Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-01-29 | Page 10 | Millions Use Automobiles

MILLIONS USE AUTOMOBILES President Harding's Statement State-ment Verified By Motor Car Figures. i ST. LOUIS. Jnn D8 Recent an-' nouncement that there are more than 10.000.000 motor vohicles In use In tho I United States bears out impressively, tho statement concerning the industry indus-try made by President Harding In his! J fu st inaugural address, according lo Jesse A. Smith of Milwaukee, president presi-dent of the National Automobile Deal- I era' association. "The motor vehicle j has iconic an Indispensable Instrument Instru-ment In our political, social nnU Industrial In-dustrial life,:' President Harding declared de-clared then. " Despite tho business depression," declared Smith, who is the Hudson-Essex Hudson-Essex distributor at Milwaukee, "in! whli )i many lines of industry were ; most entirely Inactive, tho automobile business shows that only 24 per cent I fewer motor vehicles were made In 19LM than In 19L'0. It ahould be remembered re-membered that 19H0 was tho greatest year In the history of the industry, so ihul based on an average for five years period 1921 business was probably about normal for ihe trade. "All of this interest centered upon automobiles when other businesses are depressed only means thtft In truth, aa Piesldent Harding said. "The motor mo-tor vehicle has become an Indispensable Indispen-sable Instrument in our social, political politi-cal and Industrial life." It can be added that the motor car of today with Its refinements, improvements nnd not least, though last the greater, alue at prices unboliovablo only Short, time ago. has mud tht Interest natural It might be well pointed out that tho automobile industry in its I I pi n o iruuiuuim iin.T nri u ieul inoi ! all other business can safely follow In i tho process of deflation Prices last year of motor cars were cut. on an average. 13 per cent under January 1 prices, 1D21. I "The American public Is in the market mar-ket to buy the latest and most sub-Istantlal sub-Istantlal Individual transportation that human ingenuity can devise. "In 1922 1 confidently expect that i rui-lt)"' '.-.ill cfiial fhnl r.f last year However, the real business man In any lino knows that the satisfied cus-'tomer cus-'tomer is the best advertisement- and j the dealer Is assured of stcadv growth who had a meritorious profluct. sold by the merchant v ho has proper Ber- vice for it und backed up by a manufacturer manu-facturer who Will say he made it properly." oo-