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Show , JUST HOW GOOD ARE ROADS? Complaining of bad roads, rather than of bad places in roads, is much the same as complaining of the faults of people: we are too apt to pick out the "bad spots," forgetting the smoothness and quality of the major portions. por-tions. Sometimes a broken spring of stone bruised casing helps us to remember the bad spots in the road; but this editorial is written to help us p in remembering the good places, which constitute the vast percentage of highway construction. " According to the Bureau of Public Roads of the Portland Cement Association, As-sociation, Federal Aid Projects completed and under construction during the past eight years total in round numbers, 51,000 miles and at a cost of $371,000,000.. Of this mileage, 16,003 miles are concrete or other hard surfaced sur-faced highways, while the remainder of 35,000 miles are of gravel, sand clay or grading, including bridges. - When we look at the roads from a national or state-wide standpoint, the isolated instances of inferior construction or lack of construction do not weigh so heavily in complaint. She may not come to breakfast from the kitchen looking like Gloria Swanson in "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife." She may not play a set of tennis like Helen K. Her "morning dress" may be the same as her "evening gown" on washdays and double-work days; but don't call her "the old woman." She's your mother. For a good many years she's been smoothing out the path of life for your feet to tread. She may never have explained the Einstein theory to you or told you all about the latest drama, but her common sense has kept your fool ideas from getting you in bad more than once. Her memory's no good when it comes to recalling the boners you've pulled, but she'll tell your father you're the greatest boy on earth, bar none. She's 100 per cent each friend, adviser and fixer and 1000 per cent mother. If she is ever going to have a daughter in law as good as she is, youll have to step some, young man! |
