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Show 2,500.000 AUTOS IN THIS COUNTRY Production for 1916 Is Far in Excess of One Million Mil-lion Cars. DEMAND CONTINUES States Like Iowa Have Motor Car for Every Sixteen Inhabitants. With 2,500,000 cars now registered and running in this country, there is still a market for ,00U,0G0 cars a year until 5,000,000 cars arc in uso, according to Alfred Kecves, general manager of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. 4 'The motor car demands of the rest of the world, as well as the increasing needs for the transportation of passengers passen-gers and freight in the United States, will liavo to le supplied by this coun-trv, coun-trv, " says Kecvos. "States like Iowa now have a car for every sixteen persons, per-sons, yet it is shown that other states, 0 like some in the south, have only oue car for every 215 persons. ' 'In view of the fact that government govern-ment figures showed 1,000,000 horse-drawn horse-drawn vehicles in use in 1010, and that there aro 5.0U0.000 farms in this country, coun-try, one-half of them without a mortgage, mort-gage, and the increasing demand for motor trucks, J see no reason why, with tho increasing service supplied by mo' tor cars, this country cannot ultimately make use of at least 5,000,000 power-driven power-driven vehicles of various types. ''While pessimists have been preaching preach-ing from year to year that the automobile auto-mobile business must come to an end, progressive men who appreciated the I need of the motor car because of the service it supplied have been developing the tar and increasing its sale until now we have 2,500,000 registered in the United Unit-ed States, with a scheduled production for HMti far in excess of 1,000,000 automobiles. auto-mobiles. "Such an industry cannot but offer! opportunities for young men, although, ; because of the keen competition, the i opportunities are only for those, men who aro prepared to work loyally and ; enthusiastically and who are willing to1 train themselves for a particular field. "The automobile business offers not alone an opportunity to do things worth while. "Whether for good or for evil, : the coming ago will find this a great industrial nation, and our voung men must be trained for their places in its i great progress." |