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Show MILLIONS FOR ROADS. One hundred and sixty million dollars dol-lars are now availiable for road construction, con-struction, as a result of recent federal feder-al appropriations and sums on hand in the various states. The appropriations have given the nation an almost unprecedented opportunity op-portunity to advance the good roads movement and at the same time aid in bringing business back to normal. Trices of materials of all kinds are the lowest in many years, there is an abundance of labor and engineering talent, and governments can borrow money at low rates of interest. A large part of the money is to be ' used, in rural areas where it will give the biggest return for each dollar dol-lar spent. The American farmer has been waging a battle against a variety var-iety of circumstances, and a sound "relief" program is the construction of year-round, farm-to-market roads. It is probably true that lack of ade quate transportation arteries has done as much as anything else tc hold agriculture back. We live in a motorized age, in which quick, low-priced transportation transporta-tion is essential to commercial and social activities of all kinds. Only a small part of our millions of miles uf roads are surfaced and passable at all times of the year. Wise use of the appropriations will pay high dividends. |