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Show : f HIGH LIGHTS ON HIGHWAYS Th bureau of public roads of the United States department of agriculture states' that there are enough motor vehicles in the United States to take the entire j population for a ride at one time. HOW climate affects the highway high-way working season Is shown by j the faet thatgradlng can be. done , on 100 days of the year ln western Oregon. 110 in Manle, 2r.O in Maryland Mary-land and 300 in several of the southern states. Federal-aid road placed under construction in September amount-I amount-I cd to 1,189 miles. ( At the ijtginnlng of i3;2 there 1 , were 4 2 motor chicles for each j mile of road in tho TJn'.ted States. F rom 19 to 3" cents per hour is j the rouge of wages for ommon la- 1 bor on Federal-aid roads cast of the Rocky mountains, with a f( w exceptions, where as high as cents Is paid. On hundred and twenty e-' hlclea a minute was the rate at which motor vehicles passod an ob- i serving station on a trunk-lino highway In Massachusetts, according accord-ing to tho bureau of public roads i of tho United States department of agriculture This rato was kept up from noon to 10 p. m. Recently a tourist in passing through four states was required to buy four different sets of b-nses In order that his headlights I would comply with state laws. . More uniformity In highway regit- j lation is needed. |