Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1928-04-06
DOLEFUL PREDICTIONS

predicted it would make the horse
extinct Horse flesh costs more than
ever and equestrianism continues to
grow in favor. Now the oracles say
the aeroplane will eliminate both
automobile and horse, but like the
horse the automobile grows in
number and favor. The saturation
point in the automobile industry is
always being predicted but never
reached. 1t will be found that horse,
automobile and airship each have
their purpose and will increase in
number as new news are found for
them and the population grows.
From an article in a current mag
azine are taken few quotations on
the subject of the automobile:
1.-THE automobile stands unique as
the most extraVagant piece of ma
chinery ever devised for the pleas
ure of man."
1.-THE people are becoming car
poor as their ancestors became land
poor"
"In this craze for automobile ow-
nership the joy Of security in the
future is sacrificed for the pleasure
of the moment"
1.-THE whole scheme of domestic
life centers in the motor car"
"Once the man who borrowed in
order to buy car was looked upon
as dangerous"
With some of these statements
some will agree, but it is invariably
the carless who predict disaster and
chaos because so many Of their
neighbors are on wheels and ex-
change old cars for new every year.
1t is manifest from the popularity
of the auto, from the universally Of
it's use and from the jealous tena-
city all car-owners cling to their
cars, whether palaces on wheels or
decrepit derelicts, that there are sat
itfactions derived from the automo-
bile which the critics of the auto
bomile-age have not discerned.
SoS
KING NICOTINE
The vogue Of tobacco and its CEN
turies-old persistence are not easily
explained and for that reason, per-
haps, the weed" is the more irritat-
ing to those who take life with deep
and would ban every
hing that is pleasant and not useful. I
There is Biblical authority for TAX
ng a little wine "for the stomach's
AXE" and, prohibition notwithstand- !
ng, there are some worldly souls
Who still contend a hot toddy is es-
entail in the treatment of colds and t
but no one has ever {
laimed any therapeutic powers for U
1bacco unless it be those gentleman
ms who ascribe their longevity to
ne use of tobacco in corn cob or
I'D form. 3
In view of the fact that so many U
lillions obtain so much pleasure
ON tobacco and that its use is at 4
last not beneficial to the health, is
zpensiVe and often filthy, it is not
uprising that the war on Demon :
icotine has been waging ever since i
bite men acquired the tobacco hab- =.
Sir Walter Raleigh was censur- .,
for introducing the weed into
lrope, the Puritans of the Massa-
lusetts Bay colony prohibited its
e and anti-cigarette laws have al
en- passed and repealed in many vi
ates. til
It would seem that the net result te
these centuries of protest, prohi- to
ton and repression has been an tn
ormous increase in the use of to- ha
eco, especially in the form of Gig ca
cites. One American manufactur-
makes 1OO,OOO,OOO cigarettes day lo'
d there are hundreds of factories tly
the business Of preparing tobacco 70
smokers. 1Ol
Perhaps the candid addict explain II
the situation when he expressed liz
S sentiment: o4A
Dacco is a dirty weed. La
like it. boz
no normal need. q
1 like it. Nv
makes you thin, it makes you lean, of
axes the hair right off your bean,
the worst darn stuff I've ever seen.