Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-02-17 | Page 14 | Garfield Order is Proof Automobile Not Held Luxury

GARFIELD ORDER IS PROOF AUTOMOBILE NOT HELD LUXURY The real attitude of the government toward the automobile and its use was made very plain in the recent fuel tuel crisis in the East according to a letter letter letter let let- ter received last week from I I. I C. C P. P Chevrolet branch manager who was In attendance at the Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago show Garfield's order stated that all garages might be kept open on days set apart for fuel tuel conservation and that motor cars of all classes were to tobe he be regarded as public utilities wrote It seems to me that this Is the greatest thing that the automobile automobile automobile au au- au- au industry has had happen to It In the trying trying- days since America entered the war It It amounts in effect to a governmental governmental governmental gov gov- recognition of the standIng standing standing stand- stand Ing of the automobile The motor motorcar motorcar motorcar car Industry has had to fight hard to have Its product recognized as an es essential essential es- es of every day life Ute instead of ot as a nonessential This h order d means something t more fong th than mere e convenience to motor car owners here In tho the East and to tor r the garage administration proprietors Is 18 I It convinced on means I d that that t the automobile Is a necessity and it ought to forever put a stop to the senseless talk talle that the automobile is just a luxury I