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Show SUpESTIVE THOUGHT National Chamber Issues Terse and Timely Bulletin Bul-letin of Auto Facts. "UTILITY IS REVEALED Survey Discloses That Power-Driven Vehicles Have Become Necessities. The following extracts are from' a bulletin issued recently by the National Auto Chamber of Commerce to its members: ' ' The automobile fills a rep. transportation trans-portation need. It is estimated 10 per cent of tiie motor 'en rs in America are owned and used by farmers. There are three times as many automobiles in Iowa, Nebraska ami California in proportion pro-portion to population as in New York state, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania .or Illinois. Increase in car sales has been several ti inos larger in agricuttu ral states during recent years than in mau-u mau-u tart nring .states. ' ' Doctors, i raveling salesmen, highway high-way ot f icials, nuuiici pa! department heads, contractors ami builders, and men engaged in many other lines find the automobile indispensable in their work. Hy its use they save many valuable val-uable hours daily. ' ' Kf t iciency is increased bv use 6f lime and labor-saving 'machinery. The automobile is essentially time saving. To insure success in the war the farmer, farm-er, manufacturer, miner, contractor all are urged to increased efforts and production. The automobile used in business is an economy not an extravagance. extrav-agance. ' ' Wholesome recreation in the open ' fnr is a rent revivificr and . i n v igora-lor. igora-lor. It enables the hard-working busi-ness busi-ness man to continue intense effort without breaking down. The automobile automo-bile affords such recrestion. ' ' (.i reater passenger-mile service is rendered by the passenger automobiles in the United States than by the entire en-tire railroad or street railway system tf 'the country. The ;t.7UO,0UU' pas- eager cars, averaging SlUJU mi les a I year and three pen-ons each, give a iota! of tifty-five and one-half billion passenger miles. At a rate of ii cents 1 per mile, this is worth , 1 ,110,U00,UUU :i vi'nr - I 100,000,000 Wage Earners. ''Approximately one million wage earners are employed in tho motor-; vehicle i n d u s t r v. T he m a j o rity are siulled mechanics. The automobile factories fac-tories and their organizations of mechanics me-chanics are an invaluable asset to the nation in military activity. They can be used for production of airplane engines, en-gines, parts and complete machines,' ami for manufacture of ammunition. " Kfficient transportation is essential essen-tial to military activity. The armies in Knrope are almost entirely dependent depen-dent upon motor transport of supplies and ammunition, and on motor ambulances ambu-lances for removal of the wounded. 16iie American army will need thousands of passenger automobiles for officers and tens of thousands of motor trucks tor the quartermaster's department. "The national emergency requires that money shall be kept in active circulation, cir-culation, that labor shall be employed fully and that production of necessaries shall be greater than ever before. Men must make good wages, salaries and prof i-ts in order to subscribe for war bonds aud pay excess profits and con-sumution con-sumution taxes. Therefore, wise buying must go on. Motor Truck Facts. ' Increased output of farm, factoiv, mine and forest products demands greater transportation facilities. V ' ' Railroads are congested with freight as never before. Congestion is mainly at terminals. Trucks save manufacturer manu-facturer and merchant valuable time in in alt i n ir shinm en t ; in nniiiU -n-t Hi ; i 1 nn miles. "Retailers aud the public are called upon to reduce local delivery service ami release men for military and other work. Kach motor truck and delivery wagon does the work of three or more hoise-drawn vehicles, cutting down the cost and releasing two or more drivers and as many helpers. "By use of motor trucks fanners can haul to market while , keeping their horses working in the fields! Thev can make several trips with a truck' in a day to one with a team, or can haul two or three times as far. This brings into use good land formerly too far from market for profitable farming. ''One truck can do the work of five horses, on an average. This releases at least two drivers, and farm labor is very scarce and high-prietd. It also releases twenty-five acres of land for the production of human foods. The 3.10,000 motor trucks in use in the l'u i ted states release seven and one-half one-half million acres sufficient to support sup-port two and one-half million persons. ! "Averaging fifty miles a day with a: load of only two tons for half this dis-, tance, the o.'O.OOO trucks perform five ami one-quarter billion ton-miles service ser-vice yearly. At an average cost of 20 cents per ton-mile for haulage by road in city and country by horse-drawn jnd motor vehicle, this service is worth more than a billion dollars." |