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Show THE TOWN DOCTOR j (The Doctor of Towns) j the hole that was bad for the highway. high-way. Then something happened. A monstrous mon-strous truck, very heavily loaded, backed up too far, went off the pave- I ment and down the embankment, ! settling deep in the wet, loose, spongy j loam. It was stack no doubt about' it! A loud whistle blew trucks out- ! bound stopped, swung around, and returned to the fill; inbound trucks drew up in a line. Chains rattled as each hitched to the other a workman ! slid down to the truck in the mire, attached a chain thereto, and a whis-. tie blew thrice. At the first whistle, j all trucks moved forward taking up the slack, at the second, gears mesh- j ed into low, at the third, every clutch of every truck was engaged, and ; without jump or jerk, all, as one,; moved forward, steadily, surely, until the stuck truck was back on solid pavement. There was no fuss, dissension, dissen-sion, excitement o bluster all of the trucks pulled, none was standing at the side of the road, idling, watching or shouting advice; all pulled In the snme direction at the same time. The moral is plain. If your town is "stuck" if it isn't moving forward, gather 'round, everybody, hook on, get a sure "hitch", the pull TOGETH-EBr TOGETH-EBr in the same direction. Copyright, 1929, A. D. Stone. Reproduction Re-production prohibited in whole or In part. This Town Doctor Article is published pub-lished by this paper in cooperation with the local fJons Club. n SOHli TOWNS, LIKE TRUCKS, ;et stuck is the mud There Ih something about the building build-ing of a highway that is to me, as a muMMct. to steel. When driving through the country, a "Road Under Const ruction" sign la a near command com-mand to iliivo around the barrier, and learn if tho notice is telling the truth. There is something majestic and awe-inspiring about the laying of a rlbliou of concrete across a plain, through tho valleys, or over the hills, rerliapa it is not the actual construction construc-tion as much as the value of what the completed work will be to tho communities com-munities it will serve, wondering if those it will benefit will take full advantage ad-vantage of the opportunity. The paving of a country road is an epoch in the lite of the area through which it passes, for it marks the passing of the old into the new, and to mo, a changing from the old order of things is always of interest. Iist fall, while making what has been spoken of as a "clinic jou -ney", I obtained permission to drive a 12 mile strip of newly-laid concrete through the Palos Hills country in Illinois. It was a beautiful roadway In a beautiful country, and I could but marvel at the thoroughness the perfect contour of this "sidewalk for motor cars" to hillside, vale and woodland it was perfect Some miles from .the convergence of this roadway with tho main arterial arter-ial highway, a large force of workmen work-men with a score of dump trucks were making a fill. Trucks loaded with loose earth came from both directions; systematically they swung to the edge, half circled to the center of the pavement, then backed; a whistle blew, the truck stopped, the dump body tipped as the end gate opened; another whistle, and the truck moved out and on up the road. For an hour I watched them ..s like giant ants they came and went, filling |