Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — Not Built to Endure. [ARTICLE]

Not Built to Endure.

Even in our cities the highways are not built to endure. They are without solidity of- foundation or of satisfactory surfacing and in constant need of repair. In the “country there is a mere slapdash pretence. The roads are cleared, ploughed, cultivated and fenced in very much after the manner of the fields they traverse. After a century of this go-as-you-please Indifference the people are at last waking up to the economic waste involved in getting about over bad roads. >•