Show BELATED BUYERS BUYER TO FIND AUTOS AUTOS' ARE SCARCE WORD 1 W Illand Richards Declares 1 1 Cars Will Be BeH Hard Hardt t V t f t to Ob Obtain I t 1 t Y Without any attempt at being an alarmist I wish to advise the motorists of America and the prospective motorists that costs of f motorcars are headed still upward and the cheerful optimist who is Js waiting till next summer to buy that automobile is destined to find next summers summer's summers summer's sum sum- I bit higher than the m mers mer's rs r's cost quite a present winter prices and cars will be almost impossible to get says MYS Willard Richards manager of the Hyland Motor company distributors of Stutz Stearns Stearns- Knight and cars Practically every overy manufacturer of a motorcar either has his advanced price schedules already prepared or is in the course of preparing them and the advances advances ad ad- vances vances win will will be be from from minimum to t as high as aa on certain jobs DELAY FATAL It will be an Ill advised person who supinely folds his hands and lets these advances slip Ilip up on him before he has had booked his order And It would be but the part of wisdom for the contemplating buyer not only n to place a his order d immediately imme imme- but bind the dealer a f to deliver ll at atthe atthe i ithe the present price J if this can be done Just to emphasize my assertion relative relative relative rela rela- tive to the advancing costs I present herewith an excerpt from an editorial in In-a In a recent issue of ot the Automobile Trade Journal an authority that scarcely need be b questioned Ie it i as we e may says MYS the Trade Journal there is every indication that costs are still sun on an upward trend and will continue so Tho The demand for almost every conceivable manufactured product is greater greater- than the supply There Is not only a shortage of labor but the labor is producing less per man The entire world with the exception of Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many seems to have been sp sQ overwrought with the world struggle that work is a a. burden With constantly shorter hours and less efficient work with production and transportation difficulties the cost of production must also increase The demand is growing owing to the shortage of the supply Better be prepared than suffer There here ere is every Indication that prices are more likely to advance than decline Anticipate your needs and be prepared EXAMPLE CITED While the editors editor's re remarks arks arks' are general in nature they Apply exactly to the busl- busl news ness of manufacturing motorcars It may be recited that there has been a great Increase In everything the motorcar motorcar motorcar motor motor- car manufacturer buys buys axles axles windshields windshields windshields wind wind- shields wheels bodies trimmings forgIngs forgIngs forgings forg- forg Ings castings castings all all have advanced materially ma ma- since the autumn production be be- be gan It is safe to assert sert that there are few if It any motorcars motorcars' being built today that do not cost the m maker ker at least more to build now than last fall And this is a minimum estimate Motorcar builders insist on maintaining maintain maintain- ing the quality that has been built Into their product If the trade as a a. class Indulged in substitutes the manufacturer mig might t escape rising costs by cheapening his product And by the same token the best indication of quality maintenance will be the price increase Increase and and Inversely it may be taken for a fact that no price increase will wilt mean a a. shaving of quality It follows logically that the intending purchaser should pay and doubtless will prefer to pay an advanced advance price with the I assurance that quality is maintained No established and reputable manufacturer manufacturer manufacturer manu manu- desires to lower his quality standards to meet a price The company will have the following tock stock model cars on ex exhibition at the Automobile show Two Hups two Stearns Knights and one Stutz all 1920 models medels Just as u they appear app ar on the sales MIes floor |