Show am 4 afton U I 1 L I 1 N 6 POORLY BUILT ROAD CREATES LIABILITY when a n rond road Is built that will not Olit outlast lust its cost the builders are buying trouble and paying cash coah for it it they borrow money to buy a liability create a debt to buy something that will be a continual expense until it finally becomes a total loss through being worn out and borrowing money to bull build a 0 road that will not last under modern traffic conditions Is unsound unbound finance in the old days of macadam and gravel roads it was no uncommon occurrence for a county or township to have its as many no as three peth of outstanding bonds on a mills main traveled high highway wity the sooner a bad road Is put out of 0 existence that much sooner will a wholly unnecessary expense be cut off not only that but laud land values will begin to improve permanent road building costs coata money and it Is well weil to look at tile the old cold cash asli side of the proposition true the beneficial effects upon tile the social and standards of the community ore are not always susceptible of exact act calculation but they are certain to come and since a road costs money we must know there Is to be a 1 I profit from somewhere to offset tile the cost something for nothing liaa has never yet been found profits i tu otias 2 was waa or ag per cent and in 1924 or ai 22 per cent two geographic divisions the new net england and south atlantic 8 tates states showed a net increase in fa farm rm population tor for the year 1924 of 9 0 per cent and 2 per cen cent t respectively all other divisions division i showed decreases the mountain states leading with a loss of 28 per cent the decrease debrea se in farm population pop illation due to the city wardi movement not taking into account bertris bir tris or deaths was highest in the mountain states 43 per cent followed by the pacific and west south sentral states in all other divisions division except now new england the percentage of decrease duo due to tn movement was equal to io or ILI less than the average for the whole united states 22 per cent new england alone showed a gain of ia 3 per cent since more people moved from cities t to j new f a arms than left farms farina for cities the movement from farms to cities was found to be tile the highest rate in the mountain states iss per cent followed bf the pacific new england E Ingli fild middle atlantic andi and east north C central states in order in the movement to farms farina front from elites trie me mountain states again lead with 95 p pe cent followed by the new england L Un gland pacific middle atlantic andi east north central states |