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Show FEDERAL. All) Full HO.Ui.S 1 ncrua -.iug the uDnroi-irlatlcn to.; ftilm-al aid In highway construction hi luiidy to Ije one of the most bitterly bitter-ly (ought over issues in the next Con Br-.-nn. GiJiJo:-:itiou to our national policy, pol-icy, In (several instances Bervlng as jjoliUcal capital, la rapidly arousing public interest. Nor are champions for the at tense lacking. Alvin Macauley, president pres-ident of the Packard Motor Car company, com-pany, writing in the National Repuo-11c Repuo-11c for .September on "The Government's Govern-ment's New liig business, cites proof that savings in the operating costs of motor vehicles will more than offset off-set the billion dollar expenditure necessary to complete the 200,000 mile federal-aid eystera ' within ten years. Delay In pushing road: construction con-struction at maximum speed mean.i an increasing waste as the number of motor vehicles grows. OI the 21, -04, 742 cars in the world registered on January 1, 1025, 17, Gill, 981 aru i:i the United Slates. It is small wonder won-der that a road-building program of unprecedented magnitude has beeij forced upon us. Despite present operating op-erating costs due to inadequate roads motor transportation is lowering the cost of living, Increasing our national nation-al health through outdoor life and knitting the nntlou into a homogeneous homogen-eous whole through the breaking down of sectionalism. The road-building accomplished under federal supervision cannot be too highly praised. The obligations of the government in the building of inteistata roads cannot be disregarded. disregard-ed. The desirability of continuing the. present program cannot be over stressed, nor the urgent necessity to-appropriating to-appropriating $100,000,000 annually annual-ly to push it with at a speed limiteti only by men, materials and climate. Whether or not we have roads adequate ade-quate for our transportation needs, we must pay for them declare oui highway engineers, and we pay more If we do not have them than if we do. Probably as thorough and comprehensive com-prehensive a digest of the subject ns has yet been made appeared in the Outdoors Pictorial for September. As the facts are brought before the public pub-lic In the completion of our great highway system will be assured, for Congress though frequently criticized criticiz-ed does represent the best thought Oi the American people. |