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Show LS THERE A MILE POST IN" YOU RTOWN The Zero Milestone located just behind the White House at Washington, Wash-ington, on Meridian of Longitude Zero, dedicated to the Nation and accepted ac-cepted by President Harding, is the starting point for road measurement east, west, north, south of the capital of the Nation. It is forty miles to Baltimore. It is also forty-five miles to Baltimore, Impending on the part of Baltimore to- which one measures! It may be two hundred and fifty-three or two hundred an dsixty-seven miles to New York, according as one measures meas-ures to the Battery or somewhere up above Harlem! Every town in America ought to have a milestone, to which road distances dis-tances from other towns could be measured, and from which distances would be computed. If an error or one mile were made in estimating distance between town an dtown across the continent, the motor traveler trav-eler might easily be several hundred miles out of his calculations! Atown milestone costs little It can easily be financed by the local civic or commercial club. Its place-encourage place-encourage tourist travel, and be an everlasting convenience to all who use it. A little researcn will compute its exact distance from Zero Milestone Mile-stone at Washington, still further adding to its interest. . . From a commercial standpoint an official "milestone would b eof service in giving readers of advertisements of real estate, for example, definite information. A farm may be advertised adver-tised as being six miles distant from Jonesville. With the adoption of an official milestone by- Jonesville, the reader would know that the distance is six miles from a fixed point in Jonesville, which would be in the heart" of the city. - . |