Show L AND BREADTH OF ROADS Lord Byron tells us In the course Q gt the Education ot of Don Juan that a I kIss is measured by Its length And that he then like Uke the lecturer r wasp was Lord Byron Dyron instantly added BY length I mean dura lon lonSo bUS by Its good road oad me S So also Is s a lenith And the qu quality lity of t duration duration is On onto to lJ Governor Spry state before the goOd Wednesday that it roads convention on would be for or Utah to havo long oads than wIde roads And lie he was eminently right i The roads ot of the state sta are wider than they need be The farms abutting could be acres s bigger by the narrowing of the d both farms and roads would be for the han The same amount ot of work and the same ot of expense would make longer roads And the longer and better beHer roads would endure to more years than can be hoped for in the tho present serve a vastly greater num number number ber of people It will be remembered that a prom I I nent citizen of Utah county last fall sounded the note ot of warnIng against those farmers who permit weeds to grow In Iii their fields and against the road authorities who permit weeds to grow on the sIdes of the hIghways But while the roads are twIce as wide ns as they should be the cost and the difficulty culty ot of keeping down the noxIous weeds will always be vastly greater than need be And to that extent the betterment of the roads will lack per On the recent trip to Washington Governor Spry and hIs party watched carefullY the wIdth of roads in the bet better ter farmed sections of country passed through The Governor talked wIth men informed on such matters He found tho roads were commonly four rods wide through the agricultural tural lands ot of the Very heart ot of established economy The width Is sufficient for br aU all needs The roads are kept In better condition and at a much smaller expense AU All tl the theland e eland land not needed for purposes o oa of ofa a highway Is Included farms to the state stat We c belIeve its deliberations will In realizing better conditions in inthis inthis this very Important particular It will u Ilp lp to understand the road laws at 01 nady enacted and aid In enforcing them But In no one way can Its dele delegates gates do more good than In giving hacking backing to Governor suggestion t f narrower and better and longer roads ir in the whole extent of the common commonS S |