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Show GOOD ROADS Detroit, Aug. 27 Lack of raods and not lack of money Is the principal princi-pal barrier to further expansion' of the automobile industry, declared A. W. Frye, supreme commander of the Maccabees, in an address at a motor touring conference here. "Reports from pathfinders laying out the routes for the Maccabees automobile au-tomobile caravan tour to Washington Washing-ton next summer show that only 10 per cent of the nation's highways are tit to carry traffic," said Mr. Frye. "The Maccabees caravan will bring 10,000 members of the order in about 2,500 cars together at Washington fro mall parts of the Unitedi States and Canada. To avoid delays and missing the wa ywe have to start now planning the route sin order to post the roads neat summer. It should not be necessary to send any scouts ahead to blaze trails through a civilized country. "More hard surfaced roads is what the couniry needs more than anything any-thing else in order to enable it to ab-; ab-; sorb more automobiles. The automo-j automo-j bile business has paused now but it j is only a pause to take breath. We j have the money. During the past ten (years of automobile expansion, that I seems to have frightened some people, peo-ple, home investments have increased increas-ed more than $2,000,000,000. Savings Sav-ings bank deposits now total $7.-. $7.-. tSl.24S.flOO. Twleve million additional addi-tional possible owners of cars, those persons having incomes from $1,000 to $1,400. are the next market for automohiles and this demand will he supplied within the next ten years. wlxi lotiFee nhont tanin t.io'.mnoin "Road building is the real prob-!e-y.. We must plan four car ron is ii'V.r b'g cities .nd four enr throurh routes, just as railways hiv b. en obliged to do. More p.-op-l" rid" in .''.t'oniohiles no wthan ride in railway rail-way car? and in ten years there will ( be nearly twice as many." |