Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-05-15

Although the various presidential candidates may differ radically on all most everything from the cause of the high cost of living to the best way of handling the League of Nations prob lem, there is one thing on which they agree. r,.
 Without single exception, all are in favor of good roads. The opinions of the various candidates were eX- pressed in statements recently made to the Travel & Transport Bureau of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company. The statements were decidedly char acteristic of the man who made them and are printed in full below.
 Herbert Hoover: Arguments for good roads are so evident that, they need no reiteration. What is needed is organization to maintain what roads we have and to build more roads. Much of this must depend up- on purely local effort and it is by the creation of organization to build up such activities that our country makes it's best progress"
 Senator Warren G.. Harding: Transportation has made every ave- nue of civilization. There is no ad- vancement in production and exchang- es until there are highways to facili- tate the transportation involved. We shall not ably enhance the advant- ages of American production when we add to the convenience of trans- portation through the construction of highways suited to the use of modern motor vehicles. It is the one agency of putting every community in the republic on the way to commercial progress"
 Gov. Frank o. Lowden: Good roads will greatly lessen transpor- portation costs. They increase the value of the farms. They make con- solidated rural schools possible. With good roads life becomes easy and agreeable in the country and the flow of our young men and women from the country to the city is check ed"
 William G. McAdoo: "The failure of the railroads to keep pace with the growth of the country has developed transportation problem which ser iously menaces our economic develop ment and prosperity It will be many years before the railroads can be brought up to the required standard. Meanwhile, our best chance of im- mediate relief is great systems of state highways so laid out and con strrc.ed as to supply the automobile and motor truck the aGd l.. nal trans portation fs cilities the 70 'tr, iriprr a:,vcly Deeds. strongly favor the construction of good roads every where through both state and national aid. After we build them we must maintain them by an intelligent system of politics and in the hands of the best engineering and business tai. ent of the country"
 Major General Leonard Wood: "Au adequate good roads system is the commercial iasion which makes for the proper coordination of the re- quirements of producer, marufactur- CT and consumer. The ne sd for such a system was strikingly demonstrated during the war and it is as great now as it ever was. Good roads mean bet ter and more productive farms, bring ing remote rural sections into close touch with the markets. By provid- ing something which makes possible the development of farms we perform a service of inestimable value to the country as whole,"
 Attorney General A Mitchell Pal mer: "The national system of trans portation and distribution is so essen tial that every possible facility must be provided to encourage producers of farm commodities and merchandise to increase production. The improve ment and use of public highways in addition to airways, railways and waterways as avenues of conveyance is vital to the progress and prosperity of the people" .,.s
 William J. Bryan: "The time has come for the systematic development of national highways and the conclu- sion of peace gives an opportunity to celebrate the ending of the greatest of world wars by the building of a memorial peace way, reaching into every state and forming commercial bond of unity between the commcn-