Arizona republican., 1918-02-24
MILITARY ROADS NEEDED ID CONNECT GREAT
 CITIES. SAYS NOTABLE AUTO WORLD EXPERT

ardzed trucks. and thousands eff those built according to the manufacturers individual designs. Many of these also have been ordered during the recent months O fl917.
 Military Use of Highways
 For years the automobile has been fostering good roads, and now you may truthfully say that whatever good highways we have are mobilized for war uses.
 The highways transport committee of the council of national defense of which Roy D. Chapin of Detroit is chairman. is sending pathfinder cars over various routes from the central states to the coast, at the request of ! the quartermaster's department, to | find the most feasible roads for send ing overland the governments stand ardized trucks. If this plan goes through, it will be the first great mili tary use of the highways. No doubt there will be much inspiration in see ing these-truck trains, with their per sonnel of soldiers. passing through the country. Just now the National High ways association is fathering system 1 of 50 000 miles of national highways, which would serve S4,O00,000 people.
 Another feature of road mobliza tion is prospective legislation fathered by the American Automobile association and the American Association of State Highway officials for marginal na- tional highway around the border of T the United States with various radIal highways, to facilitates movement Of troops equipment munitions and SUD- plies in times of war or peace. Alto 1 gether, motordom mobilized looms big . dol Il in If
 Trucks Relieve Railroad Congestion Motor trucks, during 1918 will be extensively used in the inter-city and inter- state haulage of freight, and the greater this traffic on our highways the more urgent theneed for more thousands of miles of hard surfaced roads connecting our larger centerS and in the construction of these high ways, motor trucks will be extensively used Then the motor truck becomes an increasingly important factor not only in relieving railroad congestion but in rushing to economical comple- ton a net work of permanent high ways.
 The American farmer has been ap- | pealed to from every source to increase his crops that the world may be SUD- | piled with food and that the price may | | grain nor pound of meat is grown il ] this country that does not, at some | time in it's journey from the point oi production to the point of ultimate | consumption, pass over some of oul American highways on it's way to tn,
 railroads
 | As we were unprepared in shipping
 and in railway requirements, in muni- | tions, and war supplies, so were W' also unprepared in the physical condi ton of our highways for this sudder | transformation of trade. But as WI have met the other and greater prob | lems so can we meet and solve thi | one
 Build Highways to Fit Traffic | Thoroughly organized freight am | express ervice might well be adopte
 by those communities suffering iron freight congestion, utilizing the moto
 truck for the collection of raw ma
 terias and the delivery of finished pro
 ducts withina radius of 100 to 15
 miles. In fact this is the immediat | purpose to which the recently ap
 pointed highways. transport committe
 of the National Council of Defense ar IL giving their attention. The moto | truck is not today a vehicle of cite
 and towns; we see it on every road i
 the country, improved or otherwis - but in order to realize the maximum
 from freight haualge via motor truck
 the highways should be built to stan
 the traffic.
 Road Building a War Necessity
 Inter-c city haulage of commodities
 not an experiment. Its practicabilit
 has been established and when tn
 schedule provides for the truck cal
 rying a capacity load on it's retur
 trip, such haulage has proved to be - profitable investment, urged to declal