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Show KOTED AUTHOR TELLS OF TRIP Auto Jaunt From Michigan to California Told By Frank Adams Frank 11 Adams, famous author, playwright, traveler and Boldlor, r-en&Uy r-en&Uy completed a motor tour from Whitehall, Mich . to Uanta Barbara. I'al . and l proved so lntercstlnK that he could not restrain writing S letter about If. His letter Is directed to Ray Lone "-dlliir of ' 'otni.iilltan, In which bla Fssplnstlnff hort itortss are now uppeaiinK. He writes: "Once fifteen years ago when I followed fol-lowed "the Santa Tee trail on horseback, horse-back, the principal, objects of Interest adjacent to the beaton track were tho IkUllS, Vertebrae, ribs and other repair re-pair parts of cattle. Now after traversing trav-ersing the seme ground by motor, my lirtnclpul memory Is of almost equally equal-ly numerous abandoned automobiles, some burled, some overturned, others smashed and looted There must b-a b-a story in each one 'Wan warn.-d all along the line to beware of bandits, but no one tried to rob me of my ten dollars. Probably all the bandits are selling oil stock In the new boom towns. 'If your Americanism wabbles the least bit the medicine Is u trip from coast to coast bv automobile. In no Other way can you realize the tremendous tremen-dous .-xt nt of the land you own Us breadth Us heights, and the depth Of its' mud, espei tally In Oklahoma Also odelso crossing Glorieta pass. New Mexico, by winter moonlight. If you don t nllp you will carry away a lasting thrill. W uniformly impressed by efficiency effi-ciency and courtesy of western garage men Ala In fav.ir of a movement to deport some of them to some eastern i It les l could name. "It was a luxuriously upholstered, high-powered four-cylinder Dodge Brothers' ooen face caboose as did the trick. No repairs, no adjustments, almost no gasoline. Kept perfect time all the way. Short vvheclbaso. handy In mountain passes. Car would meet Itself on some of the turns." on |