Show ROAD ron BUILDING SEES NEED OF FEDERAL AID road congress favors creation of highway transportation bureau roads lead to wealth creation of a permanent national bureau of transportation together with continuance of state eions has been recommended as one of the most important steps in the work ork of construction 1 without without at tempting to any credit for or themselves it Is the opinion of highway als that such investigations aa as had been undertaken in the several states of the union bad had disclosed an immediate economic need for the con tl ti nuance of 0 the work nork which has for Us its basis elimination of waste naste effort tu in transportation with nith a resultant de creise of 0 living cost costs as an immediate development of the vast potential resources of the nation now lying dor mant tor for want of means ot of convey ance As a result of the deliberations of a meeting in chicago the committee went on record as favoring these points the enactment by congress of an amendment to the present fed eral era aid road act which would provide for work ork on the reads roads of the united states during the next seven seten years the creation of a federal highway commission of five live skilled engineers who should have charge ot of the expenditure of this fund in conference with ith the highway corn coin loners of the various states the construction of a national system of highways the location of which Is to be determined by the commission and the supervision of which Is to remain in charge of the state highway departments part ments and finally changes in the federal aid act which would do away with the restrictions now limiting federal aid to roads on 70 per cent of the mileage of which abre Is post delivery and ot of the jim of per mile under federal aid reports from all sections of the country showed shoed that it has been pos sible to bring about a very marked increase in marketing through improved transportation wherever the road would stand the traffic the conclusions clu reached were that all that Is nePes sarv today to add untold wealth 4 af ato k W s A ayi 0 y r t 4 7 y y ir 14 aly rt 11 ts 1 1 X S Y 4 A r 6 1 ft l fsr itar feu 9 t waw S afi alf htwa fc elevating road grader at wark to the resources of the country together with an enormously stimulated production of all kinds of supplies Is a road system which will not only open up the virgin territories of the nest and south but which will quicken the pulse of trade in the most congested districts of the east where here the casual observer might believe that traffic has been fully developed but which close students say could be geared up to a remarkable extent through efficient use of the boglivi ays in standing by the creation of a federal road commission the officials of the body expressed their belief in the feeling now generally prevalent throughout the united states among road men that the time has come when transportation on the high highways nays la Is deserving of more substantial recognition than that accorded it as a bureau which while it has been as efficient as the limitations of the law has permitted would bo be dignified it if elevated to the rank of a commission and would make possible representation of five different districts of the united states with their diverse needs As an for the future of the highways transport committee the already done by the voluntary organizations has ha opened such a vast field tor for research in the economic life of the country that it ft Is to believed this work should be continued as a branch un der the proposed road commission by salaried ea laried men who should be experts in the field and who would give all of their time to a close development of the problems which the present committee has thus far only bad had time to unc uncovers overA GOOD ROADS OF importance developed into national problem and deserves thoughtful consideration of citizens the question of good roads Is of national importance it used to be in local kocaj township townships it grew to 0 o be a county question then a state problem and now it has assumed na thonol and deserves the thoughtful consideration of every catl 70 |