Show MOTORISTS BAND TOGETHER TO PROTECT COUNTRY countryside FROM CARELESS defilement how often have you loaded visiting friends into your automobile for a drive over the beautiful country roads in your community only to find the more beautiful spots littered and dirty with soiled lunch boxes paper napkins empty bottles and empty cans more often than you like to recall no doubt so it Is everywhere and all because motor forget their usual courtesy when they set get out for a vacation five men in new york had such an eap exp experience fience recently in driving thru abru the beautiful adirondacks they returned to new york and talked it over something ought to he be done about it they agreed but unlike most similar situations they stop there they called a meeting of other motorists and the result was the organization of the motorists league tor for countryside preservation they decided to launch i a national campaign to educate motor ests to the importance of a cleaning up after stops along the road the league has no dues and no paid officers all it asks Is that motorists j sign a ar pledge arrledge like the one published in connection with this article and anda keep the pledge it entails no obligation other than acceptance of res 1 to clean up as you yon go that there is great need for this work is patent to even the most casual observer a recent article in motor azine stated during the months of july and august last year there were more automobiles on tour than ever before in the history of they formed a parade that extended from new ork to san francisco along the lincoln highway and from calais to miami over the dlila dixie highway they bowled along the main arteries of travel and bumped along the less frequent roads debris and litter marked the course ot of travel the majority showed absolutely no respect tor for the property of others and no consideration whatever tor for fellow tourists they camped where they pleased and left their camping sites strewn with dirt and garbage and of greater importance more than 1000 forest fires started last by automobilists who unthinkingly left camp fires burn burning ing or threw lighted cigarettes cigars or matches into ahe the grass president ha harding r ding enthusiastically affixed his signature to the leagues pledge and accepted the responsible post of 0 a member of the executive committee other prominent americans who formed the national committee include secretary of agriculture wallace luther burbank thomas H macdonald chief of at the bureau ot at public roads department of agriculture W 0 durant walter dill scott president of northwestern university james newton gunn harvey S firestone Pir estone and george C diehl president of the american automobile association the work of the league has received the endorsement of the governors of twenty seven states and from mayors 0 of the leading cities but it if a real service is to be accomplished YOU mr automobile owner must send in your pledge card andret and get your fellow motorists to do the same placing your name on dotted line will impress it on your mind and the presence ot of thousands ot of signed cards in the liles files at 0 the league will crary immense weight with the owning motor touring population ot of the country send your signed pledge card clip it out ot of this article to the leagues national headquarters at west street new york city the pledge is as follows 1 I as a member ot of the motorists league tor for countryside preservation pledge myself to do what I 1 can toi preserve the countryside so that all I 1 may share in the enjoyment of it to this end I 1 I 1 will leave a resting place or campsite clean tree free from papers or litter of 0 any sort I 1 will be careful of trees and shrubbery or brooks and streams 1 I will be careful in the making of camps and tires fires I 1 will make every effort to leave the roadside in such condition that the pleasure to be derived from it by others Is not lessened through any careless act or of mine |