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Show PROMOTE EASE ON All THIP $ Many Make Ready for Visit to Canyons and Beauty 3 Spots of West i: v Notwithstanding the comparative .J carllncss of the real season for toura,- j many automobile enthusiasts vho fj contemplate a great round of pleas- H uro In trips to nearby canyons and beauty spots of the surrounding- tor-' " litory, have already begun to prepare, jjg, j according to Lawrence Tatson of the K,j Checsman Automobile company. m2i "It wasn't so many years ago." said Mr. Watson, "when you'd see a motor-! merged beneath the camping equipment1 equip-ment1 he had piled on his uncomplaining uncom-plaining . vehicle. Everything, from grand piano to tooth brush was thero making the faithful chugg-wagon look like moving In Pumpkin Center. P'ar be it from me to even siigsest that Jail these things weren't necessary and very convenient to take along, but they would seem a whole lot out of date piled on In the old way if you uhould see them today. "Just as the automobile itself has improved fro myear to year, so have tourists' necessities undergone great - changes In weight, convenience and is .. . uscablllty. Take for instance, the or-j cllnary water bucket. You see It hang-i Ing under the rear axle of sheep-j herders wagons, but on tho modern road charlct there's no such convenient conven-ient place to carry a water buocqt. Usually it is thrown in the bottom of the tonneau, and before twp miles have been reeled of it will bo either a handy receptacle for a foot or two of some uncomfortablo traveler, or will be found to be banging up against the basket of soft boiled eggs which are hopes of hungry autoists about noon time. "But all this Is unnecesary today, for a very small price folded water buckets can be obtained at any good accessories store. And together with ' them, canteens, folding camp stooU, and, that wonder of wondors for pleasure plea-sure seeking autoists the Portophono tho folding and easily packed phono-, phono-, graph that is 'as sweet toned as the, j one you left behind in the parlor." i ' From which 'It may be gathered , that the lot of the auto tourist Is easy after all, when ho makes the proper j preparations for his journey.'" |