Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-03

a Ntney he is suffering intensely iVih eN'V
iessness.
TO return for a moment TO that pnre'y
rural or rlraiy pure state Of Kansas anu
its automania, the last report from the rs
sembied dealers who are keeping close tabs
an tba wheat crop was that before January
the sunfiower state will own more cars than
ou Of Canada. The last total Canada hung
nm was 1900. This is certainly doing
mighty well for a state that has no Dig
cities Missouri. with it's two metropolitan
centres, ST. Louis and Kansas city barely
noses out the state OF thousand reforms
II the Kansans cannot buy rum ana
cigarettes they certainly can buy cars. The
iiouor interests are not likely TO make any
great capital out OF this fact though they
might turn to the State OF Iowa which hasn't
got prohibition yet In all it's Kansas entirety
and point out that the farmers of that super
latively productive province had registered
100000 cars on July I, or only 1000 less than
the Golden state Of California, birthplace oil
the jitney. playground Of multitudes OF rich
tourists and knock about grounds Of Charley
Chaplin But then the population of Iowa
is 2,50O0OO as against 1,75o,OOO for Kansas
Furthermore Iowa is our premier agricul-
turaI state. and last year her farmers con-
tributed one billion to the wealth of their be-
Keep Your Eyes on the Tape
But think of It, 100000 cars for Iowa! So
close on the heels of Pennsylvania that youh
have to keep your eyes focused close on the
tape when the figures for the year are hung
UP next January. The Iowa dealers say
their figures will top 100000, total of 4SoVO
more cars than Iowa registered last year
New York naturally, is still in the lead, with
a registration above 100000 Illinois is sec
ond with more than 10000. with Ohio trail
ing very close Up to June Ohio had reg
istered 144T5O cars, which gave her good
fat margin over Pennsylvania Indeed Iowa
and California are going to make the Key
stone state hustle to the limit to edge them
out of fourth place.
Michigan the home of the bulk Of the in
dustry, is well up in the first ten States
with a registry of 9946O cars up to July H.
Indiana reported S1,60S registrations on July
l. and Wisconsin ended her fiscal year on
June 30 with a total of n 100 cars. Minnesota
had just a shade under Wisconsin, and then
came New Jersey Missouri and Kansas.
California has certainly been raking In the
auto license fees Her total receipts from
this source up to May 10 were H749,13S75,
which was more than the half year receipts
that 1t is the most motorifc city in America,
with about 10000 cars registered to date for
the county Only a thousand or so of these
are jitneys
The moving picture concerns out there in
Climateria or Cafeteria as San Francisco Is
fond of calling It's nourishing rival, use
powerful lot of cars and use them mighty
roughly, too, The photoplay people in and
around Los Angeles are using s2,OO0,00O worth
Of motor trucks and passenger carriers. Just
one concern and it's actors are represented
by 300 machines Scores of used cars are
bought for wrecking purposes. Southern
California alone is buying about SS0OO0,oOO
worth of this year.
And so you can go on almost endlessly
with statistics and facts of cars, cars, cars,
and then more cars. The automobile trade
is still infant industry, though a billion
dollar baby of SURPRISING huskiness. OF
small Ford cars more than 100000 have been
turned out to date, and it is rumored on
fairly good authority that Henry will keep
on making few more of them.