The automobile has come to stay, and it is bound to encourage road building and road improvement. 'Just now in these' regions exclusive franchises have driven the smaller companies from the field. The tax for operating on any important road 0 high, even though the government has had nothing to do with the road building and repair, that many companies with but a few cars have faded away. The larger ones are having a struggle, despite the fact that the passenger usually pays at the rate of about seven to ten cents mile. The relatively ood condition of the roads which the American Red Cross helped to build in 1921 famine times, and some later ones built by private capital and through government encouragement, 'a8 well as some built with fami funds recently, all provide a fa network of motor roa The upkeep of thes¢ fine arteries of famine prevention and commercial prosperity has little attention by local or provincial authorities, and it seems easy for the roads to get in bad condition, with little Prospect of early repair.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.