Show GOOD ROADS GOSPEL ARE THICK AS BUMBLE SEES GEES IN A CLOVER P PATCH ATCH NOT ALL CALLED TO PREACH desire delra Is I 1 strong but knowledge knowledg Is lacking Wand wonderful erful progress I 1 in n campaign for better highways highway cut out all fads BY BV HOWARD H gl GROSS it 11 one looks carefully over the press clippings that come in upon the ques aea pon of good roads he will bo be astonished dished at several things first the widespread interest that ts to taken it in tho the subject better highways are being discussed everywhere in the store the school at the cross roads clubs grain exchanges boards ot of trade railway meetings etc the advocates of 0 good roads are as thick na as bumble bets bees in a clover patch all sorts sorto of solutions are offered most of which are tl ti cable and it undertaken would be simply a waste of time and money it reminds one of the remark of a pallos over which the food supply of 0 the tha world taunt must be moved the 0 other question 1 Is one of the social td t d educational d cat ional advantages that follow good road construction fortunately it 1 Is true that the same highways that would give the largest returns from an economic standpoint are the roads roada best beat suited to give the highest advancement hence the need la Is not these great broad expensive highways bleh waya extending hundreds 0 at miles in any given direction but a network of good roads nine to twelve feet wide covering the main highways of the country and centering in the mar ket towns upon the railways tho the wagon roads to ads are the velua veins of at commerce t the he railways the arteries tho the largest public good will come from such ouch a condition that there will be a tree free and uninterrupted movement upon both the highways and railways throughout the year among the econom economic to advantages Is that it enables the farmer to keep in close touch with rith the market and make his deliveries when in his judgment tho the best beat price can be realized thero there Is no doubt that a large per tho the major portion ot of tho the farm produce for the last 60 years in the mississippi valley has been sold slid and moved with road conditions ns as the determining factor it in IB Illo hooray oray boys boya we must get this groin grain to mar ket hot because the toads roada are good bood ana an A not necessarily because tho the price is I 1 AIN A av M k in M IMRA 1410 n I 1 tv the above shows allow ox rood good road live along tle tha road these usually work road would do cre credit d it to any country in 0 pher who after listening to a young lady of at voluble conversation said what a relief it would be it she would stop talking for a little while and do some thinking there thera are disciples without number who feel they are called to preach prea ch tho the gospel of 0 good roads they know litlie or tie nothing thing of the subject buethe but the asam as wm X de it s I 1 profession he proposed to ado t and a nd from which tho the bishop was bryin to dissuade him because he e him I 1 a RB a inapt man he ba wag called to preach and therefore he be was to obey the culmona cum sum mona mono the bishop asked him in what manner the call had come lie ile said ald he ha had bad had I 1 R dream la in which he saw aw outlined in the heavens dearly in lettera letter of white P C which he interpreted to mean to go and preach christ the bishop told him ho had no doubt he had soen seen the vision as an stated but he had bad it and that the letters P C in his bla case meant to plow corn it Is so eo with the good roads road advocates out ut of Dridge toyn barbadoes coolly upon lands land of 0 tho th wealthy veople pe this the world at its lt best beat this hurrying ot at product to market swamps the railroad corn com panics and they are unable to dinovo the freight and enables B tile the shrewd dealers in the city to manipulate i palco prices s pushing them up or down and to read reap a rich harvest out ot of tho the farmer on the one hand baud and tho the consumer on the other colossal fortunes have been built up through t tha a brain ex a if good roads advocates will confine their talk and recommendations to the highways that will serve borre tho the people and such auch highways highway as the people can afford to build much greater progress progreso will be made in tomo some instances good roads roada can bd ba built with gravel era vel at hand at from to 1000 a mile where the gravel roust must bo be shipped some distance the cost coat will be double when crushed otona to Is used taid must be shipped by train the expense will be anywhere from to it a mile even at a mile it would pay well to build good roads upon the h t J 1 hr ile 1 NO 43 y R E t ar A r q A tha above bov view Is 1 from the th pitch lake island ot of TrIal dad where we ket got mehm laucks ti our street coolie Is loading up his hl cart to haul the th pitch to the docan other pitch gatheren gat hereM hererA can be b wen seen in the tha dl di stAnco tano mar p ci uw p acang more ore harm than good i one enthusiast who ban bag been much in evidence Is if telling the people how they can get good roads without money lie iio might as aa well try to boost himself over a fence by pulling dulling at his boot straps the good roads roada question la in a tremendously big one end and must be handled la in a big way no one can master manter the subject in a short abort time the writer has spent 16 15 years digging into it if from every angle and he feels that there them la in yet nuch much to learn some send good roads have proposed the building of great national highways connecting all the capitals of the states or a treat great continental roadway from boston to san arancis trancis co or from chicago to the gulf such roads would be b tremendously eapen IT and about abort the only thine that tbt y could be used for would bo be at ae speedway for automobiles theme are mot thi the roads that thi the public needa Is in the b s T of highways highway there tre tw two great questions involved one a thi advantages to be b gained from tiie me transportation V view I 1 w olat and this means meana good roads from tue ilia firm farm home to the tha market town it if it to Is done by the otate aid plan those who are objecting to tho the building of good roads advance objections that are found to be falls falla clous upon a little consideration ration the writer remembers one man who interrupted him during an address addre aa and romar marked ed that oat in some parts erf ct the country they were building hard bard roads at a cost of from to a mile and then said eald that their township had bad about 72 miles of highways end and proceeded to show that tho the ex pense would be at a mile to cover coyce alltha all highways with this type or of road upon a little inquiry it was waa disclosed that the roads roada in question were brick roads roada built upon a con rete arete foundation an aa excellent road to be sure are and such cuch ax as it may pay to build whore where la 15 very heavy and A 4 largo large amount of tax ole able property to pay the tha bill but are oot not the roads that it Is usually ly practicable to build no ko needs need anything like 72 miles the tha facts are that four fifths of th the graffio ovet over about tie ane fourth 0 of f thoa abo road mileage and it has haa bee been n found foun d the country oter at borne and abro md that when from one dourth to one third I 1 of of the total mileage of tho the highway has baa been thoroughly improved all ore are well served and the i good roads roada problem has hag been solved I 1 A man may have a farm a mile from a good road but it it la Is six elx miles to town he can manage to got get over this first mile which afu be a little used road to the main highway and it from there ho he can have a first class road to town making up five sixtus sixths of the distance he ha wll will he be well taken car carp of the fact that lie he has ban five are miles of good road and one mile pt of poor will spur him and his bli neighbors to put in the best beat possible condition this road of cf secondary condary Be importance it lias bt always alway been found that thai those opposing the building ot at good ronda roads overestimate both ua th tho the cost pt the roads and tho the amoun t of at mileage necessary and it I 1 Is apparently done with the studied purpose of trying to convince people that it to a to build good roads roada on account of the expense involved it has been demonstrated time without number that well built roads roada upon tho the main highways will pay sur for them solves every ave or six alx years treated from an economic standpoint alone alon to say nothing of the educational and oc BO cial advantages and the pleasure plea aure and satisfaction of using a good goad road instead of a poor one tho the good road boomers should kee keep in mind some bom certain aings atiat are ar fundamental r farat that under our ot of government ment no large amount of good roads can tie be built unless tho the farmers are ready to move in the matter hence bents tho the farmer and not tho the automobile auto mobila manufacturer or user taunt must bo be orm considered next that the iho question of road necessity has haa the econom economic filp social and 4 edu educational catto nal welfare involved in it it next that good roads the country over need not cost coat to a mile but through tho the central west weal they can easily be built at bostl ranging from 1000 to a filth depending upon local conditions this price may bo be sometimes reduced by t the th use of convict labor in the dreps preps r ration of at material 1 tho the farmer fanner should remember thai tho the building of good roads roade adda adas to the cash value of hia bla farm inore that than twice cs as much and sometimes alv times its aa much as aa tho the tax he will 1 be called upon to pay build them ile iio also remember that it the th r roads e ad la wore were uniformly good atwould it would b be much ut h e easier iler to get cot help upon the farm the farm arm laborer could provide lit himself with it ha a bicycle which calbi had a very small cost and upon rainy days daya or sunday day he could go ee out and sea his friends instead of betna being marooned a crooned by y impassable roads roada the tanner should also alao remember afner th that at ov over good roads can be hauled two or three times as aa much produce as over ever bad roads taking average road conditions the year round it to la safe aate to io say eay that it one ane wro hauling over thein everl everyday daj in jhb VIM aitor ti 0 JQ 1 aaita 40 1 good roada as over thi aws highways that are often in good condition buttery but very often bad and bome BOIO tunca times impassably Impassable A 1 la in a magazine article the writer write noted the following A prominent southern farmer paid for a pair ot at vaults mules lie ile refused to pay for A pair of smaller mules because the larger ones could pull pounds more mora because of their increased size alze ire refused to vote a bond issue kasuo for good roads roada that would have enabled tho the io smaller maller mules to pull 1000 pounds pore more I 1 i thus in practice we ve often aye saye at the spigot and waste at the tha bung tb the e need of the hour to Is to VP up the good bood roads mads question in a big broad way with a liberal spirit and realize that the roads loads are a permanent assacl to the nation the state and tbt lh town ship and that it if they bey aro are well built and properly cared for they will last lasi for many years and the expense tit bf building tho the roads ought to be spread over 20 or 30 years so as to lt let who come after us ua and share chare la in tile tho benefits help pay par ft a part of tho ox ex pense dense of building them i valuable information upon highway construct loh ond good roads generally can bo be had by applying to tho tha of of bublic roads washington or to the highway engineer ot of the tha respective states let tho god roads roada advocates agree agre upon n some come line of procedure and cut out all lie he fads fada and Im impossibilities bili bIllt ties les and bring the proposition down where it belongs and consider it in tile the light of local conditions condl tlona and ad such oads as will give the largest return lor for the tha money invested invented |