Show ROADS harn HARD ON AUTO TIRES yearly cost coat to owners of care li is something like I 1 wear agrest A areat drat deal has bus been said and ana written t in discussing t ale gnp roads aronds and road building in the united U d states about the hie war and tear of automobiles on the roads loads but a 0 brand new element seems to have belo been brought in by the director of roads of the american automobile association who suggests consideration of the wear and tear of the roads on automo bile traffic now wears out something like tires a year costing automobile to owners something like 1 I and on the roads as the they now are it can he be argued from data I 1 already that the ref if tance othe otherwise wear near and tear I 1 varies mirles from 20 pounds nr less on one I 1 kind of road to pounds or more on another the consumption lorf oz gaso lite line also Is said to vary with the char acter of the rond on which fin an automobile Is traveling the fie ident idea Is sur pals ing lint but it seems not impossible unit hat a ron te part of the cost of building a national system of roads that iti it would tins the least possible pir all abil tear on automobiles would lie ho binl balanced inrid by b the decreased expense for elris |