Show li st Intermountain Truck Train Awaits Crack Crack- of Gun iun UNLIKE OUR ROADS ROMES ROME'S WERE WELLI NELLI WELL NELL I i CONSTRUCTED I 1 j S w N Neglected d J for or Years Local Roads to Be Put to fo o Test by Truck Train Tho The Roman empire furnished the first flirt concrete example of or tho the value alue of at good coot roads The merit of or the Roman roads roada which connected all parts of or the em em- piro was not only that they were wore welt wall constructed It lay principally In the fact tact that they were through roads alor all at of or them leading to Rome Romo and anti from Rome The Tho Rome Romo road did not stop on the slippery edgo edge of at a morass on tho the frontiers to be resumed some miles miles' away in another land And In these days das when wo tire are aro steadily forgetting the lessons of or the tho war and centering our efforts In a a. profiteering scramble It Is little wonder that our highways go unattended and each year ear as small email a sum as ns can bo be safely spent Is 18 allotted to their construction and upkeep upkeep up up- keepIt keep It must be remembered that these roads of at Rome brought something else elso besides militarism to the empire arid and hence henc to the world They carried culture culture cul cul- ture wealth and enlightenment and taw raw to the four tour corners of at the tho uni verse 41 To T Test Tent d Roads Road For the first time In the tho history of or ortho tho the great intermountain empire the tha roads that have been successfully neglected neg neg- for tor years will bo be put to tho test iby by a a. grand fleet of ot power wagons Monday May 17 17 the Itinerary of at the tho local truck ship truck train begins anO It If the roads Toads hold out it is anticipated d dby by the tho advocates nd of or modern freight hauling methods that the tho truck train will m not only go so al all the w way y to Boise Ida Its final stopping station n but butwill butwill will wUl make tru truck k train history that will compare favorably with that of or any ariY other truck caravan to take to the high highways was of ot the nation during ship ship- truck by-truck and good roads week When man constructs roads that display the same Ingenuity and cIrcumspection circumspection circumspection cir cIr- cir cir- ho he has employed in de designing designing de de- signing and equipping motor trucks haulage problems will be forever settled and tho the old II H. C. C L. L bugabOO banished with tho the consent of or the profiteers Gns Gas Wagon Making 1 History Rivet your our thought on good roads and truck ship week May 17 to 22 During this week the power wason wagon will m make ko truck history In every o section section sec sec- tion of or this broad land The accessibility access access- 1 and utility of ot the truck will Ill be bo tested In a n wa way to arouse the interest of or the tho most biased Tho The economy and stability of ot the motor truck will be bo bosho sho shown n or disproved in no uncertain manner The Intermountain caravan will tackle an Herculean task It will have to drive over as poor roads aa as may bo be found anywhere In tho the United States Yet those who vho are guilding the destinies of ot this first great truck demonstration have such an nn abiding faith In tho American truck that they have havo no fear that any serious trouble will eventuate while and have are laid raId their plans for a Q successful hike Ike I to the tho end of ot the road at Boise Bolee |