The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-09-27

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headon collision with them 1t stupid talk to say that the sky
and the auto roads and the going hurt
the railroads. They are
To the railroads say You haul the the
car and the hog What more do you want?"
Give them that and nothing and there will be nothing
the to do but take them We side
tracking the railroads. that is what doing And
running the GOOD ROADS track in busnesske These
not two roads problems It is all problem great
TRANSPORTATION problem that correlated regulated
and defined the whole owhees business going to go bump
in headon smash and will dig solution under the
The question is not smart enough to find the sou
ton without the wreck?
It has that the motor was born
world That good phrase the term GOOD
ROADS, which has part everyday
cabuay vastly the prosperity of people than
merely smooth hard stretch of which to roll
auto to "step on it" and see what it do.
Good essential the nation athes
enough to build Lincoln Spanish Trail highways They
the backbone roads the trunk lines of railroads
We must the backbones the railroads have crs
their lines Roads everywhere
develop everywhere.
Road building costs money To build poor road wasted
money The good road economy Railroads have learned this
is estimated that onexth of the paid by
motor license applied building That enough
That should be for upkep alone We must have
than this of income build and good roads Flor
d like several other states has tax of cent gallon
gasoline retaed This good law The income from this
applied road building maintenance Such
distributes the road burden the road The heavy
than the light The truck than the touring
equitable tax But to meet the road demands must tax
further
railroad tracks. The cost of road
computed in the ticket toll which the railroad takes
it's the freight toll charges for it's freight
haul pay railroad maintenance the
of Alabama ride the length of Pennsylvania There is
similar maintenance should not be charged to
the touring that the state the state the
railroad What would be fair tax Of that kind is matter that
can easily be determined.
He who tours from Chicago to Pensacola instance would
through Indiana Kentucky Tennessee Alabama and
into Florida Suppose each state assessed auto with an out
tag dollar operate whnhat state much
might license year That would only be charg
the tourist five dollars to the roads in those five states
of income would toward building substantial
road funds and would not be imposition upon the tourist
Thomas Macdonald the United States Commissioner
doing wonderful work in coordnatng the
county and state roads that they shall meet at county
lines make continuous roadway from different
places irrespective of geographic lines This network of roads we
weaving merely commercial necessity 1t educa
tional need We riding rode before We will
all these United States We will see 1t and know IN
tmatey That The country will not smaller
but grow bigger. We will longer think in terms OF
counties We think of the continent That's growth
It is road growth.
Bv proper system of the of the roads
provide funds building Building roads will give jobs
to the obless building work Will politics enter
in? Doubtless But seek avoid political road building
To prevent is the statesmans job We will find instances
where the new map state will reveal cobweb of per
adag out from the governors town to the dsa
vantage rational state development But the mere exposition
of that condition the abuse We will find here and
good roads advocate road VINO poses
phanhropst who will far as to hide oehnd some
stool pigeon him will seek nuncons against the building
of road because his farm His ph1anthroc
interest in good find is limited to roads radiang
from his farm will find state road machinery parked in his
farm ward We will even find road machinery used to
till his fields But people will get his He no
argument against good All these faults easily obvated
m the mere exposition Such tendencies through pub
cty are easily corrected
Iowa has made interesting experiment in desteppng the
road commissioner and the political puer by making