The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-03-16

p sHi Pertinent
Pdfq9S$jf6 a8 and ENehtS
to to 6:g58f 6G:rg88f and Small
Colcem'
mn HIGHWAY COMMIS-
TIE SIA -. - ordered the construction
SION haS niles of the CulbertsOn-
Of seven this year. The road IS
to be OuIs last year the Highway
ScOOey, ScOy.sion ordered seven miles built
comTllssslU,m, som CulbertsOn. Under this
nOrih il1o% lP1oo%oeeyelt County gets seven
system of road and Daniels county
miles -on o. miles also. This is very
gets .:eo@tory :sse@ so far as Sheridan
unsal - 'c.Oncerned but the CONNER
coqnI2yl 2yln5s + and the County Commits
aal ., of this country are to blame
s0nel' orp ~ stretches of road near
lheLe and near Reserve that could
4 AFf1TiII 5niIt G by the Highway commission
Be Oui'i Rnf as far as that is concern
row. ". DUe Ueople of Daniels, Sheridan
60 'T1 'PT1ooreyelt counties would be bet
anu nIoosed ,Io if the Highway COmmls.
IeI pl,rti lc,ontinued the construction of
SOU ooJ 'o begun at CulbertsOn. The
ile ! IoIG sbouId be built as far as FrOid
S: Ioau roor COR This business Of tinker
ins hr !Ssddiing and patching the prom
9si is5 Pbighway DIeases no one and is
rst r much good to the public.
:, ,ho highway Commission con-
! li.an 'n' tbp construction of this pro-
unuI uoJ CuIhertsOn-P -PlentywOOd-S -ScObey
J ooJ At the present rate there will
y lo'a . through highway in fifteen
.,rs This will mean that the peO-
u ia'b here now will be old before the
y pad IS built so that they can enjoy
= iV' and that the Commissioners will
n Hscect the upkeep of this proposed
bi5bway because they consider it a
Dtoie tbOrOfare to be built in the
SSar % future. This is a very unsatis-
factory state of affairs and the High
wg Commission can pass the buck
Nv saving that they have only so
M mueb money to operate with. They
have a good excuse Notwithstanding =
that the people are complaining all
0ypr the state that the members of
he Commission are building high
Vays close to where they themselves
live. Butte, Helena and Great Falls
are getting the cream while the back
woods districts are getting the skim
med milk. People say that they are
building a long street in Great Falls,
where Mr.. Commissioner Warden
lives, out of the funds contributed
BY the state and nation for highway
construction.
And you cannot blame Mr.. WardeT
Or Mr.. Roe or Mr.. Good. They are
only following the example of COun
ty Commissioners in every count!
in the state, viz: building good roads
in the vicinity Of their own posses
siOns first. Whenever you whee
your auto on to a particularly gOO'
stretch of road you can bet you
bottom dollar that there is a COun
E Commissioner living sOmewher
close at hand. The members of tn
Highway Commission are not exemp
from this peculiar trait of huma
nature. They have so much none
for road development at their dispOs
al and they attend to their own dis
tricts, which are the most pOpulOU
districts in the state. first. The
have many plausible arguments
favor of this policy = argument
which we in this sparsely settled r.
glOn of few automobiles when con
pared with the rest of the state fir
1t difficult to meet and combat.
All serious minded people in Il
state should give this problem Il
attention its urgency and impOrtan'
deserves. The question that co
fronts the people Of Montana tod;
Is whether the people of this state.
lae men and women who have pra
ucally built all the roads and bridg
now IN Montana should be cOnte
with the building of state highwa
N the present Deacemeal fashion
IN Grl6s and drabs-Or should signi
melr intention to embark on sOT
up-tO-date proposition whereby t
roads could be built in the next fl
years and the members of the pre-
sIlI s generation enjoy the advantag
uey are entitled to in the few
naming years they have to spend
nus sphere. A bond issue seems
Ue 'he only way out. This bond
que should not be made a char
SSsalnst the state treasury but shO1
Us Ue am0rtlzed and returned by
ota'e os GaSOline tax. There is all XIII
AZ. ~ money in New York that can
SO.ahed on such bond issue at
aa ,S'e OF three and a half per G.
O'er a long period of time.
=
a%OSSoLlNI aoo y is now taking adva
Vs. YS., OF this surplus money in n
rOnlt UnA and Is borrowing it for
/ tmS!!ruGnOn tS" !! of a Hydro Electric $
Z Nh %% IN Italy whereby the Italian !
vsn.. ~ oah nave the incompatible
ton H'ages ps 5, of cheap power at a fl
Oriv.ta priv u the cost that is charged
"a 'S'e o.. electric interests in the u
si,E. states. But Mussolini Is nav
Ststs Ss yet - cen cent for the money that
and S'e Of Montana can get for Il
Are q hSlf per cent in New Y
tim" We e Tools? Do we want to
tent NJ years in Montana Are we
and W, 70 Shake cur bones out of !
haIf9' 9'euqee the lives of our car
higbw.D 10 we want to build u
geneTsfy;s geSay system slowly for the
Sants%ol Sta.lOn without gaining any
We wsS ourselves? 1t is time
shou%ISs %ske 0e up. 1t is time that that
tOdsVu 81 Snlft some of the burden
The on. on to the next genera
a, SdSOlina A.. SSASAn