Show J r j. j I iI f TRANSPORTATION IS VIT VITALs VITAL L I s v Away back in in Thomas Jefferson's Jeffersons Jeffersons Jefferson's Jeffer Jeffer- sons son's administration the Government Government Govern Govern- Government ment of th T United n States realizing realizing rea rea- k that they c could not build a unified nation without means of communication and transportation transportation tat tation on between its different t parts began a program of hight highway highway high high- t way building over the ies The State of New York fearing the diversion of the commerce commerce commerce com com- merce merce of the opened newly West Vest to the ports of Baltimore and Philadelphia delphin set itself to work to provide water transportation by digging the Erie Canal from Buffalo to the Hudson River at Albany The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania cut a canal from the headwaters of Ohio to the Delaware Maryland had pact earlier built a c canal nal to connect the Ohio watershed with that of the Po tomac When Ten the steam locomotive was developed and railroads began began be be- gan to be built again it was the province of the Government to tp encourage the development of this mode of transportation and most of the main line railroad mileage in the United SUlt Stites s was constructed with the aid of public funds Federal State or local And the newest form of transportation the airplane has been brought to its present state of efficiency and safety largely I by Government aid We Ve think that the development development develop develop- ment perfection and maintenance ance of means of transportation and communication is one way of spending public money which not only meets with least resistance resistance resistance re re- from taxpayers who vho have to provide the funds but furnishes the most lasting and valuable asset to the nation and its component units We Ve approve approve ap ap- prove of all the programs of i highway improvement and extension extension ex ex- tension and we approve also of the way vay in which the Federal Government through the is helping the railroads to improve improve improve im im- prove their systems 2 There is something that appeals appeals ap ap- ap t to the peals o imagination in the rf efforts of the railroads to provide provide provide pro pro- vide swifter more comfortable j tra travel vel The new streamlined air conditioned trains which several lines are beginning to put into operation suggest that the railroad is not obsolete It Itcan f 4 can provide services which either eith- eith either f. f er the motorcar nor the airplane can give We Ve e do not think any of these has reached perfection any more than anything else is perfect We Ve believe it is in the publics public's interest to help the further furl further fur fur- l' l ther improvement and development development develop develop- ment of pf all of them 4 i BUILD NOW AND REDUCE I It t- t 0 TAXATION CHAIRTY I t I I Here at Manti l there is much need of i building repairs Dur Dur- During ur-I ur big ing the past three years ears houses of ol all kinds have not been given proper care The necessary repairs repairs re re- pairs pans have not been made due to the stress of the times If some buildings are allowed to go much longer the cost of putting them in sha shape will viII be almost that of of building new structures Now is is the time to repair According to a survey made by the American Builder based I Ion on depreciation of existing structures structures structures tures at the rate of 2 per cent a year population increase and other factors there is an accumulated accumulated accumulated accum accum- deficiency of home building building building build build- ing and repair work amounting to in this coun coun- try The surplus of homes which grew grew from 1925 through 1929 w was s eliminated by the middle of 1931 The deficit then started growing at an unprecedented rate because of stoppage of buildIng building building build build- ing in 1932 and 1933 There exists as a result one of the greatest potential m markets mar markets mar mar- r- r of all aU time Existing with it is one of the gr greatest potential potential poten poten- means of stimulating employment employment employment em em- community development development develop develop- ment and business recovery in general In normal times the construction industry g gives es work to carpenters carpenter s I laborers and helpers painters electricians I masons plumbers plumb plumb- ers builders and contractors contractors con con- con I tractors and thousands of other Iw I w workers rI ers of various And this is not the end of it it-in it in addition addition ad ad- addition to the men employed on the Job another vast army is is employed employed employed em em- in in the industries providing providing provid provid- provid-I provid ing concrete roofing materials machinery lumber paint and other necessary supplies I Start home home building it is indispensable indispensable in in- in- in dispensable in bringing back 1 good times Dr Nicholas Murray l Butler I says that the sole thing needed to end war is ordinary common I honesty But that is a quality Y I which seems very scarce in international international in in- diplomatic circles Will Vill Rogers says that if we only buy liquor in countries countries' which pay their debts to us we ve will have to get used to the national national na na- drink of Finland Well Vell if if t otis is the liquor they drink which causes the Finns to pay their I debts we would like to try some I of it on on a few fellows we know I of in this community A child in Indiana was vas born with the mumps Maby l this is Ct u sign the country is going to have inflation I I t i I I |