The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
All Presidential Candidates Are Agree on One Point, Anyway, That's Good Roads
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motor vehicles. It is the one agency or
 putting every community in the republic | on the way of commercial progress ! Gov. Frank O. Lowden: Good roads
 mean greatly. lessened transportation
 costs They Increase the value of the l farms. They make consolidated rural
 schools possible. With good roads life 1 becomes easy and agreeable in the coun- | try and the flow of our young men and
 women from the country to the city is checked"
 1 William c. McAdoo: "The failure of the railroads to keep pace with the growth | of the country has developed a transpor- tation problem which seriously menaces | our economic development and prosper | ity. It will be many years before the raa- roads can be brought up to the required | standard. Meanwhile our best chance Of immediate relief is great systems of state | highways so laid out and constructed as to supply the automobile and motor truck the additional transportation fa- cilities the country imperatively needs. l strongly favor the construction of good roads everywhere through both state and national aid. After we build them we
 must maintain them by an intelligent system of superintendence. Let us keep our highway departments out of politics and in the hands of the best engineering and business talent of the country"
 NOW FOR THE GENERAL
 Mai Gen. Leonard Wood: An adequate good roads system is the commercial liaison which makes for the proper CO., ordination. of the requirements of pro ducer, manufacturer and consumer. The need for such a system was strikingly demonstrated during the war, and it is as great now as it ever was Good roads mean better and more productive farms, bringing remote rural sections into asse touch with the markets. By providing something which makes possible the de- velopment of farms we perform service of inestimable value to the country as whole
 Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer: "The national system of transportation and distribution is so essential that eveNy possible facility must be provided to en- courage producers of farm commodities and merchandise to increase production The improvement and use of public high. ways In addition to airways, railways and waterways as avenues of conveyance is vital to the progress and prosperity of the people"
 Senator Miles Poindexter: Good roads construction retarded by the war should now be pushed vigorously, and nothing should be permitted to interfere with the expansion and development of these inn portant arteries of transportation and trade which at the immediate moment can serve to materially reduce high l.v- ing costs by facilitating the movement of foodstuffs from the farm to the table. favor an extensive system of national roads built by the federal government, located with a view to military defense as well as civic and commercial use, and co-ordinated with existing highways so as to form national as well as local system
 ESSENTIAL TO NATION Gov. James M. Cox: "The estat <sf- ment and maintenance of a good roads system throughout the country is as es- sental to the life of the nation as proper circulation of blood is essential to the life of the individual With. perfect highway system there can be no stag nation of transportation at any time. Normal needs promptly and properly met will prevent perplexing and costly emer- gencies."
 Senator Hiram Johnson: We have had a great object lesson of the value ot good roads in the paved highways of my own state of California. They have been Ia great factor in the development of the vtate, opening up regions which hitherto were inaccessible, and adding to the prosperity of all. The improvement of