Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-02-24
Moturdom Has Broadened
BEYOND the Realization OF
Most Motorists.


Numrdum has hroadcncd beyond
lHn T.NU.fUuu of MOST motorists. IL
H uHu. unto lsolf new aspect
5iuJ tur mu'urIst OR repair man or
tho uu..r rr dealer who would be
up.in.dttr must koyp IN touch with
Tho uIwtur uaprots ~ motoring
lNr Internal combination engine the
,naplIu. engine iu IA" motor the
turur,uHp uIuo in The tractor or
tho crude plr ouEiuc lu tho submarine
d. tho Foundation ~ thls broad
ou,l mutord0W. which We may call
nutum0tN,dom
The mutpr cor m hut branch OF
thiv broader Development Of the tn
tcru1l combustion engine. but u N
worry nearly tho oldest N perhaps the
most important ana certainly u the
one whuJe Development has made
possible the development of the
others
within the last two years 90 take In
the broad scope of the motor indus
ttN. wherein motor means all OF The
applications of tho Internal combus-
ton engine II WAS first used by the
Society Of Automobile Engineers,
eighteen months aeO, which realizes
tho fact that that Industry which IN
foupdod~oh the gasoline engine Was
a rapidly expanding ono and one M
tCtlnkod with the motor car. The
society Expanded its functions to in-
cludo M the motive activities con-
neCtes with the gasoline engine or
internal combustion engine and tho
MAMIE became the Society of Auto
motive Engineers.
II this war does nothing else IL will
he or value In bringing into being
the Nideupd ure ~ mechanical
power to accomplish ihc work that
either 10 impossible or inefficient
when human or nnLRlsl power is
employed To such an extent IN me-
chaniGnl power supplanting animal
power OF neoesslty that when peace
comes there will he still greater
broadening Of ita scope rather than
a return TO the older and less cffi-
cicnt methods
Gasoline engines draw the guns on
our battle front, bring the Rmmuni-
ton Tor them. transport the men
that tend them and the food for the
men horses are too slow. Gasoline
engines speed our nyintorH over
enemy territory. and our U-boat
chnacra over the sea Gasoline en-
Eines carry our courier along the
farflung liue OF trenches horses are
400 slow. Gasoline engines I'll our
fields and transport the products 90
market horses are becoming too
slow and Inefficient Gasoline en-.
glnes IN ever increasing extent are
transporting tho supplies to the
waiting ships at the soaooasts.
Most " this has come thru the
war necessity. but after the war these
same gasoline engines will be direct
ed tu the works Of peace, The Aame
considerations NJ saving In time aud
man power and foodrtuffs and trans-
porthtion facilities that have die
tatcd the use Of the Internal COM
buatlon engine " such great guam
Utica In wartime will require their
utilization when war IN over.
These first cousins Of the motor
car are many IN number and great
n Importance with some OF them
every motorlst Il familiar. Others.
IcthapH, have never occurred TO him
rs havlng any association with hlH
car. Perhaps the most closely re-
lated OF these branches of the Ia
ternal combustion engine family are
tlto trucks. whose development was
a direct result of the wide use OF the
motor car. Next. perhaps the trac-
torn which came about In an attempt
To- use motor cars for replacing
horses in farm plowlnE That they
have developed a distinctive and sep
nrttr industry and have character
Mtlcs which vary widely from those
Of road passenger vehicles does moi
mako them any less direct descend
ants of the motor car Whether they
draw one pillow or sixteen. whether
they burn Kerosene or gasoline. the
same principles Of construction ana
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