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Show IGANDIDATES SEE I ! SOPD ROAD NEED Michigan Association Hears Opinions of Both Cox and Harding DETROIT. The nnnual ihSeting of the Michigan Stale Good Road anso- elation w:is In M In I.ansmp. Mi h . i recently. Kessagei were read before the convention from both presidential candidates, f mbodylnR their views on the national highway situation. In part, Senator Hardini? paid: "One of the greatest economic problems, If not the greatest, problem of modern civilization, la distribution There can be no doubt of the position o the Kood roads movement in the solution of the problem. I bcllevo that federal and state governments must not. only put their shoulders to th hel to create good roads but they must insist upon the maintenance of roads in good condition. A good road gone wrong is almost worse than no road because it in a streak of memorial me-morial to neglect and waste The roads we build In America must be built, first, for use in the distribution of products rather than for merelj pleasure riding. We must foster the use of motor trucks. W, must build urban terminals for tru U service! to make new ties belw en communities and between city consumption and country production " COX sI'lMx-Governor sI'lMx-Governor Cox Bald" " I insist that good roads :ind better rural schools increase in-crease the value of our farm lands :md property. I believe thai th- Olty man uses the road as much if not more, than the farmer If anything goes wrong with the greut industry 01 agriculture, the 'ni.i nation would be tied up. Thus, the burden of the cost of good roads should fall equally on the shoulders of :ill persons, both those Jn the cities and the rural communities. communi-ties. We all want to get our feel I out of the mud regardless of our j politics. We must see that the great trunk line roads are constructed before be-fore the country systems are worked upon, for these arc I he great lines I of communication between ht i-try i-try and city Honest) of construc-I- tion and good materl essential In building better highways Good roads add to the gtregnth an. useful-ness useful-ness of the community and v. h n the strength and usefulness of the community com-munity Is Increased, It Increases the I strength of tho state, which In turn, strengthens th- ruticn. Therefore. I believe that the nation should foster the construction of better highways." |