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Show motor cars, and this new equipment, even if it were obtainable, which it is not, would cost the railways over $1,-000,000,000. $1,-000,000,000. It is a fortunate thing for all of us, that the country is not likely to be reduced re-duced to a motorless condition. Incidentally, Inci-dentally, it is important that we should not fall behind in our production rate, for by just as much as wo fail to maintain main-tain by replacement of scrapped vehicles, vehi-cles, our present registration, so does our general efficiency fulter. IF THE AUTOS WERE TO PJUII National Efficiency Would Suffer Irreparable Shock, Says Noted Writer. How often ono hears the question afked: "What would we do if wo diiin 't have automobiles 1 " How seldom sel-dom do we stop to ponder exactly what such a condition would mean. In tho Mny issue of HoToB, the national magazine mag-azine of motoi'np, Samuel A. Miles, riausgei of tho national automobile shorn: of tho National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, answers the question at length aud in detail, by telling tell-ing us exactly what we would do if we were suddenly ckpnved of on: motor vehicles. In the first place, he points out that the efficiency of the modern farmer would be so tar reduced, if he were to lose his passenger automobile, that he could not hope to meet the demands that are being made upon him to feed not only our own country but half the world beside. He goes on to point ont the effect that the disappearance of tbe motor vehicle would have upon tho value of real estate, rural and suburban. Next Mr. Miles shows us what the loss of passenger automobiles wodM mean to our cities. If tie carrying of urban passengers that is now done by automobile wero suddenly dumped upon the existing street railways, they- would not be able to handle the traffic without with-out enormous additions to their rolling stock, which it woold bo almost impossible impos-sible to obtain at the present time. If we include motor trucks in our reckoning, reckon-ing, the traffic condition of the cities would be critical, immediately. Mr. Miles proceeds to consider what would happen to the railways if the motor car were suddenly withdrawn. He shews that if the passenger miles carried by automobile were thrown over upon tho railways, tbey would be utterly utter-ly unable to i-tand the strain. It would require 60,000 new passenger coaches and nearly 15,000 new locomotives to handle the traffic annually carried in |