Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-08-25
1 AM KING AUTO.
BY Reginald Foster in the New York

BY Reginald Foster in the New York
World.
Out of the wayl Clear the track-honk-
honk! Here comes King Auto!
I'm it!
Biggest thing on wheels. Yes, sir! Gel
ebrating? You've guessed; dates? Two.
On June 1 1 passed the 1900. 900 mark for
these United States. On July 8 I hung up
state alone!
Let these figures sink in.
Suppose there are four people who use
each automobile. Then there are $780,
600 Americans riding in these 2,000,0 600 au-
tomobiles every day.
Let's count the cost. To run 100000
cars a year must take at least 1000. Co., 900
gallons of gas worth $3.50, 900. 00O-John
d. and the Standard Oil crowd know that
and 1t makes their hearts rejoice. They
still keep on the wagon. too, with their
lubricating oils. of which I need 10000
600 gallons. worth 5000. 600. every year.
Tires? I wear out 1900. 900 Of them
every IL months and they set the owners
back something like 1892, Co., 900. II you
figure them at only SIG apiece.
t~hem-goggles. gloves. caps, busters.
lamps, tools-let's call the cost Of them
$50 a car. All right-there's where I hit
you for another 500, 600, 600 annually.
Garages get a lot. one way or the other
call it $50 a year for each car. There
goes another 500, 100000. Suppose we
are economical about repairs and allow
but $50 a year for each car. There goes
still another 500, 100000 Goes easy.
doesn't it?
Add that up. Some $3.50. 900. 900. isn't 1T?
And that's no more than a starter, be-
cause we haven. counted the cost of the
cars at all. There were 10000 new auto
mobiles bought last year. all the way
from 1875. which is about the cheapest
figure you can buy me at. up to $1,000
mud ~O~ ~~r AA r -
call it roughly $45o. 900. 900. Some money.
Now add it all up. What do we get now?
All. just $1,000. 600. 600 for a%utomobiling.
l am indeed-king Auto!
Honk! A thousand millions spent on
me.
But why not? Every man Jack Of
these is a potential aid to our army
when the day comes. Germany has been
helped in this present war by the 10000
automobiles she has on the firing line or
Just behind it. o would France and
England have transported their troops
so ably a1d so suddenly had it not been
!or the motor buses they Communicated
from the streets OF Paris and London,
my dear colonel?
And. More money for automobile tires
Than for a navy" Again. why not? 1t
gives our chauffeurs practice using up
those tires and we'd need 100. 900 auto
drivers II we had q real war. BY the
way. who was 1t said that the taxi chauf-
keurs n have no nerves make the best
military aviators?
Before we get off the subject Of war
let mo remind you that I have saved the
day for both Sides, many's the time. At
one of the big German retreats in Poland
they would have lost their entire rear
guard of $1,000 men a not they had TO-
700 automobiles to whisk their men off
In time to Join the main body. And as
easily as August S. 1914. came the first au-
tomobile charge In all h~istory-near Liege
l,500 honking Prussians in $50 automobiles
headed the invading German column
even then starting to desolate little Bel
GUM.
While we're on the subject. let me
give you a few more ~f1gures-though I'm
for peace. first, last and all the time. II
more money in it-and more fun. Here
goes:
Since the war began the allies have
taken more than 10000 auto trucks from
here. worth 81, 365. 943. That was up to
April !. Now we are sending them hun
dreds more each week. Last year Amerl-
can manufacturers sent $4,000. 900 worth
Of automobiles and parts out of this
country. This year It will be much more.
I'm the Brobdingnagian Of battle and
Of business! I've motorized Mars. Gaso-
fine IL greater than g~unpowder. I've
put high explosives into harness. This
great conflict IL the automobile Arranged
Jon! War on wheels! Where'd your
Big Berthas'' ana your Jack John
sons" be e II wasn't for mo-? They'd
never get neaf enough TO the front TO hit
anything. AK the motor truck gets Ia
mOstcst men thar the fuStest,s q the
great confedoeats tacticiAn, Gen0fAl For.
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