The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-06-28
a WONDERFUL SYSTEM OF ROADS

A WONDERFUL SYSTEM OF ROADS
A system of highways that viii
serve the whole country and will b.
far superior to any other in the worlt
s is being mapped out by federal an(
state engineers. 1t is estimated tina
the system will comprise 10000
miles of road. The federal highway
act recently enacted specifically re-
quires that all federal aid be spent or
a connected system of highways con-
sisting of not more than per cent
Of the road mileage in each state
and that this system shall consist OF
interstate or primary roads and IN
tercountry or secondary roads.
Proposed systems have been receiv-
ed by the bureau Of public roads of
the United States department Of ag-
riculture from all but eight states.
They are plotted on a large map Of
the United States and carefully ex-
amined as to coordination with the
roads of adjacent states and service
to all sections of the country. Where
coordination is not satisfactory. con-
ferences are held with all interested
state highway officials and routes
adjusted
Since the federal highway act of
last November became a law, only
roads certain to be on the system
have been approved for construction
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LAW BREAKING TOO POPULAR
We risk little in saying that West
would have been more willing to
comply with the law which forbids
the manufacturers Of liquor if obed-
fence to all law had been the unques-
tioning practice Of his countrymen
Linn county, or Oregon, is not recu-
liar in the particular which the trag-
edy illustrates; it is fault of a good |
many Americans in all parts OF The
country that they select the laws that |,
they will obey and flout the rest,
meanwhile not yielding the smallest
fraction of their own insistence on
the enforcement of law as they be-
lieve it ought to be enforced. 1t is
because this is so that illicit dealers
in liquor and traffickers in narcotics
and the breakers of hundred other
ordinances are able to justify them
selves. Law breaking, as such, is not
held by our people in the dis-esteem
that it ought to be.-Oregonian.
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The total of our liberty loan and
victory bond issues during the war was
approximately $4,000, 900, 600 1t was
calculated that if we paid them off
at the rate of $1,000,O00 600 year
we might be free by 1947 This with
)ut counting any on payments on the
I'll 900, 100000 Europe owes us,
recognized is unlikely ever to be |
laid. 1t is only three years since the |
ictory bond issue, May 1919, and the |
atest figures indicate that we have |
lready wiped out $4,000 100000, of I
ur war debt. There is now outstand-
ng only about $17,5OO, 100000 of the
ealy $4,000, 100000 issued. But
gainst this more than $8,0O0,0OO,
90 reduction the treasury has out /
otes and certificates amounting to Y
3, 500, 100000, so that the net reduc- !
on of our war debt has been SIS, O0o.-
10000, or almost twice as much as y
riginally calculated likely in the
Tree years. h,
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Some of the European nations, be- ~
luse of the refusal OF the United -
-ates to adopt foreign policy which -,
ould conform entirely to their inter W
It's, are inclined to criticise. If the vi
ltions Of Europe could adopt pol i'll
Y conforming with the policy OF the IN
nited States, most of their problems -
ould be solved. The United States g.
S successfully undertaken to main W
in nation in which the people may C..
joy the greatest individual freedom be
nsistent with due resnect for the ins
shts of others and as a nation we wa
e willing and anxious that similar ~
ivileges be enjoyed in every other en-
Id. There is, however, a limit to
r willingness to let Europe dictate
r policies and also a limit to our
lity and willingness to finance Us
rope while she is trying to talk
self out of her troubles instead of
rking herself out p'o
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With each day it is more certain at
t Moscow will entertain the great SER
crowds in her history on July ella.
4. Also, with the. fine coopera- one
hofwoon All Organ ia fiOna with lLe