Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-07-23

astc championship and savsh misuse In this connection
in many directions people occasionally to extremes
and unable to there than side to this
modern agency of rapid ocomoton 1t either all good
all bad in such instances and those who think differently
are nNmbskuls villains of the deepest dye
If pause moment and consider this new factor in
civilization from sociological point of view, shall dis
in the first place, that the influence of the automo
bile far it's champions concerned producing in
Vermont and elsewhere two kinds of people, One of these
is the road hog and you fail to recognize him, for
he is to make his existence manifest in Of
many He wants most of the road and takes it by
weight and size of if other is his If he
codes with another and smaller smashes team, he
opens his throttle and dashes away either in cowardce
british Indifference BOTH and leaves his victims to their
fate He usually combines the bicycle face with the auto
cycle hump and the prize fighters though he may
diamond pin with other togs under his buster to
match and have proxy at the Wheel He is reckless
scorcher usually and leaves trail of dust like comet
Mark him we'll for he is disappearing in more senses
than and both law and society will eliminate him
forever public nuisance
The other class process Of development by the auto
known for their genuine spirit of cameradere and
linked by invisible bonds of interest and sympathy
which level all ranks Of wealth and society and make for
une democracy The genteness and thOughuness of the
nursery of unavoidable accident combined with
good breeding and befitting the drawing
Moreover the auto driver who asks the stranger
in trouble us there anything do for you the
question "Who is neighbour? and shows that after all
the whole world is kin.
The material effects OF the advent OF the auto
to be found in visible evidences not only but also in consd
eratons that must be given thought in order to be appe
GATED For example when the auto first appeared all
the farm wifes life worth almost to start out for ride
with horse and the risk Of meeting red auto
with driver Now all hands getting accustomed
to each other and it recognized by farmers that
the auto a friend in disguise.
1t required the auto to show the taxpayers of Vermont
they wasting money in trying to build artificial roads
of crushed stone in host of communities having album
of
ing the best country roads in the world 1t discourage
ing for time to autos draw the binder from beautiful
smooth crushed stone roads, but building highways
differently and oing them otherwise treating them
in way to make them resist both and moisture the
latter the deadlier of the two.
1t is only few years since some Of seriously
considering the project of issuing State bonds for the
stuctOn of trunk lines Of crushed stone highway both
sides of the Green Mountains To-day are paying
taxes in Vermont aggregatng $5O00O all of which
is devoted to the uppemenng of other and regular high
way taxes for the improvement of our roads.
To put the matter in direct light Vermons autos
to-day paying this $150O0O annually in
eres that would be payable the loan Of 49,
100000 in State bonds bearing interest at per This
will be increased next and the next and
and it will all be spent Vermont roads, helping increase
the value of every farm in Vermont we'll making it
easier and consequently economical to haul farm prod
ucts
And the beauty Of it all is that in thirty forty years
all the taxpayers of Vermont will have this So
State bonds to pay, with nothing show for it. While
once in while foolish mortgages his farm his lit
tie home to buy auto most of this of peo-
pie of who best afford to help improve high
way
The auto is doing than all other influences
bned develop Vermont "Noble pleasure groundthe
most beautiful region in eastern America in the language
Of former Ambassador Bryce Beauty spots beyond
Der had smiled for centuries in all parts
previous the advent of the auto The railroad opened up
many enhancing to the travelling public but the
greater part of the States accessible but hidden sylvan
remained just lover the hlP and thus "far away
all tourists the occasional climber who
is only becoming class apprecatve of the Green Noun
tain trails.
The auto is helping rapidly to promote the establishing
of homes in many parts of Vermont formerly be-
yond of people and is thus another way aid
ing in the increase of land values while adding arac
tons of Vermont place of business as we'll as of fas
cinating homes
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