THE PRESERVATION Or THE COUNTRYSIDE.
The campaign against unslightly billboards is being fol-
lowed up by steps to remove the even more unsightly dumps of disecirded motor cars left to rust and rot -along the American countryside. With the increase of the number of motor vehicles in use (the total registered in 1928 was 2,498,124) and a parallel increase in the numbers discarded annually (in 1928 nearly two and a-half million cars were scrapped), the disposal of discarded cars provides an important problem for local authorities. In a few years' time it is estimated that, unless steps are taken to prevent the present practice, between five and six million cars will be dumped along the highways and byways of the United States annually. A number of municipalities and other local authorities are considering remedial legislation as a result of the recent agitation. The protests are proving all the more effective becatize many rural districts find themselves made dumping grounds for the vehicles discarded by people resident else- where, particularly in the cities. The dumping of discarded vehicles is also increasing at a time when the local authorities are developing road-construction schemes, with an eye not only to utility, but equally to beauty.
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