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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1928)
THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 12, 1928 MB CLEAR T B18S BUSIES Peerless Vice-president Says Attitude of Business . Men Unbeatable "All my life I have been struck !y three outstaDding factors that seem to be characteristic of fuc ressful executives," says Leon German, vice president of the Peerless Motor car corporation. These characteristics are clear liinklnK. nari worn, ana an on- n(tttnl1l tAvrQfllc KlltlnlkQe ;.l life. To me," says Mr. German. ( are the prime essential for cU1f-s as an Individual or as a "Kvfry fall, certain men begin to l' k ahead with dread and to woii'1t about business for the n xt year. It's a remarkable thing that almost every year, as we get int,, early months, these gloom c-iumls evaporate and the erirlt of i.priraisni prevails. It Is this eli gible belief in good business that has made America outstanding as a nation of commerce and Indus try. "No matter what business a man may be In. he is going to find some rough going. Everything can't be on long round of cheer. The automobile business is no ex- ception. Yet, here, too, thse com panies that have carried on. and those executives that have won Buccess, have done sxbjfeause they have worked hard, and cause th.y have coupled with this liard work, a real belief In themselr . . t -I ; tknl. Ati.i in inpir pii in iih II v . hiiii i ii Liini uti ' " v " ' prouuci. "1928 will be a good year. I be- kve. It will be a good year be cause American business men are fighters. They are workers. They are thinkers. The newspapers al ready are flooded with reams of statistics proving that business will be good. It in this belief that inspires confidence and begets business volume. "In Epite of the fact that this is a presidential election year. I don't look for a downward curve in automobile sales. On the other hand. I am convinced that we will pee new records made In automo bile production and an even great er prosperity for men engaged in the business of selling cars. "Further than that, I se a buy ing power in this country of ours that will closely parallel the out put of our factories In 1928. There r be more men working and v -8 generally. I believe, will at their present point, and may go even higher. "Europe, too, has awakened to the value of American-built cars Demand for cars for export has ln- roa?ed materially In the last Tvear. Peerless exoort business has wfrown juu per cent since January, "I am confident, now. thai the little downward swinj; business ex perienced last fall is over, that we have started on an upward swing that means the greatest prusperhj America has ever experienced." among the world's most distin guished cars. "But that 1 only part of the story. Our plants In Detroit and Jackson. Mich., have undergone extensive changes. Our production facilities had to be increased to care for this greater business. These resulted In a new record volume of sales In November, an even higher level per working day in December, and the prospect that both these records would fall many timed in the demands of 1928. "We have strengthened our ser vice and tales outlets In every part of the country. We are al-; ready findi.ig that the demand may be even greater than we can meet. The outlook is most optimistic." "The government has the power to acquire a belt of land a quar ter of a mile wide along the course of new arterial roads so that the state may benefit from the en hanced values created."' Colombia Officials Seek Better Roads Continued prosperity for Colom bia. South America, through the' development of motor transporta-1 tion, is predicted by H. G. Brock. second vU e-president of the Na-j tion Bank of Commerce, in New) York, who has recently returned from a visit to that country. "The present Government is thoroughly alive." he indicates, "to the necessity of improving the transportation facilities of the Re public, and the traveller who re visits Colombia today cannot fail to appreciate the advances that have taken place within the last five years even within the last meet the future needs of the entire year. "What Is needed most at the moment is a comprehensive pro gram of railroad and automobile Republic, rather than to satisfy. road construction, designed to' local demands of particular Iso-j iated sections." ! WE CURE SICK BATTERIES ! Batteries don't tell us about every little pain. They wait until they are too sick to work and then we wish we had paid more atten tion to them. An occasional inspec tion at our service station will keep your battery healthy. Auto Electricians VICK BROTHERS High St. at Trade Salem, Oregon Britain Maintains Large Federal Aid Road System "In one respect at least it may perhaps be permit-sable for the Tnlted Kingdom to challenge com parison with the United States, and that is In the matter of the completeness of the network of highways covering the entire coun try." says C. Herbert Bressey. Chief Engineer, Roads Depart ment, Ministry of Transport, Lon don, In a report to the Interna tional Chamber of Commerce re cently published in this country. "The total length of all the highways repairable by the public Is 178.361 miles. The penetration jf the United Kingdom by this all pervading ramification gives us an almost unrivalled opportunity for the development of road-transport. We have yet far to go before we "an gay that we have taken full advantage of it. 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