Show ROAD BUILDING AN ESSENTIAL ESSENTIALS INDUSTRY f S Americas America's at the outbreak of or the war did not consist simply in a lack of guns ships and soldiers These were our most pressing pressIng pressIng press- press Ing needs But they were by no means our only ones If It we admit as we must the importance of food as asa asa a factor in winning the war and the close relation of the food supply to the country's transportation facilities facilities ties we m must st admit also alBo that Amer Arner ica's indifferent highways highways- at the I Iwar's wars war's c outbreak were a part an Important important important Im im- part o of our general 1 11 n w J- J Does this seem like an overstatement overstatement overstatement state over ment Discussing the point recently Food A Administrator Hoover declared Half Hal 01 oh the perishable food products products prod prod- of the United States are now nou wasted because of or the lack of or convenient convenient con con transportation And a quarter quarter ter of that waste would feed warring Europe Mr 1 Hoover has also said Food will win the war Meaning of oC course that we nor nor our allies can can carry forward this tremendous struggle on empty stomachs It Is useless to raise food it if it cannot be transported and as we have learned from starving Russia's unhappy experience experience experience ex ex- it c can n not be transported without roads Road building therefore therefore therefore there there- fore becomes an essential Industry As long as S food is needed it should not be abandoned |