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Show A Road System That Will Serve 87 Per Cent Of the United States H is possible to build a hard surfaced sur-faced highway system Of 50.000 .ulle;; so located as to serve directly 4fi per cenr of all the counties of the United States and indirectly 41 per cent of all the others For an annual expen diture of $100,000,000 hardlv one ol Inr person per year this fundamental fundamen-tal road system could be completed ip twelve and a half years and it would serve 87 per cent of the total population popula-tion of the United States. Such is the statement of the United States department of labor The growing needs of the country demand mat some sum r. n.prcnen-sive n.prcnen-sive highway system be constructed," says R. E. Fulton. "In the past there has been too great a lack of foresight on the pat of road builders. They have lack?d vision to foresee the requirements of even five years ahead A road built today must be built, not with the idea of present traffic, but. that of ten ears in the future. "The growing need of the Jay is foi transportation We have simply got to provide it We cannot stop it ;:nd the sentiment of the country will not tolerate- anv handicap of our transportation transpor-tation system. "With each year the railroads arc becoming more and more inadequate Motor transportation is growing economical eco-nomical necessity, a fact that is beinc; recoenlied more and more each dav as motor trucks are called upon to handle han-dle traffic that the railroads cannot at commodate "Estimates prepared by engineer,; authorities show that the United States could afford to spend $1,250.-000, $1,250.-000, 000 on a hard sin faced mad inn ot 1)0,000 miles which would s I e directly and indirectly S7 per cenl of the population of the entire country. Not onl would such a system hi an economic asset that would pay for itself many times over, but its construction con-struction would provide work for many thousands of people for a num ber ot years and In that respect alone would have great business value to the country In general 1 War increases business to replace the great losses of destruction; but the development of a nation In Limi of peace provides a more nornal and healthy market for labor and material that can be made a stabilizer of business busi-ness and industrial conditions. "A well planned national highway system is a necessity, r.nd as soon as the nation can complete iho plan conditions con-ditions will force putting It lnio operation." |