San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-14

got on" with its production Of oils,
the royalties from which now paid
into Texas, exceed the vi!ne of the
cotton produced in Texas in various
years.
Thus it will be seen that endless
facts could be brought forth to show
that the multiplication of the number
of cars owned in America can only
be Of economic benefit for, after all,
like the Three Musketcers. our bene-
fits really can only be zone for all
and all for one" and surely every ma
ton, business, or individual which has
proceeded on this theory. as see it,
has prospered.
Recently it was pointed out to me
in very small town that men in that
neighborhood who. few years back,
could not afford to own $50 horse.
now owned cars. for which they had
fully paid. These instances can be
multiplied over and over by automo-
bile dealers.
1t has been pointed out to me by
Dodge Brothers dealers that they have
had innumerable cases Of men who
had never saved a dollar in their lives
until having formed the resolution to
do so, they bought and paid for a
Dodge Brothers car and so acquired,
for the first time in their lives, some
thing of service and convertible into
money.
Car Regarded Essential
Any motor car owner will tell you
that he would make more sacrifices
to retain his motor car then he would
make to retain any other mechanical
thing which contributes to his well
fare.
Thirty-fiye years ago It was thought
that the telephone, the electric light,
the occasional railroad journey, were
each only for the family of great
means. How matter-of-fact these ne.
cessities are today in the lives Of all
American families!
So. five years from today. at a very
conservative estimate, the motor car
will likewise be as matter-of-fact a
part of every American family.
There are thirty-two million income
receivers in the United States who
still do not own motor cars. The
question Is often asked but I have
never heard it answered. how much in
come should one have to maintain a
car? A difficult question to answer
indeed. when it is known that practi-
callv every single car is a wealth pro
ducing car and every single car can
be a wealth producing car. Therefore
my answer to the question involved
is that every American adult who
works can easily have a car.
Here then are 100000 income
producing useful Americans who have
no cars; to whom it is potentially
possible and economically beneficial
that We should supply cars every ono
of which, without doubt can be made
self-supportiIg.
Two Avenues to Ownership.
There are, it is manifest. two ways
by which these individuals may eacl
have a car. One of which is for eacl
of them to earn more than he spends
until the price of a car over and above
his expenditures is accumulated by
him.
In the development Of the United
States transportation has been one Of
the most important contributing fac
tors. And without our transconti-
mental railroads it is not likely that a
country of a geographical area so
large could have remained so well knit
together in one political entity.
Moreover. it is hardly likely that
the remarkable development Of orr
railroad transportation would ever
have come. about hat Il waited until
the savings Of the railroad operators
had enabled them to construct and
equip our railroads.
Railroads were built and equipped