Show AUTOMOBILE BILE SHOW OPENS UP VISTA OF mm PROSPERITY Chalmers Chalmers' Second Questionnaire Question Question- Question Question- Questionnaire I I nair Elicits Ii its it's Most Most Optimistic Op Op- Replies DETROIT Mich March 2 The The IIa heavy artillery of or the l 1915 H automobile sh shows ws hn having smashed the opposition and entanglements of oC doubt and timid Ity Into atoms th the infantry columns of oC dealers have advanced on a front I three thousand miles mlles lonG lone and consoli consolidated I consoli-I dated f at the work of or the batteries of or optimism op- op I I I Now in natural sequence comes come the I I press covering co the great offensive I Just previous pre to the national and lo local local lo- lo I cal eal automobile shows the Chalmers Motor company sent sect sent questionnaire I blanks to automobile editors editors' In all sections sec sec- sections II of the country The r reports as to totra tra trade o con conditions were gratifying In e CI every instance but now no since the annual annual annual an an- nual automobile shows allows a second query I has brought news of or more Intensive motor Interest from every section of or orthe I the United States S. OPiNIO San Francisco Flancisco Chronicle I I. I. I J. J Pinkson Pinkson Pink Pink- son says sas The 1917 i motor show Rho was the finest in the thc history of or San FrancIsco Fran Fran- cisco But Rut the 1915 show sho just closed j In point of attendance and antI general g re results results re- re exceeds eds an anything ever er sta staged ed b by western motor dealers The rho only onh complaint complaint complaint com com- I plaint on the Pacific coast is the Is-the the dealers dealers deal dral- ers cant can't get sufficient freight cars The actual sales at this 1 years year's show established a remarkable precedent The amount of a advertising clone done bythe by b bythe the San an Francisco ran II o dealers shows tows their ther extreme confidence In San Fan Francisco where hank bank clearings wages wageR and business busi hUFI- ne ness s thermometers were fre never higher Dos Boston ton American American C. C. C I F. F says paI The PVC ere of oC the I au automobile show sho finds s New England read ready for Cor a solid conservative sen seD season son Ron War ar bl business iness has lias 3 added to the general prosperity and motor sales in Boston have c been gratifying all through h the tho winter But the recent national automobile auto auto- mobile shows shawl have dissipated the last tinge o of or buying reluctance The dealers dealers dealers deal deal- ers wat watch h the tho confidence or lack of confidence of the manufacturers and the motor buyers watch the dealers Hence tho the rousing demonstrations at New ew York and Chicago have 1 cleared the way wa for or triumphant activity It Nashville ash h A A. A V. W Hancock Hancock Han Han- co cock l says The solid South youth Is IM solid for forthe forthe the automobile Industry and Industry and the automobile au au- The number of oC c cars rs sold old In Inthe Inthe inthe the first two months of 1918 exceeds s sall all records s This years yea Nashville auto show was host to multitudes heretofore never r Interested In a motor car ar nn and never ne were wore the they In the class of or prospects prospects pros I But supply upp and demand has I put the cotton picker and the merchant and the laborer of the South on the i road to happy days ays I ml G. G. G Portland Journal Joe Journal Joe A k Jordan says S 'S Shipbuilding Is Oregon's first claim alm to unprecedented prosperity ty Good roads expenditures iture have ha added to the motor fever r of the great northwest northwest northwest north north- west and consequently the recent nu- nu au automobile automobile show in Portland reached the high water marl mark In the annals of or the local or dealers 1 The pres press present ent is IR all o i-o o lovely ly aye we are arc flattered O over Or r the thc outlook for or the future Houston Pre Press s Texas Texas- Texas Thomas Thomas Martin Martin Mar olar tin says sas More 1010 thou than 50 iO per cent o of the white population of or Texas are aro automobile automobile au au- Iu- Iu prospects and are financially able to buy bur a car ar without working working- an any har hardship on their families their business business busi busi- ness or themselves s Cotton corn cOIn wheat an and fruit have fattened the earnings s of er e every person in Texas that wants to work Kansas CIt City Post William Post William F Floto says Kan Kansas ns elt City The Heart of oC America finds It its farmer fanner with his crops har c harvested tee and sold and his money In the bank He lie Is making mone money wants to save sa time to make malte more mane money Consequently the th Missouri lIs former is buying motor cars ii In s of an any season In the history of Kansas City Cit dealers eF I |