As for
honeymoon, there is nothing tina
equals q motor trip.
The farmer would be all at sea i,
.his age of the world witho out his moto
car, 1t takes his milk to the factory
! it plows his land, it harvests hi
crops and takes them to market,
takes him with his family to the count
| fair and enables those living in tn
country to get many pleasures out O
life that otherwise would be impossi
BILE.
( The industrial worker goes to hi
! shop in his machine, as does the EN-
! ployer of labor. Ministers find an auto
mobile of tremendous value in thei
work