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Show Buy Roads Now! The "buy now" movement is applicable to communities seeking good roads. Not for many years have material mater-ial prices been as low as at present. pres-ent. Engineering talent can be obtained at a - reasonable figure. And there is a tremendous amount of available labor, both skilled and unskilled. Road building Is one of the best means of alleviating unemployment, unem-ployment, as an extremely high percentage of the cost of the completed com-pleted road goes to labor.-a fact the Federal government has already al-ready recognized. By building roads now we not only help thousands of unemployed unemploy-ed workers but make an investment invest-ment to bring fine returns, from either the economic or social standpoint, in the future. Modern Mod-ern bituminous surfacing practices prac-tices make it possable to provide pro-vide good weatherproof, secondary second-ary roads for a few thousand dollars a mile. Every locality able to do so should seize on the present opportunity to give its citizens the good roads they need, at the lowest cost in more than a decade. |