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Show THE MOTOR AS AN ADJUNCT OF PEACE AND WAR 1 - SUPREMACY OF GAS ENGINES IS DISCLOSED Beauty and an Auto in a Setting Typical of Motoring Mo-toring Pleasures; the-Latest Mounted Man-Killers Being Tested. x A hundredfold and more are the utilitarian' uses of the gasoline engine. They drive the chariots of commerce, propel the carriages of the peacefully inclined, and, with equal vigor, cer: tainty and efticieucy, drag swiftly over the battle fields the rapid fire guns, the ambulance?, the officers' runabouts, or, hooked to the mighty "tanks, " plod slowly over shell-torn terrain, stopping not at the deepest dug trenches or barricades. and deliver their shot aud shell to the foe in whirlwind whirl-wind fashion, while he crouches in his dugout. Tn the past fifteen years the motor car has come far and come fast. It has still some distance to go, but its place in the land is now secure and its nobility ot-character, its staying qualities, quali-ties, its power, its readiness to serve, are recognized and hailed with delight bv a grateful public. "The motor car has yet to be recognized recog-nized as a public utility, but the time is not far distant when it will be so recognized. Perhaps after the din of wav'has ceased and the world has been made "safe for democracy." the motor mo-tor driven vehicle will take the place in the life of the nation that it so justly deserves ajid to which it is so much entitled. The war has disclosed that the motor mo-tor car is a necessity not a. luxury. It has also 'disclosed that the people' will demand motor cars even though the war lasts for fifty years. A nation motorized is about what can be said of the I'nited States today. It is almost the same as saying to a man that he cannot have bacon, or coffee, or a pipe of tobacco, to tell him that he cannot have a new auto. The photos herewith show the two extreme uses of the internal-combustion engine. In the top picture the woman is all delight and radiant over having her picture taken beside her-handsome her-handsome car. Standing beneath the tall statue of Padre .lunipero Serra, the builder of missions, with wide branching palms easting their protecting protect-ing shadows near, she smiles a welcome tothe camera man that reflects health, happiness and supreme Americanized content. This is the motor in peace. Below there is depicted the grim tools of war. The frail looking rapid fire gun mounted on the steel chassis of the motorcycle has the power to stop 'a regiment of soldiers, be they "Huns'' or of a more enlightened race.. The man sighting the gnu is Captain Hid-zutani, Hid-zutani, an expert rapid fire gun man of the Japanese army. He is testing out the new mount for the gun, for his country.. A gun so mounted has a thousand times the mobility of unmounted un-mounted guns, and this, being an American Amer-ican idea, an American made gun and an American motorcycle, it is not presuming pre-suming too much to say that the "Sammies" "Sam-mies" will have mounted rapid fire guns as soon as any other men in the war. In between these two extremes, the motor driven wagon is performing a mighty task for the nation. It is hauling haul-ing passengers at a rate greater than all the railroads combined; it is helping help-ing to relieve the congestion of freight traffic and will, in time, accomplish much more in this direction as good roads are provided; it is turning the sod of the land, that the farmers may produce crops to feed the world during the war; it fills the farmers silos to feed the stock, carries him to town and delivers his products at the. market. And a few only a few ultra-fashionable autos are still ranked as pleasure plea-sure cars, purely and simply, and used after that fashion. vv- i |