The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-22
|lsT OF LIVING
|lO Be REDUCED
| BY GOOD ROADS
k..rner shoup of Colorado Tells
highway Convention How to
Revive Agriculture.

SPRINGFIELD. Ill, Feb. GOOD
Il IN the country will do more to
or the high cost Of living and
.ye for the prosperity, comfort,
.,sure and happiness of the people
- anything fought over in IL
..ssidential campaigns, Governor
srsr H. Shoup Of Colorado. today
"a members of the Pixies Peak
4s.san to Ocean Highway associa-
- At its annual meeting here.
@Tbe establishment of motor
1,-nrk express lines in every farm
~ community will stimulate the
.Tsduction of more food, reduce the
- Of living and probably will
axe public markets successful in
/ Imerican cities" he continued.
1 rontinuing he declared, Indus
,ial revival is being retarded. we
20 told. because of the agricultural
,I,uation. When the farmer can't
ssy the manufacturer can't sell.
sse farmer can't buy because he is
soreed TO carry a large surplus OF
as nroducts. Checking the markets
/ ! il found. that domestic consump-
ion is normal, the price low. We
|save an overproduction and no
mace to dispose of it.
What needs to be done is plain.
uox TO do it Is quite another mat
|ie- The thing to do is to find a
market for the surplus"
Depreciating the fact that the
hrmer has been held up as the
ration's bankrupt, Governor Shoup
declared that the farmer is &c
worse off than men in other lines
nj business and is better off than
nsny. The farmer" he continued
although still far from prosperity
has his feet on more secure eco
nomic footing than those engaged
IN other vocations.
Quoting from government Stats
Itcs for 1918, Governor Shoup de
elared that sit cost 90 cents pei
ton mile to haul wheat by wagon as
against - cents by truck. Stats
ties further show that it costs or
good roads of hard resistant sur
faces, s cents to haul one ton pei
mile. On poor roads this cost in
ueases materially as compared tt
what it would cost if we all haC
good roads
Quoting from a speech by Senator
BeYeridge, Governor Shoup de
CARED that the throwing away o
actual produce because of bad road
or no roads, would build every yea
10 permanent Ocean-tO-Ocean high
ways.
More Food Stuffs.
Not only would good road
throughout the nation save this bill
ion dollars worth of produce nov
wasted annually, but they would in
rease the raising of food stuff an
cher products because the ease @
marketing would be selfish incen
tive to more careful production. o.
seeount of our neglect of highway
tie United States is paying a pen
atty of more than $504, 100000 pc
year in excessive cost for transpor
tation alone of agricultural pro
ducts from farm to market" b
mid.
Tue 1IhS . Sah OCSdA " ONCd
Highway association has for its oh
active the development of the grea
nntral scenic highway from the AT
hntic to the Pacific oceans. How
ever, we must not conclude that be
cause of a plan for several nationa
through highway lines that thes
roads will. in any way lessen tn
need and Importance of shorter an
connecting roads
There are 10000, zoo children il
the country who should be attend
Ing school but of this number onl
4 100000 get there. Good road
would make the securing of educa
don easier for the remaining Il
1 700 900 children.
The building of $4,000 miles @