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Show uo DO AUTO TOURIST CAMPS HELP CITY? I KANSAS CITY. Mo., Nov. 16. Discussion Dis-cussion as to whether tourist camps aro beneficial to citlc9 maintaining th m occupied the convention of the City Managers' association here. "There is serlou.i doubt in my mind." said Eh C. Elliott. Wichita. Kans , "as to the tleslrabllity of tour-list tour-list camps. 1 have definitely decided) that their maintenance is not a civic duty. It Is not right to tax the peo-1 I pie to .provide lodgings for visitors in motor cars. It would be equally Just; to so accommodate visitors on trains. Mr. Klliott said ho had observed that 'occupants of tourist camps do not (spend much money la cities will' h 'maintain them. J. S. Adslt. president of the Good Roads association of Greater Kansas City. adocatcd public camps. Ho de-'clared de-'clared that they aro as essential to a community as good railroad stations. G. W, Kolner, city manager of Pasadena. Pasa-dena. Cal.. defended the tourist camp I Idea. |