70 Year Magazine Archive

Abolish the Highways?

by J. B. Jackson

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We won’t have an effective roadside beautification program, says the author, until we make the relevant distinction between tourist and working highways

Not long ago a lady much in the public eye made a trip by automobile to see some of the historic landmarks of rural America. She saw them, but she also saw something else which caused her considerable distress: that was the scrofulous condition of the scenery along the right of way. Once home, she turned to her husband for advice: what could be done to improve the appearance of the American landscape?

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