Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-02 | Page 58 | Motor Truck's Place Certain

wanted, and pride in the development of home industries will assist in building build-ing up the count.rj' stores as nothing else could have done. "Tho motor truck,'' said Murray recently, re-cently, "has done much in this direction, direc-tion, and is building up a better social conditiou and a community spirit which portends well for the future. Improvement Improve-ment of conditions as regards the merchants and their customers is not tho only great change of the day. Ato-tor Ato-tor trucks are today making the life of the farmer more worth while. Few stop to realize the changes that have come to the tiller of soil in a few short years. Tako tho telephone, the rural freo delivery, the automobile, the motor mo-tor truck, the tractor and rural express, ex-press, all unknowu not so very many years ago, and there is a combination which has meant much to thie- man who grows the crops so necessary to existence. exist-ence. Motor trucks have played an important im-portant part in the new era for the farmer, and with the construction of great road systems will add still more to the life of the man who farms. Where, not so long ago, he started for market the night before and drove plpdding horses all night long to reach the market early in the morning, he now enjoys a night of sleep and travels the distance in a couple of hours and is back again on the farm in shorter order.'1 MOTOR TRUCK'S PLACilERTAiN Now Big Factor in Growth of the Remote Rural Districts. Cooperation of the government is a reality now that the real value of inier-urban inier-urban lines of motor trucks is realized, for the farmer and for the city dweller. dwel-ler. Motor trucks are going to. be a great factor, according to Arthur T. Murray, president of tho Bethlehem Motors corporation, A lien town, Pa., in developing city pride and in bettering living conditions, both in the city and in the country. In the past it has been the custom of inhabitants'in districts off the railroads rail-roads to concentrate their buying in towns along the railroads because of the inability of the small storekeepers to secure easily and quickly the goods for sale in their own towns. All that is changed now for tho motor truck lines are bringing direct to the small storekeepers from the big centers the goods they want, and bringing the material ma-terial daily. The farmer and smalltown small-town inhabitant do not have to travel, now to distant points to find tho goods