Show IWAR I ADDS TO NEED MEED I IFOR FOR MORE MOTORS I During this time of national expansion ex expansion expansion ex- ex it is well to consider the large part the automobile is playing in this tills work says B B. B W. W Tyman general m manager nager of the State Inter Motor com com- pany If the participation of the United States In this war Is of any duration we are bound Jound to feel the growing necessity of more beneficial transportation methods Although this country has not felt the need as greatly great great- ly as some of the tho allied countries now at war we will feel it as the intensity of ot this conflict comes home stronger to us and as we come to to toa a a fuller realization of the imperative need of other means of carrying than are at present supplied by the railroads rivers rivers rivers riv riv- ers and canals As It has been expressed so well by byan byan byan an English journalist which expression expression expression sion also Is applicable to this country so huge an expansion and diffusion of business could not possibly be efficiently efficient efficient- ly transacted nor all of its opportunities opportunities opportunities and Its potentialities developed developed de developed de- de without the aid of constant personal intercourse and therefore travel travel easy easy convenient swift in itself itself It Itself it- it self and further accelerated by the remOval re removal ro- ro moval of avoidable hindrances hind hind- rances will rances-will will rank as one of the most Important auxiliaries of business if it not as a basic condition of existence It is certain that the present transportation transportation transportation trans trans- facilities outside of the automobile automobile au automobile au- au will feel the impetus of national national na na- na- na expansion and all be called upon to sustain their share of the extra burden burden bur bur- den but from the very nature of things In this country the main responsibility must fall upon the I When it is considered that the tendency ten ten- tenI I I dency of this age ago Is to supplant manpower manpower manpower man man- power with machinery of every description description tion and when It is considered that this tendency is Invading even the farm it is is apparent that such a ten tendency tendency ten ten- dency must be backed up p by other means to care for the tho tremendous increase increase in in- in crease of acreage and manufacturing fa faTo production To consider the automobile as a luxury Is to overshadow or ignore our economic condition which of necessity necessity sity has been augmented by our en entrance entrance en- en trance Into the warIn warIn war In the past fifteen years the motor car Industry has grown to giant proportions proportions pro pro- and It portions Is Impossible to believe believe believe be- be lieve that only a pleasure loving desire on the part of the people of this Country country coun Coun- try has been responsible for thU this growth Rather Is it true that na national national na- na expansion has been fortified by the automobile enabling us to with at least cope one phase of ot this e ex- ex namely namely the transportation problem through problem through the logical and eco economical economical eco eco- development of motor traffic There would be many more bicyclists bicyclist if automobiles were parked a sufficient distance away from the curbs so that bike riders could pass without zigzagging zigzagging zigzagging zigzag zigzag- ging from one side of the street to the other in the opinion of A. A H. H Mere Mere- The police have recently issued a statement that accidents can be avoided by keeping close to the right hand curb but this Is impossible so long as autos are parted right up I against the curbs I |