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Show i BETTER GARS IN ) NEEDHADS Greatest Improvement Must Come Through Building j Better Highways. (By E. B. DUFFY.) Competition Is bringing the motoring motor-ing public, which Includes about 125,-000,000 125,-000,000 citizens of the United States, almost unbelievable values. Elgbt-cyl-Inder cars are coming within reach of those who because of worldly cares must conserve the contents of their billfolds. Automobiles are being made better and better, and of parallel Importance, Im-portance, cheaper and cheaper. But there is one thing wrong with the motoring picture. More has been ' done In creating speed and comfort In vehicles than In providing highways over which they may best operate. To say that automobile manufacturers have done all they can In the way of making cars efficient would not be quite true, for mechanical Improvements Improve-ments are to continue. But the great betterment that Is to come In motoring motor-ing cannot be accomplished by motor car manufacturers. More well paved I highways must be built and by John I Public. Automobile Ownership. I The saturation point of automobile I ownership is as elusive as a bootleg ger's address. In addition to the re-I re-I placement of some two million worn out cars each year, the total vehicle registration Is being Increased by a million and a half. There are now some 20,000.000 cars on the highways i and bywaya and by the end of 1930 the I registration will bave mounted to 27,- 000,000. It Is difficult to visualize the importance im-portance of such large figures, but they do show that the motoring appetite ap-petite Is far from being appeased. Most cars are owned In population centers but they do not stay there. Hence the highway problem Is not only statewide but nationwide. Few states have really made an attempt at-tempt to serve the motorist but those ! ' that bave made any commendable i headway have done so through the aid of the bond Issue plan which enables en-ables the state or local community te purchase roads In Installments, as homes and cars are purchased by Individuals. In-dividuals. Meet Highway Problem. To meet the highway problem most ,4k, successfully it Is necessary to make use or assured future Income. Plans of various states Indicate that greater a use la to be made of the bond Issue plan. In the meantime motorists In those communities evidencing little road building energy will continue to be deprived of true motoring comfortat com-fortat a greater motoring cost than their neighbors. |