| OCR Text |
Show GoodRoads Will Keep Boys and Girls on Farm "The . Kansas Automobile Owners' association believes good roads will induce more country boys and girls to stay on the farms and more city boys and girls to go to the farms," declares de-clares & J. Heckle, in the Topeka Capital. "Government statistics compiled at intervals during the past thirty years have shown, and do show, a steady tide of Immigration of farm boys and girls Into the cities," Heckle said. "But the automobile owners see a powerful counter-irritant, which If generally adopted, will reverse the tide and send the farm-bred boy and girl back to the farm and take with them a number of their city-reared cousins. "That is a state system of highways, such as the project proposed for Kansas, Kan-sas, which would include 6,575 miles of hard-surfaced road that could be traveled 305 days a year, without one cent of additional cost to the taxpayers. taxpay-ers. "One of the principal causes of the pull of the cities Is the unimproved or only slightly improved roads which are an effectual barrier between the fanner, his wife and children and the undoubted pleasure and gayety that the city and town life offers. With the advent of the automobile this barrier bar-rier was in a way removed, but rain and bad weather promptly replaces it periodically. "This project to break down the last barrier between the farm and city in Kansas includes the passage of a bill, at the next legislature, submitting sub-mitting to the people of Kansas a proposition authorizing a state system of highways to be paid for by the funds raised annually by the present automobile license fees. "The plan also Includes removal of the automobile trora the personal property tax list. This feature In Itself It-self would tend to reduce the taxes of every automobile owner and give Kansas an Improved system of 805-day 805-day roads, touching every county and every Important trade center In the state." |
