Show BEATING THE FACTORIES Trade papers tell us that while more automobiles are being made every month ever before the fac fae factories factories tories are farther behind their orders than they have been And the explanation explanation nation is given that owners of machines are beating the factories by destroying automobiles It seems impossible impo sible to secure accept acceptance acceptance ance alice of the fact tact that you can not make male malean an auto climb a a tree People who have ha money mone enough treat the argument just justas as aa humanity treats the measles E Every Everyone ry one OM has au to have it for himself No experience of the other fellow will an answer awe the demand So that when a man buys a machine I and ind learns learnt to drive he permits himself as aa a a rule ruie to rise above the narrow lim Urn limitations limitations of demonstrated fact and ig ignore Ignore ignore nore the dictum that the machine is better on four wheels than on one He has been told so BO often that t t he must slow stow down In turning a corner orner that he be begets gets tired of the Iteration and when he comes to the next angle anle he lets the speed take care of itself and swings on the steering wheel And the tho result is that the morning papers have a nice story about the number of or somersaults the auto turned and the degree d ree of in injury Injury injury jury reported by the passengers when the farmers pulled them out ou of the wreck And then t that machine goes back to the factory in partial exchange for a new ne one Or the rules of physics ph touching the difficulty at ot climbing trees and tele telephone telephone telephone phone poles es have been explained with such pcb tedium by the chauffeur that the confident owner oner decides de ides to find out for himself It is his machine and to the extent of his hia taxes he is part owner of all 11 poles and other property belong belonging lag ing In to a corporation There Therefore Therefore Therefore fore he be picks out a time when some other mad steersman man has baa all ail the road t not t occupied by the pole and sets him himself himself self elt the difficult task of hanging a six cylinder machine on the top of the I tamarac tama Whenever the phase of newness I passes and men get et as sane with auto automobiles automobiles mobiles as they have bae become with bicy bicycles bicycles cles des then the factories factor may be able to get et far enough ahead of the demand as asto asto asto to sell limousine cars caIa at a price within the reach of a working man |