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Show Good Roads Squibs What's the Issue, from the standpoint stand-point of the autolst'8 pocketbook, good roads or snd Inroads? Thirty-one states and Alnskn share In the pro-rata distribution of funds made each year by the forest service to those states and territories containing contain-ing national forest lands. More thnn $10,000,000 has been spent In highway construction paving, grading grad-ing nnd bridges to bring the famous Bnikhend Old Spanish trail routs through the Southwest to Its present all-year-round perfection. Trnfllc laws which differ In different states nnd different towns in the same state are a cause of confusion, accident, acci-dent, loss of property, and loss of life. Uniform traffic laws, the same the country over, will promote safety. I'lnns for a highway from New Orleans Or-leans to Portland, Ore., which will follow as nearly as possible the boundary boun-dary lines of the old Louisiana Purchase, Pur-chase, have been officially launched. It will commemorate the purchase of i the territory by the United States. ! |