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Show j UU I HERE IS VISION OF TOURING IN FUTURE 4 f Somo day, the prophets tell us, j America will be a network of wide. paved thoroughfares. It Is reasonable j to suppose that the Lincoln highway, I for example, which now starts out bravely enough but dwindles into a I narrow, sandy trail in the desert lands Of Nevada, before many years will j wklen into a magnificent boulevard li will then he possible to travel from J tin "Thank You" sign of New York city to the "Welcome" post of San Francisco with little more difficult than is now encountered in a journey1 across a couple of states. POPULATION SHIFTS. I 'unng the period Of railroad de-j velopmenl cities sprang up In wiid.l unpopulated spots and olher communi ties of great promise shrank to such j Insignificance thai map makers have I practically forgotten them. It seems likely that our population still has before It a period Ol considerable shifting. Willie we are Jules Vern-inr Vern-inr It is not difficult to imagine cities at the intersections of great national highways H-hore there is nothing today to-day but a 'gasoline station and a general gen-eral store with a dusty display board of goggles In the window and a sleeping sleep-ing cat on the steps. It is in the great; barren fiddle-lands fiddle-lands where the imagination finds the most Stimulating field.-! for rioting Perhaps souk day we shall hear from ; i mi i i i i a new Horace Greeley with the ad-I ad-I vice. "Young man. go west, but not too far west." EXPRESS ROADWAYS. Among the most sane and conservative conserva-tive prophets there are whlrperings of national express lines for motor travel with ample crossing protection and ftf local stops Even if theati forward-looking people are only partially par-tially correct, tli motor car business is only in its cradle and the high-powered high-powered motar car is one of the most promising imits of automotive transportation. trans-portation. Crossing the continent by motar car today. howeer. Is quite another mat tor. The route liles across -ast stretches which have not felt the shovel of the roadmakei, and the weather bleached bones of cattle which one sometimes encounters are niorp than properties of film producers produc-ers The transcontinental lomiet still gets something of the thrill of the pioneer and has experiences which cannot even be imagined from a train window. |