Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-17 | Page 33 | Motor Cars Make Farm Life Glorious

'MOIOfl CARS m M LIFE GLGRIOUS Auto Has Promoted Fruitful Fruit-ful Movement to the Country. The automobile is parent to the most wholesome and fruitful movement in the history of American domestic life the movement toward the acre. Thousands of families have been freed from the pollution and congestion of cities, to live healthier lives in the fresh, pure air of the open country. The good result ? Are many and obvious. Fetter homes, 1 leaner surroundings, improved I health, increased efficiency, all at a lower cost than that of urban life. In accomplishing this one great reform the motor car has proved the claim that it is an essential unit in the transportation transpor-tation system of the world. Inflexible steel rails cannot take its place. The family car takes the workers to and from their daily tasks, carries the children to school, simplifies marketing and shopping in fact enters into every daily duty, as well as recreation. And while we are here "on the acre." It ts pertinent to look beyond and yonder to t-he professional farmer with his hundreds hun-dreds of acts. The successful farmer is an Intensely practical man. He looks first to the utility util-ity of the tiling's lie buys. He enjoys tiie little luxuries of life only after the family i-.tt has been properly feathered and its future safeguarded. He'll tell you that his car has made him a bet iter farmer, and that, with good reason, is what lie's proudest about. In his busy life time counts, and the automobile has brought his sources of supnlv miles nearer. To get 1 lie re and buck is a, matter of minutes, as com-paicd com-paicd with hours In the days before cars came. Knowledge of these few functions, of the many useful ones that the automobile automo-bile is filling, contrilmt? potently to the ' conclusion that it is essential to the ex-, peditious and satistaciorv progress of' twentieth-century standards.