Show MEET DEMANDS OF TRAFFIC Construction of Freak Highways Should Be Stopped Stopped Permanency Permanency Should Be Sought J. J J. J mil Hilt In a speech in Minneapolis Minneapolis Minne Minne- apolis January 23 1010 said If If the problem of or the railroad terminals be neglected for the next five years as asIt asit asit it has for the last ten It will wilt blight every form torm of activity by paralyzing the whole hole trade W. W O. O Brown president of the NewYork NewYork New NewYork York Central lines said November 5 1912 If It cars are arc kept In motion nt at atthe the average speed of freight trains at at present time Ume they would make on tho the average four tour tines times the mileage they do now The trouble Is the cars as a rule are held longer to load and unload than the time involved In the actual movement of the cars that cars that Is the terminal had the railroad by the throat and was choking three-quarters three I of its efficiency out of It The prediction prediction tion of Hill Dill was absolutely correct A period of acute congestion In railroad railroad rail raU I Ir road transportation had already set In r I N j t r u 1 J Motor Truck Adapted to C Carrying Farm Produce and d would I have ave gone gono to o tho the bitter I er end of ot paralyzIng Ing every ery form of or activity had not the motor truck truck which had i ino no terminals pone gone one to the rescue w. Now at this time May InY 1 1919 another thin thing has got the motor truck II by the throat and ond is choking quarters three of Its efficiency out of It ft This time It is the dime museum freak construction of our so so called called good roads tying up the motor truck as ns the locomotive was tied up in the terminal hut by hy knockIng knockIng knockIng knock- knock Ing It and Its Us trailers trailer to pieces thus cutting short the life lICe of the rolling stock as well as making ranking It move slower and with not over O one ter of a load over the Impel imperfect feet surfaces sur stir faces Increasing the cost of motor motor- truck transportation Wl way be beyond ond what It ought to be for what the motor truck does as RS well as nR limiting the amount it can cnn do way down below the normal writes Frederic J. J Nash In New York World Had these roads been properly constructed th they y would have gone to the stock exchanges and been bou bought ht and sold sohl there like every other kind of transportation ties As It Is they have gone to pieces end and left the bondholders bondholder the states counties and townships their bonds on their hands and only a n scrap heap of ot bad roads to show for them These freak frenk roads had bad they offered been been offered on th the stock exchanges with only themselves themselves them them- j selves as security would not have ha sold for one cent on the dollar ThE They are ore built hunt on the credit of ot the states counties counties counties coun coun- ties and townships to through Q which they passed This at nt the rate of two hundred millions of dollars per year A speed of miles mUes an hour on the beach at nt Daytona Fla Fin was made last Lincoln's birthday a rate of speed which the locomotive has never been able oble to reach Anything beyond a ton three-ton truck load Is more than a n freak highway can safely carry while the ordinary normal load of the freight car on its railroad is 50 60 tons If these few things could be combined In the highway highway absence absence of terminals a rate of speed beyond that of the railroad a n freight-carrying freight tonnage equal to that of the railroad a cost of the upkeep upkeep up up- keep less than that of the railroad this would multiply our present means menns of transportation set en or eight times and ond give this country a prosperity during dur duro during ing the next dozen years such as we have never even dreamed of We want to change our form of highway I construction over night and put our highway securities on the stock exchanges exchanges exchanges ex ex- ex- ex changes and nod not our hl highways hwn's on the dump heap Highway stocks and bonds based on the value of this prop prop- erly constructed hl highway hway will pay a n higher rate rote of Interest than the railways railways rail rail- ways ever cyer have for it will I do d' much more work |