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Show NEW ROADS FOR OLD. More roads for less money is the present-day demand. Both for the sake of employment, and in order to give small towns and rural areas the year-round highways that are vital to their existence, the secondary road movement has been making a tremendous tre-mendous headway of late. Nineteen-thirty-one is be one of the greatest road-building years in our history. In all sections of the country there are old gravel and waterbound macadam maca-dam roads suitable to serve as bases for new highways. New surfaces can be laid over them, and at a great saving. It amounts to trading in old reads for new, exactly as we trade in old cars for new models. The recently developed bituminous type surfaces offer communities the advantages of low upkeep and original orig-inal cost, coupled with dependability and safety. Instead of forty or fifty thousand dollars a mile, they can be applied to old roads' for a fraction of that figure and, except where traffic traf-fic is extremely heavy, they will serve the purpose as well as the most expensive highways. The full-width road, even in the country, in these days of high speeds and extensive use of buses and trucks, has become a necessity. Communities can start with the lowest cost bituminous construction, and then, as traffic increases, develop their roads into long-lived, efficient highways, merely by adding more surface as they go along. Science has put good year-round roads within the reach of almost every locality. |