Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-04 | Page 25 | [Illegible] Subsidizes Motor Car Owners

UPAN SUBSIDIZES f MOTOR CAR OWNERS ?ers All Auto Purchasers $3(70 Bonus and $150 Yearly Towards Maintenance. Japan has offered everv purohaser of automobile or truck "in the empire iJO toward the purchase price and !50 yearly to help pay for the niaiu-ponance niaiu-ponance of the vehicle in exchange for je privilege of speedily commandeer-Jig commandeer-Jig motors when tho occasion demands, f This subsidy is intended by tho im-jenal im-jenal government not only for the '(jiick requisitioning of cars but also ,o promote their use and to eventually ijicourage their manufacture within the Inpire. Horses are scarce iu Nippon, T'i most of the trucking is by men 'Ho pull two-wheeled carts most of where near her own consumption of motor vehicles and accessories. But three concerns in Japan are now building automobiles. One of these has made about a half a dozen cars aud another an-other is assembling from parts imported from America. Two large Japanese tipbuildiug companies are erecting automobile au-tomobile factories. W1 iorjger iramc on tne streets ana -ij's is by means of iinrikishas. ior is in strong demand, and a more icueral use of motor vehicles would re-fase re-fase thousands of men for work in fac-ries. fac-ries. ,lajan's action should add impetus to export of American-made cars and v es. It will be several years before 'equation will be able to produce any-