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Show ETHODSWEAK FOR iD WORK Method o? Maintenance Said to Be Weak Factor in Road Construction The weakest link In our American ."ysteru ot improved highways is its method of injfjhitenanoe. We shall nev- i er achieve te i progress In km.h1 roads' development until we remedy this con-: ditlon. I' s '"li nl babil among road builders in this tour.tr t lay down a burd-surfaced road and theu leave It' trustiuglj' in the har.d. of I'rovidenoe. ' i i Is bespeaks bland and childlike: habit of thought which l Inspiring.: but unhappily it is costing the country fa KO-j'J many hundfedll of iud'lons t do:i i: in prefnatura repair expanses and lieedleSji 1 eil, :i;.I'.K e .M- Xo other product o" man's construc-;im:.i construc-;im:.i genius u Subject to qnljte ss many vicissitudes of wear and exposure expos-ure hh in highway Surface. Millions of vehicles or VHiylng weight are passing pass-ing over the road surface every year. I in addtlfolt, d i subject to constant attack b thf elements, tain. enow. ni cold and in-it. AH aie Me,. ;0 do their worst. And they tiike lull ad--.nlage of their lii-er.s.-. The total cor o: repair aii i rabullot-Inp rabullot-Inp operations thereby madf neccsKary! would stagger not humanity. i,! p.e taxpaying section thereof. if a pa-1 trolman. is constantly watching any given strip of hjgbWa) ..nd on th , ilrst sign of a break gives first aid or' ynmmons the roia.r gang to do ;i somewhat more ambitious Job. there will be no pot -holes to develop inlo great gashes thnt nceji3iL-ito rebuild-' ing. Jt Ik the old saying of the "stitch in lime." Any one of our really effective road J Surfaces will last for years enough to! ,rnak an adequate return on the mon-N i invested in it. If It i l. mi. nrop-r at-' lienllon. If the "if" could bo ellmln-, ited ti cre would be no more stories iof highways built from the proceeds ,of bond -Issue? and rebuilt long before jthe amortization of the original bonds. I j And thnt is precisely the sort of financial finan-cial wildcaltlng that mkes good roads progress difficult.---Alexander .lohn-I .lohn-I ston in MoTok oo The United States possesses a mo- I tor vehicle for everv fifty yards of! railroad right of wav. |