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Show v ROAD MONEY It is strange but true that the man who will finance his business sensibly sen-sibly and carefully, who will buy and sell a house with acumen and wisdom, who will choose his bank wih meticulous care and guard his personal financial affairs with utmost ut-most skill, frequently throws cau-'ion cau-'ion to the winds when considering the raising and spending of money for roads. It is so pitifully easy to arrange tu have someone else pay for a road! bond irsue i.O' run fifty years puts ha burden of paying on the men and .vomen who come after us. while we pse the road! This is had nnoi'gh, as i matter of unsound economics, but ;t is worse when the money so raised is so unwisely expended as to produce pro-duce a road which wears out long before the bonds become due. In such cases, and there are many of them! . . . the body politic finds itself in the position of paying for roads which no longer exist and fared with the additional necessity of rebuilding the road and maintaining maintain-ing it, as well as paying the interest .'.nd finally the principal, on the bonds which built roads which are worn out. There are oases whore long term bonds are justified and necessary. But. there are no cases where the expenditure ex-penditure of such funds is justifies for anything loss than a permanent road, so located, so built, so planned plan-ned as to length, gradient, width and location as to make it of service ser-vice to the people to come as well as thofe who now use it. It has been said that there is no-' hing permanent about any road ex-1 cept its location, but this Is only true when maintenance if an afterthought. after-thought. It is as unsound to build a road and let it ravel to pieces as it is to build a house and let it go un-painted un-painted and uninsured. Paint th house, insure it. repair it. and it may stand for a hundred years or more. Sinfatain the road as it is used, us-ed, and it should last indefinitely Only such roads sIiokH be built with bond isfuo money, and only s';rli i roads should be built with the money derived from town or county j or state bonds, as will serve town, county and stale for all time to come To do otherwise is to betray the trust of the helpless unborn. t |