| Show Federal Road A Aid AidA d 1 A movement has been inaugural ed by automobile associations t to tc secure from rom the federal government a continuing annual appropriation of oft for or road construe tion Uon Because of the restriction restrictions 1 attached to former fonner appropriation thoro there is an unexpended balance which h with the reduced tron of tion-of or hut hilt in the agricultural bill now no in th the the houe hou e will mako available hl for ih the fiscal CIscal fiscal year beginning July r next j a 1 total of Up lip to th the tho resent time the states heft best abb abin to build their own roads roni have e r T re the most federal aid d bec of dollar of the he policy matching which was adopted Cnn Carried to it ft ultimate this policy give least lieu heli i tOt toe poorest states and within ih th states stages least to the poorest countie For concrete examples example tits tin th state stafE or of ht the he Rocky R Mountain r region w wit witte it their great areas and Uld th their lr lour Ion mileage e to cio cross s them o J ogo ogo go gO from on one ane populous center I rent enl or r t tr r arc unable lo to build l tJ paved cd hi highways hay hax- done so h to develop elop and er I ri h the extreme extremo coast staton o 0 California Oregon and tO as JS w ll os as s the more populous bits bit's bit bif- I s Sv ll of the nothern 5 of of bo east They havo have not tl th gar o for Cor such axt highway hIp hIpo o construction j Yet Vet the the the- Iv w lf re of or the who try roii-try try requires that those these state stale Ii Us bv In great hi nv h sy Y torn tro toms Already great grent routes route o u I tourists travel pass them then much u more or ambitious lous in name tha thaIn thaIn In quality of road These need t tho tho ho bo made m 42 genus genuine nuno t he hh highways It wit wll wIh b h h I lon s veas vea- vea s s before that tha t is don if the federal federal go government does does' no llO adopt the work as a national ITT sm pr em ll and finish it The her bei would Inure to the tho entire c un try not only to those states The time has haR p when the narrow narrow view 1 pre preened that the d dt develop development neat ment of one nee section of the country was wai w tot not of benefit to the whole 5 Fo For ys years s 's now non we have be been n expending expending ex pending penning vast sums sum of money mone r or harbors and n navigable streams n not noi of oC their their their- location in any particular p. p st state tl nor with re regard ard to the amount of mon money y each state expend d upon such as were locatEd located located ed within its borders but t r the general l welfare It Is high time t we treated the highway hi hYa system bf or the country or orthe orthe the the same principle especially that gr r at t of transcontinental of which there therl should bo br half halt a dozen which link the east with the w st and find both with th thc c center Considered merely for ra Uary es in the rent overt of 01 war var Involving defense l 1 nse of the coast such highways high ways would pa pa- pa their entire cost In a single Y yar ar Put lI aside ide from Crom any of defense they would pay many I times over oyer increase in national wealth and prosperity It some of I the billions uw ia poured out so lay lay- for war could have havo been di diverted diverted di- di to roads how different I have been the result I |
