The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25


 Build loading sheds with platforms that permit the quick loading and un- loading of goods and supplies.
 Form return loads bureaus and se- cure the cooperation of every truck owner in your community
 Promote motor rural express routes, among the farmers, dairymen, produce growers, etc.
 Consolidate all retail delivery, local express and moving equipment.
 Inaugurate motor truck highways around and through cities and com murities to permit of uninterrupted passage of motor trucks
 We must not forget that the winter months. with their pew problems are sjust over the hilln This summer has seen increased activities in every nae of business The country has doubled and trebled it's production operations with the result that we are apt to forget that while the summer months are conducive to such increased activi- ties in so far as transportation and haulage of goods and supplies are con cerned, the winter months are r1ght the other extreme.
 GOOD ROADS IMPORTANT
 R1gnt now IS the llnlG TOT tNSlI tCoiiA" munity to lay it's transportation plans for the coming months These plans include not only well developed and wei. defined transportation lines. put strongly. built roads that will not pe impassable at the first fall of snow or rain. Every property owner should realize the vital importance. not only to his community but to himself, his home, his family and his property. or 4A 1-@ f1.N 1.-Two n transportation open between the source , of demand and the source of supply. By this I do not mean to expend eX- orbitant sums of money A systematic community road building plan, in which everybody participates. can accomplish wonders in short space of time, The experiences of the past winters have shown every community the necessary steps to take to keep the roads open. Everybody knows that the railroads are far from being adequate now for the demands being made upon them understand that thousands upon thou sands of freight cars and locomotives ! are being built in preparation for the coming winter. but it must not be for fotten that with each day and week the increased demands upon the rail- roads keeps pace with the new equip ment they are able to produce. Hence,
  to do is to plan it's own transporta- tion system and put it on an effi- ciency basis. so that when winter ar
 rives it is prepared to meet the many difficult problems that are bound to come up and which can only be solved by preparation in advance
 RETAIL DELIVERIES We now come to the question of a community perfecting its delivery and H.; r;t it's Just as the transportation equip ment of manufacturers has been "effi- ciencyized" to meet present day de- mands so that of retailers and whole salers should be co-ordinated to meet
 the new conditions with which they also must contend.
 The cost of any article to the con sumer depends on the expense of not only manufacturing. but delivering it in the home.
 Systematize the retail delivery equip- ment of any community and tat of
 flour, pound of beef suit of clothes or new carpet will be delivered l. TOUT home at less cost. Multiply this ss ving by the total population and yt will have a staggering number of dollars the motor truck can save every com munity.
 The same manner in which the motor truck came to the railroads rescue in helping clear congested freight deposs can be applied to retail haulage and de- livery. The overland transportation com panies the return loads bureaus, and the rural motor express lnesall of these activities are gaining in momentum and
 day and by fall the country will un- doubtedly have a network of these sources of supply from the producer tc
 the point of distribution. The manu-
 facturer and producer are doing theii share to relieve the transportation prob lems of the country, and it is now