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Show ROADS FOR THE FUTURE It is common for road3 that were built a comparatively compara-tively few years ago to become dangerous because of the amazing increase in motor travel. Narrow surfaces, overly over-ly steep hills and unbanked turns constitute a serious menace in these days of congested high speed traffic. Progressive communities are protecting their own futures by building wider roads to care for the still greater traffic of tomorrow. It is said on good authority that all highways of importance should be broad enough to carry two lanes of traffic in both directions. Even in rural districts, where expense of road building build-ing is preeminent, low cost oil and asphaltic surfaces are providing the farmer and rural dweller with high grade highways, reasonable to build and maintain. In this modern age, civilization follows the highways and a community com-munity with insufficient or poor roads must exUt In an undeveloped state. |