Show I I GOOD ROADS WOULD ATTRACT FARMERS I Secretary Knox Makes Inter Interesting Interesting esting Statement to House Committee Washington Jan 22 Secretary Knox believes that the congestion ot ol population In great cIties Is caused is In I large part by the lack ot of good roads Ir in inthis L this country He told the Ho House se com committee committee on foreign affairs that the rea reason son France was the best agricultural L country In the world was because she had had good roads so long The agricultural population or of France does not have to spend Its money In repairing vehicles and bar har harness barness ness every winter I think good roads have Improved the attractiveness of rural life I think they have caused the population to remain on the soil more than In any other country You do not find that tendency to urban population In France and England that we do in this country countr The subject came up In connection with the consIderation for an appropriation appropriation for tor the participation ot of the Unit United United ed States In the permanent association association tion ot of road congresses an international international affair and the secretary seized the opportunity to declare his Interest In good roads He also made the In interesting statement that automobiles were working havoc with roads gen generally generally All ot of you who have traveled In France In the last year or two know that their roads are wearing out Mr Ir Knox said The automobiles have destroyed the surfaces of the French roads and the French government Is anxious to cooperate With the other powers t to It f some pew new methods cannot be for ot of roads that will mee meet the demand made upon them The secretary succeeded In getting the appropriation |