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Show GOOD ROADS It is apparent that the world was not made safe for democracy by waging wag-ing war. It should be apparent that roads cannot be made safe for pedes- trians or motorists by waging wa against the latter by prohibitive speed regulations or drastic police ' rulings. The motor car and truck have ' come to stay. They have come to ; stay because they save time, make j speed, . Eliminate the speed and the time-saving from motor cars and men would go back to horses. If the speed and the time-saving ; result in maiming and killings; it accidents and injuries follow the uso of trucks on highways, then om other remedy must bo found than will destroy the very factors of those.' instruments of transportation which make them vital to our modern life.' The answer is plain; most people who have studied the question see it, , and many acknowledge It. But it Is uot much talked about, because.' for- sooth, the politician dreads to say . anything which may be construed as advocating more taxes, spendln, ' more money. Had the politician of; twenty years ago advised farmers to spend live hundred or a thousand j dollars for a new "team" to savo time, be would have boon defeated for ofllce! But the answer must be made, and we, as n people, must soo It, a;-; prove It, pay for it. The answor is' wider roads; roads with h,lgh and low speed divisions; ronds which can carry modern traffic. Not all the rends of course. But the main roads, the well-travelod roads, the intercity roads, the roads connecting state with state and county coun-ty with county th"Ho, either now or later, must be made wide enough! to cany (ho present and the future traffic safely, assure the pedestrians nf their liven and whole llmba, the' motorists of freedom from accident, and traffic the possibility of making time without danger to anyone. 1 When the automobile was nowj people cried out, against hard nur-nee nur-nee highway appropriations as "clow face highway appropriations as "class legislation for speed tern." Now the peoplo know that hnrd surface sur-face highways are for them, first, for 'he "speedsters" afterwards. But we till want to make time, go fast en-' oiigh to get the benefit of our cars.. Let us stop crying out against the 'added erpense of the wide highway, which alone can make motor trans-, ; Port safe for v all ! j . . |