Show I t I I V L. L 4 I 1 1 r j jV r V i i i v V r r t I 4 4 it ld t I i I f Jr 4 s II J t u. u J 1 r I t Ia w 1 i 1 I l ft r 1 p j j t J i i i 1 ir Drum br G Gordon r i Rosi 9 tr V J JJ J J I On June 1 i there were automobiles automobile fn in th the United States I I I AM KING AUTO I w. w L Per F REGINALD EGIN LD L. L FOSTER of or the way 1 Clear the track O OUT honk honl Hero Here comes King Auto Im I'm it IL Biggest BIgg St thing on wheels heels Yes Tes sir sirl Ce Celebrating Youve You've guessed dates Two On June 1 1 I I passed the 2000 mark for tor these United States On Ju July y 8 I hung hung- up up another scalp scalp- autos in in Nc New York Tork st state stath t alone Let these figures thures sink In Suppose ther there are arc four tout people who ho use each ch automobile Then there are Ain Americans ricans rIdin riding riding- in these thes automobiles every ery day Lets Let's count the cost To Torun run 2 C cars 1 a 8 year must take at least a billion gallons of at gas gns worth John John D. D and the Standard rd Oil OlF crowd know that and ant it makes their hearts rejoice They still stilt keep on the wagon wagon too with their lubricating eating cating oils o rif which I 1 need ed gallons worth every year Tires I wear weal out of i iem ml every twelve months months' and they theys they's s 's set zt t the tho owners back bacik something like if it you figure them at only us 16 6 apiece aple c. c Other little accessories Hundreds goggles goggles gIOV gloves 5 caps dusters dust dust- ers ers lamps tools tools lets lets let's c call ll the cost of ot them O 0 a car All An right right theres there's theres where I hit you for another er annually Garages get a lot one way or oi th the theother other other call call it 50 year a for tor each car There goes Suppose Suppose Sup Sup- pose Ios we are arc economical about repairs and allow but 50 a y year year ar for each car cat There goes gocs still another Goes cas easy easy- doesn't it Jt Add Add that up p Some Isn't it And that's no more moro than a starter because Wo we haven't counted the he cost of ot the cars care at all There were new a automobiles tom bought last lasty y year yar ar all the tle way from 7 which Is about the Cheapest figure you can buy me at up IP t to 10 Tand some cost more than that Let Lotus et us 8 call it r roughly U Some money Now ov add addIt It t all u tip up What do we get now Ah Ab just t for far r I 1 am in indeed Kin eed King Auto Honk A A thousand millions spent on n me L Let liet t us IS hear h ar Mr 1 Hugo secretary ry of ot st state te for tor New York who has has' some Humiliating figures s. s Y Yes s' s Mr Ir Hugo O Dh i July 8 there were were aut au- au t s B bt ot all ki kinds jn In in New York plate land 1738 chauffeurs And you to In Iiii for the state Just 1 in license e te fee fees s A gain aln of ot carsI cars I a year ago go and chauffeurs chauffeurs chauffeurs' chaut- chaut te feurs feurs' Our private transportation 1 is expensive In New York Now o we we have it It Now Now York or state just tenth one-tenth of ot all aU the automobiles auto uto- uto i mobiles le in Itt tho the union n. n Listen for a aL L moment to Cot Col Robert l M Thompson chairman n f tho the executive exe Uve committee commit tee Navy league of ot tho the United St States e l' l has ho s an objection to to my y King Car I. I Grows Ch Chesty Says Chesty sty Says Costs m United States Annually and Chuckles mt t Over the Fact That in T Two o States Alo Alone e. e There nere Are More Chauffeurs J Than ait There Are Arel Soldiers and S Sailors in iii the i 1 Whole Nation 1 2 I I j O. O J L q Germany has put autom automobiles on the firing line Uuie kingship There are registered Inthe Inthe In the states of ot N New w York and Massachusetts Massachusetts Massa Massa- alone more more chauffeurs than there ther arc are soldiers and sailors com com In the tho whole nation I P But why not notZ Every man Jack of these Is a potential aid to our army when tho da day comes cornea Germany has been helped in this thia present war warP by bythe bytho bytho tho the automobiles she has h s son oh on on the firing line lino or Just behind it How would France and England ha have vo transported their troops so ably and so suddenly had it not b been en for the tho mot motor r buses bus s' s they commandeered from tho the streets of ot Paris and London my dear colonel And More Moro money for tor automobile tires than for a navy nav Again why not nott It gives our chauffeurs practice u tice tico o using up those tires and wed we'd need auto drivers drivers' if ve we had a areal areal real w war r. r By Dy the way who was It said that the taxi chauffeurs who wh b have ve no nerves m make ke tho the best military mili tary aviators Before we we get off ort the subject of ot war let ni me mO remind you that I have saved the day for tor both sides many's the time At one of the big German retreats In Poland they would have lost their entire rear guard of ot m men n had riot not they had automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles to whisk their men oft off ott In hi time to o Join the tho main bod body And nd as early as August 6 1914 came the first automobile chargo charge in all aU history history- near Liege 1500 honking honking- Prussians in s h headed the tho invading ing German column even then startIng start start- Ing to desolate little Belgium Wh le wore on on tho the subject let me inc give you yoi a 8 few tew more more figures though figures though Im I'm for tor peace first l last st and all the tho tI time o if t for r no other reason than tha that theres there's more money money- in It and it-and and more fun tun Here goes goes Since ethe the war began the allies have taken more than auto trucks from here worth woth That was up to April 1 Now wo we are sendIng sending send- send Ing them hundreds more moro each week L. Last t year American manufacturers sent worth of ot aut automobiles a and d p parts part out of ot this Uil country This 1 r City folks dont don't own all tho the automobiles Farmers Farmere year I it will be be bem m much ch more Im I'm the Br of at battle and of f business I Ive I've motorized Mars dars Gasoline Is greater than gun gun- powder Ive I've put high explosives into nto harn harness se 8 This great conflict Is the automobile Armageddon War on wheels Where'd your Big Berthas and ad your Jack Johnsons be If it wasn't for tor me They'd never get near enough nough to the front to hit any any- thing And And the tho motor truck gets gota the men men thaI the the th the great confederate tactician t Forrest Forr st st. used to to say of ot his horses as' as I 1 said before But Im I'm for tor peace as I give the tho lie t to calamity howlers Lets Let's turn t to bleeding bleeding- Kansas On July 1 1 1918 lg therell there'll be an automo automobile Ie for tor every family In that co n blessed state if it the continue to buy my gasoline Joy wagons at the same rate rato that they thoy have been buyIng buyIng buy buy- Ing them recently There are aro In the state now Figuring a population lion tion of ot and five to toa 3 a. a family that's one car for every eight families families fam fain like In 1914 At the present nt rate of ol buying there ther will be e one for tor e every ery six families by ly tho the end of ot 1915 1916 in 1916 one one to every four families By 1917 itla It ItIs itis Is la estimated that every other family should bave havea a car c r andone and ono to a fam- fam fly ily when Jv ly 1918 Is reached Actually Actually Ac Ac- today there is one ono automobile to every thirty-four thirty persons persons- cord cord- ing lug to K Kansas s statistics Can you YOube beat It t Back in New Tc York again City folks dont don't own 1 all the automobiles as perhaps you think The farmers farmer's my boat best friend 1 He owns cars today right ld York state He Ho m mt t 1 2 I I i can call me a luxury u un UI me me u to take tako him and the butter and ggs to market t to send the thc children Lp to o school and to dO do a n thousand am amone and one ne chores the horse ti rs and buggy could never novel get Set around tor toe by gum Step over oyer to Iowa tho the champion farm state of ot them all One Iowa town of ot population has seventy seventy- seven cven licensed machines m Blowing their l last st cent Dont Don't believe It That same samo tight little town has hiis In n tho the village e s Savings v banks Two T millions of or cars That's one tor for every fifty lifty people in the United St States t s. s For every railway locomotive locomotive tive there are arc seventeen of ot mo me l' l For or every every passenger pass passenger coach 1 I number twenty twenty- twenty eight Placed end to end these cars Would stretch h In double line al all alt across the continent nt They stand for tOl foran an an n investment of of- ofa a billion and a halt half of dollars And for tor 1915 1916 another halt half billion dollars worth of or cars will wUl be bc made in this country lone alone Wonderful isn't It it Wl Why no Ind in industry In- In d stry In all the world shows anything anything anything any any- thing like it In ten years I have gained per per percent cent bent My ty nearest competitor electrical al manufacturing has gained only per cent And next year eal new cars will be turned out t. t I give work to hands In the mere mere making of ot me Indirectly to twice that number And I L use usa altogether chaut- chaut feurs feins New York automobilists since 1901 when the tho registration law nw w went nt Into effect have paid for tor cars and d 81 cb chauffeurs rs In lri seven seven different states states' there are are aro more tb than n cars each and nd fourteen have more than aple apiece c. c And rye Ive m made de New York into horseless homeless town Tb There re are arc autos within the limits of or its five fhe boroughs How many hors horses s do you see In Fifth tl avenue or on on Broadway nowadays nowadays' ys There Th re ten states In the union that number more more automobiles than gay gay Gotham Yes Im I'm very much alive My clays clay's Just da dawning Only a de decade ade ago the tho rich mans man's plaything today Im I'm the Jit the the the poor Ioor mans man's necessity Jit JU did I say y You Youcan You can can find the jitney bus running Ing In cities a 8 bus that'll take yOU you anywhere a Jitney i. a a nickel Thorp There I am at nt my best No discrimination discrimination nation between rich and poor this for monarch Im I'm on on m my way Honk Honk-honk lm ing Auto t J a t A I. 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