Arizona republican., 1921-09-18
NATIONDEMANDS BETTER H|GHWAY SEDUCTION

WASHINGTON. Sept. 14-(Special Ccrrespondence)-W more than 10poo A00 motor cars in use in the United States alone and with more than cne-half the population of the country doing more or less riding Tn these propelled vehicles. it is not strange that there should be na- rfcn wide sentiment for more and better highways, in the opinion of President George C. Diehl of the American Automobile association, unc points out:
 with light delivery cars and giant motor trucxS operating in every sec- rlon of the land where good roads exist, transporting quickly and eco nomicaliy every human need. and carrying every type of freight from cxEs to pig iron. blind indeed is the man who cannot see the value of hlxAways Toway. however, this type is a rare specimen
 But what change from the days when the American Automobile as xocz4sion came into being and in aUEurated its long. hard struggle to convert a presumably enlightened nrople 10 the roads building idea In those days automobiles were few and generally considered playthings of the idle rich Now with the bulk of the people motors are a workaday need and a Sunday pastime- And with good roads to travel upon to- day they serve alike industry and commerce. capital and labor. poor man. rich man. beggar man, thief According to President Diehl. first i'm this country to work in organized form for good roads was the Amer
 -4.4 .t..~r r.-~. Ir, Y, e beginning of its efforts, he says. the A. A. A. stood practically alone, while today it is assisted, supported and commended by practically all big na- tlonal organizations. both in and out Of the automobile industry.
 Writing reminiscently of the A. A As early road efforts and how diff ficuit it was in those days to get people to accept taxation for reads improvements. w. A. Johnson, man. accr of the Goodrich auto tire de pmrtment. in a letter to President piehi. points out and dwelis most in tcrestingly on a sorrowful situation created largely by a lack of highway: communication. Mir. Johnson said 1T part.
 --Over in China there is an ares about the size of the state of Penn
 
 are starving Every blade of grass every green leaf or shrub, ever. grain. berry or herb has been eaten The bark has been eaten from all thu trees Millions have died and despit, world wide relief efforts, millions more will die. The great war was ; catastrophe. but no such tragedy a this. In all recorded history only tw' or three pages tell tale as horribl as China's famine.
 Yet the very next province is on cf the most fruitful sections of tn world Grains. vegetables and fruit in abundance. Think of Pennsylvani starving and New York with plent and you have the right mental per Spective. Such a condition could no occur in this country. The specter o famine might be seen and felt bu the actual pinch of desperate hunge would be unknown even on the re motest hill top. Relief would com over every highway and railway.
 Tn China there is not a singl modern highway between the fertil provinces where song and laughte are heard and the lean province where the children are too weak { cry for food. When the relief agent went to China they found it woul cost lar more 10 bring food rom tDa rich province next door than it woul cost 10 transport it from Europe ( America. When China establish, some kind of a transportation systel more elevated than the wheeIbarro its periodic starvings will cease.
 When the whole world shall ha, learned the lesson that tEe march civilization demands a proper expaI sion of all agencies of transportatic including waterways, railways ar motorized highways, then such tra; edies as Ehinas will cease from u earth: but this will not come al cannot come by inaction or retr' Ercssion. What every country neel is an overflow spirit in establfshil quick communication and continuo commerce. satisfied with nothing le than safe and easy travel and tran port on earth water and the air; ne CT resting till the wheelbarrow of tF generation is but a memory, Ii many ano'ner rack and ruin of t past If the people of the earth a to have a vision less than this tn they must also harden their heal against the relief of the starvi horles and shut their eyes from | spectacle of millions of children d
 from lack of bread"