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Show GUARD AGAINST ROAD ABUSE Some Punishment Should Be Meted Out to Those Who Deliberately Cut Up Highways Built for Public. You bought and paid for the road that runs by your doorway ami tho other roails in your township ami co uity. That is, you paid your part In building the highway, if you are u property owner you paid thai pari di"ectly in so many dollars and cents of road ami bridge tax. If you are a, renter you are not escaping. You are paying in rent and indirectly. The road is your road, if it is cut up by the hauling of heavy loads on narrow-tired wagons you will have to Ma ml for the trouble and discomforts of next winter, when the ruts are hub-deep. hub-deep. If you permit heavy rains to scour out the foundations of a wooden culvert and that culvert finally falls in or is washed out, you, as one of the daily users of that road, will bo discommoded. dis-commoded. Most of our roads are dirt highways, wriles H. S. Sullivan of Missouri in Farm Progress. Only a small, a very small, percentage of the highways of this country are "hard roads." One hundred years from now we may have the beautiful "metal" highways such as' are found in the older European countries, but this is a big land of ours. It is a country oi magnificent distances, and the rock and concrete roads are going to be built very slowly. It is the dirt highway that suffers from carelessness. Two or three men In a neighborhood can spoil more miles of highway than the remainder of the community can build. They are abusers abus-ers of what other men build. They will pile on the heaviest load it is possible to pull and they never use the wide-tired vehicles that might help the wagon track stand up under the big loads. Good or bad weather is all the same to them if they have something they want hauled. The sensible man knows that the use of a dirt road for heavy hauling in bad weather will spoil the highway. He won't do any teaming team-ing that he can avoid, but the road butcher will go right ahead. He will spoil his own roads and the ro.ids of others. There ought to be some punishment provided for the man who will deliberately delib-erately cut up the roadway built by the community for the use of the whole community and paid for with the public pub-lic money. Some states have laws providing punishment for the man who overloads, who uses "skidding logs," who fills mudholes full of old rails, chunks and poles, and who will pile a wheelbarrow full of rocks in a rut, to become a menace to all vehicles as soon as the road dries off. But these laws are seldom enforced. Not from any lack of offenders or from the lack of knowledge as to just who the offenders are. Good people are afraid to complain against such men. They are found in every neighborhood and they go along for years in a domineering, dom-ineering, overbearing manner, working all manner of injustices because they have their "bluff in" on the community. commu-nity. They are the gentry whose cattle cat-tle are rogues, whose fences are always al-ways bad, whose dogs are "sheep kill- if |