Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-08-04
vork Fails to Find Them and Au-
..,.obiles Are Given as Reason
for Great Change.
bspLUs CASH USED TO
PAY FOR THIS NEW LUXURY
! snrplus Wealth Is Disposed of in
orsn Air Pleasure and So There
Is Nothing for Gotham.
By Carlton Ten Eyck.


LIMITED PRESS LEASED WiRn.l
New York, Aug 4.-The open season
4 simmer tourists is upon us, the
of the year when the railroads
mtbe far, near and Middle West
ske enticingly low excursion rates to
= York and return. On the streets
\ he seen lot of hurrying visitors
'tiOus to see all they can in their
tited time, and the hotels report a
h business but the most careless OBJ
rer can see that there are not so
\ spy strangers in our midst as form
The shOpkeepers also contribute
surnfully to the evidence that things
not as they used to be.
fhe man on Broadway was wonder
in a helpless sort Of way what has
home of the August visitors. The
4 who travels undertook to tell him.
4 Automobiles" " he said laconically,
the NJ. c. B. looked around to see
hny brand new make of car was in
bt to provoke the remark. "I mean
OmObies are the cause of the fall
off of fall tourists" patiently ex-
ined the NJ. W. T. "The automo-
a is the menace of the west. mean
commercial menace, Maybe il is
moral menace too; some folk say
'ls but Pm willing to leave that to
sky pilots. However, l do know
at am talking about when l say
n the gasoline wagon is the rock
which the West is liable to get a
il the people are not careful"
ihe NJ, W, T, then proceeded to il.
rate what he meant. AS just ono
sstratiOn he told his friend of one
D farming community out in West
Missouri, and l can vouch for the
D of what he said. This town is
hin 80 miles of Kansas City, in the
dle of a remarkably rich river bot.
farming district. 1t has 5000 in.
Plants and they are prosperous. So
the farmers living in the town 8
Wing district. They have brick
NJ streets, electric lights, water and
3er systems, handsome and costly
tes, rock roads and all the modern
rOvements that make the present
western farm and small town life
easant.
8Ae farms there this year produced
fpeF wheat and corn crops, and the |
chants of the town looked for
~ prosperity. But what has hap.
Nv The people of that one Mis-.
town this year spent 100000 for
3moOlles' Everybody who could
the money bought a car. Those
dld not have the ready cash mort.
r their homes and their land.
n who could not do that, gave
Tor their machines.
'Nat 100000 passed out of the coun.
pa the state for all time. Except
'ne agents commissions, not
OF 1t remained in the county that
'Veu the wealth, and not penny
Will find its way back into the
nunl'N But the financial loss to
missouri county and small town
iaFther' Those people who have
"A '"'oioolles, most Of them,
peg and saved to do it. They now
''On0ml2ing in every possible man.
women who have cars are not
.ug gowns, They do not need them.
IN their machines over the roads
need nothing but old clothes and
busters for the rain and dust
I rum fine gowns if they had
men who have automobiles to
w are not buying new refrigera.
'1u ,1 cook stoves, They are making
O'u ones do. The broken coffee
'ad kitchen utensils are being
IT. The old family clock will
" serve another year. No farm
.Iuefy Is being boupht-tbev ara