Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1919, Page 9

SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1919 BANNER YEAR OF GOOD ROADS [5 PREDICTEDHERE, Astounding Results Achieved in! War Due to Highways, Ac- cording to Local Agent for the Firestone: Tires. “The present year promises to be a banner year for good roads,” says | rl C. Boyle, Firestone agent. “This movement, the importance of which has been partially understood for a/ ood many years, progresseil stead-/ ily, though. perhaps not satisfactor- | ily, until 1918, when the exigencies of war halted its further extension just as they halted a great many other advances. And yet it was the war which brought home to us in a degree never approached before, the real significance of the movement and our nationel failure to appre-| hend that significance. | “Our widespread neglect was brought glaringly to light in many ways and on numerous occasions, | Our ‘arteries of commerce’ were insufficient in number and weak in their construction. ‘The astonnding recults achieved by the government in helping the allies to save Europe were achieved rather in spite of our highweys than by virtue of them. In one instance, when it was decided to deliver trains of motor trucks on the Atlantic seaboard under their own power, it took the first group eight days to reach Pittsburgh: good roads would have reduced the run half the time. The victory at Chateau Thierry is }aid to have been made possible by the successful performance of a motor truck, which, starting 2s one of four, was the only one to arrive at the front, carrying 50,000 rounds of ammuni- tion that put the finishing touches on the American victory. What might four days’ delay have meant then? “Shall we lag behind Europe in these particulars? France especial- ly has shown the way—and I am not playing with words merely—to the United States. Even in spite of the: terrible havoc wrought by the most contemptible of foes, and in spite of horrors which can _ be neither numbered nor fathomed, that brave little nation maintained al- most to the front line trenches a system of highways that will always be a marvel to mankind. A system, mark you, not an occasional road, or even a group here and there, but a vast mesh work whose strands and filaments connect almost every city and town and village from the Chan- nel to the Pyrenees and from the Bay of Biscey to the Alps. Our men who have fought in France know this; and they will never rest con- tent, when they return, with the puny imitations to which we had grown accustomed prior to the world struggle. “Is not the word ‘America’ as good as ‘Appian’? Magnificent high- ways everywhere, long and straight and imperishable, gleaming white forever under the sun,~—why not here in America 2s well as in far-off Italy? METAL PLANES MADE BY GERMANS NEVER USED BERLIN.—(By Mail.)—The Ger- mans never had a chance to use their latest aero creation on the front against the Entente airmen—the en- tirely metal plane. Fire from the tanks burning the light inflammable material of which planes are usually made caused the deaths of a large percentage of aviators. . The metal plane was made of aluminum, body, wing struts and ell. The most recent development includ- ed metal wings, except the which have to be flexible for guiding the plane. The metal plane was al- most bullet proof, except direct hits, and came as near being an armored plane as anyone could develop. The aluminum plane wes develop- ed by engineers connected with the Zeppelin works. In the Zeppelin factory at Staalen are almost a hun- dred of these planes nearly finished, most of them without wings. They are bright and shiny aluminum, and are the most deathly looking ma- chines imaginable. 5 The aluminum plane was never used on the front, though it had been tested very carefully in the Tear and at the factory, and was found entirely satisfactory, It was as fast and almost as light as the planes made of wood. “The armistice ceme along and vrevented us from using the alam- | inum plane,” said the Zeppelin man- ager. “It was the same with our, giant bombers. Another year and, we'd have had enough of- both to have complete sipremacy. Then the! Entente would have_come along wit! something better. That’s the way i went, nip end tuck—and the infan- try settled the war after all.” Mt een BREAD LINE TO DEVELOP CLASS f —— 1 VIENNA.—Among the aristocrats whose property is declared forfeit to the state are “Karl von Hapsburg,” “Friedrich. Hapsburg” and “Ludwig von Wittelsbach.” Do you recognize | them? . ‘ | The Rev. W.! om A. “Bi day and Mrs. Sund. --ady to s from Denver to Coloradu ., ? Victory loan rally. Lieut. G. Carico. Marbut of the aviation service is at the Cadillac’s wheel. Besides being fervent Liberty loan campaigners, the Rev. William A. and his wife are also “‘jolly motorists, true sports, good scouts and allround real folks,”’ according to Lieut. G. Carlton YANKS OF BIG HORN COUNTY HONOR GUESTS BASIN, Wy May 2.—The_ re- turning soldiers from Big Horn county were entertained by the Red Cross at a stag dinner and smoker this evening. Over two hundred re- turned soldiers were guests. R. B. Landfair acted as tozstmaster and he following program was renderted curing the dinner hour: Violin and flute duet, Lester Gib- son, Clifford Whitmore. . Sun- Chorus, “That Old Chow Call,” Waitresses. Chorus, “The A. E, F. Nursery Waitresses. Minute, 4th Grade Grammar School Class. .Quartette, “Alohoe,” “Ja I'm Always Chasing Rainbows. Solo, “America For Me,” Miss Canger. Violin solo, Clifford Whitmore. Reading, “Old Glory,” Miss Wilma Skovgard. Solo, “Dear Old Pal of Mine,” “When the Boys Come Home,” Mrs. 3, T. Josiin. Following the dinner a smoker was held at Fraternity hall to which the public’ generally was vhere a warm welcome ered. Rhyme,” was tend- eee eee Knew the Signs “That young fellow looks furtive. isn’t he apt to try to pinch some- thing?” “Naw,” said the experienced jew- eler, ‘He wants to buy an engage- nent-ring.”—Kansas City Journal, Da”, invited andi Marbut of the aviation service, who took possession of them on their ar- * rival in Denver, drove them to the Sorings for an afternoon loan rally jan. then whizzed them back to Den- |ver in time for the big “Finish the Job” nfass meeting that night in the municipal auditorium. The return trip to Denver was e in two hours flat, and without ifting gears. 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(By United LEHI, Utah, May 3 n or getting a lot of th money-stranglers to let loose of $50 for a Liberty loan when they ought to buy $5,000 worth,” said the re- vivalist when the driving feat finished. “But I’m not really sur- prised, after all; for I have three Cadillacs of my own. I’ve driven my seven-passenger machine )00 miles, with scarcely any expens r repairs, and I regard the Cadillac as the only car for service demanding emergency, dependability and durability on a big| scale. No wonder the United States! army chose the thoroughly standard-| ized Cadillac for its official seven-pas- senger car.” salva | “There is just one prime factor in , determining selling price and that is cost, and today the principal cost item in most products that are de- livered to the final consumer, is the charge for the labor—for the human SCOTS PLAN TO REFOREST LAND «irae for LONDON.—For tree planting in>;reached the user,” says A. C. 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