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Show BETTER USE OF ROADS IS URGED Co-ordination With Railroad and Waterway System for Transportation Co-ordination of the three major ! forms of transportation so that rail - I ways, waterways and highways may 1 each carry the kind of traffic that they can most economically, expeditiously and efficiently serve, was urged by President Harding s agricultural conference con-ference held recently In Washington. Country highways, declared the agriculturalists, ag-riculturalists, are the farmer's flrvt and principal means of marketing I their products. They are. lt was de-I de-I clared. the arterlee of the economic land social system of the country and 'on their condition rents tho amount of transportation churge thu' must be added to the gross cost of farm prod-, prod-, uct The attention of the country was I called to the heavy losses now sue-: sue-: talned by farmers on account of bad I mads and to the economic and social benefits which accrue to them and to the people of the whole country as J a result of gnral road Improvement. 1 Tho conference declared that farmers j ought to bo able to haul to markets I twice as much and twice as often as I j they have ben able to do In the pait I und that If the firmer Is to help In- ' fluenc the prlc of his oroducta by i not damping them on tho market for I far of unseasonable weather, he must j I eonrtol the condition of the roads to 1 I his markets. ' To bring about th genera! Improve- 1 ment of highways and to facilitate the farmers marketing problem, tho conference con-ference wont on record as being In favor of highway research by federal, fed-eral, state and college authorities to the end that traffic on highways may bo regulated according to the facts developed Congress was urged to continue federal fed-eral aid for the building of Interstate postal and the farm-to-market roads land to appropriate adequate funds for a definite period so tuat tlie states ' may plan equitable co-opt-ratlon. The conference urged Jhat every , possible effort be made to promote j aafoty of life and Umb on the high I ways and that as economy of trans-! trans-! portatlon depended on well-kept hlgh- ways that all possible safeguards ! should be placed about the maintn-lance maintn-lance of tho road" Realizing that traffic conditions are rapidly changing and that road bulld- lng Is now an important engineering sn'l business undertaking, tho conference con-ference urged that all partisan or po-' po-' lltlcal considerations In such work must be eliminated. |