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Show H STATE AID FOR H BBl Nearly every ono of tlio stato leg- BBl Isluturcs Is considering this whiter BBS demands (or maro belp fur load build- Ii lug. Ten yeara ugo nil the Btntca together to-gether put up but $2,000,000 for road a building, exclusive of local funds. In B 11)14 thuy spent $13,000,000. Hut ns B ',''' tum 'i rtlis of tbls wns dono by hK BBSj I' eastern stateH utid two I'aclllc coast B I tttntus, thu problem Is far from BOlved BBft nationally. BB I Many of our big prob'ems always B i come back to the cost of living quel- BBflj tioiid. Fnod has Bono up In prlco nnd BBB oiio reason why It is that It cost so BBB much to haul It over bad roads to BBB B Karly efforts In tlio better ronU BBB problem wcro along thu line of trunk B lino highways. Costly stone roads BBB wore laid out across the statos to BBB connect the great centers of popuh.- B tlon. Tlicsu uro Joyous for tlio auto- B mobile nippers. Hut they furnish BBB but lltllo help to the man who wants BBB J to haul his potatoes or his torn to B llo railroad station. Also It tnkoa BBH so long to secure tlio upprorplatlous BBBr to build them, that the lengths llrst BBB laid out may bu worn out by tlio tlmo BBBJ thu wholo syHtum Is completed. BBBJ What Is wanted today, for the ceo- BBBJ , nomtc salvation of the American ;ico- BBBJ ' plu, Is not bouluvards for plo.ii.uro HB riding, but fairly good roads leading B I ' mound through thu back country no BBBJ that farmora can haul loads to mar- B I ct, without having to cut them down BBBT one luUf bocuusu of mud, nd, and BBBJ B '1 ho stuto of .Missouri has recently B agreed to spend dollar for dollar with B any amounts that may bo put up by BBBt counties or by popular subscription. H! It Is a good proposition for every oth- BBBJ; or Btato. BBBJ, Tho city tax payer stiould assent BBBJ' generously to such a law In overy B Btato. lOvory improved country road B; means that ouu man, in getting pro- fll duc0 to market, can do tlio work of BBBJ! two, and ouo horso tho work of a H pair. It thoro Is any moro practical B method of reducing living costs, It B has yet to bo shown. vantages of a fliio Inheritance, they must bo weak InJeed, If thoy cannot maintain n good position In tlfo. These sou and favoring conditions do not doo,i.p tho most ruggod char-utters. char-utters. Tho majority of men holding hold-ing conspicuous position had humblo birth. Hut mo'o nnd more tho peoplo In high llfo realize that their children, if thoy aro to amount to anything, must bo loft as much as posslblo to forco their own way. No doubt this will bo the attitudo of tho Wilson family. If n follow from such nn origin or-igin can go through llfo and maintain a modest and democratic demeanor ho shows thoro Is good stuff In him tbnt would have won its way If ho had to climb unaided. |