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Show AUTOMOBILE IS BIG FACTOR Present War Has Found In Roads an Motor Cars Means of Moving Great Numbers of Men. Two conditions of civic life emphasize em-phasize the necessity for good roads. One Is wnr. The Roman roads were built because Rome had vast armies to move. The present European war has kept thousands upon thousands of men busy in eastern Prussia und western Poland building roads In territories ter-ritories where before there were only Kwntnpy trails. Many of the roads In Belgium and northern France were built during previous wars, when vast armies must be moved quickly, so that the present war has found In roads and motorcars the means of moving great armies as never before. Good highways high-ways have made possible a rapid transportation trans-portation of troops which Is astonishing astonish-ing the entire world. |