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Show 25.000.000 HORSES I GIVEN A REST "In the early days of the automobile," automo-bile," says Mgr. Lon Halns, local dealer deal-er in Chevrolet passenger automobiles and trucks., "the man who owned a I modest 'horseless carriage' even if it dlOn'1 perform recularly, was thought to be far in Advance of his lime. Today, the man who doesn't own a motor car is considered behind the time. Today with efficiency at its present hi:-h state of development and labor andj time saving devices in such great do- j mand, the motor car is of first importance import-ance Twenty-five years ago, efficiency, efficien-cy, like the automobile, was in its swaddling clothes. Neither had the; value of time become so important j "Today, the importance of the motor j car is attested in many ways. Last I but not least of these arp the 6,000,000 E jodd passenger cars in U6e today. These 'mures are impressive. They are ira-i porl.-int. They are significant 'The person with a matliernatn.il turn ot" mind could compile some very interesting tables and comparisons with .regard to the automobile if he; co desired. For instance, if he figured figur-ed up the seating capacity of all the ! automobiles in the countrj and eom-' j pared the total with that of railroad icoaches, he would find thai then ;m enough pas.enpcr cars in this county to carry 30,000,000 people and enoujeh railroad coaches to carry 3,500;000 li' would also discover that the combined yearly passenger mileage of automo- biles exeeeds that of raiiroads by overt 1 ,nm) mill . "Or, if he should turn 'to the farm for his comparisons, he would find that the farmers of this country are using over ?, 000, 000 automobiles every day If horses were substituted fori thee motor rar It would take 25,000 -000 of them This in turn would tie up 125 000.000 acres of rich farm land on which to raise their feed. "And there are many other equally Interesting facts and figures, all of which convincingly testily to the vital importance and economic value or automobiles au-tomobiles in every' 1'ne of human endeavor, en-deavor, which he would bring to light." |