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Show MAXWELL IK! IKES FLU VISIT W. J. LaCasse Shows Usual Speed ; Suffering From Truck Dementia, Belief.' "Off again on again gone again Flannigan" is the best way to express the visit paid to Salt Lake City by Yv J. La Casse, western division manager of the Maxwell Motor Sales company, with headquarters In San Francisco. La Casse made one of his usuai flying visits to Salt Lake City last Thursday, stopping off just long: enough for a short consultation with Manager J. B. Middle-ton Middle-ton of the Sun Motor Sales company, local Maxwell distributors, on his way home from a visit to New York, Chicago and the Maxwell .factory. La Casse is certainly there when it comes to speed, and it was only by a cleverly planned coup d'etat that the press agent was able to engage him long enough to get the following brief statement. state-ment. With all due respect to La Casse. he is truck crazy since the Maxweil produced the little one-ton truck, which it has marketed this season. La Casse duos nothing noth-ing but think trucks, talk trucks, and one would almost think that he ate trucks; but the Maxwell one-ton truck is reallv a wonder and La Casse is excusable for his apparent monomania on the subject. sub-ject. La Casse stated that, according to reports re-ports received from special representatives representa-tives sent throughout Die western states to investigate the truck situation, this is unquestionably the truck age. Everywhere Every-where the farmer and producer has abundance of crops, and as time is now as valuahle as produce itself, the question ques-tion of rapid transportation fares the farmer. Speaking along these lines. La Casse said: "Never before in the history of the industry in-dustry has there been a preater demand for trucks, and this demand will unquestionably unques-tionably increase In the course of the war. as everywhere the farmer is planting plant-ing everv inch of available ground to produce pro-duce foodstuffs so badly needed, and has awakened to the great economy in both labor and time thai the motor truck offers. "We have placed with the farmers in our territory a considerable number of Maxwell trucks and ore, receiving daily repeat orders from people who now real- t ze the great economy that the Maxwell j one-ton truck offers. Tn fact." concluded La Casse. "the truck business has grown so rapidlv and the demand for our prod- I urls become so great that it hfis taxed the Maxwell factory to the utmost to fill : the specifications that have been sent in." |