Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1919 — ROAD MEETING HERE ON MAY 5 [ARTICLE]

ROAD MEETING HERE ON MAY 5

JASPER BETTERMENT ASSOCIATION SECURES L. H. WRIGHT FOR HIGHWAY ADDRESS. Representative W. L. Wood has succeeded in getting recognition by the State Highway Commission. On Monday evening, May sth, at 8:00 o’clock p.m., Mr. L. H. Wright, director of the State Highway Commission, will speak on the subject of highways. We invite the general public to be present at this .meeting. Mr. Wood and, those who have been interestd in th good road movement have been working faithfully to have Jasper and her sister counties get their share of the permanent highways that will be built throughout the state of Indiana during the next few years. Southern Indiana is busy planning for a great system of roads. Why not our district ask for our proportion of the government and state aid? It is estimated that the government has spent in winning the war money sufficient to build a road on every other section line throughout the United States at a cost of twenty thousand dollars per mile. It is our duty to offer the men who have won the war employment in the way of reconstruction and the government will make a wise choice in appropriating a sum of money equal to the amount that the state will appropriate under the State Highway Commission law. By so doing, the construction and maintainance of the public throughout the United . States will be paid for by the people who are benefited by them. The burden has become too heavy for the local communities to construct public highways by their own taxing units. This is an opportunity to relieve the taxpayer of the direct tax he is now fraying from year to year. The highway meeting on May sth will be under the auspices of The Jasper County Betterment Association.