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Show OUR PROSPERITY According to the United States Chamber of Commerce there is a motor mo-tor car in operation in the United States for every seven inhabitants of the country. Eight billion of dollars dol-lars are spent annually for automobiles. automo-biles. Two billions go for new cars and the balance for gasoline, repairs and accessories. There are 17,500,-000 17,500,-000 motor: cars in use in the United States according to the figures presented. pre-sented. Without going into a discussion of the enconmic effects of the motor industry, in-dustry, it is shown that during the rise of the motor era in America savings deposits have nearly doubled, doubl-ed, individual bank deposits have more than tripled and life insurance in force has increased two and one half times. One of the first facts which strikes strik-es the average tourist to Europe is the scarcity of motor cars. In Bulgaria Bul-garia there are no more automobiles than in the average small American city. Nowhere across the Atlantic is there anything like the proportion ate number of automobiles as in America. Here may be found another reason rea-son why radicalism does not grow and prosper in America. Our automobiles auto-mobiles are not owned principally by the wealthy as in Europe. The greater1 great-er1 proportion of them belong to the farmer, the teacher, the mechanic, the clerk, the small merchant, the railroad man, and) so on. They are indicative in-dicative of the progress and general prosperity of America, and all the more significant that in addition to growing automobiles, we have been growing savings bank accounts, individual indi-vidual bank deposits and life insurance insur-ance at the same time. Bolshevism will not prosper under conditions which produce in a nation na-tion such prosperity and progress among all classes of citizens. |