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Show FEDERAL DS FDR FARMERS DETROIT, Mich. A dispatch to the Lincoln Highway association from the naMonal automobile chamber ot com-ime:ce com-ime:ce headquarters in New York City, lone of the many agencies Which ar? working together in behalf of the prompt passage of the Townsend highway high-way bill, providing a federal system of interstate roads, is to the effect that re.-.cnt investigations Indicate that the farm sentiment throughout the United States is overwhelmingly in favor of the pending measure. ieceLtly the Washington represent-jalives represent-jalives of the National Grange sent out la IHter to every stale official of that .organization In which was enclosed a letter from Senator Charles E. Town-'send Town-'send of Michigan calling attention to jthe Townsend highway bill providing for a federal highway commission and a system of federal highways and explaining ex-plaining the reasons which the senator felt made this broad national road policy pol-icy a modern necessity. Responses to this communication have been recoived from the local granges in twenty-one slates and the proporaitnate result has been 12 to 1 in tavoi of the adoption of the Town send bill by congress. The replies re-cei re-cei red come Trom as far north as Maine and as far south as West Virginia and extend to the coast states. The buik of the answers came from the northern .states, whore tho grange has the largest larg-est membership. In ench case the reply received la Washington was written only after tho ma'ter has ben considered by the grange membership in each state. For the most part the writers were content con-tent to give unqualified lndorsomeni to Senator Townsend's bill, but where mor" detailed letters are written a strong feeling was disclosed that th'.4-government th'.4-government is big enough to take caiv! or the national highways itseir and tha- it should proceed to do so as rapidly rap-idly and economically as possible. Tho ooiuion was further expressed that It Is only through such a policy that a national system can be obtained which will not overburden the man who lives on Hie road. |