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

Improved highways OF a perman-
ent type providing motor express and
passenger transportation facilities
spell opportunity today to the city
which intends to lay the foundation
for a healthy, permanent future
growth.
For II we but admit the hope
lies in a more even distribution of
the population over the acres lying
within city's phere OF influence
then we are committed to the task
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
its source"
These r-marKs. 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 is the time to set
about on those works of public inn
provement 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 ENicn.
sion division" said Mr.. Rutherford.
completed a survey OF large coun-
ty 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 ielp
provide a market that win extsad
the field of usefulness of products
made by the workers Of America tina:
are indispensable to the. life and hap
piness OF mankind-Tand to the
strengthening Of our national life.
This Particular county was isolat.
ed. though Of great productive pow
er and was not harnsssed 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.
Such county, typical OF MARI
sections of our country. offers unlini
tied possibilities to greater useful
ness. Adequate provision for improv-
ed roads and highways transporta-
ton will provide system of vains
facilitating and stimulating comniuu-
faction that can be linked up with
main arteries such areas as vital
parts of this great living organism
1--WE call home and country.
ITO meet such situations as Gi'ese
and because of the evident solutio ]
to be found in the improvement OF
our highways and the stimulation OF
highways transportation. representa-
t!yes OF the cities of this country as
sembled at st. Louis recently and
put themselves squarely behind the
development of highways as being ,oi
particular and pressing importance
And at this meeting of the United
States Chamber of Commerce res
! olution was adopted urging upor
congress that the time had now ar
rived to create a federal highway
comismsion to lay out and build 1
truly national system of highways
and stimulate their efficient utiliza
ton. And this action signifying tn,
Importance to our national life tina
may be attached TO the new fedora
highway commission merely reechoei
the voices of hundreds of thousand
of citizens who have already express
ed themselves. AS result OF thl
general insistence Senator Charles I