Show I Say Officer er Have HaveThe The Wagon Backed Up Rig Right t Here HereTo HereTo T To io Get Get P i This Ibis Press Tess Agent This story might have first been printed in the afternoon papers of ot Rome some time in the year B. B iC Iv But the sales manager manager manager man man- ager for the Randall-Dodd Randall Auto company has found a present day application for it The story is based on an ancient prophecy which forecast the use usef of the automobile as the solution of at the traffic problem It Is certain that automobiles with their glaring headlights honking horns and pat pat-pat pat pattering pattering exhausts exhausts exhausts ex ex- have appeared in dreams No not in Welsh rarebit dreams but as far back as the seventh century before Christ when this prophet lived That Nahum that's the particular lar prophet in question was convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced of his foresight Is shown by the passages quoted by a Boston pastor in support of his hiB contention contention of the ancients ancient's dream of or motor cars Nahum dreaming saw himself himself him him- self in a modern city He was Inthe inthe in inthe the midst of ot a whirl of Or traffic with automobiles pushing hither and thither among tho the throng When he awoke ho he was surrounded surround surround- ed by tho the same old sandy desert Then It at was that the truth dawned on him him it it was a prophecy and this Is what he wrote The chariots shall rage In tho the streets they shall Jostle one ono against the other In the broad broadways broadways broadways ways they shall seem like torches they run shall run like the lIgh |