Show middle we st backward in road beautifying there Is in such a tiling thing as wanting too much but the project of the vermont chamber of commerce has its iti appeal I 1 it is undertaking a national campaign to beautify the roads here in the middle west the public bit pu harl Is moro more concerned over er getting barq roads than beautiful roads this means getting money to pay for mhd paying paving and maintenance without r re gard for looks the matter of beauty lias has to be left mostly to nature if there happen to be trees along the highway that Is luck it if the gouge of a new highway through the gravel or alandis sand la ugly time will put legeta tion there to tilde hide the and yet there Is something that makes a middle westerner wishful in the announcement that california lias has planted trees along COO miles of highways that massachusetts has set out trees along its state highways and that indiana last year set out evergreens ever greens michigan along the state roads it makes one look regretfully at hare ugly banks when he hears that plants rambler roses woodbine and honeysuckle vines in such places on its highways it gives one pause too to discover that new jersey when it cuts down a tree in tn widening a highway replaces it with two outliers other along salong the border may alay wo we give no thought to beau or to conservation of beauty along ma trunk highways until that day in the future anen the heavenly state of complete pavement shall have been reached ached le minneapolis journal |