The Washington times., 1920-01-17

The automobile is simply another marker in the prog
of civilization civilization increase of life
We only live faster these days than in previous
epoch, but we live more and live better
The laboring today backs up to steam radiator
md himself contrivance that would have turned
King Henry the Eighth green with envy that monarch
ould have had dream glimpse of it while he stood blister
ng side and freezing the other before open
REPLACE in his draughty palace.
And what would Aucassin and Ncolette have thought
they got married and went to housekeeping and he
lad to climb out bed stone floor and donning
lis breeks had to build fire the hearth with flint and
tee while she followed shiverng to make cakes and fry
he bacon in pan over fire that waited smoke IN her
ace and all that-what would they have thought their
vision could have the bride Of today getting break
gas stove and eating it in summer warm din
ing kept constantly at equabe temperature by
central heating system?
1t is the style these days to berate the present and
poetze the past But who would have lived in
those good old days before forks invented socks
breakfast food ypewrers tobacco newspapers
Washingtonians who visited the Auto Show in New
York found themselves the crest of the foremost wave
of progress
Back in 1896 p T. Barnum exhibited in his Greatest
Show Earth of the and outlandsh freaks ne
had discovered automobile
At the 1900 Automobile Show in Madison Square Gar
den they had track made that the public could see
that the tangled horseless buggies could really
People in middle life remember the first automobile
they 1t clanked like threshing machine and
snorted like bull of Bashan.
Today in New York, Washington Cleveland, Chicago,
Los Angeles and every other considerable American CITY,
the motors go end to end continuous procession ike
swarming beetles.
Taxcabs for the sojourner luxurious mousne for the
wealthy rash lowwheeled boats for the sporty and the
myriad cheaper of the ho pooi fly past every waking
hour of the day and long into the night.
It is picture of national Whoop, la; we
don t know where we're going but we re on our way!
Indeed, the Symbol of Civilization is the Wheel The
wheel means travel which the breakdown OF pro-
vnciasm the knitting of the loose ends OF humanity the
of mankind the superb trumphs OF cooperation
The Wheel the Mark Of the Factory Of the Railway
of the Automobile. .a..
The Wheel means eventually the end of War; for War
the product of barriers of the hates and pettinesses and
fevered egotsms that fomented behind barers and the
Wheel signifies that barriers shall be no more
It that citizers of the round earth, and
not of this or that favored spot upon it.
The Automobile is the Wheel raised to its nth power
It is nothing but Wheel
1t grew out of the brightest thought that entered
human bran that by putting bucket of rock oil under
the buggy seat you could dispense with the horse
At first Old Dobbn SHE'D at his roaring competitor but
he sadeyed aside to let the catfooted velvet
gliding motor pass.
The Automobile is both a Luxury and Necessity.
The very of Sybaritic dreams is to own one Of
these exqusitely upholstered doll houses Wheels cross
between feather bed Pullman Palace Car and glide
down the boulevard with veried chauffeur at the wheel
hothouse the bouquet holder expensive rug
your lap and hoot the common foot passengers
and think to yourself: Oh if could only stand the
sidewalk and myself go by!
But it is more than playthng 1t has redeemed
try fe It has relieved the isolation of the farmers wife
It has multiplied the efficiency of the grocery store and the
postoce It lured the human out of suy rooms
into the open air.
This wheel has rolled Humanity back to Nature
The men who made these machines are making the
future.
The workers upon these splendid vehicles are building
the United States of America.
"Chariots and Horses of Firel The prophet OF old
UJo with
of flesh!