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Show i . . -;t -Si tip jtimj PVPTHE REVOLUTION OF:?! lii VvT' THE AUTOMOBILE Se ,-Sfrf Marguerite Mickelsen THE REVOLUTION OF THE AUTOMOBILE e By Marguerite Mickelsen Do you need your car today? Could you get along without youi family automobile for a week? A month? , Look around, next time you drive to your shopping center and part-.. at your favorite store to shop for the week's groceries. You'll noticed if your center or market is typical, that a large parking lot is vital need. v . That parking lot is evidence of a tremendous change that has come " over American life in the past 30 years most of this revolutionary change, in fact, in the past 20 years. It's a change wrought by the essentiality of the automobile in to-! day's American life. Automobiles are mobility transportation in 17 basically necessary form. Figures made public by the National Auto- lv mobile Dealers Association prove it: About 71 per cent of all American families depend on their cars fo necessary transportation and in everyday American life, more than 5! per cent of an automobile's use is for the purpose of making a living Believe it or not, more than 13 million people live out of reach o! any kind of public transportation depending entirely on their auto mobiles. One out of every four American children gets to school and back bj automotive power. . That old dream of millions a little place in the country has beE come a reality for many of us, who can now get to town easily foi work or shopping. Modern shopping centers in rural and suburbai areas are direct evidence of this spectacular change. The astonishing reality today is that automobiles have upset at entire philosophy of business the philosophy that used to dictate citi dwelling and the centralization of business in metropolitan areas. "tu Look at the great defense plants and other industrial plants fo: more evidence of that. You'll see thousands of cars parked aroun them cars of employees who no longer have to live in the shadov of the factory and walk to work. Think how often you use your family car for essential transportaV tion in a single day work, school, shopping and then ask yoursel: that question: "Could you get along without your car for a week . . a month?" It's wise to take good care of -your car take it to people who knov'L. It best, the new car dealer who sold it to you for maintenance tha-will tha-will keep it in safe operating condition. Then you'll never be forced to. do without it. (j |