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Show I HOW TO DEVELOP I RURAL ROADS. i Road-building, in the past, has a!- j most always been attended by a 1 certain amount of waste, because of j lack of information, "political"' allocation allo-cation of funds and in a few instances instan-ces plain ordinary graft. Now the good roads movement with especial attention being paid to farm-to-market roads is making unprecedented un-precedented progress. It has been stimulated by the drought and unemployment un-employment situations, as well as by the crying need for year-round, surfaced sur-faced arteries of transportation for agriculture. Many states and hundreds of counties, in all sections of the country, coun-try, are seeking ways and means of providing the farm with necessary roads as quickly and as economically as possible. Norman M. Blaney, of the Ameri-:an Ameri-:an Farm Bureau Federation, says that county road plans "should be deseed de-seed so that the outlying territories territor-ies will have acces to the main highways." high-ways." To achieve this, he points out, road committees should be formed, made up of fair-minded, unbiased citizens. cit-izens. It would be their duty to assemble as-semble facts and to decide just what roads are necessary for carrying- on the business, social and economic life ;f their communities. Those roads' .vhich will serve the greatest number Df people should naturally be improved improv-ed first. ' Modern science has given us as-haltic as-haltic materials with which to con-itruct con-itruct good roads, passable in all veather, at a very low cost. Commun-ties Commun-ties which take the lead in rural :oad construction will be leaders m progress and future prosperity. |