Show f. f 1 a D M t INTEREST IN ROADS GROWS More Attention N Now w Given to Improvement Improvement Im provement In tn Highways Than Ever Before in History The good roads movement Is seeing a big revival now that business It is becoming normal The most important Important important tant program that has recently comp comA compto to our attention is that of ot the state of Michigan which has just voted in favor of a program that when carried out will place Michigan on n the map big so far as good roads are concerned writes BIrkett L. L Williams Wll- Wll lams liams truck sales manager for a large t 1 motorcar corporation Everywhere else you yon see also more Interest in good roads than in any period in our history It is true to say that the war and its needs taught us the value of good roads Perhaps it did Perhaps it brought home to those dull ears of higher ups the supreme Importance of an Intelligent system of navigable highways But more and more it comes home to the man who studies the situation that back of ot the good roads movement must be the ordinary ordInary ordinary or or- man the average man who pays taxes and votes and thinks as ns he hero ro votes The farmer fanner or rural dweller In IIi c certain r r- r taro tain sections for a long time stood inthe inthe in inthe the way way way-he he wanted the roads but he didn't want to pay for them He did not realize that in the long run good roads pay for themselves out of savings savIngs savings sav sav- ings made to the community In haulage haulage haulage haul haul- age of people and merchandise But the fhe farmer today today's is reckoning in units of Df time Yes he realizes the value of minutes minutes min min- utes throughout the season season and and he is Just as keen In conserving time as the city-bred city man who operates a big factory factory fac tac- tory if anything he is a bit keener for seasons do not wait and crops must be sowed and cultivated reaped and marketed at the right time tune He has t convinced himself that time Is money And he knows that good roads save time and that they save time largely because they make it possible to get satisfactory services from motorcars and And he Is not one bit blind to the fact that operating cost costIs Is largely influenced by roud road conditions condi condI- that that good roads make gasoline more elastic rubber and steel more durable and bring markets nearer and that good roads Increase property values values values val val- ues out of all proportion to the cost y 1 Good Roads Are Necessary to Efficient Operation of Automobiles of good roads to any anyone one individual Therefore the farmer is now back of road improvement Does the city man feel any interest In good roads Ask your neighbor If he doesn't own an automobile he expects ex ex- pests peets to own one and he ho knows all about where the good roads are and what shat they mean But when his Influence influence ence counts big the greatest impetus has naturally sprung from the numerous numerous numer numer- ou ous army array of motorcar owners to whom nhom motorcar ownership has made the territory territory ter ter- for tor miles around his neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood Counties and states where good roads have haye become a steady part of a progressive program of legislation have seen seen values shoot up in the most surprisIng surprising sur sun fashion and this again has aught v home the fact that good roads Jay ay for themselves Thus it Is natural natural natural natu natu- ral that the years 1919 and 1920 will see the most stupendous good roads programs programs pro pro- programs grams inaugurated in America that the world has ever known This will result In the wl wider er utility of motorcars motorcars motor motor- motorcars cars and and of course prove a big aid to the solution of the freight traffic problem |