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Show GOOD ROADS PROTECT ROADS OF COUNTRY Former Governor Tener Declares It Military Necessity to Keep Highways In Repair. "It i: up to the federal, s!;ile unci lociil governments to save our highways," high-ways," remarked John K. Trior of Pennsylvania, former governor, president presi-dent of t)i; Pcrmiment Highways corporation cor-poration of Now York. Coventor Tener Ten-er declared that It Is a military necessity ne-cessity for thf; proper n ul liorities lf protect the roads. "W'e must preserve tin; roads of the country, and particu- 1 Application of Seal Coat In Progress. larly we must save the foundations if we are to protect the commerce and Industries oC the country whi' li are supplying the needs of our men the battle fronts as well as the taxes of the government and the neeessiiies of the men, women and children who are keeping the wheels going at l.;.me. "The federal government, th;- manufacturer manu-facturer and the fanner for months have been depending on the highways for the transportation of enormous amounts of materials and supplies by motor trucks, The roads fast are wearing down and hundreds of miles of highways will become useless unless un-less the resurfacing of these roads is encouraged so that the foundations may be saved. In road construction, the principal cost is in the foundations. The top, or road surface, naturally is the first to give way, break and finally grind up and disappear, leaving the foundations exposed. "Foundations costing hundreds of millions of dollars now are in danger of being ruined forever, when they could be saved by proper resurfacing:, but this should be done at once or else-the else-the costly foundations will have to be-done be-done all over again. In some states and localities there is a disposition to-delay to-delay work until after the war on the-theory the-theory that men and materials are-more are-more needed in the war work. This is-' a mistake which should be corrected.-Without corrected.-Without the highways the business of the country would be crippled. The roads must be preserved both for war purposes and for the safeguarding of our industries, upon which our country's coun-try's revenues depend. Makeshift surfacing sur-facing will crumble in a few months nnd will have to be done all over again. If properly surfaced now, hundreds hun-dreds of millions of dollars will be saved." |