Show for meditation ion fOWX fO by LEONARD A BARRETT automobile INDUSTRY THE tal HE general manager of the national automobile chamber of com amerce merce remarked in a recent address laith with production for nine months in excess ol of the full year ot of 1927 there Is eier every y indication that motor vehicles evl wul be made by american manufacturers during the present year or units greater that 1920 1926 and more than last idear while approximately i tears cars and trucks will go to tor for eign countries the dealers in the united states will market almost new vehicles this year and at least new cars after reading these remarks we naturally ask ourselves what does it mean Is the result of the automo alij bd industry expressed only in terms of pleasure and comfort comfor t that the has become a teed fixed feces I 1 alty in busl business iress Is an established fact I 1 ebu but indirectly it argues for prosperity I 1 As a 5 result of the automobile industry pt du stry ry real estate vale values es have bee been greatly increased bm because it has brought the country next nest door to the city it has brought employment toj to dt innumerable inumerable persons persona who otherwise atwould now days be out of work having been displaced by automatic machinery the good roads of the tha i j country would have been impossible ahad had it not been for the automobile tourist government studies have isborn clearly that it Is cheaper to chate have roads than to go without them of them brings large returns jin lowered transportation costs as well As aa in increased property valuations and all other benefits which grow out of improved roads this Is at once apparent when it Is remembered that a little over one halt half of all the automobiles mobiles la in this country are owned by persons living in towns of pop jul ul atlon or less I 1 addition to the industrial progress j which may account to a large extent tot for the increase in automobile prodie alon other causes have made their contribution to that end the lower cost of machines mach laes the cost of gasoline which la is much less than it was several eral years ago the removal of the war tax which only recently went into effect and the growing tendency tor for to awa two cars instead of only one the automobile industry chaa has contributed important values to our progressive age M lat western newspaper union onion |