Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1911 — Would Draft Autos. [ARTICLE]

Would Draft Autos.

A plan to make all private automobiles available for military service In time of necessity was suggested by Major General Frederick Dent Grant in his annual report. “It seems to me," he says, “that it would be wise if the national government passed laws that would cause the registration of all automobiles capable of transporting four or more passengers, and that the owners of these machines be obliged legally to v transfer them, en demand, to the government for military uses, for a sum of money not greater than the original cost of the machine. “If this were done the government would have at hand and without cost to maintain, a means of transportation for the rapid movement of troops.”