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Show Motorists Should Reform Road Habits AN APPEAL to tourists to le-frain le-frain from carelessness In road habits has been Issued by Thomas P. Henry, president of the American Automobile association. It embraces these requests : "When you come to a beauty spot that has been wrecked by an earlier picnic party don't complain. See that you don't leave a similar sight for the motor tourist who follows you. "A wildflower on the bush Is worth ten in the tonneau, withered and trampled. Leave the flowers where you can enoy them most. If motorists motor-ists are to strip America of her foliage motoring will be stripped of one of its fundamental assets. "Debris Is dangerous. The careless smoker plus the littered picnic spot result In the forest fires that wreck the countryside, literally and figuratively. figura-tively. Bare hills encourage swollen streams and floods. "There are many roadways that will never be attractive again, and the number of beauty spots in America is decreasing. The tourist always selects the cream of countryside beauty, and if each motor party leaves behind it a trail of ruin it will not be long before old-timers will be talking of the countryside coun-tryside that used to be. "This is what will happen if tourists fail to appreciate the fact that the problem is a matter of personal duty. It requires only a few broken bottles, some tin cans, a defunct tire and a few discarded newspapers to make an ideal spot the last word in unsightli-ness. unsightli-ness. "Just one tourist party can put out of business a spot that might otherwise other-wise be of unending delight to hundreds hun-dreds of other people who take pride in the country and who know that If they do not preserve it no one else can do It for them. "When you are tempted to wreck some ideal location you have selected for your evening rest or your noonday luncheon, just keep in mind the fact that you'll probably come back again some day and taste of your own selfishness. self-ishness. The country is not so large that 15,000,000 tourists can wreck each beauty spot they chance upon and never return to it again." |