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Show Money Spent for Roads Excellent Investment We of Minnesota are still jangling over the bankrupting sums of money that are being apportioned for highway high-way construction that is, some of us are, says the Hibbing News. Others realize the fact that money spent for good roads is like laying money away in the bank only that good roads pay interest that would soon bankrupt the strongest bank on earth. And at that, this great, rich, glorious state of Minnesota is spending but a tithe of what some states are putting into new and better highways. We get up on our hind legs anl fairly screech when a twenty million dollar road bond issue Is proposed, while the fifth rate state of Florida thinks nothing noth-ing of spending two hundred and twenty million dollars for road building. build-ing. Minnesota can better afford to spend a sum like that than Florida can, and it is more than either Florida or Minnesota really need to keep a highway system even with the times. Give Minnesota a hundred millions to spend on roads and it will get more real value out of it than Florida can out of five times that amount. Today I Minnesota stands third in the number num-ber of tourists received in a season, even with its lack of roads. But that j cannot be accepted as an excuse for 1 not spending in full keeping with tha wealth and importance of the state. |