The Insolvent Driver

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

Published in the Interest of Good Roads by The

ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT

Volume 2 May, 1926 Number 5

Vincent J. Keating Editor

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ARIZONA AND GOOD ROADS

Arizona needs more permanent residents for its up-building. It can take care of many more tourists, and it can profit them as well as itself. Unlike anything that has gone before, says the Minnesota Highway News in an editorial credited to the Minneapolis Tri-bune, this is an age of automobiles, of good roads and pleasure touring.

"The American people have billions of surplus income to spend for pleasure," says the Tribune, "and they spend it. More and more they are taking their pleasure in seeing their own country by motor car. That is one of the two main reasons why good roads are being built. Good roads attract more tourists to the state through which the good roads run. Here is a perfectly understandable mutual effect between good roads and tourists."

Arizona is fortunate in having good roads, paved roads that equal those of any other state in the union and probably the best dirt roads in the United States. Each road leads to some place of scenic grandeur, passing through a country both beautiful and awe-inspiring.

This month's issue of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS contains a travelogue by W. R. Hutchins which takes the tourist through a thousand miles of country, the land of a thousand wonders.

A celebration or fiesta, to be produced on a gigantic scale, will mark the opening June 19 and 20 of the Clifton-Springerville highway. This land is a sportsman's paradise with hunting and fishing of all kinds.

There are many spots within Arizona in which the Arizonan and tourist may spend a delightful summer vacation. Nature has lavished beauties and wonders upon this state with a generous hand. There is no limit to the numbers of tourists who can enjoy our scenic vistas, and many who come here later will come back as settlers, as permanent residents to help to upbuild the state.

The day is far, far off when we shall have reached the limit of enviable opportunity for a resident population. Good roads are already bringing in settlers. They acquaint the tourists with the opportunities that await the permanent resident. Goood highways are good investments. They advertisie the state and prove to be the greatest boosters of all.

What to do with the insolvent motorist. He usually owns a car, and no other property. Frequently the car is not worth much more than its junk value. Yet it will run, and when it does damage to another car, it damages it just as much as would a costly sedan. The owner of the junk-pile isn't financially responsible for the damage he has created, and no court can force him to pay, because he has nothing to pay with, and nothing the law can levy on. What chance has the man who owns a valuable car, so long as the streets and highways of the country are cluttered up with insolvent, irresponsible motorists? We are not in favor of adding any more burdens to the motorists. But it does seem that a man who invests his money in a good car, who drives carefully, and who can pay for any damage he does, is entitled to protection from the fellow with about $50 worth of junk. hardly enough money to buy gas and no regard for the property of others. Ivanhoe (Minn.) Times.

OUR COVER PICTURE

The cover picture this month represents a scene in the northern part of the state, at Lake Mary, near Flagstaff. Lake Mary is one of the beauty spots of Arizona.