Another record smashed—an automobile driven from Los Angeles to New York, a distance of 3,960 miles, without the engine stopping or the wheels being permitted to quit turning. First we had the coast-to-coast, non-stop airplane flight, then the cost-to-coast, dawn-to-darkness flight, and now the coast-to-coast, non-stop auto run has been accomplished It least the thinking citizens of Polk County to wonder what will come next in the way of modern miracles, and to ask if the old world isn’t moving a little faster than it is safe for one generation to go. We’ve crossed the continent now in about every way imaginable, and yet this is such a restless age that we need not be surprised any day to hear of other and aar more daring stunts than have yet been attempted. If the next generation works out as many miraculous things as this one has, what’s this old world going to resemble about a hundred years from now?
From the editorial page of The Polk County News, Tryon, N.C., Aug. 6, 1925, H.A. Shannon, Editor
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