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Show HOWT FAR "How far is it?" is the first ques-t!on ques-t!on the prospective buyer asks of the realestate man who wants to show him a suburban home or a farm. He doesn't want to know how far it is in miles, however. He wants to know in minutes or hours. "It is thirty minutes from the corner of Main and State streets" tells the story. "It is seven miles out." may mean seventy minutes, if the road is poor, whereas, "thirty minutes" Is definite. A man has only so much time to -pend. He ctin not add to the number num-ber of days in his life. Therefore, he wants to use as few of his minutes in non-productive, unnecessary and unprofitable effort as possible. It is for this reason he wants to know the distance from his new home and his office or busineses in terms of time. And it is for this reason he wants to locate on a good roadi, for only the good roa dean cut down his time, without increasing his cost. The reilroad can serve only a limited limit-ed number of suburban towns on any one line, ad its trains can run only so often. He must waste time waiting wait-ing for them, going to and from them at both ends, suit his convenience conveni-ence to the schedule. With the good road he makes his own schedule, often of-ten beats the train as to speed, and always beats it In convenience, and getting out at or close to his place or business. The good road, plus the motor is translated in terms of time, and not distance, because it is time we have to spend, and time in which we have to live; It is only the amount of time consumed which counts, and not the mere number of feet or miles traveled travel-ed in that time. |