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Show trunk mcmns II SOON DUE A. A. A. Chairman Holds They j Are Natural Outcome of Motor's Growth ! Trunk highways, like trunk railroad rail-road lines, will be the inevitable re-s re-s ilt of the increasing ure of motor ve- I hlelcs by ihe people of the United I Stales This is the opinion of A. O. Batchelder, executive chairman of the I American Automobile association. Already a plan for an extensive I crOSS-COUntry road sstem is e ngaging the attention of congress, through Introduction In-troduction of a bill by Senator Town-send Town-send of Michigan, proldln for a national na-tional highway system that. In his own words, "would form the backbone of the main commcrlcal arteries of the nation.'1 "Mbtor transportation has brought about the new country-wide demand for trunk highways,' says Rate holder "The railroad systems must be supplemented sup-plemented in various directions by the employment of the motor vehicle; where there isn't nufflclftn! SnalnoM in iuntify the expense of trackage, where : St Is a case of intercity eommunlca- 1 tlon which calls for door-to-door needs, and where extraordinary de- mands can be met specially and promptly. "With some eight million motor car; owners in the country, the day may! not be far distant when every family fam-ily will have Its own independent! means of transport Trips will be In-I numerable, and since highways serve I both commercial necessities and pleas-urnblc pleas-urnblc demands it Is assured that we shall ultimately obtain a federal system sys-tem of trunk highways, supplemented I bv snte systems connecting all parts' of the ft state, and finally the lesser! tributaries. rMendlng into the country coun-try in I'll directions, In order that the! products of the soil may be conveyed.1 to the dwellers in centers of pop'iU-tlon. pop'iU-tlon. ' first titm CO;:ntrv tirlnr.,1 fhe tnwn., ship by assuming the burden of the most Important roads. Next, the slates helped the counties by taking oxer the most used market roads Now the federal goernment. after hiving helped the states In these Intrastate networks, will, under the Townsond bill, arrange to take, over the trunk roads which wlN bind our 48 parts into a compact nation " |