Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 95, 1 March 1919 — Page 9

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1919.

THE

TASK

FOR MEN

AND

MOTOR

Motor Gars in the Vast Plans for Peace What will their part be?

Men and motors won the great war! Now comes a task equally stupen-dous-the task of restoration and rehabilitation of a war-wrecked, stricken world. Motors carried the Nation's war burden. And they will carry the Nation's Reconstruction burden. The story of the motor in the great war has not yet been told, but the historians are writing it. Did you know that the American Army in France alone was equipped with 53,738 motor trucks, 33,334 motor cycles, 1 0,540 passenger cars and 8,797 ambulances? Edward Mott Wolley, writing in Collier's Magazine, said: "Our defense against autocracy would ' have been impossible except for motor vehicles." The motor car industry threw $1,300,000,000 of capital into America's part in the world struggle. A million workers toiled day and night to answer Pershing's cry of "More motors!" - But that will be history.

America turns now to reconstruction. Just as motor vehicles met the call over there, they will meet the call over here. It was a contest of time, durability and dependability at the front, and the same contest is on today, j Herbert Hoover says the world is never more than sixty days ahead of famine between harvests. What's to be done? Raise more food. Yes-but Mr. Hoover says 50 per cent of our perishables never reach the consumer. Why? Transportation between producer and consumer is to blame. And right there is the breach which the motor car must and will fill, Europe has been burning the candle of resources at both ends and for ten years the productivity of the United States will be called upon to feed the world. That's the big task of peace-speed up business-speed up productionspeed up transportation. For TIME is capital these days! "Speed will win the war," was America's cry when we answered Humanity's call in 1917, j

"Speed must Rebuild the World," is the slogan for 1919! And motors, above all, save time! What will YOUR part be in the task? Stury your own business. SPEED IT UP. The world is crying for the very best you can give it of your time, energy, your production. Don't delay.

Motorize Your Business Now

Overland Sales Company Chenoweth Auto Co.

(Overland, Willys-Knight Motor Cars) Bethard Auto Agency (Chevrolet, Dodge Motor Cars) jf!feiu McConaha Company (Hudson, Essex, Studebaker Motor Cars) (Nash-Quad and Federal Trucks)

Buick, Milburn Electric, International Truck) Central Auto Station (Haynes, Oldsmobile, Lexington Motor Cars) Weldex Mfg. Co. (Clydesdale, Master, Commerce and Garford Trucks)

Webb-Coleman Co. (Authorized Ford Sales and Service) Stafford Motor Co. (Cole-Aero and Maxwell Motor Cars) Steve Worley Garage (Westcott and Mitchell Motor Cars) (Seldon and Stewart Trucks)

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