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Show SIIOl'IJ) ALL 1".Y That which Berves all the people Hhould paid for by all tho people. That which Is paid for by all the people should be under the control of all the people. Those are self-evident truths. We act by them when we build a Panama Pana-ma Canal, set aside and care for an arena of natural beauty as a public park, give land to a transcontinental transcontinen-tal railroad establish and run an army and a navy, and conduct a postal pos-tal system. The entire nation pays to build and maintain a navy to proloct New York and other seacost cities'. The people of a great many States never nee a battleship during their entire lives. There is no valid objection to l his, because everyone realizes that the capture or ruin of the seacoaat cities would affect the entire nation. The same principle holds in the construction of a national system ot good roads. Tho whole nation will benefit vastly from good roads in Increased prosperity, better educa lion, and development of natural re-I re-I sources. The money spent on rivers is ali paid by the federal government from general taxation, yet this tragic only a small fraction of the traffic along our improved highways, ami its benefits are proportionately small. To the farmer, a hard road means more than any other Federal activity, activi-ty, even the Postal service. It is a convenience to get his mail promptly, but a good road makes it possible for him to run his farm or dairy at a much higher rate of production and greater profit, gives him and his family more of the comforts and luxuries of life, help. his children to get a better education, and raises his entire standard of living. Why contend that roads, a public utility for all the people should be left to different gTottps of people to develop, when postal service, army, navy, and the projected superpower system are admitted to be national affairs? |