"No one questions the use of the auto for transporting groceries, getting to one’s place of work or to the golf course, or in place of the porch for "cooling off after supper" on a hot summer evening; however much the activities concerned with getting a living may be altered by t the fact that a factory can draw from workmen within a radius of forty-five miles…these things are hardly major issues. But when auto riding tends to replace the traditional call in the evening parlor as a way of approach between the unmarried, "the home is endangered," and all-day Sunday motor trips are a "threat against the church"; it is in the activities concerned with the home and religion that the automobile occasions the greatest emotional conflicts…"
Robert S. and Helen Merrell Lynd, The Automobile and Family Life (1929)

1. What concern(s) did many people have about the increased use of the automobile?
2. What was the automobile challenging?