Show The Country's Highways There is one motor car to every nineteen families in the United Slates and one motor to every mile of road This fact may not convert t the habitual pedestrian to any large interest in ill the national good roads campaign But put the betterment betterment better better- ment of highways s 's up to any man as a military necessity and he lIe will soon soun be backing up your arguments with fig figures re of his o own n. n France h ho ht will probably tell you w was was s saved ed from the invader in September 1914 by her great northern highways which were perfectly fitted for forthe forthe forthe the rapid transportation of her defending army and Russia met disaster dis dis- aster on her western frontier partly because there were no passable roads in that part of the empire v r The recent increasing interest in roads has many P pha phases ha es Most minds are quickly impressed with the wonderful scheme for outlining out out- lining the entire length of the United States boundary with a great national road to be h built and maintained by the government for purposes purposes pur pur- of defense poses o TJ This s novel idea attracts both by its practical and its picturesque At present the matter most imp important to the country at large is the Shackleford bill which for the i provides expenditure of of- large of-large large larg sums RumS RumS' of federal money upon roads and for the creation of a state i highway commission The building of the Lincoln is also creating a tremendous tremendous dous amount of interest This great span of miles will connect tl the tIit E Eastern astern 1 and the Western oceans and will P pass ass through cities town and villages In his annual anneal report Secretary Lane pointed out the greater accessibility to the beauty spots sots P of the States made possible through the development of good roads The enhancement of farm values and the and the cheapening of foods as ilS is the result of the easy access of the farmer to markets indicates the g c cst t importance of good roads roads as a factor of economics N Not t even the habitual pedestrian can escape a in th the development the of-the the highways of the country when he considers them fr from every point of view i y f |