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Show Automobile Produc- Ition-Past and Future . ,(Hy V. O. llutlieiforU, Vice 1'resl-clfiit 1'resl-clfiit H. V. Goodrich Itubber Co.) It has a 1 way a seemed to mo that there Ih h good dual of bound philo-wiphy philo-wiphy In lionjainlu rKanklin's statement state-ment that wo should -.bewuru of cioakcrs. TIiIh advice Ih as sound today to-day its It was a hundred yearn ago. All ludustry has bcou confronted with menacing conditions during the , months and years jus! pust but I am optimistic enough to bellevo that every ev-ery major development in International Interna-tional growth, lii our civic reforms and In our economic-readjustments will k'ad u to blggnr and b-f'.Ior iIiIukHTqi- tho fuTcrro. Kvery olio of . us should be an opttfst, there It .in loom for pessimism. ' lly referring to ono of my cliv. : notice (hut In 1905 there were 160,000 automobiles In the country; jl llfteeu years later wo have pu.s.d n the seven million mark. fow I'hear '"I much about the "sutiira'tlon point" H and that other Indefinite period wlto'i we shall have "dimiiilslng returns " H Automobiles comu In the "consunip tion" chiKH of commodities; I. e., J they are used, worn out, and i opine-I opine-I ' ed us tin 'essoin hit part of life Ju.it I . as clolhliiK Is. I forecast that e I I shall lie uhlo to absorb not only tho H pH'seii'tliiKotiioTillu production but we shall even siistaiu liiu groator giowth I which nniblllous uianufacturers are fl meditating. j I Henco it Is n problem of produc- Rk 1 tlon and every citizen from the iiinn-'Hr iiinn-'Hr I ngemonl to the worker at tho bunch tv4 I should do Ills share towatd keeping i an uninterrupted flow of raw nlor-, nlor-, -' U InlB and flulslieil gnoda going through ' k tho iiillls, wureuoffsen and stores of J&y-Vi "'''' country nnil uvery man lias a IIsMl 1 llKllt l0 hl"r" l the fruits thieeof. MM 1 no other line of Industry nut tlio lelatlous between capital and labor on a friendlier or bounder footing than in tho automotive field, henco i thero Hhould bo no cause for apprehension. appre-hension. So far us passenger vehicles vehic-les are concerned wo nro now ut tho ciest of u""u"uTnTg nlarkot. Production Produc-tion does not equal demand and personally per-sonally I expepct t Ins condition to oxlst for some time to come. I recall! re-call! being tola tie (ueeauaaaueece call being told at one of the New-York New-York shows way back In 1007 that tho then annual production of GO,-000 GO,-000 cats uiaikcd the pcut; point In automobile manufacturu and that tliu number of rnrs to bo made annually an-nually would lessen rather than In-crease. In-crease. Just us that prophet of storm so .will 1 also classify those who today are i of using to advu icn With the times. The proposed ;ar production for 1920 is U.OOO.OOO cars. "Sn analysis of the market, at home and abroad, shows uu ability 10 absorb even greater production hem e tho possibility of a shortage of euro is Imminent. KUItAl, IHHTItlCT .)lSAI'lKAIU.f Tho average reader may ay, "Well, this growth of the aubiina-bile aubiina-bile industry Is nil very nice, b.(i wlierulu does it affect mo?" Anything Any-thing relutiug to the third l-irgeta ludustiy in the country affects -'years our cities hav undergoiio a eiyuutf. '.'hus within the pj,t tun wonderful transformation. A . .rndc ago Chicago boasted that it was l'"-t l'"-t miles from one side of the city to the other. Wu marveled. Hut today cities having" a. poplulatlou of only two or three hundred thougitnl bpread themselves over as largo an atea. In souiu of our slates tho country is no longer lurnl, it I in- torurbau. Think what ths iiieiiiB fni health and 'comfoi t; ugAln thinl; what it means foi veal estatu vu1- ues. (A certain authority estimates that for every million dollar's wi'li 1 of automobiles ptoduced thoio Is i produced another, million dollar'.! worth of propfrT)' values.) Now ton sunn "Tiow important it is that we. 1 ' should liavo u net work oi' hlghayti in ovory community for fn 'Ut and paRsenger Iralhc. HoiueoiiO ''. is subl that hlghays mo tlio nieiiHtirv of civ-' iltzauon. I believe this lni:'lcitiy. So in the final summary my cjiicIii- l i sloon is that the number of cars produced durng the years to come does not rest with n, group of manufacturers manu-facturers in tlio central west, but llos lullier In Hie lifinds of tlio general I I public. Authorize iho building of hultablo highways and the manufacturer manufac-turer will motorize them, greatly to tho advantage of tho community and the Individual, |