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Show IMPORTANCE OF GOOD ROADS. 1 FHERE il no public utility or publir imp -c ve-J ve-J ment that is of more vital irrpoHa'K'c t ) tlAp people of any country than go )d mads. And n-liile the peoplo hare 'always been coKiirnnl in e iy Sort of way of the fact that gwn roads wcio an advantage, the real important of le subject fs Ju'st bejfinninf; to be appreciated. Tho gospl Of good roads has been pers'-tentl" preacho! by fu'dent alvocates of national limitation for a trood nwmy years, but the people have been slow to nc cept their statements or to tal.e any greot a-mount a-mount of interest in the subicct. But the ir.oi'e-ment ir.oi'e-ment is steadily growing, and with the revolution of each yeax, has-gained in size -ind momentum, until today in all parts of the country tho precepts have borne fruit, and new converts are daily being tfdded to the movement. PefliAps no factor has done more for the goal! roads moveirent than thc-automobile. For while all the peopl1 do not own cars, a great many 0 them do, and nearly all of the others occasionally ride in them, and to the autoist more than any other class is the vital importance ofgood rqjuls apparent. With good roads the people are almost' independent of railroad service, so quickly aildj comfortably can they cover the country fyitb. thCfflr automobiles. ' ' ". .;h Rut from this it is not to be understood ti the automobi lists are the solo beneficiaries, froiE, good roads. Far, far from it. If there wns'iof an automobile in existnncc, ood roads would tfSX be one of the greatest economic enterjirfses of "vtw land. The siving in the expense of traniBpCf-tion traniBpCf-tion of passengt rs and freight would still paya very high rate of interest upon the inYtmt necessaiy for good roads. ' '$ Elsewhere in this issue will be found a report of the organization and some of the accompjjh-ments accompjjh-ments of the btate road commission s)ncei'os creation in 1900, which will be found highly jn-teresting. jn-teresting. . s "i , HfT .. |
