Show GOODRiCH RI CA Y GATHERS OATH ERS STATISTICS FROM FARMERS I Rural Purchaser ser 1 Not Af After e Luxury in Auto W Wants ant i Service and Power f r rIt It If there Is anyone any ci one class lass of ot automobile who resent resent their cars being classed with highly high scented French per perr perfume fume and fancy silk hose It Is is the American farmer Periodically It seems there mere bobs up some movement designed to brand the automobile as a luxury and a a. Ual To prove such allegation at variance variance va va- with facts the travel and transport trans trans- port bureau of ot the B T I Goodrich Rubber company Instituted a survey of a a. representative representative lepie- lepie farming community which consumed COlli consumed con con- i a weeks week's time and during which a majority of the farmers In an entire county were personally interviewed Lorain county count county county- Ohio was sele selected tecI for the check because it possesses everything from the small track garden to large highly cultivated Over 75 per cent of or the Carm farmers rs owned passenger cars the census takers found Each owner was asked whether he classed his car as a business or pleasure car Fully 50 so per per percent cent of the answers were In in- effect Absolutely necessary and get along without it It Of the theother theother theother other half halt of or Lorain county motorcar owner 40 per cent stated that they considered considered con con- con con- their machines s a fifty fifty-fifty half Sidon half as utility and half as a pleasure pleasure pleasure pleas pleas- ure vehicle The balance regarded their cars chiefly as pleasure as-pleasure cars but when ask asked d If they would have purchased their cars for pleasure only the reply was iii in- in variably no no i C The investigation shows that the motor vehicle is a necessity of the first order to the farmer Ten per percent cent of the farmers farmers farm farm- i er ers questioned owned motor trucks trucks- largely of one and ton one capacities capaci capaci- ties Five per stated that they were In the market for light trucks Over 25 25 per cent declared a large part of ot their product was hauled to to- market by trucks truck Truck lines lines' operated by creamery companies companies companies com com- have made dairy operation profitable profitable profitable profit profit- able In Lorain county Nearly every farm has a small milk shipping platform In front of its gate Produce garden truck and fruit ar are are quickly transporter transported to market b bj by both passenger car and light truck thus thus' s saving thousands of I precious hours ours for the farmers each cach year The farmers farmers' attitude on the me relation of or the automobile to public welfare re Is significant since over over half one half of the nations nation's nat naton's na- na I t tons ton's on s automobiles are owned in sixteen Middle Western states and some 65 p per pr percent r cent of these farm Carm owned M Frequently during the present resent governmental governmental govern govern- mental Investigations Investigation's called called to prescribe prescribes some some procedure to ease up the shipping situation and to reduce the cost of Jiving living liv- liv ing certain economists have endeavored to class th the automobile with silk shirts s sand and bay rum in efforts to discriminate a against the industry They lose sight of of the fact that over over half halt of the cars and I trucks made deliver themselves over the highways and th that t when they reach their own owners rs they perform a definite and In Invaluable Invaluable Invaluable In- In valuable business business' and transportation function At a a recent Washington Investigation the he the automobile Industry went on record I P sir favoring a ten day test when the therun run running running ning of or all automobiles in the nation vvo id d be best stopped and thereby hereby determine once and for all whether the automobile 2 Is an essential pa part t of the bu Iness m mechanism me me- I of t the country |