Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1913 — The Craze for Speed. [ARTICLE]

The Craze for Speed.

Those mighty ocean steamers, like the Lusitania, the Mauretania, and the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, which rush across the sea at the rate of thirty miles an hour, burn up a thousand tons of coal apiece every day. It requires five thousand tons to drive one of them across the Atlantic at that high speed. At a moderate speed, less than half that amount would do, but our century is gone speed crasy. On steamships, on railroads, on autobiles, we must have speed, and sacrifice everything to it, even human lives. Everybody is mad to “get there," whether he has any business "there" or not —Boy Life.