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Show i Tire Saving by Smooth Roads Enough to Build Them Smooth "It is high time," says M. O. Eldridge, director of roads, American Automobile Association, Asso-ciation, "to pay more attention atten-tion to the effect of the vari ous road surfaces on motor vehicles instead of considering consider-ing only the damage done by the motor vehicle to the road. Compare, for instance, the smooth resilience of Fifth Avenue, New York," paved with sheet asphalt, "with the rough, gritty and flinty surfaces sur-faces so often encountered on country roads, and try to im agine what a tidy sum in tire bills would be saved if wc could all travel on avenue sur faces The saving in tire costs alone would pay the dif ference in construction cost m'uiffii'jriiijtttiii.'i.iir" -ti ? |