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Show uu EUROPEAN PROGRESS AHEAD Of AHA While to many, America's appropriations approp-riations for highways may seem formidable, for-midable, to the ardent good roads agl-taior agl-taior it is but a start toward a mucb ; needed, long delayed development, according ac-cording to the B. F. Goodrich Rubber company. In comparison with populations, both England and France have made and ! are making more progress than has America Congress has appropriated I $275,000.000 for oxpenditure up to and j including 1921 for improvement of the 2.500.000 miles of roads in the. United States France plans to spend $152,000,000 on her national system of highways, which comprise 65.000 mil -England has appropriated $50,000,000 for expenditure on her 150,908 miles. England has 239 citizens to every mile of road; there are 10S Frenchmen French-men to every mile; and in Amorica I there are but 42 people to the mile. On the basis of these figures, the j highway system of the United States will not equal the ratio of French I mileage to area until we have 5,000,000! miles of highway, while 7,500,000 miles! will be necessary to meet the English Eng-lish ratio. ' rr |