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Show MDTDRISTS HUM TO CALL OF WILD Paige Dealers Surrender Only Demonstrating Car to Touring Enthusiast. "It's pretty tough when they come in and tuko your demonstrating cars away : from you." Thiy is the plea of more I than one dealer along the "row" these days, but J. K. Windcl of the Windel-Madsen Windel-Madsen Motor company, Paige distributors, distribu-tors, has been kicking himself around the salesroom for allowing a customer to take his pet demonstrator. "The Paige factory is shipping us cars as fast as they can get them out and load them on freight . cars," said Mr. Winde, "but that is not fast enough to please us. "People are coming in here every day and besieging us for cars for immediate delivery. They want cars so they can be out in the open and tiur. The roads are all good now, and Yellowstone, Fish lake and Zion canyon wilt be the tourists' tour-ists' Mecca during the next few months. "At that, deliveries are not as bad as they were a month ago The factoy is getting into shape now and increasing production day by day. But still we could use a whole lot more ears than we are getting. The shortage is not only local and state-wide it is nation-wide. The whole country needs automobiles and needs them badly. "There lias been a lot of talk lately among so-called motor experts of an overproduction of automobiles. These learned men talk knowingly of 'a saturation satura-tion point' in the industry. They mean that there will be more autos built than can be sold. The way sales are going now it looks as if every man, woman and child in the nat ion wanted an automobile, automo-bile, a ml talk of overproduction is as sensible as tulle of sweeping back the ocean with a broom. "The .facts of the matter are that there can never be an overproduction of motor cars, " because no machine will last a lifetime. life-time. "With us an automobile will wear out in five to ton years. There are few machines built that will last longer than five years. A locomotive which runs on rails will not last longer than five years and they are constantly being groomed and repaired. "Think, then, of the motor car. This type of road vehicle is given more abuse than any other piece of machinery built. It is banged over rough roads, at high speed and the consequent jolts and jars are enormous. The mechanism must be built lo stand this sort of abuse. "After five years of this kind of use It is no wonder that a machine is ready for the junkman. Of course, we h ve I Paige '.-ai's that have seen longer service, t but who wants an antiquated model, es- i perinUy these day?. : ".As lung as steel wears out, there will I be no chance for tin overproduction of Tno I or cars, and engineers have not yet developed a material for making an automobile au-tomobile that is everlasting.' |