Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-22
AUTOMOBILES IN
HONOLULU ARE
REAL NECESSITY
Less Than ! Per Cent of Cars
in This City May Be Called
pleasure" Vehicles.
BY OWN MERRIck


The question that has been raised "a
70 the automobile being q luxury and q
non-essenual should be answered by
the motorists Of Honolulu, by the deal
ers and all interested in the automo.
bile situation locally.
The other day E. E. Bodice in dis.
eussing the automobile situation said
that Honolulu has few pleasure cars.
and the director Of the Honolulu Au-
tomohile struck the nail on the head
when he brought out this point. Mr..
Doubling Thomas, please count the
cars In Honolulu used for pleasure
alone. There are very few. and those
who have followed the situation In
motor circles have discovered that
less than per cent Of the cars In this
city may be termed pleasure cars" In
the strictest sense. =
F. Is Necessity
In discussing this point we should
not lose sight Of the fact that the ar.
tomobile In Honolulu fills a promi.
nent place In our commercial and In
dustrial life. 1t Is decided necessity
and In 80 out Of 100 cases the automo-
bile Is used for practical purposes.
Glance through your automobile al.
rectory and you will find thousands
of names Of owners who are today
using their cars for business. You
Will find that it is not the truck alone
which Is being used for business pur-
poses. Thousands Of touring cars
and roadsters are In use today In this
city, and they are in use not for pleas
ure alone. - s-.1
The man who lives on the heights
must come to his work In the morn.
Ing and must return at night. Here
the motor car Is necessity. The man
who lives In the country uses HIS ear
for his convenience and not altogether
for pleasure. Women OF the CITY do
their shopping In motor cars. and
there are any number Of them who use
their automobile for. nothing else but
a practical purpose.
Joy Riding Has Passed
Joy riding" In Honolulu Is almost
thing Of the past. II you will count
the number Of people who drive their
cars just for q ride you VIII discover
only limited number. Every buyer
today has practical business reason
for Its purchase There Is one rea-
son why the automobile can never be
classed as q non-essential.
And no dealer In Hawaii Is losing
sight or the fact that the one cardi-
nal fact throughout motordom today
is this: Every man who does not at
present own car, and knows the
valuesof one, Is preparing to own one
as soon as he can afford II. He IL not
looking toward the purchase Of car
because he could ride all day long on
the highways and "joy-ride" at night.
but he wants a Car because he knows
1t win be benefit to him and his fam
lily.
There is a sound business principle.
back of the steady and consistent
growth Of the automobile. No luxury
could have held the place that the al.
tomobile does In the world today.
When we needed oxen to cultivate the
fields, we had our oxen. When we
needed the horse to take US from the
farm to the city. We had our horse,
and the automobile has won ifs way,
not because 1t was a luxury and nom
essential, but because the automobile
has been established as one Of the
geratest necessities Of our American
life today.
]. K. McAlDine In discussing the SIT
ration remarked that the word pleas
ure car" does not necessarily mean
touring car or roadster, but car
which is used solely for pleasure. The
man Who drives HIS car to and from
work and carries home supplies in his
little runabout should not be classed
with the man who has fleet Of ma
chimes. We reach the conclusion that
there are pleasure cars" and cars Of
necessity" -. ..-..@-.z