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Show Automobile in Future Will Be Life Necessity A prediction that the automobile will in the near future be considered la necessity In the life of tho people of .our country and rank next after food, clothing, housing and tho telephone tele-phone In its Iniportani M was voiced by A. B C Hardy, president and eneriil manager of olds Motor works, Lau-Islng. Lau-Islng. Mich. In an address at the annual an-nual banquet of service manager, held ... liuiuHcuvii nn me weeks con-ventlon con-ventlon Of these men from all sections , of the country. More than fifty service managers representing distributors from coast lo coast, hard Hardy predict that la the next five years startling- Improvements Improve-ments would take place In the automobile, auto-mobile, world, due principally to research re-search work now bienfr carried ,n ut tho General Motors laboratories ln Dayton. Ohio. "There Is Httl doubt." Hardy said "but that the principal mode of transportation trans-portation ln the future will be tho automobile and while today It Is far more popular than the railroads, in certain respt-cts. the next few years will see an even greater growth In Its business" Hardy said he believed that It will be the automobile which will open 1 the way to better transportation and predicted that the motor car will w,- ! sum" an importance In American lift surpassed only by "our dally food, ciothlng. housing and the telephone." "Speaking of the automobiles of th future." Hardy suld, "It is Impossible for any man to predict Just what they will be like, but it Is safe to say they will be greatly changed due to experiments experi-ments now belnjc carried on and they will bo more economical, lighter n weight and more powerful as well as cheaper ln cost." i |