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ciable extent even then millions of dollars must be expended in 

 machinery, thousands of operators must be taught and generations 

 must go and come. The only advantage Oriental countries have over 

 us now is the advantage accorded them by the United States laws that 

 make the dollar they earn worth only half as much as the dollar that 

 our operators earn, while their dollar will buy more and with it they 

 can live better, have more work, and lay eside more money than we 

 can do with our dollar. 



'TIS STRANGE. 

 Tis strange how fashion makes us change 



the objects we admire; 

 We used to sing the tireless steed but now 



the steedless tire. 

 So Otto bought an auto, so as not to be 



antique 



But the thing was autocratic, 

 As well as automatic. 

 And the auto wouldn't auto as it 

 ought to. so to speak. 



He thought to get an auto- operator for the 



work, 

 And first he tried a circus man, and then 



he tried a Turk. 

 For he knew a circus man drove fifty 



horses with success. 

 And if a man be shifty 

 Enough to manage fifty, 

 It's palpable enough he ought to be able 

 to manage one horse-less 



As for the Turk, 'tis also plain, deny it if 



you can, 

 He ought to run an auto since a Turk's an 



Otto man. 



'Twas all no use. so Otto moved to Ala- 

 bama, purely 

 That he might say: 'Tra Otto from 



Mobile and my motto: 

 'A Mobile Otto -run an auto-mobile, 

 surely. ' ' 



Then Otto sought to auto on the auto as 



he ought to, 

 But the auto sought to auto as Otto never 



thought to, 

 So Otto, he got hot, oh very hot; as he 



ought not to, 

 And Otto said. "This auto ought to auto. 



and its got to." 

 And Otto fought the auto and the auto it 



fought Otto, 

 Till the auto also got too hot to auto as it 



ought to. 

 And then, great Scott, the auto shot to 



heaven so did Otto 

 Where Otto's auto autos now as Otto's 



auto ought to. 



t'. V: Cook in Kmart Se*. 



