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Show ROAD BUILDERS TO DISCUSSTRANSPORT Will Consider Its Relations to Education CHICAGO, III., Feb. 11. "The Relation of Highway and Motor Transport .development .devel-opment to Education" will be one of the principal subjects discussed at the nationwide na-tionwide good roads congress and machinery ma-chinery exposition to be held beginning tomorrow, according to officers of the American Road Builders' association, under un-der whose auspices the congress will be held. "Improvement of the highways bears such an Important relation tp rural and city education," said M. J. Fsherty, president pres-ident o4jhe American Koud Huilurs an-ociution. an-ociution. "that It is beginning to receive a great aal of attention at the hand of educatioiutl as well as th other public officials. The improvement of the highway high-way In various sections of tie country has made It much easier for school children chil-dren in tire rural dmlrirtu to get to the schools promptly and with comfort and to reach handily and Quickly the higher Inntituttons of learning in the -i i lsv Wherever roads have leen Improved aia-ttpttc aia-ttpttc show that there hue been a marked improvement in edijcational facilttiea and school attendance." Census data, compared with road stn-tiatlcs, stn-tiatlcs, ahow clearly the relationship between be-tween illiteracy and lad roads, socord-lug socord-lug to officers of the Koad Builders' as-aoclation. as-aoclation. This data shows that in Ar-kansaa. Ar-kansaa. Missouri, North Carolina and Xf ifiNlasippI, where leu than 2 er cent of the roads are Improved, there were 374.78 native Iprn white Illiterates out of a total population of ".fcOO.ftoo. whereas where-as in Masnac huaetta. Connecticut, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, where more than 30 per rent of the roe.de urn Improved, Im-proved, there were oij'y fO.'.ob native born white Itinerates out of a total population f s.o:i,ooo. ) M ..i.i |