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Show ROAD POLICIES : ARE OUTLINED Record for 1921 Is Greatest, Says Automobile Expert on Highways (Bl ROl OHAPIN) i heirman Highways onunlttee Va tlonaJ kutom ibllc lhamber of ommercc) In all the years of highway transport trans-port development In this country 1921 stands out as the period In which there has been the mo . forward looking look-ing crystalization of industrial, stale and nntlonal policies Within the short span of Its days we have finally come . o a realization of the fundamental face that after all neither the highway nor tho vehicle which travels over it can be considered consid-ered as things aparr.. Today we know that each is Dut nn aspect of highway transport, and that it Is only as the two together perform a real service o the general public that either can be of lasting value. The "booster" period has passed In , the future progress In highway trans-j port must and will be measured upon he basis of economic facts both from the standpoint of individual transportation transpor-tation and from the broaded viewpoint of an interrelationship of all forms ot . transport; ion. The automotive manufacturer must recognize this as he plans his production, produc-tion, the automotive deajer must udy and analyze It as he surveys his selling sell-ing territory, the highway engineer murt take it Into account as he complies com-plies his estimates for highway construction con-struction and maintenance. The city plannln? expert must r-clon with 1th I Influence as he measures the future development of hl- municipality. Its effect will he found In real estate valuations. In our recreational areas, in education, In every phase of life here and abroad In the nnalysL of the events which have l.roucht the hii.-hv.iv tram poiV officials of the country to these con. elusions, three frvctors stand out In! sharp relief, altho no one of t hem can be considered separately. One is the ennctm.r-nt of lhe Townsend federal highway act of 1321. a second th6 progress made by the bureau of public pub-lic roads of the department of ngri-CuV.ure ngri-CuV.ure under the leadership of T. H MacDonald ;md In close co-operation with state hfphway depart rite, and third the development of the work ol the highway and highway transpose education corrm'tfee. oo |