Show PROMPT ACTION M ROADWAY NE 1 Uninterrupted I Road Roa lai d Mait alb nance sauce I Necessary N D It Expenditure E in Warroad War Wal a J Road nood mOI maintenance I. I must go o o interruptedly or tho rho taxpayers taxpayers pf i o country countr will have to pay an n enc bill for Cor the restoration o of f the hf hl after actor the war war says a s 's an editorial j I recent issue ls of or Good Roads m Something In like e a quarter ota Of J i c cI tur tury ago systematic Intelligent Sent t 1 I Improvement was commended by a of the slates In the nor of or the Iho countr country Today n thu there I c. c s e f I 1 a 4 il n way wa department In pr Practically M state slate and In most of the thc states til th Is one of oC the ma major jot i 1 of or the government During the thc era of or ron road 1 the Iho annual expenditure a throughout nation nallon has grown from Crom an sum Bum to a n total well S Sa over a a a billion To date probably not mor more per cen cent t of or the coun country tr s road roaS has been surf surfaced aced 8 o as a percentage percenta l this I encouraging but when It I- I zt t that this one eighth te m actual mileage c of oC something U O the magnitude of oC the wo work ork pushed Is better appreciated J JI t I Another fact that must be taken consideration is that a large a nt mal of the traffic of the country ii I. ca on a small proportion Of or th mileage and tho rho Jr greater ater part work worl of oC Improvement has eeD i l On these more Important Some of or the tho money mOlley spent rot fore for i betterment has been wasted d. d it 8 It has been u used ed for Cor permanents the Iho amount Involved lIn representing Investment In that cannot be lost 1 r rt large larse proportion of the tX tune lure has hag been used usell for or the Iho contract construe of pavements pa and surfaces of ti v T n durability an and of different nr nee needs needs' da T k maintenance The mone money thc r sent Is an Investment also abo b but t that can and will be lost If It Ih tho l keep of ot the roads Is la Jj i iThe The country's roads are wort lions lion's of oC dollars even cven If Ie than their first cost I Is taken Int l count Their present value In snit r. r j of oC service rendered Is I for Cor without them ery e would have ha to cease ccase Jh The successful prosecution of off orl war Is the chief business of OC the Ican I can people today todar Dul But that dot do mean that every elY American merlean shoo fighting or working it In Irl a munH U plant or on a farm Cun JE 1 |