The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-02-22
GOOD ROADS LOWER
LIVING COST SAYS. bHOUP
Prevent Waste Of Produce and Close
Long Gap Between Farmer
and Consumer.

Long Gap Between Farmer
and Consumer.
Springfield H., Feb. 22.-Good reads
in the country viii do more to lower
ths high cost of living and more for
the prosperity, comfort, culture and
happiness Of the people than tn ngs
fought over in twe.ve presidential cam
pa gns, Governor Oliver II. Shoup oil
Colorado, today tod members OF the
Pixies Peak Ocean to-Ocean highway
association at It's annIal meeting here.
The establishment Of motor truck
exp. ess Ines IN every farming com.
mlnity viii stimulate the production
OF more food. reduce the cost OF living
and probably wi make public markets
successful IN Amer.ca cites" he con-
t.nued
continuing no declared, Industrial
revival Is beng retarded. we are tod,
because OF the agricultural situation.
When the farmer can buy, the man
ufacturer can't ell The farmer can I
guy because ..te is forced TO carry
large surplus Of his products. Check
ing the markets, II is found that do.
nestle consumption is normal, the
price low. We have an overproductlon
ana no place TO dispose of il.
What needs to be done is plain
How TO do 1t is quite another matt r,
The thing to do is to find market for
the surplus"
Depreclatng the fact that the farm
er has been held up a. the nations
bankrupt, Governor Shoup declared
tnat the tanner S no worse off than
mon in other Ines Of basin IS and is
better OF than many. The farmer"
he cont nued. although still far from
prosperity, mas has feet on more Sc
cure economic footing than those en-
gagged In other yocat.ons"
Quoting from government statistics
for 1918. Governor Shoup declared that
at cost 80 cents per ton per mile to
haul wheat by wagon a. against Is
cents by truck. StatIst cs further
show that II costs on good roads Of
hard. resistant surfaces, cents to
hau one ton per mile. On poor roads
this. cost increases materially as com
pared TO what it would cost If we all
mad good road ="
Quoting from a speech by Senator
Be, eridge, 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-ocaa aan highways.
such as the Lincoln or Pixies Peak
Ocean to-Ocean highway.
Not only would good roads through.
out the nation save this billion dol.
lars worth Of produce now wasted an
nually, but they would increase the
raising OF food stuff and other products
because the ease Of market ng would
be a selfish incentive to more care.
fGi production On account of our ne.
gleot of highways the United States
Is paying penalty OF more than S504,-
100000 per year in excessive cost for
anspogtation alone Of agricultural
products from farm to market" he
said.
THE Pixies Peak Ocean.to Ocean
h ghway association has for its OBJ
ject.ye the deve opment of the great
central scenic highway from the At
lantlc to the Pacific oceans. How.
ever, we must not conclude that be
cause of a plan for several national
through highway lines that these roads
wll in any way lessen the need and
Importance of shorter and connecting
roads.
There are S0,OOO,0O0 children in the
country who should be attending
school, but of this number on'y 49,.
100000 gat there Good roads would
make the securing of education easier
for the rema ming 12,000,000 children
THE building of $4,000 miles of ma
tional highways will provide steady
employment for all idle and unem-
ployed
1T vii add to the annual increase
of our national wealth not less than
$500, 900 600 and save annually in wear
end tear Of vehicles not less than
$500, 100000
II will reduce the cost of living
more than any other factor and in
crease travel throughout the country
inducing people to See America
First" thus keeping home, annually,
more than $250,OOO,0OO."