Till-; OMAHA SUNDAY J)KK: JUNi: 1!M0.
MOTOR MEN UP IN ARMS
Take Action on Jamei J. Hill's Criticisms.
HUMORS. OF CENSUS TAKING
trained and t uromwInM llamnr
.Mixed nllk I'athoa In Ine
(ninrri,
AUTOS ARE NOT A MERE FAD
i
Hfalr thr llallroad Mumlf'i
Crr of k;sran.anf la tea.
aevtlon with lb "-lumoblles.
Minor rsr msnufarturers ar.J omu
lent the remarks of the lljn. Jdives
Hill. Dissident or the .No. l!i( tn V
lullway company, v.ho has publicly criti
cised automoblllng aa a. pastime and auto
mohila manufacturing ma a business, lie
declares that motor cars In neral are an
extravagant-, and his comment have been
folloft-rd by a speech of Vli-e rresUlonl J.
T. Talbot of the National City bank, who
Is quoted as saying that tho busings vt
imklng motor cars Is a waste of capital.
Then comments hv brought many prj
tests from automobile manufacturer, w!.o
fiel that they ate being il:tcud in a wrong
Jlglit before trie publii-.
"It In unbecoming fiu-.i li. m us Mr. Illllj
and Mr. Talbot to term It cxtravas i:ic
because men claie to invest in motor cars!
JnHtcB'l of possibly putting money into ov!
capitalized companies with tnelr iiMiilnii 1
laled and w atei-ligged stock," saM A !
Tied Reeves, geneisl manager of t.ie ,
xnciatloii of Licensed Automobile Manufac
turers, the members and licensees ot wiiich '
produce about ti per cent of the aulonu
biles made In this country. "Tha mslting
of motor cais cannot be any mote wasteful
of capital than can be found In some of our
Wall street enterprises. -
" 'Back tr the farm" has brcn the cry of
Mr. Hill for some time, the claim being
that there note not enough people tilling
the soil and Increasing; the supply of int
in Ml wealth Uoes Mr. Hill appreciate the
fact that the automobile bus done nml !s
doing more to 'keep the young t.x.:i on the
farm than anything else? Is he nut aware
that the farmers have been nuirj the
largest buyers of motor cars during the
last 'two years, and that In one county In
Jomi alone the census showed itntpmo
hlles owned by tillers of the soli? Cutslnl.v
the motor car is aiding the farmor, t:ot
alone In the transportation of 'himself and
liis family with health-giving rides, but
also In the transportation of his piod-.ii.'ts.
"1 speak of investing In automobiles."
continued Mr. Reeves, "as automobiles arc
an Investment. They not alone irlve a
greater radius of travel and are great time
savors, but even when used solely for
pleasure, they give enjoyment to family
and friends, taking them Into the pure
air of the country. Such riding Is bound
to Improve both brain and Judgment. It
aids digestion with the consequent more
cheerful view of life, and eventually rc-
turns compound Interest In Improved
health and ability to perform In business
life.
"It Is undoubtedly true that there are
some people maintaining motor cars who
cannot properly afford them; but Is that
any less true In the case of those who
speculate In Wall street's stocks, or buy
more expensive clothing or homes than
their Incomes really warrant?
"Better by far that Mr. Hill, and others
who have been quoted aa being pessimistic
on the country's future, and hasten to lay
much of the blame on the motor car
should glory In the country that could af
ford to buy 130,000 automobiles In IMS; cost
ing approximately flSO.000,000, with every
prospects of buying more than 200,000 cars
tnis year, retailing at not less tnan T,
miO.OOO. Let them remember that more than
1.(100.000 families In this country hsvo In
comes of 1.1,000 or more.
"Let them glory In a business that has
almost 100 substantial motor car factories
and a number of smaller ones with a total
capital of more than l-Wi.OOO.OOO, that ha
r0 factories making tires, parts and ac
cessorles, with a capital of almost 1150,
000,000; those same factories, In making
parts and accessories, employing not less
than 250.000 men. Think of trades that have
prospered as a result of tho motor car
industry! They Include machinists, black
smiths, assemblers, pattern makers, tool
makers, elootrlcat workers, carpenters,
finishers, trimmers, upholsterers, polishers,
painters, finishers, body builders, mill
wrignts, unsmuns, wheelwrights and a
score of others.
"Let Mr. Hill, who seems to be so op
posed to the motor car trade, take pride In
the 6.000 dealers with their salesmen, dem
onstrators and mechanics, who are niak
ing their living selling motor cars, and
the employes caring for cars In more than
7,500 garages, being paid wages In excess
of what the railroads were ever known to
pay to their employes.
"Doos Mr. Hill." continued Mr. Reeves,
-ever stop to consider the wages earned
by the chauffeurs, of whom there are
frl.600 registered In New York State alone?
invariably they receive on the average bet
ter wut;es than the men on Mr. Hill's rail
road or any other railroad.
- "It would be unfah to Bay that either
Mr. 11111 or Mr. Talbot Is envious of the
rapid growth of the automobile Industry,
and Its bright future, but they certainly
do It an Injustice and Insult the Intelligence
of the American people when they say Its
upbuilding will waste capital and term the
use of motor cars an extrvagance.
"Scandals that come forth almost dally
from Investigations relating to high finance
may account for the lack of confidence In
bonds and stocks, and may supply reasons
for the falling price of securities in Wall
Street, and the preference for Investing In
automobiles, which bring certain profitable
returns in better health and convenience
of travel.
"One cannot deny that the circulation of
money Is what aids a community. The
moat Important people In this country nr.
not those who buy bonds and live on the
interest without working or producing any.
thing. The rual backbone of the country
Is the man who works hard, spends a little
ana saves a little, who gets some enjoy
inem oui or lire and, moreover, who thinks
enough of his family to own a motor cur
and secure the benefit of that greatest of
murni iimui oi transportation.
i ne motor car is now," concluded Mr
llceves, "and of course must be the sublact
of prejudice to a greater or less extent. The
v fact remains, however, and neither the
statements of Mr. Hill nor of any other
man will change It, that the J76.0O0 motor
cars now running In this country are but a
beginning, and that the number will In
crease rapidly, both for pleasure and busi
ness purposes; that the country Itself Is
going to be very much better off as a re
sult and that the automobile buino. will
continue to prosper Just as Ion- ai makers
give good machines at the I uvea prices
consistent with design, material and workmanship."
That was certainly n proud father, vho
wrote for his fiist brcby. ' 1-12." as the aae
and "lloainner's Kngllsh." replying to the
query, "Io you sneak Kngllsh?" To the
Isler iiuestlons. "1 you resd and write?"
he answered, hopefully, "Not yet, but
soon."
To the fust question a "lawyei'" who
I gave his age as I.! replied wltlf great con- J
I ruicncf , r utei.tiy ana I couitl Hiniot ;
I see Mm, t:.'iog Ms first esse. Willi
j "spread csc" orstoiv, before a Judg".
J.iwh' u.HiU luivo to cuitull h'.s eloquence
trie i f i oiu tha nan!
Anotiier, replying to "fan you read?
Write?" sa!d naively: "I read this paier
atid am wilting these answers."
The young driver of a milk wagon, evi
dently content and happy, perhaps with
hi flist "Job," printed In capitals, "NO
81UEEK" In answer to "Were you out
of work April, laiO?" while Ms neighbor,
half a 4. lock away, and 06 yeurs old, who
bud probably never had a vacation, wrote
"Too much work," In reply to, "How many
weeks were you out of wmk !n 1W9?" and
another, also near l. and haven't
fruii'l n Job et."
It was a bachelor physician, who said
he was. heiid. feci ami the whole thing'"
in his house, and a man of rare apprecia
tion of hi own position, who meekly t'.'i
wiots lilnijself as "My wife's husband."
Another semi-mnnotisl put ills 'color or
be always uppermost In your mind that
clothes have no tendency to drag you under
wster, tlmt they are a help rather than a
hindrance If ou only know how to tnke
advantage of the assistiiiH-e they offer.
Never forget that, clothes or no clothes,
jour body floats n iturally, so that on
can stay above water almost Indefiiiltelv
If you will only keep your wit nbmii you.
and the ca-ea nre rare Indeed hi with li as
sistance does not come within a compara
tively short space of time." Recreation.
am golnn to alve each one of you a sample Igot off. bavins bcn wnrnrd by the uu.trd
of my line to remember me by." that If b didn't h- would I"- aueste.l -
Then he opened the sample cas.- and (New York World.
Iwann t unpack an especially fine l"t of j
neee sets Hone.
I'ti olniaii I'liailis ScMIl"!. whose i iwM
cheekbone was broken bv a bxibnll in
KIwrsMle. witk two iv.'Ce hk,.. t
!ae nnd'-i gom- an op.-intioit ill ni.on'im
lief ore th" doctors aot there, bow . e ,
tl.n i. .1 l.jtti.i n.ivf.il in. ,1 i.ii II Ml II, 'fl ,'lt
,1 steadying himself a well as his ct'n- t a: I operation on lilnis. lt
n .Hi. mill i
lingerie. It was the finest lot of Hoods of
Its kind that any of the girls had ever s--n.
and ;t was tho that of that I. I'M ot wen.
t.st some of the men had ever seen.
Then the drummer, smiling his bent smile
HE HAD THE GIRLS GOING
llapp Urniumer's (.eiieroslly He
j warded vilh toffs, tnillr
and Blnabes,
Through the generosity of a bibulous,
well dressed drummer many shop and fac-
i tory girls are wearing fluffy lingerie today.
The reclpenta of his bounty were on a
Hronx express that left tho, Fourteenth
street station with the drummer about 6
o'clock.
He was about S2. smiling, carried a sam
ple case, stamped "A. O. V., riovldei.cn,
R. I.," and only a few of the clerks and
other men aboard noticed tlmt he was un
steady as be reached for a strap. After the
train got under way the Joyous salesman
took nollce of his fellow-passcng?! s.
(I'llon would allow, begun to hand to tin
slrls embroidered, belaced and beribboned
chemisettes, coiset covers and other things.
I Some of the maids began to litter, others
, blushed and otheis got mad. One plrl
ls,Hpned the drummer In the fnc as he
htii(l"d her nn especially fine sample of his
lingerie. Others, highly Insulted, declined
to taUe the presents, but many of them
wrapped up what was otTiot, blushlm; the
while. Kvery man wore a broad grin.
Over In the corner was a messenger boy.
The beneficent drummer ssw him. j
"Here, I mustn't forget you," he re
marked. "Take these home with you," and
he handed the messenger boy several arti
cles that the said messenger boy never will
be persuaded to wear.
Tho boy took the goods and proceeded to
examine them, lie held up one affair em
broidered and trimmed with blue baby rib
bon and looked appeallngly to the sales
man. "Wot tells these?" he asked Then he
Ills face pnlne.l Into n uood
sent one of his soijs to a drnir store to K' l
a patent naive. Me got thl and applied It
to his fsce. but accidentally Rot some (if it
to his nose, and It caused him to siier.e
violently several times. The last lime he
hnc'Sxed lie felt n shuip pinu In i. s f o .
and when the doctors sot to Ills Ihu.m
readv to oper.it tliev found the sneeite l;nl
taken their tub from I ieiii. aid tin- bom
had snapped back into pln i--l In I tfoi d
New s.
The I'lace for II tin.
"That French count the Slmtil;lns Ctrl
married Is coming over to this eountrv to
go In business. He ran t live In France
lils creditors are so annoying."
"Going Into business' Why. th'-y told
me he didn't know enough to put tip nn
umbrella when It rains. What In the
world can he do?"
"Why, old Hliiipklns b: living to get him
a continuous Job at the court house doing
ury duty."-ClevelHnd I'laln leuler.
"Ladies." lie suld. "I am carrying In this
sample caso t!ie finest line that there Is on wrapped them up.
(the roud. You are all good looking und I At the Grand t'entr
il station tii man
race on record si "while as chalk, using
l.'ltto" for his wife:
Mure than one woman might have an
swered as truthfully as one did to the
question: "What Is your business, trade,
profession or occupation?" "Invalid."
Can't you see her, keeping the entire
household on the "qulvvy vlvvy" to wait
on her, while she tries first one "school"
and then another, no list of remedies
following another in quick succession?
And was the one who wrote, "Lady,"
to the same prectlcal inquiry more ar
ogant und dladulnful of labor, or sim
pering with "prunes and prlems?"
What of the womnn who answered;
"Single, married, widowed, or divorced?"
"Single, to my sorrow ! Would like to be
widowed, and soon." Ild she Joke or wss
she sincere? I'ncle sm may be on the
helping-hand side!
And the man who gave his age "A, his
wife's at IT arid his years of present mar
riage twenty-eight? Ills other answers wero
Intelligent enough; but he ought not to
ask us to believe that when k years old he
married a 18-year-old girl. Maybe It seemed
that long.
Was It Imagination ilia t dictated "Vic
toria Kugenle. Maria There, Leopold,
Kmanuel, George Washington, John Ad
ams. Thomiti Jefferson, Luclle and Topsy, '
as the ten children of John and Mary
?mllh? I almost thought so, for the man
seemed too young-as well as too cheerful,
and too prosperous to have It anything
more than a dream. But the details were
all there, with each name.
Dignity was In the reply ot the man who
wrote for wife and children, as to occu
pation: "None. I support my f amity" and
he was a street car conductor!
Pathos crept Into the 70-year-old man's
"Just widowed," as tragedy did In "Di
vorced, after thirty years' marriage, damn
him!" and a mother's tenderness was In
the explanation "Hick" after the "No" to
"Do you speak Englleh," for the little 6-year-old
whose older brothers and younger
sisters were all recorded "Tes."
Oh, Uncle Sam! Uncle 9am! The census
does not reveal It all! New York Times.
Konr Ash of I'hllosoph.
Age two: The baby The group plctuie.
Age ten: The kid the ifamilyt group pic
ture. Age tw nl -five: The lover the dupe pic
ture Aue se ent -five: The hent old man the
stoop plctiii o. .1 inlge.
JOKERS WORKED INTO LAWS
Shady Methods of hlftr Lawmakers
Isaally Discovered Too
Late.
A Joker In Its simplest form consists In
a word or a clause, which. Introduced into
proposed legislation, filches away' from
the public He power to establish auch
laws as It desires, either by emasculating
an enactment or by perverting the essence
and purpose of It. What follows Is no
abstruse political analysis of legislative
trickeries. Jt Is merely an attempt to select
from hundreds of Instances a few con
spicuous and comprehensible example
showing what a Joker Is, why It is, and
how It Is manipulated In Its various forma,
Sometimes. It Is one word, as where the
sain of a piece of public property to the
lowest bidder was once authorised. Borne
times It may Inhere In that elusive char
acter, the comma, aa In the case of the
tariff clause of an oM schedule, providing
for the free entry of fruit plants, where
somebody carelessly allowed a comma to
creep In between vfrult" and "plants,"
thereby admitting millions of oranges and
lemons Into the country duty free, and cost
ing the treasury hundreds ot thousands ol
dollars In loss of imports. Nobody ever
found out whether this was a printer's
slip, or a carefully devised scheme. Cer
tain It is that the framera of the schedule
never Intended It. Again, the entire body
of the proviso may constitute the Joker,
by purporting to carry one meaning when
It in reality carries quite another. Con
gress still preserves the tradition of tin
unasstmllated Irish representative from
Massachusetts who proposed that March
IT be made a legal holiday In celebration of
the "Boston Tea Party. " fUeveral New
Englander whose seal exceeded their erudi
tion warmly supported the measure, until
some one pointed out that March IT was
much more closely associated with the sup
posed birth of the proposer's patron saint
than with the destruction of the obnoxious
tea, which later, Indeed, was a mld-wlnter
festival. American Magaxlne.
4-
Wl aad Wisdom.
"BJornstJerne bjurnson, In his bote!
fronting the Tullerie Gardens, received a
ttwt friends up to the last In Jarls." said
the continental agent of a typewttur
firm.
"1. had the honor to be among those
fitenrls and I never wearied of the grtul
foreman's wit and wisdom.
"The last thing be said to me In cau
tioning me not to give an Important Pro
vencal agency to sn easy-going man of
the world, was tnis:
" 'Hnware the easy-going man. An easy
going limn, you know, is one who makes
the imtli of life very rough and difficult
for somebody else." New York Times,
CLOTHES WON'T DROWN YOU
Tips What to Do la ' Too
rail lato Water Fallr
Dressed.
Mr. Handley advises the swimmer who
falls overboard fully dressed to first turn
on the back and float, and while In that
position to remove the Coat and tha shoe
and then keep on floating. He points out
that a swimmer can float Indefinitely, but
muy easily tire of swimming, and, tiring,
may be seized with panic, which will drown
ins uesi or watermen, "in lloating," suys
Mr. Handley, "one can shout all one likes,
to attract the attention, and still retain
one s strength. And will not the chances
of rescue be decidedly better If one lies
comfortably awaiting developments, or pro
pelting one's self gently by an easy back
stroke, than after using up one's energies
In treading water or In making violent tt
forts to teach land by swimming ?
"Of course, thla advice. Is bird to follow
because It Is contrary to etery Instinct of
self-preservation to quietly twalt develop'
ments after an unespeeted and unwelcome
immersion, ftlll, training will accomplish
It. As, however, tt la Immposlble to train
the body In this case, and the mind 'must
be relied upon to offer the right suggestion
at the psychological moment one should
prepare by mentally rehuaralng what Is to
be dona In case ot a spill. Just picture to
yoursvlf the contingency of being thrown
unexpectedly Into the water and school
yourself to turn Immediately on your bock
In a floating position, at least until you
have had an opportunity to recover from
the shock and to slse up the situation.
Then you can decide comfortably on the
course to follow.
"lKn t let panic seise ou. It the fact
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as the best, but Sterling- Blue
Tubes have no equal. There are mechanical aswtuua chemical reasons
for this superiority, which is apparent to the naked eye. Somewhat
higher in price than most other tubes, but much cheaper per mile.
Dealers everywhere. Booklet. Sterling Rubber Works, Rutherford, N. J.
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