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Show AUTO 1 UK! FOI M ONLY Survey Shows Ninety P. C. of Nation's Cars Are Used Parciaily in Business "That the automobile is a national ! necessity Is illustrated by the fact that of the seven and one-half million of : motor vehicles registered in 1919, 90 jper cent were employed totally or in j 'part for business purposes. ' said Manager Man-ager C. H. Sander of the Ugden Olds-.mobile Olds-.mobile company, local distributors for loidsmoblle passenger cars and trucks. "Using S000 miles per annum as a j j Conservative average individual mile! ace. we find that 2 2, 51 '0. 00 0.000 miles : were covered last ytar In automobiles, j And over 60 per cent of this mileage was employed exclusively for business uaee. "The automobile has long oasrd ( be purely a pleasure vehicle. But were its utilitarian benefits absolutely discounted, tho hours of happiness se-Cttred se-Cttred through its operation by the American family would elevate it to I the plane of .necessit.v . There Is no ( endeavor, no activity, to which the au- j tomobile is not essential. The doctor, the salesman, the merchant, the farm ! or, the manufacturer, all could not dispense dis-pense wilh it. "Consider yourself, whether you pos- J sess one or not; the automobile is an all impdrtaht factor In your life. WHile ! you are still ash ep, i.i-t running fleets! of motor cars are bearing milk to this' cil v. th lr i apidll i In mi es its pui il s insures the health of your family, the ' food upon your table the clothing you I weaj the furniture of your home all j at some time have been transported upon an automobile "Your home may be in a suburban j community, if so, it was made possible, b) the automobile. The wage earner with his modestly priced car can find a home miles from his work and yet ; In unaffected b i:.- remoteness "When one industry can benefit the, life of an entire nation- when it is in- j dispensable to eight millions of (ami-lies (ami-lies there can be no doubt that its product is an essential. The automo-bile automo-bile is the greatest mechanical neceis-sity neceis-sity of the age Eight millions acclaim i rhe automobile a necessity and the ma oritv seldom errs In judgment." oo |