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Show GOOD ROADS SID FREE FROM DEFEAT Artillery Colonel Tells How Perfect Highways Facilitated Facili-tated Troop Movement. "There will be a couple of million real 'road boosters back In the United fc'-tiUes when the war is over, as I think all of the men over here appreciate how good roads can bo made invaluable. In my mind there is no doubt that the good roads of France saved er in two instance?." in-stance?." Colonel Uobert H. Tyndall of the l."Oth field artillery thus writes from "over there" to a fellow lloosier, Chairman Carl ("'. Fisher of the .. , A. louring board. It will be remembered that these two were closely associated several years a.?o in the transcontinental tour from Indianapolis Indian-apolis to San Francisco, at which time niueb of the, route of the Lincoln highway was decided upon. Colonel Tyndall Is an inveterate road driver and has covered thousands of miles of good, bad' and lu- different American highways. In his letter let-ter "home," he goes on to say: "I have seen movements of troops made in the dark which would have been iinposble in any, other country than France. Here the roadmakera have scientifically sci-entifically planted trees that absorb drainage on the. side and .'it the name time shelter the highways t-o as to keep them just moist enough. fii some instances you will find a tall poplar standing higher than the rest of the trees bordering border-ing the road, at every kilometer, su that you can readily measure distances with the 'eye. "One of tho great things they do here is to repair a mad and even make an entirely new surface without interfering with the. stream of traffic. Tn one campaign cam-paign we were in, over a thousand trucks passed my regiment, each carrying iwonly-two soldiers. This was for reinforcement re-inforcement on tho flank and was done without the slightest confusion. One does not find here the little holes that cause so much trouble remaining in a road. The polted places are immediately, fdled and drained, right up to the front line almost. al-most. , "As far as being ablo 1o orient one's sHf, T think from now on I can drive blindfolded any place in 1 lie United States, as most of my driving on the front has been at night, Hiid tin3 roads wind around considerably ocr here. I don't have, lights and neither do the trucks and other vehicles coming in opposite op-posite directions. We are not allowed lo use the Klaxon horn, as this is the method employed for a gas alarm. Sometimes Some-times T really wonder how we get through with It all. but it. shows how a person can become accustomed to most, any thlnn, and wc train ourselves to see In I be dark." That, a big road plan is pear at hand In this country is the. opinion of many leading highway advocalea. Chairman George C. Dlehl of Hie A. A, A. good roads board euinmariJiies the idea in this manner: "l.'ne hundred million dollars a year appropriated by the federal government on a. definite, tangible, national highway svstem will work" wonders in Hip form of from r.non to O.00 miles of splendid highway, high-way, made up partly of sections already sufficient in ouality. pa rtly In sections to repair, partlv of sections rebuilt, and partly of entirely new construction. State a nd local appropriations w PI be encouraged, en-couraged, and these yubdivlsionp, largely because of federal ro-uls, will enormously increase road expenditures." |