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Show passed them by. It has given the great centers of population a new aspect, broadened them, where the tendency had been to narrow them and make them congested. The automobile has been a force for democracy, in that it has broken down the snobbery of unsoiled hands and has reduced the rich and those far nearer to poversy, to a common com-mon democracy of car owners. Yet, the transformation has only just begun. It promises to reverse re-verse the steram of population from the cities back to the open spaces. It will create new cities of a type now hardly guessed at. It requires isolation to maintain the political distincton we recognize recog-nize in our national life; but the automoble is destroying isolation. isola-tion. - Altho it is not the car itself it-self that has forced the building of our mighty highways, but the' desire for speed and travel which has been stimulated by the machine. ma-chine. Elwood Haynes did more than stimulate the inventive genius of his fellow Americans, he may be said to have given us a new world. THE AUTO CREATES A NEW J , WORLD About twenty-eight years ago the first "horseless carriage" appeared ap-peared on an Indian road, Elwood Hayes, the triumphant builder and owner let his imagination Boar very freely on the evening of that great day. But he never believed what his first success with a gasoline driven car would mean to the world at that time. v But for the automobile,the sharp line between communities that are now bound together almost as the old f ashioned family was, would be isolated from one another an-other The motor car has knitted state to state and setcion to section. sec-tion. . It has revived towns that were dying because the railroad |