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Show JAPAN HAS OFFERED EVERY PURCHASER OF AUTO OR TRUCK IN EMPIRE $500 Japan has offered every purchaser of an automobile or truck in the empire em-pire $500 toward the purchase price and $460 yearly to help pay for the maintainance of the vehicle, in ax-change ax-change for the privilege of speedily commandeering motors when the occasion oc-casion demands, according to advices ad-vices received by the foreign sales 1 department of the iB. F. Goodrich Rubber Rub-ber Company. 1 This subsidy is Intended by the imperial im-perial government not only for the T.Uck requis!t'oning of cars, but also to promote their use and to eventually eventu-ally encourage their manufacture within the empire. This aggressive action by Japan has still another important im-portant function. Horses are scarce in Nippon and most of the trucking (. is Dy men who pull two-wheeled carts g most of the passenger traffic on ( the streets and hfghways is by means 1 of jinrikishas. Labor is in strong r demand and a more general use of motor vehicles would release thousands thous-ands of men for work in factories. , Japan's action will add impetus to 1 the export of American made cars I and tires say Goodrich officials. It will be several years before Japan will be able to produce anywhere near her own consumption of motor ve-, ve-, hides and accessories. But three concerns con-cerns in Japan are now building automobiles. au-tomobiles. One of these has made about a half a dozen cars and another anoth-er is assembling from parts imported K,m America. Two large Japanese ship building companies are erect'njr j automobile factories. |