Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1918 — ROAD REPAIRS NECESSARY TO HELP COUNTRY [ARTICLE]

ROAD REPAIRS NECESSARY TO HELP COUNTRY

If a “penny wise, pound foolish” policy is adopted—particularly in so I far as road, repairs are concerned — it will mean that for every dollar saved ten wiH have to be spent to make up for the destruction that will go on and which will increase alaitningly. . , In canng for highways—used now ten times as much as they were a year ago—nothing could fit the case so well as “a stitch in time saves nine.” Unless liberal road repairs are permitted all over the country many highways will be almost beyond use before the summer is over, and they will be absolutely of no avail when winter comes. In order that the roads may not be entirely destroyed or put into a condition requiring complete rehabilitation, the government ought to impress upon states, counties, cities, townships and villages the necessity and desirability of eliminating every mudhole, every depression, by filling in crushed stone; it should ask that culverts and bridges be kept in a reasonable state of repair, and it should command that every highway should regularly and systematically, be dragged after every rain, that high spots may be eliminated, low spots filled and the roads made as smooth and safe as possible with this temporary scheme to aid, as far as possible, transportation over public highways.—Chicago Herald-Examin-er. BUY SAVINGS STAMPS TODAY.