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Show TRANSPORTATION ON LIFE NECESSITIES ESSENTIAL ; Transportation isone of the great- ', est necfssities of life. We require food, fuel clothing, shelter and transportation. Without transportation, the other necessities could not be distributed. , Transportation moves the seed to the farms and the crops away. It moves food and clothing to merchants' merchan-ts' stores and distributes them to the people who need them. It moves materials ma-terials for building purposes. Without transportation our cities would wither and die; ;pople would starve. Without transportation the farmer would have to learn again how to make his own clothing. The railroad stands foremost because be-cause it gives every man the advantage advan-tage of directing to the best market the commodity he sells, whether It be a product of the soil or factory, or man's own labor. It stands foremost because it is closer to the needs of the individual than any other efficient transportation transporta-tion means yet invented. |