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Show V THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY HORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1921. PLEDGES SAFETY FIJI 31 Hard Would President Harding Offered Assistance in Case of a Possible Emergency. America Lacking in Perfect 9,200,000 Cars and Trucks Will Protect the Public Fifty or Hundred-foo- t Road Employ Jobless jjdillions. Surfaced Transcontinental Route; & Industrial Aid Is Object. & From 4' AL SPINK. Can't you Oct. 22. story that will help the auto give us fume, hich is dull now, and at the same time Jielp the thousands of unemployed?" sal4 an auto man the other day as we and rutfa over certain streets of poor, shabby looking ajjftw hundred, iindii lduals seated on the edge of the side, walks and looking and CHICAGO, Shortage. Special. te Thu Tribune. NEW YOKK. N. Y I1L, $ Oct. 22. More , than nine million cars and trucks Insure the public against serious suffering from the proposed(rail strike, according to Al- - w fred Reeves, general manager of the Na- - I tional Automobile Chamber of Commerdb, when Interviewed ccncemlng his wire to President Harding, offering the assistance of the automobile industry in the Mr. Beevesg telepossible emergency. gram is as follows: Cars and totaling nine minion two hundred thousand can protect public la event of rail strike. We offer services of automobile Industry in mobilising of motor transport If needed. "Local automobile owners end have the organisation, manpower and vision for emergency. woe-bego- think I can, I replied. said my companion. "Well, first of all, said I. "Just stop for a moment and else up tne automobile situation and mix up with It these crowds of idle men. "The auto business. yott say, Is dull. Yes, It is dull because It bae reaohed the limit of Its room space. If It Is to prosper In the future 'It Wilt have to build new roads, now fleldd, and new places to en. ter and explore, "The automobile roede In America are, most of them, bad, but thev are all overcrowded. The most of them lead to and end at nowhere. X Food Uo to It, then, ' dealer-associatio- ns Averted. , There is one motor vehicle in the country for every eleven persona There are 90,000 trucks which hauled 1,200,000 tons In 1920, or about one-ha- lt the amount carried by the rallroada Theee vehicles could readily handle the more essential products. Every city has larger industrial fleets which can aid in meeting the Consequences Boom Possible. If you would boom the auto trade, boom Industry, set this great army of ployed to work, let the automobile Interests take hold and get behind a plan to build an automobile highway from New York to San Francisco. I do not mean a narrow, eighteen or twenty-fowide thoroughfare, but a fifty or a hundred feet wide roadway all the way over the open fields, deserts and mountains, a road that heavily loaded freight wagons asand army trucks can pass O'er as easily passenger machines and that will be safe and navigable at all seasons all the way from New York to San Francisco. Tho building of such a road would not only boom tho auto trade and present n entirely new field for Its operations, but tt would give employment to the millions of men that are idle today, and It would pay for Itself in no time, increasing as it would the land values all along the line. It would In no time give the auto bust, ness the lift It needs so badly Just now and put new Ufa and spirit Into that emergency. "The general public," said Mr. Beeves, "has an ally In the motor car and truck which will protect it from the worst consequences of the battle between the railroad operators and their employees. For once the innocent bystander has a means of "The farmers, who ten years ago would have been cut off from the world, now own 2,000,000 motor vehicles, including 129,004 trucks.' Iowa alone has 427,000 automobiles, or one to every t.S persona. So there need be little fear of toed shortage. ot Auto Railroad Aid. . Beautiful residence of the modern age are inseparable from the superfine motor car that is Itself tho very essence of modernism. The automobile in tho foreground Is worth several thousands of dollars. Its maximum speed is somewhat over 100 miles an hour. The workmanship on it la a fine art, developed within a score of years; or, to be exact, since the motor car was first conceived and found successful. It is nothing short of miraculous, when one considers the mechanical perfection of this powerful, silent vehicle, the result of tho earths search for the finer mode of transportation. Experience Cited. In suggesting the building of an auto The automobile of today la Only twenty years old, roughly speaking, yet the industrys guiding geniuses have so rapidly advanced in their work that it is with envy that the builders of fine houses, thoroughfare across the continent, X think mans third essential, coming next to food and clothing and almost as old as man himself, can look upon tho auto of today. 1 speak intelligently of the real need of . such a roadway. -. this because I have made tho hey was beyond their power.- Had I fifteen or twenty-fee- t wide roada of Germany. It was only the army In Paris warning to America. Build a Straight fifty or a hundred-foout to meet the Invaders In taxis, auto an in to San from Francisco known of their actual experience I should macadam, conciete cr asphalt, but outside trip Loan Applicant sent autos and vehicles of all sorts over these of the few miles of smooth road adjacent auto roadway between New York Supposed Chicago. When I made tho trip not long never have the trip. attempted and wonderful Ban Francisco and the problem of Is to In far the saved roads that at cities there nothing the speed, ago I learned tho need of a real auto roadIn Caae of war with Japan or China westthose Sew an a Auto Owner' turned Into on of both coaats will bs solved of defeat semblance and any takes that way between those cities, any day protecting early the national from east highways leading 1 then without the aid of a great navy or army later victory. quickly discovered that statebeing made to complete or to west would be of no usa on earth to endeavor won will eome prosperous times and which even France commence real and a there ments published In recent years about to the of That victory building United States government. You never can tell how far a frog's auto drivers negotiating the dletanoo be- theNeither which should be credited almost wholly not only for the automobile Industry, but the mountain roads nor the highway. to v the looks. a be should wonderful he by tween New York and San Francisco In desert going to preBent-daway for aort of VVlih any Jump her the roads, army of unemployed. Intelligent effort, the condition material A man about town was sitting In five days were undoubtedly made of whole could bepaths in their present for Its building being so near autoor horses negotiated by the seat an of automobile the drivers cloth. hand, a real national highway could be mobiles pulling heavy artillery or loaded kt other day. Idly watching the throng Such feate are a physical Impossibility. ammunition built in no time. wagons. while awaiting a friend. A stranger, I say this after making a close and perThe United States government te spendrather the worse for wear so far as sonal observation of the most difficult Plans Blocked. ing millions with the aid of its great clothes are concerned, approached part of the Journey. In service between the I the forestry country Along present with leisurely gait. highways En route between Oakland and Ogden and Oakland, but not a penny for heard it said in many Ogden 1 Investigated is This ths going to be a touch," mused the that made places thoroughly trip or national highways. It Is the automoblliat to himself. by an auto caravan which went from San good roads the horse before the csrt, as it railway managers were blocking the highputting the No, Francisco to tho advertising men a conchap's got no chance. Hes were. If there were actual highways to way building plana oot before be starts. vention at St. Louts In tho latter part and In west lands the desert the through "Pardon me," said the supposed of 118. If this la tha cue the railway managers they 'would soon be made to blossom are loan applicant, "but could you tell I learned then that of the twenty-thre- e far more shortsighted than I give without the aid of the United States govme whether Its right to throw your cars which left San Francisco on that ernment. them credit for being. A real national car Into second gear when your startoccasion only one of them made tho enthe present time there is not a sign highway would build up the business of ing down hill? tire trip from San Francisco to St. Louis of Atany sort of work Intelligent being on Its own power. a Imagine the shock on the national highways between the railroads In the far west more than "touch" and the fellow Awaiting All of tho others en the Journey east done had Just Francisco and Ogden. any other one thing that could possibly new a were railroaded over the Sierras and only San car! San bought Francisco The west has great stretches of rock, men should bear Chronicle. five of the twentv-thre- e cars that set out cement and asphalt and all the me. happen. The railway from San Francisco reached St. Louis. send, In mind and lose no time in reachthis near with tertals hand which at to build Not a single member ef the caravan of a at the very ing some sort of working agreement with great national highway the twentv-thre- e returned by auto to San lowest cost and yet there te no Intellithose who now claim te have the plans Francisco. i All either sold or shipped their autos gent progress being made In that direcnational highways In get together and petition the president of the tion. hack by rail. cities are Out of who like Log but Oakland doing nothing with and congress to set on foot the plan for charge, Angeles, The men making that trip were all ex- and tn California, and Ogden In them. the building of an auto roadway across Berkeley, auto drivers perienced and yet tho Jour- - Utah, there extends for a few miles, ten. The great auto firms of America should the continent, one which would create a new field for the auto business and that trade. ot 'The suburban dweller need not worry about his train to business, for throughout the country there Is aa adequate supply ef private cars for this purpose. "The Long Island railroad, for instance, carried an average of 90,120 passengers, or 49,060 one way, dally. during the first five months of this year. If this service is cut off there are 49,600 motor care and 2187 motor buses in Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties which can readily handle the commuter traffic to and from New York. The motor vehicle Is normally an aid to, rather than a competition of, ths railroad, since a heavv proportion of Its short-hatraffic is fed tc the long-harail routes The automobile will not perrail buel-nes- s; manently usurp the long-habut tha motor vehlcio supply of the country te so large that it can protect the publto In any transportation emergency." ul A ul ul Si ed would solve the unemployment question a day. The plan to put idle men to work In the building of roadways has been tried before, and It saved the day at one t.me in France and at a time of a crisis In the labor market and when hundreds bqt tor that sort of employment would have gone hungry. It was from 1852 to 1870 that Napoleon III ruled France, When he took hold he found the street! of Faria crowded with idle men. Just the streets of Chicago are crowded with them now. In MCE to History Repeated. When Napoleon HI looked out on the labjnnth of narrow, dark and streets, he wondered if they could not be improved, and by the aid, too, of the starving and idle men who were covering them. The thought developed Into an inspiration and he resolved to pierce bread and Straight thoroughfares through the midst of the miserab.e stretts and to connect ills new thoroughfare with all the finest . , exist ng squares and boulevards. At the same moment he determined that the same starving and Idle force should be employed to pull down ad the old houses m the heart of ihe town and la lieifof them to construct In a ring outside a new ci y In the most approved, stvie ef Ills st hemes were earned architecture out with rare energy and great tatte. Two straight and wide thoroughfares, parallel to and near each other crossed toe whole wta.ur of Paris from north to south, and a still greater thoroughfare was opened from east to west through the whole length of the town .north of the - Se' ne. We have established a retail branch of our Motor Trucl$ Department at our office and salesroom, 435 West 4th South St. We are a direct factory branch, and all truck buyers will receive the very best prices on any of our models of tracks. We have a. -- well-equipp- tation with competent mechanics always on ' hand. Wo aro . ed at your service. Call and look them over or phono for demonstration. International Harvester-Compan- 435 The old boulevards were completed so as to foi m outer and inner circles of spacious streets, the former lvlng chiefly along the outskirts of the old city, the 'alter passing through and connecting a long line of d stant suburbs . 44 of America, Irc.-- y "1 WJJMMW Jrfs mi s y were - carried - out th?! the aid of?'n the Idle armv, and the money advanced bythe government to carry en the good work came back in a goden harvest. 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