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Show Five Miles Back " Five miles back from our main state highways, who knows what conditions he will find?" asks Governor Roosevelt of New York. "There the highways are poor and hazardous, essentially in the same condition as in the time of our grandfathers." This is not an exaggerated statement. state-ment. In all parts of the country magnificent, fast trunk highways go from city to city, from state to state. But a few miles away farmers are attempting the impossible impos-sible task of employing motor transport for their commodities and themselves on roads that were unsatisfactory even In the horse-and-wagon days. As a result, foi many months of the year an impassable im-passable barrier or mud stands between be-tween them and their markets and the outside world. Here is one of the main causes of farm depression. In the past two or three decades there has been a revolution in industry, one of whose major effects has been the motorization of transportation. Industrial In-dustrial prosperity has as one of its cornerstones quicx, efficient and economical transportation of goods over paved highways. We will not have agricultural prosperity until farming areas are given the same advantage until, In short, they are provided with year-round, water-proof surfaced roads that are not seriously affected by weather. It is significant that many of our leading "farm relievers" reliev-ers" are turning their attention to this problem. |
