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Show The Measure Of Character ONE in every forty-four inhabitants in the great state of New York has some kind of an automobile. And the factories are working double shifts to supply the other forty-three. Apparently Ap-parently not to own an auto in New York is to be relegated to the ranks of the unrespected, and fixes the status of a man as one whose friendship is not only not to be desired, but altogether inconvenient. in-convenient. When fond mothers tell their small encumbrances encum-brances not to be rude to neighboring children, but to cultivate no close friendships with them, the children understand the reason the neighbor has no auto. It is the same as it is among colored people of the south when one of them who has forty acres and a mule tells his children to "hab nuffin to do with dose common niggars," who have no acres and no mule. In the economy of society it is necessary to have the lines strictly drawn between the classes, else, in some cases, it would be impossible to locate lo-cate the exact spot where real respectability ceases and the unwelcome begins. In the meantime there are no colts in the pasture pas-ture for the children to pet, and as the winter comes on to bring to the stable and see that they are watered and fed; no colts in the stalls to sound a good morning whinney when they come to the stable to see if they are fed and watered and groomed; no ponies to ride along the country coun-try roads; no races; no assimilation between the pony and the boy; no chance for the boy to tell the neighbor's boy that his is the best colt because be-cause in his veins there is a strain of old Messenger Messen-ger or Boston or Electioneer that were brought across the sea to give to America horses more speed, endurance and courage. Rather the aristocratic boy now tells his friend that his automobile can make better speed than the other boy's, because there is less waste in the fcf consumption of gasoline', and there is no longer horse sense in a man, rather the brains of the race are being rated as either refined high-class gasoline or just crude oil. And after a little while longer if a man is tapped upon the breast above his heart, the. echo that will come back will have only the barren tintinabulatlon of a thumped tin can. |
