ly service, over a fixed route, with a definite schedule of stops and
charges, gathering farm produce, milk, live stock, eggs, etc., and
delivering them to the city dealer and on the return trip carrying
merchandise, machinery, supplies, etc., for farmers and others along the
route. This service amounts to a collection and delivery that comes to
the farmer's door with the same regularity that the trolley car passes
over its tracks.

=The Plan of Organization.=

The Council of National Defense adopted the following resolution on
March 14, 1918:

The Council of National Defense approves the widest possible use of
the motor truck as a transportation agency, and requests the State
Council of Defense and other State authorities to take all
necessary steps to facilitate such means of transportation,
removing any regulations that tend to restrict and discourage such
use.

The highways transport committee of the Council of National Defense is
charged to carry out the purpose of this resolution. The several State
councils of defense have been asked to appoint highways transport
committees, or to delegate the organization of rural express to some
committee which will have charge of the development of the work within
the State. These State committees will in turn further the work through
local organizations.

=Indorsements of Rural Express.=

The Council of National Defense approved the widest possible use of the
motor truck in its resolution of March 14, 1918.

The Post Office Department has demonstrated the value of motor-truck
transportation through experimental lines of parcel-post trucks now in
operation in several of the Eastern States.

=The Need.=

The United States Food Administration has approved the plan in the
following statement by the Food Administrator:

The development of the rural motor express idea, in my opinion, is
in the line of progress and should redound to the benefit of the
producer, the consumer, and the railroads. This means of
transportation should facilitate delivery, conserve labor, conserve
foodstuffs, and should effect delivery of food in better condition.

The United States Department of Agriculture through its bureau of
markets has inaugurated an investigation of the efficiency of
motor-truck transportation in the marketing of farm produce.

The United States Department of Labor through its employment service
urges the ad