The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-09-14
MOTORING COSTS THE u. S.
BIG sum EACH YEAR

Armageddon! War on wheels
Where'd your big Berthas' and your
Jack Johnsons" be If it wasn't for me?
They'd never get near enough to the
front to hit anything. And the motor
truck gets "the mostest men thar the
fustest," as the great Confederate tao
tician, General Forrest, used to say of
his horses
But Pm for peace, as | said before.
| give the lie to calamity howlers.
Let's turn to bleeding aKnsas. On
July 1, 1918, there'll be an automobile
for every family in that corn-blessed
state If the jayhawkers continue to
buy my gasoline joy wagons at the
same rate that they have been buying
them recently. There are $4,000 in the
state now. Figuring a population of
100000 and five to family, that's one
car for every eight families in 1914.
At the present rate of buying there will
be one for every six families by the
end of 1915; in 1916 one to every four
families, BY 1917 it is estimated that
eveey other family should have a car,
and one TO a family when July /, 1913,
is reached Actually today there is
one automobile to every "a persons, ac-
cording to Kansas statistics.
Can you beat it?
Back in New York again. City folks
don't own all the automobiles, as per
haps you think. The farmers my best
friend He owns 10000 cars today,
right in old York State! He doesn't
call me a luxury He needs me to take
him and the butter and eggs to mar
ket, to send hte children to school and
to do a thousand and one chores the
horse and buggy could never get
round to by gum!
Step over to Iowa, the champion
farm state of them all One Iowa town
of 200 population has II licensed ma
chimes! Blowing their last cent? oDn't
you believe it! That same tight little
town has 50, ,OOO 900 in the village saw
ings banks!
Two millions of cars? That's one for
2L alrot beaa og8. getaeratrnh ?,-f he
for every so people in the United
States. For every railway locomo-
tive there are II of me. For every pas
senger coach | number 2S.
Placed end to end, these 100000
cars would stretch in double line all
across the continent They stand for
an investment of billion and hall
of dollars. And for 1915 another half
billion dollars worth of cars will be
made in this country alone.
Wonderful, isn't it? Why, no indus
try in all the world shows anything
like it, In 10 years have gained 3,27S
per cent. My nearest competitor, elec
trical manufacturing has gained only
1O7 per cent. And next year, 1000,
600 new cars will be turned out
| give work to 100000 hands in the
mere making of me, Indirectly, tc
twice that number.
And | use altogether 427f79 chauf
feurs.
New York automobilsts since 1901
when the registration law went into
effect, have paid $5,363,S25 for 664,6
cars and 2S4,4S7 chauffeurs. In sever
different states there are more thar
100000 cars each, and Ia have NOR,
than $4,000 apiece.
And I've made New York into Horse
less Town. There are 1000 auto
within the limits of its five boroughs
How many horses do you see in Fift
avenue or on Broadway nowadays
: There are only 10 states In the Unio
that number more automobiles tina
gay Gotham.
Yes, I'm very much alive. My day
a just dawning. Only a decade ago tn
! rich mans paything, today I'm tn
/, "jit"-the poor mans necessity.
: You can find the jtney bus runnin
a in 1O6 cities; bus that1l take yo
anywhere for "jitney" nicke
- There am at my best, No dscrimil
alton between rich and poor for thi
q monarch.
I'm on my way! Honk-konk!
4, I'm King Auto!