Show P I TUESDAY EVENING J AMERS SHOWN SHON h I. I CHIEf AUTO I I OWNERS third rte of All Cars in inD inU U U. S. S Driven by Men Menon on the LandI Land I Jan lt It 31 It is no longer Question of how many people can canS S foed to own an automobile b but t how i r any people can afford not to own owne e e. e Alfred Reeves general manager Iny he National Automobile chamber f commerce told members of the Ii h cago Rotary club club in an address ere ere to today a Mr Reeves after discussing traffic which are confronting the rge arge cities of the United States traced raced the growth of the automobile in the United States It was only twenty-five twenty years ago e said that there were four automo- automo Jiles lIes In this country One of them vs in a a. circus another nother was used for fori Eick i iek k exhibitions and the two others V sere vere re regarded as mechanical freaks merican engineering genius coupled cou cou- Is pled led with a demand of thousands of ears pears for better transportation for the has brought motorcar mak- mak pg to the third manufacturing Indus- Indus I rr e in this country Awhile While the recreation value of ate i iut automobile u is great it is important to ow that 70 per cent of all the auto- auto I biles made last year ear retailed under 1090 and 94 per cent retailed under Of the ten million vehicles ow iw registered more than I re H re owned by farmers about Y doctors and thousands of others by Salesmen and contractors KLIn n the state of Illinois there are NUARY i C 1922 or o ono for motor one for every 2 people South Dakota and Iowa lead with a motorcar for every 2 61 5 2 1 people Following the hysteria after the armistice our our industry industry like others violated the laws taws of economics and must naturally suffer Buffer just as though we violated the laws of health But the country is now getting back on a substantial b basis and it would seem time for business men to become conservatively conservatively conservatively con con- and sensibly optimistic |