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Show 'Hooverizing' Must Include Ban on Horse, Says Motor Authority. POWER UNIT SUPREME ' Marvelous Efficiency and Stamina of Gas Wag-on Fully Demonstrated. The attention of all business men, mining companies and others who are confronted with hauling problems that must be solved during the war period, 1 is directed to the page of trucks ad- vcrtisement in this issue. On this page the names of ten truck dealers will be found. All of the trucks here represented cmbodj- some feature that makes them distinct from all other trucks made; but it is safe to say that all will give any one who purchases hi truck of any of the ten makes, entire Satisfaction. 'This, because the truck-makers truck-makers of the nation have arrived at , that degree of perfection in the con-struction con-struction of these mammoth machines that thev cannot fail, j The ten truck dealers who have com-i com-i hired to present their products on this pace are: Maxwell Commercial trucks, sold by the Sun Motor Sales company; Kissel tracks, sold bv the Inter-Mountain Me.-, tor company : Selden trucks, sold by the '. Inter-Mountain Motor company; lie-public lie-public trucks, sold by the inter-Moun-j tain Oldsmobile 'company: CMC ! trucks, sold by "Randall-Dodd Auto company; Bniek'eommereial trucks, sold by the," Kandall-Dodd Auto company; Vim Commercial trucks, sold by the Tnited Motor company; Nash trucks, sold bv the United Motor company, and distributed bv the Pac.if ie-Xash Motor companv; Ga'rford heavy duty trucks, sold by" C. A. Quigloy; Kelly-SpriDg-1'ie.ld trucks, sold by W. H. Moore agency. For the edification of those who are not familiar -with power-wagon lore, the following is appended: . Maddening Stunt. Eight or nine years ago a few men vreTe driven almost mad trying to ob-I ob-I tain some data on operating costs on motor tmcks and many times when I thev were discussing such terms the i majority of listeners thought there I A. H. BERG i ! - P " ! ' ' r 'r , t V" R J (T) Manager Salt Lake Accessories Co. . were padded cells for such men. Haw- j .ever, someone must do the pioneering and todav we have a gasoline engine world war, and the motor truck placing plac-ing the important role, for without it there would bo no war, because transportation trans-portation means success. Lets not go so far away from home and start close at hand, to acknowledge acknowl-edge that the ambition - of a decade has been realized in a few years and promises to be one of the world s greatest industries. True the governments gov-ernments of many' nations are demanding demand-ing much of our American truck factories, fac-tories, which are the orders wo all hear 'about, but little do we think of the j domestic trade. Preach Economy. Xo matter where we go or what we read, we will find that our government govern-ment is preaching economy "Hooverizing" "Hoover-izing" in every'possible way, all of which is teaching us a "ood lesson, but are .we all doing it ? For example, we cannot use all wheat in our bread, but we must use barley, rice, etc., and naturally na-turally this increases the market, value of barlov, which in the west is the breakfast, dinner and supper of our old friend the. horse, which means that he is expensive. It has also been pro'eu in Chicago that the horse is a menace to public health, as well as au expense to care for when used on the public streets and such times soon counterbalance their limited service. Few of us realize the fact that in order to use a horse successfully today it i-neeessarv i-neeessarv for him to be idle at least one-third of the nine-hour day. or that he is only two-thirds efficient every working day. This is not so with the motor truck that can work nu and on without rct and consume feed that is useless to the con-monweahh as food. This does not. ue.-'cs larilv condemn the horse from some services, because it has its place. However, How-ever, it is in the same position today regarding its usefulness, as it was hp-I hp-I fore the war started, so we must now face the truth and admit that it is outworn out-worn Hud unprofitable. Right here is brought up the prob-bvrt prob-bvrt that will soon be overcome, and that is intercity haulina. providing the public at large will help. Like the horse-drawn vehicle, the railroad is not elastic and hence it cannot he applied to the extreme conditions such as a truck, because a locomotive, like the horse, must rest for inspection at least. However. Ions distant hauling by motor mo-tor is fast approaching. It is new-work new-work and today we have no figures or costs with which we can compete with the organization of railroads, eipecially here in our state where most of our railroads run parallel to the highway. |