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Show WOMEN FAVOR BETTER ROADS Townsend Bill Endorsed by General Federation of Women's Clubs at Salt Lake Meeting. Evidence of the widespread interest inter-est in good highways was shown at the recent meeting of the General Federation of Women's Clubs at Salt Lake City. In endorsing the Town-send Town-send bill for national highways, now before congress, Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman of Chicago, chairman of the department of applied education, said: "It is not necessary for us to point out the real interest of American women in highway matters. The influence in-fluence of real highways on country life, on economics, on education, is now generally understood. AVhat is needed Is a national highway policy which will conserve government funds, and, through concentration of federal money on main highways, will give us a connected system at the earliest moment and the least expense." |