Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 106, 21 March 1916 — Page 19
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VOL. XLI., NO. 106. Consolidated 1907
Palladium and Sun-Telegrram
RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING MARCH 21, 1916.
SECTION -TWO:
Automobile industry astounds world by sudden growth and revolution of transportation system. Most inaccessible parts of the United States now brought close
to big centers of population. Civilization spread fast by new form or locomotion.
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Wayne county feels galvanic touch of new industry. Motor truck systems link up all towns and rural districts with county seat, bringing quick delivery of goods, enabling shoppers to .come to city readily to purchase supplies. Farmers reap benefit of new enterprise. Dawn of new era is here. Future developments predict conditions no one can accurately measure today.
WHAT THE AUTOMOBILE MEANS TO CIVILIZATION AND TO INDIVIDUAL
The man who makes a good automobile, efficient and cheap for the crowd, or magnificent and dear for the few, is a benefactor of humanity. Great events come upon us so quickly that we scarcely see their meaning. Few of us realize that the automobile has done for the body of man
wnat me teiepnone nas done tor ins voice. The ONE PROBLEM of life is speed.
lie who can move, think and act quickly doubles his life. The automobile doubles the life and power of the busy man. , To be without an automobile, if you can possibly manage to get one, is to be out of date, cousin to the dodo, and brother to the ox. The struggle for speed has been the story of mankind. The telephone conquered distance for the roice, the telegraph conquered distance for the written message. , The automobile enables man to move about as rapidly as the bird and now, the intelligent citizen is asking himself, "WHAT machine shall I buy?"
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Let us give some reasons why every man who can should buy some machine big, snorting and expensive, if he can afford it, smaller, less expensive, but the greatest possible addition to life, if the big one is too costly. The automobile means economy. All that a man has in this life is TIME, and very little of that. The automobile adds to the power of an hour, adds hours to a man's day, doubles, triples and quadruples his EFFICIENCY. And this does not apply only to the doctor, with his many visits, or to the fashionable women rushed in nine directions by calling, shopping and other pleasures and duties. The automobile, will do more for a small plumber than, for a man of leisure. It will do more for a butcher, small contractor, or other little, business man than for the richest citizen. Because the little' man is more in need of the machine that means more work accomplished.
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H " Long ago, when only "dudes" so called, rode: bicycles, the envious scattered tacks and broken Vglass along the roads. VWe used-jto tell the. workers thenJthat one dayJHEY would be the chief Users otrfthe bicycle : and that. statement is now fact. We tell the workers today that the time is , coming -when to them more than to any other class the cheap automobile or motorcycle car will be the greatest blessing, another "freeing of the serfs." . '' U. A workman now can hardly believe that he ever opposed the bicycle as the amusement of the rich but .he DID, that. In a short time it will ba unbelievable that vexatious laws and innumerable annoyances should have been devised" to harass those engaged in developing the automobile. You can get a car now that will carry five men eighteen miles for twenty cents worth of gasoline. The man who writes this, with fifty horses standing in the stable on his farm, bought two . automobiles to send farm hands to their work. It was foolish waste to let the men jog slowly behind farm horses, and the machines COST LESS THAN THE HORSES, even on a farm that produces the horses' food and does not yield gasoline. The day is here when the smallest' tradesman, "builder, skilled mechanic, can own an automobile ECONOMICALLY. Let a man care for his own machine an intelligent boy of fifteen can do it. Let the owner consider that he is using HIS valuable property as he drives. Then the life of a machine low in price is almost without limit. And the ownership of a car, far from being an extravagance, is an actual economy. It saves time and makes money during the week. It gives happiness to the entire family on Sunday. It is a healthful, useful pleasure that discourages pleasures that are harmful. The money that has carried hundreds of thousands of men no farther than the corner saloon would take the whole family out ia the country on Sunday. Whiskey and whiskey ' sellers hate the automobile, and well they may.
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The little man's car is here already. The workman's car is not far away. Within five years the tin dinner pail will rest beside the clutch and the. brake at the bottom of a small car. The wife will drive her husband to work take her children to school, do her marketing no longer tied down to the prices of the nearest store. v
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Three cheers for the automobile, which repays ten every dollar that it costs. New York American. .
times over in health, cash and happiness
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