Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-20
To MAKERS
Of MODERN CARS
Tells Why Every One Should Strive
to Own a Car Suited to
Ones Means


can published one of the ablest testi-
monials for the motor vehicle that has
ever,been written:
THE man who makes a good auto
mobile, efficient and cheap for the
crowd, or magnificent and dear for
the few. is a 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 his voice. The
one problem of life is speed. He who
can move, think and act quickly
doubles his life. The automobile
doubles the life and power of the busy
man. To be without an automobile,
If you can possible manage to get one
is to be out of date, cousin to the do
do, and brother to the OK The strug-
gle for speed has been the story of
mankind. The telephone conquered
distance for the voice, the telegraph
conquered distance 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 eve
ry 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 addition
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 efficiency. And
this does not apply only to the doctor,
with his many visits. or to the fash
ionable women rushed in nine direc-
tions by calling, shopping and other
pleasures and duties. The automobile
will do more for a small plumber than
for a man of leisure. 1t will do more
for az butcher, small contractor, or
other little business men 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 scat
tered tacks and broken glass along the
roads. We used to tell the workers
then that one day they would be the
chief users of the bicycle-and that
statement Is now fact. We tell the
workers to-day that the time is COM
ing when to them more than to any
other class the cheap automobile or
motorcycle car will be the greatest
blessing. another freeing of the serfs.'
A workman now can hardly believe
that he ever opposed the bicycle as the
amusement of the rich-but he did
that. In short time it will be un-
believable that vexatious laws and
annoyances would have
been devised to haraSs those engaged
in developing the automobile. You can
get car now that will carry five men
eighteen miles for twenty cents worth
of gasoline. The man who writes this,
with fifty horses standing in the stable
on his farm, bought two automobiles
to send farm hands to their work. 1t
slowly behind farm horses, and the
machines cost less than the horses,
even on farm that produces the
horses food and does not yield gaso-
line.
THE day is here when the smallest
tradesman, builder, skilled mechanic,
can own an automobile economically.
Let a man care for his own machine
an intelligent boy of 5 can do it, Let
the owner consider that he is using his
valuable property as he drives Then
the life of a machine low in price is
almost without limit. And the owner
ship of a car. far from being an ex-
travagance, is an actual economy. 1t
saves time and makes money during
the week. 1t gives happiness to the
entire family on Sunday 1t is q health
full, useful pleasure that discourages
pleasures that are harmful. The money
that has carried hundreds of thou
sands of men no further than the cor
ner saloon would take the whole fam
lily out In the country on Sunday.
Whisky and whisky sellers hate the
and we'll they may.
THE little mans car is here al
ready. The workman's car is. not far
away. Within five years the tin din
ner-pail will rest beside the clutch and
the brake at the bottom of a small
car. The wife will drive her husband
to work-take her children to school,
do her marketing no longer tied
down to the prices of the nearest store.
Many a weary workman at the days
end, seeing the birds flying so easily
to their nests, has wished that he
too, had wings Now the automobile
will actually give him wings. The
days end need no longer mean a weary
tramp across country roads. or a long
journey, hanging to strap in the
city street cars. One workman will
take his friend home one day. The
friend will do the same next day. All
thus relieved of drudgery will
have for their employers an added
value greater than the cost of the
gasoline. First we had the white
ghost and the red DEVIL toys for rich
young men. Then we had beautiful,
quiet expensive limousines, ideal for
nervous old ladies. Then we got the
machines of low price,
with the reach of the citizens of small
means. Soon we shall have the work