The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-25
GREAT STEPS
IN ROADWORK
EFORECAST
Jeffress Tells Chicago
Conference Construction
In u. S. Just Begun
Bx STAFF CORRESPONDENT

By STAFF CORRESPONDENT
CHICAGO, Jan. 25.-DeSplte
the progress that has been made
so far in the building of high
ways in the United States, high
way construction is still in its
infancy and so far little effort
has been made to coordinate
highway construction with future
needs and requirements, Char
man Z. b. JetfresS, OF the North
Carolina state highway and pub
lie works commission said yes
terday afternoon in an address
before the American Road Build
ers Association. Most of his ad-
dress dealt with the highway
needs of the future.
Properly planned highways are
essential to tn successful con-
tinuation of the new industrial
and social order now coming IN
to being largely as a result OF
the governments experiments III
limiting working hours and pro-
duetion in industry, Jettress
pointed out. For a continued
curtailment of the work week
throughout the nation is going
TO make it necessary for workers
to live outside congeSted areas
where they may operate small
farms or gardens in the time
they are not regularly employed
and thus help supplement their
wages. But in order to do this,
adequate highway facilities must
be provided by which these work
ers may get to and from their
work.
"The only way this new policy
can continue and become fixed
in America is to base our indus
trial life upon a coordination OF
industry and agriculture, so that
workers may divide their time be-
tween the factory and their farm
or garden operations" Jeffress
said. For in order for q man
to maintain a family under this
plan he must supplement his in
come from the wages ne receives
for a 30-hour work week from
some other source. If the re-
manning part of his week is used
to supplement his wages by pro-
ducing his garden or by small
farming operations. he can make
a better living and industry will
have q better employee. But such
a plan of industrial-agricultral
development must rely upon high
ways for its success, since trans
pertaSion is a vital factor. If
the factory remains in the con-
gested acreaS, then the workers
must have adquate highways
over which they may be trans.
ported from their homes to the
factory and back again to their
homes. If the factory is moved
out into the rural areas nearer
to the workers. as many are al
ready doing, then the highways
are still important for the trans
portation of both the raw mater
ial and the finished products.
Chair man Jeffress further
pointed out that out of some
100000 miles of highway in
the United States, only about
100000 miles are surfaced and
that : another 100000 miles
should be surmaced within the
next five years "if the highways
in America are TO do THEN part
in bringing about industrial and
economic recovery and make a
reality of The New Deal " in
building highways for the future,
four things should hence be kept
in mind, Jeffress said, as fol-
lows:
Il! The development of feed
er roads to provide dependable
TRANSPORTATION to wide areas.
2. The development of trunk
highways and especially of eX-
press highways near the con-
gested. centers of population to
better handle traffic.
8 Complete development of
RID, Parcel Post and perhaps
farm express routes and school
bus routes to more promptly and
efficiently handle mails, farm
produce and transport children to
school.
4. The continued expansion,
development and undermining of
existing main highway systems to
the end that agricultural products
from wide areas may be brought
to market, that manufactured
products may be transported from
the. factories to the market and
from the market back to the
smaller communities
"The keystone to this New
Deal for labor and agriculture
is highway development that will
give quick, dependable transporta
tion," Jeffress said.
There is no reason why an
adequate plan for future high
way construction cannot be car