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Show M IS BINDING ALL TRAVELERS Highway Is Called Giver of Enjoyment. An Influence to Friendship Much h-s been written about the road r.s an Innate thing. Authors have word-painted the beauties of tne broad hlghwny. Torts have BUng (Tie praises t the open road. Artists have painted the silent mysteries of nature's na-ture's wonderful breathing spaosw The penluses of verbal txpresslon nave done a master work In drawing forth an appreciation for the routes of common com-mon travel, these great stretches or land with numerous tributaries, which are the connecting links between a rural and urban people blndlnif them, grip-like, Into a more sociable family This fact, no doubt. Is responsible for the oft-used term good roads." !f their goodness enderl here, their influence influ-ence would be somewhat limited. Ad It Is. they are cosmic for goon. The pleasure-seeking motorist glides over the smooth -surfaced roads w.th positive contentment and breatnea with freedom the freshness of wooer B nd fields, But what Is true or lite relationships applies equally to t!e broad highway. One cannot always I receive pleasure and not expert to glw something In return. The road, being a constant giver Of enjoyment, exacts a toll In exchange an expression or self in an emergency. This Is the personal side of the road that which invites helpf uines." to the distressed and makes the disabled motorist a newly-made frlenfl If the goodly influence in-fluence of the road were here clTum- j rcrlbed. its righteousness would be r.--Strlcted in scope. There is another icharactsi "agisting from the roan , which mukes it in Xi-v.Lh a missionary. Pot here at times birth Is given to the hlchest and noblest qualities of iin- ' man nature. A pedestrian may be roaming Idly along .hc highway and he Is met by a motoii"t alone. The walker Is csked to ride, the men r-el r-el ing 'dS and cltho strangers, thy are mnde sociable people seir-ishness seir-ishness has been rohbed of he:nM. Thfn. aain. the car may seat soveral occupant3. and the knight of the hlsrn-way hlsrn-way Is Invited to share an unoccupied place ami thejr society. He reads ut the Invitation sympathy, kindness mm realises that therr Is humsnuy !n every mile of the average of mortal wayfaring. All that needed is me circumstance to call those finer inherent inher-ent character'sUcs into expression. From Ainericn Motorist. oo |