Show 0 importance OF GOOD ROADS most towns recognize imperative need of improved highways to secure farm trade the country town that hns has poor poo r roads radiating from it is badly hand capped just as the farmer Is who ho lias has to haul his products oer such roads most towns recognize this and try to get their share of trade by making tb the main thoroughfares navigable nt at all times with tolerable loads the town that flint does not see the importance of good roads and the imperative need of making them passable to ordinary traffic has need of the jolt that Is nol not generally long adelaed e sometimes hear the expression a poor trading place and instantly y we me know the meaning of it xe e at once know it refers to a tou town n that has fallen into a rip van tan winkle sleep and we are safe in assuming that such a town lacks wideawake ake merchants and the other necessary adjunct good roads when a farmer sells anything it be his weekly batch of produce or a load of hoga or one of wheat or corn he naturally considers the difficulties of ther haul other things being equal he chooses the road with least hills and if the road of least resistance has well mell graded gra ded and dragged highways high nays the town that Is handicapped with steep pulls and poorly graded highways always Is a loser loer it cannot be otherwise A corn belt town exists primarily by reason of the farm trade when this reaches a volume that lines the streets with farm teams any good day except the busiest times of the year we me can be reasonably certain that the merchants and roads are both attract five and the opposite can be interred inferred when uben 0 the streets are bare of farm teams and cars most towns recognize the value ct of good roads as trade getters sometimes the topography of the country makes good roads and gentle grades difficult when this Is the case more money Is expended to get results and N op s t Y ax 4 po ai r A X 74 like this arc are carefully avoid ed by farmer who Is hauling havy heavy load the corn belt farmer Is just as ns discriminating now that the automobile Is common on the farm in fact he Is more so the matter of a few miles extra travel Is not of great moment momen As the car comes to be more and more the he medium of that dally daily corn com merce between the farm and town the tince of good roads comes to be more clearly seen the town has rec ree it in order to hold this in creasing but vital trade the town must bid in terms of fair bargains ana good loads and not least in smooth aalur ing highways where few obstructions to a fair speed are encountered NN where here the farmer buys his dally or weekly supplies he gene generally tally buys his larger items of machinery and farm equipment it Is up to the town tonn that flint desires to aie to recognize the lem lern of the good roid to ignore it ts Is to destroy the town the farmer does not grael the bad road except under compulsion BUILDERS FAVOR NEW ROADS largest and most stupendous plan for highway improvement ever pro ejected in world the building 0 of a system of highways in Ws this country now being carried on at an annual cost of over 1 1000 Is the largest and roost inest stupendous plan for public improvement eer eier projected in the history of the world declared a speaker at the annual meeting of the american hoad road builders association at the automobile club of america about 75 high way officials and others engaged in carrying on thle great plan of highway improvement were ere present corn com ing in many ca cases from states situated a thousand miles away bring higher rentals good roads bring higher rental incomes comes some roar materials some of the materials or alons t ons of materials which might enter into th the construction of temporary ro ids are earth shale slate chert grniet and rock or sand mixed with elov or gumbo for beny gramc on through routes pa casements paie ments mir be re quiren but these are not ordinarily classed as Toun country tri roads what farmer needs most farfa market roads rathar tarin I 1 pleasure highways are wint the farm I 1 ir needs most A 0 |