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Show SOLDIER BOYS IMPART ARMY LURE TO SHOW Friday afternoon brought out a large lielesatlor. of out-of-town motor fans. It is said by Manager Rishel that this year's show has been attended by more visitors from southern Idaho. Wyoming and Nevada Ne-vada than any previous exhibit. Utah has been well represented all the week at the pavilion. Salt Lake has furnished crowds, but the population of the state came streaming in at all hours, and in small and large delegations, that tell a story of attendance at the box -office that is most gratifying to the local men of aulodom, who see in the response to their efforts to pull the biggest show of the west a command to go in for greater things for next spring's display. Also they read in the keen interest manifested by the rural residents in the big show a healthy sale "of cars and trucks and tractors to the farms, this summer, the men who today are called upon to feed the lighting world, and must have motor power galore to speed up the work if they expect to fulfill the contract. A marked feature of the show yesterday yester-day was the number of service men who wear the uniform of Uncle Sam, who came to see the sights. By an edict of the management, issued before the show opened last Monday, all men of the automotive au-tomotive corps of the army were admitted admit-ted free. They would have come anyway, any-way, for men who enter the United States service are no pikers, but it was the intention of the show management that if the boys stationed at Fort Douglas Doug-las could be benefited in any way by the motor exhibit, that they should come and go as they pleased and that no one should ask them any questions. They were ex- pected to do the asking,' if any, themselves. them-selves. The natty khaki uniform mingling with the crowd lent a decided military aspect to the exhibition. It gave a meaning to the grand patriotic display of colors overhead. over-head. It inspired the Bonneville Park orchestra to play a number of patriotic selections. It served to remind the carefree care-free motor fans that, despite this big display of a mighty industry of a mighty land, the war is on and must be carried through to a successful conclusion and that the very motor they were inspecting and so much admiring has been instrumental instru-mental irr helping their loved country to do in a little over a year of intense effort ef-fort what other war nations accomplished in a long period of time. During the week the dealers have sold quite a number of cars. One dealer could have sold all the cars ' in his exhibit and gone out of business, so far as the show was concerned, but he chose to stay with the bunch. He took the man's order and will deliver later. Sales Are Recorded. It is not expected to sell very many cars at an auto show. The cars are there to be seen and to create an impression im-pression among buyers that will result eventually in safes. Another prime object ob-ject of an auto show is to bring together the different models, range them so close together that the spectators cannot fail to notice the difference that exists in chassis, body and general appearance. This does not mean that any car will suffer because of comparison. It does mean that the individual will select the type of car that best suits his fancy, his needs and his pocket book. The dealers know this and there is no rivalry. Each display is there on its merits. This show has brought out the best types of cars made in the country and adapted to the hills and vales, the rocky I and tortuous trails of the everlasting mountains. It has not been camouflaged in any respect, but has proved a barefaced bare-faced exposition of all the good will and comradeship that exists among a class of men who are engaged in the patriotic duty of making the country efficient, where once it was slow, plodding and hesitant. - More power to the auto and the auto dealer. |