Show I II I E OAD BUILDING RAILROADS AND GOOD ROADS Solution of Future Transportation Problems Seen in In Surfaced Hard-Surfaced Highways of Country Any student of the railroad situation must reach the conclusion t that lIlt railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road operation In n America has reached the height of its efficiency and hereafter ter it Jt will remain stationary or de de- crease It la is always alwa's possible that some revolutionary revolutionary revolutionary rev rev- process will be discovered but the long years without marked Improvement improvement Im im- im provement of process Indicate that railroad mechanics have about reached their maximum while bureaucratic and political control now assured will be beas beas beas as deadening to all nU mechanical Improvement Im hn- provement as ns they will be to effective management Progress in transportation therefore therefore there there- fore must be in other lines Navigation Navigation Navigation tion has been heralded for some years as a solution but In spite of heavy government assistance water traffic even on the tho Great Lakes has steadily declined The remedy does not appear to rest there at least for the present There remain the highroads In them salvation lies says Chicago Trib Trib- une une The war which proved the utter Incapacity of the French government- government owned railways to rise to the emergency emergency emer emer- gency established the motor Dotor truck In its full fuU majesty What the French railroads could not do the motor trucks hucks on fine French highways dl did What the highroads are in France they must be made In America Fortunately we have an excellent little beginning In the middle West The principle of hard bard toads roads has been accepted and timid beginnings have been made mode in a a. a number of states chief among them Illinois Let us understand understand understand under under- stand and Immediately that what has been done a and d what has been legislated legislated legislated legis legis- for Is merely the thin entering wedge of our highroad program The narrow ribbons of f concrete roads laid out b by bI legislation will no more carry the forthcoming auto truck traffic than the old narrow gauge single track railroads were able to carry the railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road traffic which they caused to de de- It Is fortunate that we have many agencies building roads The nation will do something for the most back back- ward The states however should r I p Is Isis is Asphalt Binder Binder- Road treble or quadruple all national allow allow- ances In the beginning and until the principles of highroad traffic are generally generally gen gen- rally understood it Jt will probably be necessary for counties and even cities to provide the wide thoroughfares necessary necessary necessary essary at the points where traffic cen cen- To Illustrate the foot 18 r roads which are perhaps adequate a hundred miles in the country are even now more con congested on- on ten miles out from the city limits than are our most crowded city streets |