New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1923, Page 17

B8P.C.OF AUTOS N 1.S. A, AND GANADA Thse Coutris Lead Work Producio and Ownership According te E. M. Miller, statis tictan of the Nationa! Bank of Com- merce in New York there are in the Upited Btates and Canada over 85 per eent of the registered motor vehicles of the world Continuing in the October issue of the bank's magazine, Commerce Monthly, it st that: “The simple facts as to the produe- tion and use of automotive vehieles in the United Btates and Canada are #0 astounding that the attention not only of the business world but of the general publie as well has been fo. cussed on them 4 speculations as to the future of the autometive in- dustry are a fruitful theme of dis. cussion, Wrom the standpoint of value of produet, the industry is now third in the United States, More than 400,000 workers are directly de- pendent on it for a livelihood while the number indirectly dependent on it s much greater, The relationship of this vast Industry to the general well-being of the country Is obviously very close, and a correet understand- ing of the problems connected with it in of vital importance In judging husiness trends in the two leading countries of North America, U, § and Canada Dominate Market ““There is no essentinl difference be- tween the conditioning factors affect. ing the production and use of auto- motive vehicles in the United States and In Canada, but a brief examina- tion of mvallable data for the auto- motive industry 6f the world reveals astonishing differences between the situation of these two and of other countries. At the beginning of 1923 there were about 14,500,000 regis- tered motor vehicles in the world and the United States and Canada pos- seesed 88 per cent of them. The pro- portion of the annual world output of automobiles and trucks produced jointly by the United States Wnd Canada is probably even higher for together they dominate the markets of most importing countries. “The manufacturing skill of American automobile manufacturers and especially the development of | mass production and of consequent | low costs mre among the greatest aghievements of American industry but large-scale production is iteclf en- tirely dependent on basic factors which lfe much deeper. America has no monopoly on the mechanical and managerial skill requisite for mass | production. Its development requires | & heavy investment because of the groat initlal cost of the necessary me- chanical equipment and large-scale production has prevailed in North America because here is found the condition which makes it pay. There 18 @ market for the output, because the rich natural resources of North America in relation to population, combined with the efficient organiza- tion of American {ndustry have result- o4 in @ productive ability on the part of a large proportion of the' working wnnlnuon far in excess of | | | "JUST RECEIVED 2000 PRS. OF SHOES LADIES ! Ak 300 Pair of Fancy BEDROOM SLIPPERS All colors 89(; PR. MEN ! 300 Pair DRESS and WORK SHOES For Quick Sale $2.98 Goodyear Welts 389 MAIN STREET | when country | chasers who fail to complete their « probably exceeds 4,000,000 cars per ! ther growth of the industry would be the minimum needs for the malete nanee of life, and because the tional ireome is widely distributed Auto Opens Up -nlub “Car ownership is exerting ertul influence on the manner ol nn an people and in ne t influence mere bene ful than in m the eonecentra Uen of the population In the ellifs Those employed in them are no long or obliged to live either near thelr work or near an eleetric or steam rail- road, This has greatly inoreased the practicable suburban territory eou- tiglous sueh cities as New York and Chicago but t ect of the auto- mebile has probably been even greater in the environs of the all- er cities, where the automoblle may be used to cover the entire distance to work., BEight, ten or even ffteen | miles are practicable distances for the dally trip, quently shi it more than one mem in employed in the town or eity, the actual cost of ‘commutation by car' may not much exceed the former ex. penditure of raliroad fare, 1In other cases, workers IIving In the same lo- eality frequently share the expense of the daily trip either by actual cash payment, by the use of cars in al- ternate weeks, or by means of somé similar arrangement, “A factor of great lmporllm‘n'lu Judging the future of the industry is A very large proportion of cars brought on time, Automotive Indus- tries estimate that 76 per cent of all passonger cars sold In 1822 were brought by this method. In all cases where a car serves a definite econ- omic purpose, such as ear ownership | by farmers, by others wivo must have cara in their husiness, and all those to whony Investment in a car and expenditure for its maintenance are an offset to, or a substitute for other expenditures, purchase of a car on time does not nccessarily differ from purchase by means of deferred pay- wents of tools, other equipment or even homes. When purchase of a car by that method hastens the time or suburban life be- it may actually The pur- comes a possibility, assist towad home ownership. percentage of passenger car payment is apparently quite small and resultant losses have been ncg- ligible, 3,000,000 Production For I.!'\ “It is now the judgment of the trade that more than 3,000,000 cars will be produced in the current year. This is materially below the present capacity of the industry, which now year, truck included, and which is still expanding. While somewhere there is a point beyond which fur- unsound, there is no method by which that point can be as yet even approximately be determined. The reasonable expectation 1{s that the leaders of industry, by means of care- ful study of their markets and by| the exertion of ordinary business foresight will gradually adjust out- put to ¢hanging conditions, as they may arise. The automobile industry of North America is, therefore, not a mushroom growth but a logical development of the American vehicle industry. Like every other industry it will unquestionably continue to en- counter difficulties but cssentially it For Men, Women and NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, It has expanded (o meet 4| n the el s sound demand which has s erigin basie conditions unhrhlu. the sation of the contnent.” GREAT BUDDHA OF JAPAN UNDAMAGED Subject of Much Rejoicing nli People of That Faith There Washington, D, C, Oct. §.~"The great bronze Ruddha of Kamakura, the eseape of which from damage | {the recent earthquake \s reported be the subject of much rejoicing among pious Buddhists of Japan, 1s one of the truly wonderful statues of the world," says a bulletin from the Washington, D, ', headquarters of | the National Geographio soelety | “Huge as the statue is—fifty feel high In a sitting posture--it is faith. tully preportioned d its features show & beauty and calm serenity Ihnl could hardy be excelled in a . fully modeled amall image. Th seen to be an accomplishment indeed | when it is realized that the eyes alone are four feet long, The oye balls are of solld gold, and a large jowel-like bosa In the center of the forehead is made of a thirty pound lump of &ll- ver. Has Weathered Other Storma. “The Great Buddha, or the Daibut- sue as the Japanese call the image, has sat in ita present position sinee 1252 and in its nearly seven cent §les has looked out upon more than one great catastrophe. It has ftself been endangered on several occasions, It was originally enclosed by a great temple structure, but this was de- stroyed by tidal waves in 1360 and again two years after Columbus dis- covered America. Since then the Titanle figure has sat unsheltered tow- ering agrinst ita background of green trees and hills, “The Kamakura Daibutsu, life most bronze statues, consists only of a shell of metal and is hollow {nside. A pas sageway lcads to the interlor from which one may climb on ladders to the level of the shoulders and may peep out through tiny windows. “Only in Japan can be found today a bronze statue to compare with the gigantic image at Kamakura. There is one other Daibutsu, at Nara, near Osaka, which is fifty-three fcet high. This was the original clossal bronze Buddha, of the islands and was cast in | 749 A. D. Unlike the Kamakura sta- tue it is still sheltered by a building. Kamakura Once Japan's Capital. “The Christ of the Andes on the Chile-Argentine line, one of the larg- est bronzes outside Japan, is 26 foeet high. haps the best known of ancient huge ! bronze statues, been 90 to 100 feet high In a standing | posture. An earthquake, interestingly enough, brought about its 4I»s(rucnnn‘ before the Christian Era. “The Daibutusu is one of tha few ' remaining symbols of the past great- ness of Kamakura, now a modest fish- | ing vlllage and watering place, but: once the real capital of Japan. 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Re thus in 2asy 1each of Ye ma Tokyo and the teeming plaing nearh the Gireat Buddha of Kamakura draws annually many theusands of pilgrims from the Buddhist partion of the popuiation and is probably mueh hetter knawn than the slightly larger| Daibutan at Nara CHEAP TRAVEL CONTEST | Papers of London Relng Swamped With Claims of Trareling rihest On Least Money Londen, Oet, 5. Cheap traveling on | the continent has temporarily super. eeded nen-stop dancing and long dis nee ervicket scoring as the summer ze of Tngland. The honors of the eheap traveling econtest, it ap pears, will g0 to the person who tras ols the farthest and the longest on the least money The dally papers | are being swamped with letters from | claimants. 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