Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-28
AUTO is A Big INFLUENCE
Has Made Demand for Better Roads
and That Demand Has Brought
Desired Results.
D. NJ. DEAL GIVES TREATISE

IF the coming OF the automobile had
never had any other use, It's influence on
tho buiiding OF good roads. on the de-
mand for more roads. for roads that
lead everywhere. would have made It the
boon 20 the world II has proven 20 be.
Every instrument OF iocomotion invented
FOR mans uses has meant the construc-
ton OF more highways and better high
WAYS. All OF them combined have not
had the impelline influence OF the auto
mobile, said D. NJ. Beal Of the Moline
knight
''The oxeart and even moro primitive
methods OF riding and hauling. brought
more roads. less dangerous roads. The
inst wheeled vehicles OF modern times
brought wondrous change in the mileage
Of, passable highways. The bicycle
started an Impetus toward the building
Of. splendid highways that did not stop
before the automobile came.
eAutomobiles have today gone into
every community OF the civilized world,
carrying with them an incentive to re-
fined pleasure. a desire for travel. a
stimulus 20 the quicker dispatch OF busl-
ness and a mighty aid In the develop
ment Of the public highways In every
community. During the last five years
the people OF the United states have paid
more attention 10 the construction. tho
scientific construction OF roads. than they
had paid during all the nations history
before The answer Is contained In one
w0rd-automobiles.
estates throughout the annals Of times
have been largely measured by their
roadwaya II has been taken as prima
fable evidence OF the highest existing
type. Of civilization Il a country could
display splendld highways. Most OF the
world that ever knew have forgotten that
j. caeear crossed the Rubicon. that he
thriec REFUSED a klngly crown and con-
onered the Ncrvn But the merest tyro
at road building has either read or been
told that this ancient Roman was the
create highway constructor OF his time.
HAterage specimens OF humanity in ali
lands nc longer recollect many OF the
dramatic incidents that crowded over one
another m the career OF Bonaparte. The
spectacle presented by him standing on
a raft debating 10 other emperors the
terms bt which Europe might have peace
is rather hazy in their mental cameras,
but he Is an ignoramus indeed who never
heard OF the thousands OF miles OF rib
bon roads that intersect France. running
in and out OF Paris like delicate weaves
Of a tremendous sseb. every mile OF their
glistenlne surfaces perpetual testimonial
20 the eenlus OF the Little Corporal.
without roads this old terrestrial
sphere would still be a wilderness and q
Wilderness isn't much OF a world for the
men and women who count nowadays
The potentially OF the automobiles as a
factor in the work OF interlacing the
United States with newer and bigger net
works OF highways Is conceded BY every
body. II the concession were not freely
made. statistics from the expert road
builders OF the United States government
wouid furnish the proof that would bripg
H. There Is nothing more interesting TO
those who keep track OF the miles OF
new roads that are built than those fig
uree from the highways OF the Depart
ment Of Agriculture
hut one need not 80 TO Washington.
or anywhere cise. to study and be con-
WINGED There Il not an automobile
owner. or driver. In the world who does
not want TO see tho roads in his own
particular community, and Tor many
miles around. made as hard as flint and
~ level as a ballroom floor. The auto
mobile "beg'' produces the good roads
1tch'- Every owner gets the bug. to
use some very expressive slang. and the
'itch follows a. rspid and natural Sc
qieuce,-