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Show PROGRESS VS. COST. The Portal: Progress Is an expensive expen-sive 'luxury. But things that are worth while always cost, even though It Is sometimes possible to shift the burden of expense toother shoulders. Especially is this true of such features fea-tures of municipal progress as water works, good roads, and sewers someone some-one has to pay for them. It should be noted, too, that these arc not just the adornments of a city, which make It more attractive and lead it to draw outsiders In, but they are absolutely essential to tho health and well-being of any town. Every year that material ma-terial advance Is not made in each one of these three departments in a growing grow-ing community means that a time Is coming when tho same work will IIAVE to be done at a much greater cost to all concerned. And the years of neglect will not fall to bring in their harvest of ill-health, and distrust by outside parties which the tardy expenditure expen-diture of money will never alleviate. It Is always money well spent that Is paid for necessities of so public a character, char-acter, and the self-sacrifice and public Interest that is called for Is never virtue thrown away. |