Arizona republican., 1920-09-12
AUTOMOBILE VITAL
 ID NATIONS LIFE
aY FRANK B. ANsTEo

No mere desire to ride in motor car has placed the automotive indus try of the United States in the en-
 viabIe position of being the second largest industry in the world. To call the automobile a non essential in just ridiculous as it would be to call the
 modern corn lanter an extravaganza.
 The horse drawn vehicle as a real utility was never questioned. The mo tor car has replaced horse drawn transportation simply because it traL- veis faster, covers more ground and does so with more comfort and econo- my than the horse drawn vehicle.
 Statistics gathered by those vitally interested in the distributing end of
 the industry show that 90 per cent of all automobiles arc used at least most of the time for business purposes. It is today vital to the business life of
 the progressive farmer, the profes- sional man, the travelling man, the con-
 tractor. and to commerce generally be- cause it has grown to be the greatest transportation medium serving the people of the nation.
 Public opinion is the greatest force in the world. It may build slowly but it builds surely. Public opinion has built the automobile industry. And
 public opinion will demand that it re-
 main, because its utility value has been firmly fixed
 I like to think of the words of that great editorial writer. Arthur Brisbane. who said, in a recene editorial: The automobile is a national blessing: no longer luxury in any sense, it is the necessity of life, the fulfilling on one of life's highest ends. The automobile when it works. The servant of man. his newest, highest invention, it is the friend and the benefactor of the en- tire family
 Here are some of the things the
 automobile has done and it ought to be
 self evident that no industry could
 have accomplished this if it were ca
 tering to the pleasure and the luxury of the people of the United States: It has given the United States it's
 present highway development-at its very height this year-in which a bii- { lion dollars for good roads has been | appropriated. Think what that means l to the farm and to the city. 1t is employing more than 10000 persons directly, and more than 5000 1 900 persons in the United States are dependent upon it.
 It has increased tremendously farm l values because it has made farms ac-
 cesss1ble that heretofore were beyond
 the reach of the markets. It has multiplied the effectiveness of all business.
 | Tn the last three years it has saved ! the utter collapse Of the nations l transportation system in every crisis. It has redeemed rural life and l opened to the city man the fresh air
 and healthful surroundings of the sub
 urbs, away from the congestion of the
 city.
 It has brought about a total invest
 ment in automobile plants alone esti-
 mated at $1015. .442,33s; parts. tires,
 and accessories manufacturing plants S3.166 S34 594 And in duStributiD~ plants ther is almost as great an in vestment as in manufacturing plants It has been a time saver. mile-re- l ducer. man economizer. It has made l life better.
 l It has given America the facilities
 needed to take care of its ever-grow- l ing population.
 l The motor car is simply an evolu- ton of transportation. It has grown 1 to it's present proportions because it's l increased efficiency has revolutionized
 the problem of transportation.