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ANGI- Cl ). 1 » ' `. _ LN 5 ,_ . u __ __* _ _ . _ -I M :se-1: THE AUTUMUBILE INUUSTHY ANI] Ili "PASTOR RUSSEWS WEEK'-Y SERWN -"J.l].HU[IKEF[llfH’S PUHPUSE IS "TU [Nfl nun nlvlululu u ns uuuu .‘}I_l1'ffl9!‘.':.Y.?‘ “"“"‘°“ l -. null" ' .@.__~_c.-._-_..--.- ,From the Text, Whnsoeveyr Will do the Will of My Father' - I U the history of g nation is hui tug history of its great men, whnt. then, is the history of a nation‘s ‘progress but the story of its "mu dem miracles"'i‘ And these miracles themselves may 'almost be said to ex- tend from the ridiculous to the rin- icnlous, from the far-on realm of im- possibility in which they were horn to the realm of old age, when, super- neded and out oi date, mon consign the erstwhile objects-of their devon ion to the scraphojip or the museum, nnd wonder how they ever came to find useful such evident antlnufti-“..~:. when we- come. tllerefom, to invade the present powerful realm of thc au- tomobile, and, perhaps, to question the duration of its regime, we cannot but find interesting food for reflect- ion in the mechanical voices <.i_ the past as well as the futureyfor, hc it remembered. the horse car spoke with powerful voice long 'ncforc the ,-.uning of the oicctric cur silcnc<-.d it forever. Nor can wc forget that thc 1,1.,-ycle has not been img wifb _ns, nor that the alrfxilip is just beginning to -have its dny‘. Do these things then, spell the rise and fall of the automobile, or are modern enthusi- asts correct in saying that the "llorseless carriage" has come to stay? It has bocu with us- buf. ten years, in Qbare decade every branch of civiiizc society has felt its touch --has been silently and powerfully moulded by that magic har.-d. The automobile soon grew weary of its initial Place as the plnytbing of the rich. It longed for a higher place in the econcmy of the world, with the result t-hat it is' now the right hand of commerce. and is simplify-ing in no small way the hardships of the lnrmer's life. A need which man nev- er before realized has been iiilcd. it.s ndvnnt has brought pleasure, profit. and ease; it would seem that for many decades the automobile has come to stay. ‘ Twolve years .ago the automobile was a hufselcss carriage, with no springs to be called sucll, no pnuu- matic tires, and an odor which over. came the occupants of the vehicle- as well as hapless anll dismayed pedes- trians along tlhe roud. Ten yours ago 100 cars represented the annual ex- port of the American coutillent, and now the export ranches man~y tlhous- ands. And the horizon of its useful- ness in just dmynin-1. Fnrnlers of the west are just beginning to under stand the financial possibilities of being able to make a quick delivery of products, or sending some to town for sudden need. The market is illim- itablc aé’ r can bc made and of a. standard typo requiring no more sim-ple, more inexpensive to run special mechanical aptitude to handle. .lust a decade ago the automobile made its initial exhibition lnnv on the Amiericanl continent. in ivlie spring of 1900 it appeared as an aux- ,making for standardization. and the lnterchangeability of the various parts of the machine. This feature is more noticeable in the 1900 and 1910 cars thnn ever before. and means finally a higher grade of cars at a lower price. In the assembling depart- ~ment of the factory the utmost pre- cisinn is observed in casting, forging boring, grinding and threading to exact standards, so thata gear will operate as well in one set- as nn- other, and valves ami their stems and operating cam-shafts will fit in any one of 1,000 different engines of the same size and design. Tile best factories are adopting this ‘folicy uf accurately duplicating parts, and the cut-and-lit tactics of the past will soon be unknown. One other thing these automobile shows indicate. The day of the low- price car costing less than $1,000 has come to stay. In the large ex- hibitions cars of from $500 to $050 take up a goodly space, and those of from $800 to $|,000 take up consider- ably more. What has been true of all other great inventions is rapidly becoming true of the auto|r.I;>bile. As its price descends to mn.ke possession possible for ull clauses another “mud- crn miracle is wrought---and lo! the nil-ship claims tbn attention of those to whomlthc automobile can no longer be an exclusive toy. The story of the development of the autonlobiloin (‘nnudn in but a repetition of the experience of the llnitcd States writ small upon the pugc. The Americans, with their wealth of resources and ready capi- tal, were quick to scizc upon the Eu- ropean idea, to experiment with it, und finally to make from it a truly American type of machine suited to American conditions ami especially to American roads. The American Motor Car Manufac- turersf Association has just finished an analysis of the American automo- bile industry \\'hicl\ may be given berc as nn interesting basisrof com- parison with the trade ill (‘-anada, It shows that it has grown from two million dollars in 1898 to one hund- red and thirty millions in 1908.' The nssocintion estimates that there arc now nbout 100,000 automobiles in the lfnitcd States, or just about twice as many as there are in liurope. Sixty- nine thousand automobiles are regis- tered in New York State nlone. Tllerc are now 2,."\000 agents, to say noth- ing of Innidreds of sub-agents. 'l`be recent panic sliowrd little falling off in the automobile lulsfllcss, and, con- stantly gro-wing advertising capacity business. No business has ever --bade- so phenomenal a d.cveiopment. It is said that few people have been able to secure any of the three or four rbnlber, so heavy has been the de- mand. Thc same condition prevails with other makes. ' iliary to the last bicycle show held in Madison Squa e Garden. New \'l“`l‘. city. In--the-tall-of that ye»_n'. how-, ever, it held a real show of its oWn‘.1 and has annually been inereaslns _thc gone and iinportancc of tllat function ever since. In the iight of the extcn-, sive displays of the present day- UNH first exhibition rather occasions a‘ smile. There were not enough civhi-y 'hits tn |111 the floor space of the (.ar- den, although many motor Cl/0C' tators was of itself not devoid of l\\_l- nlor;‘to-day an automobile display is visited because it affords many Sllrllls calling forth unstintod praise. Hut the first audience in Madison l-lquare Garden assembled from a 1-‘cnsc of cu- riosity and scepticism, and they went away in many cases still feeling that some gigantic fraud had been l>0\`_D0- trated _upon them. Most attention was beugowad by the spectatcrs upon the loan exhibits of imported ours. owned by members of the then now automobile club, as much because of their considerably mugs rfrllillllffllffll uppeuruucq as for the torles told of their speed. F'or tllune, 'ne lt remem- bered, were the romantic days of thc automobile industry, tba HHYS Ui "red devils" and the "whine ghosts and other sugg'estlv€li‘ l\l\\“°‘l °"‘”~ Primitive man has often based a ro- liglon on what he could not under- stand. He has invoke-.i the alll <_'- lll" supernatural to charm away me _lf-f’ noran-ce. The' early attitude of ewl- llzaillon toward the automobile w_fu-I much the sumo. for nw" HRW 1" 1”* swiftly-gliding wheels and its sll0nt, tireless energy much of the mysteri- ous and the supernatural. The event nl the exhibition was the frequent hauling of the new cars ullfm th" beard track, where they were lmclwll. and tarhed, and`brakv.~d, to llvfslladc a doubtful public that these new' "horseless" carriages could R0 0* their own powur. Hut the spirit of the recent sbowi ls altogether changed. Not the leant of its value ls the advantage lf 5“’°"‘ uni public of becoming nc-I\\elnf°<‘ with the cnrsi, the .manulacturers.0“fl ln many cases with the automlobillsts themselves. ' The most lnI0\”°B“l"'” fm' tures of ‘these shows arethe r-\'l‘l°“°°»“ on every side of refinelneuf Ul "“‘“"‘ on-in actin, and or n patent °“°‘* made by the manufacturers to put -the very best, material into their Quite contrary to the prevalent idea that thc best cal'-s are made in Europe is the fact _that in 1007 $5,- 75li.972 worth of automobiles were ex ported and only $3,157,168 imported. in The one who is interested in watch lm! the Progress of advertising and trade-winnin-g, no more interesting spectacle exists than uihe advertising campaign now b'cing waged by`scoi-95 of progl'cssivc manufacturers to- sell more automobiles. l‘articulnrly in teresiiug is the effort to sell more automobiles to farmers, and to make cars tllnt will appeal to those of medilnn income. “It is safe to say," says Mr.Page. of tbc (`l1almcrs-Detroit (‘-ompnny “that there will be built in the Uni- ted _States this year two hundred thousand cars. . Even the low aver- age of $1,500 for each cal* would mean an output valued at $300,00|)_. 000 for thc United States. (‘-leveland alone will 'build more than thirty million dollars’ worth of nntmnoiii lf.‘.~l." The tremendous demand for autos is shown by the fact that 1,402 cars ivnrc ordered from one new concern's recent advertising in ten days. When we turn to tba industry in ("nnndn we are forced to admit that we are nbont ten years behind the people of the United States. Their estfnmted output of cars in 1808 was ` valued nt about $2,000,000, and if we estimate the value of cars sold in l‘nundn during the year just passed we find that $4,000,000 is n very fair figure. This nlcans that about. 2,- ."-00 enrs were sold in the Dominion during thc year, but upon examiua-‘ fion it is found that a number of these were imported outright from the i.'nif.cd States; and that by far the greater section of the remainder were made up of parts imported from that country and assembled by Pana- dinn nIunufnctul'el's. ' It is c:~ltil1r.'1teLl that 4,000 cars will be sold in Cana- da in 1010, a fact which implies n still greater importation of parts from the [inited States, for nt the present time thc only ' firm which makes the heres- sary paris and assembles its cars in (‘-anada is the Canada Cycle nnd Mo- tor (‘ompany of Torontll. A survey of the Canadian industry goes to show that many of the pros- cnt so-called Canadian firms arc but offshoots of parent American firms, fund that the essentially (‘.nna.dian roiwr-In is almost non-existent. It was in the year 1898 that the auto- CBFS. ‘ Another thing shown ls that the mobile made its first aDP0'BI`H"¢e 0'!! -1;-his continent. The first auto- muh ug u cn °u_1-_he American con-|moi>llc parade took place in that uncut le constantly Improving- Th” industry has begun to cattle dow" “l‘ ter the various phases of lmimoder- ate devclopmbnt consul!-16"* “l’°“ ln' fancy in ' years and _ Kl““‘ ‘year on Fifth Avenue, New York 'city-_ slimy specimens of this unique mechanism began to find their wa -gurus, gnc Canadian border from tha ltlmc, and to fill the minds of tb-c 1 it-rl - ‘I | ni no. wwf. eurlnn-ny 2-thr,\:°¢"'_° in gapnnimpdgdeefnolit l§;)1Eidldlsmd1yl.u lllllechanlcal genuses swell , , has b ulldltlkably shown in the ould occps_l0nP~llY'°'-tal" °°“l “Y” steadymdleclfelle in the number of llfrliivy launching s home-mails °°\\°¢l'Yl ported ` Pnrhnslliiic mon -niu-lnnl lmprn ...imc ‘hnrfwlm °9'I‘_°- ""‘° , va- - , __ ygv.. , ment hu resulted from c new l"’ll“Y ' "‘£|Eil"on`1’a¢e Three.) sell preached twice here today. I-lia discourse on "Inferno" was delivered in Brooklyn‘s largest: Auditorium. the Academy of Music, which was- ov- ercrowded. It was estimated in ad- vance that this subject. would draw gt larger crowd than the Tabernacle would accommodate. The other meet- ings of the ll-ay were held in tho Tab- ernacle. Wc report i’a.stor Hussell's discourse from the text forngoing, as follows 1- _ It is difficult to please everybody. The duty of a Christian minister is to sack chiefly to please the Lund. “l._Dt the words of my montll an-d t-he _nledltattons of my heart, bc accept- Iahle in Thy sight, 0 Lord, my stren- _gth and my Redeemer” (Psalm xix, 14). Uur ministerial friends seem to be annoyed because wc preach the "doef.rine's" of Christ. In substance, their sentiment is: Brother Russell, Do you not know Ullat in the fashion-i able topics of ollr day doctrines are tabooed by hh-e great ministers of all- denominations? Instead, as you per- ceive from the newspaper announce- m-ents, it is now quite the thing t/U dismiss political, scientific and soci- ogical doctrines. You should give the public lectures on subjects like these: Social Democracy; Rapid Transit in Brcololyn, from the text, “Many shall run to and frn;" Female Buff- ragc; 'l‘hc Boy’s Brigade; The Best Novel of the Year;-'1‘hc Narrow W-ay of the Bicycle Rider; Will the Comet Sweep the Earth With its Tail; Can Football Survive, etc.; or occasion- ally, for effect, gently rake the rich on better housing for the poor, or he- labor *l-he Trusts for soaring prices of foul. Such topics as these Broth- BY Elllllli UP FUHTUNE rovalrrv or 'rl-I ' Which is in Heaven _Shall Know.of My Doctrine. Ye.Dc gnu.. ...fm Make Void the Law of God Through Your Tradi-' ..i......,... '.‘I.“°..§‘.i1"f.f..§".f;... ....... ' 000 000 paupcrs tions -the Traditions of the Ancients.-John vii, §}333f338 J.Y.‘.’.§.“...°l.‘.’ .l’.-?.'.f, "“‘°' M’ k ... 13. I P t. I ¢ ` 1(~,l‘.JZ)li|)0(,)0.l‘1)0Wtril;ill‘lir'en at work. dr 9 e lf ` 1,000,000 injilredeoI(?tlrill::\iiHe€rl;l(;'s§?ear ------~-~---- - l, dia of social Return-,~ nuunng anuf creeds of the past are seen to bc fal laeious, irrational, by all wpo use their thinking apparatus. Til lead- _ers in the varic-us Churches discover- ed this in advance of their flocks. They promptly and rcvercntly set thair creeds on a high shelf where the people might not so particularly nc|tice~ their flaws, Hui) might con- -tinue their reverence for them, until gradually their aebention would be gradual-ly their attention would be drawn aside and their hope and faith transplantcd,to Evolutionary soil or Thcosophistic and Spirltuallstic child’s play. With fthe decline of Christian doo trincs. including heart union _with Christ and an understanding of its terms and conditions, Churchianity 'came in, to take the place of Christi- anity. Today the pride of all -delnomr inatfons centers, not in their doc- trines, bub in their institutions. The people are no longer exhorted to hold fast to the doctrines of Methodism, Calvinism-, etc., but to hold fast io the system. They are no longer ein- eouragod to think of their system: as being the only one, outside of which there wouldbe no salvation, but they are encouraged ilo cultivate a_ parti- san spirit, which takes pride in their organization, its wealth, the value of its chucch propertly, the largeness of its collections, the grandeur of its music, the wisdom, learning and ability of its preachers, and the fas- hion and wealth of its constituency. It is not our wish to offer a single unkind or un-'urotherly crtitlcism. It is our duty and privilege, however, to pointout that thc creed doctrines of the various denominations, now set on the shelf as too frail -and imper- er Russell, interest the Christian public in our day. And the public; constitlute our principal congregationrf when we lift our largest. collections. The only pclhilc who will be i1nterest-- ed in the doctrines you are preaching- are the old fogy, out-of-date folk,§ has been n marked feature of the ni ' on will find the a' rit f` . . la ‘ Y m 1° Y 0 *are grand noble, reasonable, worthy ` ' s*wm'lri’e riches. Fu: ‘_"""" ' "` ' _.. 'T th t l>ify’S Saks Swv *whips the 110°- liveaifextgzml doin; nu; trines of Christ! Doctrines were good 'bringing buck straying ghrisgiuus - . . .1 e"0“gh i" the day-5 °f ‘TENS and Paul 'from the dece'ptivc bogs of Evolution l0Ri£ sos'hi'l`1li-I"lgl1g(‘i‘;d0{i1al;iv£: Blfucflve WOTK. and bf! d‘5n° with 91°* selves; havi-ng itching earn they- shall has come -to us and by which -re have only put into our posséssion wonde _ ories. turn away their cars frum the Truth nobler conceptions than had .mr frre- ful Bibles and wonderml bel fr "While nothing has been determlln- and shall be turned into fables" (II fatihers of the rights of man under Blblemwdy' but has~a1u0 gigs” gr ed l`€k:BI‘