LESSON 57 
Tue Country Roap 
HIS lesson is designed to call attention to the 
beauty and high social serviceability of the 
country roads, more especially of the secondary 
roads and those not largely used for through 
traffic. 
Discussion 
The astounding number of automobiles bought and used in 
America is a direct measure of the popularity of the public road. 
By their purchase and maintenance of expensive automobiles mil- 
lions of citizens testify that their favorite recreation in life is country 
driving. 
Automobile drivers have been criticized for speeding through 
the most delightful landscape with small heed for the beauty of their 
surroundings. While this criticism lies with some force against a 
few automobile drivers it surely does not apply to the majority. 
If the only places for driving were subterranean tunnels with no 
outlook to the sky or the fields, pleasure driving by automobile 
would cease at once for all and forever. 
An instructive exercise could be provided for the pupils at this 
point should they be stationed beside any good country road to take 
a census of the traffic and to determine as nearly as possible how 
many passengers were using the road for business and how many 
for pleasure. On nearly all roads the pleasure traffic would be 
found in a very large majority. 
It being therefore the incontrovertible fact that country roads 
are used mainly for pleasure, it is only the part of wisdom to de- 
velop their equipment in this direction, that is to provide the 
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