Automobiles will carry our streets clear out to the county line.

Oh, I hope you're wrong. Because if people go to moving that far, real estate values here in the old residence part of town will be stretched pretty thin.

So your devilish machines are gonna ruin all your old friends, eh Gene? Do you really think they're gonna change the face of the land?

They're already doing it, Major. It can't be stopped. Automobiles...

Automobiles are a useless nuisance.

What did you say George?

I said, 'Automobiles are a useless nuisance.' Never amount to anything but a nuisance. They had no business to be invented.

Of course you forget Mr. Morgan makes them. Also did his share in inventing them. If you weren't so thoughtless, he might think you're rather offensive.

I'm not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization. It may be that they won't add to the beauty of the world or the life of men's souls. I'm not sure. But automobiles have come. And almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They're going to alter war and they're going to alter peace. And I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles. And it may be that George is right. It may be that in ten or twenty years from now, if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine but would have to agree with George: that automobiles had no business to be invented.