Show I Speed Is Mania of the Age Reason Why Auto Is Popular HERE is a fascination about speed THERE that appeals to most all of ot us I believe The American generally speaks with pride about the fast twentieth century pace and nearly ev every every every ery one who is active these days likes to feel that he Is traveling as fast tast as his neighbors We Wo like to speak of ot our trains and It is only natural that most every one is fasci fascinated fascInated fascinated by speeding in an automobile You Tou would think possibly that the racing pilots after atter several years of ot service ser lIer service vice at the wheel of ot high speed eed cars would begin to regard their flights at terrific speed as a matter of f course a apart part of ot the days daTs work as commonplace as any anT other work to which they would Woula be bo devoted I am convinced however that the tho peculiarly exhilarating sensa sensation sensatIon sensation tion of traveling at a headlong speed peed never nevor loses Its charm When once inoculated with the th speed mania you are almost incurable It has been my experience in the few tew years that I X have been driving that no matter how fast ast a pilot may drive he heno heno heno no sooner finishes the race than he ho be begins begins begins gins to Imagine that t at he 11 could improve the time If It he had another chance Have you ever noticed drivers of ot big cars who would finish a spectacular run against time and would come rushing back to the tha Judges stand with a plea for tor an another another another other trial explaining that they were sure they could cut off oft a second or two There must be a about motor motorcar motorcar motorcar car racing otherwise so many hundreds of thousands of ot people would not travel many miles mUes and part with real money in order to witness the battle between cylinders and men And if it these people in the grand stand become so excited with the mere eight sight of ot the contests and the odor of ot burning binning ing gasoline and oil think of ot the thrill that surges through the men men who are holding onto the s steer steering steering eer ing wheel and trying to shoW shone the prow p ow of ot their speed demons to the front on some wicked turn with the big blK motor cotor thundering regularly like the systematic matio matic firing from a squad of ot machine guns The Tho wind roars in your ears the car thunders onward fairly alive as if it pulsing with a Ute lifo all its own the oil tattoos your face and the odor of ot the burning gas fairly intoxicates you the dust and grime and dirt cake on your face tace but there Is fa an Intense feeling of conquest battle which makes the red blood course cour o madly through your veins |