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being made rich, and when men make money in
quantities they immediately become customers o
the automobile dealers.
In England the "neuve rich" are growing in
numbers, and demands for cars have cleaned
Great Portland street, the automobile row of Lon
. don, of everything salable, while all through the
English possessions, according to James Holland
of London, formerly editor of Automobile Topics
of New York, the demand for cars is as great
today as before the war started. American mak
ers are looked to in their trouble by the London
dealers, and American bankers, hard pressed at
home to supply the demand, are unable to take
j ?care of the foreign business at the doors.
' ; American manufacturers with more business
- at home than could be attended to with top-notch
production, and with more business in foreign
countries than could be attended to, even though
American markets became slack, are likely to
face conditions that will bring about a car fa
i mine in a short space of time. The shortage of
" material Is vital at this time, and will keep down
production figures.
Scientific American, some time ago, sought in
" v formation and learned that material for slightly
over 1,000,000 cars had been ordered from Amer-
- ican manufacturers. All of this will not be se
cured and the makers will do well to hold the
record figures of 600,000 cars, the mark reached
in 1915.
'
( . . With the price of standard cars comiug down
' yearly and an increased number of pay passen
ger cars on the market, experts and prophets of
the trade are predicting that an "automobiliza
tion" of the country is under way a spread of
the auto comparable only to the feverish spread
of the steam railroads that started 40 yeais ago.
With cheap cars and rapid bus lines for the
masses, the cities are bound to grow outward in-
' stead of inward, auto men assert. Slums will
Conducted by
MISS HELEN COX
MISS M. L. BOEHNER
MRS J. W. BURLEY
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deserted for suburban garden spots; the entire
country will get fresher air and cleaner living;
markets will be brought closer to the consumer;
the cost of living will hit the toboggan, and the
partly depopulated rural districts will come into
their own again.
Not only that, but the great transcontinental
roads Lincoln highway, Midland trail, Santa Fo
trail and others and the web of connecting hard
roads will make possible heavy interurban trucks
and vans that can carry freight from town to
town and cut the exorbitant freight rates now
charged by most American railroads. Automobile
men don't say that auto trucks will ever supplant
railroads for freight hauling, but they do say that
rates will be lowered by the steam lines to a
point where autos can't compete. And that will
servo the public just as well.
There's an educative value in the automobile,
too, its sponsors say. It will bring neighboring
towns intv. closer touch, banish local jealousies
and prejudices, and acquaint country that makes
their towns possible.
Also, it will aid as the railroads aided in de
veloping new parts of the country regions that
would not be able to support a railroad for many
years.
There are examples of this throughout the
western states Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada and the coast states. Settlers
start into virgin territory, the automobile follows
them to carry freight and mail; moro settlers
rush in, many of them people who would not think
of the country if the automobile did not furnish
quick transportation to and from tho older cen
ters. The automobile in this manner paves the
way for the railroads and at the same time makes
it impossible for the railroad when it does come,
to charge the robber rates that were levied on
the struggling western valleys in the olden days.
Summing this all up, men in the motor car in
dustry assert that the automobile will make the H
United States a truer democracy than it ever was
before. M
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Long before the first robin dares to set foot
on northern soil, John Florls, a South American
gypsy, and a band of co-workers, living in a small M
cottage in West Twenty-fifth street, Indianapolis,
will have started for the Pacific slope over the M
old National road in a motor propelled palace, M
that will, in comparison, make the main ticket M
wagon of a three-ring circus look like a country M
hotel 'bus. M
Tills resplendent domicile is built on a Buick M
D-4 one-ton truck chassis, which is equipped with M
a Buick valve-in-head 37 horsepower motor, and M
mounted on pneumatic tires. The body was built M
expressly for Mr. Floris. It is the first of the H
kind ever turned out in this country, for indeed H
the genial and progressive Mr. Floris is the first M
of his kind to discard the horde for the motor car. H
While this nomadic vehicle is not equipped with H
nil of the conveniences of the modern apartment, H
it has all the latest motor appliances, and will be H
far ahead of anything in gypsy rolling stock ever H
The old, time-honored Romany love for gaudy H
paint and colored glass finds its fondest hopes H
moro than realized in this newest thing in motor H
cars, and it will be a dull citizen indeed who will H
not stand awed and bewildered when this gasoline H
gypsy wagon of many colors thunders through the H
towns and villages along the old National trail: H
When asked in regard to his plans for the fu- H
ture, the Latin-featured and picturesque Mr. Floris H
replied in well-broken English: "Humph ,we all H
early start Californey, San Francissyco." Where- H
upon his jewelry bedecked wife added, as she laid H
aside a big briar pipe, "Etaoin shrdlu cmfwyp H
okog." H
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