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Show al Republic for September on "The Government's New Big Business," Busi-ness," cites proof that savings in the operating costs of motor vehicles ve-hicles will more than offset the billion dollar expenditure necessary to complete the 200,000 mile federal-aid system within ten years. Delay in pushing road construction at maximum speed means an increasing in-creasing waste as the number of motor vehicles grows. Of the 2 1 ,264, 742 cars in the world registered on January 1, 1925, 17,591,981 are in the United States. It is small wonder that a road-building program of unprecedented magnitude has been forced upon us. Despite present operating costs due to inadequate roads, motor transportation trans-portation is lowering the cost of living, increasing our national health through outdoor life, and knitting the nation into a homogeneous whole through the breaking down of sectionalism. The road-building accomplished under federal supervision cannot can-not be too highly praised. The obligations of the government in the building of interstate roads cannot be disregarded. The desirability of continuing the present program cannot be overstressed, nor the urgent necessity for appropriating $100,000,000 annually to push it with at a speed limited only by men, materials and climate. Whether or not we have roads adequate for our transportation needs we must pay for them declare our highway engineers, and we pay more if we do not have them than if we do. Probably as thorough and comprehensive com-prehensive a digest of the subject as has yet been made appeared in the Outdoors Pictorial for September. As the facts are brought before be-fore the public in articles such as these mentioned, the completion of our great highway system will be assured, for Congress though frequently fre-quently criticized, does represent the best thought of the American people. FEDERAL AID FOR ROADS t T -','I-";J-'!pT Increasing the appropriation for federal ai'd in highway construction con-struction is likely to be one of the most bitterly f night over issues in the next Congress. Oppcskion to our national pi licy, in several instances in-stances serving as political capital, is rapidly aroua. ing public interest. Nor are champions for the dt -fense lacking. Alvin Macauley, president of the Packard Motor Car Company, writ ing in the Nation- |