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\nDrawings by Stuart Judd,Jr.  \n*U.S.battle deaths during the entire Korean War(June 25,1950 to July 27,1958)totalled 25,604.Americans killed intraffic accidents during the one year 1953 numbered 38,300 persons.  \nPublished by the Center  \nfor Information on AmericaJanuary,1955Vol.IV,No.5If every one of us,during the holiday season,had takento the highways for a Christmas visit,there would have beencars,buses,and trucks enough for all of America's one hun-dred and sixty-two million inhabitants to get into withoutcrowding.There's one motor vehicle today for every threeof us.  \nThe real problem would be:could we get to where wewanted to go?  \nIt's our haphazard network of highways and streets whichhas fallen far behind what the traffic of the automotive ageurgently calls for.  \nSome of our roads date back to ox cart and coveredwagon days.They twisted and turned to dodge swamps,hills,and other natural obstacles-and the turns and twistsstill delay us today.  \nMud holes were a major menace in the horse and buggyage.  \nPlenty of dust was raised in 1892 when Charles andFrank Duryea drove the first horseless buggy,powered bygasoline,along the streets of Springfield,Massachusetts.But it wasn't until 1908,when mass production got goingwith the Model T,that the era of transportation by motorvehicles began,calling for a broad new conception of high-ways,streets,and roads.  \nIn 1919,the mule power age for the army ended.A testconvoy of gasoline-fueled military vehicles left Washington,  \nD.C.,on July 7,bound for the West Coast.It managed toroll into San Francisco sixty days and six thousand break-downs later.The young lieutenant sent along as observerwas Dwight D.Eisenhower.  \nEver since the motor vehicle age started,we've been try-ing to keep pace with the expanding situation.  \nDuring World War II,because construction and repairswere postponed,we began falling behind.Catching up hasbecome a big part of the job.  \nChurned over by an increasing flood of traffic which fillsmany a thoroughfare to the bursting point,our highway sys-tem in general has been wearing out faster than it is beingreplaced.Congestion,with its crumpled fenders and wasteof time,tempers,and gas,is just one of the more noticeableevils which demand that something further be done to getrid of them.And what about that accident rate which claimsas many casualties yearly as a good-sized war?  \nIdeally what we're looking for is an efficient,rapid flowof vehicles able to reach at minimum risk the places wherethe drivers want to go.  \nMany indications,including President Eisenhower's re-marks in his State of the Union message to the 84th Con-gress,point to the probability that something really big isin the works to give the country better highways,streets,  \nand roads.Almost every state is in the midst of a sizeablehighway construction program-either in the planning stageor already begun.  \nTo help us organize our thinking on the subject and formour opinions as to what's needed and how to handle theneeds,let's turn over the page.  \nWHAT WE'VE GOT  \nFirst,we might look at what we've got.  \nIncluding every dirt road and dead end street,the nationhas some three million,three hundred thousand miles ofpublic ways.  \nMost important,from the national point of view,are thehighways which make up the numbered system of U.S.roads.Some,like D,which runs from Fort Kent,Maine,toKey West,Florida,or0,from Olympia in the State ofWashington to the Mexican border,San Ysidro,California,or0,from Atlantic City,New Jersey,to Astoria,Oregon,are well-known to many of us because we've travelled along  \nparts of them.They form the federal aid network,with theFederal Government sharing with the states on a fifty-fiftybasis the costs of maintenance and building.They totalonly about 40,000 miles,but that's enough mileage to linkinto the U.S.road system all the biggest cities and many ofthe next in size.Other 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