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Show AUTO PRODUCTION OP TODAY REDUGEO TO EXACT SCIENCE Motor car manufacture has reached a stago where the automobile plant must be entirely distinctive from all other klnos of factories. Tho efficiency efficien-cy engineer has applied his ideas to the building of model motor car factories fac-tories in which the laborer, by Ingenious In-genious location of departments, is enabled en-abled to do much more work, with much less labor, than ever before Production of automobiles has been reduced to an exact science And so we have the Bpectacle of a younjj industry for the motor car industry in-dustry is still young, despite Its Krcat prowth setting other industries an examplo in saing Of production cost. It is partlv because the leaders in tho motor car field today are. using the wisdom of the efficiency engineer to reduce ihe cost of tho motor car that there is such great faith in the future of the industry, which Is being placed on a rock foundation of solid In view of the remarkable steadiness steadi-ness that has characterized automobile automo-bile sales, not only during the closing months of this year, but during tho last three years, it seems hardly necessary nec-essary to instill a note of optimism in a forecast of business lor the coming com-ing year. Practically every manufacturer manufac-turer reported a volume of business never before equaled in the slack months of the yoar This healthy increase in American sales can be attributed to remarkable; records made by automobile dealers in the farming districts. Dig crops, coup- led with the highest priees ever known in this country, have made the pur-J chase of automobiles a popsibility to thousands of farmers in the agricul- tural sections. But this is only one cause. The, general prosperity of the nation has, boomed the automobile business be-vond be-vond nearly all expectations. There is no reason for believing that tblfl prosperity pros-perity of the motor car business will be Influenced adversely by the end of the war for. whatever falling off in orders there may be in this country--J it there is any falling off will be more than made up by tue increase in ex-j port at Ion of motor care The automobile busim-s has experienced exper-ienced a great change In system and wonderful prosperity in the last few rears but the end is not yet even better times are coming |