Show I E ROOD U. U S S. S OUGHT TO LOOK AHEAD Country Could Well Afford Hard Sur faced System of Miles Miles- An Economic Asset It Is possible to build a sur hard faced highway system of ot mlle mile so located as to serve directly 40 46 per percent percent percent cent of all aU the counties of the United i States and indirectly 41 per cent cent of at all the others For an annual expenditure of hardly OO hardly 1 a person p per Pl c year year this this fundamental road rand system could be completed in twelve and a ahalt half halt years and It would serve 87 81 per percent percent percent cent of the total population of at the Un Uni- Uni I. I r t I i r d ds' ds s' s r S' S v F F 4 ty Surfaced Hare Roads Facilitate Movement Movement Move Move- ment of Handling Traffic Traffic Traffic fic Railroads Cannot Accommodate I ted States Such I Is the statement of the United States department of lao In- bor bar The growing needs of the country demand demand the t some such such n- n high highway vay day system be constructed says Bays Robert F. F Black Chicago manager manager manager mana mana- ger of a n large arge- concern In the past there e has be been n too great greata a lack of ot foresight on the part of ot the the- road builders They have jacked lacked vi vision vision vision vi- vi sion to foresee the requirements requirements of even five years ahead A road built today m st be built not with the Idea of present traffic but that of ot ten years years In In the future IThe t I The growing need of the day Is for tor transportation We have got to provide it We Wo cannot stop stop-it and the fhe sentiment of at the country will not tolerate tolerate tolerate tol tol- tol- tol erate any handicap of our transportation tion system I With each year the railroads are I becoming more and more Inadequate Motor transportation Is a growing eco eco- necessity l a fact that is being recognized more and more each day as as' as asI I are called upon to handle traffic that the railroads cannot Estimates prepared by engineering authorities authorities' show that the United States QuId could afford to spend 1250 o oh on l a surfaced hard-surfaced road system of miles mUes which would serve di dl directly directly i recty and Indirectly 87 per cent of at the population of at the entire country Not only would such a system be an economic asset that would pay f for r itself many times over but Its con construction construction con can would provide work for tor many thousands of people for a anum number number num num- ber of years and In that respect alone would have great f business ss value fathe to fa the country In general War Val increases business to replace the great losses of destruction but the development of a nation In times of peace provides a more normal and healthy market for labor and material mate mate-i t trial rial that can be made a stabilizer of at business and industrial conditions A well planned national highway system Is a necessity and as soon as the nation can complete the plan conditions conditions con con- will force putting It Into opera opera- tion |