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Show Roads in 1932 The nation's road plans call for an expenditure ot l,353,000,00u during this year. Cf the amount, $882,000,000 is the probable expenditure by state highway departments, with $471,-000,000 $471,-000,000 the share of local authorities. auth-orities. The stute departments plan to construct 36,000 miles of road, of which 8,800 miles will be high type, such ' as asphalt, con crete and brick, and n.buu win oe sand-clay, macaram and gravel Of the state appropriations, $568,-00 $568,-00 0,000 will be available for new road and bridge construction, and the balance will go for reconstruc tlon and maintenance, interest on highway bonds and similar purposes. pur-poses. It Is to be hoped that a fair proportion of the money will be spent in rural and farming localities. lo-calities. There is, of course, no end to the need for more and better main highways but this need, in most states, is not nearly near-ly so great as the need for year-round, year-round, long-wearing secondary roads. The farmer, as a class, still finds himself buried in mud, so far as motor transport is concerned, con-cerned, during bad weather. There are still a number of months each year when to drive between his home and the outside world is wholly or next to impossible. The states have no greater duty than to remedy this condition by wise allocation of road funds between main highways and secondary roads. i |