Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1918 — Time-Saving Roads for Food Delivery as Important as Quick-Firing Guns. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Time-Saving Roads for Food Delivery as Important as Quick-Firing Guns.

By E.B. HOUSE.

Colorado Agricultural CoUcgo, Fort CoHim, Colo.

As the war in Europe progresses and this country speeds up more and more in production, a continually greater strain is going to be placed upon our transportation facilities. The fact of the matter is that this whole war is a contest in transportation, and if our transportation breaks down for any cause we will then fail to fulfill our promises to our allies. What is needed most nt this time in highway construction is a program of construction whereby roads of economic value to the nation will be laid out, surfaced and maintained. We can at this time tempo- > *. • Th™ Ann 1 * kn

rarily dispense with the construction of scenic routes, lhey can t»e deferred until after the war. But we should have roads over which a maximum amount of farm produce can be hauled to the cities at a minimum expense. We should have roads which will relieve as much as possible the strain under which the railroads are laboring. Local associations of merchants and manufacturers can do effective work ih the various states by mapping out a program of road construction that will serve a real war need. Before the war ends much of the freight of the country will be transported by motor trucks over our highways; consequently the idea that seems to be prevalent at this time in some places that road construction x should be descontinued on account of war conditions seems to be a poin hot well taken. Road construction should be hastened at this time, for we are going to use them, not only as war measures but as peace measures. Time saving, durable roads are now as important as quick-firing guns, ■and it is high time to speed up construction in order to quicken food delivery.