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Show iPAVED ROADS COSTJILLIS Illiteracy, Too, Is Found Where There Are Few Good Highways T e Un ted States department of ag ult re estimates at the fa n trs or the Un ted States are os g annua ly $2 0 000 000 on a -co t of the naceess bil ty of the r productB at ce td n t mes of the year due to bad road con d t ons Invest gat on shows that there are many count es rich n agr cultural rrod ucts but burdened v. th bad roads where the annual ucom ng shipments greatly exceed the outgoing "VV th ra I roved roads such count es could not , only be self support ng but could sh p j products to other n arketa I In 1909 the percentage of mproved roa Is i the .New England states was 22 2 and the percentage of lliteracy was only 17 In the south Atlant 0 states the percentage of mproved roads was only 6 7 and 11 teracy 1 The excess of ill teracy in rural over urban populat on due to a lower percentage of improved roads Bhowed for the south Atlant c states 400 per cent and 140 per cent for the New Lngland states In both of these comparisons only native wh tes of nat ve parentage i vere cons dered |