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Show AUTO OBJECT OF PET NAMES Owners Bestow Many in Earnest Effort to Domesticate Do-mesticate It "The buzz buggy.'" "t.e gas w. iron." ir-on." "the bus." "the little ol' boat." "the road louse.", "the buckboard" what a wealth of pet names rruen'have bestowed upon the automobile in order or-der to domesticate it- A wild and capricious creature it was when th-dreamers th-dreamers first caught it out of the realms of fancy and brought It to earth. On its father's side the automobile was descended from the noisy ind athmatle engine, with a shady past inde nting many decades ago 'a mor- , ganatic alliance with thg steam engine; en-gine; but from its material line it Rets from the bicycle the Soft pn. um.it, tires, lis g-ntle bearings and lis ga:i-, dy wire wheels. From Adam himself him-self it gets Its weakness and perversity, perver-sity, while further back through the monkey to the Jackass the nutoino-1 bile gets Us giunt strength- -a 0( i t weird and msterlous tendeney to stop in Ihe midst of business or plcasuto and contemplate Nirvana! And now after nearly a quarter of a century of affectionate enre anil priceless sacrifice, we have almost tamed the cantangerouM thing. Upon the automobile civilisation baa bestowed more than n king's ran.soi L, Indeed. If we had put away In tho banks the money we have spent for the little ol' bus" we could pay the national debt as It was before the war. Of course America makes and buys more automobiles than the rest of the world; and per apita the middle mid-dle west buys more than the rest of the country. The Kansas and Illinois Illi-nois and Iowa farmers generally liavc automobiles enough to give every person In their states a seat in an automobile au-tomobile one car for every five people. peo-ple. The high percentage 01 saturation of the automobile In this country Is unbelievable by LSuropeans. In Europe Eur-ope the peasant knows the automobile automo-bile only by its dust. In America the farmer will take no man's dust Th' horse and buggy are almost gone in midwestern America, and have become practically extinct upon the Paclflq coast. Yet the point of saturation has not been reached. One cur to a fa:o-ily fa:o-ily Is not tho limit. Tho old people must have the touring car, and tho young people their sport cars. The two-car family is becoming more and ! more common in America. William j Allen White, in Judge. 00 |