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Show SPEEDING UP BY INDIVIDUALS "It is with the advent of the automobile automo-bile that the business world struck a pace that has become characteristic of the twentieth ccntry and a necessity neces-sity of the present time, enabling owners own-ers to do big things at a saving not only in time and money, but of physical physi-cal and mental exertion. "The dependability of the automobile automo-bile in meeting the transportation re-qiurements re-qiurements of owners in all lines of business and social activities has j caused a dependence being placed on I it, which cannot be duplicated in any I other labor and time saving machine I or appliance. This dependability enables en-ables owners to practically double up on their time, which in turn, increases the results of their actvities. "There is a certain town in a western west-ern state that is reported to have a car to every twelve inhabitants. Without With-out a doubt, this town will soon outstrip out-strip its neighbors, because its people are equipped to accomplish more in less time and are not depending on the old fashioned transportation methods, : nor are their activities bounded by a ' railroad time tahle "Ilarriman made his executive abil-I abil-I ity a vital force many hundreds of miles from where he was sitting by ecutives of today are able to personally person-ally oversee the different business interests in-terests of their Institutions by employing employ-ing the automobile as a means of individual indi-vidual transportation, thereby increasing increas-ing their personal efficiency by doubling dou-bling their time. "And in Just the same way that the automobile has increased man's efficiency effi-ciency and economy of time during hirt business hours so it is accomplishing accom-plishing the same results in the home. While heretofore, the week-end was usually spent in staying in doors, today to-day the family with an automobile drives out in the open giving their physical and mental faculties a complete com-plete rest from the week's work and activities. "This adaptability of the automobile automo-bile to the transportation require- mentS In business, homo and social ac- I tivities, has done more to create a new standard of personal efficiency than any other one cause. "With the business or professional man. it has made him see that he can increase his activities without a corresponding cor-responding increase in money or time, or effort The comfort whi b the auto-mi. auto-mi. lnli' -ives to owners, the rapidity1 with which it enables him to get about, the ease of handling and taking care of the car, have had a naturally natural-ly stimulating effect on his activities. (1 has made him desire to do more and better work. "Perhaps no better example of the increasing interest in life which the automobile induces, is that of speeding speed-ing up the Individual's activities in patriotic pa-triotic and philanthropic work From President Wilson down to practlcallj ever; member of the cabinet, congress 1 and the house of representatives, offi- ' cials and executives in the military j and state departments, practically ev- I ery branch of government work, the ...,Kl V.-.C !...,. Krf.ll CrVi t inlA ilUIUUlUUIIi: IltVO Ut-U 17 j u j, u ' ... v.. to speed up the individual's activities, so that the nation, as a whole, can maintain a preparedness pace thai will Leave no doubt in the eyes of the world that if tin' race is to the swift as well as the strong, Uncle Sam will be in Uk lead at the finish. "The automobile has fitted in so naturally to the individual's transpor-! transpor-! tation requirements that we hardly re-I re-I alize how valuable it has become. That it will prove more of a necessity as time goes on, is ertain, because inanu fueturers, realizing the Inestimable help the automobilo is rendering to every branch and twig of the nation, are continually making their product as nearly 100 per cent efficient as human hu-man ingenuity and manufacturing skill can produce." |