Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1920 — OF COURSE [ARTICLE]

OF COURSE

we’re just poor automobile salesmen. Get me right. Not only POOR salesmen but poor SALESMEN. We’re not supposed to think of anything but gear and grease and seldom do, but just what has become of the airoplane invented in America a few years ago? At the armistice America had 30,000 aviators trained at a cost of $15,000 per man, and 34,000 more in training camps who later completed the work. We had millions invested in planes and equipment. It looked as if the things had come to stay and we really thought by this summer they would be as common as “Henry’s percolators.” For some reason they have dropped completely off the screen. What’s the answer? It’s rough on rich to be forced to get around another year in such low down transportation as an automobile, but it wasn’t us that suppressed the airoplane, even tho we do have the finest cars in the world iWe have just added the Cadillac and Hupmobile in hopes to overcome the shortage. For years women have been slaves to dress. I notice they are fast freeing themselves. In these new backless j*owns, Til say they are almost emancipated. THOMPSON AND KIRK.