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Show ROAD BUILDERS LAG WITH AUTO MAKERS One of the important economic problems by the fast development of this automotive age is the ever-increasing need for more improved Automobile Association, which points out that despite the tremendous annual an-nual expenditures being made upon the nation's highways, improvement lags behind the growth in number of motor vehicles. The manufacturers are motorizing America faster than the various governmental gov-ernmental units can provide avenues of transportation. In 1926 the last year for which complete statistics are available, 14,000 miles of improved highways were added to the country's total, but enough motor vehicles were manufactured the same year to make a solid line over 16,000 miles long. In 1926 there were but seventeen vehicles to each mile of improved road. Today there are 40. These figures are cited by the Utah State Automobile Association to emphasize em-phasize the importance of Federal aid finances to stimulate road building build-ing in all parts of the United States. Federal participation in highway work has become practically a fixed governmental gov-ernmental policy and should be continued con-tinued because of its fostering influ-' influ-' ence on local, county and state de velopments, according to the motor organization. |
