Show HIGH TIRE COST REAL BLESSING Lorenzo Smith th Champion r Rubber Repair Man 1 r G Gives Reasons Lor Lorenzo Smith president and general manager Western Rubber Sales company company com com- com I pan pany and E. E Broadway Salt Lake City Utah who says cays that the present high costs ma may prove blessings in fn disguise to man many of tho the American people especially tho the middle class who are nrc now forced to practice economy instead of or extravagance The poor man has alwa always s 's been saving sav satti ing Ingo as ns a matter of or necessity H says as a's Mr lr Smith while most of ot tho the well to people havo have practised economy more or I less as a matter of or principle and well formed habits in accumulating a surplus surplus sur sur- plus but the middle class have o be been n more mOll or less extravagant and the tho quick of necessity Is opening the eyes of ot many as to the advantage nd of having hav hav- having ing In- saved until the tho old saying not what you ou earn but what you ou save will make malte you ou Independent shines out to them in tho the full glory of or truth as never or before Time The result of a dollar Is Is and always al has been vcr very much lil like c machinery it goes Joes farther Carther with careful handling handlin A few years cal ago an automobile and its tires which had run but nul two or three thousand miles mileR were considered gone and as ns a matter maller of oC fact the they were well worn because motorists were not educated as to their proper care lint But no nowadays atlas with proper care and repairs tho the motorists get set much more mora service Mr 11 Smith states slates that he started inthe in inthe the tho rubber lubber repair business durin during the year ear 1917 i. i and has been applying ln Gates' Gates Half Hal Solo Tires over ocr worn tires I c ever cr r since and has built up a wonderful wonder wonder- ful Cui business which he lie attributes to be beIn being be- be In lug ing connected with houses manu manufacturing manufacturing Cac- Cac tUrin turing first class guaranteed merchandise merchandise mer mtr chandise and b by employing capable worl workmen men who he has always required to pledge honest advice and workmanship workman workman- workmanship ship regardless of temporary sales In repairing tires Mr lr Smith stales state I that occasionally occasional rubber shoes hot bot water bottles etc were were- brought in in and h by experimenting experimenting- for three years cars I Mr Smith claims to have hao Invented In a for making repairs on such articles at a 3 moderato moderate price which his firm guarantees The slogan if Its It's rubber wo we fix it it came camo from froma a time long-time customer speaking to one of his friends about us us and we feel that our use of or it In all of or our advertising advertising advertising adver adver- is simp simply a reward for Cor past pait service and efficiency which others considered unprofitable Impractical and not worthy of or much thought It is every mans man's duty says sas Mr rr Smith to give gl some om thing of value to tho the ago In which he lives and what wo we are giving may be small smal considerIng considering considering consider consider- ing ono one item repaired but quite different different dif dl- ferent erent In considering what ma may bo be ac accomplished accomplished accomplished ac- ac by rubber repair men all allover allover over o tho the country countr adopting our ideas which we claim a part at least as I being being- original |