The Washington times., 1913-03-08
MOTOR STIMULUS
TO IMAGINATION
Greatly Increases Fascination
of Cities, Says One of Great
American Scientists.


ative element been added to life as
that which the motor car has brought. >"
says Garrett P. Serviss, one of the most
wfdely-known scientists in the country.
! 1T has enormously increased the fas-
cinatlon of great cities. even for those
who never ride, by the change it has
produced in the aspect of the streets
and squares.
Its speed. its swift turns, its sud
den stops and starts, its brilliant, gilt
tering appearance. the sense OF mystic
rious power that it conveys and its look
of super-mundane intelligence as 1t
bears down upon you, with its two huge
staring eyes, like some Sood-natured
demon which will not hurt you, II only
Won keep your head and trust II, makes
II seem like a new inhabitant of the
earth that mas come to quicken ana
| enliyen life upon our staid old planet,
1 which was growing somewhat humdrum
| in its ways before this novel ARRIVAL
made IL rub its eyes and set its nerves
AT night the motor car is wonder;
! Without it The Great White WAY
would lose half its attraction. 1t make
any city that it invades twice as bril-
. liant as before. for it adds the VI
vacity of swift movement. without
, which the glittering lights would be
but a dumb show.
Always Marvel.
THE marvel of the motor cars never
grows less. The more familiar We be-
: come with them the more they i'm
nress the imagination. To start and
stop and steer and guide one. to make
| II fiv like the wind by mere turn OF
| a handle, and to come quickly To rest
at your will seems to be the exercise
, of more than human power. -,s,,.
; at responds to your slightest WISH
IL obeys you as willingly as Aladdin
: slaves Of the lamp. 1t Is a cream
turned into reality. Your Suidlng manu-
, seems to have been endowed win the
! .yirile power of Bulwers romance.
The uncomplaining machine. troubling
with hidden forces. executes your . un-
spoken wish as If II were great Jlnn
that had come out of Solymans Dol
tie and placed itself at your command.
IL stops, without a word, at the simple
touch of your finger or the pressure OF
YOUR foot? Magis, What magic coulo
. be greater than this?
[, 1T exaIts the rider and the driver:
IT gives them a sense of power and OF
| independence of material things such
! as they never imagined that they could
, possess Almost gravitation itseif IS de-
fed. The long Mills have lost thei'
| terror.
Up You Go.
"You throw on a Iittle more power,
I, from a seemingly inexhaustible store,
and up you glide, swiftly. smoothly,
as if in a dream. You look back 10
! the time when your perspirins, hail-
| blown horse dragged you laborousiy
and slowly up that hill, and a magic
| change seem to have come over the
| world.
| Even the grumbling of the machine
as 1t swiftly mounts the slope CONVEYS $
no sense of WEAKNESS, oIt rather one
of reserve power brought into play
, You feel its strength and rejoice in IT.
1t is the g-r-r-r OF the bulldog taking
his hold.
"The hills conquered, the dust and
, mud of the plains are left behind, the
! mountains themselves can be sur
mounted, and you almost feel that with
a little more encouragement from hu-
, man genius. with a little more OF the
! exhaustless energy of the human brain
| put into IL. your machine might trans
| port you to the very clouds!
Obedient As Slave.
| Never was such another marvel of
mechanical genius produced. such
| yeritable Frankenstein, full of power
and will. but obedient as slave. And
| ing when the best motors of today
! will he as far out of date as the poor,
| overworked horse is at present.
| In exalting his imagination through
/; his achievements man e3dl'S His Do"ci
| The higher he rises the higher still
| he can GO The imagination always
leads. It has opened the way to every
| great discovery and every advance.
Edison imagined the electric lamp be.
fore he made it. Napoleon imagined
the conquest of Europe before he
achieved it: Newton imagined the earth
holding the moon in its orbit before lie
proved that ii actually did so. and In
/ every one OF these cases the uninla ma
| tive multitude sneered at the sugses'
ton of the master mind that dared to
trust TO its ina gination and to follow
is lead.
), Twenty years ago how many foresa "
the motor car at the door,?