Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1914 — GOOD ROADS PAY. [ARTICLE]

GOOD ROADS PAY.

By Wm. G. Edens, President of 111. Good Roads Assn. [National Crop Improvement Service.! We favor federal aid in the construction and maintenance of post roads and national highways, and we request representatives in Congress to work towards this end. We recommend the designation by the Governor, or by the Legislature, of an annual Good Roads Day, on which the attention of the whole people, especially teachers and pupils in the public and normal schools and the state university, will be directed toward the importance of improved highways. Improved roads mean better schools and larger attendance; better health and quicker medical attention: better farms and more cultivated land; better crops and cheSper transportation; better economic conditions and more producers; better social conditions and less isolation; better church attendance and better citlxens; better postal service and closer friends; better business and more consumers; better Industries and more employment; a better State and a better nation.