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Show ROADS SHOULD BE NATIONAL When a man is sick he calls the doctor. He has faith in the doctor as long as the doctor makes him better. bet-ter. But when he finds that the physician has diagnosed the case incorrectly in-correctly or is using a treatment which does not bring back health he either changes doctors or asks for a consultation. Sick for the good roads, the American Amer-ican people called in a doctor (Congress) (Con-gress) and received a "first-aid" treatment, called Federal aid, by which the physician ordered from the pharmacy (the Public Treasury) sufficient dollars to help the various parts of the United States to build new arteries. But the United States needs not a few but a very large number of new arteries, and the prescription of the doctor isn't producing them in time to save the economic life of the patient! pa-tient! It is, therefore, not the part of wisdom wis-dom to ask for a consultation, and have the doctor confer with other physicians with another and a newer vision of the illness of poor roads and the method of their cure? One of the cures advocated, and the only one which hasn't been tried, is the appointment of a National Highwas Commission, to consider and report to the Congress on the subject of establishing, building, and forever maintaining a system o national na-tional highways. States which tried State aid and found it did not cure have tried State highway commissions commis-sions and found they did cure; why should not the United States find as a whole the same good result the several States have found for themselves? them-selves? Roads are a national, not a State, problem. Transportation is a national, na-tional, not a Stato, problem. Only the Nation can adequately and intelligibly intel-ligibly lay out a system of roads for the Nation, and only the Nation can afford to build and maintain such highways s will adequately care for the present, not to speak of the future, fu-ture, traffic! |
