The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 29, 1919, Page 18

“gid MOTOR TRUCKS IN FROM JAMESTOWN ON FAST JOURNEY Distance Covered in Several Hours Less Than Original Schedule Time Piloted ‘by Hal Slocum, Coodyear man of Bismarck, the national motor truck development tour arrived in Bismarck late Thursdav afternoon, having come from Jamestown, where they were royally entertained Wed- nesday night. Mr. Slocum met the parade at Steele, where they stopped for lunch and gave a concert and demonstration. dust outside the city several autos containing local auto and truck deal- ers fell into Hine behind Mr. Slocum and formed an escort to the parading place just west of the Missouri Valley Motor building. Good Time Made The trucks were stretched out over a mile in length and made good time over the dirt roads from Steele. All trucks are on pneumatic tires and can make from 25 to 30 miles an hour, Thursday night a smoker and wel- come were given to the visitors, in- cluding speeches by state officials. Tonight a band concert will be held at. the court house square; Saturday afternoon an open air meeting and concert will be held at the ‘ball grounds opposite the capitol, and in the evening another concert will be given at the court house. Arrangements are being made to take one truck with the band and speakers to Mandan some time this afternoon, Likes Our Hospitality “We have all been impressed by the great open-handed hospitality of you North Dakotans,” said A. R. Kroh, who is in charge of the tour. “Receptions accorded us since we entered your state have impressed all of us. To the ‘best of our ability we intend to reciprocate while we are in your city. We came here a day ahead of our schedule when we learned that the farmers were so busy getting in their crops around Steele that they would not have a chance to come to town. “This tour is going to be a wonder- ful aid to the better roads movement and to community hauling. A nation can move only as fast as. its people move. We have never furnished mod- ‘rn transportation to move the pra- duct of the farm. The farmer has had to haul his products in wagons drawn by horses. The farmer cannot pro- duce and transport too. We have ‘failed to modernize transportation. to the rural districts, whtch has, up to BETTER HIGHWAYS Chief Insnector on Bismarck’s The increasing demand for perma- nent 001 roads throughout the var- jous counties of this and other states is not “Fad” as a large number of people think it is; it is not a move On the part of auto clubs and associa- tions in cities and towns to secure good roads over wilich they can drive "during their leisure hours. It is the result of a perfectly logical and sel- entific growth. People today are not content to use the horse and ‘buggy or stage coach as a means of travel, but instead they have their automobiles and express trains. The farmer of today could not trade places with his forefathers who cut and threshed their wheat by hand, but he must harvest his crop with the modern time and labor sav- ing binder and threshing outfit. Paved County Roads The farmers of today need paved county roads more than any other class of people as it brings their mar- ket much closer to them than before. It gives them access to market 365 days in the year instead of only on the days when the roads are good. It also provides the means of permitting them to market their goods when prices are favorable. These paved roads are the only means which can be had in the town or city, except by moving to that city. The bad road tax is much more than the good road tax. It is not a question of not being able to afford good roads. The auestion has chane- ed to: How can we afford to be with- out good roads? The answer is em- WHY HAVE GOOD ROADS? DEMAND FOR NOT FAD, DECLARES CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION SPECIALIST By B. H. Tong Third of a Miltion-Dollar Five- Mile Concrete Pavement Project, the Biggest, “Cement” Job in the Northwest This Year. (Rr In ee cn ee a ENGaIRLAIEnE GRRRESaEE phatically, We can’t. From a plain business standpoint we can’t afford to be without them. The Bad Road Tax \ Consider a store ten miles from & railroad or a farmer ten miles from a store. On every article purchased by that farmer he pays a bad road tax, no matter whether that article be a plow, a pound of sugar or a spool of thread. People, who believe or say they ‘be- lieve that whet was good enough for their fathers and grandfathers is good ‘enough for them, object to hard sur- ; faced roads by saying we do not have the money or we cannot raise thé money. We can wet the money. Sev- eral dther state or hundred of other counties have set us several examples of where there is a will there is a way. ‘Poor Roads, Poor County A county will always be poor with bad roads. Good roads naturally in- crease the value of the land by creat- ing a démand for’ that land. Good roads result in the saving of beth time and monéy, ‘lot dnly to the farm- er and motorist but ‘also the time and ‘money now wasted by the’ county anid state in the maintainance of oar pres: ent bad roads, The’ best possible argunient ia favor of good roads is that no government, state, county, city or individual who has paved roads is willing to sell them for what they cost. In the country as well as in the city the start is sometimes hard ‘but when once start: ed—Well. have some more. now, remained as it has always been —a relic of the past, in a world whieh is twentieth century in character. Ev- ery community has its rural section which should produce as much as possible for its own needs. “Rails cannot reach your rural dis- trict—they cannot go over the hills or under them—but rural express can. Stimulates Production “The motor truck will stimulate greater éfforts in the farmer in your community to produce more and to bring more, fresher ‘and better food at lower cost to you. The slogan of the present certtury fs’ ‘Save time.’ The motor truck does it.” A big feature of the caravan’s' visit to this city wil be the banquet at the Grand’ Pacific hotel tonight at'6 o'clock. Musical numbers * will be furnished by the band \boys who are Percy Gibbs, Here yy ie Maxwell; Has | Had’ Varied Career eo reae Began Work as Unskilled Me- chanic in 1904—-New Mak- ing Eeonomy Records Many a young man had more ad- vantages and better technical equip- ment, but Percy Gibbs driver of the Maxwell truck ere Thursday with the national truck dévelopment tour is another of the “boys who has made good.” ‘Statting work as.om unskilled tire adept in the art of coaxing ragtime out of a‘piano. ‘chanic in one of .the Detroft. garages tt in 1904, by. 1906 he had charge: of two SISMARCK. DAILY. TRIBUNE - ofthe ..largest in Detroit, Mich. Walter Ei Flandérs, organizer and long time president. and chairman of the Maxwell Co.,’ was then’ factory manager for Henry Ford,.and it was in 1907 that Percy Gibbs began with the Ford Co.. and met Mr. Flanders who immediately reeognized his abil- ity with gasoline engines and took particular interest in his work. When in 1908°Mr, ‘Flanders had or- ganized the E..M. ®, 'Co., Gibbs be- came a member of this organization and remained with them until 1913, at which'time the E. M. F. was taken over by the Studebaker interests. While with the B. M. F. Co. he was largely responsible for the ‘accuracy | of their: product, having charge of, the road test and also served as a, member of the famous E. M. F. rac- | ing team for two years. Not quite. satisfied and wishing to, be independent the ‘next step of this; enterprising young man was to go in- to business for ‘himself., [Here he; proved vuccessful but learning of an} opportunity he sold out in 1914 and} associated himself with the Maxwell (Motor: Co. in-the experimental depart- ment ani in‘maktng economy records and economy #uns in all parts of the country. ig it was iv New York state that Per- cy Gfobs. made a 60-foot Ieap in, a Maxwel? touring car and 12 feet into the air. Here the sturdimess of the Maxwell construction was certainly put to the test, and proved again the confidence whith: he' had in the dur- ability: of: this litte ear: Gibbs drove’ -the: ‘Maxwell truek which is motnted: on pneumatic ‘tires from Detroit to Chicago, a distance of'340 miles, ‘teaving Sundey, driving all night and was ready to start from Chicago’. 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