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Show IlI'S LIFE Ii flflDS When the government cuts down railroad passenger service to meet the nation's military needs this will, in the opinion of T. J. Toner, director of sales of the Maxwell Motor company, give a tremendous impetus to the use of automobiles for traveling purposes. "This is not merely a theory I have evolved," said Mr. Toner in his office at Detroit the other day. "Plans to this end are already tentatively under way in the big centers. "I have been advised by business men in Now York, for instance, that they expect to be thrown back on the motor car as almost the only method of making short trips. The automobile, automo-bile, they believe, will soon be an ab-I ab-I solute necessity for one who has to do much traveling. "With a million or two men under arms in this country being moved frequently from one camp to another or to the seaboard for transportation to Europe the government will have to commandeer a largo part of the rail- road passenger facilities. How far 3 this will affect the general public it H is impossible to predict, but railroad I traveling facilities aro going to be 1 greatly reduced. I "The automobile offers the only sub-l sub-l stituto, and I look for its extensive : use by men and women who havo to j go from one city to another and cannot 3 get railroad accommodations. "If this situation had arisen a few li years ago the automobile might not ? have boen equal to the emergency. ?. But great strides have been made in motor car efficiency and no fear of , the automobilo falling down on the r Job need he- entertained now. , "Just to Illustrate motor car dependability depend-ability today I cite that Maxwell stock car which traveled 22,022 miles at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, without with-out once stopping the engine. "Only a few of tho fastest trains equal that running time, and railroad trains have to change engines every few hours. Locomotives can't go 2200 miles Lot alone 22,000 without stopping. stop-ping. "The motor car therefore Is faster and cheaper than the train as a passenger pas-senger conveyance. And not only, in my opinion, will many of the cars now in use bo put in this service, but also conditions will greatly stimulate automobilo auto-mobilo sales. "The automobile has becomo, already, al-ready, a necessity in our American life. War, it appears, is to make it even more so," |