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February of 1911. Ford Times, February 1911, 179. Glen Buck was in charge of both advertising and editing the magazine in 1912 and 1913. 47 In the article titled “Cooperation between Dealer & Factory,” the Commercial Manager lists all the good things the company does for dealers, including “publish a House Organ—Ford Times—which is being sent to all dealers and will hereafter be mailed also occasionally to owners and prospects.” Ford Times, September 1910, 14. 48 Ibid. 49 The magazine switched from a semi-monthly to a monthly format in January 1911, as mentioned above. Lewis, The Public Image of Henry Ford: An American Folk Hero and His Company, 49. 50“Good Roads” was an ongoing column in the Ford Times; it was also a nationwide movement to increase education and access to improved road conditions, especially in rural areas. The Good Roads movement was started by bicycle riders and manufacturers and taken up by automobile makers, drivers, and legislators. For more on the Good Roads league see William C. Hilles, The Good Roads Movement in the United States: 1880-1916 (Duke University, 1958). For a good discussion of the need for campaigns to frame roads as a “technological” phenomenon that needed engineering for social ends rather than a “natural” phenomenon in order to gain the support of rural farmers, a frame that benefitted automobile manufacturers like Ford, see Christopher W. Wells, “The Changing Nature of Country Roads: Farmers, Reformers, and the Shifting Uses of Rural Space, 1880-1905," Agricultural History 80, no. 2 (2006). 51 Ford Times, December 1913, back cover. 52 This masthead ran from April 15, 1908, until February 1, 1909. In February, editors dropped the mission statement from the cover of the magazine. In October 1911, the slogan “Ford Times, Evidence that Ford Times are the Best Times,” appeared on the first page of the magazine. 53 Ford Times, July 1, 1908, 8. 54 Ford Times, September 1, 1908, 11. 55 Ibid. 56 Ford Times, November 1, 1908, 15; Ford Times, November 15, 1908, 10. 57 Ford Times, January 1914, 147. 58 Sheila Webb discusses this editorial tactic in her examination of the Reiman publications. Sheila Webb, “The Narrative Core of Traditional Values in Reiman Magazines,” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 83, no. 4.