The Winslow mail., 1923-01-12
Any surplus to be sold on the open

market.
Good Roads.
Good roads are the arteries through
which the States commerce circul-
ates The future growth of the State
depends upon their extension and
improvement.
Too much money cannot be eXpend-
granting that it is wisely spent
in extending the road systems Of Ari-
zona.
| do not desire to consume your
time in reading an essay on the
necessity to building roads, because
[ know that the members of the Lee
gislature and the people of the State
realize the necessity of extending our
highways. However, [ desire to i'm
press upon you the imperative need
of the utmost economy at this time
and until the taxpayers of the State
have had an opportunity to recover
from the effects of the business de-
preston of the past few years.
| believe that the most important
matter before the Legislature in con-
nection with road construction is to
provide for the completion of the
main trunk lines running east and
west and north and south.
Of equal, if not greater Importance
IS the problem of maintaining the
! highways already constructed. The
contracts entered into with the Unit
ed States Government, when federal
aid was secured for the construction
of roads, require that the highways
! constructed be maintained up to a
fixed standard.
| l know of no more extravagant
method of wasting the public money
than that of building roads and then
| permitting them to lapse into disre-
pair. | therefore recommend that the
| Legislature appropriate adequate
funds TO maintain all the highways
! now constructed and to extend new
| construction as far as it is economic
ally prudent.
Labor and Industrial Problems.
The mining industry of the State
of Arizona is undergoing a period of
| transition. The old-time hard-rock
miners. whose adventurous lives have
been celebrated in song and story,
the men and women who blazed the
trails and whose pioneering work
opened up the treasures of the Vert
| to the markets of the world, are ra-
| pidly becoming a tradition. Those of
| us who have lived in Arizona for the
| last quarter of a century or longer
can appreciate and regret the pass
ing of the sterling race of men and
women who made possible the deve-
lopment of this wonderful common
| wealth
The establishment during recent
years of the tremendous industrial
enterprises which operate with ma
chine-like methods and whose organ
izations are SO large and so compli-
Gated that the human equation is fire.
quently overlooked, is creating new
| questions for our civilization to solve.
1t is not my intention or purpose to
criticize or find fault with large cor
porations as such. They have a very
material place in our civilization
Yet they are subject to criticisms
which challenge craftsmanship and
demand constructive measures to meet
the problems they create The prin-
| s
| is that those responsible for their
management are often too far remov-
ed from the human factors to under
stand the problems and necessities
of the ordinary man.
| The primary unit of American life
] is the home. The best guarantee of
the maintenance of those principles
of liberty law and order, upon which
our government is founded, comes
through the increase of home owner
ship in our State and Nation. It is
through home ownership that people
become permanent citizens and con-
tribute to the progress and develop
ment of the State.
In many communities in Arizona
the inhabitants reside almost exclu-
sively in houses leased from large
corporations. These people are de-
prived of the most worthwhile thing
in life-the building and furnishing
of place they may call home
Good American citizenship is diff
ficult to promote where the only in
centive for man is to work for days
wages, live in a company-ow house
anu Oe uepIIVou OF the opportunity
of entering business or owning a
home, unless he moves into another
community.
Wherever the permanency of the
industry will permit, home ownership
should be fostered and encouraged,
the inhabitants of industrial commu-
mites should be encouraged and aid
ed in the work of BUILDING up towns
and cities where the property will
be owned by the residents Home
should mean more to our people than
a mere place Of temporary habita ton,
if we are TO have a conterted and
happy people. In communities where
the majority of the people reside in
colnpany-Cwned houses they should
be guaranteed the right to exercise
those principles of self-government
which are the inherent right of every
American citizen.
The restriction of the aotiVitinc Of