Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-07-10
AUTO SOLVES AN
ECONOMIC NEED
Great Aid in Preventing CongeS-
ton of Population in
the Cities
INSURES PUBLIC PROSPERITY
Motor Car Tends to Happiness
and to Widen Family
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INSURES PUBLIC PROSPERITY

The outcry against the automobile,
lately voiced by certain financlers and
educators of national prominence, rela-
tive to the great and increasing popu-
larity of the motor car, is the hoary
old cry against progress. That the
world needed this improved system OF
quicker transportation, as well as was
ready for it, has been proved by the
immediate and well nigh universal re-
Spouse to and approval of 1t. human
ingenuity has always applied itself 10
invention that would save time, eX-
pedite progress, tighten human labor
and contribute alike to human happl-
ness and usefulness. AS the telephone.
NV its virtual humiliation of time and
distance, has in many substantial re-
spects doubled the hours of every DAY
for the possibilities of practlcal
achievement saying nothing of its
eoual gifts in contribution to human
comfort, so has the automobile greatly
Increased the possible and even the
certain chances for every man wing can
employ this great new agency, nearly
to double, in very many instances, ms
davis profit, and for cities and COM
munities to make progress never before
possible.
PROBLEM OF CONGESTION
The automobile has helped concrete
ly to solve the problem of congestion
in cities and to make feasible better
and cheaper residences in the country
In the serious menace of the past Few
years of the surprising and undesirable
Growth of city population over country
nonulation, the automobile Is greatly
helping to settle most important
question. Far from being against the
public welfare, it has In every respect
invigorated and insured public pros
perity. 1t has added new hours of OPP
portunity to every business mans day.
contrihl,ted to the enjoyment and hap
piness of his family and by the creation
of a great new industry furnished fresh
employment to hundreds or thousahdS
of working men and many thousands
of business men. Instead of encoura g
ing extravaganza among those VINO
are not wealthy. 1t has more OFTEN
taught those who had not the money
TO buy a machine to economize and
save to that end. We hear no cutlery
from the illustrious antagonists of the
motor car directed against the expen-
ditura of hundreds of millions of dol
lars annually for unnecessary clothes,
for tobacco, for intoxicating liquors
and for other human habits. 1t Is OBJ
vious that here there Is much room
for the exercise of relative economy.
why should rich critics deny to those
who are not rich the privilege of gain
ing the means by which they. too, may
be able, by comparative economy at the
most, to enjoy this most remarkable
invention for both human need and
human comfort? The popular faith in
the stories of so many homes being
mortgaged to buy automobiles rests
most largely, if not entirely, on false
assumption-an assumption which has
doubtless been created and fostered in
large measure by banking and deposit
companies which naturally believe
that the most patriotic and wise money
is that which is kept on deposit, either
without interest or at rate very low.
This is not an intelligent time to chal-
lenge or sneer at the thrift or wisdom
of the American family, and especially
not a time in this era of general pros
perity to impugn the sense of large
number of typical American families
who have found in the automobile a
chance to widen and simplify their
lives and increase their daily pleasure.
FAMILY HAPPINESS
The world moves. Human society
moves with it. And one of the finer
and saner American ambitions is to
stimulate each family in the land to
procure for itself fuller, higher, more
enjoyable and at the same time more
useful life. One just criticism of our
people as a whole has been that the