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Show Raoine. The city 's excellent showing in the drive indicates a decree of pros-yeritv pros-yeritv in these lines which many people peo-ple did not believe existed. As a matter mat-ter of fact, the automobile business is in a healthier condition than ever, with sales booming and plants working to capacity. The Mitchell Motors com pany, Inc., reports that it is employing more hands than ever before, with night shifts helping to speed tip production pro-duction to meet the demand. Tins condition con-dition is general throughout the industry, indus-try, and they are proud to show this record of how they are sharing their prosperity in helping to carry the load. . I MITCHELL MAKERS GO 'OVER THE TOP' Wins Gold Medal From Government by Doubling Its Liberty Loan Quota. That the automobile industry is Rquarely behind Uncle Sam, not only to making munitions and supplies tor j his bovs "over there," but also in, helping to pav the bills, is indicated I by the fact that Racine, Wis., the home j of the Mitchell Motors company, Inc., makers of Mitchell Sixes, has won the gold star bv Roinc over the top with rnoro than double its quota in about half the time allotted for the third Libertv loan drive, according to Manager Man-ager A. Y. Olson of the Utah-Idaho Motor Mo-tor company, local distributors of MHchell cars. In no other industry, perhaps, is j loyalty to our country so clearly shown as in the automobile field. In the mammoth mam-moth Mitchell plant, for instance, the thousands of workmen employed bought I bonds, to a man. Incomplete, returns j from this plant indicate that its sub-I sub-I scriptions alone will pass the $lon,fi00 mark, which is far ahead of its record rec-ord in previous loans. Other car and accessory plants in Racine report similar conditions, and the local Liberty loan committee does I not hesitate to say that the automobile I interests of Racine are doing their 1 share and more than their share in I putting over this drive in the biggest j possible way. The manufacture of automohiles and j automobile supplies and accessories! I forms a large part of the business of |