Show 1 I S The High Spots 1 I V do you think of a ra racing ing automobile t that made four fifty-four miles at a sp seed eed of S five ve and a quarter miles an an hour x You ter er ker ho how Tommy ny Milton's car made miles ans an s qt hour ur last y year r aron on the Daytona track track and and smile l vet r et the car that ma made e the slow speed once ril e the he whole c country por For it it won Americas America's tit aut auto race This was 1 in Chicago Novem- Novem I 28 1895 1895 1893 The driver i e had 1 d. d to jump out frei fre- fre i i 1 and shove his car out of ruts and aId and snow snow- drifts Occasionally when when he got stuck he had to throw oily sand on the belt Jn In n six wenty-six si years the automobile has as been devel- devel i tP p ped to to the the point where h re it can can travel like a and almost climb the sl side e of a house 1 i You often marvel at the big scale on which t t. t do things thinks i in iii Amer America ca More wonderful is tl ed with which we take a crude d device vice an and hi lipert ct it Prehistoric man made himself a better pon than his fists by tying a chunk of jagged tn t tto to a handle binding it with rawhide S 1 l g t. t took thousands of f years for his braini brain i 5 c c the tIle idea of sha sharpening peni g the tile chunk of nt to crude hatchet shape It took additional S t b pf of o ye years years' rs' rs b before fore a primitive e genius disS dis- dis veed that the best way to attach the handle S vas as' as by hammering it into a hole gouged through t flirt flint Nearly all invention was vas equally slow being eng perfected erf up to comparatively recent Clears r The TIle caveman or even the people of the fifteenth fite century could have be been n given the first rj ht airplane and it wo would ld have hav taken th them m jJ oo OO years year or more to develop it as modern an n did in a a few years of World war A A crude device a vague idea or the germ of ofa a theory is announced in the newspapers Imme Imme- a host of minds seize upon it and begin perfecting Before you realize it the tile device or r ea has been perfected and applied and and- stampe i i lit tt by y automatic machines is being dumped on l the e market with millions of dollars of advertising rushing shing its sale sate The bizarre idea should never I jie be e laughed laughe at in our day |