Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-10
WHAT THEY TELL INQUIRING REPORTER
NEWS THE PUBLIC ON SERIOUS AND NEAR SERIOUS
TOPICS

So many nice new automobiles are
appearing on the streets lately that
the Inquiring Reporter got to won
dering about all the money invested
III invm, and that prompted the
question for last nights interviews:
''Do You Think Automobiles Arc
Worth All the Money spent on
Them2'
Nick Pappas of the III Centro
Barrier Shop. was the first to be
interviewed:
lit might be that people could
invest their money more wisely, - he
said, but l don't know. "A ear is
something that gives pleasure to an
entire family, and while / don't
think it is necessary for poop L
tie up as much money as some OF
tehm do, buying a new car every
year or two, am sure there ares lot
of ways they could spend their
money more foolishly. A good many
people are bound to spend what they
make anyway, and they had better
spend it for automobiles than in
Mexicali or with bootleggers. Il $
pretty hard to get along without a
car these days, and in Imperial val
ley it is especially hard. No: on'v
are they almost essential to bust
ness, but Sundays and holidays are
pretty lonesome times to people
without them. 1 don't know that
the great amount Of money invested
IN automobiles is q good thing from
the standpoint Of savings accounts,
but l think take it al in all, it is
worth while.
Miss Esther Jacobs, who is visit
ing friends near Ell Centro, was
positive tha: such investments are
wise and proper things. a person
without good ear is just nobody
these DAYS. Our fathers and mothers
used to judge people by the kind of
a house, and the kind of I. horse and
buggy they drove, but now days we
look at their car. A business man
needs car, and his family enjoys
it, and neither should have to use
an old rattle trap il they can pos.
sibly afford a good one. think
the man who won I make an effort
to have the best automobile he can
nossihy afford Is making mistake.
So many people Judge by appeo--
ances that if man wants to be
prosperous he has to look that way.
and ! don't know of anv better way
to appear prosnerous than TO drive
4 snappy car
James X. Mathes, proprietor Of
Mathes' Money Saving Store on
Main street, was decorating his win
dows when the reporer stepped %
interview him.
actual money invested in tl,.
purchase Of an automobil, is doubt.
less a good way to spend it in most
cases. he said, "but I think if
there was never q time sale people
would be much better off That ap
plies to other things besides caIs,
too. When people are able to buy
on instalments they buy 4 car on
payments, then they bny an electric
washer, and are probably paving for
q house the same way, the first
thing they know they have their en-.
tire income tied up-whiciI is bal,
because If anything happens even
temporarily to- that income they ire
hound to lose what they have IA
ready invested. OF course ! realize
that it is hard to get along without
car and they are source of
more universal pleasure than almost
any other single investment -hnt !
think if people had to pay for them
OUTRIGHT they wouldn't chang. them
so often, and would derive the same
amount of benefit without t'4e ad
ded Investment.
8. Peterson. house. TO house can.
rssser. was entirely in favor Of more
and. better automobiles.
"In the whole history of Ameri.
"an l9mos don't think there has
been ANYTHING that has given the
entire family the united pleasure
that the automobile has, he do
"'ared. Families who uscd to go
their separate ways on HOLIDAYS now
load up the old bus and all go some,
where together for dav's outing.
Husbands take their wives to the
monutains md are able to soen1
ek'ends with them on account of
the convenience Of ears. They take
tired housewives out into the omen.
and make nals of father and sons
and of mothers and daughters. I