Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-10-14 | Page 4 | Road Building an Essential Industry

Road ROIl Bu Building an Essential t hi Industry A A at nt the outbreak of the time theal A war al ar did not consist simply Dimply in a n lack of guns ships ship and nd soldiers soldier These were wre our most pressing needs But they the were werA by bv no means our on only 1 ones If we wc admit as s we c must the the importance of food foor as ns a n. factor in inin winning winning win win- nin ning the war and ann the close chose relation of tho the food supply supply supply sup sup- ply to the country's transportation facilities wo we must a admit mit also that Americas America's indifferent highways a at tho the wars war's outbreak were a part an nit important part of our general for war S Does this scent an o cr over statement statement 1 Discussing the he point recently Food Administrator Hoover declared Half Trait of tho the perishable food foo pro products of the 5 farms of the time United Slates are aie now OW wasted beS because because be be- S cause of time the lack hack of convenient con transportation And a n. n quarter of oC that waste would feed warring al Europe Mr Hoover Hoo has s also said Food will win the thew w war wal I Meaning of course that neither we wo nor 1101 our cm- allies can an carry forward this tremendous struggle le on omi empty stomachs It is useless s t iti raise food lood if it cannot cannot can can- can I not be transported and as we wc have learned from stan I in ng Russians Russia's unhappy experience it can enn not be lie transported transported trans- trans ported without roads Road building therefore becomes becomes be- be comes romes an essential industry As long as ns food is needed it t should not be he abandoned I