Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 119, 29 March 1919 — Page 20

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1919.

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IN all industry the most essential factor is transportation. The rapid, uninterrupted flow of goods from maker to market, bears the same importance to the world as the blood does to the human body. Without the one the world would die. Without the other the human body cannot live.

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The temporary and partial breaking down of rail transportation in the United States a year ago brought us face to face with the fact that transportation must be improved. The Improvement is HERE! The motor truck! j It is the new factor in the transportation problem that will solve it is solving it. There are more than 650,000 motor trucks in use in the United States today. In 1918 they handled 1 0 billion tons of goods. It is estimated this will be doubled in 1919. That America has accepted the motor truck as a cross-country carrier of freight is seen in the wonderful revival of road-building. The freight train of tomorrow will start from the farmer's gate and deliver its load at the consumer's back porch. The day of slow moving, costly horse drawn freight is past. The horse was once man's best friend. Now he is a parasite eating the food of the world and producing little. There are 20 million horses and mules in the United States. They require

1 00 million acres of tillable land for raising their feed. Those acres if turned to producing food for men would feed 25 million persons. The horse will have to go! This is an age of progress, above any age. A whole world is being rebuilt. Produce, expand, develop is the call to every man. It must be done quickly. Man power must be multiplied. New acres must be tilled. Old industries must be revived. New industries must come. There's a world to be fed. American industry is answering. American brains, American money, American muscle is being poured into the vast plans of reconstruction. Hurry, hurry, is the universal cry! Farmer are you hurrying? Manufacturer are you hurrying? Business man are you hurrying) Worker are you hurrying? Distributor are you? Speed won the war. Speed must win the world for peace. Rapid transit is speed! Transportation was the problem of the war. The MOTOR TRUCK solved it. . Transportation is the problem of reconstruction. The MOTOR TRUCK will solve it.

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Would motorize vehicles help me in this big job?

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Davis-Overland Sales Co. Gkenoweth .ut p- . rr i i i?n is i o Buick, Milburn Electric, Kauch and Lang Llectncs, (Overland, Wilys-Knight Motor Cars) International Truck) Bethard Auto Agency Central Auto Station (Chevrolet, Dodge Motor Cars) (Haynes, Oldsmobile, Lexington Motor Cars) McConaha Company Weldex Mfg. Co. (Hudson, Essex, Studebaker, Nash Motor Cars) (Clydesdale, Master Commerce and Garford (Nash-Quad and Federal Trucks) 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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