The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-25
EDITORS AND BETTER ROADS

terlng conditions.
EDITORS AND BETTER ROADS.
We cannot bring back farm
values by cutting out progressive
work for good roads.-Fairmont
Sentinel
The Tribune has always advocat
ed a gasoline tax. We believe it
is fair tax Thirty-six states out
of the forty-eight have this sort of
tax. Minnesota should take action
at the earliest possible moment
Albert Lea Tribune.
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A Minnesotah closely connected
with the tourist movement declares
that the 1924 tourist crop will ex-
coed in monetary value all of Min
nesota's other crops for the year.
And the only cultivation such a
crop needs is the cultivation of
friendliness. Let's make it a good
crop in Observation-Disclosures Jour
nal-Chronicle.
Prepare to meet the court if you
haven't got your 1924 auto license
tags. The last hour of grace has
now passed. The state has been
unreasonably liberal in allowing
procrastinators three months in
which to procure tags.-Fairmont
Sentinel.
The backbone of the gravel roads
in Minnesota is broken. Better
build ten miles of paving than to
construct hundred miles of grav-
der the ever increasing heavy traffic.
Albert Lea Tribune.
A train running sixty miles an
hour covers eighty-eignt feet in
second. Something to remember
when you come to railroad cross
ng.-Wykoff Enterprise.
The law against bill board and
advertising signs on Minnesota high
ways has been held by the attorney
general to include candidates cards
and political advertising. Good idea.
-Frazee Weekly Press.
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Remember when the old fossils
were opposed to good roads in any
shape, referred to them as Peacock
Lanes? Oh, it hasn't been so long
ago, not over a dozen years or so.
They thought the good roads were
just for a few of the rich who
owned automobiles. Now, it would
be hard to find one of these form
err good road knockers who hasn't
car of his own.-Wabasha Herald.
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Surely no one who has any re-
gard for himself or family wants to
meet the careless driver in one Of
his carousals. Existing laws are
entirely ineffective, and judges are
often too lenient. This is common
knowledge among motor vehicle Off
Gals and police chiefs. We believe
public sentiment demands gen
eral stiffening of existing laws and
that the irresponsible drunken op-
orator of a motor car should re-
ceive substantial Jail sentence of
not less than three months
Wadena News.
Summer, with its fine roads, is
slowly but surely approaching. And
we are already planning our next
trip. Oh, boy Worthington Times.
''The best is always the cheapest" /,
applies to road building as well as to
anything else. So let's buy paved
roads in Minnesota instead of grav-
eled ones.-Albert Lea Tribune.
The article on taxing gasoline in
last weeks Times has started lot
of people thinking. Most of them
think that is the fair wav to tax
people who own automobiles but
some do mot seem to believe in MAX
ing it an additional tax. believing
that one or the other should be done
away with. So far as The Times is
concerned we favor the gasoline tax
and the license fee because good
roads has demonstrated that we get
more for our money than in any
other way Anyone who uses his
automobile in his business even for
but five or six thousand miles dur
ing the wear gets in comfort. saw
ings of tires. springs, mileage twice
as much as it would cost him with
the old system of poor roads
Monticello Times.
It is about time that some severe
action vas taken nv the courts
against the drunken automobile driv-
err. ANY person convicted for driv-
ing while under the influence of
LIQUOR should be given straight
Jail sentence. The courts have been
very lenient in this respect and it is
time the public took hold of the
matter and made some of those re-
sponsible for small fines in these
cases change their attitude. The
death near Sank, Rapids Sunday was
an illustration of the danger result
ing from booze.-Little Falls Tran