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Show RURAL DELIVERY AND GOOD ROADS. There can be no question that the rural popula- tion of the country is vitally interested in the sub- ? ject of good roads. The farmers have discovered -that it costs more to have poor roads than to have good roads, and they have discovered that their ? good Uncle Samuel will not run any rural free delivery routes ove'r a territory not traversed by ' good, decent roads. It ha3 not been so very many years since the farmer was isolated from the rest of- the world for about three hundreds days of the -ty year. Then the country dweller could not keep in touch with the progress that was making in the cities ancl towns. But when the telephone com- f I panies got to installing their instruments and the V ' postoffice department got to making free de- v liveries throughout the country districts', the awakening awak-ening of the rural community was upon us. In i the old days the farmer was the subject of many jests, and was looked down upon probably because I. of his poverty in mind and purse. Xow he is an important part of our commercial life. He owns I an automobile, he delivers his products when there I is a good demand for them, and when the price is high, and he sits down and lives on the interest on j.the money in the bank when he feels that price do not justify his delivering and selling his prod- j ucts. Of course, this is all not the direct result ' ; of the rural free delivery; indeed, it may be the rural free delivery is a result of his prosperity ; and advancement. But it seems almost a certainty that there is an intimate relation between good roads and the rural free delivery system. Some may say the demand comes more from users of automobiles than from the farmers themselves, but such a demand would not bring about good' roads. The men owning farms along the highwavs have to pay for the roads, and it is not likely thev would build roads for city automobile owners. ' What good roads we have in the country districts J were built by the people living in those districts, hot for any sentimental reasons, but for profit. A They want good roads so they can travel by wagon Tf i or automobile at all seasons of the year, and" so "if i the rural delivery man can get through every day y 1 with the mail. " I f |