Show I 1 doctoroff DOCTOR DOCTO of TOWNS SAYS ABOUT THE V LVE OF MOTOR TRAFFIC there has been more than usual comment recently hoarding regarding the arrouet of money expended by the motor traveling public and for what the money Is spent this Is due no dolbt to the fact that many mank highway commissions are avoiding the business districts in routing highway traffic and often build arf tie highway completely around rather than through eny any portion of the communities along the route some critics think this plan ruinous to business and loudly oice voice their protests others believe that it Is sound sense in the controversy that haa has arisen it has been stated tha thal the motor traveling trav fUn public is of lio ro value to a community that cash expenditure of motorists Is 13 confined to hot dogs clop a bottle of pep and an occasional ice cream cone A pure case of where a man can appreciate only that which he knows in this case can he either docs does not know or it li aa sour grapes the advisability of routine routing highway high ay traffic away from a town does not enter into this I 1 take no issue will with any hatway official but I 1 will ay say that the avedge town regardless of we tact fact that they worked hard to get hard roads docs does not deserve the traffic for they have not only tailed to take adan ago age of the business that this traffic made possible but have in many cabes openly driven the th business away from their towns or their unthinking practices and poor business judgment judge nt every bishwaty Is literally krcs of diamonds but like the story those who mho dwell upon it are blind to it eiery every strong strang motor car that tra vela a the highways through ernal has an average potential value tn in cash business of not only to V trial but to cery every town regardless of size which it passes these cars are to a community the same as pedestrians dest rians to a store every individual that a store has a certain potential value but the store has to get them inside before they can even expect to s an 11 them still no merchant would cay say that those who passed but only looked in his windows were mere of no value to him the game tame Is 13 true with motorists you can cant t sell them unless you STOP them and it if lou ou top stop one out of live each one stopped Is 13 worth an average of one hundred cars stopped a day Is equi equla balent lent to a factory payroll of yr pr month and the traffic of the average highway Is sufficient to get hevral sey ral times that what would vernal do what hat would vernal give to get a factor with a payroll of twenty fifty or one ane hundred thousand dollars monthly several thousand esperie u accounts account 3 of motorists will prove that expenditures cover everything in n the mercantile line directly or indirectly there Is no line of bunea bi that does dom not profit it Is not just the hot doe dog stand nor is it the hotels he cafes garages and VA las stations alone thet make money from motor travel any town can get its share of this business if they will sill take telling to nake their thir community loot 1001 good and the get going to boget it copyright 1930 by A D stone reproduction A prohibited in alola or in part pam thia this editorial is published by the vernal till express in cooperation with the vernal lions club I I 1 |