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Show TSHOHTEN YOUR MILES 10 CONSERVE TIME Let the Overland "Thrifl Car" Help You, Says Browning. The title, "The thrift car," as applied to the Overland automobile, has been the topic for widespread discussion since the automobile show. "The tact is," said Manager Arch Browning of the Browning Automobile company, local Willys-Overland distributors, distribu-tors, recently commenting upon the aptness apt-ness of the term, "that time and money are .iust abou t one a nd the sa me thing. To save time is to make more money. To waste it is to lose both money and opportunity. "The automobile is helping to t urn spare moments into money; shorten miles and conserve time. For to be thrifty with time is a n absolute essential of success. "Thrift implies, not merely paving, but investing: your savngs, in hours or dollars, dol-lars, with wisdom. The automobile has been the greatest aid we have ev.er had In capitalizing time and coining this common com-mon possession into cash. "Na turally, the man who ca.n accomplish accom-plish more In a given time with the aid of an automobile reaps the greatest reward. re-ward. This is equally true of the farmer, the salesman, the doctor, the plumber, the contractor a nd people'' of all trades and professions, whose number is legion. "In Ihe early days of the automobile industry we scarcely realized ourselves what a great utility the automobile was destined to become. But, since the de-niand de-niand for greater accomplishment In less time, with the decrease in man-power occasioned oc-casioned by the boys in training caflnps and in France, we have been doubl impressed im-pressed with it. ' "Tremendous business activities heretofore here-tofore unrecognized in their scope and magnitude, have come to depend to a n extraordinary degree upon the passenger car a.s a means of needful transportation. transporta-tion. All manner of construction work, such as contracting and building, the erection erec-tion of public works, extension of highways, high-ways, expansion of rail and other shipping ship-ping facilities, and so on, have come to require a vast number of automobiles for ! the convenience of executives, inspectors, engineers, estimators, paymasters . and others. Fire chiefs, captains of police, superintendents, public executives, physicians, physi-cians, clergymen, lawyers and members of all other professions find their cars a needful element in their daily work. "We are forced to the conclusion that the pa-ssenger car is a public utility of the very first order and necessity. Therefore, if our great nation is to continue its programme' and carry the present war to a successful end, the manufacture of passenger automobiles must continue to such a degree as will not interfere with the efficiency of those whose efforts are vital to our national efficiency." |