Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-07
HOOVER OPTIMISTIC
OVER AUTO OUTPUT
Refuses to Believe Nation Is
Riding to Poorhouse in g.
50O,O 900 New Cars.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January president
Hoover refuses to believe that America
| is riding to the poorhouse in the
100000 automobiles she purchased
last year.
Speaking by telephone from Wash
ington last night, he addressed the Ma
tional Automobile Chamber of Com
merce as follows:
st am informed that if were speak
| ing to every person whose livelihood
is directly or indirectly dependent upon
the industry I should be speaking to
! person in every 10 of the people of
our country. Therefore the prosperity
Of the industry is the anxious thought
of the Nation, and everybody wishes
you well in your plans to expand the
manufacture and use of your product.
Dependency Not justified.
1.-THE dependency of some people over
| the future is. not borne out by the
| statistical evidence of prospects in re-
spect to the automobile industry. am
| informed by the Department of Com
| merce that, despite the depression, you
have manufactured and sold during the
year 1880 over 3,500,000 new automo-
biles You have also disposed of large
| inventories of year ago. Hundreds of
miles Of new roads are being constructed
every day in the world, and these in
creaSing miles must be equipped with
more automobiles. Altogether the future
| for the industry does not warrant any
dependency.
mo one needs to recall the utility
and importance of the automobile in
| our national life. I have often Won
dered, however, If part of its popularity
was not due to the exhilarating sense
of power that we all inhale through the
mastery over time and space we gain
from 1t. 1t brings sense of freedom
that makes our spirit rise even though
| it sometimes invites for some people the
depressing ministrations of a motor
cycle policeman.
Il wish you success in your meeting
and in the organization plan which you
put forward for the new year Every
automobile and truck which you make
and sell adds to employment in a hun
dred different trades. Yours is indeed a
great and vital industry, the success of
which is important to every one of us.
I sincerely wish you a prosperous new
year"
julius H. Barnes, chairman of the
board OF the United States Chamber
OF Commerce, made an address in
which he said that business and gov
eminent together must restore economic
security and allay public anxiety.
Mutually Dependent.
Business and government become in
terlaced and mutually dependent as
never before" he said, and must I'M
derstand and appraise the delicacy of
the fabric and the potency of the forces
which may sustain or rend 1t.
Public welfare requires that both
forces of leadership shall devotedly
seek today to set in motion all the in
fluences which tend to renew and ex-
pand the operation of employing indus
try. and today the chief need toward
that end runs to such measures as will
allay individual anxiety and uncertainty
as to assured employment and as to
the attitude of government toward the
investment OF effort and capital in
industry"
Features Of Exhibits.
Features of various cars on display at
the show:
Dodge-All-steel monopiece body;
double center drop frame, statically
and Dramatically balanced crankshaft
De Soto-Welded all-steel bodies:
Enthusiastically controlled cooling; stat
ically and dynamically balanced crank
shaft with impulse neutralizer
Essex-Double drop reinforced frame
under doors and windows; three jet
carburetor; labyrinthian oil cooling
Franklin Airplane streamlining
chassis hexibility; aluminium cylinder
heads.
Graham-Oilless spring shackles:
manifold design; special carburetor with
accelerating pump; synchosilent four
speed transmission.
Hudson-Seamless steel bodies; sound
absorbing panels fuel bypass; labyrin-
THAN engine oil c0OlinO
Hupmobile-Free wheeling; bodies in
sulated against noise and heat oil COOL
ing; carburetor fumer, carburetor ST
lencers.
La Sale - Synchro-mesh transmits
sion; harmonized steering system; in
take muffler.
Lincoln Has Free Wheeling.
Iincoln-Free wheeling; low center
of gravity; drop frame; dual down draft
carburetor centered above engine
blocks; carburetor air Silencer.
Marmon - Double-dome combustion
chamber; duplex down-draft manifold
and chassis modulator in Fights; alu-
minum engine with caSe-hardened steel
cylinders; special twin-plate type clutch
and three-speed transmission unit with
engine featured IN sixteen.
Nash-Safety transmission; twin ig-
milton; automatic chassis fabrication;
automatic radiator shutters: down.
draft carburetor; cable-operated brakes.
Oakland - Synchro-mesh transmits
sion; extensive rubber insulation; COM
bination intake Silencer and air cleaner
cross-flow radiator
Oldsmobile-Synchro transmits
sion with quiet second gear: downdraft
carburetor; carburetor intake silencer;
open Joint" body construction: COM
plete insulation between chassis and
body
Packard - Four-speed transmission;
automatic fabrication; non-shatterable
glass; positive feed gasoline pump;
shimmy and wheel whip elimination;
increased headroom; noiSeless rear axle
gears.
Plymouth-Big car size body; bon
derized sheet metal parts; full pressure
fabrication; hydraulic shock absorbers.
Great ROOminess Is Feature.
Pontiac-Great roominess; cross-f1ow
radiator; air siiencer; heavy dash insu-
lation; metal windshield pillars integral
with cowl
Peerless-Four-speed transmission; di-
rect in fourth; cable-controlled four
wheel brakes; new type vibration damper
wired for radio.
Pierce -Arrow-Free wheeling, duplex
exhaust heated inlet manifold, thermo-
statically controlled heat, cable-con-
trolled brakes. shimmy elimination.
Reo-Silent second gear. chrome
nickel cylinder block and crank case,
aluminium alloy pistons with very close
clearance, vibration dampener.
Studebaker-Free wheeling, carbu-
rotor silencer, high turbulence manifold,
double-drop frame, semi-automatic
choke, engine vibration damper, stati-
cally and dramatically balanced crank
shaft, full-power muffler.
Stutz-Worm-dr rear axle, side
bumpers, vacuum operated brakes, Ryan
lights. heavy-duty clutch.