The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-16
The Four Horses of the Apocalypse.
(BOStOn News Bureau.


 It is to be regretted that IbaneZ did not give us the names of the four horses which his four Horse men rode of the Bible into the movies From various data, however, may arrive at plausible identity. They issued from fiery monster which may take to be furnaces shops. Their tread emphatic yet silent rubber-tired indeed, accord with the spiritual character of their riders. Flash ing forth from the unknown, they claimed worlds attention by their paving and prancing Their speed was monumental and they filled the Armament with their gaopings They breathed noisome gases We may take the liberty of calling them their awesome names Ford" "Studebaker,' Dodge Buick or other awe-to cognomens according to taste.
 Auto-ntoxication is medical phrase which in cease of the United States may be varied to auto saturation in high degree though by means to the point of rendering further absorption impossible At latest report possessed 8,500,000 vehicles of which 7.6O0,0O0 pleasure and 900, 900 trucks. This means an average of one such vehicle to every 12 or IS people of the nation. Fully third of the American people could he auto-borne at the moment of time, figuring an average car to carry four to five persons
 Suppose the average invested per car to be $900 we have at present $7,650, 900, 900 of tional wealth whisking around towering several times over pre-war national debt, and comparing favoraby with the $2000O 100000 entire net capi- talization of railroads in 1920 forgetting that 1900 the rails represented 10000 100000 and auto The auto and permeats. The big cities swarm with it, the small towns know it well, the farmer would be lost without it.
 Hauls and calls equally benefited Transport charges saved to the farmer total $24O yearly while the increase in the physicians efficiency is estimated at fully 104%. Special taxes and register to $338 900 yearly and not to be chary occasions for private and public benefit, yearly send IA foreign countries aggregate of 1SO 900 self lf-propelled vehicles.
 The swiftly moving auto has developed the desire for speed always present in to an extent in some cases menace to safety and sanity. But it has also developed admirable system of community Responsibility and cooperation while tangible result 1t has necessiated smoothing of highways which might never have come if left the require ments of the horse-drawn vehicle
 The highways of the Roman empire were the most perfect roads of the world prior to our own auto trails and their for existence was the best possible facility in swift and mighty movements of E1egons and materials from end to end of the un- Gwieldly Roman comity Today the and con- stanty expanding industrial interests the United States would be like a body without veins were it down athwart the country at the instgation of the automobile
 Our efficiency as a nation made us the chosen fplace of greatest development for the motor car turn the motor has developed and furthered four every endeavor.
 Truck, tank and tractor Red Cross vehicle and generals conveyance automobiles during the wal knight we'll be called the horses the Apocalyptca riders. But they infinitely more. Unlike the war. steeds of old which were ridden for mere purposes of peace the automobile increases rather than dus its military usefulness by full particpa ton in every activity of peace.
 | When chariots few and far-between, "tht car-borne" a symbol of nobility, sometimes o divinity. The American people preemnently tho car-borne people of today.