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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1918
Page
1
A government road campaign argues for better roads to aid farmers like John Smith and motorists alike. It notes rising car usage, city and country interdependence, and Uncle Sam’s limited funding for paving with expected social and economic returns. Overinvestment warned against.
An expansive automobile festival arrives in Ogden in the Dees Eades building on Twenty fourth street from March 18 to 28. Local dealers and Salt Lake exhibitors join forces under a strong organizing team to present a multi night program with Your Own Auto Night Society Night Industrial Night and Carnival Night plus displays of cars top work and accessories.
The article outlines a broad federal road program, detailing a $16,000,000 allocation for the coming fiscal year and incremental increases in subsequent years. States join by agreeing to projects approved by the secretary of agriculture, with surveys, construction, and maintenance funded through federal, state, and local dollars. It also covers production data for tires and rubber goods, noting Ohio and New Jersey as leading rubber industries and the growth of Ohio rubber manufacturing from 1904 to 1914.
A census bureau report ranks Ohio first among states in rubber manufacture for automobiles with 105 million dollars of the industry’s 1914 output. Massachusetts New Jersey and Connecticut follow in importance as Ohio accounts for over one third of the total value.
George A. Kissel of K's el Motor Car Co extols the passenger car as essential to daily life and business. He compares modern travel to past unreliable public conveyances, noting how the automobile increases efficiency and reduces interruptions in the 20th century corporate pace.
The automobile links people to many business interests, boosting urban trade and circulation of money. It reshapes personal outlook, ambition, and efficiency, and transforms city governance and property protection with faster, cheaper transportation and improved parks and driveways.
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