Show TAX liiA WILL WILL I INOt 1 NOT NOt SLOW PI USE 1 I Both Passenger Autos and Trucks Vital to Victor Victory Says Expert It Il Is 13 not likely that tho tax Imposed Im- Im Im Imposed I posed on motor cars and trucks by bythe b bythe the new revenue bill will restrict their I use In n the opinion of a n San Francisco expert Considered In relation to tho the amount of ot the Investment and the tho tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- economic value of at the tho ve vehicles ye- ye hides the Additional cost Is small maJl It Itis Itla is la so 80 small in fact tact that there would be little logic in letting It Influence sales where business advantages ad decide de decIde de- de cide It Is obvious ob to anyone anone acquaint acquaint- acquainted I ed cd with conditions that hat the production of at passenger cars will automatically r I limit purchases to those thORO who cannot or orwill orwill I will not do without them The cent 2 tax on gasoline will wUl re receive receive re- re I a but passing notice Fuel prices with Hh the added 2 cents still will bo lower than they were several years ago In Tn many sections motorists have paid 28 and 35 15 cents a gallon for gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- 1 1 line without protest In Business III I Spread out over o a period of months or weeks tho the additions to the cost ol of motor vehicle operation dwindle Into insignificance If Ie the tho value alue of or motorIzed motor motor- transportation and delivery dell were to ho bo based upon such a weak premise I then the method Is fundamentally I wrong It Is la fare rare to find the traffic manager er or the business executive who has tried motors who ho will wUl admit there thero I Is an any question of ot their value What light and du duty y trucks have ha done clone for fa tho the farmer f In the matter of ot suburban freighting and even In ht interurban Interurban Interurban In- In haulage c Is so definitely es established established es- es that It Is not debatable Because the passenger car appeals to the man on tho the street as a vehicle of or pleasure rather than one of or utilIty utility util util- ity it is not so clearly as a Investigating Investigation business necessity Yet every ery gating gation broad enough h to determine the status of ot motor cars reveals the tacta fact tact fact a astonishing as it may seem to the misinformed mis mis- informed that informed that ns as high as 90 per cent of priced medium-priced machines aro used for Cor business purposes I No for A Alarm hum 1 This is a l time when the demand Is I I for speeding Industry when the burdens burdens bur bur- dens Imposed ed upon business generally general possibility of ot restrictIng restricting restricting restrict restrict- disposes of at an any ing the use of or the vcr very article which has done llone at least as much to multiply multiply multi multi- pi ply tho the usefulness of r tho the individual and the Institution In business as an any agency I Looking at it from of ot otI the healthful recreation provided b by bythe bythe I Ithe I the automobile there Is nothing to be beI alarmed at In th the action of or the tho framers framers fram- fram I ers era of tho revenue re bill To date atc the I prices rices of or the several se grades of ot motor motorcars I scars cars comp compare re VCr very favorably with I those that obtained before beCore tho war was I r declared Price advances were slow to come Clothes food shoes rents en entertainment en- en Jewelry went up In far greater realer proportion than automobiles Vital to io War nr Success I. I It Is wholly holly illogical to assume that the tho government has an any intention of ot taxing the motor vehicle out of at use It bears too vital a relation to the success of the war for ono one thing Its Itsu u use e for another Is so nece necessary In n the larger sense that wide curtailment of or orIts Its use would work a positive detriment detri detri- ment To 10 study the progress of or motor car sales is to reveal ie the Interesting fact tHat despite its Us wide uso use in metropolitan tan districts It finds Its great use In Inthe Inthe inthe the rural lural fields Not less than 53 per percent percent percent cent of ot the total number of or automobiles automo automo- biles In operation are arc owned outside of ot the centers of ot population It is trul truly of necessity vehicle a l. l vehicle a of progress an educational factor a creator of ot contented farm tarm dwellers among the youth of or the countr country Builders Make Munitions Without the magnificent response of the tle automobile Industries es where would we be bo In tho the production of munitions munitions munitions mu mu- It is tho the automobile factories that aro turning out tho the bulk of or the work vork and the leaders of ot the Industry testify to the fact that it would be Impossible Im in- possible for them to meet tho the demands of the war directors director were it not for forthe forthe forthe the fact that they are able to keep their together by taking care of oC commercial work tho the while they are waiting for tar more moro war orders It Is childish to assume that the tho men c charged with providing pro these fighting factors arc are not Intimately acquainted with tho the situation There may be a u temporary resist resistance ance anco to sales not found before the tho tax was wa written into tho the bill bm but It can be anI only temporary for motor cars cara and trucks are aro too vital Ital factors factor In III almost every phase of or business and social life to be restricted |