Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1920-10-27
OFFERS REASONS =.
FOR YES: VOTES

Minnesota Highway Improvement Assn.
Presents Explanation 81: important
Il. Proposition to Voters Of State
Good Roads Amendment No. /. re-
garded by many as the most important
proposal ever submitted to the people
OF Minnesota, will be; voted by both
men and women on the pink ballot at
the election Nov. End. 93a
Its adoption will permit the state to
take over the trunk highways in every
county and finance their: maintenance
and Improvement that is the whole
purpose. Relieved of an expensive bur
den. counties and towns will be left
with larger funds available to continue
to keep up and build all other roads.
Proper Maintenance First
Adequate maintenance of every road
must come first, officials agree, and i'm
provements will follow as funds allow
and traffic and other conditions may
require. All roads will be well drained
and graded as the first step.
Only where heavy traffic pounds and
pulverizes the gravel to be swept off by
winds and rains almost as fast as it
can be hauled on, will roads be hard
surfaced and then only as funds avail
able will allow, according to the posi-
tive statements from the state officials.
Gravel surfacing is meeting all re-
quirements on hundreds of miles Of the
proposed state system, they explain,
and it viii continue to be used until
surplus funds from motor vehicle Ii
|.eenses win provide pa1enent.s Is This
s6ommon.sense plan, they: add, must ap-
[ply equally to Ill roads, whether state,
county or town. slsss ,.
.ss-.s No Wholesse PsEins -
s. Wrong ideas that upon the passage
OF Amendment No. 1 the state would
begin Immediately the wholesale paw
ing Of trunk highways are being re-
moved as rapidly as possible, by friends
Of the plan. They maintain not only
that the scarcity Of materials and labor
now would make such a move almost
impossible, but that thinking men and
women will refuse to listen to such
wild, absurd predictions, The legisla-
ture may be depended upon, they add,
to authorize only common-sense. econ
omical plans.
Amendment No. 1, it may be- added
here, makes no change in types of roads
that may be built. Gravel surfacing,
concrete, Trick and all other kinds al
be free to select the best suited mater
ials, just as the counties and towns are
doing.
| Auto Savings tc Pay Cost
Additional funds necessary under the
proposed plan are to come entirely from
increased fees from motor vehicle licen-
ses. Amendment No. 1 is generaliyFfa-
vored by automobile and truck owners
and actively supported by the great
| majority of them. nevertheless, because
it is shown that good roads result in
savings on car upkeep. tires and gaso-
line which will exceed any reasonable
increases III license fees. "Oil compan-
les, car builders and tire makers will
pay the whole BILL as one car owner
aptly expressed it. .},555
A provision for road bonds is held
virtually of no effect now that the SOL
diers' bonus board has proved that
state bonds are not salable in the open
market. This will not seriously inter-
fere with the plan, however, officials
having announced some time ago that
unexpected increases in the number of
licenses issued indicates that money
will be Forthcoming as needed, aud no
bonds need be sold. ~
$1O,OGo,eG0 a Year More
Every road will be made good road
under the new plan and a. far better
road than is possible under the pres
ent system, officials and friends of the
amendment assert. This will be &C
complished, they contend, without any
increase in road taxes or issuing bonds
which otherwise viii be absolutely I'M
avoidable ',.t# ~
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Loop on King of
Trails Planned
Crookston and Grand Forks may both