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Show 16 ALL DRESSED UP A long, long time ago a little lady stood on the street comer in Rome with a puzzled look on her face. She . was dressed in the finest raiment her father, a gilder of chariots, could afford. She, like other women, loved new clothes, and for no good reason at all, donned them in order to feel the soft woolen folds. Afternoons in Rohie were anything but exciting and, there was really nothing to do, so, after standing on the comer for sev- eral hours, she wrapped the robes around her, and frowning, returned to her home. Believe it or not, thus be- - gan the familiar saying, All dressed up and no place to go. And now we, of this modem day, some hundreds of years later, find ourselves in much the same way, when we crank up the old bus, and drag it out of the garage on a Saturday afternoon or Sunday. There is a difference, as there is some place to go but try and get there. But even at that, in Utah we are sitting pretty, because we can get there, for our state ha3 built miles of concrete roads, although they are, in many cases, sometimes so congested that their advantages are nullified. When paved roads are the excep- - - THE CITIZEN AND SOME PLACE TO GO tion rather than the rule, the salesman, the manufacturer, in fact, every other sort of automobilist, is utilizing the good highways in an effort to save valuable time. When a community has but a few concrete roads, traffic delays often prove a serious handicap. Many eastern cities have coped with the situation by widening the roads, and ere other roads of this state are paved, it would be well to follow the same example, for Utah is not so thickly populated that this could not become a reality. affair, but a state and national problem. Should we of Utah care to entertain these thousands of tourists, we must prepare for their reception, we must greet them with good roads, not only this summer, but in the many summers that are to follow. In other words, we must have roads that will remain good permanently. At this time we have a paved road as far south as Nephi, as far north as Richmond, while the county line joining Tooele county is the terminal of concrete roads on the west. The eastern tourist isnt greeted wtih pave- - dency to eliminate travel to these scer.ic wonders, while good roads will invite, naturally meaning more revenue for us. Statistics show that there are more than 3,000,000 miles of roads in this country. Of this mileage but 518,000 We are nearing that time of the year when Nomadic Americans, probably more than 40,000,000 of them, will spin over the highways and byways, and be listed under the classification of Automobile tourists. Before the summer is over this touring horde will doubtless have ment upon entering our state, but before many more years he will be, for Parleys canyon is one of the heaviest traversed roads in the state. The work of caring for gravelled roads increases each year, and considerable expenditure could be eliminated, should part of this money be utilized in making permanent roadways, thus the thousands of tourists touring the country would head for, and stop long in Utah. The first thing a tourist asks of another is, How are whose education is largely received and through contact with others through observations of how others live and do things, road building assumes a greater importance than ever before. State road programs should be speeded up so that low cost roads use may be placed in service for the of those living today. Road building is second to educa lS tion in total expenditures. This ha proper, for nothing is of greater as has portance than education, and been said, good roads greatly increase le the possibilities of education, so our slogan be, Better Roads. spent $3,500,000,000 for sardines and crackers, baked beans, automobile tires, gasoline, broken radius rods, and other requisites of this rambling life. ; The volume of travel to national parks, national forests and other famous scenic wonders proves that road building is no longer chiefly a local the roads? Our state boasts of some of the most wonderful scenery in America, but poor roads will create a ten- - are ministered to by road workers. Gnly 69,000 miles may be called really This is not discounting the i ccomplishments to date, for the progress of the last quarter of a century, during the autmobiles life time, has been noteworthy. Since this now a nation of people first-clas- s. |