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Show WHY GOOD ROADS AREJAVORED John N. Willys, head of the Willys Overland company, has written a lengthy letter to J IV. Leavitt, agent1 for the Overland on the Pacific coast I concerning his promise of a donation of $150,000 toward the cost of con-I Btructing a transcontinental automo-bile automo-bile road from New York to Sun Fran , cisco. Willys says "Every one long ago realized that II Is impossible to regard the automo bile apart from the road on which It ( :uns; only the two together make the complete pleasure or business ve hide. The plan of linking the two oceans bv an imnraVed hlsfhwu is I only the first step toward what I consider con-sider to be one of the greatest engl neering undertakings ot the age With a broad, smooth road between the eastern and western limits of our country It will be only a short t!m- before the entire continent will be crisscrossed in every direction by excellent ex-cellent thoroughfares, built and maintained main-tained especially for motor vehicles. "The people are rapidly coming to recognize In the automobile the ideal transportation means for both passengers passen-gers and merchandise, and it Is a safe prediction to say that In a very few years ihe United States will be prac-tlcall) prac-tlcall) independent of steam and elec trie railways Already we have thou sands of people traversing the country coun-try from one end to the other in pleasure cars every year, and motor trucks are transporting merchandise over long distances, though our road conditions are and have long been de plorable With the development of highways this activity will be increased increas-ed many fold " |