Arizona republican., 1917-05-13
JEFFERY AGENTS
 WILL ASSIST IN PRODUCING FOOD

McArthur Brothers, local agents Tor the Jeffery motor cars and trucks, have been invited to take part in the natienwi fight against food short age and high prices, as now being conducted by the Nash Motor com pany. Every effort will be exerted by this gigantic concern to assist Uncle Sam in producing the largest food
 ir ,'n ta histo,-v of the nation.
 Nash employees are to be enlisted in the ation rf4nA light against food shortage and high prices, if they take advantage of the offer made them by c. W: Nash, president of the Nash Motors company. A great vacant plot of ground belonging to the Nash Mo tors company, and as much other land as is necessary to fill the appli- cations, will be plowed and narrowed at the eompany's expense, then divided into garden plots and apportioned free to each employe who will agree to plant and care for a garden this sum- mer.
 This offer was enthusiastically re- ceived by the three thousand employees who heard MT Nash talk.
 The garden committee received five hundred applications for garden plots. MT. Nash spoke as follows:
 Every one of you has read in the daily papers the great need of this country for more food stuff. That means bigger crops: rlore acres plant eN IL means that every fence cor ner, every tillabie foot of soil should be plowed and planted this spring.
 Heretofore, We have only had to feed our hundred millions here at home, Eut DOW it is up to US to sup IlY to our allies abload with food as we'll
 Every one of us should have gar den: and insofar as we are able, we are going to make it possible for each of you to have one. The Nash Motors company owns acres upon acres of vacant ground that should be planted this spring. We will have this land plowed and narrowed at our own eX- pense and to every man who will agree to. plant and care for q garden we viH allot plot of this ground for that purpose"
 tiful machines. Just three times this number are stored in the coInpany's service station and storeroonIs where parts and other necessities are kept. While other stocks in the district may not be so large as that of the Border land company, taking an estimate of ten new cars for each of the fifteen dealers of the city an addition of 150 motor cars is made to the already large total.
 Estimating the population of the city as above and the population of the county as 60000, declares MT. Martin additional interesting figures are dis covered in regard to the per capita ownership of motor cars. Per capita pleasure car ownership in the county as unit is almost as large as in the city of Phoenix according to these figures. Where in the city there are ten automobiles to every 100 persons there are ten cars in the county to every 120 persons. This figure is in- teresting in that it discloses the gen. eral use to which the pleasure car is put in the entire district irrigated by the Roosevelt reservoir.
 Tt is easy to demonstrate the inn portance and vast size of the motor car industry in the Salt River valley declares MT. Martin. "A short visit in the business district of Phoenix is the most convincing evidence possible to discover Last evening 1 walked up Central avenue as far as Van Buren street during the hour before 6 o'clock l watched the passage of motor cars from the business district to the resi- dence district in the northern part of the city. l did not count the cars, but have lived in many of the largest cities of the United States and can not name a single individual city where 1 have seen more cars under similar circumstances.
 During the progress of the Chau- tauqua Phoenix ownership of cars was easily seen. In front of the show
 tent block cars lined curbs on each side of the street. In the two blocks above and below the show tent on Central avenue the same condition ex- lSted while on the side streets sur rounding the Chautauqua tent there were hundreds of other motor vehicles parked at frequent intervals. After the opening of the evening entertain- ments 1t was impossible to find parking space within a block of the tent.
 T have prepared these figures not in the idea that there is any possibil- ity of Phoenix ever being depopulated. The chances of an attack on this city contemplate. If the waters from the dam should be released they would not injure the city of Phoenix. But, there is much interest in automobiles even iii the strenuous times of war, and am certain that the efforts of the Borderland Motor company to keep the public informed on matters of note in the motor world will be appreciated and accepted in the most receptive mood"