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Show I AUTO MAY HELP TO BLOCK WAR Irvin S. Cobb Suggests Method of Breakdown National Friction. nv mvi b OOBB) From nn addresw before the annual dinner of the National Automobile I'hnmbcr of Commerce. New York, ! Jan. 10. I Th minds of all mankind today ar6i concerned with the ambition and the hope of working out some 'feasible chem of doing; away with warfare among the races Of l he world. and with nil modest v I want to offer a formula which at least is a beginning tbwar that end. and I offer It In seriousness. ser-iousness. Give to e cry people of every ev-ery land better roads and more automobiles auto-mobiles and we will do away wit I' much of the in win that exists betwet n human heinRs on this planet today. Bank in '6 1 had there been broad, smooth highways that ran from the gulf to the lakes and If the man who lived in South Carolina could step in his lizzie and turn on the gas and rul.se away to Vermont and find out ih.it the people there were of his own blood and had much the same aspirations aspira-tions and the s-mie desire for descent I n.l peaceful and orderly government, this country would never have been rent by a great Civil war. And I will go further than that. Kroni my own knowledge at the front and behind the lines Of bow the civilian populace yes. and the soldiers sol-diers of warring Europe felt. J am I c-i nstrained to believe, thai had it i been possible prior to 19H for all the 1 peoples of Continental Europe to have at their command the same quality and abundance of cheap priced cars I which the run of human being " t h In country can have, and had there heen in urtificlal barriers at lh national na-tional boundaries in U p igl.ior from seeing neighbor. I am prone to think that not even prus.-ian militarism mili-tarism could have driven nil the eastern part of the world into a dreadful dread-ful struggle. I Because when ou get to know a! M man and ou do know him better when you are riding in a iai uhmK $1 ihe highroad than voi ever an from! railroad train when you gel to know him. you find out that he is thai H general run of human beings In on1-Vjl on1-Vjl Innd and much like the general run H of human beings In another And I mean t whrn I say 1 be-I be-I i;ec th.-v i hi -rire;iri o( the use of; I automobiles Is going to do as much I to teach one nation that another na-l 9 lion is made up of decent haps and, lo cure them of their old rivalries auJ feuds and bitternesses as any other i -'genc cm i ;.W gr--' n , , I ever hope to do. |