Show FAITH IN GOOD ROADS country spending yearly on improvements ratio expected to be double that amount in next decade govern ment won wont t aid Comm community unify that help iteld the country Is now spending ft ell toward a year on rural roads perhaps twice what it was spending for that purpose ten years ago faith in good loads probably increased duding the decade in an een even greater ratio and it will mill be sur if the expenditure ten years hence is not double this is mainly of course an effect of the motor car but a lot of people misjudge the motor car because they forg t or do not know that in all the more prosperous ious euial regions a gasoline elude vehicle nowadays Is just about as standard an implement as a mowing machine the day has long gone by when good roads agitation could be discredited by ascribing IL to bloated urban plutocrats who wanted to ride comfortably by an act that became law last month the federal government pur poses to contribute for good country roads used by the postal service shading the expense equally with the states or other local units the work rork is to be done on specific a eions approved by the department of agriculture duly inspected and ap up proved the federal government ought to contribute for high highways mays are a legiel mate national interest under this law it helps no community that does not first help itself its participation will tend powerfully to standardize road building and to distribute the re suits of experience so it should tend to give a better quality of road for no greater cost anent five years ago any given so called public highway was usually the exclusive affair of a board of super visors or commissioners who ruled for a year over a territory three or four miles square presently the coun ties came in then the states now the federal government which is as it should be saturday evening post |