The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-07-14

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Speed. We are ever striving to dc
more in less time to do it more eff.
ficiently. Our business experts, GU
inventors, in fact, our entire people
are always doing everything within
their power to cut the costly time
element in production and distribu-
ton.
In the days of George Washington
one who dreamed of express trains,
automobiles or airplanes would in
stantly have been branded as a fool
with the added assertion that 1T
would have been impossible to travel
at the rate Of fifteen miles an hour
without disastrous results
But today very few of US are con-
tent if we have to restrain our speed
to fifteen miles per hour. We should
object ven if our produce and other
commodities did not move at a greater
rate than that. We are eternally in
a hurry to get somewhere and to
get and send our goods with dispatch.
1t is merely the idominatible will OF
lis Americans to seek to save time.
We work ever on a basis that time is
money. And on hat assumption we
bend every effort to save time.
That our ability to get things done
quickly and efficiently has its merits
and is wholly justifiable is extreme
ly vouched for by the part we played
in the last great war in which victory
was due largely to the American way
OF doing things in a hurry.
The automobile is the symbol of the
progress we have made along the
lire Of time saving. 1t is the uni
versal product Of the American mind
that obviates distance and cuts down
the time factor in every field OF
e%ndeavor.
The professional man, the business
man, the labOrer, the farmer all pos
sess a car. 1t near time saved in
getting from place to place. The doc
tor can reach his patients with a rap
Idly that would have been miracu-
lous a century ago. The merchant
can buy goods and deliver perishable
goods because of the car, a feat i'm
possible in Washington's day. The
workman can live in one part of the
city and reach his work in another
part with ease.
The farmer no longer must remain
the hick he has been Oftime painted.
His car brings him within easy reach
Of town, annihilates distance and
makes neighbors of hundreds Of peo-
pie who would have been too far away
for his grandfather to have known.
Moreover, he is brought within con-
act of a much enlarged market by
means of his car or truck.
There is considerable calamity {
rowling about the auto. 1t is claim {
I'd to be a liability to too many per- t
;ons who have mortgaged their prop {
critics to buy a car. These arguments I
nay hold in certain cases. But a
'ule is only clarified by the excep- r
ions it has. 1t is hardly possibIe 7
hat the car is the destructive agent r
pictured.
The locality in which no cars could I
e found would indeed be Anticipated q
nd probably not well up on curren- s
vents. Such a place is hard to mag s
ne. There are few to be found in e
he United States. The car has be- F
ONE so common that we could hardly
onceive of such a community. The
automobile is as commonplace today
9 the horse and buggy was fifty
ears ago. We do not expect to find
IL Tile IOdU SCdICcly duyLuluS DuC u
ars, be they Fords or Packards. S,
But more than the generally used 81
Iethod of travel, the auto is an indi-
alton of our ability and achievement
/ killing the monster, Time, which
been in times past the principal
pint of leakage in our wealth-pro-
icing schemes. tt
Bud Wiser things it a r~egretable Y
ct that such insects as the bees and M
asps are not the only one that w
ing a person. He would advise RI
aiving the Sherman act in order that E.
might get a monopoly. &C
Shakespeare Junior reads the ac-
Of fishing parties and remem- CT
rs the little saying: there are fish
men and other fishermen.
Buds idea of heaven would be 10
more none than people wanted wi
. to spend.