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Show Put Men To Work At the San Francisco meeting of the National Editorial Association, Associ-ation, a message ij&h received from Alfred V. Sloan, Jr.. President Presi-dent of the General Motors Corporation, Cor-poration, which stated that the greatest single task confronting the world today was to find productive pro-ductive employment for those who are out of work. To do so, according accord-ing to the news story In a San Francisco dally, It is necessary "to take things as they are, not as they should be: to analyze economic econ-omic facts, base action upon them, and dispel the general lack of confidence." In every community there exists at least one opportunity to construct con-struct or Improve some essential public service. Removing the menaces men-aces which are responsible for much of the loss of life by building build-ing greater safety Into highways, could well be considered. Widening Widen-ing roadways, eliminating dangerous danger-ous curves, alleviating accidents on loose gravel and dirt roads due to skidding, flying stones and dust are among the most necessary neces-sary objectives. "The need was never so great, the opportunity never so plainly presented," asserts Dan B. Miller, Managing Engineer, Pacific Coast Division, The Asphalt Institute. "Men and equipment are available at unheard of prices. Materials were never so cheap. Take, for instance, in-stance, the materials which are required to build the type of sur-faclngs sur-faclngs used by state highway departments de-partments on intermediate traffic roads: crushed rock and gravel can be bought for approximately half their usual cost; asphalts and road oils are the lowest in years." A good motto for all state and counties to follow is:" Build better bet-ter roads now." |