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Show its from farm produce, because they cost less to haul over good roads. Good roads everywhere mean prosperity and happiness everywhere, every-where, That is why we have become a Newspaper Association Member Mem-ber of the Association, which will eventually produce good roads everywhere., . "Honor the flag; it is the symbol of your country. There is no better,' nor can there be one better." ' ' '"' Thus are children taught, and truly. But they, should also be taught that while ho man may improve the flag, all men may strive to improve the country for which the flag stands. Vhy should this, the greatest nation, hnvp the worst roads? VVhv should the children of the most enlightened nation have the greatest difficulty of getting to the best idea of education the world has ever seen, the public school? The children of today are the voters, the legislators, the officials, offi-cials, one of them the President, of tomorrow. P.uilding an adequate ade-quate system of national highways high-ways for the United States is not to be accomplished overnight. over-night. It is a matter of years . . . years and education. Therefore, teach children not onfly to honor the flag which all revere, but to make the country for which it stands even more worthy of honor, by building good roads through its length and breadth, that all may, have the social, moral, economic and humanitarian benefits which come from quick, easy, inexpensive inexpen-sive and rapid transportation. Editorial NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION ' MEMBER No. 1865 . r . The Bingham News has accepted accept-ed a Newspaper Association Membership in the National Highways Association (Washington, (Wash-ington, D. C), with which are affiliated two hundred and two road associations and organizations. organiza-tions. It stands, not for any particular road, but for Good Roads Everywhere, through the establishment of National Highways. High-ways. The "Map Device" at the head of this column expresses our interest in-terest v in roads, your interest in roads. It is the symbol of an Association which for twelve years has worked faithfully and hard for the dissemination of road information, which has published pub-lished thousands of maps, and millions of pamphlets, in the interest in-terest of good roads, and which believes that the future civilization civiliza-tion of this great country wil1 go forward as fast and no faster than we develop our systems of transportation. The motor "and motor ruck have come to stay. The farmers of twenty years ago on an isolated iso-lated mud-wallow, miscalled a road, who today lives near a hard surface road, who today drives his car to town and back in an hour, where formerly he required a lay, knows what roads and cars mean to him. Good roads mean prosperity; they mean progress; they mean education; they mean a full life, worth living; they mean the greatest amount of goods purchased pur-chased for the least amount of haulage; they mean greater prof- |
