The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-26
REALTY VALUES
MUCHENHANCED
BY MOTOR CARS
Chandler Executive Points Our
Autos Contribution to
| Material Benefit.
BY GEORGE NJ. GRAHAM,
vios President Chandler Motor Tar
Company.

Company.
There are still In this country
many millions of persons who think
Of highways and automobiles rs hsv-
Ing to do alone with pleasure.
We do not apologize for the fact
that the automobile lis an important
medium of diversion. This IS quite
legitimate, but II is important that
It's utility function be properly recog'
nized
Those who think of the automobile
merely as a pleasure car" have per.
haps never contemplated what ter
rifle real estate upheaval there would
Re IL the passenger carrying and the
freight carrying truck should sud.
denly be withdraw.
The evil consequences resulting
would affect both city and rural pop
ulation.
Within the last twenty years farm.
ers have found 1t possible to go be
yond unproductive or improbable
land, purchased originally merely b..
cause 1t was contiguous to steam
railways.
They have penetrated farther an
farther into remote rural sections
because in the motor truck they have
q connecting link between the point
OF food production and the point OF
marketing.
Have Now II Miles.
Records of the United States Blu
reau of Roads show that the farmer
haul to market has Increased from
So miles to 17.6 miles, an expansion
based entirely on motor truck hau.
age.
II the motor truck should be elm
mated, what would happen to farm
Ia nd values can be readily imagined.
Similar would be the baneful er
feet on city jewellers. The city man
no, longer lives in the city. lie has
gone far into the suburbs.
1t will be found by analysis Of con
ditions in any great city that its cen
trail portion Is more and more giveE
over to commerce and manufactur
ing, and that the residence section
constantly moves farther into tn
suburbs.
The man of wealth. the man
only reasonable means, finds that the
automobile gives him ready touch |
with the heart of the city.
He ever has at hand a medium of
individual transportation. In this
one point alone is the assurance OF
the permanency of the automobile
business.
Slow In Development.
should like to direct your "a,
tention to a startling thought. Moth |
ing in the world has been so slothful |
In it's development as transporta.
ton.
Ninety per cent of all the years
that have elapsed since the birth of
Christ saw in use the same primitive |
mediums of transportation that pre- |
vailed during his lifetime.
In 1900 years the world had not |
advanced beyond the point of man
hauled or the beast hauled wagon or
cart, or the man propelled or wind
propelled boat.
Actually the history Of modern
transportation can be written within
the last 100 years.
The world has accomplished more
In that interval than in l 500 years
OF prior Christian history.
When Robert Fulton launched tn"
Clermont -on the Hudson, and when
Stephenson two decades later in
vented the steam locomotive, they
discounted everything that had gone
before in the entire history of trans
portation.
Now, at the beginning Of the wen
tieth century, we have also motor
vehicle and aeroplane. depending
upon internal combustion motors,
gasoline driven. just as their prede-
cessors depended upon steam and
electricity.
The aeroplane has not yet been
perfected to the point Of great com
mercial development, but the motor
vehicle has gone so far that the Pres
tdent of the United States in his first
message called attention 10 its dom.
mating place in our political, social
and Industrial life.