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Show TEN KILLIOfl 1 CARS RECORDED , Amenca Leads World in Automobile Auto-mobile Production, Figures Fi-gures Show Ten years asro the annual production produc-tion of motor passenger cais in this country' was IS 1.000. Toe production I schedule for Js. In round nuin- I lcre. .000.000 curs. ! The gain In production has bceu jsrcacly except in 19 IS. when resti'Uc- tions impostd by uar condltkun I brought about sorm'' CUCtS ilnicnl. Ai the end of 1919 there wore more than It.DOo.OoO cars and trucks registered In lire United staler ami it is estimated j tin registration will soon re.ih 1".- 000.000. i ne tjuestlon Is sometimes asked what the saturation point In the auto- mobile business Is. Th..- question la not readily nnsweied. Boms people thought it was in oipht several ears 'npo when registrations wero only half.j what they are tortay. It is difficult' 1 to draw the line between cars ust-d jfoi pleasure and cars usVd foi' buai-; ! no-ss or some economic purpose, i IKMl I -I kBl ilil I). One fa ct is outstanding Thut the. 'motor vehicle has firmly established Ills position us part of tho country's; transportation system, whether used' ircr curryliiK passengers or freight. W'-' I see lines without end of passenger euraj land trucks In our large c-ltles ynd our small cities, and we arc led to tho lm- Ipression, perhaps, thnt th- motor ve-1 Ihicle Is part of the machinery of ur-I ur-I ban life. As a mutter of fuct. the automotive au-tomotive Industry has mude its great-1 jisl progress In recent years In rural I communities Statistics show that tho Increase In' registrations, ol motor chicles in tire agricultural sections of the country In the lusi five years has been far greater than the Increase In the Industrial sections, sec-tions, in some sections of the country lt has been found sales of automobiles 1 to farmers are greater thun sales to all other i-Pisses 01 people, and, In one representative middle western state, it has been found that only about 2 per cent of tho cars In the state were registered reg-istered from the largest cities, the re-malnlng re-malnlng 75 per cent being registered I from the small towns and rural districts. dis-tricts. It Is estimated that about one-I one-I third of the cars registered at the end of 1919 are owned by farmers. lls 1(1 K 1L U l I The motor vehicle has had a far-reuchlng far-reuchlng Influence on rural life and this Influence Is Increasing rather than diminishing, as will be pointed out later. At this point mention should be made of the part that the motor vehicle ve-hicle plays In the agricultural and ln? duntrlal life of tho country under transportation and credit conditions, that have prevailed for sonic months past. Trucking of agricultural product prod-uct and of manufactured products over long distances is now being done on a large scale. While the motor truck Is not believed be-lieved to be economical for long hauls In competition with railroads, the congestion con-gestion und Impaired service of our railroads has, nevertheless, caused a very large amount of long-haul trucking truck-ing to be done for such long distances as from New England to the middle west. Such long-haul trucking may bo uneconomical, but t serves at least to provide transportation means to move goods and thereby to ease tho strain on the credit situation For short-haul traffic It is, of course, genet gen-et ully conceded that the advantage It with the motor truck. PLAYS IH- HOLE. Recently the automobile has come to play an Important part In everyday lift In connection with tho housing problem In many of our cities and towns thero is a great shortage In houses Tho housing problem ha3 become be-come : soiIoum one for many of tho large Industrial concerna, .some of which havi mods larg Investments in housing developments In order to pro-vldo pro-vldo living accommodations for employes. em-ployes. Rent for houses, apartments and tenements located on car lines, or otherwise easily accessible to manufacturing manufac-turing plants, have, for tho most part, been doubled. The Worklngman has found that by living in outlying nnrts of the city, or n the country, he Is able to effect n great saving In rent, in this way the. aninmobllo has coruo to be an lmport-i art factor in relieving tho house shortage short-age In the cities and towns. Used cars, almost anything on Th'-!s that would run, have been eagerly sought and for a fc-v hundred dollars the working man has ben able to settle In a home which otherwise) would bo too Inaccessible to be practi-l ic.iblo. 'c hear it sometimes said that! I worklngmen w ho could not afford It own and keep automobiles, but In I J thousands of cases this Is the answer. I The worklngman Is saving the cost of j 8 car and more out of t'.i- difference I he pays for rent. To even a greater extent than m tho past, the development of the motor industry In tho future will be along industrial lines. In most lines of Industrial In-dustrial effort there is a leader. From Dally Financial America. n n . |