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Show CARE OK ROADS IX WAR TIME EMPHASIZED Government Displays Show Importance Import-ance of KeepiiiK Highways in Good Condition. Methods of road maintenance will be an important part of the displays of the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering. United States Department De-partment of Agriculture, in the combined com-bined Government exhibits at the. Ulab Stale Fair from September 28 to October 5. War's demands have placed a hi'; burden upon the highways of the United Stales. Not only are great fleets of army trucks thundering over the roads near military posts and cantonments, but vast, numbers of commercial trucks and horse-drawn vehicles are carrying farm product to markets and transporting merchandise merch-andise of every discription from the city to the country and from one city to another. When Ibe railways, full of troop trains ami army supply trains, have called for help, the highways of the United Stales have answered, "Here." Maintenance Iinperat ive. All this means that to prevent the Iroads from becoming ml ted, crumb-ped crumb-ped and shattered and at length ini-'pas:'alle ini-'pas:'alle tinder their burdens,. Die greatest ;il I cnl ion must lie paid lo their maintenance. I The office of Public Road", and Kn-. Kn-. 'ral Engineering is Ibe agency that, wilh its oilier duties, administers the , Fed. -ml Aid Road Act. believed lo be j Hie greatest stimulus to fund buildiir; in American history, and lhat is in I charge of enforcing the regulations of Ilie National Highway t'ounc'l, . which recently was created lo co-. co-. ordinate Ihe Federal agencies dealing deal-ing with highways. Oilier ItoMl Displays, lis displays will not only denion-. denion-. slrale maintenance, but Ihe tested . methods of providing drainage and . foundations and how lo build earlli. ' grawd, sand rlay. macadam, brick and concrete roads. |