Show MOTOR CAR PRICE RAISES SURE TO COME IN SPRING SO BUY CAR NOW Gene Grady Returns Return From Detroit and Gives Interview Interview Inter Inter- view Analyzing Outlook I The Time resu res results ta of the war on the tho automobile automobile auto auto- I mobile business will be First an Increased Increased increased in- in creased price on motor cars and trucks second a shortage due to slightly curtailed curtailed curtailed cur cur- tailed production and increased demand third no io radical changes In In design from the present models These are tl the e conclusions conclusions' reached by Gene Geno Grady local distributor of the Reo car who returned only this past week from an extended trip through the East Bast ast during thich he met a large larg number of the prominent motor car m manufacturers now engaged in government service There will naturally be a curtailment of output of motor cars said Mr Grady as the same number of cars cannot be produced if a large part o of the facilities of the factories are devoted to war pur pur- poses Now that further decrease in production is unavoidable and lack of transportation facilities by rail have I thrown an extra burden on freight and passenger motor cars there is bound to be still further increases in price which will wili willbe willbe be anywhere from 20 to 35 per cent and it will begin to take tale effect very shortly Every factory that is doing government govern govern- ment mont work has the prices fixed on a basis lof of cost and a small margin of profit and this will fall far short of what they could have earned if they had not voluntarily taken government contracts As it is Is every man who buys a motor car now makes it possible for the producers to earn enough so that they can handle the work worl for the government at the lowest possible cost Those who have In the past bought automobiles supported an in industry industry In- In which now is carrying an immense burden that could not have been carried by any other industry and is producing munitions and motors motos which would have been delayed for months had not there been already organized a It highly efficient manufacturing industry |