Show MOTOR TRADES EMPLOY MANY Caring Car Car- Caring Caring Making Selling and ing for Autos Is Vast Business By n Ir CLIFFORD BROKA Technical Director West Bide Side Y YM M C C A Automotive School N Y T The automotive e industry Is 19 maid ald to be the largest In the of ot people i inow At any rate millions now have havo profitable em employment Y mant I because of ot tho the tact fact that automobiles automobiles automo- automo biles are so widely used Those Tose who work In manufacturing manufacturing in ing plants where automobiles are built represent one large g probably the tho largest o of those peo- peo people peo people pie who draw pay checks on this Industry Other factories are bus busy making makinI automobile parts and ac- ac They employ large num- num bers There are arc steel mills running all allday allday allday Ibers day and night to produce the Iron requIred In autos Lumber milts m are Industriously trying to keep UP with the demand tor for wood for tor cars Cors PaInt factories are working over oter- overtime I time to furnish looking good-looking auto auto- automobile automobile automobile mobile e Glass Glaas factories and tire the concern concerns also work ork for tor thIs industry Railroad shops are aro hard pressed to turn out freight cars cirs enough to deliver the newl newly made automobiles to the purchasers ShIp Shin lards ards are busy building another medium of automobile deh delivery ery Banks Danks In- In Investment investment In Investment vestment houses trust companIes and th like are lire engaged In the necessary ne- ne ne necessary financing of these huge hug automobile enterprises After automobiles are made and delivered which requires an enor enor- enormous enor- enor enormous enormous army of workers another large army Is employed to sell them The Tho sales s organization throughout the country can be counted In the thousands and each selling center employs from one on to hundreds of people They include not only but also steno steno- stenographers stenographers clerks bookkeepers and the tho like In the process of selling Is also the matter of ad advertising Some of the tho most skillful ad advertising brains In the tho country countr are employed to work on automobile accounts Ad writers advertising departments departments depart- depart ments merits of ot publications devote their energy In their specialized lines s to helping to sell cars that are being manufactured After cars are sold they use more or less lees servicing of this fact tact another alother line of business has hos de developed eloped into largo large proportions proportions proportions This la le represented by the sen Ice station repair shops ga- ga garage garage ga garage rage and filling tilling station These places furnish employment for skilled automotive mechanics and technicians The demand tor for such ouch workers Is always alwa s greater than the tho supply In all of the bu buying Ing and selling and using of cars care there Is natu naturally rally created a need tor for authentic In- In Information Information In Information formation about various phases of othe the industry Consequently a con con- considerable number of pUblications are devoted exclusively to this in- in industry Industry In Industry and many other publications give large larse space to Its activities Thus employment Is la furnished to printers writers pressmen per paper and ink manufacturers Q and ouch It Is known 11 of ot course courso that the automobile Industry has greatly stimulated 1 building Factories have had to be built also ware ware- warehouses warehouses ware houses houses and service stations Employee in the an in- in industry In Industry on account of ot hiring steady in-I in employment at good wa wages have h been been able to build their own homes I IThon Then Thon almost everyone every one who bUYs buy II a carha to have a garage In which I to keep it 14 This ThIll fact has hu doubtless meant t the erection of millions million of I these thee small email buildings building One could go on almost almest Indefinitely citing examples of ot those who profIt from tho the automobile Indus Indus- Industry's Industry try's try existence so eo Interwoven are those these automotive factors factor Into the of our life There are those tho B who are employed to I drive trucks thou those tho a who operate buses taxIcabs light delivery wag wag- wagons wagons I ons chauffeurs for tor wealthy car 01 owners ners drivers delvers of motorized fire department apparatus those who raIse the food tood for tor those who work In automobile factories those who sell food tood clothing shelter and lux- lux luxuries lux luxuries uric uries to them The total number runs into a big bill figure Alm Almost e every eory ory one Is affected All the people who work may mayWell maywell Well consider what a great grett factor the automobile is In la th the e dally daily life lite of the working mon man an On account of the general prosperity which the I automotive Industry has hos helped to toI I create creato he ho can con afford to own a II car himself This Thle Important fact tact means that he can in many cases conveniently drive to his place of work and ar- ar arrive ar arrive rh rive e there fresh tresh for the job lob before him In the tho meantime his family enjoys a home In a good resIdential Before the tho auto age he either had to keep his hlo family close closet t to the factory or take a long rIde on a tiresome street car to get to tow w ork Now too he lie e can enjoy better so- so so social cial elal and health conditions Ho Ha H can get around with hie hl family to visit friends He lIe can get got out Into the country on week end trips tripe trip and for lor occasion With little Incon incon- incon he OlIn can get et to meeting of Jimlo organizations to which he bel belongs on Ill I'll He can enn even get to church With wish little trouble |