Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1914 — Taft Advocates Good Roads. [ARTICLE]

Taft Advocates Good Roads.

President Taft has again indicated his interest in good roads. The Virginia movement for better highways has put forward s plan for a road from Washington to Richmond. In a letter on the subject the President says: -’T regard this as part of the general good roads movement in the country , and I have pleasure in saytag that there is no movement that I knofr of that will have a more direct effect to alleviate the difficulties and burdens of the farmer’s life, will stimulate the traffic, and add to the general happiness of the people more than the establishment of good roads throughout the country. "I do not think that because this may have been stimulated by people using automobiles it is to be frowned upon, for while persons using automobiles are by no means the most important In the community! the fact that their sharp interest has focused the attention of the public on the movement entitles them to credit.”