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Show GOOD ROADS j In providing work for the discharged discharg-ed soldiers and sailors and munition workers, road building offers a solution solu-tion of many problems. The United States as a whole is behind most for-! eign countries in the matter of good 1 highways. Poor, roads are a reason for high prices of farm products in many cases. They are a rea?o-more rea?o-more automobiles are not purchased and used. They are a reason for heavy upkeep cost of vehicles of all kinds. They are a cause of many accidents. ac-cidents. They are a hindrance to suburban and country development; a cause of low prices of real estate in country sections; a reason, in short for slower development of national industry and production than should be expected of a country, as progressive progres-sive as ours claims to be. Colonel Robert H. Tyndall of the 150th Field Artillery, U. S. Army, writing from France says: , "There will be a couple of million real road war boosters when the war Is over." He speaks in glowing terms of the splendid highways they found in France comparing them much to the detriment with the average highway found in the United States. In the same article containing Col. Tyndall's views, it was stated that there is undoubtedly a big road plan developing in this country. Chairman George C. Diehl of A. A A." Good Roads Board says: $100,000,000 a year appropriated by the Federal Government on a definite, tangible highway system will work wonders in the form of from 5,000 to 10,000 miles of splendid highway, partly made up of sections already sufficient in quality; qual-ity; partly, in sections to repair; partly part-ly of sections rebuilt and partly of entirely en-tirely new construction. State and local appropriation should be encouraged en-couraged and construction of federal roads should enormously increase road expenditures. The thousands of otherwise unemployed labor can lie used to the most excellent advantage In this way." The vast that would have otherwise other-wise have been spent in destruction can beneficially be expended for highway high-way construction to the end that trade may be increased between rural sections sec-tions and urban points. Hundreds of thousands of returning soldiers and men that have been employed In munition mu-nition manufacture can be employed profitably to themselves and to the communities of which they are a part in this highway work with the result that tradesmen will enjoy increased trade, laborers will be contented, farmers far-mers will have more accessible markets mar-kets and the community as a whole will enjoy increased prosperity. |