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Show Adoption of a National Highways Policy Likely H'TRE adoption of a national highways policy by the United States Chamber 1 of Commerce at Its annual convention, coupled with recent announcements announce-ments by Senator Penrose, the next chairman of the senate finance committee, and Senator Bankhead, retiring chairman chair-man of the senate committee on post offices and post roads, that they stand for national highways tremendously strengthened and probability of passage pass-age of the Townsend bill at the extra session of congress," says David Jameson, Jame-son, president of the American Automobile Auto-mobile association. "A national highway system can lie kept within 3 per cent of the total mileage of highways in the United States and still, serve our fundamental needs. To make this point clear it may safely be stated that a zone, ten miles in width and 75,000 miles in length, will reach more than 85 per cent . of the population of the United States, more than 85 per cent of the taxable real estate and more than 55 per cent of the tonnage of farm products. "Such a system would protect .with a military highway having an aggregate aggre-gate length of about 10.S00 miles our Atlantic, Gulf, Mexican, Pacific and Canadian borders; would give access to our national forests, our national parks and open up much of the public domain not now easily accessible, and would afford trunk-line routes for parcel post in the territories where this form of transportation is most intensive in character." He also says that If as a condition to the building of the national highways high-ways in each state a construction of an equivalent mileage of state highways should be required, this would add 75,000 miles of state highways. This, with the national system, would aggregate 150,000 miles |
