Show I Farmers Ask Federal Aid AidOn AidOn On Projects Sentiment of Utah D Declared in Favor of Townsend Road Bill Farm sentiment in Utah as well as in the other sta states es of the Union is strongly in favor of government participation In highway highway highway high high- way construction and maintenance maintenance maintenance main main- as provided in the Townsend bill now before congress congress congress con con- gress contemplating a system of transcontinental highways from Maine to California and from the Canadian to the Mexican border This Information is contained In Ina ina ina a communication to Ira R. R Browning Browning Browning Brown Brown- ing state road engineer from the national automobile chamber of commerce of New York ork ork Letters from the national grange are given as the cause for this belief Not long ago the Washington representatives of the national grange sent out a letter to every state official of that organization in which was a letter from Senator Charles E. E Townsend Townsend Townsend Town- Town send calling attention to his measure measure meas meas- ure for a national highways system system tem tern and a a. federal highway commission commission commission com com- mission and explaining the reasons which he felt made necessary necessary necessary sary a broader national road policy the communication states RESPONSES RECEIVED Responses to this communication tion have thus far been received from local granges in twenty-one twenty states and the proportionate re result result result re- re sult has been twelve votes to one in favor of the adoption of the Townsend bill The replies range from Maine on the north down to West Vest Virginia and as far west as Washington and Oregon The bulk of the answers come from the Northern states as the grange larger membership is found in these states In each case the reply has been made only after the matter has been considered by the grange membership before which the subject was placed INDORSEMENT GIVEN For the most part the writers writers writers' were content to give unqualified Indorsement to the measure but where more detailed letters were wece written a strong feeling was disclosed disclosed disclosed dis dis- dis- dis closed that the government is big enough to take care of the na naI national national na- na highway itself and that It should seek to do so as rapidly and economically as possible The opinion was further expressed that it is only through such policy that thata a national system can be obtained obtained obtained ob ob- which will not overburden the man who lives near the road |