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Show BEST FOREIGN MARKET FOR U. S. AUTOS AFTER WAR WILL BE ROSS REPUBLIC f' (Denver Post) The best foreign market which Am. jferioan motor oar and motor truck ; manufacturers will have after the war j )Jb undoubtedly Russia, Bays Major M. W f J. Phillips, iwritlng In The Power Wag-W) Wag-W) Km. More light pleasure cars will bo jflj sold, proportionately, than heavy JB onosones. Motor truck manufacturers who make good one and ono-half and W three-ton motor trucks can get a 'm handsome Russian business, if they go m : Rafter it. U Motor trucks are Beveral hundred 9 mcr cent a better bet there ndw than 9 ' )they were before the czar was dopoB- ted. tJnder tho monarchy grafting of-W of-W : fficlals, high taxes which Virtually 9 amounted to a lax on enterprise and 9 la merciless oppression which was J . IcapricioUB when it contemplated the 9 ' peasant's property, all Berved to dead- 9 : Jen ambition. 9 Now, the new rulers of Russiaj the gM 4uma, realize that prosperity and hap-j9 hap-j9 jplness muBt come to land through the 9 Jcncouragement of the agriculturist, 9 jfihice Russia is a country of farms. 9 h?he popular beliof is that Russia is 9 jowned by comparatively few of its in. ;'-9 'habitants. "While it is true that some 9 mobles have enormous acreage hold-.9. hold-.9. ings, there is a surprising number of 9ipeasants each in possession of a few iV-acres. ir It Ib to these small farmers that the .motor truck salesman must address himself, not to them individually, but ,as members of a community. For-'the For-'the motor truck in rural Russia will almost never be owned by ah Individ. ,ual; it will be a village or neighborhood neighbor-hood or townBbip affair. The Russian has a genius for cooperative co-operative plans. There are more community com-munity buying and selling organlza-tions organlza-tions in Russia than anywhere else in the world, because the Russian has learned co-operative teamwork. The margin between starvation and safety safe-ty Jb so slight that Ivan had to act with his nighbors or die of cold and hunger. And so, while he Is so far the intellectual inferior of the Ameri can farmer that there is scarcely a comparison, he is a long way ahead of tho latter when it comes to commun Ity action. Co-operative schemes are so seldom successful here that those which endure are a curiosity. Country Is Well Adapted to Trucks. Russia is peculiarly adapted to the onotor truck. Railroads are so scarce that they do not enter as a factor in to the life of the Russian farmer, It is a land of enormous distances where the peasant reckohS the distance to market not in hours, but in days. Finally, Fin-ally, most of it is leveh At the close of the war Russia will absorb motor trucks as a sponge absorbs ab-sorbs water, providing she Is properly awakened to her heedB. The time will be ripe for various reasons, in fact, it Ib almost ripe how, for the residents of Potrograd and other cities are getting the craze for motor locomotion. loco-motion. Motorcycles arid motor cars are contesting with the horse for the main thoroughfares. In the capital the three articles most widely advertised adver-tised and sold are American safety razors, toothpaste and motorcycles. It Is but a step from the motorcycle motorcy-cle and the motor car to the motor truck. The man who has been educated edu-cated in their use will readily take It, when he has been shown that It means money in his pocket. So the cities, made familiar with motor trucks because of their use in haullhg troops and supplies, will accept them for commercial purposes. In the rural districts the motor truck will be an economic necessity, for Russia has spent her man-power more lavishly than any other warring nation, with the possible exception ot Germany. One motor truck and driver driv-er will probably take the place of five or six of the wiry little teams and their drivers when it comes to transporting trans-porting the harvost. The modern Russian threshenrian will have ah American outfit, with a motor truck to make the long runs for fuel and1 water and to haul the grain to market. Motor Must Replace Depleted Man Power. It is estimated that one-third to one-half of the able-bodied .rural population pop-ulation of Russia has boon killed ot crippled In the war. The agonoy which takes the place 6t five men and ten horses and enables a com munlty to concentrate and co-ordinate the man power which Is left must Inevitably In-evitably be secured. The motor truck salosraan will have eager friends In every rural neighborhood. Returned soldiers, who have seen the motor truck demonstrate dem-onstrate its worth under conditions unbelievably difficult, will be mission, aries with their more conservative friends. Many of these men will have served as motor truck drivers. America has peculiar advantages in a Russian motor truck campaign and should get the lead on competitors and keop it The American-made motor mo-tor truck has distanced all foreign .makes in war service. Almost all our 'better models are popular over there. The Duma Ib made up In part ot men who haVo boon In the United StatcB. The cabinet has several influential in-fluential members who have lectured here and have publicly and repeated-ly, repeated-ly, since the czar was deposed, expressed ex-pressed their friendship for this country. This helps greatly. In so far as business relations In general are concerned, our position is better than Germany's. We have the same rights to Russian trade as hor other alii ob. fingland is unpopular with influential influ-ential Russian army officers, who are likely to have a good deal to say in the government after the war, because she financed Russia and forced her to use British-made motor trucks as ohe of the concessions in return. And this- machine did not stand up. France has few good motor trucks, as she devotes her attention mostly to high-grade pleasure cars. Gorman goods will be taboo naturally, for trade alliances will follow 'the battle-lines battle-lines after the war. Russia at Present Not Making Trucks. That leaves it to the United States arid to motor trucks of Russian manufacture. man-ufacture. At the present time there are no home-made Russian motor trucks. Prior to the war there was but one motor vehicle factory in the land of the czar, and that made pleasure pleas-ure cars only. The government is now financing three groups of factories which Will make motor carB and also motor trucks at Warsaw. But it will be a long timo before they will have tho organization or tho output of any one of half a dozen American plants. Those who aspire to Russian trade must play the game as the Russian plays It or they will fall. They must use abundant tact and good nature in their dealings. They must be scrupulously honest keeping tho letter let-ter and spirit of all agreements. They must be willing to give long credits, since tho Russian Is accustomed to plenty of time In paying hiB bills. They must keep a lavish supply ot spare parts on Russian soil. oo |