Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-07-25
MOTOR CARS ESSENTIAL
TO ALL BUSINESS LINES
Rich and Idle OF Years
Ago.
SERVES Two-FoLD PURPOSE
In Rush Hours 1t Is an Absolute
Necessity, Aftcrward Family
Comfort, bringing Back Rose Of
Health to Many Tired Mothers.

The motor car is one transforming
modern invention to which the world
hasn't 81 been able fully TO adjust
Itself. We are having an example
now Ia Kichmond's cno!ts 10 deai with
+, the traffic problem In the downtown
districts. The city doesn't yet know
what to do with the automobile II
cant quito realize that the car has
passed from the class Of the luxury TO
that OF the necessity. says j. G.. Fra
stcr. OF the Jones Motor Gag Company.
the trouble is that i ia hard for
US 10 make our mental adjustments
TO new conditions. our old ideas
cling 10 as and hamper us when the
= conditions on which they were based
Grafton recalls wildly when the au-
touoh!!c Was regarded as "A sort Of
perAons Of means TO play w!th--and
"a Toy thdt was a nuisance 10 tn. rest
OF the community. II made rightly
noises 1, emitted Il terrible stencn.
II put every respectable family In
jeopardy Dy making IL unsafe TO 30
out with old l!esa and the family
MAS iikcly TO come along any minute
ana cause a runaway. Grudglngiy, wc
admitted "a" automobile I" decent
nociety and gave it some o; the privi-
Many OF. us are SIM thinking of
. the motor car Ia farms OF twenty
years ago when All TIA" prophets pre-
dicicd mat II would never he any
. INNS more than the plaything for
rich mem. We stll! talk about II as
luxury and when In thrifty mood
speculate on how much the Industry
Is costing the country. ana how much
better OF wc would bc IL the money
or what not.
rnri of American Life.
And yet, II we consider tn. matter
fairly. wc must admit that the motor
car has become an essential part OF
American llfc.
To truck. Of course. !a !ndispcnsl-
Elc No delivery hilti,raas ~ o.
on without IT. 1t has supplautcd tho
horse-drawn vehicle within cities. 1t
~ Sfro%a.hs We trolley and me steam
haul-. There is no Argument here.
But n. service OF the passenger
car, while IN some respects not To be
rcckoned Ia dollars and cents. is just
as fundamental. Ia every city tens
OF thousands OF persons use II AS II
means for rapid transit to and from
wor" For tn, doctor. the salesman.
the p !nscr and men ia dozen other
occupations the motor car Is u bust
ness vehicle pure ana simple. II mas
become increasingly tho rclianc.. OF
the farmer. II enables him 10 get 70
town and back In an hour, whereas
u used to tax. him the better part OF
possible. aid 70 family lie
What 10 D"cs far Home.
There may be persons who sheer
at such statement as exaggerated
aud who regard tho relation or the
MntoMobi.e to the home as OF neEl!-
prchcnd tho facts To many a bu*v
mother both IN country and city. the
!aml.y motor car has been II III.
saver. J; has helped bTcAa down the
isolation and loneliness of farm life
II has enabled the city woman TO
It"cp - touch with her friends In
distant p!rts Of town In a way never
possible before. and il has provided
,t means 81 s""rch;!nn for the whole
family. Every warm evening the
hon.oNards end avenues o: Richmond
s"hrm Mlth cars carrying father
. mother ANA the children. Every sun
day The Tpnds about the city are sim
ilariy crowded ON "a smaller scalc
the same thing II going on in all the
smaller communities of the country
Wnen an article 50 meets the needs
o. human nature ia wholesome FASH
ION mat II has come into almost uni
w%rt'! use, Il Is simply stupid to
course. We might 1--we in "a cave. ms
our ancestors did, XIII animals for
food with It club ana dress in their
SKINS. W" could get on without bath
lights without running water with
out BOOKS and magazines and news
papeTS. ~! OF these modem !nven-
lions htv" taken Labor thar othcrw,s.
migh, be tur;icd to digging caves and
-I!IN,.S clubs.
Eut tt is useless to talk nbou, turn
ing back the clock Human nature
makes civilization and in turn is made
by civilization. The automobile has
responded 10 the demands of modern
lifc- II has become one Of the essen
.tials. like the railroad and the print
In dealing with the various prob
ana mutt our heads against a stone
wall II we iail TO understand the i'm
.n"rtancc OF the motor driven vehicle
TO the individual and to The comnu
nifty as a whole.