Arizona republican., 1921-01-30

CHAMBER GIVES REASONS FOR
 PROSPERITY

In an advertisement published in the Columbus. Ohio, Dispatch early this month, the National Automobile Cham Der of Commerce and the Motor and Accessory Manufacturers association set forth some pungent facts regarding the industry that will bear reprinting and careful consideration by all.
 The advertisement is headed The Automobile Show Forecasts Your Pros perity-Share It." It also calls for the | fact that ten billion dollars worth Of work is to be done.
 The following are some of the para graphs from this advertisement which are especially significant: Money, materials and men are now ready to start work that has been neg lected for three years"
 The railroads must spend a billion dollars for repairs and improvements l Another half billion dollars must go l into highway work"
 Every localit% is short of school buildings, houses, etc"
 "one city alone has s16.0e0.O00 avail able for sewers and water mains.''
 Hotels are needed everywhere
 Prices have been so high-men have been so busy at other things and money was so engaged in other enterprises that public work has not kept pace
 with our needs"
 Now workmen are eager for jobs
 Money seeks investment in all direcr
 tions''
 Charles NJ. Schwab says. Never in
 our lifetime have the shelves of the
 world been so bare. And I want to go
 on record as saving that nothing could
 be healthier for American business
 than the very condition we are passing
 through. It merely means that Amer ica has closed up her war factory and
 Is digging up for peace production.' 7"
 Such periods do not last long. Re
 member the things said about hard times when the war ended. Some pre- dicted that 1t would take two years to
 demObilize 4.000.000 soldiers, for they said without jobs for al the released 1 men all activity must stop. And mer- : chants did stop buying. Lower prices r were prophesied. Factories felt it and slowed down.
 But within six months we were at : full production in all lines, without enough workers to meet the needs. The national automobile shows were held in January and February in 1919, just at { the time when the most dire predic-
 tions were being made and when sol ( diers were coming home by the tens ot s thousands'
 Our industry revealed it's faith then. 1 We feel and show greater confidence Q now that prosperity for you and all Of g us is fast returning"
 If Transportation is most important now. Production was the demand then 2 Now distribution is of first importance $ and economical distribution is impos- y sible without the automobile. Its in
 fiuence touches every activity It ex-
 tends to every cross road. and without
 t city transportation lines would break
 down under their increased burdens
 The farmer would be unable to do hi.
 work or to deliver his goods to market S Railroad lines would be deprived ot
 the feeders that bring goods to then ; over every highway. Living cost. . would rise and land values would fall ; "One million automobiles are re
 quired for replacement alone. Can Vol . imagine this city without automobiles y Will anyone who has ever owned al :. automobile long endure without one . Merely to maintain the present numbei o means replacement of million car V V a year
 ,e Figure out your own future th' is same way We are wearing out clothe
 and shows faster than such article = can be produced People 10 the numbe = of 10000 900 must be fed. clothed an, 'i housed. Children are outgrowinI
 their things. Every article that peopI = use will be wanted and people will fin, @ hways to get them once that need i q manifested. We do not beat the drum
 of hollow optimism. It Is real