Evening star., 1931-11-29
CONGRESS TO HEAR
HIGHWAY PLANS
Road Expansion Programs
for Unemployed Will
Be Presented.

| Expansion of road-building programs
| for the relief Of unemployment, as well
as to relieve traffic congestion on the
| highways and reduce accidents from
motor vehicles. will be proposed to Con-
greSs in numerous measures as soon as
it meets, according to w. r. Smith
president of the American Road Build
ers' Association.
Radio Address Planned.
"The use of road building for unem-
| ployment relief will be emphasized in 40
radio addresses delivered by leading
highway authorities in all parts of the
country on December g." declared Mr
Smith. "TheSe talks will accentuate
the fact that road building for unem-
| ployment relief was tested during the
past year and it has been found most
effective in putting men to work
promptly. More than 100000 men
were employed directly on road and
street work and 100000 other men
were kept busy furnishing supplies, ma
! terials and equipment to workers. Road
building for unemployment relief has
a tremendous advantage, in that it
| brings a job to the worker. It is the
most widely distributed activity in the
country.
Roads and streets can be bought at
a bargain now" continued Mr.. Smith
land the low cost tends to Offset the
! interest charges. The increment in
| national wealth due to good roads will
remain long after the depression is for
| gotten"
Road Needs Apparent.
THE need for highways is apparent
to every man who drives a motor We
hicle," states the head Of a Washing
ton news service in close touch with
national opinion, and it will be diff
| cult to convince a man who gets in a
traffic jam every Sunday that there are
anything like enough roads. More than
one-f1fth of the country's population
| flfths drive with them
LAS to the needs for safe roads, a
| highway journal recites:
THE curfew tolls the knell of part
ing day.
A line of cars winds slowly DER the
A pedestrian plods his absent minded
way
And leaves the world unexpectedly
Convention Topics.
Details of low-cost highways to con-
, meet the main travelled roads with
| PdNtu pyWdyS, as well as 10 relleVe ur-
employment through a wide distribution
OF jobs, will be the principal subject at
the meeting of the Association of As
phalt Paving TechnologiSts on January
Is during the TWenty-ninth Annual
Convention and Road Show of the
| American Road Builders Association in
Detroit in January. This association OF
asphalt experts is composed of leading
asphalt chemists and engineers in the
| United States and Canada.
, New machines that make possible the
construction Of loW-cost roads at con-
Slderably reduced cost and at rapid
rate will be featured. These machines
VII! be on display during the exposition
and opportunity to examine and study
them will be afforded every one.
In addition to a study of machines
many committee reports will be pre-
sented. Mineral filters, the cracking o1
PaVements due to weather changes ano
modern improved paving practice will
be considered by committees. Addresses
VIII be heard on low-cost plant-miS
construction, simplification Of tests fol-
liquid aSphalts, the surface relation be-
tween asphalt films and mineral ag-
gregates, surface treatment of earth
roads with asphaltic oils and the adap-
tatlon OF the stability test to coarse
aSphaltlc paving mixtures.