Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1920 — ARMY CAR STILL DEFYING FLOODS [ARTICLE]

ARMY CAR STILL DEFYING FLOODS

Captain Write* of SurprUing Esparience During Virginia Cloudburst. Rode Trough IS Inches of Water Over “Worst Road In France or America. France has no monopoly on rough roads and other trying conditions for army motor cars, although soldiers are generally of the opinion the automobiles were never called upon for harder service than they were during the war overseas. Capt. John J. Devlin never questioned this opinion until he was assigned to supervise two big government water E rejects near Newport New?, Va., ut the following letter to Dodge Brothers, Detroit, would indicate that he has encountered something that tends to change his viewpoint. “It would hardly be possible after therepu'cation that Dodge Brothers car made in France to say anything that would increase it,” the captain writes, “yet I can not help ■but add a word of praise for what it is doing for us, under difficulties as great as those in France. “Two government water projects, the Big Bethel and Harwood Mills, are located respectively 12 and 17 miles from Newport News and are under the direction of my office. The communicating roads are, generally speaking, as bad as any that I ever saw in France. Commmfitation is maintained’ by means of Dodge Brothers motor cars and they have never failed us yet. “Recently a storm, which was called the worst in years, swept this locality. During one period of 48 hours it was reported that over • inches of rain fell and my presence was necessary at both these projects. Against the advice of everyone that knew the roads, I took a Dodge Brothers touring car and was absolutely astonished at the east with which it took four passengers on the wont road I ever saw in France or America. The water Jay 12 to 18 inches over the road most of the way and I• am satisfied that a horse could not have done the job as the Dodge Brothers car did. I am sending you photographs to illustrate these conditions. Congratulations to you for making a real, serviceable car.” This letter, incidentally, will serve as an answer to many Questions an to what the government did with the thousands of Dodge Brothers motor cars that were in the army during the war. They are still in the army, and in other branches of government service.—Adv. — " 4 Here it is the second of Match and no one has reported seeing a robin this year. Evidently our red oreasveu inena nni * that all is not to ne woB withus **