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Show j Chicago Auto Classic Closes After Successful Showing Dealer Attendance Heavier Than Usual; Experts Claim This Forecasts Exceptionally Active. Season CHICACiO. Feb. t. The clou of the twentieth annual naUonnl automobile auto-mobile ahow at the Chicago Coliseum confirmed the hopeful expectation for a rapid rehabilitation of the automobile industry aroused by tha recent aucceaaful ahow at New York. The Chicago ahow haa alwaya ranked aa the more important of tha two national exhibition, from the point of view of enabling; an accural forecast of business conditions in the motorcar field. This is for the reason that It Is more widely attended by automobile dealers, drawing a representative repre-sentative gathering from all corners of the United Htates. The dealer attendance at the Chicago show thia year was heavier thaa usual, and the aalea contracts entered ir.to. calling annually tor shipments of cars running into millions of dollars, dol-lars, were well up to norma!. A general spirit of hopeful optimism. Induced by tha marked aureus of the show, both from a wholesale and re-tatt re-tatt aatea point of rlewr was in sn-eral sn-eral evidence, and officials of manufacturing man-ufacturing concerns were greatly encouraged en-couraged by the outlook. iieorga M. lick9on. president of the National Motor Tar Vehicle corporation, cor-poration, who has attended every Chicago Chi-cago show since Ha inception, voiced the opinion that a general condition of healthy and vigorous prosperity would prevail in tha automobile industry indus-try w ithln another month. "The gradual easing In tha financial ritual ton and the uplift of business eondittona generally." st'-a Dickson, "has given rise to a luvin movement move-ment liiat Is already weij uiidc'y Further ftnprov mrr is n-rtun during dur-ing the coming weeks, with a return to normal not far distant. "The replacement business, or the sale of new ears to replace those worn out in service figured hr Colliers Col-liers M'ekl as l.:on ooo ears for 121. s rapidly com ing into evidence. lur-'ng lur-'ng the last four or fte month, hundreds hun-dreds of t housands of people have been driving cars that have outlived tl.eir real usefulness, at a tost of operation op-eration and maintenance prohibitively hfKh. With the Improvement in business busi-ness conditions, these people are aiv. in a thought once more to the purchase of s new car. "The general concensus of opinion, both on the part of the public and the tnrliiHfrtr reflect if hv tha. fV ir f automobile show, fa that prosperity is ktiok:,ie at the door. "It will ake time, of course, fur he Industry to bring its manufacturing program back to normal, probably more time thaa it will take for the demand to assume normal or nearly normal proportions. For this reason. U is only reasonable, to ex pee t that the dosing months of spring and sum mer will wiines a short ace In automobiles auto-mobiles of greater or leaser magnitude. magni-tude. ' To those who have real need for a motor car, whether new .r .used, the advice of those who are most thoroughly conversant with -conditions - and most reliablf in ihetr predictions. n evidenced by their utterances in tha past, l.t to buy early. el4 they , are very ant to be disappointed in securing se-curing del'very by a margin of from tnirtv to sixty days, perhapa more. "The automobile industry is once more evidencing the remarkable re-cuerative re-cuerative power that haa made It the marvel of the manufacturing world rlnee Its inception. The slogan of the industry today is 'Full Pteain Ahead.' CAK Or WlRK m HKKI.ft. Tha spoke ends of wire wheels a liable to rust, especially If they re loose and permit water to enter. A bit of graphite apread over the spoke ends will prevent this rustinp. |