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Show Good Roads Always Pays A recent survey claims the average aver-age cost of production for all motor mo-tor vehicles in the United States has gone down to 6.43 cents per mile; including insurance, depreciation, depre-ciation, tires, fuel and maintenance. On high type roads the average is but 5.44 cents; on low type, 7.5 cents. Thus good, smooth, long-wearing long-wearing pavements pay for themselves them-selves in lowered automobile operating oper-ating costs. , At present the need of good roads is especially apparent in rural rur-al districts. Trunk highways are laid out to go from city to city by the shortest possible route. As a result, the majority of farmers, who it is estimated pay seven per cent of the total road tax, live on unimproved, un-improved, dirt roads which are totally to-tally impassable during many months of the year. Modern, yet inexpensive, hard rurfaced farm-to-market or feeder roads give the farmer all-year-'round contact with his markets and adiacer.t towns. They help relieve traffic congestion on main highways and stimulate social and '--'nomic relations. Anumber of states, notably New York, have adopted rural road pro-e-ams which should be emulated throughout the nation. For every mile of main hiehway built, between be-tween five and fifteen miles of feeder feed-er highway should be built at the ".sme time. In this way can progress pro-gress be served. |