Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS The subject of good roads will no not down in the eastern press The Boston Transcript asserts crts that Except where they tIler are und under r the direction pf of If experts expert good roa roads s arc are still unknown in th the thc country p New York has set et a good and like Georgia ia she ha hamade has made provision for utilising her jail inmates in inmates in- in mates In in carrying on tho work Tho The Atlanta Constitution believe es that that the tAe good road roal oadis i-oadis is a national hi highway highway high high- h. h way to prosperity Th Tho Washington ton Star would tax automobiles auto auto- mobiles for a road fund It says An automobile tax that goes Joes to the tho im m pro provement ment of roads will help to UPlift th the thi farmer as much as a volume of good advice 5 The Tho Cleveland Plain Dealer says The automobile has from tho the first firs been a a. powerful and persistent advocate of better roads It would be bo impossible even to estimate with any degree reo o of accuracy the responsibility that should in in fairness be given the motor car fo for forthe tho the present revival of interest in the movement for improved highways So o too the Baltimore Sun The Tho chief hief problem in good road road building i ithe is the finding of a topping which will produce produce pro pro- I duce a smooth surface and amI stand the I wear and tear of all sorts ports of usage This is IS the particular phase of the road building problem m which more than one ono state road commission is just now endeavoring en en- to solve The Troy Times remarks that Our Ou own people will bo be tho chief beneficiaries bene bene- of good roads though the tho visitors visitors visit ors within our gates ates will also enjoy enjo them But possibly the chief advantage e ultimately will be tho the advertisement of the state as a leader in in these enter enter- Tho The Schenectady Gazette wants a continental road It says says What the country would like liko to havo have is a groa reat hi highway hway from the tho Atlantic to t the tle e Pa Pa- cine one one that would not be contingent upon the action of various states along the tho route but that would take tho the mos most direct line lino feasible The Philadelphia Record wants P per pr- r. r manent roads built I Even in our cities tho the highways are not built to endure They are aro without solidity of foundation foundation- or of f satisfactory surfacing ing and in in constant constant con con- stant need of repair In the country there is a mere mero slapdash pretense The 6 roads are art cleared dearld ploughed cultivated and fenced in very much after theman ncr of the tho fields fillds they traverse After a century of this go-as go please you you please indifference indifference in in- in difference the people are arc at last waking up to the economic economic waste wast involved in in getting ettin about over ocr bad ad roads The Tho Chicago ago Inter Ocean is not satis satis- fled fied and proves by figures th the country's short comings In in the following We should have lla the best roads in the world Practically all of them run through h ha a agricultural districts and it is said Raid to cost the tho farmers 25 cents to haul a ton tona a mile on them Tho The avera average e haul baul of farm products is nine miles according to th the estimates 8 of the tho department of agriculture The a average a cost of hauling a ton a milo mile on the roads of Franco France is 7 cents S I. I |