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Show B GOOD ROADS. H Touching upon the "good roads" H idea, the National Livestock Iteportcr H' says: "There is no greater clvlll?cr H than an Impiovcd highway. There is H no greater pioneer (ban the improver H of a highway, or one who blazes a trail H or shows the way of transput tatlon H into a new country or resources or H opens up a new tcrrltoiy or shortens H the traveling tlmo between two points. H "After Columbus showed the way to B thi now world, thorcXeru other foi- M lowers and still others for centuries U without making any material reduc- H lion in tho traveling tlmobotuecn tlio H old world and tho new. It took ecu- B utrles to shorten the days of travel1 H i across the Atlantic ocean, and It wis H not until transportation between tl o H two countries was mada easier and H iulckir, that developments of perma- H ncnt value were made. After tl o H transportation problem had been H solved, America began to be liven fl after the country had become fairly H well settled, and Internal strife had H been practically eliminated, it took H days If not weeks to communicate H with the icsuotu puts of the early H Colonial country. It was a big step In M the right direction when the national H government lent its aid to the build- M ingof a national highway. It was a B big step when later the states lent 8 their aid to the building of highwajs within their own borders It Is a still HJ bigger and more Important step foi HI the entire country when bands of Hi steel bind i emote districts together, H and after all these years It would H sacra, with all tho miles upon miles of H railroad track, improved highways and M country roads, that the transportation H problem has been practically solved. M And vet there apt district in many H sections of the country where tho M transportation problem is a burning m one. It Is not enough that amain B traveled road connect one town or city J with another in tho rural sections of BM the country It is not enough that theso highways furnish a means of BJ transportlon for tho farmer and the BJ other vchlclo users of the country, but BJ the time should be when every cross Bl road should be an Improved road, Tho BK time should como when all the leglsla- BH turcs of our states should furnish 4 means and methods for tho Improve- Bl ment of every road-way In every town- BJ Bhlp, county and state In this country. Bl lletter roads mean hotter homes liet- BJ tor homes mean higher ideals. Higher BJ Ideals mean equal rights to all and BJ special privileges to nono. There has BJ been some, In fact, considerable lm- BJ provement In our road-ways the past BJ few years, but In most cases tho tin- BJ provements have not been permanent, BJ and money lias been wasted, Tills BJ problem should bo solved with fore- BJ HlghU Improvements should not be H '(408rarYibut prnutoont. It is "R to the legislatures to enact laws foi this purpose. |