Show GOOD I ROADS ROUGH ROADS MEAN MUCH HIGHER TAX The average motorist seldom realizes real real- Izes probably that every time be strikes a bump In n the road It means additional expenditure for highway maintenance He knows that bumps and ridges In the highways mean greater wear for tor his automobile and a greater expense consequently In that direction but very likely does not realize that these Irregularities mean greater toad deprecIation with the result that he must eventually e pay more to taxes for tor the maintenance ot of highways Such however Is the tho case esse This Is because the Impact roused caused when the motor vehicle Is thrown suddenly In the air by the ridge and then dropped forcefully back to the road Is much greater than the normal Impact of the vehicle wheels traveling over an even en surfaced road Tests made by the United States bureau ot of public roads have shown that this Impact may go as high as seven times the ad on one rear wheel when whenn n a tIred truck traveling at 16 miles mileson on an hour strikes a 1 inch obstruction Pneumatic tires of course reduce this hut but even so 0 the Impact is greater tItan than on an even surfaced road IThe i iThe The highways user can realize from this that rough bumpy roads mean more expenditure for him than the mere added cost ot of repairs for tor his automobile au- au It means that the roads will wear we-nr out much more rapidly and require re- re require re- re quire him to pay more taxes to maintain maintain main main- tain them It follows from this that the road without ridges and bumps Is bound tobe to tobe be doubly economical to the motor vehicle user first because ot of the savIng saving sav- sav Ing of ot repairs on his automobile and second In the saving ot of taxes for road maintenance Road building statistics for tor the United States in recent years demonStrate demonstrate demon demon- Strate strate that the public Is d even surfaced even surfaced paved roads to supplant the rough dirt toads roads that have made I traveling costly and highways main main- j much In excess ot of what It I should be Concrete highway pavIng I statistics alone for 1923 prove pro this I Last year the United States built the I equivalent ot of miles of toot foot concrete highway pavement and a large mileage has been constrUcted already this year I |