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Show OUR FANTASTIC ROADS? Traveling, or rather, bumping over ome of our so-called ' 1 permanent roads," the rosidonts of Salt Lake and Utah are apt to wonder what surge of dignity to tho brain tempted the authorities au-thorities to describe tho roads as ' ' permanent. per-manent. " One side of the State street road has been in ubo only a few years, and yet it is torribly frazzled around the edges. The high contractor or artificer who designed tho road left spaces every twonty feet or so to provide for tho eicpansion and contraction of the cement, ce-ment, thus revealing almost average intelligence. But that the intelligence was not moro than averago is attested by the condition of the road today. Tho cement has worn off on these double edges and vehicles bump aggra-vatingly aggra-vatingly along in a way unknown even on' our plebeian dirt roads. On tho Ogden road still stranger things happen. In tho gaps between tho squaros of cement, rods of iron are beginning be-ginning to emerge with almost razor edges, and across these tho autoist passes dubiously, wondering whothcr ! his tires will not be sliced neatly down to the rims. The motorists did not srispect that the buildors, with far-sighted far-sighted wisdom, had provided entanglements entan-glements for military purposes when j they constructed the road. If the rods serve any other purpose, what may it be? We are not providing any remedy, merely constructive criticism, but we dare express the hope that some day soon our road builders will be. through with experiments and will win their way to some scientific types of roads. In other Btates permanent roads of a satisfactory character have been in use for yoare. Why not stop experimenting experiment-ing and copy the roads which have proved successful elsewhere? |