Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-04 | Page 20 | Majority of Cars Used in Business Way

MAJORITY OF CARS USED IN BUSINESS WAY Great Fallacy to Rate Al Autos tos Nonessential Combine I V Work ark and Play Detroit Au Aug 3 3 Motor Motor cars In the he opinion o of or some ome people who never ne h hat had rI rIan an any use for or them are aro pure purely pleasure vehicles and as such should be banned for or he the duration or of the war If It not for all 11 time This Is not local In certain communities but is fair fairly wide wide- ll traces of or It being noticeable In some official circles Nothing could be farther from the truth than the statement t that automobiles automo automo- hUes biles are nonessential at nt this time A census taken in nil 11 parts of or the lie United States some time ago alto showed that 80 per cent of ot all aU owners used their cars carsmore carsmore carsmore more or pr less In a business wa way on only 1 20 O per cent fI figuring that the they could read readily It do without them There ar are In excess of or automobiles In op operation op- op cr within the United States State This means that citizens need their motor vehicles er e every da day dayto dayto to carr carry on business In an efficient manner n In Touring There i Is one place In Detroit where a good c check can be made on the use of oC pas passenger r automobiles as business and nd pleasure vehicles This Is the tourIn tourIng touring tour tour- In ing bureau of or the Detroit Automobile club In Hotel Pontchartrain AccordIng AccordIng Accord Accord- Ing to William E E. Metzger fetz er president of ot the club clubs the touring business of ot the nr organization has more more than trebled and nearly nearl quadrupled that of or las y year The 1917 tourIng season was as a bl big bigone one some motor j being taken care of ot b by the club In the year BasIng Basing Bas Bas- ing an nn estimate on the Inquiries of or orthe the present year ear to date the club will III take care car of ot t the e wants of oC OOOO or moro morn tourists I Some persons may ea say that more people are making pleasure trips b by motor to avoid old the difficulties connected connected connected con con- with rail service Without a doubt certain car owners are doln doing this but not to nn any great extent In Investigation In- In of or Individual cases by the club shows that hundreds of or i At are traveling only for business purposes purposes purposes pur pur- purI I poses while others In greater grenter number are ro combining outings with business crowding their vacations Into the same period In which th they make business calls To Illustrate to what extent tho the motor motor motor mo mo- tor Is being ul used d In business Mr fr Metzer Metz- Metz Ker er cites the case of or a New ew York busl busi ness man Ho lie was as bringing his family tam fam am- am ily Ib to a northern Michigan resort for tor forthe forthe the summer season and In n doing so o decided to combine business with the tha vacation trip The rho New Yorker motored as far tar faras faras tarns as ns Buffalo and there shipped via Ia steamer to Detroit In order to save time At the automobile club he lie ob obtained ob- ob tamed Information regarding his route I to tho the resort In the northern part o othe of the state and then requested Information I tion for tor or a a. trip to Muskegon from from which point he Intended ferrying to Milwaukee He lie said that he planned making business calls In Milwaukee Chicago SL St Louis Indianapolis Dayton Dayton Day Day- ton and Cleveland Cle from which city he would t return and spend the tho remainder of the thea a vacation period at the Michi- Michi can yan an r resort sort Trip Trips In 10 This is Just one of ot many marty similar cases eases Purely business ss trips greatly u me i C I touring has probably shown a slight decrease over o former years This Is easU easily explained because everybody Is Isso Isso so bus busy carrying on to help win the great war that there Is no time to even en think of ot pleasure America and her citizenry havo have gone about the business of winning the war ar and her citizens who own automobiles aro are us usIng using using us- us ing their cars In an economic and ef efficient ef- ef way ay tl tI I help speed victory As proof that fewer motorists aro arc taking faking tho the time for or long vacation trips touring bureau records show that t there has been a great reat Increase In Michigan touring by The tourists are ln to some nearby resort and spendIng pending their time close to home In Instead instead In- In stead of or making len lengthy th journeys Into various parts of t t the countr country If It some people could have their way said Mr Metzger In discussing discussing discuss discuss- ing the essentially of ot automobiles every ery motor car In the tho United States would be locked In a n. garage garase and kept there forever It Is not hard for those c connected with the automo- automo tile world since the Inception of the motor vehicle to recall the constant opposition on the part of a certain type typo of personA person A A review revlow of ot some lome of the freak laws offered to various legislatures and knocked out only onh through the efforts of ot automobile clubs will t show that there has been n a faction opposed d to the automobile at nil times These persons seem to think that a motor motorcar motorcar motorcar car Is a contraption that should be barred from the public highways The Iea op From France The Idea of ot calling the tho automobile nonessential In these war days ays Is rf- rf r- r One need look only to the war torn areas of ot France to see what Hhas done and Is doing for tho the cause of oC humanity In speeding the resistance resistance resist resist- ance and onslaught against the Huns funIS The automobile Is serving eer In tn rory ery branch of ot tho the army carrying foodstuffs food too stuffs tuffs to the bo boys at the front haulIng hauling haul- haul Ing ammunition to them serving as ambulances to bring back to safety those wounded on the tho field of ot battle and in tn sundry ways as aiding the fight to save sa civilization from th the bloody grasp of Mittel Europa S. S The aeroplane brought to Its present present pres pres- ent cut high state of perfection only ony through the knowledge of men In tho the automobile Industry also Is doing Its Us share In addition to important work work on the fighting fronts the tue allied aeroplanes aero nero i planes are arc te teaching the population of or 1 Germany what frightfulness a as ns de devised devised de de- sed by the lie Huns themselves es really really means menus Our aeroplanes manufactured In American automobile factories are spreading destruction In the Interior of or Germany German ever every day Other rumors rumon started b by the foes of or the he automobile aro are tho those e re regarding the gasoline and tire tiro supply of the nation Gasoline Is being produced In greater quantity than ever and no shortage Is In sight As for tires tire the crude rubber supply Is 25 per cent centor over or that of a year ear ago There la Ia plenty of or rubber to take care caro of or war n. n needs ds and aud for domestic use na as well reli TIle This knocker of or the tho automobile should be silenced for all aU time lIe He if lit a menace to the nations nation's welfare