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Show GOOD HIGHWAYS TO COME AFTER WAR Manager Greenewajtl of Mercer-Jordan Agency Believes Country Will v Wake Up Then. Odb of the effects in the United States of the war will be a crent stimulating stim-ulating of good roads, construction, according ac-cording to .T. A. GreeuewaM, manager of the Mercer & Jordan Sales oompHuy, local distributors of the Mercer and the Jordan cars. 'Undoubtedly during the course of the conflict the building, of paved highways wiil have to give way to more presfing nerds, for" we are already arriving at that point, where sufficient labor and nieans of transportation trans-portation of materials are lacking," he said. ''But. wait until the skies have cleared and we will tee, I believe, one of the greatest good roadft movements in this country the world has ever known. "Had w-e at this time a nation-wide system of highways, it would bo possible pos-sible for freight to bo moved more generally gen-erally by niotiNc power than is now the case, and in consequence the railroad congestion would be less acute. "It is just this congestion that is bringing more forcibly to the minds of the public pub-lic the need for a network of highways, high-ways, for it is the public which in the end must suffer. "And at the vamctime the motor car is -justly coming Into what is its own. vcryone now knows tht the automobile is a necessity that is, anyone any-one with an ounce of gray matter knows it and anyone who will give, the subject sub-ject just a few minutes' thought should know that with an adequate svstpm of highways the motor ear can do several times what if is now doing. A system of national highways is a national economical eco-nomical necessity." |