Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1918 — ALL PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS [ARTICLE]

ALL PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS

Held Up By the War Should Now Be Resumed x With the demobilizing of about 4,000,000 soldiers and the return to civil pursuits of the. other millions of men employed directly or indirectly in war work, . steps should immediately be taken to prepare for the taking up of all public Improvements which halve ben sidetracked by the war, that there may be no great surplus of labor. First among these should be permanent road building, and been sidetracked by the war r that have been engaged in munition making can be turned into paving .brick or cement factories, for the roads of the future, especiallly the trunk lines, must be made of a more permanent material, either brick or concrete.