Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-01 | Page 24 | Auto Travel is Increasing Says Reports

r AUTO TM VEL VELa IS INCREASING a SAYS REPORTS I c. c I cr ci o den Trams Trains Turn Travelers to Motor Driven Cars DIDDLE LE WEST VEST USES MOTORS l FOR TRAVEL Demonstrates Demand for forState fir State Built Main l IIi Oln ars t pv Highways r Washington ashington W Aug AuS' Highways 31 HIs Highways travel by means o of the pa passenger au nn- automobile has Increased during the I present summer full fully fully- 50 0 per cent according according ac ac- lC- lC cording to figures which have ha been complied compiled b by the national road bureaus bu bureaus bu- bu c us at nt the A A. A. A A. A Washington ashin ton and j bU-j New cw York City headquarters The 1110 increasing Increasing In Increasing In- In creasing number o of road Journeys journe's has I resulted from overcrowded o trains and the difficulty o of assured accommodations accommodations accommodations and conveniences except to a I comparatively limited number of or trav trw elers While a percentage of or the rood trips have ha had to do to with vacation periods pe perIods periods pe- pe a 3 preponderating quantity has related elated to commercial necessities and a consequent saving sa In time obtained by br uninterrupted d to door-to-door trips Director General of or Railroads McAdoo McAdoo Mc- Mc rc- rc Adoo has hag just Issued a statement In regard to railroad travel tra calling upon the public g generally generally- to use pa passenger er train service ser at the tho lowest possible minimum Mr Ir McAdoo thus presents the case Among the tho man many patriotic duties hp of nf the American public at this ti time ls Is the th duty t to tre re refrain i- i ln from traveling traveling traveling trav trav- eling unnecessarily Every Ever man woman woman woman wom wom- an and child who can avoid using passenger passenger pas pat trains at nt this time should hould do doso so so I earnestly hope that th they will do so Chairman Carl G. G Fisher of or the tho A A. A A. A A. A touring board hoard makes this comment upon Mr Ir McAdoo's cAdoo's plea With rail ran lines congested b by essential freight haulage it certainly I Is the duty of everyone enone to cut down his use of or this utility and o of course the thc only answer is th highway and md the self propelled vehicle which now not can show anew its ability to abridge distances and md quickly quick tr transport people from one place to tomother another mother in the tho necessary transaction o of their dally duties In In the the- middle west it is tho the expected ex- ex expected expected ex ex- thing for tor the average passenger car owner to employ his vehicle in practically all o of his town to Journeys whether the they be within tho the state or into an n adjoining common common- wealth e The situation has hae demonstrated ed unequivocally the great need in every every ev ev- ery state of a state plan o of state built and state maintained highways and if it the country countr as a 3 whole were thus thua equipped at nt the present time it would mean the saving of ot millions O of dollars dollars dol dol- lars lars which wh-ch could be invested in Liberty Lib Lib- crt erty loans owns and other helpful forms of ot financing tin the great reat expenditures which we must meet It Is my belief belle that every very American soldier oMler who returns from France after having personally seen and tra traveled over oer Its great highway system willbe will wilt willbe be a a. forceful find and persistent advocate ocate to establish a 3 similar situation in our c country even en though it be man many times tho the size elze o of the prosperous nation which Has s benefited so thoroughly from the theod good od roads road wisdom of ot a a. certain Napoleon Napoleon Na Na- apoleon a- a Bonaparte