The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-01
GOOD ROADS SUPPORT.

If any citizen of this community can
not think Of a good reason for sup
porting a movement for good roads
he will find it in the ~subjoined list.
The state Of Ohio during 1911 enacted
a law revolutionizing methods Of road
construction and repair in that state.
In furtherance Of the good roads work
the Ohio Good Roads Federation has
started a campaign to secure a con-
stitutional amendment permitting the
issuing Of bonds for state aid to road
construction. AS a part of it's am
paign the Federation, issued a bulle-
tin giving, the following reasons for
supporting the project:
If you are a farmer, because your
farm will increase in value, you car
raise more profitable crops, your cost
of hauling will be lower, you a mar
ket your products when prices are
best, your children can get to school,
your family can attend church, your
physician will be in closer touch with
you, your boys and girls will stay or
the farm, you will have better mail
service, more social life, and happier
conditions all around.
If you are a merchant, because good
roads enlarge your trading radius, and
make it possible for purchasers to
reach you every day in the year, and
thereby increase your sales.
If you represent a chamber of com
merce or a board of trade, because the
public roads are commercial feeders
to the cities, and every improvement
of these roads means a greater pros
perity to the cities through increased
agricultural production and greater
stimulus to all industries.
If you are a highway official, be-
cause you are striving for better meth
DDS of road construction and main
tenance, and more efficient road ad-
ministration.
If you are a railroad man, because
improved roads mean greater pro-
d~uction, consequently more traffic, pre-
vent freight congestion, brings more
industries, more roads, more tourists.
If you are an automobile user, be-
cause you can get the benefit of your
machine every day in the year, your
repair bills will be lower, longer and
better tours will be possible at all
seasons of the year.
If you are a dealer in farm products
and implements, because you can re-
ceive the products and deliver the i'm
plements at all times.
If you are an automobile manufac-
turer, because every mile Of improved
roads means a great demand for both
pleasure and commercial cars, in.
creases wealth, and consequently the
power to purchase.
If you are a publisher or editor. be-
cause improved roads make wider cir
culation possible, increases advertis-
ing by stimulating commercial enter.
prises, and because road improvement
is the most improved economic ques-
ton of the age.
II you are a manufacturer of road
machinery or road materials, because
road Improvement means business.
If you are the proprietor Of a hotel,
because improved roads mean more
tourists and more commercial travel.
New England, with its system of good
roads. gets $50, 600, 900 a year from
tourists alone.
If you are a banker, because good
roads will increase agriculture, COM
merce, and manufacture, depositors.
deposits, and dividends.
If you are a progressive citizen. be-
cause you cannot progress so long as
your state and nation remain In the
mud.