Show 11 ROAD BUILD IN U AM SENATOR SAYS SPEND ND MONEY MOMEY ON HIGHWAYS WO ve have provided ourselves with the motor vehicle rolling stock nt at a cost of ninny many billions of dollars and we roust must now provide the tracks upon which to to operate it said sterling Sterll tiR senator from mouth dakota and chul nuon of the senate conin lIttee on post offices anil and post roads in making a plea for the continuation on till atiat ion of federal aid in a recent address addre gm after ter outlining the need for a federal appropriation of a ye year ar for ten years and a like appropriation from froin the states if the system of mile inalea 8 of federal aid highways Is to be completed within ten years senator sterling stated that he could not say just what congress would do when it Is known that the wholesale value of automobiles and trucks manufactured last your year amounted to over ond and that the wholesale value of tires manufactured amounted to and that we spent over for automobile parts par tsan tin I 1 aar 4 a exclusive 0 of f tires sold said 1 toi Sterll sterling ng it dom not sound unreasonable umea to propose that we should spend at least a from the federal treasury and an equal the states in order to complete our federal highway system within a ma reasonable length of time we must not forget that the good roads built under thild system serve even a higher use tise than that of the tourist or of the visitor or those on pleasure plea suro bent wo must think of the commercial co in me acl a 1 and econ economic advantages of a system of good roads of what they dinean to the former farmer who on such auch roads and by means of the motor truck finds it easy and a great saving of time and expense to transport not only his grain but his liggs and sheep or cattle L to another consideration Is the th enhanced value of his land due too to the good road fit at his door or nearby one of our great economic and commercial nier cial problems la 14 that of bringing the market and the producer closer to gettier ealier get et lier 11 |