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and I have no doubt that a satisfactory conclusion will be 

 reached during the next few weeks, but in closing I want to 

 urge that these are problems in which every citizen in this 

 state ought to be directly interested, and that the commission 

 will welcome the general discussion of this problem. 



DO NOT BE IMPATIENT. 



As chairman of the State Highway Commission I venture to 

 request in conclusion that you be not too impatient of imme- 

 diate results in highway work. It will take and it must take, in 

 order to spend our money properly, at least five or six years 

 to complete the state highway system as planned, perhaps 

 longer than this, and some communities are bound to reap the 

 advantage sooner than others. It is, of course, a physical im- 

 possibility to begin this work in all communities or all towns at 

 the same time, and furthermore it is a financial impossibility 

 because we are prevented under the law from borrowing more 

 than $500,000 in any one year, but I firmly believe that this 

 road building will begin in such wholesale fashion in the spring 

 of 1914 that you will all be pleased with its results, whether the 

 work is done in your own immediate vicinity or elsewhere, and 

 the commission surely hopes that it will always receive your 

 support so long as it continues to carry on this work honestly 

 and efficiently. We are making a determined efifort to keep 

 politics out of this great business. We are all of one mind 

 upon that subject, and are determined that only such men shall 

 be employed as are the best available men, regardless of how 

 they vote. We earnestly solicit your support of us in the posi- 

 tion we have taken in this matter, for we believe that that is the 

 only way in which this enterprise can be carried to a successful 

 end. 



