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Show STUMPS IN ROAD JILDING Good roads, t.ccoidlng to Howard llnnn. are something which everybody wants for nothing. Ah there Is nothing free in this country except elbow room and the' grip, tho good. roads movement lias had hard work In trying to break speed records. Good loads agitation Mways shows a menu rapid pulso during winter, and converts a great number of people wlio object to traveling over high, ways that look like an 'Alpine mountain moun-tain range. lint man has a short and brittle memory. When summer comes and the ronds lie down tint again public enthusiasm also lies down and but;, tons the flaps on its coin pocket. There aro moro good roads en. thuslnsts during tho rainy season than at ouy other timo of tho year. If a otu on bond Inane could be taken Immediately after a three.day cloudburst, tho polls would be moro congested than the tables of a 15. cent supper. In mauyp laces tho method of mnk. lug "good roads" Is to plow them down the center and decorato the , roadbed with sod. This provides a surface which can bo traveled only by ' the stltt.walklug crane. It is not at all dllllcult to convert the owner of a new automobile to tho good. roads theory If he Is caught at the moment when he Is tr)lng to worm his way through af resh sod Impiuvemeut, two miles and half long andr mining from fence to feuco. This life Is full of strango incon. slsteucles. People complain about the money wasted on chewing gum, false hair, and skin foods, but it Isn't tho pHco of hair.cut to tho sums was. ted in patching roads (hat refuse to Ktny patched. The automobile Is the evangel of the good roads movement. F.vory sale of af Ive.passengor touring car ultli tires subject to sudden and disheartening disheart-ening punteturo means better roads and more of them. Therefoie, every one should buy touring ears becauso he will then become a good. mads mhocate. Hood ronds are more conducive to human happiness than good digestion. You can coddlo your digestion with malted milk, but there Is nothing more certain to conert a cow path Into a hard.surfaced highway than brains, plus money, plus concrete. n |