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Show ROADS FOR FARM RELIEF. At present, a3 for the past three years, farm relief is one of the most important issues of the time. And good roads, passable roads, all-weather roads, must play a leading part in agriculture's rehabilitation. The farmer who can haul his goods when the market is most receptive, whose children are assured quick transportation transpor-tation to and from schools some miles distant, who can at any time and for any reason go where he wants, quickly quick-ly and cheaply, is at a great advantage. advan-tage. Oregon, Calif omia, New York and other states are showing what good secondary roads can do, not only for the farmer, but for small towns and as an attraction to tourists. The entire en-tire nation particularly at this time 'when Federal aid has been increas?d and road building is advocated to relieve re-lieve unemployment should get in line and build the roads that are so vitally needed. ! Only a small part of our total I highway mileage is paved. The majority ma-jority of our citizens in agricultural and rural areas live on roads that are hardly different from those used ' by their fathers in the horse-and-I wagon days. It is an economic impossibility im-possibility to give all these areas high-type highways, yet they must have easy, year-round contact with the outside world. And the answer ;s secondary roads roads with local materials as a base, and treated with one of the inexpensive, but long-wearing, long-wearing, modern asphaltiq materials. |