Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-17
Trains Power OF Coordination of
Those Who Drive Their
Cars.
AMERICA NOW STANDS
SPONSOR FOR INDUSTRY
Present Only an Indication OF
Future of Motor Driver
Vehicles.
BY BENJAMIN RRIsCoE,
President United states Motor


Today 1t would be considered strange
if we were to find an otherwise we'll
informed man who would undertake to
deny that in the automobile the prob
lens q individual transportation nave
been solved with a degree of Success
that has no parallel in history. :
Yet a little while ago-so ~recentls
in fact, that to many of us the recoia
lection of it seems like a memory o.
yesterday-the automobile was con
sidered an almost unattainable luxury.
its possession was synonymous with
~afiluence or reckless living.
All that has changed. Perhaps by
reason of the fact that we assumed
sponsorship for the industry after it
had already outgrown it's infantile
weaknesses in Europe, our American
automobile business progressed in leaps
and bounds, and became the first to
SETTLE into a tranquil state, just as
the American automobile was the first
to become standardized in its mechan-
ical features, being now subject to
further development by refinement of
less important details rather thar by
radical changes.
Today the motor vehicle is recog-
MED as the best and cheapest vehicle
in existence, whether it is to be used
for business or for pleasure. AS a
pleasure vehicle the automobile has no
equal in fact, it performs on the high
ways1of the country the same service
to the individual that has been rem
dered by the locomotive on steel tracks
to the country at large. The bug-bear
of the traveller. the rigid, fg~ured-out-
in-advance time schedule does not bur-
den the automobile tourist who owns
II manages his own system of trans
: portation.
To the man who is his own chauf-
feur, ~automobiling affords a rare relax
alton. Requiring in itself no great
physical exertion, it trains the powers
of coordination; the attention which the
motorist gives to the proper running Of
his car takes his mind ava from the
cares and tribulations of business and
from the irritations of modern life.
Fresh air and good company cause his
worries ito fold their tents, like the
Arabs, ara silently steal away" leav-
ing in their wake only the memory of
: well-spent hours, the conviction that
life is indeed worth living and the
knowledge that the automobile has
added one more Incompatible charm to
our unprecedented and complicated ex-
istence.
All this being as it is, is there n
wonder in the condition that confronts
us today, or anything strange in the
fact that the automobile more than ever
holds the centre of the industrial stage
and the attention of the public--that
our highways are fairly dotted with
motor-cars?
Ask the motoring suburbanite who
has ~emancipated himself from the
tedium of travelling in crowded rail-
road trains, in a motley of swelterins
and tightly packed humanity-ask the
physician, who now visits thirty pa
tients where he could see only ten be-
fore, and who in consequence a In
creased not only his income but at the
same time his usefulness to the COM
munity in which he lives-ask the busi-
ness maj whether he would like to
return to merchandise hauling with
the ld-fa shioned, though faithful, old
horse, and you will receive but IN
answer, which will incidentally give
you the means of peering into the
future and judging what the automo-
bile is destined yet to accomplish.
IL you were to take from the auto
mobile all it's glory, strip it Of all its