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Show Planning Ahead For Roads According to the Sixth International Interna-tional Roau conference recently held in Washington, D. C, all countries face the problem of providing secondary sec-ondary and local roads suited to the needs of the farmer and modern mod-ern motor traffic. To do this, the Conference points out that it is necessary to- create highway programs years in advance. Funds must be carefully budgeted. Adjustments to meet changing conditions or improved methods may be made as the projects develop. devel-op. In this country few states have given sufficient attention to their farm-to-market or rural road problems. prob-lems. Within the last few yea.'s, nowevor, the agricultural depression depres-sion hasb rought vividly to the front the fact that farm progress in the future will depend largely on good roads. Secretary of Agriculture Agri-culture Hyde has pointed out that living stanaaias are higher where roads are good, than elsewhere. In short, fast and efficient, year-round transportation is as vital to the farm as to industry. By lhe use of inexpensive, water. -proof surfaces, it is possible to build tarviceable, year-round roads at low cost. As civilization advances, communication commun-ication of all kinds becomes of increasing in-creasing value. Good roads produce, pro-duce, benefits social and economic that cannot be adequately ex-l.resscd ex-l.resscd in terms on money. They the the ground worlc on which to build a greater and more prosperous prosper-ous nation. |