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Show GREATEST INDUSTRY AntJimbile registrations in the United States have increased from 300 in 1895 to 22,011,393 in 1926 and in so dojn.5, the automotive industry has developed from production in a few machine shops to be the largest business in the United States, according accord-ing to H. F. Kin'gsley, president of the Kingsley Miller company, and national nation-al traffic authority, in an address at Chicago before a group of hard-road builders. "The automotive industry pays more than ?6,000,000,000 annually in wages to 3,500,000 employes while almost al-most one-fifth of the telta population own cars," said Mr. Kingsley. "The industry was formerly considered competitive to other transportation I systems, but now it is used as a supporting sup-porting and cooperative unit by almost al-most all railroads. "The saturation point is not anywhere any-where near and the industry is fated to go much farther is ordinary precautions pre-cautions are taken. Every road improvement im-provement invites a new use for mo tor cars and every detour curtails all uses. vve niu.-t ha-. e good roaas to, vive k'ieat masses of automobiles and we must maintain these good i loads if these great masses of auto-! mobiles are to continue to travel, i ' States or other forms cf govern- j vent which will maintain a road i with each ten miles of its entire length under the jurisdiction of -one j man who will constantly keep the section in perfect condition, will go , far to increase their population, and j their prosperity. I "Popularity of cross country tour-;mr tour-;mr is increasing tremendously each year. A great part of this is on ac- i count of new good rends. This popularity popu-larity will wane, however, if these , good roads are not maintained. The automobile industry is now a $7,-000,000,000 $7,-000,000,000 enterprise. If perfect maintenance is put into force on all of the 583,000 miles of good roads in America, it will be a $10,000,000,000 industry in two years." |