Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-04

/ mobile driving exploit with the same close
coupled Mitchell sx-cyllnder car. which
has completed 5000 miles Of the most
strenuous kind OF Pacific coast road grind
ing with Skinner plotting the car every
mile OF the way. Valley highways, noun
tain passes and desert trails made up the
variety OF roads traversed since the Stock
ton man obtained the machine, and he has
informed Sales Manager j. w. ellison OF
the 1Iitchell-Lewis Motor company at
Racine. wis, that this wonderful mileage
has been made without taking up bear
ing in the engine and on the same set Of
spark plugs.
The stearns and Oakland are domiclled
in the same garge on auto row now and
they are both doing growing business.
H. e. Fredrickson Auto company has
made the chalmers-Detroit great car in
this part Of the world.
Lewis Doty. manager United Motor
Omaha company, said;
There is probably nothing in recent in
dustrial history that has surpassed in in
terest the enormous growth Of the auto
mobile industry in this country. It has
grown III eleven years from nululls 70 a.
commanding place with an enormous an
nual output, vast investment Of capital,
huge salary ron and has pulled up with
It number Of minor industries concerned
in the manufacture Of accessories, Of which
allied interests the manufacture Of auto
mobiles has more probably than any other
single industry.
with the American tendency to spe-.
callze and the habit Of the American con-
sumner to demand everything that is new
and to seize, once that stage is past, upon
everything that is useful and time saving,
Il was inevitable that the automobile in
dustry should almost from the start as
sumo certain features positively startling
TO the originators Of the industry. II is
true that for once America was caught
mapping in the beginning Of an industrial
revolution and there IS no denying the fact
that the automobile gained much Roadway
in Europe before American designers
seriously took up this modern means OF
travel and transportation
THE question OF who invented the gaso-
lene motor and first thought of applying
that principle to a self-propelling vehicle is
Of little relative Importance. The fact re-
mains that Is was in Europe that the
automobile was developed into something
OF a commercial value and Il is there that
the painstaldng and the iaborious expert
ments that were necessary we're carried
on. That is the fact which explains
Americas delay in getting a progressive
grasp Of the situation.
Here and there in America were men
who saw what was coming and who were
working at the problems involved. Too
much credit can not be given TO such pion-
GERS as Maxwell. Duryea. Selden and others.
but something more than that was needed.
Small bodies Of enthusiasts had to work at
the problem from every angle. 1t was not
work for ono man and the experiments in
voived use of money and use OF time
by a large number OF individuals. working
separately. but along the same lines with
no tangible results to cheer them along
from time to time.
There the American temperament enters
into the situation. Americans in the mass
can work out definite problems with
thoroughness and speed that cannot be
approached by any other nation. That this
Is true is conelusively proved by the rapid
strides made by American automobile
manufacturers. True It is that Europeans
set the pace abroad, but It was not a great
many years before the American manu-
facturer had not only caught up with his
foreign competitor, but had passed him.
Thus. after the first painful groupings
had been accomplished and II was seen
that definite future laid before the auto
mobile, hundreds Of brilliant Americans
began 70 concentrate their thoughts and
their work on the definite problems that
separate them from the ultimate goal Of
perfection. These men have built up the
automobile industry In America. have put
Il in the first rank and have seen from
their unerring Judgment the chance for
specialization, they have worked out
superb selling organizations, developed the
stock car race ana made the automobile
factor Of national life. They have per.
feoted the small, cheap car with its mani
fold usefulness. They have reduced the
cost OF production, which has saved the
/ public thousands OF dollars. They have
} the small, fast car most useful to the
physician ana hit upon the universal APP
peal made by the use Of cars by doctors
: Every physician who uses a car Is a
powerful selling agent for this car, uncon-
scious though he may be OF his function
, "A similar development Is now taking
! place IN aviation. 1t was the foreigners
] who first produced tangible results In the
building Of aeropianes but the recent
aviation meets held IN this country have
3 concluaively demonstrated that the Wright
brothers, caruas and other American Ia
Ventors have come up with and have also
3 passed the European designer Of aero
4 planes, as did the American designer OF
9 automobiles pass the European. Through
years OF encouragement ana effort, the5
have worked out tho problem. facing death
e IN their work Now the reward has com,
e ana u has come more speedily than Il al,
Ia the case OF the automobile
4nat the American automobile industry
r Is now firmly established Is without ousx
, ton II has PASSED through its period OF
p intanule diseases and has taken It's right
ful place ia the world ana Is now ieadins
the way as an American industry should
Already the lesson We have taught IN max.
ing popular ana medium priced care ID.