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Show CROPS TO AID MOTOR SALES j Optimism Shown By Manufacturer Manu-facturer Despite Big Railroad Strike In spite of tJie critical aspect of the J railroad strike situation Fred B. sid.'P of the Hupp Motor Car corpo- j ration. In a hurried trip Into Indiana and Kentucky last week found much to encourage the automobile manufacturer. manu-facturer. The labor difficulty, In hl opinion, Is practically the only remaining obstacle ob-stacle In the country's march toward prosperity which was so Impressively bcij-iin several months ago. Indiana with splmdld crops, according ac-cording to the information Mr Sld"S received fro mllupmoblle represent x- tlves, promises one of the best buylnc ! fall seasons In years, i In Kentucky he wa told that the) tobacco crop will be exceptionally larjre. the demand promises to far ' exceed the available supply, and there is every reason to expect better prices and more prospcrlt yfor the tobacco growers. In Louisville he was told by one of th- southern representatives for Hup-, mohllc that vorywhere soih of tho Mason and Dixon iln ond east of tho ' Mississippi, the situation Is more en-couraglng en-couraglng this year than for several yenrs past. The confidno which the local Hupmoblle men. in the territory mentioned, men-tioned, have in the general situation j Is manifested. Mr Sides points out. by th- absence of any slowing up in demand such as thpt which might loff- ; Ically I I orpocted to follow the grave labor cmtroversy and Its ramlflca- 1 tlons of the last few weeks. "The "peneral attitude In the plSaeS I visited." he said, "seems much mor.-optimistic mor.-optimistic tha notherwiss The people peo-ple I talked with while admitting the sesiousness of the wainotit Involv- i lnR so many m.n. gives one the Im- ' prcsslon that they regard It simply In the nature of a mistake and mlsun-; derSsnding which will soon be corrected. cor-rected. "With the railroads for example. I thev can't understand how the ron- 1 tending factions, realising that fie1 strike means a lor of probably at 1 least $5,000,000 a day to the strikers and billions to tho Induct lo of the ; country, ran much loncer continue j without some kind of a settlement. "And once a permanent s.-tt'emi.t j Is achieved, if it comes In time, they I Kuarant-'o that they wll! tnsJCC the I most of Ihelr crop nbunfl i'u In a 1 way that will assure a greater era 1 of prosperity than tiny hav experiment experim-ent Sd for a long time." 00 |