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Show P8IU6 i IS 1921 Si Fours Will Be Washington's Share In Building Better Roads i IS, . siafi Special i WASHINGTON. Jan. 14. Road Improvement!- In the United Stales In 1!'J1 will cost close to 5C0O.UU0.OU0. That money will pay fot rod.. lut. oil and concrete, and the labor and machinery to handle the Job. The isjo road bin approximated il- DIOSl $."i00,00).000 more than M.tiU foi each man, wbman and child in tli United States. Yet any nomad of the public highways can tell about miles anil miles of road thai are hardlv passable. pas-sable. I ederal official? suv that the federal fed-eral aid system falls short of helping the situation because state highway commissions have exercised jurisdiction jurisdic-tion over only a small portion of the highways within their respective states. i The federal officials further assert that state officials have shown little Judgment In the expenditure of funds, that the money has hot been Sheht where it will do the greatest good. Rl vii mi v , or uoOI) ROADS. ' Toads that were built to endure for vears have dcvoloped mudholes and bumps within a few months. Road builders ?ay the auto and the auto truck are ihe causes of this condition Where is the remedy? Three remedies have been suggest- il They are: First Roads built durable enough tn stan'l any traffic. Second Trucks built to a limited size and a Jaw prohibiting the liauling of more ih.Tu a spe. Ifled weight over certain roads. Third Koads luilli so strong for any load to travel it and tho prohibition of loads exceeding a certain limit on other roads. The national Automobile Chamber 1 of i.'omnierce maintains that one of the chief road troubles Is that automobiles auto-mobiles have been bull I without regard re-gard to where thev were to run. OO.OPERATIOJ Mi iDED They recomirifend that auto builders build-ers work In co-operation. They point ! out thai railroads do not buiid cars : and locomotives and. then track, nor lay track and then put on the track , ah kind of rolling stock regardless of I weight- These auto men want railroad bulld-im,- methods applied road building Thev want autos built to fit rouds and i roads suitable for auto traffic. Then there'll be no holes and bumps and the population will not have to pay more than S4.t0 a year to main-j main-j tain and build roads, |