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Show AUTO NOTES 4- The national parks were visited by 1.171,797 persons last year. Canada gives employment to 1 5,000 skilled automobile mechanics. The average wholesale price of on automobile in 19J1 was $702. In Ontario. Can;ida. one farm in every ev-ery four has an automobile. Motor trucks handled about 1.200,-: 1.200,-: 000.000 pounds of freight during : 1021, New York Is said to be preparing I legislation for compulsory automobile j insurance. More than 3.000 drivers were sent ; to jail by tho traffic court in New York in 1921. Rubber mats on the running board j protect against slipping when you're in a hurry. Don't throw spare tubes in your tool box or allow them to come In contact with oil and grease. Nearly all automobiles at the New York show displayed spare tire equip- I mont confined to tho rear. I The United States has Invested I about tho samo amount In automo-; automo-; biles as it has in steam railroads The world's auto racing classic at J Indianapolis. May 30, held cash purses amounting to nearly $50,000. The king of Slam is said to have j ordered many canals filled in as an j aid to his good roads program. There Is a greater demand for tho ; motorcyclo In Great Britain than for I any other type of motor vohlcle Thirty states are offering employment employ-ment to some 200.000 men, during the I next six months; on road construc-I construc-I tion I Taxi and bos lines in the United States now number 37.653. I Of the 13.000 Smiths on the sub,-1 script ion list of a popular farm Jour-I Jour-I nil 115 per cent reported by ques-' ques-' tionnalre buying an automobile In 1921. 00 |