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Show II AUTO PROSPECT 1 OF 1922 GOOD Gradual Upturn in Farm Prices Expected to Help Big Industry KANSAS CITY. April 15. Automobile Automo-bile sales prospects nr brilliant as spring opens In comparison to the condition con-dition that prevailed ag the Industry moved into the spring of 1921. Have you ever tried to work out a punlfl map and have bwn absolutely Tffr helpless to put the whole together be- cause some important piece was missing? miss-ing? well that has heen the. situation existing for ihe last year and n half whenever one tried to reconstruct the 1 business and economic map of th I'nited States It couldn't be done be-B be-B cause the most important element In B thai picture missing. Who is this element? The farmer ! Was tie missing In lill? Hawaii. Is he buck inth'- picture this year Most decidedly he is. In a condition greatly improved over thai of 11121. H' The report of the various federal re- serve banks gives splendid rcassur-oncos rcassur-oncos that prices of farm commodities M are seeking their rightful, higher l -'- IV els. in the readjustment that began , in the summer ot 1920 and extended clear through to the latter months of 4, 1921. prices ot farm products were out of nil proportions r fnelr o.-H ( pro-du-tion. ,i ni) fhigrnntly out .tf proportion propor-tion with the cot of other commodities commodi-ties and with city wage s'-ales. There has been a steady. gr.iduJ upturn. Farm prices are not yet us hifth as they are going, but the farmer doesn't stand In nearly such an unfavorable unfa-vorable position as he did a year ago, May wheat has sold as high as 11.47, j t'hlcago hogs have risen to nearly r 1 1.50 from the $7.00 low mark, corn in netting a little better than HO rents h bushel to the farmer who is feeding it to his pork, and the prices of cattle cat-tle have been Steadily improving What docs this mean to the auto-j mobile Industry ' . ! Farmers own approximately onr-j third of nil motor vehicles in the coun-J try. As a class they are our best cus-j tomers. Many of the motor vehicles now on the farms will nave to be re- placed this year, a nlrge majority of, these replacements rightfully should1 have been made last year, but the farmer was without the money wlthi which to do it. Iuui nc will iiiivi' ine niunvy wus year and he will spend it wherever he will seize a chance to Increase his farm profits. The motor ohlMe has been one of the greatest additions to farm life in this respect, it lias enabled en-abled the farmer to get his products to his market at the earliest moment and take advantage of any break in prices that may come in his favor. I do not like to indulge in proph-! f cy It is always s thankless Job and at best is beset with many influences that are apt to change results. But I1 feel confident in sayincr that if business goes on In the path that it Is now taking, without interruption or without with-out difficulty. 1 922 will see opprox:- mately 2.000,000 motor vehicles placed In the hands of owners, as against the 1700.000 disposed of last irear Of course this upturn in the automobile automo-bile business is going to mean reviewed re-viewed activities In other buslni - - W . for ecry Industry In our country is f inextricably bound up with every j industry and what hi Ipc one will nelpj all. The winter is over. The public mind' is gaining composure Stocks of all' k:nds have been depleted and replace-1 ments are beginning to make their demands. The world situation Is improving, im-proving, slowly but surely, and pro-i pie are getting their attention tinned back tothe business of living, of making mak-ing money and of being happy. The;. RjjL4 are becoming more and more cogniz ant of the terrific waste of lives ' wealth and materials brought about; by the war. So far as is possible theyj want to recoup all those losses. The better factories and the better dealers In our industry are all set for the future, confident of the outcome.! Wo have no fears of 1922 because, those of us who are set, have no fesrs Of ourselves. XI neteen -twenty-two is trolng to be a mighty profitable year in the automobile industry for the right kind of dealers and factories |