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Show i luiroau t',-!;ilh'ru'-i. Todav the ecu jtr:it t-ur..';ui at Akron has t-nwn-fic 'n 1 tho si:v-?i. largest of the L'uitod Tie l-raiv'V.fS tr:n; vhipi"- and up-enitor up-enitor toethtr 011 a taM PI .mutual profit. The Siii' Lake branch of t'nc l'ire-I l'ire-I tont !.i: !'-:rviek bureau is lreat-i at I'M U'ii lk'iirtii OLith treet, in charge I of W. . ,U-iv.n. iAUTfl IS HELD ! 8H75iW England Legislated Self-; propelled Machines Out in 1S30. I The automobile, which historv pre- i 'seiits as the father of the railway lo- .comotive, wa legislated off the roads' ,ot lingland i;i lSdO. Its wheels were: breaking up tho highways. j The situation is quite-different today. ! Its wheels are building up the high- ways making hard roads of the tvpps that will eLciure for mauy generations, j It may he interesting to know that the reason the automobile, with its! steam engine, cut law ed in .1 di., was j ab'e to vonie back upon the highwavs' with a gasoline engine three-ouarters of j a century later, was that a process had ; been discovered bv which rubber could-be could-be vulcanized. This mean: a la ver of protection for both between wheel rim ! and built-up h i g h w a ,v . ! d'he develupnien; of t'r.e giant pneu- i-mtic cord t 1 re and it s use bv motor express and freight operators, who want , it because it means ay quieker trip and I more pro tec t ion to the goods hauled, j has taken away tho hist posibiby tl,ai t he motor chicle w ti l ' v jure the road more t a an does an v other means of 1 road transportation. j T t was the a nn v "s e per i e n ee i n : France that caused the Ameihian peo- ; pie to awaken to the possibilities of' motor transportation combined v. hh i good roais. It wa onlv beeaae o' the 1 stdendid webwork of hard roads in I F ran.ee that the fighting arm v of i Aitienca w as f jd bv u w oude! f u! iv t-f ' fie ient sy st em. Tl;ce i in proved roads j gave the big army trucks au avenue of : approach. Menu vh i le in America t he railroads ; found themselves vorv much over- j worked. The trucks came t tho Tescue here as t'nev Lad on the battle''rout. i Thev relieved the railroad- bv carrying' f re ' ght long distances in t h oso sect io:-of io:-of t he eou n try w he t e I here v. as need and .st retches of gv--od highway could ; be connected up. because rced was. highly e.sseu'ial and dean mi required I e en the gloa uings o f p"o .iac t ion . r b ov j ahso acted as feeder-1 of the railroads. After the war it became apparent! that if motor truck transport wa? to j attain its real development and perform per-form its real service in trie national' scheme of transportation in a perma- 1 netu way, it "must be guided along sound business lines and placed on a sound business foot :ug. To asUt in this W'ovk the Virestoae ship-b''-; rues 1 |