Evening star., 1925-05-31
Make That Summer Tour Early.
Ne,v Slogan for Vacationists
Auto Trip Deferred Too Often Proues
Trip Neuer Taken, While Road Con-
ditions Usually Fauor the Early Bird.

change a tire. Every one is nursing
a crouch. But all the while he keeps
telling himself Fall is coming-and
then!
Fall is coming for the early vaca-
zionist too, but it will be an opportu-
nifty for an encore trip, not merely a
last resort for a worn-out family.
Perhaps he can squeeze in only day
or so at A time, but he'll probably get
more out of 1t than the man who has
saved up all his time, his money and
his enthusiasm for it, because the
latter hasn't saved up any health to
go with it.
Many a long postponed trip is ut
terly ruined because people who take
part in it are dead tired when they
start. The first days grind over the
road just about finishes them. If they
finally do wind up in some wonderful
garden spot they are certain to miss
half the fun just because they are
worn out.
You would ina gine the late vaca-
zionist might peruse the tour books
constantly in anticipation of the pro-
spective vacation, but such is not the
case. He keeps telling himself he
must work like Trojan all Summer
in order to earn his vacation. yet all
the while he is coming to the Office
with sleepy eyes and going home with
a crouch. Naturally he hasn't much
inclination for the tour books and the
maps.
Hunger for Side Trips.
Catch the touring germ early. how
ever, and ii is different picture.
Once you have hit the open road on a
Springtime trip it gets into your sys-
tenn. You want another trip; to see
q OIL Of Do fal-
in all the side trips. You are glad
you got the fever early and you over
look no opportunity TO find new ave
nues of expression elsewhere for this
passion.
Aside from all the psychological
angles of early touring there are A
number Of definite advantages which
are worthy of consideration at this
time when every man is trying to de
eide just about when he will take the
annual earned lay-off There are
many good reasons why there is no
time like the present for getting into
the vacation stride, and to overlook
them is very much like coming back
to work Saturday morning rather
than Monday.
Consider the road building. For
the next few months the State high
way departments will be busy patch
ing up Winters ravages, but there
will be little. detouring and virtually
no delays. Meanwhile contracts are
being let and highway problems
studied. Later on-in the Fall, to be
eXact-an this highway activity. will
come to a head. Many a Fall tourist
will have to look for other ways of
reaching desired points, if past ex.
perience is any guide.
All this can be avoided by touring
now. If you have some special trip
in mind or desire to make high mile
age records in a limited period of
time, now is the time to do it, Later,
in the Fall, there will be many pleas
ant trips to take, but you will want
to jog along and take your time over
roads that are not under construction.
Early Bird Best Served.
Just because everybody isn't doing
have many a road to yourself and are
much more likely to obtain better
service in all lines wherever you go.
You are the early bird. Quite natu-
rally you get the cream of service.
You get in on all the Improvements
before the rank and file have had a
chance to destroy. You see the
foliage and the flowers before others
have helped themselves. You find
WclCOl1e every WHeIe-
Then there's the car to be consid-
cred. Fresh from the repair shop,
your faithful bus is now ready to take
you out of the world of everyday
humdrum to the land of winding roads
and varied vistas. New tires, tight
bearings, clean cylinders, we'll oiled
parts all help to make the early tour
everything that the late tour ought to
be but isn't.
Part of the fun of any vacation via
automobile is in climbing the high
hills without shifting gears. Just one
opportunity to leave the other fellow
in cloud of dust toward the top of
"a young Pixies Peak is often worth
the price of a vacation to the motor
enthusiast. Part of the lure of else
where is complete freedom from
motor worries. And if you are going
to wear the life out of your car just
amblng around the city streets on
hot Summer evenings how can you
expect TO float over the hills on that
postponed Fall trip?
You are willing to put up with
little tire trouble along toward the end
of the season, provided you have been
kept cheerful throughout the Spring
and Summer months. But if the long
anticipated tour is not all roses.
especially after you have stinted and
sacrificed all season long, naturally
you lose so per cent of the advan-
tages. The time to take your vaca-
ton and your big motor trip of the