Show r l leware ware of Croaker Is Advice of Tire Man Manof ff J- J U ts d Motor iet of Car Sa Saturation ut Point Theca Theory Advanced y Skeptics 4 CS Pr Proclaims cI s 1920 1920 Greatest Y Year T car for forI 1 I Optimism in in Auto AnnaLs Annals's that there is deal dea of sound philosophy h i ahrns ahrn's s 's seemed to o me a good n jn Benjamin min n I Franklins Franklin's b state statement ent that we i should beware of croakers ado cc is as sound today as it was a n hundred t d years ears ago All AU industry y confronted with nth menacing conditions during n the months and years year been in st t but I am optimistic enough enogh to ID believe that every err major develop develop- ih in civic cho reforms and in our economic international gro growth 11 our re niu- niu to s n w will lead us to bI bigger ge and m. m b better things for the f future lh re Every of P us should be lic an optimist there is IS' IS no room for pessimism is the theof oE on on of ll W T 9 n c vice president t of the B. B F. F Goodrich Rub Hub f referring to o one of oC n my t y charts I II It In 1 1905 hero thero wore l OOOO I that ce t Mobiles In the count country h he e says een later wo have o passe passed years mark Now No I hear bear much the saturation point and amI that when wo vo shall J definite period returns Automobiles diminishing d consumption class of oC the c jn n the used Worn orn I. I e. e they are ae and 1 d replaced as an essential part hi Ift ife just as clothing Is Is- IsI I forecast Co able to absorb not notT t we e shall be t T Iho tho ho present automobile sustain the tho but t wo 0 shall even which ambitious man- man ter ter growth are arc meditating Production Problem It Is 13 a problem of production t from Crom the management Uie e worker at th the bench should do arc toward keeping an un Inter Inter- td ed d flow Clow pf QC raw materials and fin fin- goods goods go going nS' nS through h the mills Chouses louses and stores of oC this country co eren man mart has a right to share sharo be Je fr fruits thereof there In no other line lino are tho the relations between tai tJi and labor on friendlier or orEder orI Eder der footing fooling than in the automo- automo I hence there should bo be no noso so 50 for apprehension n. n o far as M passenger vehicles aro are rued we are aro now now at tho the crest of oC yin Tin market Production does not l 1 demand and personally I expect condition to exist for somo some time c core I recall being told at one lt Ith he Xe New York shows wa way back In that the tho then annual production cars marl marked ell the peak t I l' l manufacture and that f number of ot cars to be made an- an r would lessen rather than Inas In- In as that of ot gloom was waa fe ring from Cram brainstorm so 60 will I classify those thoo who today are aro re- re fin to ng-to to advance With tho times Tho The ed 1 car production for 1920 Is s I OO cars An Aa analysis of ot th the tb mart mar- mar ft t home and abroad shows an anI I ty to absorb oven even greater Creater hence the possibility of oC a n. short- short Lct Ef I cars Is Imminent Rural Ili rte pe l e average l reader ma may sa say Well j IP growth th of oC tho the automobile Indus Indus- Is' Is nil all niler very er nice but hut wherein docs does me me Anything relating to third largest Industry In tho coun- coun everyone e Thus Thu within the tho tit t ten to years our cities have underlie under under- I lie e a a. wonderful transformation A W 0 ago aso Chicago boasted that it poorly f miles from Crom one silo side Qt of the thc theto to the other We Wo marveled But Buty y a having a population of oC only or Cr three hundred thousand spread d I m selves over oyer as ns large an 11 area I In n ti some of our states the tho country countr to o D longer rural It Is interurban k It what t this means for tor health and andu we ctt u a again ain think what It means for tor estate values A certain author- author that for tor every ery million millions s I worth orth of or automobiles produced rals ro Is produced another million dol- dol ol- ol of or property values j o tW consider how Important it is should havo ha a network of days ya i In lu every community for forand tit ht and pa passenger traffic Some Some- l 9 8 said Mid that highways are arc the thc BiSi sure Jre of oC f cl civilization n I believe o this So In the tho Prill t final summary y r is IS' that tho the number of oC cars s produced during tho the years cars to come come com does not rest with a group of oC manufacturers in the central west but lies rather In tho hands of oC th the general public Authorize tho the building of or suitable suitable suitable suit suit- able h highways Shwas and tho the manufacturers Will motorize them greatly to the tho advantage ad ad- vantage o of oC the community and the tho InI in In- In ual I |