Show Poli Politics ics in Road Building i iBy By HENRY B B. B JOY President Lincoln Highway OADS are unfortunately a political consideration today In most R ROADS instances instance road officiate are political appointees We pee see different it t communities sections of counties and ond even states working against each other In an endeavor ende Or to secure as u large a portion as aa possible of ot any a available le funds fund for tor road Improvement In their own locality with the tho result that the money Is 18 spent under compromise Road construction cannot be compromised If It sufficient money Is a available In a a. county to construct ten nines miles of or road In a given year and there are five different localities In that county all clamoring for the te ten miles mUes it might satisfy th them m all an and be to the tho political interest of ot the responsible officials to spend one fifth of ot the money in each totality locality and build two taro miles mUc 8 of ot road but It accomplishes nothing It is evident that if It anything is to be accomplished towards a national system of ot American roads the public Interest t and attention must most be focused and crystallized first upon the accomplishment of at one main objective The first and most important route In n the interests of or the entire people must be selected and Jond the force torce of ot the nations nation's road building activities concentrated concentrated concentrated con con- so far tar as possible on that roads road's completion It will be said that this is 18 a function of the tho federal government as Indeed it Is but when no machinery ry is provided by the federal government for tor taking care of ot such national problems problem as U this It devolves upon private ate organizations It Is 18 a plon r work to be forwarded under the hand of ot each of ot us t r I |