Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1919 — WAR WORKER ADMIRES CAR [ARTICLE]

WAR WORKER ADMIRES CAR

Mannfacturer Congratulated by Mrs. Ballington Booth, Head of Volunteers of America. The Car Loaned Her by General Pershin! Never Faltered on Hazardous Tripe. Among the numerous letters of congratulation received by Dodge Brothers on the performance of their 14,000 cars serving with the American army, there is one in particular which the manufacturers especially prize. It was written by Mrs. Ballington Booth, one of the chiefs of the Volunteers of Amer- ( ica, the organization that endeared itself to the American dqughboys for its splendid welfare work in the European war. The letter, which is in most respects similar to hundreds of others commenting on the service given by Dodge Brothers motor car, is as follows: “Several times while traveling through “France and Germany I was inspired to exclaim: ‘1 really must write to the Dodge Company when 1 get home and tell them what I think of their car.’ Now that I am home that intention has not weakened. 1 have spent tne whole of this winter in France and Germany amid the mud and rain and shell-torn roads of the battle front, and later over the steep mountains and through the narrow gorges between Luxemburg and the Rhine. “Gen. Pershing gave me for my use while I served the A. E. F., a Dodge car. With my little company of entertainers I was enabled to go to many of the boys in isolated spots who had no transportation to send for me and would have gone without entertainments had I not had my car. We traveled hundreds of miles, sometimes over almost impassable roads. We scaled mountains, where at every minute we had reason to fear that our little car might balk at further pressure. But we never had a minute’s trouble. I can say most emphatically that the Dodge gave splendid service and held out where we have found other cars disabled by the roadside. “When my service with the army was through and I bad to return the car to them I felt as if I was parting with a personal friend and wished that it could run me down to Brest and be taken aboard the transport and sail for home with me. “From what I have heard from many sources, I believe that others have had just as successful experience with the Dodge at the front as we have had.” The cars that served in the army were of standard specifications, precisely like the Dodge Brothers motor cars that are being built day after day for domestic and foreign markets. —Advt,