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Show WHAT IMPROVED ROADS MEAN Spells Prosperity and Happiness te Every Community Which Haa Forethought to See Blessings. (By It B. CI.rN. . Good roads are conducive to better schools, live rural churches, pleasant rides, good markets, social advancement, advance-ment, a closer bond of sympathy and co-operation between the farmer and his city cousin who works at the forge, the lathe or the spindle. It spells prosperity and happiness to every community com-munity which has the means and business foresight to see tbe manifold blessings which a scientific system of good roads secures for Its people. Mud roads spell an enormous mud tax beside be-side which our tariff la like a pygmy to an elephant Again, good roada annihilate distances dis-tances and rob farming of tbe dread and drudgery of rural seclusion, this fact being notably apparent where a farmer Is the wise and bappy owner of a high-quality, dependable and economical eco-nomical motor car. Mud roads bring social life on tbe farm to low ebb, empty the rural churches, make many little red school houses but a mem ory and populate tbe country with floating tenants who care very little for the growth and perpetuation of the Institutions which are tbe bulwark of our national greatness. Then good roads save time, save horses and wagons, automobiles and gasoline. They enable the farmer to market, at minimum cost. In rsln or shine, his perishable produce such as fruits, vegetables, milk, butter, eggs and meat Mud roads compel the farmer to leave such produce either go to waste or deterioration, or what la near to either, deter him from producing pro-ducing any of these profit-bearing commodities com-modities because he has no dependable and convenient avenue for marketing them. In cases of acute lllnees good roads enable the physician to bring speedy relief to the sick annually and save the lives of hundreds of our men, women wom-en and children, a fact which more than trebly compensates any amount of money which we may spend as a nation, state, county, city or town. Good roads spell humanity, relief, merry, mer-ry, life, growth and prosperity, whereas where-as mud roads too often spell poverty, weakness, decay, sickness, suffering and death. As road Improvement Is of nationwide nation-wide Interest It should be supported by our national, state and county governments. gov-ernments. This Is notably true with Interstate highways, for It la manifest, ly unjust to tax all the Improvement to the abutting land, to the county ot even to the state. Why should not out 1 national government promote Interstate Inter-state commerce through good country i roads as well aa through river and bar bor Improvements? i Good and patriotic men seem to be I at variance as to what Is the best system sys-tem of building roads. Some advocate three or more cross-continent trunk highways to be built and maintained , rqually by the federal government and by the vsrlous states through ablch i the trunk highways go. Others favor the Improvement of these roads first which run to the county seat." pro- vlded It Is a good railroad market , town, and If not, to the most seces- , tible large railroad town in the county. , They believe thst these roads should tx properly ditched, graded, rolled and t Iragged. Culverts should be built ( where the water Is Inclined to flow icross the road during heavy rains, 'rsdes should be raised In low places, ill I materially dug down and good , bridges built over creeks and streams i ;f all kinds. ' The citizens of a given county rould by this plan easily determine , in the flrat ten milea of good roads , o be built and maintained. Then he next Ave or ten and so on fur-her fur-her away from the principal town or owns In the county until every foot f dirt road In the county la put In Irst-class condition. The good leaven Is working In the f nlnds, hearts and consciences of the Vmerlcan people. Good roads. t hem, now means more than ever be-ore. be-ore. the avenues ahlrh leads to n lonal strength: prosperity and hap lnsa to which every good clilzes hould be glad to give his due mess ire of entbuaiaatic aupport |