Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-08-31
AUTOMOBILE
BENEFACT0R
OF HUMANITY
Every Man Should Buy
Some Machine-Greatest
Possible Addition to Life.
Means Economy, Saving
of Time a.
The, following is an editorial taken

The. following is an editorial taken
from The San Francisco Examiner:
The man who makes good auto
mobile, efficient and cheap for the
crowd or magnificent and dear for
the few, is. benefactor Of humanity.
Great events come upon us so
quickly that we scarcely see their
meaning. Few of us realize that the
automobile has done for the body of
man what the telephone has done for
the voice. The one problem of life is
speed. He who can move, think, and
act quickly doubles his life. The au-
tomobile doubles the life and power
of the busy man. To be without an
automobile, if you can possibly man
age to. get one, is to be out of date,
cousin to the dodo, and brother to
the OK, The struggle for speed has
been the story of mankind. The tele-
phone conquered distance for the
voice, the telegraph conquered dis
lance for the written message. The
automobile enables man to move about
as rapidly as the bird-and now the
intelligent citizen is asking himself.
What machine shall l buy?"
Let us give some reasons why every
man who can should buy some ma
chine-big, snorting and expensive. if
he can afford it; smaller, less expen-
sive. but the greatest possible addi-
ton to life, if the big one is too
costly.
The automobile means economy.
All that a man has in this life is
time. and very little of that. The
automobile adds to the power of an
hour adds hours to a mans day,
doubles, triples and quadruples his eff
ficiency And this does not apply
only to the doctor, with his many
visits. or TO the fashionable women
rushed in nine directions by calling,
shopping and other pleasures and du-
ties.
The automobile will do more for a
small plumber than for man OF lei
sure. 1t will do more for the butcher
small contractor. or other little busl-
ness man than for, the richest citizen.
Because the little man is more IN
need of the machine that means more
work accomplished Long ago, when
only dudes" so called rode bicycles,
the envious scattered tacks and brok-
on glass along the roads. We used
TO tell the workers then that one day
they would be the chief users Oh the
bicycle and that statement Is now
fact We tell the workers today that
the time is coming when to them
more than to any other class the
cheap automobile or motorcycle car
will be the greatest blessing, anotn-r
..frpeing of the serfs." A workman
now can hardly believe that ne ever
opposed the bicycle as the amusement
of the rich-but he did that In
short time it will be unpeileVaple
that vexatious laws and innumerable
annoyances should have been devised
10 harass those engaged in develop
inc the automobile You can get
car now that will carry five men
eighteen miles for twenty cents worth
of gasoline. The man VINO writes
this. with fifty horses standing In
the stable on his farm, bought two
automobiles to- send farm hands 10
their work. 1t was foolish waste to
let the men jog slowly behind farm
horses. and the machines cost less
than the horses, even on a farm thai
produces the horses food and does
not yield gasoline
The day is here when the smallest
tradesman, builder, skilled mechanic
can own an automobile economically
Let a man care for his own ma
chine-an intelligent boy of fhteen
can do it. Let the owner CONSIDER
that he is using his valuable proper
tv as he drives. Then the lie OF
machine low in price is almost With
ON, limit And the ownership of
car. far from being an extravaganza
is an actual economy. IL saves lihi'
and makes money during the week
1t gives happiness to the entire famliS
ON SUNDAY. 1t, is a healthful, usetu
Measure that discourages pleasure:
that are harmful. The money ina
has carried hundreds of thousands U
men no farther than to the corner
saloon would take the whole tamil!
out In the country on Sunday.
Whiskev and whiskey sellers hat'
the automobile and well they may.
The little mans car is here ALREADY
The workman's car is not far away
Within five years the tin dinner pal
will rest beside the clutch ana IN
brake at the bottom of a small cal
The wife will drive her husband L
workable her children to school, d.
ber marketing-no longer TIED cow
10 the prices of the nearest store.
Manv weary workman at III
davis end. seeing the. birds flying s.
easilv to their nests, has wished ina
he too had wings. Now the automo
bile will actually give him wings. In
DAVIS end need no longer mean
weary tramp across country roads. o 2
long Journey, hanging to strap u
the CITY street cars. One workman
will take his friend home one gay
The friend will do the same iieA' ua'
And workers thus relieved OF uruue
erv will have for their employers
added value greater than the cost =
the gasoline. First we nad VI
white Streak" and the Red DeVil'
toys for rich young men. iheh ~, "
had beautiful, quite expensive I'M,
cuisines, ideal for. nervous ola iaoie'