Show FEDERAL ROAD AID MORE than miles of highway were finished for the year ending julie jmie 30 through federal aid and more than th an miles are now under construction all federal aid funds are being expended in operation cooperation co with the states in which the roads are being 0 built and when the present program is completed the country will have miles of perfect highways it might not have had but for federal aid occasionally you will hear a complaint to the effect that the densely populated states of the cast are not treated fairly in th the government road building program that they are paying more for roads in states west of the mississippi and south of the ohio rivers than the residents of some of those states are paying they argue federal aid is not working out equitably but it is not noi a sound arg argument the east cast can prosper only as the west and south prospers packers and the west and south cannot pros per without gnoj highways if toads roads are not improved the products 0 the ille farm cannot be gotten to market as convenient ly and alfe aio industrial section the east and north will suffer because eduse prices will bo be higher when a man in new york state spends a dollar on road improvement in minnesota he gets a return on his investment in an indirect way because it means that much toward maintaining roads suitable for marketing at a lower price the things the new york man eats and so it works all over the land if there is an opponent of good roads in park city we want to locate him right now we ave want to hear what kind of an argument he has to put up in defense of his stand and if there is a citizen in this community talking aganet federal aid he too is talking against the best interest of his country as a 1 whole |