Show A possibility OF ERROR A news iten fromi from metropolis during tho the past week is is to tn tho effect that tho the salt lake commercial club was in receipt of one hundred letters in seven days from prospective transcontinental tourists inquiring as to the automobile route through this state it is hople that this significant bit of intel iunce comes to the attention of baths governor who ro conty wrote a message to our solons at the cap tal saying baying among other things that are good enough in i a state stata but that we better not pay much attention to this inter interstate irate road nonsense because they are only mod hy path finders and automobile salesmen anyway ile ho said that the state li lid hd d beet been hoodwinked into the belief that the lit lir coln coin highway would be a beautiful primrose path whorton bloated millionaires would glide so BO fat that their purse strings would bust ap and money fly all around the adjacent feenery enery cc lie he said that in reality it im ia just a grand little advertising scheme for the berie benefit fit of the autu automobile mobile industry he said them there things or words to that e effect afe c t in the face of tile tha governors grouch against path finders and auto salesmen casmen we are strongly reminded of a bunch of doubters doubt cis who sot set up such a clamor thirty seven years ago when dr bell tried out ilia his telephone the recollection becomes clear poignant and convincing with the announcement of that chat between dr bell and his old friend watson the other day when they discussed the weather over the wire from now new york to san Fian francisco cisco like those other doubters the governor is ia a few years ahead of his time or in other words as ai a knocker against transcontinental highways he will be the horrible example of five years hence 6 it is just juat as ri ij ii culous for the governor of utah to refuse to 0 o join heart and soul in the transcontinental highway movement move ent as it would have been for him to oppose the long distance telephone in the early days dave of its development the wonderful growth and in industrial expansion of the latter has been no greater than the growth and expansion of tho the former will be for only an individual absolutely ab devo devoid d of imagination and foresight will deny the place of tremendous importance that will be assumed by the motor car in the future social and industrial development of anis country there is no student of the problems of transportation who will dare to set a limit on the future possibilities of the automobile and the motor truck there is hardly one of them but will admit that tile the development of motor transportation is only well under way it seems puerile pu orile shortsighted short sighted and falsely economic for the sats executive to attempt to commit this commonwealth common weal th to any program of legislation that will permit u us for a to hinder in any way the final triumphant completion of the lincoln highway and the yellowstone grand canyon highway rather does it strike us ui as a most lamentable arid and unpalatable misfortune that one whose voice should bo be of weight in shaping our destinies should have thus signally failed to grasp the shining truth and s should hould weakly bid us halt in a march that is inevitable able 1616 and inexorable |