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Show Hard Roads Movement Is Gaining in Popularity The hard roads movement Is gathering gather-ing power as It moves. T. C. Powell, rice president of the Erie Railroad Co.. Is reported to have said, "The time ha? come when the nation's railroad fa--lHtles are so heavily taed by the enormous tonnage offered that there Is only one way In which we may jpet freight haled. And that Is by asking business men to employ motor trucks for the short hauVs, say, up to thirty miles or so, thus releasing railroad facilities and equipment for the longer haul which can go by no other means." |