The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-05-12
GOOD ROADS
CONGRESS SHOULD BE AROUSED
JESSE TAYLOR,
OF jamestown, Ohio.

When addressing the township trus-
tees, road superintendents and street
commissioners, of Clermont county,
at Batavia, on March 9, 1910, said:
i was a good road enthusiast long
before was a candidate for Congress,
and my great love for the horse
causes me to use him instead of the
automobile.
Il am opposed to all laws, either
existing or proposed which place all
the burden of the construction and
maintenance of public roads upon the
farmer and abutting landowner, and
believe that not only should some Of
the burden Of building roads be taken
on OF the farmers and land owners,
but that the State and the general
Government should contribute to the.
cost OF the same. The s600.0 900
spent on account OF the Philippine
Islands would build 85,714 miles Of
good macadam roads
THE 1886, 100000 spent and to be
expended I'm constructing the Pana-
ma Canal will build 52,142 miles OF
macadsm road with an approach and
hitching post at every farm house
along which it might pass, and pave
and curb the streets in every town
and city through which It might run,
and would bring blessings to a peo.
pie OF our own kind and tongue.
"The 100000 sent TO the sufferers
at Messina would have built a water
bound, oil-topped macadam road from
Columbus to Cincinnati and more
people at home would have been
lifted out Of the mud and unfavorable
condition than were in that foreign
land. A portion of the million now
proposed to be expended on rivers
and harbors, locks and dams, bitches.
levies and reservoirs. ships and shin
subsidies and the enlargement OF the
army and navy would bring Joy to
those who now live along unimproved
roads in the states.
The cost OF two modern battle
ships would macadam every foot OF
road in the Sixth Congressional Dis.
trict.
Il demand greater economy in all
the affairs of the general Govern.
ment, so that we may have aid in
road-building, more internal improve.
ment and home development and for
good roads for all at home as we'll
as better conditions in foreign pos
sessions and big battleships on the
seas. Government Aid.
There can be no effective road i'm
provement in many states without the
aid OF the general Government. and
the Postoflice Department is now
threatening to cancel many rural
mail routes, unless the roads are i'm
proved and maintained.
Congress Should Be Aroused.
"Somebody must arouse Congress
to the necessity Of some action and
liberal appropriations toward helping
the states, to help the counties, to
help the people construct and main
tain a comprehensive system OF roads.
"The land owners and the states
and counties cannot build them, and
the right kind OF roads can only be
built, and will only be built, when
the national government ceases its
extraVaqance and lends a helping
hand TO road building"
The building Of good roads In the
United States is one OF paramount
Importance to national prosperity and
commercial supremacy
Maintenance OF Roads.
In the maintenance and care OF or
dinary earth roads many difficulties
are encountered because of the want
OF perfect understanding as to how
to secure the hardest and most du-
rable surface with the most available
material. II has been found that an
ordinary earth road can be transform
ed into a wellrounded, well-drained
public highway. and maintained at a
minimum expense by the use of drags
The most difficult part of using
drags is in making the start. All the
rest is so simple that one learns 1t
in doing II. II Is soon found that the
effect is the smoothing Of the road
surface, and this In time allows the
rain and snow water to flow OFF and
encourage the distribution OF travel.
BY using these drags while the
road is yet moist It finally becomes a
series OF practically waterproof lay
ors OF puddled earth, and almost i'm
erceptibly the center is elevated to
q smooth grade that is not easily af
.ected by bad weather.
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