Motors

Four out of five (19,999,436 put of 25,973,928) motor cars of the world are in the U. S.

Figures came last week from the Department of Commerce, which had just tabulated the relative 1925 statistics. These figures show one machine for each six of the U. S. population, one for each 71 of the entire world's.

Some other national figures: CARS .......RATIO TO POPULATION

Britain ....................1,474,573 ...1:37

France ......................855,000 ....1:46

Canada ......................727,594 ... 1:12

Germany .. ..................539,830.... 1:18

Italy .......................184,700.... 1:216

Argentina ...................181,250 ....1:53

Brazil .......................64,950 ....1:471

Russia .......................18,500..... 1:5042

The rest ...................1,928,095 ...1:725

Self-sequestered Thibet, with 2,000,000 souls, has only one motor vehicle, a motor cycle, for its stamping, prayer-whirling priests to scowl at.