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Show GOOD HIGHWAYS HELP TRADE Act as a Spur to Business Besides Giving Giv-ing Pleasure to Motorists Benefit Bene-fit Everybody. To Borne people good roads mean simply nn advantage for the motorist, a convenience that was created and is maintained for the motorist's benefit, enabling him to get from place to place without racking his car to pieces or experiencing the necessity of being towed out of hub-deep mud. Yet there Is another side to this subject sub-ject of the value of good roads, writes L. J. Oilier In Chicago Tribune. .Good roads mean more than an opportunity to get out on tours from the health-giving health-giving and pleasure standpoints. Good roads are closely nllied with progress nnd prosperity. They promote pro-mote the more widespread use of automobiles, au-tomobiles, and statistics prove automobiles automo-biles and prosperity always go together. to-gether. It Is fair to say that good roads benefit ben-efit everybody: the city dwellers, those who live in towns, and those who live on farms. Of course, the fast-growing use of motorcars the fact that automobiles auto-mobiles are now considered practically practical-ly a necessity for everybody has been the biggest single influence in awakening awak-ening this country to the fact that money expended In good roads extensions exten-sions and Improvements Is money we" spent. We can all remember how only a few years ago city people paid little attention to good roads, and how fanners fann-ers were even opposed to the expenditure expendi-ture of funds for the betterment of highways. That, of course, was before automobiles came Into such widespread wide-spread usage, in the days when motorcars motor-cars were considered an extravagance and were owned only by the rich. Good roads and the automobile have taken people out Into the country. They have banished forever the isolation isola-tion of farm life. They have increased health and prolonged life. They have enabled people to dig In and put better !.-. - 'Ian- , . r .. - -."'--. " ' Highway Traffic Follows Development. efforts Into their work as a result of the relaxation nnd broadenlng-out experiences ex-periences of the week-end trip into the country. The prospect of being able to buy an automobile and receive the benefits of good roads has spurred the ambition ambi-tion and quickened the Imagination of the man who walks or uses street cars. He wants to be Independent. He wants to get away from the limited lim-ited vision th-at of necessity must bo his just as long as he is bound to a life of pounding pavements and clinging cling-ing to street-car straps. He works harder and achieves more, with the prospect of spinning over good roads in his own automobile. For traveling travel-ing only around town he may feel that be cannot afford an automobile; that he cannot get his money's worth. Thejre is where good roads come In, enabling just such a man to get out Into the conntry and broaden out. Good roads have been n- stimulator of business. By means of good roads nn outlet to the congestion of cities has been afforded. New towns have sprung up. |