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Show t . ! When Does a Man Need an Automobile? I WHEN DOES A BIRD NEED WINGS? I (From Intarmauntain Automattva Trades Association.) I after guns were invented, would be i no more fool la h than to negleet the I development of your energy and effi-i effi-i ciency by doing without an mitntniw bile, shiwi 4 t-h neeeaoary purl ner 1 of every able man s effort, and "tie ; that binds' every family, i To use your car carefully, and wisely, wise-ly, la common sense. To run It yourself, your-self, if you are able, and to understand under-stand it thoroughly yourself, is t he American way. There are Western cit iea where a tnaa. no matter how rich, unices, an invalid, would ba ashamed to have a chauffeur do nothing noth-ing but drive Mm around and look afier his car. The ona thing that is not common sense, and not American, ia to hobble around Ilka a bird without with-out wtnga, without an automobile, if you can possibly buy one. When a man own a car. big or little, lit-tle, expensive or otherwise, be owns the earth's surface, he haa conquered the power of gravitation which orig-inslly orig-inslly pined us to one little spot, lie and hie family are really free, family without an automobile is not a frre family, and it cannot be as completely a united family, as thou ah the automobile, the American family machine, w ere there. Certain things are luaurfee. The automobile for thoaa that can have It is a plain, matter of fact, common sen st necessity. If you haven't got one. go buy one of some k ind. tf you can. Tou owe that to your family and to your business. busi-ness. Whether you think you will aet an automobile now or not, look them over and see what American mechanical mechani-cal genius haa produced. Hee what comfort, what life lengthening1, bv time saving, possibilities art within your reach. Pick out your car now and get it when you can. Y UK exhibition of passenger auto-' auto-' I mobiles tthich are destined to I uje the fhort hiul transporta- ; lion proMt-m is now on. 1 H r. ami .Jama. ir throughout tin i country. the Itttent cars and tlii ! In t est p. r fee t ion are hov n, a m 1 1 ion lor so of American families ask them-, sel fS : 'Can w afford an automobile? If ' so. ought we to buy it NOW, when 1 I tunes are g little uncertain, and money ti) real ens to be s arte ."' A wise business man used to say to his young friends : ''When you are in doubt, just think what you would ad-; vise somebody else to do; then do that." To those In doubt about getting an I automobile, if they have the money ; to pay for it, we should ssy: "How would you advise a bird about getting a pair of wings. If it didfltMiave any?" VVheti in ;t bird most ufffenlly in f ned o;' winre? Answer. whn there nre foxes .ttui weasels around. When foxes rul weasels abound, a bird goes , I h roil aii 11 s hard tin",. if it hasn't wlntfs to tale it high and move it MUtck ly, it te ori.es foo of fox or w eaxel. In tPHiiy wave, herd times are to us wh.it foxt-s are to birds, and an a.eo-tnol.de a.eo-tnol.de is to a man and his family what wina are to a bird. V ith wiiiki a bird rovers msnv miles in a d.iy gat her inn food. W ith, an automobile a man t ravels many miles gu the ring business. Or he cuts down by three-iltmrtcrs three-iltmrtcrs the time that separates one place from a not her. t hereby lengthening lengthen-ing his useful life " per cent. To the uut'on. "Can we afford an automobile'" the mnnt pertinent answer an-swer is: "Can you afford NOT to have it- It all depend nn the value of a man's time and effort. It depends also on (he value of hfs work, of peace of nrinrmorr nn i nrr Tio em n thtna aa a mere "pleasure" car. Bird s w:ngs are not "pleasure" wlnas. The deer a swift feet are not "pleasure" feet. And the fast train from ona city to another, aaving hours for every husineas man on it and thua 1 en art hen Ing busincsa life. Is not a "pleasure" train. Kvery man knows that the Invention Inven-tion of the autoir ohile haa added enormously enor-mously to the wealth. efficiency, .zenith, liapplnees and useful life of the nation. hWat I does for tha nation, which no one deniea. It will do for the individual. Try It on yourself. , mind snd health an- automobile contributes con-tributes to both. (bice a man. seeing a farmer feeding raw corn to t pig. naked: "Pon't vou know that If you boiled tha corn, that pla rould digest It twice ss quickly" The farmer replied; "What difference differ-ence does it mske to me or the pig how mucn time be takes digesting that corn " only the man who classes himself with the pig, who decides that his I time Is of no value, will hesitate about nn automobile, if he Is able to get it. I To continue using bow and arrow |