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Show Keynote of National Highway, System NO matter how well one state may build a road, such as the Lincoln highway, for instance, it lias no power to compel the nest state to build according to the same plans and specifications, "or, indeed, to build at all. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, there are states whose population is so sparse, in proportion to their vast areas, that the erpen6e of building is an intolerable burden at present. That is the truth in this state, anH in Arizona and New Mexico. The keynote of this age is not competition, but combination. We have learned much about the possibilities of unity in 'this country during the war, and by the exercise of drives undertaken by national organizations operating through district managers, acting in accordance with one well-conceived plan and directed by a single head. We have learned, once and for all, that forty-eight states acting in co-operation can accomplish things which forty-eight states acting independently could never do. That the government which built the Panama canal should also improve the interstate" waterways of the country coun-try is right and sensible. The proposition of having the federal government manage the transcontinental steam roads has been tested and found to accomplish some things which private ownership never had been able to do or at least had not done. The idea of having national good roads built and maintained by the federal government is more likely to be favored now than ever before. Such vast public works, aside from their ultimate aim, would offer gTeat opportunities for the employment of labor.- Carson City Appeal. . 1 . ) |