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Show mmmx BOOSTER FOR BETTER ROADS Danger of Going Too Fast in Construction Con-struction of Highways Mistakes Liable to Be Costly. The automobile is becoming a very important factor in the movement for belter roads. livery auto owner, be he farmer or city man, is a booster for better roads, but the city man is probably prob-ably more impatient with our present ' roads than the farmer. In our political polit-ical life the farmer has always been the conservative while the city man has been the radical, the progressive. It takes the two factions to brins s ' s X" f- - x v'V - . A As AA.v Good Road in Iowa. about well balanced political conditions condi-tions ; one is as much needed as the other. Since the road supervisors at their last annual meeting took the stand they were not in favor of paving country coun-try roads at the present at least, they have been rather severely censured by the daily press and told that they are behind the times, trailing in the dust. That hard roads of some kind will be built throughout the country some time cannot be questioned, and the supervisors recognized that fact when they said that they were not in favor of loading the counties down with road debts at the present time. We are inclined to commend the supervisors su-pervisors for the stand they took, because be-cause there is danger of going too fast with expensive methods of construction construc-tion until the different kinds, of roads : that are practicable for different localities lo-calities have been more fully tested, , says Farmer and Breeder. Mistakes made in permanent road construction are liable to be rather expensive. ' Iowa has made rapid progress in road improvement during the past two '' years, and while no permanent roads have been built the work of grading and draining at least two principal roads through each county and the : construction of cement culverts and bridges is something that will have to be done everywhere before permanent : roads can possibly be built. Then, too, in many sections at least, when our . roads are brought to a grade; are well ! drained, and then properly cared for with the road drag, they become very ; passable indeed. We believe that It is not a bad plan to use them for a few years in that condition and give the drag a good chance to show what it will do for them when used as frequently fre-quently as it should be. |