The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-15

However, Ed q hayseed only by circumstance and
ike many farmer lad yearned for glimpse Of that world
and where fellow could sit in the paror II there was
no company"
And So came the day when Ed said goodbye TO
the red plush environment and headed for the coast
Believing the best and quickest to shake the seed
from his hair to to college, he enrolled at the
University Of Washington for q course In business
administration.
One bright day Ed was asked to fin in for friend who
associated with automobile agency He didn't know
anything about the automobile business but who refuse
Well. the friend never came back and Ed never quit
:. because. that's the kind Of guy Ed Isl
That 10 years Today. he occupies definite
place Tacomas automobile circle and the company of which
he is the head has caught bit of Eds enthusiasm and
ability In 1886 the firm had but dozen employees
today with the little dynamo at helm the personnel
He married Tacoma girl, Betty Fits, who had
lived In this city six before she listened
too long to Eds line and said "Yes." Mrs. Rebe
born in Seattle
Like most Of U.S. Ed has his hobby . and it's golf with
bit Of fishing the side. However he's still saving
the log Of and hopes distant day he will have
enough of this worlds goods to hand the rens to another
be right back where he started which isn't bad idea
when learns about the real things of life and where
to find them.
Times Haze Changed!
Fortunately for the United States the present defense
emergency finds system of individual transportation
developed to higher degree than anywhere else in the
world the National Automobile Dealers association points
out in the second study of series acquant the public
with the place Of the motor in modern transportation
and TO offset the misconcepton that Is still luxury the
American way of living.
individual transportation is one arm of our defenses
that needs no hasty building up equppng" the study
continues at is already here in magnificent proportions
serving military and civilian needs.
AAmerica's universal ownership of motor vehicles
provides fIexibility TO movement of materials and
manpower that gives us big edge on ether countries
In the armament race. 1t will be mighty factor in
our effort to accomplish In months what other coun-
tries have taken years 10 do.
In the United States have roughly motor vehicle
on has one
to IL In Italy the ratio is to 49, in Russia
one to u.s. and Japan to $685. None of the great
comes anywhere in ownership France is closest
with one to IL The United Kingdom has motor
vehicle for every 10 persons.
national defense being brought into sharp relief by the
necessity for mobzng workers in the great production
plant TO draw its rapidly expanding working force from
wide radius Hundreds Of thousands of skilled wormen
v;ts ;-s,,t~ :; 49, ~ "s ~ 49,. e io , 49,
thousands make much longer trip.
"A recently published report from Buffalo showed
that automobiles provide transportation for 80 per
cent OF the men working in plants making airpanes
ordnance and other defense items IN the suburban
area indnsralsts Of that city, IL stated, making
strong protests against suggestions that automobile
production be curtaied in the interests of national
defense
AT Saginaw Mich. survey disclosed 7o6 per cent of
The eys industrial employees rode to work in private
One in 10 drives 10 miles to work daily while few
come from IS far IS miles away
"A survey of workers in five Flint Mich automotive
plants shows that fully so per drive their
work. with another 20 per cent riding as passengers Two
thirds Of the remainder live close enough to walk to work
Those riding in their average 18minute drive
from home to JOB. The story is pretty much the
scores of industrial centers
I'll made little difference during the last war;
whether the use Of automobiles restricted. Most
plants then could be reached By line But since
then, industries have been moving into the open
spaces where land Is cheap and taxes low and
rely on the private automobile transport employees
TO and from work
Many Of the new armament plants being constructed
miles from cities and transportation systems The
governments sheloadng plant at Union Center Ind is
example This site deliberately chosen because of
distance from large population center but because
the automobile, workers can be brought quickly from hs