The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-10-16
QPMAN FOR SPEED
MANIA DEVELOPED BY
The AUTOMOBILE.

'o'ely ALLIED to Desire Of Wealth,
owe and Power-PhllosophIcal
e" Of The Question Taken by an
nsliah Writer.
nee the automobile has become
ZION and rs speed has been de-
IA 81 races on road and track
has been considerable said about
800 MANIA and b. some Il has
"a esseptel that there IS a species
madness engcndered by fast tray.
u That constantly demands more
yea ane grows with what Il feeds
IN. There is another, more philo-
w ~ of tho question taken IN
80 4ctording to tho London
-are IN the minds Of most
beings three great incentives
energy. There Is the desire OF
attn, the desire OF power and the
sire OF love, and every action can be
ICED TO enc or other of these main
rings. Nowadays some people talk
another desire, the love Of speed, as
lew and mcden-born ambition But
not IS instinct, which Is almost
iYeH in reality very old?
are not speed competitions on foot
horse racing as old as the world
elf? The very toddling child hates
ing passed by another infant. The
bman, the bus driver. like also to
ep in front, and even the man in
e street. that sometimes imaginary
always present individual, does
e like being passed. Why was the
eAQriginaly trained for the service
~ find? If the pulling OF weights
" Wv speed had been the only
hsideration the bullock would have
rived equally well.
E And the higher the civilization
4 e greater the desire for speed. The
orkman in the streets boasts about
e train or trolley service of his town,
Dt on the ground that it is more con.
snient but because it is faster than
)me rival city possesses. The fastest
lantic liners are the best filed with
passengers, though they may be less
)mfOrtable than the slower boats.
Motor cars, therefore, are the out
1me of perfectly natural desire to
owe faster on the road. and the in
met of speed is not a modern develop
ent or new desire as some writers
eem to think, but one of the strongest
2herited instincts in the human race.
man slow Of foot or the man who
the slow horse in the primeval
IN of mankind was caught and
y D Nowadays the slow nations are
8st, and men die not singly, but
sands-crushed by competition,
"a any enc ever yet habitually
10y a slower train because it was
over?
"The feeling of the goth century is:
Let us get our work done well-done
oday-done quickly The use of roads
Dr. sDeeds6higher than the horse can
chieve is only the modern echo of the
conan axe of good roads and fast
hariots. The swift galley of those
avs pleased its owner, and the fast
RANGING pair of steeds delighted the
Dung Roman. but neither of them
+ leased their owner more than the
55orkman priding himself on his bicy-
lie. To him bicycling is vast i'm
rovems over walking. A motor
ar dels hts the Quondam bicyclist
nd in he higher degree this man is
lso enthused
"The strenuous man, whatever his
alling in life is always saying: LET
ne get on!" This feeling expresses
he maybe unconscious effort of all
If us to Aannihilate time and space
We cannon Marconi with our bodies
We must therefore be content to use
motor car. The mysteries of thought
.ransference have not yet been re
tealed so the telegraph, the telephone
must serve.
. "If communication with the planets
we're possible, the etheric- telepathic
,flce would be crowded with would-be
senders of messages; for there is nc
AoEy the human race more earnestly
than the conquering of time
The battle against delay
gng waged, and costs more
man the campaigns Of rife and
aere are then. again, the three
great and original desires. and the
love of speeGis really not a fourth de-
sire, but part of the love OF power
power oveAti time and space-an infu
ance in politics, economics and human