Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-05-03 | Page 9 | Bicycle Week Nationally Observed

BICYCLE WEEK NATIONALLY OBSERVED National Bicycle week. May 3rd to 10th, will be celebrated by bicycle ; dealers aud bicycle clubs in every parti Of the country. There will be races, i parades and various bicycle events all over the United States and Canada I I which will serve to arouse the public (interest and demonstrate the many i adantages of the simple-two-wheeler. The bicycle needs a message a j stirring, compelling message to the; people of this land. It has earned a high place In the estimation ol th I public, not only as the simplest and the most economical means of trans- ! portation for utility purposes, but as the most healthful and most exhilarating exhilar-ating means of sport and recreation as well Despite the overshadowing pnpon derance of the motor driven vehicle and all its attendant complexities, the bicycle still retains its popularity among millions of people in all parts of the world, and that its popularity is rapidly growing is amply evidenced by production and export figures which I show a tremendous increase over those I of a few years ago. But there are more millions, men. J women and children in all walks of I life, who would be greatly benefited j by the use of the bicycle, but who do not yet realize its many advantages ilt is to attain this end that the United! 'Cycle Trade Directorate is spreading the gospel of the bicycle with its an-, nual Bicycle Week which is now na-I na-I tionally observed by thousands of rid-era, rid-era, clubs and bicycle merchants, with I its Free Prize Bureau which encour- ' ' ages amateur bicycle racing as a clean, healthful sport, with its dealers' helps i which point the way to better merchandizing mer-chandizing methods, and with its field 'men, or missionaries, whose work Is to I personally aid the dealers in every way ; possible, to organize bicycle clubs among school boys and Y. M. C. A. boys, to encourage them to go in for cycling races, runs, in short, to do everything ev-erything possible that will promote the growth of cycling as a useful, health, building recreation, and as the Blmplesl 1 and the most economical means of 'transportation. This country ot over Kiimmhi huh r,,pl.- i- uxiru' li y i I ' - today to-day at the rate of one to 200 population. popula-tion. In other countries, it is as high as one in ten, while in Holland, it is estimated that there are seventy bicycles bi-cycles to every 100 inhabitants. We, of course, may never reach the latter figure, but. it is certain that a vastly greater pumber of wheels are going I to be used in the near future when I the great public becomes hetti-r ;n -Iquainted with the many merits of that most efficient and most democratic of I all vehicles the bicycle. oo