Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1914 — ROADS AND ROAD MAKING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROADS AND ROAD MAKING

ONET OF THE GREAT PROBLEMS With Good Roads the Farmer Can Haul to Highest Market. Here is what George W. Lattimer, Chairman of the Joint Roads Committee of the Ohio State Board of Commerce and the Ohio State Grange, has to say on the subject of gopcij roads in his recent report:. “The farther one studies and investigates this subject, the more he is that It is one bf t,he greatest problems of the United States. It touches the welfare and Interest of more individuals than any other otie question that is before the American public to-day 1 . There is not a man, woman or child, in the country or city, that is not obliged to use the roads. “Owing to the extremely bad roads of the present time,. the farmer, who Is the producer, is obliged to haul his product to the nearest market at*- such times during the year as the roads passable. This occurs within two or three months in the fall, after the harvest. This glut and oven-supply makes the very lowest prices of the year for the producer, and the consumer, in the cities and centers of population is obliged to pay the very highest prices during the months of the bad weather. Good I'bads wilLeliminate such conditions so that the farmer can ‘haul his products to the market at any time during the year, whenever the demand calls.for it, and the consumer can buy whenever the goods are wanted. Thus the producer will be able to secure a better price for his product and the consumer pays lower prices for his necessities. “For years the United States and State governments have been appropriating money for waterways, steam railroads and other means of communication, all of which are gbod, but these questions become insignificant of what good roads will bring to the inhabitants of this country. Everybody should be interested in this question, and should tffge Federal, State and county aid for improvements Which at this time are all vital to the welfare of our country.’’