The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-07
CAN YOU AFFORD
NOT TO OWN A CAR

Atlanta Georgian.
/ You may say: II am not going to
.buy an automobile this year." But
you may be wrong. Look at them
first, then make up your mind. You
may say: "The times are not good;
this is not the time for spending mon
'ey on an automobile" The answer
is that the right time to buy an auto
mobile is whenever you have got the
money and. can afford it. And, very
often, the best time to buy an auto
mobile is when you have the money or
can get it, and think that you can't
afford it.
The man who hesitates about get
ting a car for himself, his business
and his family, if he possibly can get
; it, has not thought the matter over
very carefully or completely.
Suppose you saw standing on the
ice at the south pole one of those
penquins-you know what they are
big birds that stand up straight like a
policeman, tiny wings with which they
can not fly. Sailors walk up to them,
knock them on the head and they are
practically extinct. They would be
alive in millions today if they had
good wings. What would you think of
a penguin if he saw a sailor approach
ing with a club and refused to buy a
pair of first class wings at any reason
able price? You would say he was
foolish. Suppose he said to you:
s'Times are bad, l must husband my
resources. This is not the time for
me to buy wings or indulge in any
foolishness." You would say: "When
times are bad. you need wings more
than ever"
What the approaching sailor with
the club is to the penguin, bad times
are to the citizen.
The best thing for him to do is to
get car, if he can possibly manage
1.-THE best kind that he can afford.
There are many kinds-cars costing
less than good horse and buggy,
that will do hundred times as much
as any horse. There are cars that
look like palace cut down to linlou-
sine size, costing and worth rs much
as a good house.
Remember there is no sucn thing as
a pleasure car" Every car, of
course, gives pleasure, really. The
workman whom you see driving the
big ive-ton truck, instead of lashing
a team of suffering horses, takes
pleasure in the truck, its power and
usefulness. The automobile that car
ries passengers is no more a pleasure
car" correctly speaking, than is the
FIVE ton truck with load Of coal or
of steel barrels.
The automobile is for human beings
what wings are to bird. You can't
say that an eagle has pleasure wings,
or that a bird of paradise has pleasure
wings. They have wings that give
them pleasure, wings that save them
time, wings that make them healthier
and safer and carry them where they
want to go. That is just what a car
does for the human being and the
human family.
The only thing you have in the
world is time. An automobile multi
plies it by three. If you are worth
something, then a machine that can
make you three times what you are
is certainly worth having, and you can
afford it if you have the money to
buy it, or can get the money. The
man who says truly, 81 don't need an
automobile" also says truly, "My
time doesn't amount to much"
An automobile makes the holidays
and Sundays days of happiness for
the whole family. The automobile is
inexpensive, because it keeps families
together, enables them to find their
pleasure together without separate
cost for it. It enables the family to
90 where it chooses, when it chooses,
and inexpensively.
AS you travel through South Caro-
lima in your Pullman or day car, you
see along the roads hundreds Of cars,
the biggest, most expensive, the
smallest and least expensive, taking
entire families here and there. A
family with an automobile can mi
crate when it chooses, just as the
bird with it's wings can migrate.
The difference between man with
an automobile and without is the diff
ference between the flying bird and a