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Show OGDEN ftUTO DEALERS ARE INVITED TO JOIN MOILS Problems confronting the automobile automo-bile dealers of every city and state arc such that national organization is absolutely "necessary for adequate protection pro-tection according to Robert E. Wagner Wag-ner of St. Louis, Mo., fipld secretary of tho National Automobile Dealers' association, as-sociation, who has arrived in Ogden to lay before the dealers an Invitation to join the national association. Tho organization's headquarters are in St. Louis. Representing the 27,000 dealers of tho country it now has a membership, member-ship, of 5000 In the forty-eight states. It is co-operafive. organized for "protection, "pro-tection, not profit" and its officers arc nationally known nmong the dealers. deal-ers. F. W. A. Vesper of St. Louis i? president, and Harry G. Moock, formerly for-merly of Denver, is the secretary and ' business manager in charge of the St. j Lottis office. j Wagner, who is at the Healy hotel, j in explaining the objects of the asso-j ciatiou sots forth tho following facts, concerning the industry: i There are a billion and a quarter! dollars invested in the automobile in-; duslry and the security of this capital i and. the safety and well being of 830,- ; 000 employes are dependent upon com--mercial and legislative fair treatment. There are G.500,000 automobiles in daily use in America and the country has been absorbing cars at the rate of a million a year. This absorption Is expected to reach 1.500,000 annually, i About 750,000 cars wear out a year. ' The annual wage paid by the indus- J try totals $750,000,000 which Is equal to the total circulation of gold in the' United States in 1911. The number of employes is one hair the total of all the railroad employes in the United ; States. The industry is the third larg- j est in the country, being exceeded in j manufacture only by the steel and I clothing industries. ' |