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Show SZ.000.000 A DAY TO RUN AUTOS fN U. S. Motor Car Distributor Draws Contrast With the War in Europe. "Aecordins to the latest fipires, it costs the belligerents of Europe more thau $103,000,000 a dav to run the war, while it oosts less than" $2,000,000 to run all the automobiles in America," savs William L. Ilughson, automobile distributor. dis-tributor. "If we believe the European statesman, states-man, tho tremendous flow of gold into the maw of Mars is well spent if his particular sido wins, but take their most plausible arffument. and what a pleasaut contrast wo find to it in the daily story of the automobile, u .l,11, , f rom the horrors of the battlelields, where millions are poured daily to destroy, and gaze upon the peace fields of America, where a comparatively com-paratively insignificant sum is used to operate the greatest mechanical factor in the upbuilding of civilization. "For the automobile is a real' utilitv no longer for pleasure alone, but to do the world s work quicker and more economically eco-nomically than before it came. It has set a new paco for business, decreaisng effort and increasing volume at the same moment. "It has annihilated distance and bv so doing brought people closer together. togeth-er. Due to it, the farmer no loucer considers con-siders a trip to town a burdensome duty. Due to it the manufacturer and the merchant mer-chant meet oftener. Due to it the physician phy-sician reaches more and farther. Due to it the land owner is enriched beyond his fondest dreams. "Thus, more things are raised or made because more things can be moved. Speed brings men together, and that creates trade. Health is promoted. Lives are saved. " "And yet the operation of this greatest great-est emancipator of all time, this modern wonder that, as if by magic, has made hundreds of dollars grow where one grew before, costs each person in America Amer-ica less than 2 cents a da', less than the expenditures for any simple article that is regularly purchased. In mounting mount-ing real estate values alone this per capita cost is wiped out many fold." |