Show french highways saved country during big war france lias has miles of national highways of departmental and intercommunicating highways and miles of parish or vicinal roads the national highways approximate CIA G per cent of frances highway system there are arc running on the roads of france motor cars less than one per mile of road the united states has miles of roads of which a tiny small fraction of 1 per cent might be denominated national hf highways by a stretch cli of the imagination which would include roads in national parks and on such reservations as aa the can canal at zone and the district of columbia under the term national highways the ilie united states has motor cars running upon its iti highways or more than four per mile of road Is there any really good rem remon reason on why the united states should do less in transportation for its people than F france ran ce 7 the paved highways of france saved that nation when noth else could save lierl her I 1 only the fact that she could transport her armies tier her ammunition tier her supplies with rapidity and dip dispatch patch allowed her to stem the alie german attack had site she had such roads as wo we have she would be today beneath ben catli tile tho heel beel of tile the conqueror it Is no argument to say khy we to do not need national highways bel muse we are not neighbors to countries which might light attack us franco france did not build tind and does docs not maintain her national highways merely for gle reasons I 1 she builds find and maintains them for economic reasons if thrifty france I 1 1 can find economy in the national high I 1 not the united I 1 1 way idea why can i states find the same benedit in the sanie same idea |