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Show cost of construction but it bears none of the cost of repairs and upkeep. Some of the roads constructed only on-ly a couple of years ago are now breaking down from fast bus driving driv-ing and heavy truck loads. If this Is kept up, our supposedly improved highways will be worse than before improvement and cost of repairs will bear heavily on the already bent shoulders of the taxpayer. The situation has become serious and county boards or other public authorities should take immediate action not only to regulate the speed of passenger stages but the load of auto trucks, as well as impose a toll, license or tax for the privilege of using improved public highways sufficient suf-ficient at least to balance the amount am-ount of damage being done. RUINING THE PUBLIC HIGHWAYS HIGH-WAYS A trip over the improved highways is all that is necessary for anyone in order to appraise the damage; being done by the operation of heavy ! auto trucks and busses. If these vehicles are not regulated i as to kind of tires and weight of. load it is only a matter of a year or I so until the roads will be ruined and taxpayers confronted with heavy bills for repairs. Nothing will more quickly damage dam-age an improved highway than the operation over it of a heavy truck ' and the faster it moves the: more damage it does. For which reason passenger stages or busses, moved at high speed are almost as destructive as slow-moving freight tr ucks. Public highways have been improved im-proved at large public expense. The gQvermueut has borne part of the |