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Show WORLD OWES MUCH It Saves Lives; Creates Trade and Promotes Good Health. "The automobile is no longer for pleasure alone, but to do the world's work, quicker and more economically tban before it came. It has set a new pace for business, decreasing effort and increasing volume at the same moment. mo-ment. " The speaker was C. X. C'ar-ruthers, C'ar-ruthers, who was holding forth on bis favorite topic in the office of the Inter-Mountain Inter-Mountain Motor Car company, of which he is manager. ' ' The automobile has annihilated distance, " continued Carruthers, ''and by so doing has brought people closer together. Due to it the farmer no longer considers a trip to town a burdensome bur-densome dutv. Due to it the' manufac- turer and the merchant meet oftener. Due to it the physician reaches more : and further. Due to it the land owner! is enriched beyond his fondest dream. ! "Thus more things are raised or! made becase more things can bo moved. Speed brings men together, and that I creates trade. Health is promoted, j Lives are saved. j "Turn from the honors of the Euro-! pean battlefields, where millions are poured dailv to destroy, and gaze upon ; the peace-fields of America, where a: comparatively insignificant sum is used to operate the greatest mechanical factor fac-tor in the upbuilding of civilization." |