Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26

| ton of the horse will he a great step to-
ward a reduction in the prices of food
| StuffS and other necessary commodities.
The average city man finds it difficult
| to realize the extent to which the horse
( occupies the valuable farm lands, ana
would he aStoniShed to learn of the num-
Der of millions of acres that are devoted TO
tho raising of oats and hay. As econo-
nlStS have shown that the high cost or
| living is partly due to the scarcity OF
| farm lands near the large cities and cone
gested industrial ccnters, it follows that 1t
| lands which at present, are used for pas
| turing the horse and raising his oats and
| hay can he converted into acres on which
products for human consumption may be
/ grown the price of fooGStuffs Will be cor
rcSpondinSiy decreased. The motor truck
needs no pasture and it's fuel is obtained
! from sections of the country that are I'M
suited TO agricultural purposes, and con-
scuuently it interferes in no way with the
natural resources of the land
This phase of the manner in which the
motor truck may eventually reduce the
| cost of living i i'll addition to the more
| direct effect that the use of the machine
has on the expense of the transportation
| OF raw and finished merchandise between
| producer, manufacturer and consumer.
! The farmer wha uses a motor to haul his
products to the nearest shipping point can
! carry greater loads and in quicker time
] than would be the case We're a team of
horses used and perishable goods will
thus reach their destination in much bet
ter condition. What applies to the farmer
! holds good to even greater extent in
the case of the manufacturer and
merchant. who handle their products at
the other end of the line. and hundreds of
instances are on record in which it is
proved that the cost per pound. ton or
package of hauling or delivering by motor
trucks is from IS to 81 per cent cheaper
than is the case when the horse is used.
With this amount saved each time the
goods are handled. and with the full bene-
fit obtained at both ends, a minimum cost
of production can be reached.
These marked reductions In the cost of
PRODUCTION and manufacture may make
themselves felt rather slowly at first, but
in the long run the consumer cannot help
but be benefited by the rapid changes in
| transportation and delivery that are TAX
ing place"
A. L. Westgard of New York city. who
has just returned from mapping out a
route from New York to California for
the Touring Club of America, of which
he is secretary. was compelled through
conditions of the roads in northern Cali
fOrnia. Oregon and Washington at this
time of year to omit the trip up the Pa
cific coast, and it now looks as IL this
work will be taken up by DIR. Charles &.
Percival, editor of the Health Magazine
of New York city, who starts from Oma-
ha March q to com lete the remaining
1900 miles of the 100 OOO-mile dura biiity
run which he has started. DR.. Percival
will tour through Texas, Mexico to Ari-
IONA, Los Angeles and take up the path
finding trip up the Pacific coast to Brit
| sh Vancouver. from where Secretary
] Westgard left off.
i.
| Miss Helen Miles Rogers. whose en-
gagement to Ogden Mills Reid. son of
Whitelaw Reid. American ambassador to
England, has just been announced, is a
sister of G. Vernon Rogers, secretary of
a motor company of Racine. Wis. Miss
Rogers. the bride to be. is graduate of
Bernard College and for the past few
years she has been secretary to Mrs
Whtelaw Reid in London. Mr. Reid is
graduate of Yale University and the
Yale Law School.
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There has been considerable comment
since the announcement was made that
the Glidden tour would be succeeded by