Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-09 | Page 33 | Red Man Discusses Metal Situation

10 H DISCUSSES leilSITITIGl Grady Tells of Complications Complica-tions That May Arise in This Direction. Not Flaunting Patriotism; Still Unable to Build Enough Cars. "Oiir sales' manager tells m that a lot of people are waiting for automobile automo-bile nrices to come down before placing plac-ing their orders," said E. M. Grady, manager of the' Grady Motor Car company, com-pany, "and if that is true, it is a good thing from our standpoint It relieves a condition that would otherwise be critical If a lot of people were not willing to wait for some reason or other we would be at our wits' end to handle the situation, because, while wo of the Reo .Motor Car company have long been accustomed to a chronic overdemand for our product, I have never known a time when the demand was so greatly in excess of the possible output as right now. "Why, in former years, we have always al-ways counted on a letup in buying during dur-ing November, December and January to enable us to get a few thousand ears ahead of the sales department against the big spring demand. But this year orders have kept always hopelessly in advance of output, so that we nave now no reserve at all and tho time has already passed when we hope to accumulate accu-mulate one. Of course, like everything else, we can put the blame on the war, and in this case the war really is guilty. "While we have not considered it truly patriotic to flaunt our patriotism by boasting to the public of our war activities, nevertheless during the past vear it is a fact that, like most other large manufacturers, our plants were devoted 100 per cent to Uncle Sam's work. For that reason we tot only were unablo to manufacture automobiles, automo-biles, but. Jiko everything else, wo figured that the war might last for leveral years yot, and consequently had made no plans whatsoever for the near future. "When we suddenly found ourselves back to a peaco basis, we were unablo to plan anything like former production produc-tion for tho coming year because, while