Arizona republican., 1918-02-17

enthusiasm into the spirit of the day would have been on a par with other wars.
 FThe organization of mechanical transport today is without doubt the finest piece of business merchandis ing of the war. When this war be- gan Britain had sixty automobile trucks when I last left France she had sixty thousand.
 l went to a mechanical transport depot once in the north of France, and suddenly I looked on the wall. and felt that l was back in Detroit; be- cause there on a great sign I saw the names of thirty two American trucks and cars, yours among them, l am very glad to say. l said, How does this happen?" and the British officer in charge said, Well, you see, we have got so many American cars that we had to set up n special depot for them" It may interest you men to know that on the 1st of September, 1914, after this war had registered four weeks of it's ghastly horror there were eighteen motor trucks in France, and today those eighteen U Ut hS dlc SIlll III NOllllllSSlOll. saw one of them myself, one night, come down the road in Flanders, with shells flying through the air. It was hub deep in mud. and I know that heard a British Tommy say, There is some domned thing the matter with these American cars, but the one thing the matter with them, they always run" That car, gentlemen bod baa, in, continuous aotion cipof the 1st of September, 1914.
 The regular truck equipment of the British army on the day the war be- gan was eighteen motor trucks in England. She had to have trucks she had to buy them every place. She secured the world for anything or rubber tires. The net result is that l today Great Britain uses over one 1 hundred and twenty two different kind of cars. One big truck that sht uses has siXty-seVen different types | The result of all that is that she haS | to use, to keep in stock in one place | in England, 2600000 different spar, | parts. The tragedy of the mechani- 1 cal transport in the war has been thaf l they have not a standardized truck | that there are no interchangeabl, parts.
 Wars may come and go, but tho thing you are in, business, goes or l forever. Peace will some day come and the smoke will clear away iron the battlefields, but you have got tt sell automobiles till Kingdom come Why? Because the world has go to make a living, and the world ha got to have a meal ticket, and nt war ever gave the world anything [, -eat. It took away from it the thing to eat. That is why I say that il the midst of this war America mus 1 prepare for the greatest trade battl that ever happend, the war after tn war. We will be in competition witt countries so wonderfully organize, through this war, that the old feticl of American efficiency and quantit, output will be @ back number
 Let me tell you two concrete things In Great Britain today there are 4S0 controlled factories, 4S00 great bi
 industrial concerns making shells o guns or motor trucks. You ask an
 man who runs one of these factorie
 today what he is going to make afte
 the war. Do you know what he vii
 tell you? q am going to make chea
 motor cars,or safety raZors, or nov
 cities"
 It is a great thing to save for vic
 tory; but it is just as important i this war for us to spend for victory