Show Something about the way one roads oft off the highway between walls s of snow reminds me of the early days day 3 of motoring when I Iwas Iwas Iwas was a very small boy We had a Model T touring car and It was pretty well beat beat up up by bythe bythe bythe the time I remember It Dad was always patching It with homemade home home- home j made remedies For instance when the radiator leaked he installed installed in in- stalled horse manure no kidding to patch the holes hole When the radiator boiled over Wow The lights were always out and often otten we didn't start from town I II I Saturday evenings in time to get getto I Ito Ito I to the ranch before dark The I road was two ruts rute through h the prairie and you could just about turn loose of ot the steering wheel I One night we were thus proceeding pro by starlight and we ve hit hita a cow bounced out of the ruts hit another cow ricocheted off her and rammed another cud cud- chewing spectacle of bovine complacency Dad got out the lantern and gazed about and found we were right In the middle of a n herd settled down across the road for the night Somehow mother never seemed to find these antics delectable She reminded that things like this never happened when they were driving the grays to a aI aI aI I buggy Which leads up to a n few I very choice items from the most recent publication of the Ford FordI I Motor Company detailing the i rules ules by which the very earliest American motorist t operated For example when the horse and buggy was a principal means of ot transportation this was wee the rule on one one state If It a horse is unwilling to pass an automobile on the road the driver of the car carshall carshall carshall shall take the vehicle apart and hide the h parts in the bushes I Another rule in the same state Drivers of c cars rs traveling travelIng travel travel- Ing on country roads roads at t night shall send up a rocket every mile mlle then walt wait ten minutes before be be- fore proceeding 1 I ISome I Some regula regulations ons were actual actually y I impossible to observe as written Like this ibis tiTle One en enacted in 1906 j I When two cars approach a Ii a grade gradeI i crossing at the same time time bot both both h I shall shaH come to a complete stop and neither shall m move ve until theother the Iother j I other has p pissed passed by To this day I presumably neither has moved I As late lute as 1913 a Midwestern i 1 oper operator tor had bad to go to court to obtain permission to keep Beep more than gallons of gasoline on I his premises promises as provided by toy city ordinance I I Meanwhile back in the wilderness wilder wilder- wilderness ness ne a law was enacted that cited fifteen miles an hour as a terrifying terrifying ter speed and called the new invention a device of the Devil When one state had a rash of accidents in which vehicles of ot another another an an- other state were involved the i following law was enacted by the first states state's legislature but fortunately fortunately for for- I vetoed by Its Governor An Any motor vehicle bearing I registration plates of the State of shall hall upon entering the State of prominently I display a red flag at least 3 feet by 3 feet In size and shall I be equipped with a bell not lessI less than 5 Inches In diameter I I which bell shall be sounded at atI 1 I Intervals of 10 0 seconds M i i This week wee end My Iy Lady Fair Fairand Fairand Fairand and I will b be attending the annual annual an an- I Inual nual conven convention lon of the Utah State I I Press Prep Association at the Ramada in Salt Lake City This is the I time when once a year all the publishers get together to moan j jand and grown about abot rising costs and I lack of ot support and threatening I libel suits Great fun I 1 II I This seems to o be the convention convene conven tion week end must put in inan inan an an appearance at at the State Cancer Cani Can- Can I leer i Crusade Conference at the Hotel Utah and Im I'm supposed to show at the Farmers Farmers Union big I I do at the Newhouse Last weekend week weekend end it was Uta Inc and the To Tourist Council I I I j I i I j I I I I i I I I This I hie Is the time too w when el competent judges Judge In other states study newspapers newspapers and tell us whether or not we wei rate a good bad Indifferent or excellent If we dont don't win winI any prizes we e say Oh well I publish for or my readers not the judges And besides they dont don't live in Utah What do they know 7 At this time Ill I'll be running out outI of office and its it's going to tobe be a little tough to know Im I'm a has been However that's one date 1 wont won't have to keep in mind each month In the past six years Ive I've I been for the Utah State Press Association Association Association As As- a district director sec sec- treasurer vice president pr president and am now president of the corporation which does more than business la I a year I Please try to remember me me wont won't you Dont Don't nudge each other oiher when I go by skulking and shuffling and downcast and mutter mutter mut mut- ter He used to hold some office lor lor or other Now lm Im Old has has Mac I |