Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-12-03 | Page 14 | Country Back at Normalcy

COUNTRY BACK AT NORMALCY Dodge Brothers President Says Business Conditions Gkod "Healthy from the feet up" is the way F. J. Haynes. president of Dodge Brothers, describes the country's business busi-ness condition, after a six weeks' I "listening tour" on which he was ac-'companied ac-'companied by John A. Nlchol3, Jr., 'general pales manager of Dodge Brothers, Haynes and Nichols visited practically practi-cally every important city in the northwest and along the Pacific coast from Vancouver to Dos Angeles. "We Just listened." 6ald Haynes. "We heard what our dealers thought J we heard what their bankers had to l say and we got first-hand opinions , from merchants of all sizes and descriptions de-scriptions And the sum total of tho I whole scries of observations and opln-! opln-! ions Is this. I "The country is back to normal. Its recovery from the feverish overexertion over-exertion of war time la practically I complete. Tho new cycle of propsper-1 propsper-1 ity has otartcd But It Is not tho I prosperity of boom times. It is thc i bound, Healthy sort of prosperity which develops with steady firmness. Bankers and merchants everywhere ! regard it as a substantial, permanent Improvement. They are content to see a gradual development because jthe yhave only recently witnessed a tragic example of th other kind of development! he kind that accumu- lates so much momentum that th I brakes of good business judgment are 1 useless in an emergency." Haynes said the Improvement was l even more noticeable in the larger !ities and towns than in the rural sections, although the purchasing power and inclination of the latter aro ini reaalng appreciably day by day. Haynes and Nichols were Impressed 1 with the complete absence of any of the antagonism which has been attributed at-tributed to bankers by automobile 'men in some sections of tho country I "We found that there Is certainly j nothing but thc most friendly uttltude toward dealers," Haynes said. "The average banker today views certain makes of cars as standard merchan- dise. Instead of condemning the auto-mobile auto-mobile as a whole, he has come more jand more to differentiate between , typ 3 and makes of automobiles and 1 kinds and classes of automobile dealers. deal-ers. The banker's attitude depends 1 largely on what the car and the deal' r I stand for. And that attitude Is entirely en-tirely proper and In accordance with jthe highest business standards.''