New Britain herald., 1922-02-21
COUNTRY ROADS AN
 ASSET TO FARMERS
Need of Better Suburban. High.
 ways Urged for Savings

Springfield. H.. Feb, e1, Good reads in the country will do more to lower the high cost of living and more for the prosperity, comfort, cul- ture and happiness of the people than things fought over in twelve pres dental campaigns, Governor Oliver II, khoup Of Colorado, today told mem bers of the Pike's Peak ocean 10 ocean highway association al Its an- aual meeting here,
 "The establishment Of motor truck express lines in every farming com. munity will stimulate the production Of more food reduce the cost of liv- ing and probably will make public markets successful in American cities"
 Continuing hc declared, Industrial revival is being retarded we are told. because of the agricultural sit nation. When the farmer cant buy. the manufacturer can't sell The farmer can't buy because he is fore. ed to carry large surplus Of his products, Checking the markets it IS found, that domestic consumption is normal. the price low. We have an overproduction and no place 10 dis pose of it.
 What needs to be done is plain How to do it is quite another mat ter The thing to do is to find a mar ket for the surplus"
 Good Roads Save
 Deprcciating the fact that the farmer has been held up as the na- tion's bankrupt, Governor Shoup de clared that the farmer is no worse of than men in other lines of busi- ness and is better off than many The farmer" he continued "al- though still far from prosperity has his feet on a more secure economic footing than those engaged in other vacations"
 Quoting from government statis- tics for 1918. Governor Shoup de- clared that 'it cost 30 cents per ton per mile to haul wheat by wagon against Is cents by truck Statistics further show that it costs on good roads of hard resistance surfaces, $ cents to haul one ton per mile. On poor roads this cost increases ma terially.
 Quoting from a speech by Senator Beveridge, Governor Shoup declared that 'the throwing away of actual produce because of bad roads or no roads, would build every year forty permanent ocean to ocean highways, such as the Lincoln or Pike's Peak ocean to ocean highway.
 Increase Production
 
 throughout the nation save this bill lion dollars worth of produce now wasted annually. but they would in- screase the raising of food stuff and other products because the ease of marketing would be d selfish incen- tive to more careful production. On account Of our neglect of highways the United States is paying a penalty of more than $5o4,oo0.oo0 per year in excessive cost for transportation alone Of agricultural products from farm to market" he said.
 The Pike's Peak ocean to ocean highway association has for it's ob- jective the development of the great central scenic highway from the At- lantic to the Pacific oceans However.
  a plan for several national through highway lines that these roads will. in any way lessen the need and i'm portance of shorter and connecting roads
 There are 3o,o0o,0oo children in the country who should be attend ing school, but of this number only 1S.000.000 get there. Good roads would make the securing of educa- tion easier for the remaining 12,ooo,- 900 children.
 "The building of 5o,ooo miles of national highways will provide steady employment for all idle and unem- ployed.
 'It will add to the annual increase of our national wealth not less than $300,000,000 and save annually in wear and tear on vehicles not less than $500,oo0,O0
 Tt will reduce the cost of living more than any other factor and in crease travel throughout the coun- try inducing people to See Ameri- ca First" thus keeping home, an- nually, more than $250.Oo0, ,o0o"