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Show year. We need more hard surface roads, we are willing to pay for them provided they last until the bonds have been paid off. Do they last? If not, what is destroying them prematurely? pre-maturely? 'Pretty seoon, at the present pres-ent rate of increase, the road bill will come right next to the income tax bill. Now is the time to see whether we are getting our money's worth." The article in Sunset gives facts and figures to show that by 1925 the road tax bill of the United States will equal $10 per capita or approximately approxi-mately $50 a year per family. We have experimented with various kinds of roads. We have already wasted hundreds of millions of dollars dol-lars but out of it we have gained Home experience. We have learned, in the West, that a rigid base pavement pave-ment will disintegrate and shatter under heavy traffic unless covered with a flexible wearing surface. The iax payer from now on wants, first, a hard surface road that will outlive the bond issue which built it; next, he wants a minimum of maintenance cost on this road; then, he wants a type of road that will fill these requirements at the lowest first cost. Here is the opportunity for our road builders and engineers to show what they can do. ltOA.DHVH.IMNG A NATIONAL PROBLEM I i The May issue of Sunset Magazine, in discussing the road problem says: "The state of New Jersey is building a highway costing $100,000 a mile.! in many other states the paving alone without the cost of right of j way or grading, now runs from $30.-j 000 to $40,000 a mile. Total high-! way expenses of all kinds 'last yean exceeded $G5O,000.0O() and the bill1 the public has to pay grows evcryj |