Transport: Local Lovers

To speculative motorists who often wonder how the thousands of roadhouses and tourist camps which line U. S. highways make a profit, the sociology department of Southern Methodist University last week gave an answer. Most of such resorts, according to S. M. U., are chiefly used as places of assignation.

S. M. U. sociologists made an exhaustive survey of tourist camps near Dallas, Tex., discovered that nearly 75% of the patrons were not tourists at all, but local couples who used the cabins few about an hour. Many proprietors admitted that "couple trade"...

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