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Show ill DEMANDS FOR MIMES "The actual participation of the United States in the great war has perceptibly quickened automobile sales throughout the country" says Lou Hains of the Ogden Motor Car company. "The demand for Hudson Super-Sixes, already taxing the factory fac-tory production, jumped instantly. A great many people who were intending to buy later in the year are buying now, knowing that a motor car Bhort-age'eannot Bhort-age'eannot be avoided. They are making mak-ing sure they will have the car they want by buying while it is still available. avail-able. "I cannot too strongly emphasize tho certainty of a shortage In automobiles. automo-biles. Our present supply Is sufficient suffi-cient to take care of purchases for only a short time. And we do not know what interruptions to further shipments and even to further manufacture manu-facture may cut us off at any time. "We are all hoping that tho preparation prepa-ration of the nation for war will not vitally upset our internal commercial intercourse, but we do not know. Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly a great many factories now engaged in making automobiles will be turned over for the manufacture of war munitions. Raw materials will advance in price and become more difficult dif-ficult to obtain as the government takes great quantities for its war-making war-making needs. Also the government will Itself buy largely from the mar- i ket of pleasure motor cars. "It is apparent also that the demands de-mands on the short car market will be i increased In many other directions. 1 Not only will the army require great : QumberB of cars, but thousands of horses will be taken out of civil life for war service, and there will be a great demand for automobiles to supplant sup-plant them. "We are not wondering whoro we will sell motors. We are wondering whether we will be able to procure them." |