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Show 11! GRA1GE Organization Puts Stamp of Approval on Town-send Town-send Bill. Of national Interest to truck owners is a series of conferences which representatives representa-tives of tho National Orange are holding with Senator Townsend of Michigan relative rela-tive to hif bill in congress providing fur the building and maintenance of a national na-tional highway systepi by the government govern-ment under a federal commission. A. O. Savage, of the Savage Jlotor company. Salt Lake Federal and Coni-! Coni-! me roe truck dealer, points out that Lie 1 action of the National Grange, which comprise 700, Ouo farmers, in indorsing a national highway system at their annual an-nual invention in Grand Rapids, Mich., rej"ily is the most significant step yet taKH-ii io obtain legislation for the problem prob-lem which the tremendous expansion and use of the highways by motor vehicles lias brought to the front as a real necessity. neces-sity. "The motor industry has played no small part in the development of the roads of the country,'' he says. "They have helped in tho expansion of the network net-work of roads which bind the towns and the villages, the cities and the farm hamlets. ham-lets. "A national highway system will give a. tremendous impel us to intercity haulage. haul-age. The great highways of commerce will be strengthened and made more durable. dur-able. Tho truck will become in reality the "little brother" of the railroad. "Ifa great body of farm folk of this country believe that a national highway system will be beneficial to t hem, how much more beneficial will it not bo to the manufacturers, part of whose transportation transporta-tion problem is vitally tied up in the motor truck. "The farmers with great vision for the future and their own needs have gone on record i n favor of a national highway system. When will the business men and manufacturers go on record?" |