Show 1 People Should Keep Pace f i With Developments of Auto i RESIDENT TAFT recently stated PRESIDENT P that we are living In the automo automobile automobile bile age And It Is true we are But not In the sense meant by the President President dent who cites an automobile as a typical example of high living among American citizens Yet this statement of President Tafts Is an Indication of the way the automobile Is looked upon by thousands of people throughout the United States It Is a fact and the fact Is to be de deplored deplored that the great mass of people have not kept pace with the developments of the automobile Only a very few years ago the automobile was an experiment To Today ay It utters offers the only solution to individual In transportation It Is undoubtedly undoubtedly edly true that during Its stage of devel development development the motor car was perhaps rightly classed as a luxury to be enjoyed by the privileged few and popular Im Impressions impressions stick People do not realize that while the human mind clings to the notion that tha su au automobiles are extravagant to keep de designers designers signers have been working and perfecting automobiles to a point that has reduced the cost of running one to a very low figure There are literally of who have never seriously considered own ownIng Ing a car Not because they could not afford to buy bu one but because they thought they could not to keep one and this thought Is fostered by the im impression that existed some eight years ago and Is not based upon the automobile as It exists now There are sold every year In the United States about bug buggies buggies gies and It Is a fact that there are several sev several eral runabouts selling at around which are not only cheaper to keep but do the work of two or even three horses And there are reliable touring cars selling for 1500 that cost little to run per week Automobile manufacturers who making cars do not constitute tute the automobile Industry As a mat matter matter ter of fact they are but a comparatively comparative Y small part of It Cars which cost thre and four thousand dollars might be styled style stylea d ds a luxury and as such there will always alway s be a market for them But today Is thE th I day of the car carby by should the automobile be cited a aan as asan an example of the extravagant Why Vh should It be cited any more than th the e plano piano which Is found almost In ever Y home It has opened up new territory It has started the move movement movement ment It puts the man living In the th suburban towns In easy touch With his hi city office Then take the case of physicians The Th country doctor Is adopting the automo bile to almost the exclusion of the horse horS And so 50 It Is In almost every wal of life The Th car Is becoming more mor and more a factor why I I believe that the automobile Is not a lux luxury I Is ury but a necessity and one whose use will not be limited when the peo people pie as a whole appreciate the tremendous s strides made In the manufacture of the car I |