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Show NEED OF BETTER HIGHWAYS Ohio Farmers Convinced That lm. proved Roads Are Essential and Promise Financial Aid. At a recent convention of the Ohio Good Roads association the farmer delegates spoke with the utmost conviction con-viction of the need of improved roads, good 365 days in the year, if they were to do their part in the mobilization of the resources of the country in the cause of humanity. Moreover, these delegates from the farms did not ask to have the roads improved for them ; they promised their full proportion of financial support for their construction. An entirely different condition is reported re-ported from New England, New York IS I ' Sand Clay Road. and New Jersey. There the congestion of railway traffic makes the highways of great value in delivering manufactured manufac-tured materials from one city to another an-other ; the motor truck has suddenly become a real necessity in meeting the urgent requirements for transporting the products of the cities. In short, the rational improvement of roads is an essential element of the grave economic eco-nomic problems of the day, to make the valuable products of the farm and shop available to the user at the lowest possible pos-sible cost. This subject should be studied at once as an economic problem, the same as the provision of railway and waterway water-way transportation, the increase in cultivated cul-tivated acreage and the improvement of manufacturing facilities. Crops that cannot be moved from the farms except at enormous expense and manufactured products that must lie In storehouses because of congestion of railways are of little value to a nation na-tion which needs such things now. |