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Show i Hi at I LIB COST: So Declares Spokesman of' Motor Convoy, Speaking for Townsend Bill. Urges Rotarians to Work for Increased Highway Appropriations. ''liuud reals are a poJcnt factor in reducing the li ifctH cost of living. It lias Ijoimi shown that the cost of hauling produce, oi-r a poor road is throe limes as much as Hint of hauling it over a good road." '1'hia was a statement mado by Dr. S. M. Johnson, official spokesman of Hie Army Motor Transport corps, before be-fore the Salt Lriltn Jfotarians at tho regular eluli luncheon held in the JoW:l I tali yosLrrd.'iy. Dr. Johnson urged the Kotarun.s to use their influence in having hav-ing the amount of appropriations provided pro-vided for in the Townsend bill raised from tho pre.'cnt $-1Jj,0UU to $1,0U0,-000,000. $1,0U0,-000,000. " l'ai.sago of tho Townsend bill will he of: greater benefit to tho west, per-luipH per-luipH than to any other part of the country, ' ' I'r. Johnson said. 11 The Townsend bill calls for a system of federal highways maintained at federal expense. .States and counties will be reimbursed for improvements already made on roads, and in addition tho federal government will bear half tho cost of cooperative roads leading to the federal highways. Ogden Club in Favor. "In this way the state and county would not have to worry about their main state highways, but could expend their n.'-ans on improving subsidiary roads. This would mean good road:? leading from all sides into and through the state of I' tali, especially from Logan to I'rovo and on to Denver." Dr. Johnson urged that a committee of Hotarians bo appointed to take up the matter of the proposed inereaso and to writo to Utah's representatitves in congress, recommending the passage of the Townsend bill, with the increased appropriation'. The Ogdon Kotary club, according to Dr. Johnson, acted favor-ablv favor-ablv on the proposal last Monday night. Dr. Johnson will leave for Carson City, Nevada, today to join tho motor cunvov. President James V. Collins referred tho matter to the (iood Koads committee, commit-tee, which will make a report at next Tuesday 's meeting. Road Building Progressing. Commissioner Thomas Stillman said fifty miles of road iu Salt hake county have been y railed and resurfaced and 20(1 new bridges and culverts had been built. The amount to be expended on roads up to September ;"), lie said, was $IM,0UO. He said that the amount realized from tho sale of one half of tho recent bond issue would be sufficient, suf-ficient, lo complete the county's present pres-ent road program. Chaplain William V. Meredith, psy-ehqloeieal psy-ehqloeieal expert for tho United States war department, said it was up to the business men of Salt Lake to provide jobs for returned soldiers, lie declared a soldier comes back from tho front either saint or devil, and that in order lo prevent him from coming under the influence of the radical element, it was necessary to take hold of him, and find a settled place in life for him. |