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Show Auto Future Lies I In Foreign Sales I Says Noted Expert I One Car for Every 2084 People in the World; 8,000,000 Vehicles Being Lbed in the United States Alone; United States Exported 139,875 Cars During Year 1919 That the automobile Industry's greatest future lies In foreign countries where people are realizing the advan-; tager. of motor vehicles for transports r I tlon of passengers and freight, was the Statement made at B banquet of the American Manufacturers' Bxporl ss sedation recently by Alfred Rnves. general manager of the National automobile auto-mobile Chamber of Commerce. In his address on How America Ifl Motor-1 : izlng the World." The importance of( ' the foreign markets, he brought out. readily may be Inferred from thefact that there Is in Ihe United Stales one' car for every fourteen Inhabitants,! and one car only for every L'SIO in-; i habitants throiiKhout the world. I Among other things. Mr. Reeves said: ; 'This country Is now using S.0U0 - 000 motor vehicles, of which 860,000 arc trucks, and with production this year about two million motor vehicles. The modern motor vehicle has already al-ready geared America, provided a new standard of life and inaugurated . aj new philosophy of thought it must 1 take thrt same position in other Colin-trie's Colin-trie's of Uic world: Just as soon as the people fully appreciate It.-s limo saving value. I BIG SHIPMEN1 "Our exports of cars and trucks which iopres. ntr eight per cent ofi the value of all completely manufactured manufac-tured products shipped "abroad., amounted lo 139.875 vehicles, valued' at $160,061,700: whereas those of :ill automotive products exceeded $310,-1 OOo.OOO during Hie past twelve, months. Automobiles are now e.-i ported to more than ninety different countries of the world. Shipments ar by no means limited to older Euro-: pean countries. Uruguay and China have been better purchasers of cars; I ban France, while Argentina ranks' higher than any of the older Scandinavian Scandi-navian countries. "The snows of Iceland and the Faroe Islands have not prevented in-1 habitants from buying fifty-seven motor trucks and fifty-six passenger j cars, whera in Belgian Congo the' ten motor trucks and twenty-one passenger pas-senger cars imported last year, are' demonstrating the tiue value of mo-j tor vehicles as means for opening up sections rich in tropical products. I mmi i i a Surely our world lhat became mo solid n motor transportation during the iH war, vvill go on making ue of motor cars and motor truckn. Iowa and .Nebraska have n car for every six people; American farmers sH own 2 Mi million cars 153,000 motor vehicles bring freight and passengers from surrounding COUntry to Man-hattan Man-hattan Island r i y d.., the pov. drlvi i vehlj lea Has -iddad so much to HaV the productivlt- uf America that surely other countries will hasten the day w hen they can use them in large numbers. BIG 1UXURY. "L'p lo a few year sago, the motor mM car In foreign countries was looked ssK upon as s luxurj to the i njoyed o--ilv F I n the rich To. la.v iti use for utility J Is fas1 Increasing and the American M "ji'ile lus become an interna- J of most foreign countries de pends primarily on transportation. MM South America. Asia. Africa, Aus- tralla and Immense stretches of Euro pean Russia will require considerably Increased transportation facilities if (In products available in the Inland mm sections are i profitably marketed ,mm In r "is distant from place o" produc- tfH mm |