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Show THE BROAD HIGHWAY Millions of dollars arc laid away in the coffers of states! and cities for highway construction and repair after the war. ; As soon, say, as the next-to-the-last gun is fired, we shall j he able to detect the starting' :4'un for an unprecedented pro-! gram of digging and cementing and grading which will pre-, sumably make it easy for the American to set off in any hori-' zontal direction he chooses, at an incredible rate of speed. j But what of the transition period? What of the months I When the old roads will Ik; torn up and the new ones still a wilderness of steam shovels and tar-pots? That is a period i we would rather not contemplate. For, if memory does not ; fail, it will involve detours and long lines of traffic slowed up! by that lamentable practice of putting all but one lane of road under construction. It will mean hours of patient creep-' ing amid exhaust-filled vapors, while we crane fruitlessly j ahead for signs that it will ever move again. ( Having examined the extent of the holes in the roads; this spring, we hope we have strength enough to stay right, j at home until about 1947. Christian Science Monitor. ! |