The Washington times., 1921-09-27
You Liue On a Wheel With
a Pneumatic Tire

10 II u
n I'D You ever notice how take the big things for
granted-and make great fuss over the little freak
s thingsf
Men studied ECLIPsEs of the sun and moon Lone
BEFORE THEY BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT THE
DAILY RISING AND SETTING OF THE SUN.
They took for granted the marvellous truths OF the uni
and worried the little eccenrcites of natural
phenomena IF they had studied the SUMS apparent
nents they studied the ecpses they might have dis
covered much earlier that the earth round They might
have dared to go outside Gibraltar's Straits The PHI
ars of Hercules with fear Of falling Oft the earhs
edge and they might have discovered America earlier and
wound up the trust phase of life centuries back.
We have all marveled at the ingenious pneumatic tire
which upholds our bicycle runs over US on some
elses automobile The babearing axle and the tire
of air make think and scratch heads and How
wonderful is man"'
Wsat about the big ball of earth you live ont
Did it to you that the earth air
tire Also turning round and round its spiral spin
through everlasting space with the ether for ball bearings
HOW is the air pneumatic tire for the earth, do YOU
ask ..'-~-
II Is that absolutely And besides keeping us alive
that tire of air and planet many millions Of
bumps that would make life here impossible.
Have ycu any idea how many hundreds of millions Of
neteors have struck this earthi
Do yog know that are bombarded by meteors ever"
day. the tire Of flying automobile is bombarded with
peblcs' Do know that the tail of comet hit aod
swiped IT'S, at least oncei
The meteofs-flyng masses OF rock, "copper"
other metals-vary in size from small pebble sized dust
stone projectiles the size of house.
Once IN great while big comes through the air
without being entirely melted and hits.
Without pneumatic tire, THE AIR, these meteors
would smash down earhs surface constantly saugh
terng wpng out nations at certain times Of year when
pass through millions Of meteors in journey around
the
Bat the dangerous meteor flying with speed Incredible
comes in contact with atmosphere AND is MELTED
In spite of the tenuity Of atmospheric air. the friction
at such great speed suces to melt the proeces that
lombard that they fall to the earth in harmless,
disintegrated dust-and do harm.
Constantly this dust Of dsntegrated falls upon
the surface of the earth every it raises the bottom Of
the just much And last long enough will
I'LL up the ocean, that like the Martans shall have
to dig canals to hold the oceans waters and their
covering the earth two miles deep all and driving
to death houseboat civilization
Does il interest you to think of these things-ou of
which not cent be madei Do you like the notion that
We little human creatures simply live inside of pneumatic
breathing the air in the tire and travelling through the
mmenstes Of space shielded by that tire from the rough
spots celestial journey and digging food out Of
the rim Of the wheel which traveli
Do you take interest in Natures great carrying plan
moving all her loads in the shape Of rolling spheres that
without friction fromhe tiny blood corpuscle that
up inside your neck to the giant that whrs
earth along in its traini
1t is funny to think of little adrf the
of space up little machines this great
driving wheel that carries We struggle with
other have comic fights for newspaper supremacy,
tica supremacy financial supremacy We kill another
quares to the nature Of the Power that rules and
loudly when achieve trivial little
There microbes in the dusty air inside the tire Of big
automobile.
Tt we could hear their talk they would to
funny seem to the big spirits that look into the
earhs Zig air tire to watch struggles and listen to
Boosting
1879 ONCE. VERS