Show PUBLIC expenditures THAT BRING RETURNS 1 three causes lire advancing mhd secondary road movement no the need for relieving cong congestion eslon on main mail highways the tha efforts being made in all states to reduce educe taxes and keep down governmental expense and of perhaps greatest importance the necessity of 0 giving farmers year round contacts with markets and tile the outside world flood secondary roads are a perennial attraction to tourists who welcome el tile the opportunity to see sea the batik country that main highways often avoid they bring billig business bus thess to small towns and rural and semi rural areas that would othet otherwise w ise go principally 0 to o the larger cities it has been found that tho the average cost ot a good year round secondary road made waterproof dustless dust lesa and by use of 0 asphalts asp halts or road olla oils anil and suitable tor for a fair amount of 0 traffic Is but a mile about one eighth the cost of standard hard paving upkeep expense Is likewise low and such roads may be adopted adapted to their territories by using local materials as s tile tho base prom from tile the standpoint of the fanner good roads are indispensable they moan an end to the time when lie he stayed home in the bad weather or started tor for town rind and got mired they remove the obstacles in the way ot of receiving medical attention and tire fire fighting facilities ot of sending bending hla his chil childred dreo to and from sell school ool they are the bost best investment the states have hava ever made in behalf of agriculture and tile the small town it Is no wonder the good roads movement Is making great progress even in a time when money Is tight tho the public Is learning that tax money la is invested in good roads ts is one of the now new forms of public expenditures tures tor for which the people got get more in return than they pay out |