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Show 1 Good Roads Hints j Now that automobile prices have ! dropped again, the state highway I commission will have to get busy and j extend the roads, j I Sixteen southern states will spend $40,000,000 this year in road improvements. improve-ments. North Carolina's program is relatively the heaviest. There is nothing better for a county than good roads, a good county agent and a Red Cross nurse. And any county that has these three essentials is not slouchy in other things. With the exception of one link Loudonville to Wooster State Road No. 3 the C. C. C. Highway (Cincin-j (Cincin-j nati-Columbus-Clevclaud) is improved throughout its length, 259 miles. At the end of the present year there will he approximately 495,000 miles of surfaced highways in the United States, exclusive of improved city streets, according to the United States bureau of public roads. . . Open roads the year around, when first talked of, were supposed to be so far off that few of us would ever see them, hut we have them, with winter sales of automobiles, with the result that garage owners, who formerly for-merly used their workshops for win-; win-; ter overhauling, are now busy with : the usual run of work 12 months in the year, j . . ; P.rick roads are favored in many localities, whore there is a state-owned j brick plant to furnish brick for road j construction. j Secretary of Agriculture .Tanlinp announces an-nounces the n i i r i'l i !i i: -n t of 7:5.1 it,,. 000 to tt.e various s(u;, for um- i:i the construction of federa'-aid roads, j I This ent husi.'ism for pond roads, once good ro::ds have" be. mi provided. Is easily explained. The simple truth j s liat good roads do not cost one oennv more than bad roads. |