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Show FIST1E DEALER BOOSTS GOOD ROADS Avers America Should Not r Lag Behind Europe in Highway Building. "The present year promises to be a banner season tor good roads," says Manager Man-ager S'ewell of the local Firestone branch. "This movement, the importance of which has been partially understood for a good many years, progressed steadily, though perhaps not satisfactorily, until 191S, 'when the exigencies of war halted its further extension, just as they halted a great many other advances. And yet it was the war which brought home to ua In a degree never approached before the real significance of the movement and our national failure to apprehend that significance. "Our widespread neglect was brought glaringly to light in many whvs and on numerous occasions. Our 'arteries of commerce' were insufficient in number and weak in their consi ruction. The astounding results achieved by tho government gov-ernment in helping the' allies to save Ku-rope Ku-rope were achieved rather in spite of our highways than by virtue of them. Tit oik-Instance, oik-Instance, when it was decided to tleli er trains of motor trucks on the Atlantic seaboard under their own po er it took tho first group eight days to reach Pittsburg; Pitts-burg; good roads would have reduced the run half the time. The viefnry at Chan-tea Chan-tea u Thierry is said to have been made possible by the suoyf ssful performance of a motor truck, which, starting as one of four, was the only one to arrive at the front, carrying 50.0'K' rounds of ammunition ammuni-tion that put the finishing touches on tlnj : American victory. What might four days' de'av have meant then '. "Shall we nz behind Thiropo in these particulars? France especially has show:! the way and T am nor plaviii with words mere:" to the Unit ed St a u-. fven in suite of the terrible havoc wrought by the most onnteniDtibie of foes, and in Mii t o : of horrors which can be neither numbered . nor fa t homed, that brave I; tt It; natini, i main tain e-1 almost to the front lip .trenches a system of hicrh 'a that will .always he a marvel to mankhnl. A system, sys-tem, mark ynu. not an o-ca.-innal mid. or even a group here and there, but a ; a st mesh work w!Ke strands a nd f ila-' ila-' mcr.ts connect almost everv oitv and town and village from the channel to the Pyre-. Pyre-. nes anl from the Pay of Bisrav to' the .Alps. Our men who hnvr: fought in i I France know this; and the will never 'rest com ent . when thev ret urn. with t he . punv imi tat ions to which -we had ro. n ; lazilv accustomed prior to th: worid , siruLrsle. j "Is not the word " A" nen-a u' as o-id as 'Appiau'V rwaenif i'-'T i highways everv-! everv-! where, hme and slraiLr-hi and hvpnsh- i jahV minsr ihiin fltr.--.-r under the sun -why not here in America as w-M as in i'aroti Italy'."' ' |