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Show AUTOMOBILES AND EXTRAVAGANCE Tho tremendous Incrcaso In number num-ber of automobiles Is accepted by tunny people, as ono of the signs of liiitloiml extravagance. Of courso In ninny cases machines aro bought on borrowed money, or by mortgaging mortgag-ing houses. Tho savings of a life tlmo are burned up In tho swiftly running gusollno tank. IJut a vory largo part of tho machines ma-chines represent no extravagance whatever. Kansas, for Instance, Is n community of farms nnd thrifty pooplo. poo-plo. It has about 1,7CO,000 population, popula-tion, and over 50,000 motorcars. Not all of this great army of drlvors aro spenders, nor aro thoy all people of wealth. Ono great reason why automohllos havo been an oxtrnvagnueo Is that so many pcoplo nro so very holplosa In caring for them. Although thoy may have hut small means, they do not feel able to care for tho tuacn-lues tuacn-lues themselves, but hlr0 storage and cleaning and overhauling and minor repairs ot somo gnrago. They seem helpless boforo tho lenst break down, can not understand Its causo, and could not tepnlr It If thoy did understand under-stand It. Hun on that bnsls any ma-clilno ma-clilno is costly. Wlso pnrcntB who own machines aro bringing up their hoys to bo handy around tho llttlo homo garago. Tho youngstors early learn to keep tho mnchlno taut and trim, and to mnko all ordinary adjustments. Whoro n machlno Is thus nursed along at homo, and driven carefully It ought to bo choapcr than tho cost of a horso nnd carrlago for n mod-orato mod-orato yearly lnllcago. Farm young pcoplo In particular aro usually able to handlo a machlno cheaply, ns tholr dally experience gives thorn constant practlso in making mak-ing tholr own repairs and meeting oxlgoncles. Tho farmer of tho futuro needs nn nutomobllo to keop his young folks contented. In tho hands of n follow of enterprise, it ought to moro than pay for ltsolf ns a busl iicsb tool. |