Show ROA PROBLEM OF PAYING FOR BETTER ROADS never before were the highways a so so thoroughly public property as no now they will become becom e increasingly public us na they are improved and as aa rut auto transportation becomes more gene general ral who then should pay for or their con COD and upkeep surely not wholly or even largely tho the abutting property owners in the days of tho the borso and magol and buggy people did not lot so go far fro homo home roads were of a more inora loca use ue now they are of national usa the car from maine uses the of III all the states between maine ana california a a th the a ca car r fro from in every locality uses tile the highways highway ot of ever every other locality we are a nation 08 travelers of tourists it Is well wo we should be it Is to be encouraged the ox team and the horse toa could use mud roads mud iud did not siony low thern them up much and seldom topped stopped them they moved s 10 0 slow slowly ly that time wan wag not an object i distance stanco arvas always reckoned in miles mud 19 now fatal to transportation A terelle ter mile mlle of mud will block tile the t traffic on a hundred miles of good highway all our plans for travel now are dependent dott doit upon the statement it tt it rain unless the roads rr are good in III any kin kind d of weather distance now Is a ma matter ater of minutes not miles from a given place to a determined ined distance therefore the roads am ar indeed VU public b highways the public not abutting property owners should pay DAY for and maintain them property owners for some come dist distance arice back should pay perhaps a very vary small tax because they use them frequently with teams team and wagons that do more or less sa damage to the load surface a gre greater ter damage than soft tired trucks and autos do the abutting property owner no doubt uses the local road more frequently than any other highway and more frequently than any other user nevertheless he should not pay any great amount of the reconstruction bodt or upkeep of even the road that gim past his farm the farmer these ARYS ky without A car to Is hard to find he tributes to the upkeep at least when he pays hla his auto license many whites tate havo have it a gasoline tax which makes lakes those pay most who travel wat transportation Is a n national matter tt it aou would id be unjust for even states te pay DRY the entire bill for their highway much less fair for counties to do it till all even when it Is no doubt true that travel la Is a large percentage local whatever we may think of tho the kind of roads we should build we should devise a means of distributing the cost coat over all the people of the nation bearing moat most of the cost coat in the locality that gets geta roost most use of them gradually spreading the tax thinner as tile the field la in enlarged the tollgate toll gate system la is a nuisance it does make the users pay but it to Is not a sure way of assessing a tax sufficient only for upkeep of the Jilg highway hway we do feel that a heavy abutting property tax la Is wrong it la Is the road nearest a large town or c city I 1 t y th that a t g gets e t 9 t the im in most 0 9 t wear the traffic pours in from froin distant points and passe sInto the city over over roads leading into town the greatest upkeep charge is for these highways the advantage af pf living near town 0 9 mw morg than 6 feet li it abut abutting I 1 tiny pro properly ariy pity pay s most mat ot the highway cuirle cu irge likewise the city streets are used by country leopla and tourists tourist yet the common practice Is for abutting property to pay for the streets some way roust must be devised to more equitably distribute the he cost of bf building city and country highways successful farming |