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Show BIKE RETURNS TOAID PROGRESS Editorial Writer Gives Version of Gas Buggies-Airplanes and Bicycles The following editorial is from the Xew York Tribune Yh do dynasties rise and fall and return once more'.' Why does art proceed pro-ceed from romance to reulism and bach again? Why does a wheel go around We are not sure that we can answer these Ingenious questions, but we are certain if thr important facl that the bicycle, for almost a generation unmounted, and unsung, Is actually n-appi-.trlng. with honor and ceremony, almost enthusiasm There may be a deep and philosophic philo-sophic content In the fact. The occultists occult-ists will dollbtleSS find a mystical explanation ex-planation for the descent from four wheels to two. As for the economic explanation we dismiss It save as a contributing factor as derogatory to one of the most delightful and Ingenious Inge-nious machines ever contrived bv the . mind of man. We prefer the simpler' : , v icvs . that us jjlyaaea finally came ! home from his wanderings, so bicyc-! bicyc-! lists, having Ignored their best lovo j through many years, are now turning I back to faithful Penelope, her of the : sparkling spokes and whirling ped-: ped-: alb. j If any explanation other than that : o' the heart and its cycles (we use the w ord In Its metaphvsh al sense : Is necessary, there la the snobbish one j I that since everybody purchased an au-tomobtle au-tomobtle nobody could b anybody j I Without some other and distinguishing : method of progress. How could a pro- fi N-tor for example, maintain a!oofnesn nd dignity, save by procuring a bl-; bl-; cycle and pedaling tu classroom? He , COUld, of course drive a Ford, that use- ' ' fu! vehicle of the very rich and the1 I Very poor, that no man with a union, : card would be found dead In But a I I Ford takes some ga sollne -not much, I .but some and with professional and! other bourgeon Incomes at their pres- I lent low abb the economic reason has 1 1 probably aided the factor of sound j snobbery to bring the bicycle back to 1 1 popularity. j The bicycle In short. Is returning 1 1 for Just the reasons that are driving I the silk shirt out Save to lay bricks' : fin or wheel a barrow through, that j 1 1 garment of display and splendor has j I Utterly vanished. The most silent, sol-1 I j ltary and elegant of all vehicles In re-II re-II turning to Its own, after years of de-Hsertion de-Hsertion by the route of economic pres- j ; sure, but chiefly and primarily because! j of its true and lasting distinction,! : I which no number of snorting cylln-l ders, whether by earth or sky, can per-. : manently eclipse. |