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Show , - a. How Good Roads Help " OOD roads means better country schools. They mean lower prices to the' city man for country products. They mean a vastly improved im-proved social life to the farmer, his family and his employes. They mean a general improvement in farm life, both as the lightening of labor and the enjoyment en-joyment of the better things of life, because they will be so much mre easily attainable. It is estimated that more than a billion dollars dol-lars have been appropriated for good roads programs. pro-grams. The national, state and city governments, govern-ments, as well as township sections, are going ahead with it. Something like five hundred millions will be available this coming season. The cost of labor, material and the ability of transportation systems to make good, will figure fig-ure in the ultimate outcome, but the movement for good roads has a momentum that only completion com-pletion the country over will stop. The owners of 7,600,000 passenger cars, of 900,000 motortrucks, of whom the owners of 2,500,000 cars and trucks are farmers, know that in this day and age the mud road is not for them. |