Evening star., 1926-04-13

Though he is no longer the "star'
he used TO be on the stage OF mans
transportation needs. there seems no
good reason why the horse should
be deprived of all right to play his
part with the rest of the company"
judging from the comment in the
press on the subject of the possible
extinction Of Dobbin." The horse
has always been a good friend of
man, and now in his need man is
giving evidence of a reciprocating
friendliness and seems in many in
stances loath to drop the reins and
seize the steering wheel.
Predictions that the automobile
will gradually supplant the horse in
both public favor and practice until
the animal is commercially extinct
have been rife for years, ever since
the automobile was populariZed on
practical basis and began to make
rapid inroads on the equine domain, -
says the Miami Daily News. But
though it acknowledges that the
horse Is rarely seen amid the con-
gested traffic of big cities. this paper
thinks 1t highly improbable that the
horse will disappear altogether as a
commercial factor" because there
are certain Of the transportation re-
mirably adapted. and from which
there Is but slight likelihood of his
ever being ousted by the mechanical
beasts of burden" The Springfield
Daily News records that recently, in
New York. quite an audible opposi-
ton was voiced by users Of the horse
when the president of the city s
Board of Trade and Transportation
expressed his desire to Danish the
horse from the streets of the me-
tropolis because he does more to
slow UP traffic than anything else "
This paper contends that "the horse
is not yet on the shelf. In spite Of
modern substitutes that seek to put
him there"
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On the other hand, the Morgan
town New Dominion believes that
"even though many business con-
Germs in the cities find draft horses
better than trucks for short hauls,
and granting the usefulness of the
patient and powerful beast. still he
will probably have to 60 before many
years. yielding to the truck. Cities
will have to Danish him simply be-
cause he gets In the way and OBJ
structs trafflc," says this journal. In
fact, humanitarians want horses re.
lieved of city work, according to the
Lincoln Star, because Of the fact
that they suffer In Winter on the slip.
perry pavements and are constantly
harassed in the hopeless struggle to
keep pace with the motor tide" Still.
this does not mean that the horse
has gone out Of use," continues this
paper, as it states there are more
horses on American farms today than
there were before the automobile was
known"
Turning to the market for horses,
the Toledo Blade states "the demand
for horses in Lewanee County, Mich,
this year is the largest 1t has been
for many seasons. One auctioneer
at Adrian says that he has sold nearly
TOO Of the animals since New Year.
And the Blade finds 1t "a highly in.
teresting fact that, in spite Of the
making and marketing of four mil
lion cars annually, we have never
really reached the horseless age. Dob
bin has come very near to holding
his own"
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AS to the use Of the horse or mule
on the farm, the Admission Star re-
marks, despite this tendency to put
aside the horse for the motor, the
farmer still may be expected to hold
to the faithful nag for quite a while,
for there are some things on farm
that a horse or mule can do that a
tractor or q motor car cannot do.
Many horses still are found on South.
ern FARMS"
II one wishes to see the horse in
his glory he should go to Aiken, S.
&C., according to the advice given In