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Show GOOD ROAD ERA HAS BEGUN Once Constructed, Highways Should Be Looked After Regularly Dust Preventative Is Needed. The good road era has begun In many states, and already Uie steam roller, the piles of crushed rock along the roadside and the digging out of tho original roadway are familiar sights In many of the eastern states The roads built are generally of approved macadam construction, which, completed, com-pleted, aro perfect strips of white rib; bon running through tho green fields and hills of the rural sections Theso roads are perfectly built, and as soon as completed the farmers and other ratepayers contcntodly sit back and exclaim: "Theso roads are now good tor a generation or inoro without trouble" This la a serious error, and one being made In many states. That It Is an error Is borne out by tho dust cloud raised by a passing car travel lng at 20 miles por hour, or perhaps foster Many fall to roaltzo tbat whenever dust Is raised a road Is being det stroyed, says the Motor Age. This Is particularly the case on smooth macadam mac-adam surfaces, whore thore Is nothing to hold the dust on the road, and whore eery cross wind blows off any loose material As soon as roads are built arrangements arrange-ments should be made to keep them In ropalr With roads 'It Is essentially "A stitch In tlmo saves nine." Some dust preventative should bo used Immediately Immedi-ately macadam roads aro completed, In ordor to prevont dust Oil, tar and many special preparations prepara-tions aro uovn on tho market and the communities should bo educated to looking upon these additions as a legitimate le-gitimate part ot tho road maintenance. California has Its oiled roads over which motoring Is a pleasure to the motorist and not a dust-bath to tho citizen cit-izen who happens to be on tho road tho same day, or who has tho misfortune misfor-tune to reside along a well travoled highway Massachusetts proved last year that road treatments are a success and more economical than continuous applications ap-plications of water; and In England dust preventing Is alwas considered a port of tho road problem |