The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20
o. HI. i. Wernicke Talks OF Uses
of the AutOmO bile.
Of Smith Company
Says 1t Is Limitless.
BENEFIT TO HEALTH.
That Alone Justifies the Ex-
penss He Says.
Fifteen Millions Spent by Kansas
in Other States for Cars.

o. H. L. Wernicke, president of the
Smith Automobile company. is in To-
peka. Mr.. Wernicke has had years of
experience as a manufacturer and he
is especially enthusiastic over the au-
value of the automobile to a commune
ity with a State Journal reporter to-
day, Mr.. Wernicke said:
1.-The educational value of the auto
mobile and its effects upon the pro-
ductive forces of our time equals, if
not excels. all of our manual training
schools and technical institutions COM
bined.
I'm the motor vehicle are combined
substantially all of the liberal arts and
arate branches in our schools and col
iegeS. They are in part: Chemistry,
pneumaticS, hydraulics, electricity,
architecture, chromatics, mechanics,
physics, logic and their various subdi-
visions and are more artfully and in
timately combined and correlated in
the auto vehicle than in any other me-
chanical contrivance ever produced.
The intimate relation which this
vehicle bears to it's users and it's fas-
cinating influence upon the masses
leads to quick appreciation and ration
al understanding Of its intricacies
which are making us a nation Of me-
chanics, artists and artisans.
THE men and women and boys and
girls who know their automobiles have
already progressed in knowledge which
unconsciously perhaps, but certainly
raises their efficiency as producers.
With every gain in their abilities to
produce they become inspired with new
ambitions, new wants and greater de-
termination to achieve.
tNFho ax9nnn1o nd daily ~ with
science as demonstrated in the auto
mobile is 'polytechnical clinic of
such tremendous potency that 1t alone
justifies the cost of all the cars built.
1.-The beneficial effect of motoring
upon the health and minds of urban
populations again justifies the expense
and is a distinct economic gain.
Where universally good or better
roads result from the motor craze the
increase in land values will more than
offset the combined cost of road work
ing and motor cars.
THE increased facility for seeing
sights and meeting and mingling with
more people broadens the scope of
human knowledge and raises the
standard of human tolerance towards
our neighbor and when travel has been
facilitated so that the people of every
nation shall mingle freely and fire.
quently with the people of all other
nations, universal peace will have be-
COIIl6 oil dCCOIIl plISuSQ ldCl. LIE wars.
the armies. Notifications and ships of
the world, not to mention pensions and
economic loss of the soldier to the pro-
ductive industry, annually amount to
many times the total cost of motor
vehicles and incidental expenses con-
nected Herewith. but it has not
stopped the worlds progress.
1.-The auto, the aeroplane, the rail-
ways and other facilities for intercom-
munication and transit of persons and
things are doing more to bring about
universal peace, increased productive
ness, better health and greater enjoy
ment of life than has been accom-
plished by all other agencies COM
bined since the history of civilization
began to be written.
Tuberculosis alone is costing the
nation more each year than the value
of its automobiles.
"A nation of ninety million souls,
possessing resources sufficient to Sus-
tain ten times that number in health
and comfort is in no danger from
over-production of automobiles until
every family owns one
Years ago when Kansas sold it's
corn Kansas was poor and paid its in
terest at the rate of one per cent
Kansas began to feed its corn and sell
beef it became rich. Kansas can
readily feed and support ten million
people. To obtain increased popula-
IlOn II must pTONlue employment IOT
them with its surplus capital. When
Kansas farm products are consumed
by Kansas industries and their work
ing men and are sold over the world
as products of skill instead of raw ma
terial, she will have come into her own.
at is estimated that Kansas during
the past year exchanged raw products
valued at fifteen million of dollars for
automobiles made in other states. This
alone would give employment for one