Plans for the construction or improvement of more than 70,000 miles of strategic military highways in the United States are being made by the Public Roads administration with the advice of the-War Department. Having observed the efficiency of swift mechanized transport on the German system of military roads, military men in this country want to improve the facilities for highspeed transport of armies and goods in the event war comes to this hemisphere. Already construction of more than 3,000 miles of roads to army cantonments and bases has begun. The new Pennsylvania Turnpike, built for hundred-mile-an-hour travel uninterrupted by cross traffic, probably will serve as a model in the planning of other main arteries. Besides the domestic improvements, completion of the PanAmerican international highway linking North and South America-is being urged.