Arizona republican., 1917-07-15
NJ STEERING WHEEL IS PREDICTED OF
 MOTOR GAR 0F 1851

Let me show you the motor car of 1915, says Waldemar Kaempfert in Me Clures. First of all, you are struck with its sheer beauty of lines. There are no abrupt, ugly angles. Curve melts into curve with a grace that you associate with the form of a swan. There is no wall like windshield; there are no ob- truding lenders. By 1912 the designer Of airplanes had discovered that large, ,correstly designed bulk is more easily moved through the air than mass composed of projecting wires, stays, wheels, arms and legs-that each projection. however slight, rakes the air and leaves an invisible wake behind it.
 His work was not lost upon the mo- tor car designer. The streamline body as it is called, made it's appearance about 1915. By 1851 not only will it have been generally adopted but it will be far more refined than anything which We can now display. It will part the air as gently, as smoothly as pike slips through the waters of a lake
 We may expect in the motor car of 1851 something akin to push button control The guiding of a motor car or truck in these days ot the motor cars infancy is no mean physical per formance. Arms and legs play far too important a part in motoring If a locomotive engineer were thus depend ent on his muscles there would be no 70-car freight trains, no 20-hour train between New York and Chicago. Think of the physical demands now made upon you and then ask yourself if you have not the right to demand that by 1851 inventors will have tossed gear shift levers and brake pedals upon the scrap heap.
 The ideal motor car of the future will have just one controlling lever and no more. See, as I pull or push the lever, l turn the power on or off Did you notice how the engine slowed down and how the brakes were au- tomatically applied as the car slack ems in speed? There are no pedals to operate. The speed of the engine de- 1 termins how hard the brakes shall be applied-in other words, in what dis 1 tance the car shall be brought to a full stop.
 In a country threaded with superb ly smooth thoroughfares the steering wheel will be abolished. With a little i handle you will guide the car of 1851 tc the right or to the left. No tense | muscles will be called upon to avoid l collisions Steamships have long had their steering engines to swerve rud- ders that weigh many tons. The steering engine is controlled by the
 wheel on the bridge So in this car o1 l 1851 the little steering handle causes g motor to turn the front wheels to the
 right Or to the left.
 We do it in 1917 but it is wrong egegregiously wrong to drive vehicl, from the rear Why? Because it k 1 easier to -rll than to push. The tug
 boat pulls it's barges; the locomotive I pulls it's coaches. the freight handler on our wharves pulls his hand truck Nature seemed to have discovered long
 ago that pulling is easier than pushing 1 Unlike the car of 1917. the motor cal ] of 1851 will therefore be pulled by it.
 motor.
 And the motor sitself-how differen
 from the engine of 1917, Gasolin
 will cease to be motor car fuel in 193O
 There will not be enough oil in tn,
 world from which enough ---oline cal
 be distilled. The alcohol and electri
 motor will take the place of the gaso line engine