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Show SEEK FEDERAL Automobile Interests Ask Passage of Townsend Bill, by Congress H i staff Special). WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. Autbmo-t'l.M Autbmo-t'l.M interests i h,. . iiuntiy aio cuii-coulraUd cuii-coulraUd on ffurts here to bring about thi passage i oongres of the Towns- end bill for a systom f f uli-r.i I -Ini lit and federsl-malnta inod highways ! throughout the country The msasure i. expected to come up for consideration considera-tion during the present session of i on- 1 gross, which opened Deoembi r This bill, which is fathered bj Ben J ator Charles E. Townsend of Uichfgan .is drawn up during the war when the military Importance of Q federal highway system was recognised V. Ith tho termination of the wur. the N tli.nal Automobile Chamber of Com- ' merce and other automobile orgonlia- , tions iiao obntlnded the attempt t. Obtain passage of this legislation, arguing ar-guing that tUCh roads will be of gri I benoflt to tho countrv from an economic econom-ic standpoint besides maintaining their military value. If the Townsend bill becomes law, I every slate will have two trunk line roads, built and maintained l the I ite and connecting up wt'h the high Wayi Of adlolning states 10 form a omplete federal Hvstem. I Tho result would be a aheckere-board aheckere-board system of highways over the ountry, the economic Importance of which to farmers and Industries Is ob-: ob-: vlons. With this as the main system, , the Htntes would feed the notional highways, the counties would . oinieot 'heir lines to the slate highways and the whole highway system would be r.mplete even to the township r.. ids |