Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-02
DEAN STANTON, OF AMEs COL.
LEaE. SAYS THEY ARE ROUTE
TO PROSPERITY.
ou'ckEsT METHOD OF
STATE DEVELOPMENT
Dean Stanton compIstss Trip to San
Francisco BY Auto and Notes Pros
psrity Of Sections Which Have Con-
structsd Permanent Highways-says
Future Generations Should Help Pay.

San Francisco, Aug. 2.-pean Stan
ton, of Ames, blew into town. sum
burned, smiling, and full Of enthus-
iasm FOR good roads in Iowa.
The dean has motored just 1905
miles from the campus at Ames to the
front door of Iowa house at the Pan
ama-Pacitic international exposition.
After being driven across the des-
crts and over the mountains and up
500 miles from LOS Angeles to San
Francisco, and having gone off on size
trips one way and another. have come
to the conclusion that the one big FAC
tor in creating a greater Iowa is going
TO be the development of good roads,
said Dean Stanton.
I'VE found roads thru the desert and
all the foothills of the Rockies tnat
would make us lowans ashamed OF
ourselves. l found one little county
down il. this southwestern country
that bonded itself this year for $780,
900 for good roads and when compti-
,nented them upon their enterprise,
they told me 1t was merely starter;
that they intended to get at least $l2o,-
900 every two years for twenty years.
we travelled thru a pretty rough
section of the country one afternoon
and evening, and without any effort at
all covered 311 miles from o'clock
in the afternoon until 10 in the morn
Ing. We did not drive all night either.
Roads Great Magnet.
IF we had the roads in Iowa that
the former Iowans and Missourians
and Illinoisians and Ohioans have built
In California--if our real loWans Wouid
show the same spirit as Is shown by
our former Iowans resident here. we
in Iowa would have as good roads as
there are in the United States, and we
would find it to be the greatest posi-
BILE magnet. not only in holding our
people to residence within the state,
but in drawing desirable population
from the outside.
"A good road annihilates distance
between small towns, between the
farm and the market, between the
farm and the church. between the
farm and the school house. and the
theater, just the same as the railroad
has annihilated distance between
cities.
1--WE came into San Jose at about .
O'clock in the evening. 1t is fifty-two
miles from San Jose to San Francisco.
We debated a few moments and then
decided to run on into San Francisco.
rather than spend the night in San
Jose We made the trip In two hours
with the easiest kind Of riding. Where
in Iowa is the family that would care
to continue a journey for ffty-two
miles after dark over Iowa roads. and
make 1t easily and comfortably in less
than two hours?
Short Route to Development.
III we can have good roads and have
:he.. s.:c!. CT d basis :ha: cur Chi
dren and grandchildren will pay their
share and not take the cost out OF the
current revenue Of the state, we will
develop greater Iowa by the shortest
possible route, because we will bring
the farmers in closer touch with each
other; there will be no such things as
rural districts in the old fashioned
sense; we will get to know each other
better and will pull together better and
when these things happen, Iowa will be
a much better state in which ito live
and work and die. 1 am glad to know
the Greater Iowa Association is going
to take up good roads as its next big
task"