Show KING AUTO UTO Here are some statistical extracts from Reginald L L. Fosters Foster's I am King Auto It ItOn On June 1 there were 2000 automobiles in the United States Eight million Americans ride in these automobiles every day costs t the e United States annually To run cars a year takes gallons of gas worth Heres Here's where John D. D and the Standard Oil on smile expansively Twenty million additional ional gallons of lubricating c oil il cost a year Tires Twelve million of them wear out in every twelve months and use up another figuring tires at only 16 a piece Au Automobile tom bile accessories accessories allowing allowing 50 to a car car calls calls for an outlay of annually Garage expense 50 a year for each car eats up another in one year Figuring 50 6 0 for tor each car if economical repairing is done and still sUll another is spent Added up it totals some soma doesn't doesn't it Some money But weve we've not co counted the cost of the cars yet yeu There were new automobiles automo automo- automobiles automo biles bUes bought last year costing all the way from up to some costing even more Call the total roughly Now add it all up just up-just just 1080 for A thousand millions spent on King Au Auto o Two states alone have more chauffeurs chauffeurs chauffeurs feurs than there are soldiers and sailors serving tho the nation More money is spent on tires than for a navy Two millions of ot cars One to every fifty p people ople in these United States seventeen for every railway locomotive twenty-eight twenty for every passenger coach Placed end to end these cars would stretch in double line across the continent An investment of a billion and a half of dollars In 1915 another half billion dollars worth of cars will willbe willbe willbe be made in this country alone The rich mans man's plaything a decade decade decade de de- de- de cade ago today the jit the jit the poor poorman's poorman's poorman's mans man's necessity The jitney bus is running in lOG cities a bus that will take you anywhere anywhere anywhere any any- where for a jitney jitney a a nickel King Auto indeed 0 0 |