PROSPERITY IN U.S.A.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16921, 30 December 1925, Page 12

PROSPERITY IN U.S.A.

CAB DRIVERS WHO OWN PRIVATE CARS. INCREA SED EFFICIENCY. The remarkable proscperity of the United States is the keynote of a report which has been issued in London on tho refcent visit to the United States of Colonel the Hon. Vcrnan, Willcy, president of the Federation of British Industries, and Mr. Guy Locock. They state'that they were struck -by the greatly increased 'efficiency of production and the increasing competition that Britain must expect from tho United States in tho world's markets. Emphasis is also laid on the "regrettable misapprehensions in the minds of the American public of the real state of affairs in Great Britain." An example of the prosperity of the United St«tcK was afforded by a. visit to a Washington garage. "There were more than fifty Fords and other cars parked round it," says th'a report. "We learned that these were the private cars of taxicab drivers, practically all of whom drive to their work in the morning in' their own private cars." The activity in some businesses is described as phenomenal, and there has also been an 'enormous increase in.ofu. ciency of production. A warning is added in the report that it is a "profound and dangerous delusion" to make light of Amercan competition.