Europe, the Americas, Australia and Japan are spending millions on improved highways, and they are to-day bearing a greater burden of our transportation problem than ever before. This great improvement is primarily due to the introduction of the motor vehicle. The States spent $10,000,000 on provements in 1924. "A few motor industry probably show fustifieation for There are 21 Jos in use in the world, 83 per cent. of which are in the United States, and 60,000 of these are motor-buses. The produc. tion of our motor-cars has, in. the United States alone, increased from 300 vehicles in 1895 to 4,100,000 The increase of production 10 1923 was 53 per cent while from 1923 to. 1924. show a drop of 11 per cent. Other interesting figures are that "more than one million were scrapped in 1923, and the num ber of motor vehicles in uso the United States is approximately equal to the number of telephones.
Latest statistics show that the ratio of commercial vehicles such as trucks to pleasure ears is rapidly increasing. These statistics indicative of what other countries are doing to meet transportation problems.
Building roads in China received quite an impetus during 1922-1923, and provincial and local governments in every section of the country are showing active built in this vicinity by semi-oficial organizations who ope. rate "buses and charge toll zo to show that these facilities will be used by the people.
The China Year Book gives the following on modern roads. Constructed, 2,710 miles. Under construction, 3,153 miles. Most of these are earth roads which can be traversed by motor-cars of least during the dry season.
The improvement in streets in cities of China, especially the Concessions, is noteworthy. The motor vehicle as a medium of passenger and freight transport is rapidly increasing. There are 12,000 motor vehicles in China to-day.
Transportation and Progress The aeroplane, rapidly entering the field as a medium of transportation, is still principally an object of curiosity in Chin:
In conclusion, I wish to state that I believe that more has been added to the comforts of living in the last century than during the recorded history of the world, and for these comforts we are first in debted to the engineer and the apied scientist, second to the eapita-Fist, who commercializes the invention, and lastly to those who provide means for their distribution. The two latter are so inter-related that the one is practically useless without the other. Teansportation is in
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