Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-07-27 | Page 36 | Daring Motorists

DARING MOTORISTS S C once said that Indiana was vas settled byI by I V people that started west and 15 lost st their nerve It was a n. gibe that had no logical foundation that any any- I lody could over o find but it tickles ones one's sense of the ludicrous and md it has lies endured Every w week ek or so some re resident of Ohio's great neighbor state proves the fallacy of the sa saying ing by publishing an on impossible I sible book Indiana being the habitat of more amI ambitious ambitious am- am I novelists than ever e got a n book printed I All of which Is s preliminary to a belated word of admiration for the tho courage with which tho the I Indiana diann diannI I motorists have fought their way across the con continent to 10 to California They dared the perils of western plains mythical swollen storm streams and nd insecure bridges I against which they had been maliciously warned and the they made the trip a n success Every ery commonwealth I through which the they passed owes them a n debt of grat grat- for proving that when the good Lord made th this s 1 alluring western country ho provided means for reaching it under any old method of f locomotion It follows naturally that if the forbears of these daring during Indiana surrendered their western intentions inI intentions in in- I in that hat state some decades ago ogo it was not nol I 1 because they had lost anything their reason was that they had lied found the tho place