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Show Owners Improve Living Conditions by Use of Automobiles in U. S. AUTOMOBILE FACTS. I (Compiled from replies to question cards sent to car owners.) Thirty seven per cent of enr owner-Improve owner-Improve I heir living conditions because of automobiles. NiM ' per cent of all cars arc used more or less for business. Sixty per cent of average car mileage mile-age and 7S per cent of farmer car mile ago Is for businesr. Thirty folir per cent of average mile age is instead of trolley or railroad, or where there Is no other moans of communication Average car owner adds 57 per con to his output throuKh use of automo bile, farmer adds 6H per cent to his efficiency. More than 6,800,000 men added .7 p r cent to their productive efficiency during the past year. More than 2. .'loo, mm families ha c found H possible to live In the suburbs or otherwise, Id prove their home surrounding. A working I'orce equivalent to I.GOu.unii labor - i 1" inc applied to farmlne Such is the creative effectlTeneei ot the passenger car, us reporte j in re , piles to thousands of cards sent to car ow Den CONDUCT SURVEY. Thi questionnaire, conducted by the I National Automobile Chamber of Com fnerce, went to automobile license holders taken at random from the reg i.drftion luts of ten widely divcrsr stales California, Iowa, Massachu-sitts. Massachu-sitts. Mtnneeoia, Nebraska, Nen icrk. Ohio, Texas, IrrinU and yom-ir: yom-ir: The card asked the owner's occu pntton. the annua mileage, the amount t mileage used for bOBineeg and for recreetion. the amount used to aup plement, or in Ilea Of trolley or rail connec ion U a6ked to what extent the passenger car Increased the own er's business, ancl whether It affected hlr liousing problem or living conditions. condi-tions. The present f'gt:rrs are com piled from answers to the first 10,000 aids of this survey which Is being, fur titer extended until Information on ih" uses of cars by all classes of own ix Is t ii 1 1 v rlelei mined BUSINESS CARS. Ninety per cent of ihe owners reported re-ported thai they usfd their ears mON oi eu for bus fit ess, ejtilo TO per ceni siatc(j that their automobiles were for recreation use only. The average in creased efficiency of ihe car owner Is 56.7 per ceni a number report but imall pain in productivity, but this In tiea!!; o erbplancetl by the testimony f tin liirniorn u hn li:a o ne.it Iv 70 per cent to their labor effect ie-lieas, ie-lieas, ;'nd by th- drcior. and lalesmen , I'osi btininss is doubled, triple:! ami n some euei quadrupled through us f the car. The une of the passenger car. accordingly, ac-cordingly, has mennt a net gain to IndUetrj Of 8,000000 men There are i r i b ii n 7.oon,oito automobile owners In the country, each increasing his ! i-ncy 56.7 per cent through the use t ih cr. making an addition to the business productivity of the country In SXCi ss of 3.900. 000 workers. As there are between 800.000 and 900.000 men man'.ifaciurlng ard srtlinit p?srrng.-r c. r parts and accessories, there re mains not gain of more than 3,000, 000 men. If one were to add hf productive efficiency ef-ficiency of the 750,000 motor trucks now In use a still greater gain would be shown The largest gain in productivity has l" 'i in farm life. There are 2.307 ,000 farmers owning CM Tho answer- from farmers n ported 81 per cent in case In productivity of the owner, or nn nddltton rn,uivalent to 1,600,000 hired me n. Norman Angell In The Creat IIIu--irn" predicted thit wr,r would be Impossible Im-possible because It would mean na tlonnl suicide. Hut he did not tnke :n'o account the Intinito Ingenuity of man. In America the p.Tsnger automobile has been the great factor in ilvmi; reconstruction pmbb in.-Tin- csFation of building during thC ar has meant overcrowded conditions everywhere l"ut 37 per ce nt of ihe car owners, 2,300.000 families, are finding Lhe automobile help In this situation, enabltns them to live In the suburbs, and otherwise improving their Kvlng conditions. The railroad and trolley lines which ha. n handicapped by war c m.l tlons are being relieved and supple mi nted by automobiles. Sixty two per cent of the car owners report that they use their motor vehicles Instead of traveling by rail or electric line. Over one-third of the total nutomohlle mileage Is used In this way. The passenger tar has brought In-rr.i-d effiCie&CJ in every walk of life. The heaviest users are farmers, with physicians and salesmen next in i line Contractors, real estate dealers and Insurance men find cars especially useful. M.muf.M inrer-. and merchant-, merchant-, are among the larger classes of auto mobile owners 1 Among the other classes who an swered the questionnaire were Bank lers. carpenters, mechanics, architects, j barber?, teachers, clergymen, whole salers. artists, undertakers, mall carriers, car-riers, builders plumbers, credit men. public accountants, government officials, offi-cials, tobacco brokers, lawyers hotel men. theatrical men. oil men. superln tendentF of docks, musicians, miners, railroad executive and others. |