The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-12-07
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To provide a better understanding of the economic factor
underlying motor transportation in every part of the world,
the first international Motor Transport Congress ever held in
the United States will be convened in May, 1924, in the city Of
Detroit. The congress will be under the auspices of the National
Automobile Chamber Of Commerce. Delegates will attend from
all quarters Of the civilized globe. The conference is to last four
days.
The automotiye industry is of first economic importance in
this country, whatever it may be abroad, and it viii be well
for those who have their millions invested in it to have brought
home to them the fact that the great American market for the
automobile is the American small town and the American farm.
The teeming millions in the great cities might lead the
u%nthinking to imagine that all the motor cars in the world are
bought by the rich city folk, but actually the city consumption
is small as compared with that of the country. More nearly
seventy than fifty per cent of all Of the cars manufactured in
this country, we are told, are bought in towns up to 5000
population. The sooner the manufacturers have this fact driven
home to them the sooner will they see the necessity of giving
greater aid to the small town local dealers, many of whom do
such yeoman work in the stimulation and creating OF a market
for the manufacturers they represent. Some manufacturers with
forward vision fully appreciate what the local dealer is doing,
but others fail to sense his Importance and do not appreciate
his effort.
Great as is the absorption of motor ears in the country, it
would be even greater if the average local dealer could afford
to cover his potential market more intenSively. What he needs
is backing to the limit, and no more constructive work can be
done at the coming conference than the work of bringing before
small town motor market, the backbone of American consump-,
ton, Of everything That is worthwhile.
When the Sco:chn,n rernrnins from a visit to London wa asked
how ne liked the town he said it a wonderful but that the people were
%" df he iox &c copt nGc only nj $50. We Wonder what he eS would ps say of of au1r
T Ta"'l ',@''" Sc { the or ~ea sson' of political and n0 docnty p is at nand' Gather
9oui iC>t N-l'. - mas.
We aw a sollaer the other day-that is he had been a soldier in the
great war Nov nc is selling needles from house to house-needles-
made in Germany. Surely the housewife finds herself IN the horns Of
a dneruma.
Evidently the rational civil service reform league Is not without a
sense of humor It recommends to President Coolidge that the burden"
of 10000 Federal apr Ointments lie taken from the executive shoulders
that all postnlasters he selected by civil service examinations. Surely
a strange hour has been selected for such a recommendation
Show m e the mn with a sorl so dead who never ITO himself hath said
The home town paper is a pre- Is good friend tier all.
CARLYLE wrote That labor. wide q earth has sits summit in heDv =
II ITO WTlLn5 tOCuI ne QUIZ nan alto o In cost If living
If any Of the readers of his newspaper are puzzled what to do with
cir time let them count 'c ''-''or nf letters in the nov colrmn.
see the " -" T+her labor