Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-15
ENTIRE WORLD is AFFECTED
BY ERA OF BODYBUILDING
Ripping Through Ancient Prejudices, Highway En-.
gineers Are Duplicating Days of
''IrOn HOrse.''

| ing ones, yet their ba sic subject Is
such as to warrant their proportions
The visioned observer can see
in the years Immediately ahead. roads
pushed into regions and territories
now stagnant wastes, often beautf-
full and just as often utterly useless
because of inaccessibility.
He can see broad highways stretching
far into prosperous and busy lands
now slumbering, idle and poor. He
can visualize fat and growing farm
lands where now rank underbrush
fiourishes undisturbed on fertile soil
tucked deep in the heart of roadless
places, forgotten and quiet in the
wasteful peace Of a thousand years
These and many more things can be
viewed, and viewed without trans
crossing the limits of reality and
fact, viewed with a surety that they
will come to pass with the slow but
sure forward march of the lusty road
builder laying down the pathway for
that tireless emissary, the automobile.
Each new piece of road, no matter
where it Is built, whether on a broad
oasis in the Sahara, or on the south
ern tip OF the Argentine, or from
New York to San Francisco, adds
something to the sum total Of the
worlds wealth and from the nome mt
it Is opened becomes a factor in its
progress, an element contributing to
the economic stability Of all the peo-
pie.
Power Lies I'm Highways.
Every one recognizes the funda-
mental greatness of roads. Every
one, or nearly every one at any rate,
understands that a country's place in
the sun is dope ndent largely upon and
can be gagged by its highways. Rome
conquered-and then threw a road
from the Seven Hills to the newest
province. Roads were the pride and
the power of Rome as they are the
pride and power Of every civilized
state today.
1t is not such long stride, then,
from intra country roads to inter
country highways. nor from perfect
American roads to a network of such
highways in every nook and Granny
of the world. 1t is simply progress,
and in 1925 the careful observer finds
himself in the midst of virile devel-
opment destined to take it's place in
history as one of the most important
ever recorded by the pen of man.
1t is a fact, and a sad one, perhaps,
that some of the greatest and most
significant movements of all. develop
ments which affect vitality the course
of human destiny and shape the tides
of animate endeavor, receive but
scant notice in the history books and
are passed unheeded by majority Of
the people living in the time Of their
enactment.
= Battles. swelling conflicts. wars
which duplicate themselves like peas
in a pod. are hailed and analysed,
given exalted positions in the ency-
clopedias of time. But the quiet
movements. those which exert their
pressure slowly. but inexorably. like
the imperceptible sliding of a glacier,
are ignored cotemporaneously and
often quickly passed over by posterity.
Era Important to History.
Let there be no mistaking the full
significance of what Is now going on.
The Era of Road Building" will yet
be written as chapter Of paramount
Importance in the histories; 1t will
become unQuestionably, the starting
point for broader and more enlight-
ened politics in every direction; it
will rank as fitting successor to the
Era of Discovery and Invention
The world is building roads, build.
ing them as 1t has never done it be-
fore-wide. sweeping highways crash
ing headlong into unbroken wilder
nesses, tearing through the moss of
the ages. ripping through ancient
pretudices. upbuilding and upraising
new standard upon which coming
generations may construct a newer,
more efficient. a more beautiful
edifice.
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