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Show 1II01L AUTO IS BUiLTTO EKDURE Motor Cars Are Today Better Bet-ter Than Ever, According to Tourssen. In srHo of tho im-rear tn cost;? of materials ma-terials ari'1 labor, tlie automobile builders build-ers of tho rouiitry arc now delivering to i lie publio more for their money than cer before. Increased vaiue and utility have more than offset the price increases. i';tis of u day have lonper life than the irars of before the war period. An investigation at tlie same factories that have been prodm-int? oars for more than ion years revealed tome striUim; illu.-tra; ions. Kor example, tho National oar. which j.- one of the oldest and most reliable nuvkos on the market. In It'll the National sold for about $3300 dollars. In lOl 7 a National may be had for lss than SiHH'O. And the National of today. regardless of the hieh material prices, is a better rar than the National of yesterday, yester-day, -hioh cost almost double. "Reduction of manufacturing cost," said Manager A. Tourssen of the Kan-dall-Dodd Auto company, local distributors, distribu-tors, "has won against tho rising cost of material and labor only throiiErii the hi sr nest engineering skill and organ; bh -Tion, particularly where H is a distinct policy to maintain highest duality-, as iti case of th National. Quality is nov-pointed nov-pointed to because nf its vaHif as an investment. in-vestment. Probably ? per rent of all passenger cars ai-p applied, in one wav or a not her. at some time or other, to business purposes. Touring cars are used for scores of husinees purposes, many continuously, especially "by professional pro-fessional men and men In specialised business. "The maintenance of quality ha? r-cn the greatest probVm iti autornobil building. To maintain it as notably a has been done by the National i-? a t ri- umph in -engineering, of which that eompanv eom-panv is mighty proud. You can't find a i art In the Nat lonal but what is not far better and far cheaper than it waa several years ago." |