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Bill Says To-day's Pride Is To-morrow's Laugh

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guess it goes back to th' day when th' first man discovered there was bearskins warmer than his own fer cold winter nights.

"Prob'ly way back when our ansisters was still able t' shake hands with their feet some cave man was out huntin' an' happened t' drop a rock on a Hornyhanded Rododendrum or some such animal what was gettin' scarce even in them plentyus times. An' though th' fur weren't much good it was gettin' along toward Christmas an' his wife needed a new coat. So he fixed it up th' best he could an' give it to her. "Like

as not she was so ashamed she sat round th' cave an' moped till the other wimmin begun sayin' t' their husbands: 'What's that coat Mrs. Mc

All the other manufacturers o' private clothes, what should never be seen on anything but the clothesline, got together an' says: 'Look here, all we want is a show!' An' they got it.

"It got to a point where old gentlemen in th' theayter used t' read their programs while th' chorus was runnin' round th' glass balconies an' th' dance o' th' seven veils acted like a sleepin' powder. It was plain they had t' put th' jinx on somethin'. After careful study they decided th' most convenient thing was ears. In so doin' they weren't coverin' up no union-card goods. So th' pearly ear went behind a cloud o' hair an' them that didn't have clouds wore ear muffs, I guess."

"It's like feedin' a slot machine," sighed Mr. Snarlygrass.

"Yes," agreed the Brakeman cheerily. "An' th' worst of it is that no matter what you wear you know that in five years if you saw a picture of yourself you'd look like a comic valentine. It seems t' me that about the earliest thing I can remember is my mother trottin' out th' fam'ly album whenever I got t' cryin' so's I could have a good laugh at my funny-lookin' ansisters. An' I s'pose my gran'mother used t' get a good laugh out of her gran'mother an' so on back t' th' Adamses. An' if they were th' respectable fam'ly they're made out t' be th' fam'ly album weren't no laughin' matter fer them, but somethin' t' cover them with shame, which was somethin' accomplished, anyways.

"Th' whole trouble is th' laugh's always about ten years late. Nobody ever seems able t' catch up t' themselves."

"Well, I guess it's the same everywhere," said Mr. Snarlygrass resignedly.

"All but two places," qualified the Brakeman. "Where are they?"

"One's a Turkish bath. They ain't changed since th' days when Cæsar used t' have his picture took sittin' in th' hot room with Antony like you see him in th' schoolbooks. An' the other I found in the ads of an old magazine I was lookin' over the other day. It looked like a guidebook o' th' Nebraska farmin' district till I come across th' picture o' th' healthy man with th' puffy muscles

an' his hands behind his back. He ain't even shifted his position in all these

ard as a

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THE GLOBE

Go into the great cities or out along the highways of Europe-in England, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain or wherever else you will, and note the many motor cars that ride on Dunlop Tires.

Travel the hot and dusty roads of far-off India, the ancient thoroughfares of Pekin and Tokio or the modern streets of Sydney and Melbourne and observe how frequently the passing automobile leaves behind the imprint of Dunlop.

From London to Cape Town, from Bombay to Buenos Aires, the trail of the motor is, in large measure, the trail of Dunlop Tires.

How true this is you would have realized had you attended any of the big international motor shows across the seas in the past few years. At one of these, for example, sixteen.makes of tires were represented on the cars exhibited, and 59 per cent of these tires were Dunlop's, the fifteen other makes dividing the remaining 41 per cent. At another, Dunlop represented 52 per cent, thirteen other manufacturers absorbing the remainder.

In the thirty-two years that have passed since Dunlop gave to the world the first pneumatic tire, both Dunlop idea and Dunlop institution have circled the globe.

Today nine tire factories and scores of branch factories and depots scattered over both hemispheres are kept busy supplying the large share of the world's tire business that is Dunlop's.

Moreover, Dunlop's activities in the growing of rubber and the making of cotton fabric for Dunlop Tires, in themselves, represent great businesses.

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SERVING

That America was the last of the great tire markets for Dunlop to enter is a fact of no little consequence to you who use tires and you who sell them.

Dunlop comes to the United States now, after thirty-two years of tire-making, not only as a pioneer of the industry but as a long-established international institution with long-established and successful methods.

It comes with a product which has been tried by many years of performance under the varying and often extremely difficult conditions of world-wide. service.

It comes with full recognition of the magnitude of the task and with abundant resources in men, materials and money.

It comes, too, with something else equally important-its conception of responsibility to those with whom it deals, whether these be manufacturers, merchants or tire-users.

The great plant which Dunlop has built at Buffalo is evidence in brick and steel of the way in which it is going about its work in America.

Picture to yourself a broad tract of land, fronting on the Niagara River and containing 214 acres. On this property has been erected a series of buildings covering thirty-five acres, so arranged that their capacity to produce over twelve thousand tires a day can easily be doubled when expansion becomes necessary-so easily, in fact, that the continuous operation of the plant need not be interrupted.

This modern tire-building city contains every material means necessary for producing the highestgrade pneumatic and solid tires, as well as tubes and tire accessories.

To this material equipment and this name of international reputation is added the established Dunlop policy. In brief, it is a policy whose corner-stone is the mutual interest of you who buy and use tires, of us who make them and of the Dunlop merchants who sell them.

Dunlop considers that this mutual interest represents a Dunlop obligation to build only the best product possible; to make it accessible to tire-users; to improve it in every way and, finally, to consider that Dunlop responsibility goes beyond mileage limitations and ends only with the last day the tire is in service.

Dunlop merchants are men who believe as we do -who have selected us as truly as we have selected them--who are your representatives to us as they are our representatives to you. These and all other points in Dunlop policy are founded on the firm belief that what aids one aids all, and that, in the last summing up, your best interests and ours are identical.

Dunlop distribution is through retail channels. It will be national in scope and completely effected as rapidly as is consistent with the best interests. of tire-users and Dunlop merchants. We will welcome the opportunity to discuss distribution plans with responsible tire merchants who are interested.

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