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Show UTILITY OF AUTO IS WIDELY HERALDED Motor Car Fills Definite Transportation Need, Says Salesmanager P. J. o 'Carroll. "That the automobile is filling an important transportation need is made at once apparent by a brief consideration considera-tion of actual statistics," savs P. J. O 'Carroll, salesmanager of the United Motor Car company. (' Estimates show that 40 per cent of America's automobiles automo-biles are owned and operated by farmers. farm-ers. The increase of motor car sales in the agricultural districts has been proportionately pro-portionately much greater than the increase in-crease in the metropolitan centers. "Physicians, salesmen and professional profes-sional men in every line of activity have found the automobile an indispensable indispen-sable part of their business equipment. "The annual passenger mileage qt the automobile in this country is greater than that of the entire street car and railroad systems of the United States. 4In Europe the transportation of supplies sup-plies of all kinds has been almost entirely en-tirely dependent upon motor vehicles, and now in our own country, under the extraordinary prosout-day demands placed upon our railroads, the motor truck is doing its share toward relieving reliev-ing congested shippinc. ' ' f . |