The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-06-17
IMPROVED ROADS
ADD MUCH TO
COUNTRY

- ~finproSed highways on pefman-l
ent type ptpvttiins hStor express and
EMBELLISHMENTS sslea.---faciiities
spell opporsunfrsssppKF atAs !. city
which intends TO lay tkc fO0ndstIonl
for healthy permanent 4 h,sure
growth. W. H.
FOR II we but admit the hope
lies in more even distribution Of
the population over the acres lying
within city's phere of Influence
then we are committed to the taHr
of arranging facilities to permit that
adjustment to take place in nat
ural way.
Improved highways that make
possible rapid motor transportation
365 days out of every year will just
as certainly permit and stimulate our
people to move out on the surround
ing country acres as fast and free
flowing stream will deliver at Its
mouth the piece OF bark flung In at
It's source"
These r-lnarxs. made by Mr.. w.
d. Rutherford, vice president OF the
b. F. Goodrich Rubber company at
a recent conference ARE vital now.
first because in many cities housing
conditions are not conducive to a
home making and home loving folk
and second now Isl the time to set
about on those works OF public i'm
Iprovement that will permit men and
women to become home owners and
give them added cause to be proud VI
their city and land.
Quite recently our Trade EAten.
lsion division" said Mr.. Rutherford.
completed survey OF large coun-
~ in one of our great eastern states
that has not single mile OF rail-
road track within its borders. Our
object in making such surveys and
/, conducting such research is to help
provide a market that will extsod
the field of usefulness Of products
made by the workers OF America thai
are indispensable to the life and hap
piness Of manklnd-and to the
STRENGTHENING OF our national life.
4 This Particular county was isolat.
ted;sthough of great productive pow
,er and was not harnessed up to the
,'homes of the great industrial cities
,of the east nor assuming its part of
the burden in our march of pro-
gress. t No
such county, typical Of many
sections of our country, offers unliln
tied possibilities to greater useful
ness. Adequate provision for improv-
ed roads and highways transporta-
ton will provide system of veins
facilitating and stimulating comnluu-
faction that can be linked up with
main arteries such areas as vital
parts of this great living organism
we call home and country.
ITO meet such situations as ti'ese
and because OF the evident solution
to be found in the improvement OF
our highways and the stimulation OF
highways transportation, representa-
t!ves of the cities of this country as
sembled at st, Louis recently and
put themselves squarely behind the
development of highways as being OF
particular and pressing, Importance
And at this meeting OF the United
States Chamber OF Commerce a res.
! olution was adopted urging upon
congress that the time had now ar,
rived to create federal highway
comismsion TO lay out and build q
truly national system of highways
and stimulate their efficient utiliza
ton. And this action signifying the
Importance to our national life tha
may be attached TO the new fedora
highway commission merely reechoei
the voices Of hundreds OF thousand
OF citizens who have already express