The President Talks the Lincoln Highway in 1917-- Part 2

Continued from January 5th.

LHA President Henry B. Joy then estimated that there was "one motor car to approximately every 25 inhabitants of the United States, cinsidering babes in arms, women, children and aliens." (Evidently, those listed were not driving.) This would lead to the assumption that in many sections of the United States every man who can afford the initial investment in an automobile and its subsequent maintenance owns one." (Of course, Joy also being the president of the Packard Automobile Company wouldn't have anything to do with it.)

As such, the average American is more interested in not only roads, but GOOD roads more than a tariff or the Panama Canal. (And this is considering the approaching entry of the US into World War I.) "Good roads are a live issue in this country to-day one of the livliest issues we have. They have become a concrete matter--the pun is unintentional." (Henry had a sense of humor.)

Cruising on Down That Two-Lane Highway. --RoadDog